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Then, the establishment hated reagan. it was less obvious, no twitter and also what you see on a day-to-day basis was success, the potential of donald trump because he is the same sort of man as opposed to copying nature of the choices. >> someone who is not the same sort of man, gorbachev versus vladimir putin. >> president reagan was dealing with a series of changes with soviet leadership because there was so much turmoil and gorbachev is the example of perestroika, he said we want to be open,...

Hes not going to get any of that from democrats who mightve been tempted to cooperate on tax reform. they are not going to play ball at all. theyre going to sit in the sandbox and throw sand. >> bret: this is pat buchanan who ran for president. before that, he worked for president richard nixon. reacting to the russian images in the oval office today. >> i am delighted the president met with the russians. there are issues far more important than comey. syria and whether we are going to send troo...

Help on tax reform. hes not going to get any of that from democrats who mightve been tempted to cooperate on tax reform. they are not going to play ball at all. theyre going to sit in the sandbox and throw sand. >> bret: this is pat buchanan who ran for president. before that, he worked for president richard nixon. reacting to the russian images in the oval office today. >> i am delighted the president met with the russians. there are issues far more important than comey. syria and whether we ar...

Shook the hand of sergey lavrov. >> there are issues far more important than comey. it is syria, whether were going to send new troops into afghanistan. i know we have to talk to the russians. i was with nixon and reagan when they met with gorbachev and brezhnev. >> eric: your thoughts on the opening relationship with russia. >> the reset, may be? the thing that ticked me off was sergey lavrov walking into the white house and talking to american reporters. he said comey was fired? in a sarcastic...

Do it. >> neil: but like ronald reagan by comparison, seemed to strike me as a guy that let things roll off his back. >> i was in his white house. he had a temper. when gorbachev said we have a deal. now throw sdi in the pot. i saw him come out of that room. he was face was a mask of rage. i got back to the embassy with him. i was unhappy. so we get to the air base after an hour ride. he went into the people and he was the ginner again. >> neil: he said stuff like ronald reagan did. never let th...

After the soviet union fell and a british reporter for the financial times or one of the papers got into the archives. there was a letter from ted kennedy trying to arrange a deal with gorbachev to damage the reagan campaign. where was the big investigation? in other words, if were going -- >> jeffrey, that did not dominate the 1984 campaign. you are talking about historical footnotes. this is an issue that dominated the campaign. >> wouldnt it be nice if you had a president who said, this is aw...

With gorbachev to damage the reagan campaign. where was the big investigation? in other words, if were going -- >> jeffrey, that did not dominate the 1984 campaign. you are talking about historical footnotes. this is an issue that dominated the campaign. >> wouldnt it be nice if you had a president who said, this is awful, we need to get to the bottom of this, because this is threatening and challenging our very democracy? >> every day there are thousands, tens of thousands of electronic attempt...

United states. everybody needs to sit tight and let our country work with china and south korea and other allies. the united nations went to war against north korea in 1950. it could happen again. north korea doesnt stand a chance but we do wanted to get to that. >> laura: is that where you would be going with that if you had a choice? >> one thing our president, he understands the application of ego in dealing with other leaders around the world. so, he is actually made a very veiled outreach t...

Dont get it. but he has this rare gift -- under the right circumstances. it essentially negates. >> what would those circumstances be? dont they spend like years thinking about where to put the water and who talks first and who shakes her hand? these things take years. >> we will give kimberly the last word. it was about all the summits between reagan and gorbachev. they did spend a lot of time talking about where they would sit. >> one thing for sure, kim jong un is not leaving there. so donald...

Dont get it. but he has this rare gift -- under the right circumstances. it essentially negates. >> what would those circumstances be? dont they spend like years thinking about where to put the water and who talks first and who shakes her hand? these things take years. >> we will give kimberly the last word. it was about all the summits between reagan and gorbachev. they did spend a lot of time talking about where they would sit. >> one thing for sure, kim jong un is not leaving there. so donald...