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I can remember him criticizing barack obama, president obama, for using executive power and executive orders. what do you make of the use of that tool? >> are you surprised, look, i have been asked when i was in philadelphia because the republicans, the legislators, they are at some point they are going to get tired of this the because their job is to legislate and of course a president has a pen and can issue these executive orders. they can be reversed quickly as president obama has seen, that...

Might hope for and what we might fear. >> i think probably theres a lot to be feared, lawrence. indeed as your whole program has talked about tonight, donald trump doesnt yet have really the instincts the fingertips, the sense of how you do a negotiation than a building. he has put out earlier on that maybe hed give up sanctions on russia if they would build down their nuclear arsenal. that is -- putin has said, the official spokes people have said thats laughable. we have so much at stake here....

Hes seen way too much military build-up and he like warning the world that were going the rection of a war. so interesting to see gorbachev is putting on the brakes and were getting military ready. >> one of the striking things i thought about the press conference we saw an hour or so ago was every time donald trump talked about relations with other countries, it was in personal terms, he talked about the leaders of those countries, whether it was the uk, russia, mexico, let me play a little sou...

Vladimir putin this weekend and what we might expect, what we might hope for and what we might fear. >> i think probably theres a lot to be feared, lawrence. indeed as your whole program has talked about tonight, donald trump doesnt yet have really the instincts the fingertips, the sentence se of how you don negotiation than a building. he has put out earlier on that maybe hed give up sanctions on russia if they would build down their nuclear arsenal. that is -- putin has said, the official spok...

But ronald reagan won big time. >> a personal note. i cant help but recall 1966 riding around in a greyhound bus with him and learned in every lex in which he is ever involved, never laugh at the ronald reagan. >> mr. gorbachev, tear down this wall! >> reporter: by the time i interviewed him in his final week in office, ronald reagan had surprised just about everyone. did you begin to think maybe there is a lucky star that is hovering over ronald reagan at puck is part oyour life in some fashion...

Of atom me to kurd, thats red line for them. when you talk about safe zone, who gets to control it. you fleeneed to be specific whos it and for how long. >> -- im but at the same time gorbachev has written looks like the world is preparing for war. what do you think? >> first of all, theres a lot the president can do by decree. he cannot do that by decree. we need to know the details about what does he want to use the military power for. i just -- i was part of the transition of the obama white

Those further afield who are so often the first victims of this ideologys terror. and nor is it enough to focus on violent extremism. we need to address the whole spectrum of extremism starting with the bigotry and hatred that can turn to violent. ultimately to defeat daesh, we must employ all of the diplomatic means at our disposal. that means working international to secure a political solution in syria, challenging the alliance between syria and its backers in tehran. when it comes to russia,...

More reports to come out from there. alex? >> ali rouzi, terrible story. and turning to washington as they debate the discussion as to whether president-elect donald trumps first trip will be to meet with his russian counterpart. he said hell meet with vladimir putin within weeks of becoming president. the report says talks would involve a deal to limit nuclear weapons as reagan and gorbachev struggle to find agreement over. the incoming press secretary sean spicer said the story is not true a...

Speech of politicians, talking about all of their accomplishments. >> reagan talked about opening up the soviet union, the relationship with gorbachev. he said you got to cut the cards. i would like to have seen him say and im passing the baton on, and want to give a warning. >> just a little bit of perspective. if he would have done more than he did, which i guarantee you many of your colleagues and maybe your former constituents think he did more than enough, he would have been accused of doin...

This country on both sides that are afraid and what he did was try to stand in the gap and challenged you as middle aged white man from georgia who is republican -- >> are you picking on my people? >> youre sitting right here. >> he challenged me as well, anderson, all of us to make this a more perfect union. wasnt about the fact we have 20 million more people on health care or stock market at nearly 20,000 or more people employed now or 2 million people less in poverty. >> it was and i dont thi...