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That was three years ago. >> when youre here by yourself, what do you think about? >> some days cleaning the weeds up and neatening the guys up and some days youll mind will wander into history. and once again the sacrifices that these guys made. the decisions they had to make changed all our lives. >> ask not what america will do for you but what together we can do for the freedom of man. >> if you seek liberalization, come here to this gate. mr. gorbachev, open this gate. >> the only thing we ...

Wanted. nancy reagan had a lot to do with that with the means with gorbachev. when we asked why he had not met with three previous soviet leaders for the first nuclear summit, he said well, they all keep dying on me. they were elderly. this was a 50 something gorbachev and the first person who could do a deal. there were ups and downs and setbacks, but the fact is there has been a steady progression as joe pointed out towards reducing the weapons. they have too many and modernizing them is debat...

Babys hand and saying in 1983 he had gone to orlando and told the national association of evangelical that the soviet union was focus of evil in the modern world. a reporter asked him about this in red square. hes standing there with gorbachev. he says that was another time. another era. could we watch an elaborate negotiation? possible. one hopes so. there was a heartfelt moment on august 5th, 1990, totally unscripted moment when george h.w. bush got off marine one in the middle of the iraqi cr...

Sure you never use these. >> exactly. ronald reagan came to this not as rapidly as some would have wanted. nancy reagan had a lot to do with that with the means with gorbachev. when we asked why he had not met with three previous soviet leaders for the first nuclear summit, he said well, they all keep dying on me. they were elderly. this was a 50 something gorbachev and the first person who could do a deal. there were ups and downs and setbacks, but the fact is there has been a steady progressio...

He probably has his own ideas. you dont believe for a minute, do you, that there is some kind of hanky-panky going on betweenputen and trump or do you actually believe that? >> what im asking wouldnt that make mr. putin prefer donald trump and if you follow that line of logic that he preferred donald trump to win, why do you have so much doubt that he might have tried to meddle somehow to make that outcome? >> well, i would think that if the president of a country would like to see someone else ...

Russias borders is creating a situation in russia where you have high political anxiety and nukes on high alert. its the most dangerous situation i have seen since cuban missile crisis. >> the anxiety here in america is that the incoming president will be close, too close to russia, too close to vladimir putin. is that a concern of yours? >> 1988. im that old. i walked across red square following ronald reagan who had called soviet union an evil empire. he was working with gorbachev. some americ...

Kremlin talking points -- >> one at a time. >> quite correct at laying the blame at the russian government which has done everything it can do not just to wage this campaign of extermination in east aleppo but to defame the victims by claiming theyre lying about it. >> so michael, did you get the pentagon talking points before you came on if i got the kremlin talking points? thats like yesterday gorbachev said to the bbc correspondent steve rosenberg that there is -- orders have been going out t...

East aleppo but to defame the victims by claiming theyre lying about it. >> so michael, did you get the pentagon talking points before you came on if i got the kremlin talking points? thats like yesterday gorbachev said to the bbc correspondent steve rosenberg that there is -- orders have been going out to the western media, bbc, cnn and the "new york times" to destroy the reputation of vladimir putin. thats sfoolishness, neither side is pure or good here. >> jump in, jill. >> i think the russia...

>> we need to look at different ways to to work with -- we talk about defeating isis, countries acting in good faith want to defeat isis we should look to do that. that is absolutely silly to cross it off the table? absolutely not. will we stand up and be firm? weve seen it from the president-elect and seen it from some of his picks, people like rex tillerson. to cross people off we cant work with them to defeat someone like isis -- talk about overall geopolitical stability of region on the midd...

Its a huge advantage. other people won this award, astronauts and athletes and musicians, and its people that have done things to help relationships between russia and places around the world, and he has done that, but not because one day he wanted to wake up and say i want a relationship with vladimir putin, and he had work to do in drilling and exploring oil fields throughout russia, and he did it and struck great deals. if you want to have peace around the world, we have to understand that ig...