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Split since 1054. reconciliation and peace for his own church and for the holy land. delia gallagher, cnn, jerusalem. and some are describing the moment stopping at the wall as the reagan moment where he told gorbachev to take down the wall. up next, hear from a neighbor of eliot rodger sharing the experience with the shooter before the rampage and what he knows about who may have been inside the apartment with him. stay with us.

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Wants thats attainable? >> thats overstated by the ukrainian prime minister. i know why hes saying it, though, because hes losing his own country. so he needs to demonize putin as much as possible. but understand that russia is a country thats been in decline for 25 years now, politically, economically, socially, geographically, any way you can be in decline, the russians are in decline. for the russians, losing ukraine was one step too far. again, overwhelmingly the russian people believe that ...

Resistance to outside interference, and russian politicians who urged integration with the west became marginal figures with tiny followings. looking at this record, the historian in applebaum has argued, also in the "washington post," that the west fundamentally misunderstood russia. it saw the place as a western country in the making if only we had put forward the right policies. in fact, she argues, russia derives its identity from being a non-western country, perhaps even from being an anti-...

Country in the sense that it is distinct and different from the west. perhaps the west could have done more to help russia, but it does appear to me looking back that the russia of the late 1980s and early 1990s of gorbachev and yeltsin may have been a special moment in history, the time when they were weak, its leadership lightened and worn out by decades of communist failure. the mood of that country changed quickly as oil prices rose in the 1990s. the russian economy grew and the russian stat...

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Is asking this morning, rightly so. good morning. honor to have you. >> thanks so much for having me. >> so whats the big difference here? the lack of toughness? >> i think the big difference is that you have a president in president obama that does not understand the adversary. president kennedy and president reagan understood that these are people that have a different perspective, a different way of life. it was about liberty going up against tyranny and when you saw president kennedy stand a...

Im sure they got that message. im sure they also got the message you are sad "how i met your mother" is over. >> mr. gorbachev, tear down this wall. >> oh yeah. ♪ here comes kool-aid ♪ here comes kool-aid it is gonna save the day. >> it can work. is this the definition of the least you can do? >> i think it is inappropriate. i wouldnt even say the least you can do. you had them put out a complete documented who were held in crimea and they sent a toe toe of you smiling -- a photo of you smil...

This is a period that started in the early years of gorbachev. its now over. this is a different world. hes seeing everything in zero sum terms and the west and the united states is clearly his enemy. >> david axelrod is former senior political adviser to president obama and eugene robinson is a columnist for the "washington post." both are msnbc political analysts. eugene, let me start with you. michael mcfall, you heard him declaring the end of the cold war, its over. pretty strong declaration...