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Point historically, the entire world is. its like 1918 or 1945 or 1989 where based on a few things, we are seeing seismic shifts. i would describe those in north africa and the middle east as long serving dictatorships coupled with economies not providing jobs and economy. >> you think its economic? >> i think in the case of the middle east and north africa, the economies that arent producing and the advent of social networking that is bringing people to the town square. in the case of ukraine, ...

The photograph shows reagan about to shake hands with a young boy. look closely at the guy with the camera to the left of the kid there. the article points out that that man looks a lot like a young vladimir putin who was an officer in the kgb at the time. so we dug through the footage of that day in 1988 to see if that was caught on video, and indeed it was. looking on as gorbachev and reagan take questions from soviet citizens in red square. while the footage doesnt shed any new light on the i...

Come along to we can do something to try to squeeze putin. >> the first thing do you in a crisis like, this you do the things that are within your control. the things you absolutely can do. he was right to say im not going to go to the g-8. the second thing he should have done was he immediately should have sent somebody to poland and the czech republic and reestablished the nuclear defense treaty. that would have been a shot right in the you know what to putin. the russians are deathly afraid o...

Notwithstanding, president putin then went out to the press conference and said, you know, i -- my press is as free as yours. you fired dan rather. hes just -- hes got a set of facts and a set of grievances that he feels very deeply about that just dont reflect the reality of how things work here. >> its interesting, jill. i mean, i didnt realize that back after the fall of the soviet union, back when the berlin wall fell, that jim baker, secretary of state at the time, actually met with gorbach...

Reagan. he believed america was exceptional. that is what helped the world. he was a guiding force, the leader. youre looking to him. i dont think people around the world are looking to president obama to lead them out of this. that is not what he said he wanted to do, even. plus, gorbachev and putin, very different people. gor chauv, open minded, intelligent guy. putin, intelligent guy and a crazy maniac. those are two different things. heres one thing, if you look at america and say what could...

Come along to we can do something to try to squeeze putin. >> the first thing do you in a crisis like, this you do the things that are within your control. the things you absolutely can do. he was right to say im not going to go to the g-8. the second thing he should have done was he immediately should have sent somebody to poland and the czech republic and reestablished the nuclear defense treaty. that would have been a shot right in the you know what to putin. the russians are deathly afraid o...

I mean, i didnt realize that back after the fall of the soviet union, back when the berlin wall fell, that jim baker, secretary of state at the time, actually met with gorbachev promising him there would not be nato forces in east germany. i just learned that earlier today which is really fascinating when you think of how far nato forces have moved beyond, obviously, east germany. >> right. putin has referred to that. putin feels -- >> referred to what the promise of gorbachev? >> what happened ...

Did the moment he did, predicted something like this would happen. maybe what he should do is once again reenter those treaties. why dont we have a treaty with poland and the czech republic to protect them against possible aggression from the -- from russia. >> how far would you go, mr. mayor? there is also the sense that maybe the expansion of nato, special relationship with nato to the other baltic areas which could be targeted next? >> take them in right away. the fact is what he should get i...

Ill also say one thing about reagan. he believed america was exceptional. that is what helped the world. he was a guiding force, the leader. youre looking to him. i dont think people around the world are looking to president obama to lead them out of this. that is not what he said he wanted to do, even. plus, gorbachev and putin, very different people. gor chauv, open minded, intelligent guy. putin, intelligent guy and a crazy maniac. th things. heres one thing, if you look at america and say wh...

And jim baker telling at the end of the cold war cheffard nazi and gorbachev that nato would go not one inch further to the east and then a series of presidents coming in who not only took nato further to the east, pushed by lock heed martin and others who wanted to sell weapons to eastern and central european countries, but hinted at georgia and ukraine. anyone who knows russian history, anyone who knows the history of empire, anyone who knows about the raw politics of raw power could have gues...