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By this guy, this leader. >> yeah. i think he is kind of the gorbachev of the catholic church. and i think ultimately maybe his goal is to kind of bring it down. >> maybe the de klerk, maybe the f.w. de klerk maybe. the guys that sees the time has to change. >> something like that. >> by the way, bill, i love your show. im not just blowing smoke. your show is amazing. its always challenging to be on because i never know what im supposed to do except listen to you. "realtime with bill maher" retu...

Cold war. it was a fiercely fought debate inside the u.s. government. one of the opponents for working with gorbachev was in the government. we should not trust gorbachev, we are losing the fight. we are getting a clearer view of the person we may be facing. reagan did work with gorbachev, the cold war ended and the entire global map was changed. reagan was better off for it. officials dolling out what was bad advice on a monumentally important issue, was robert gates, who in his forthcoming tel...

Union to the west. and maybe just maybe ending the cold war. it was a fiercely fought debate inside the u.s. government. one of the opponents for working with gorbachev was in the government. we should not trust gorbachev, we are losing the fight. we are getting a clearer view of the person we may be facing. reagan did work with gorbachev, the cold war ended and the entire global map was changed. reagan was better off for it. officials dolling out what was bad advice on a monumentally important ...

Inside the u.s. government. one of the opponents for working with gorbachev was in the government. we should not trust gorbachev, we are losing the fight. we are getting a clearer view of the person we may be facing. reagan did work with gorbachev, the cold war ended and the entire global map was changed. reagan was better off for it. officials dolling out what was bad advice on a monumentally important issue, was robert gates, who in his forthcoming tell all book had this to say about joe biden...

Negotiating with gorbachev. he was wrong about osama bin laden which according to what i read he does admit in the book that he didnt want to go in and get him. >> i think that if gates wants to come forward and start analyzing everybody elses record he is going to get a lot of that. one of the most peculiar, bizarre criticisms apparently in the president is the president had misgivings about the war in afghanistan. surprise. the vast majority of the american people shared those misgivings. the ...

My own reaction, we have to do all we can to have a deterrent and see there is never a nuclear war. this was if not the turning point, this was sort of a key turning point in turning reagans approach more towards negotiation and sort of openness with the soviet union and television having a real impact. >> gorbachev coming to power too. >> an opening, sure, sure. >> this was an era when tv was a kind of monoculture, you only had the three networks to choose from and that everybody was probably w...

That they are somehow putting more pressure on the rairanians. with them, any chance to avert war and for this, i reject what theyre doing and strongly as i can. when you cut off the route to peace, you leave only the path toward war and no one ever said blessed are the war makers. when reagan met with gorbachev in 1986, the democratic speaker of the house urged colleagues to hold off on their nuclear freeze vote because he didnt want to undermine the republican presidents talks with gorbachev. ...

Churchill stook hanhook hands w stalin. president reagan shook hands with gorbachev. presidents always take heat for kissing sheiks and shaking hands with dictators. anna hunt, political analyst david gergen are here. anna, you are from florida. you are no fan i know of the castro regime. but what do you make of senator mccains comments comparing this to a hitler moment and also of congresswoman ros leytenen. >> dont think john mccain was comparing it to a hitler moment. his question was what is...

That did not seem to happen on stage in south africa. we should note that winston churchill shook hands with stalin. president reagan shook hands with gorbachev. presidents always take heat for kissing sheiks and shaking hands with dictators. anna hunt, political analyst david gergen are here. anna, you are from florida. you are no fan i know of the castro regime. but what do you make of senator mccains comments comparing this to a hitler moment and also of congresswoman ros leytenen. >> dont th...

Advocates. as we speak cuban opposition leaders are being detained and being beaten while trying to commemorate today which is international human rights day. they will feel disheartened when they see these photos. >> sarizona senator hn mccain went even further, all the way back to munich i1938. >> why should you shake hands with somebody whos keeping americans in prison? i mean, whats the point? neville chamberlain shook hands with hitler. >> chamberlain met with hitler three times and gave aw...