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Good news about her life and what shes done is that it lays out a pretty good path forward. you know, she changed with the times. she has a lot of young people around her, so she gets different points of view. and i think charles, king charles now will do the same. ive met him and the presidents met him. we like him. very smart and i think hell do an excellent job. >> laurie: woody, the end of an era, though, with queen elizabeths passing. i mean, gore ba chef died, what a week or so ago? those ...

How does it work? well, its 2a hours. so we were, obviously, with the announcement of the death of gorbachev yesterday evening, straightaway were thinking about which guests were going to book for the podcast the following day. we already had this interview with gus odonnell lined up. but, you know, its news, you have to react. we have to be reactive. and thats what people expect from daily news podcasts. so we arrived in the studio this morning at 9:00, started working through, you know, we don...

Greatness for the Soviet Union’s last leader, Mikhail Sergeyevich Gorbachev, was not to be found at home. Commentary on his passing is as much a statement of positions, endorsed by admiring beneficiaries, and loathed by those who fell off the train of history.  The millions who delighted seeing the collapse of the Soviet Union and, as a result, a power vacuum and weaker Russia, toast him, eyes filled with emotion. By Binoy Kampmark

Instead of on the communist eastern bloc. gorbachev understood that he did more than most leaders in rows to the brutal soviet system and with coverage confronted the contradictions and failures. >> mr. gorbachev down this wall. steve: he did turn down the wall. east gently hungry in poland they refused to send in the tanks previous leaders had done in the iron curtain fell. he did something almost unheard of and give up power instead of hoarding it dismantling the system and was a truly great m...

As former Soviet leader Mikhail Gorbachev is laid to rest, most media commentary in the Anglosphere seems to be singing his praises.

Man, the strongman being the guy who was in berlin when he didnt send the tanks in and not even as the head of the kgb, just a junior officer. now he is one of the most important people in the world, a dictator and trying to create a cross between a is an stalinism and that is vladimir putin. and it seems many in russia are ok with that. because the trauma, and i dont know what the west could have done ? in my podcast this week, my guest wrote an article on gorbachev. who knew there would be rec...

Eastern bloc. gorbachev understood that he did more than most leaders in rows to the brutal soviet system and with coverage confronted the contradictions and failures. >> mr. gorbachev down this wall. steve: he did turn down the wall. east gently hungry in poland they refused to send in the tanks previous leaders had done in the iron curtain fell. he did something almost unheard of and give up power instead of hoarding it dismantling the system and was a truly great man. unlike vladimir putin wh...

From the west but he allowed something enormous to happen and it had an enormous effect on modern europe, as we can call it now, and a critical effect on russia. at the west did not understand how big a moment and how big the change would be for russia itself. so we had the mess and the autocracy of the boris yeltsin years. one of the interesting things, i dont think anyone was prepared, certainly gorbachev wasnt. he was prepared to let the warsaw pact lives. i dont think it was important to him...

>> new york city, hello. >> the major catastrophe in americas space program -- >> i am lou dobbs along with financial editor myron kandel. >> jessica mcclure trapped for almost three days in a dry artesian well. >> the iron curtain between east germany and west berlin has come tumbling down. >> good evening, im patrick buchanan, the conservative on "crossfire." >> the american people appreciated the new television. they certainly came to cnn in droves. >> mr. gorbachev and i both agree on the de...

Explaining before we came on air, you are just signing off your second episode. give us a 30 second spin through a day producing a news podcast like the news agents. how does it work? well, its 2a hours. so we were, obviously, with the announcement of the death of gorbachev yesterday evening, straightaway were thinking about which guests were going to book for the podcast the following day. we already had this interview with gus odonnell lined up. but, you know, its news, you have to react. we h...