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One of them? >> jfk. >> reagan. >> reporter: reagan before he became president had an interesting job. do you know what it was? >> he was a tv dude. >> he was an actor and did westerns. >> you want law and order? youve got it. >> reporter: there you go, people. believe in yourself and you can become president. reagan had a famous line. mr. gorbachev, tear down this? >> street. >> wall. >> reporter: we should tear down the border wall. >> the wall just got 10 feet taller. >> reporter: how do you ...

>> no. it already does provide different fare. cable news network is a perfect and maybe the best example of that. >> people love news. and we had lots of it. and the other guys had not very much. so choice and quantity won out. >> 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 ha...

Going to be a new means of delivering the same kind of fare? >> no. it already does provide different fare. cable news network is a perfect and maybe the best example of that. >> people love news. and we had lots of it. and the other guys had not very much. so choice and quantity won out. >> 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...

Government imposed prices will be low, so they will sell out fast, of course, and then you get a black market. we dont have to guess, because this has happened in every controlled economy in history, the bolsheviks learned this early when they impose price controls. so what do you do next if your government imposing these? you crackdown on scalpers, that is what elizabeth warrens bill would do. so you get a lot more law enforcement, a lot of people going to jail, but you also get with the econom...

Ceases. there is no interval where actions in the real world will make a difference. either our off-ramps or unnecessary, or there are relevant. whats your response to that? >> i think that completely underestimates the power of social discontent in russia. if you remember, when gorbachev came to power, and the whole soviet apparatus was still in place, he found an ill bag full of -- four mothers, from wives about the war in afghanistan. russian casualties, as they mount, will have an effect on ...

There is some kind of negotiated settlement, something that putin is willing to accept. some kind of deal where he is rationally able to see that he gets something and he gives something. so all that makes it important, more important than ever that we try to understand the russian leaders motivations, his mind. so i spent the last few months working on a new special called "inside the mind of vladimir putin". it premiers tonight at 8:00 p.m. eastern and pacific. in this clip we take you back to...

>> ronald reagan said, mr. gorbachev, tear this wall down. todays republicans say, theyre down mickey mouses house! and pretty soon, they will be storming cinderellas castle, you can be sure of that. the republicans seem to support one fellow, some guy named brandon. he is having a really good year. i am kind of happy for him. >> last night, i actually have the honor of attending the white house correspondents dinner. i wanted to share a few pictures with you. it was so nice to catch up with col...

I hoped it would be from republicans. im not worried about the midterms, im not worried. we may end up with more partisan gridlock, but i am confident that we can work it out with my remaining six years in the presidency. folks, im not really here to roasted gop, its not my style. besides, theres nothing i can say about the gop that kevin mccarthy hasnt put on tape. you know, at the same time, a lot of people say the republican party is too extreme, too divisive, too controlled by one person. th...

>> reports of protestors heading towards red square, coming onto vehicles. >> in 1991, the soviet union collapsed. >> the soviet union is dead. president gorbachev accepted the inevitability, and then signed a death certificate of the soviet empire. >> ukraine declared its independence from the ussr. >> there is a new country tonight, ukraine. >> the collapse of the soviet union was a fundamental tragedy for vladimir putin, and he wants to fix it. he believes that ukraine is the country that got...

>> mr. gorbachev, tear down this wall. >> reports of them heading towards red square, coming onto vehicles. >> in 1991, the soviet union collapsed. >> the soviet union is that. president gorbachev accepted the inevitability, and then signed a death certificate of the soviet empire. >> ukraine declared its independence from the ussr. >> there is a new country tonight, ukraine. >> the collapse of the soviet union was a fundamental tragedy for vladimir putin, and he wants to fix it. he believes tha...