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The russians needed to go through that area to get down towards kyiv. i would say what should be an interesting data point is the largest nuclear reactor in europe is on the upper river, which potentially could be in the line of fire. ill just throw that out. so in the overall significance, yeah, theres symbolism and many will say that chernobyl was one of the things that started to bring down gorbachev and made him change his mind for all that occurred there. but theyve gone through that poison...

>> mr. gorbachev, tear down this wall. >> reporter: one analyst worries about the trump gop faction undermining biden with americas allies. >> the prospect of trump coming back into office certainly makes all of those allies question how long they can have confidence in the u.s. going forward. >> reporter: more evidence of the gop split on russia, former secretary of state mike pompeo praised putin last month calling him very talented, saying putin, quote, knows how to use power, we should respe...

>> does that not ignore the will of the people in those countries, they couldnt turn fast enough to the west, and one of the prosperity and democracy that the west brings. they could have chosen to stay with russia, they did not want to. >> well, in fact, the fall of the berlin wall was the most graphic example in history of the different economic systems between east and west. you had angela merkel growing up in the east, and immediately growing to the west, and valuing the education and the li...

Your control. it is a scary and risky thing to do. but in this case theres just not any other option i think for the leader -- this is like a reagan -- you know, this is like a reagan gorbachev moment in terms of seeing even more starkly because of what putin represents relative to gorbachev. this is a biden-putin moment and i think when people do see that and see the president of the united states leading in that way, having consolidated all of the support in europe, everyone rallying to the si...

Moment if he would do it reagan did, cut off the sale of oil to gorbachev, when president biden took office, we were energy independent and he made us energy dependent on foreign resources by stopping the keystone pipeline and lifting restrictions on russia. >> those sanctions are coming down and they still dont affect the energy industry at all. that flow of money between the us and russia is still continuing which is wild to think about. to questions, the military questions from your military ...

>> i dont think -- that doesnt ring true to me. oligarchs are there at putins pleasure. he can make them nonoligarchs in a split secreond, he can put th in jail, he can kill them. he has done this in the past. the reason to sanction the oligarchs is not to pressure them to overthrow them, you want to pressure the oligarchs because putin is a rich man and one of the services they provide to putin is nominees and trustees for his own money. when youre sanctioning the oligarch, youre sanctioning pu...

The missiles out of turkey. hopefully theres some way of doing in a way that wont humiliate, if putin makes bidens promise that theyll go in there wrong. i think president biden would be delighted. theres no war. okay. its all right that i thought whats going to happen didnt happen. that would be good. >> thats fascinating but doesnt seem like youve got a stage set similar to, say, reagan and gorbachev. that kind of moment for biden and putin. or do you see potentially, you know, those predecess...

To putins power and money. we talked about the new sanctions announced by president biden in the last hour targeting these oligarchs. the history of these millionaires and billionaires is complex. locating their assets could be tricky. we take a look at who the oligarchs are and how they came to be in the first place. the modern russian oligarchs story starts in 1989. >> mr. gorbachev, tear down this wall. >> the war fell and soon after in 1991 so did the soviet union. >> eastern europe is free....

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 has come tumbling down. >> good e...

For most ukrainians, freedom from moscow means going it alone. >> we dont need a union. we are rich in raw materials. we can sell to others and survive. that is one of gorbachevs biggest nightmare. keeping him from forming a political union. ukraine too important to lose. it used to feed the nation, now it feeds itself. it builds the militarys largest planes, ships and missiles. it was once said without ukraine, it would be a futile enterprise. gorbachev is about to learn the same lesson. that w...