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the berlin wall had just fallen. all over east germany angry crowds roamed the streets, lashing out at symbols of communist rule. that night in dresden they found a target, the local kgb headquarters. a mob surrounded the building. as the hour grew later the crowd grew larger. inside peering through the curtains was a young kgb lieutenant colonel named vladimir putin. >> he was terrified that they were going to storm the building. >> putin was a junior officer. but the boss was away. h...

we have enough that do exist. >> i thought it was much ado about nothing. look, i know you dont want to talk about it. this is why -- this is the reason i wrote the book. this is why you have conversations with people who dont look like you so that you can have a degree of comfort with them to be able to discuss these things and you know their intentions. so as i always say and ive said to you since i met you, and you know that, if you dont have a friend who looks -- doesnt look like y...

>> the only question now, where will the russians go next? >> in 2014 putin struck again. >> armed men who may be tied to the russian military. >> a dozen trucks. >> the sovereignty of another country, and that is ukraine. >> he seized crimea with its nearly 2 million russian speak zbleers this is the thing that adoll of hit letter did in the 1930s. we thought the days were gone. >> gunman. >> removing all identifying marks from uniforms. >> unidentified soldiers. >> can we ask you guys where yo...

Doing so much, and that the u.s. doesnt want to get to a point where it could cross that line and escalate things with putin and create an even bigger broader worse situation? >> well, first of all, at the beginning of the world war ii there were people who were saying we should not escalate with hit letter and really make a deal with him. what is important is carry but important to understand that appeasement never works with dictator the level of hit he letter. thats putin these dayis. you hav...

But in the book there is a description of how general mark milley of the joint chiefs of staff quote saw trump as a classic authoritarian leader with something nothing to lose. he earlier described to arids that he had stomach churning feelings that some of the 20th century faces of fascism were replay manage america. he saw parallel between trump and adoll of hit letters followers at the newsroom rk rallies that he was a victim and their savior. and one of the points here, hays in the like stag...

The minority speaker of the house what he saw at that event. because trump there really was nothing happening according to mccarthy. >> it was a small group off to the side. >> he moved on to make them stop in the process. >> you want to dislike the president so much you are going to accuse him of doing something he didnt do. >> if you dont love it, tell them to leave it. >> the president did not name the individuals. >> i will haul hahn omar rashaada tlaib. alexandria ocasio-cortes. well call h...

Decisions subject to executive power. that was a similar thing there. i want to do this calmly. i doenl do it -- im doing it as a dad. id rather overreact because its starting to happen here. and i worry this man is capable of anything. and please tell me im wrong, sam. >> i think youre wrong. and i think by the way when we overdo it like this i look at him as somebody when i worked closely. >> not overdoing. >> i understand but when we talk about becoming like hit letter in the united states. >...

Remember. i appreciated it. okay. >> a hundred year or two weeks like the taxes, bob. let me ask you one thing that we are reporting now we do know when he says the letter was so important, we have a source familiar with the contents of the letter which said that the letter did not include anything of substance. no details on the deal no details on ideas for a deal. no details on anything, just plat i attitudes and warmth. what does that tell you? >> you know what it reminds me i hate to bring o...

>> what do you do about north korea? unpredictable madman. do you think the answer is possibly unilateral, possibly the u.s. alone. i would hope that the chinese will help us there. i would think the chinese are feeling the threats of what is happening in north korea. there is a madman leading that country. he is unpredictable. the united states would never i hope have to do any of this alone. we are better off doing things in a coalition. each in syria. we are better with others joining us. but...

Make a correlation, an analogy that really didnt fit. certainly what happened, the atrocities that happened with hit letter will never be forgotten by the people of america and certainly what happened in syria shouldnt be forgotten either. >> as members of congress go, are you a town hall guy. >> i havent. i had an event in brooklyn which was disrupted by people who appeared to be professional disruptors. what it did was disenfranchised people who came the to hear ideas. i have been meeting with...