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Subject because, you know, the incidents of rape and -- resulting in pregnancy are very low. >> indeed. joining me now a leading voice against the legislation, senator barbara boxer. i know its not going to pass the senate, it wont be signed by the president even if it did. what are they anything what do you think other women who -- women and men should say about some of the medical claims by these republican congress members? >> i think what theyre doing is just continuing this war on women tha...

A crowd very well. the way this was all put together, you have this incredible setting, this incredible back drop and you have the distracting glass. you could see that the president himself wasnt feeding off the crowd. it was hot. those folks were out there for 2 1/2 hours. trust me, i was out there with them. it can sap your energy a little bit. i wonder if that addeds a little bit to this. it was a serious speech, serious in tone. if you were going to talk about the optics, you cant help but ...

Particularly with germans, particularly with the germans that lived on the east side when it comes to surveillance. so -- yet what i really hear is, you know what, the germans knew full well what the u.s. has been doing. had is not as contentious as maybe the coverage particularly here in germany would lead you to believe but it goes to the sort of classic case in any democracy, all politics is local. this is about local politics for merkel. >> we shouldnt forget that angela merkel grew up on th...

It was like somebody had arrived from venus and handed him that paper. we were witness to that. one of the really touching and emotional moments for me came much later after that. i was in a meeting with president bush 41 with mikhail gorbachev and helmud cole and said to gorbachev, you didnt send the tanks and you didnt send the troops and to president bush he said, you stood with us for a unified germany. there was a lot of resistance to a unified germany led by margaret thatcher. those were t...

>> the body language is a lot better than it was with vladimir putin. >> reporter: quickly. this is a very close personal relationship. you know, she was a little skeptical of him going in when he first became president. personally she got along with bush very well despite the awkward back rub moment. she didnt get along with him ideologically but personally she did. this is a very, very tight bond between the two. they both needed each other at different times and they both helped each other ou...

Some of the most inspiring and chilling moments. from john f. kennedy, ronald regan and cold war spy movies. young men are hammering away at the stone in concrete. the berlin wall and brandenberg gate have symbolized repression and triumph of freedom. today president obama drew on the past while making his case for a much different future. tom brokaw and nbc president historian michael beshla. welcome both. >> tom, you and michael have in person and through history experienced all of this. here ...

Ourselves and protect our liberties. >> ive been told that as of 24 hours ago they believe that he had gotten off with thumb drives, whatever, with more than 1 million documents, documents that have attachments, separate documents, so counting on the damage. want to ask you about afghanistan because youve covered the war so intensively and now we have 24 hours ago the first word that there were going to be negotiations with the taliban and now the taliban plants their flag in doha. its different...

Big states of the soviet union and the united states but as they are spread across the middle east in pakistan and other places. and that place was the intersection of so much of the 20th century obviously. its the heart of world war ii. its a great showdown between the soviet union and the united states and then when the wall came down there was no greater symbolic conjecture or indication that the communist state run out of the soviet union was over. so this was the appropriate place, but its ...

Nixon would have some good advice for obama about how to properly do a second term? surely you cant be serious. >> there are such things as negative role models in life and nixon is not a bad one. something we forget about is nixon by this huge majority, one of the biggest in presidential history. yet, no support, you know, two houses of congress, controlled by the democrats so he overreached. he did something called impoundment. he said, democrats can vote all the programs they want. im not goi...

Anything about that or should we all sort of chalk this up to didnt happen the first time? >> i think hell certainly try and bill clinton talked about that directly, this system in washington which makes things so difficult but one of the most telling things, we heard a couple of minutes ago, all of this talk of the white house theres a lot of paid to doing things by executive order, executive action. not necessarily by legislative acts in congress, exactly what clinton did in 1997 when he reali...