arsenal was on the table, if, mr. president, you will get rid of sdi. here in america we were being castigated by every corner for wanting star wars. meanwhile gorbachev was going to give away his entire nuclear arsenal if we would give up star wars. reagan said nyet. they can t reach an agreement on those terms. ultimately the talks fell apart because reagan wouldn t. bret: reagan s friends and foes alike saw it as a colossal blunder, given a chance to perhaps start to rid the nations of all nuclear weapons. reagan opted instead to cling to his star wars dream, sdi, wasn t sure he d done the right thing. took a few hours and george shultz realized this was a breakthrough. though that agreement broke down, look at all the soviets put on the table. once you put something on the
difficult position with his own politiboro. bret: reagan was widely seen as a warmonger. this wouldn t help, and wouldn t reagan be raising false expectations. you don t call for tearing down a wall. that s permanent. who knew of tearing down the wall. probably not soon and probably not in our lifetime. he didn t know how and when, they felt it was coming and it was time for him to speak up. bret: so reagan kept the line, telling an aide, boys at state are going to kill me, but it s the right thing to do. general secretary gorbachev, if you seek peace, if you seek prosperity for the soviet union and eastern europe, if you seek liberalization, come here to this gate. mr. gorbachev, open this gate. [cheers]
suddenly the whole nuclear arsenal was on the table, if, mr. president, you will get rid of sdi. here in america we were being castigated by every corner for wanting star wars. meanwhile gorbachev was going to give away his entire nuclear arsenal if we would give up star wars. reagan said nyet. they can t reach an agreement on those terms. ultimately the talks fell apart because reagan wouldn t. bret: reagan s friends and foes alike saw it as a colossal blunder, given a chance to perhaps start to rid the nations of all nuclear weapons. reagan opted instead to cling to his star wars dream, sdi, wasn t sure he d done the right thing. took a few hours and george shultz realized this was a breakthrough. though that agreement broke down, look at all the soviets put on the table. once you put something on the
come through with what he promised? neil: i would be happily stunned and surprised. i m telling you, it s not looking good. stuart: he believes that the border adjustment tax to make it revenue neutral neil: steve mnuchin doesn t believe it. stuart: he believes in cutting taxes for corporations and i believe cutting taxes in individual as well. neil: they all believe they should counterupper income tax cut with limiting deductions. that s something reagan wouldn t have done. people are going to be surprised, wait a minute. stuart: i m speechless. neil cavuto cannot come through with the understand, the promise of the republican party.
plus, scott walker stands on the shoulders of reagan. we ll tell you why reagan wouldn t be too happy about it either. we re right back with the ed show. and that was something that was kind of growing up culturally, it was quite unacceptable and she really dared to let me be different. [thunder and rain] [thunder and rain] [thunder and rain] meet the world s newest energy superpower. surprised? in fact, america is now the world s number one natural gas producer. and we could soon become number one in oil. because hydraulic fracturing technology is safely recovering lots more oil and natural gas. supporting millions of new jobs. billions in tax revenue. and a new century of american energy security.