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Ainsley: you say it's the democrats wish list even my democrat friends would probably say they like their cars. they don't want to work so that everyone else doesn't have to if they are not willing. to say they don't want to redo their apartment buildings because buildings would have to change the way they get their energy. they like their meat. they like their airplanes. whose wish list is this? >> this is the far environmental left has been pushing these exact same things. i interviewed the former czech president in my book and he says the greatest threat to individual liberty since the fall...

>> the soviet union blows up, the eastern block is pulling away. the berlin wall is coming down. any of these things could have just put the world in a very, very dangerous place. they were all happening at once. and george herbert walker bush handled it so skillfully and with such finess that all of this ended up looking inevitable, as though it wasn't even hard. and it is so difficult to imagine, say, a donald trump in a situation like that. he would be poking every other -- >> i think there are two things to think about. that i think about anyway when i see the contrast and i think about th...

The russian threat to the baltic states. on tuesday the president will hold a bat tick state summit at the white house. the leaders are united in celebrating freedom after they were ruled by soviet union as part of the eastern block for decades. and the three countries have met their nato spending page. the director at the defense studies for the national interest joins us now. harry, i mean the summit in 48 hours, on tuesday, will be a strong message to putin but will it be enough? >> well, i guess all i would have to say is welcome to cold war 2.0. the baltics are on the front lines of this....

>> not really -- a mirror-like response. >> eric: we're joined by former press secretary for george bush, ari fleischer. do you think these measures were strong enough to deter vladimir putin? >> well, they're the right steps to take in reaction to this. i don't think it's strong enough with our overall relationship with russia. this is welcome. 25 nations including many in western europe, which has a history of being soft on russia and the eastern block nations, the former soviet satellite states and the united states is leading the way in this in terms of the number of expulsions. when one n...

Countries, political parties and elections. they have interfered a lot with the social democrats in germany, for example. they call it framing with the same kind of connotation it has in american english. they do their very best to under mine groups and individuals that they think are a threat to them or are doing things they don't want to see done. they do what they can to build up the reputation, history, past of individuals that they want to support. ian mahal chapa is the most senior defector we got from the eastern block in the cold war. he says there are more people involved in this kind...