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>> the soviets are nervous about john paul ii, he is anti-communist and beloved by the pols. these pressures are forcing the polish government to figure out how to keep control. >> the strike by polish ship yard workers is over. for the polish strikers, it was a day worthy of hyperbole, telling his followers we are co-masters of this land. >> they're showing that you could have an independent union in a communist country, and the question was how independent were they going to be allowed to be. >> how the u.s. deals with poland, with the eastern block and with russia, the early challenges for ...

Tragic events in poland almost two years to the day after soviet afghanistan have been precipitated by secret pressure from the soviet union. the united states is taking action to suspend economic relationships with the polish government. >> the first crisis in poland provides a vehicle for reagan to begin to think maybe the communist system in eastern europe is not as stable as people imagine. >> this is the pershing missile. a new version of it will be deployed in europe. this is the cruise missile to join nato's arsenal and point for the soviet union and communist bloc. >> reagan started to...

Government. >> the first crisis in poland provides a vehicle for reagan to begin to think maybe the communist system in eastern europe is not as stable as people imagine. >> this is the pershing missile. a new version of it will be deployed in europe. this is the cruise missile to join nato's arsenal and point for the soviet union and communist bloc. >> reagan started to push for those missiles in europe, and we are going to ratchet up the cold war further. >> many demonstrations in the next two days are protesting deployment of the missiles. they fear in event of war, it makes europe a battle...

Some of our testimony, you remember general dunford saying russia is the primary threat we face. putin siena to pill together more. he has seen the sanctions they have placed on him. he has heard many of the eastern block countries in nato say we want more nato bases in our country. estonia, poland, romania. the fact that he now is bringing this to his public is just another way he shores up his image and continues the propaganda to support his actions in ukraine. >> and vladmir putin has always pretty much been critical of nato. we really seen the relationships with russia's nato deterioratin...

Conversation about whether this could happen here and a lot of people say, no, i can't see something of this magnitude. i don't get that conversation. first, you have six, seven, eight people in this case who are gathering. you can find that number of isis sympathizers in states all across america. second, access to weapons. you can get that at any gun show in america. third, access to locations that aren't hardened. if you want to say this can't happen here, i'd put those three together and tell me how can you argue that you can't have that combination of characteristic ss? >> general, do you...