Page 49 - Michael Gorbachev News Today : Breaking News, Live Updates & Top Stories | Vimarsana

0 set a limit of ten grainy cell phone cam portraits per user. that's all the time we have. the now i put you in the able ahands of wolf blitzer in "the situation room." jake, thanks very much. happening now, president obama making what's expected to be a very emotional push for gun control this hour, not far from the scene of the newtown, connecticut, school massacre. also, the parents of a young american diplomat killed in afghanistan talked to me this hour about how their daughter died doing what she loved so much. plus, why some members of congress want beyonce's vacation with jay-z ...

Man and his mission. >> on president bush's watch they protested in ten man square, mikhail gorbachev and the collapse of the soviet union. many give credit to george w. bush the cold war answereded with a whimper not a bang. >> i george walker herbert bush -- >> it seem as door you could walk right through into a room called tomorrow. great nations of the world are moving toward democracy. through the door to freedom. oo on the other side of the globe a crisis was erupting unarmed pro democracy in tiananmen square with tanks and troops. >> he knew a lot of the leaders from his personal experi...

More exuberant. >> we didn't know how the soviet military was going to react. they were in their barracks but we didn't know if they were going to say gorbachev enough we don't want to be kicked about. it would be a bad idea for a president to beat his chest and go over here. >> bush had his first official summit with mikhail gorbachev. during the meeting he express his support for gorbachev's restructuring initiative and other reforms in the communist block. >> i wanted to do it on a ship thinking back to the days roosevelt did that kind of thing. we planned to go over to their cruiser and th...

As he could possibly be. >> when george bush was vice president, he did for president reagan most of the protocol. he would go to funerals. he got to know the world leaders intimately before he became president. >> it was in the funeral of soviet leader children then co he first met michael gorbachev. >> i said this man is very different than any of the soviets that i have known. proved to be correct. >> when bush decided to run for president he used television advertising to sharpen his image. >> i was responsible for doing the ads. he had a great sense of museum more. he would say how are yo...

More exuberant. >> we didn't know how the soviet military was going to react. they were in their barracks but we didn't know if they were going to say gorbachev enough we don't want to be kicked about. it would be a bad idea for a president to beat his chest and go over here. >> bush had his first official summit with mikhail gorbachev. during the meeting he express his support for gorbachev's restructuring initiative and other reforms in the communist block. >> i wanted to do it on a ship thinking back to the days roosevelt did that kind of thing. we planned to go over to their cruiser and th...