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h.w. bush's secretary of state, james baker and brent snow croft talk about the 1989 fall of the berlin wall and american involvement in eastern europe's liberation. this event was hosted by the bush school of government and public service in texas. you.lcome to all of we've done this sort of thing before. i will ask you questions and you will say whatever you don well please. we are very honored to have you the as we commemorate historic 25th anniversary of the fall of the wall and the opening of eastern europe. when did you feel certain that the wall would fall even if you didn't know when? what was that moment when you were sure? >> i'm not sure i could pinpoint a moment. as far as i was concerned, it came as somewhat of a surprise that it happened so quickly. we did know things were moving in that direction. a lot of east germans were going to hungary and then hungary was letting them go through to austria. so the wall had been circumvented, not breached, perhaps. it looked like things were going in that direction. gorbachev had gone to berlin in early october and said the policy for eas

h.w. bush's secretary of state james baker and national security adviser brent scowroft talk about the fall of the berlin wall. this this event was hosted by the bush school of government and public service in college station, texas. >> welcome to all of you for this dialogue. we've done this sort of thing before. i will ask you questions and you will say whatever you darn well please. president and mrs. bush, mrs. baker, we're very honored to have you here as we commemorate the historic 25th anniversary of the fall of the wall and the liberation of eastern europe. let me start with a broad question. when did you feel certain that the wall would fall even if you didn't know when? what was that moment when you were sure?

h.w. bush's secretary of state james baker on the fall of the berlin wall and liberation of eastern europe. find our complete television schedule at c-span.org and let us know about the programs you're watching. call us at 202-of 26-3400 or e-mail us the comments@cspan.org. >> welcome to the session on the situation in iraq and syrian specifically the threat imposed by the event. a name tag is not included in the well-deserved knight hood. thank you for coming. if i could begin with a relatively straight forward question. if you could just please perhaps, gentleman i'll begin with giving a sense of what you think priorities should be for defense engagement in the middle east. >> the defense seems to advise for the middle east. and carry the enjoy to the kurdish region of iraq. although that is made across all of iraq. and my fairly consistent theme about engagement in the middle east is it is an area that is highly complex, highly complicated and closes within it a very, very wide range of british interests, political diplomatic commercial financial. and an area where the united kingdom wi

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h.w. bush's former secretary of james baker, on the fall of the berlin wall and the liberation of eastern europe. our complete schedule at c-span.org and let us know what you think about the programs you're watching. e-mail us, or send us a tweet. a new york grand jury decided not to bring criminal charges in the death of eric gardner who died after being placed in a choke hold by a police officer. theident obama spoke about decision at a tribal nations conference. >> some of you may have her theres with a decision that came out today by a grand jury not to officers who had interacted with an individual gardner in new york city. all of which was caught on videotape, and speaks to the larger issues that we've been now for the last week, the last month, the last for decades.ly thethat is the concern on part of too many minority enforcementat law is not working with them and them in a fairway. and there's going to be, i'm sure, additional statementings by law enforcement. remark onon is not to cases where there may still be an investigation. want everybody to understand that this week in the

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:00 on lectures in history, martha jones on female slaves in the law. , george h.w.0 bush's secretary of state, james baker, on the fall of the berlin wall and the liberation of eastern europe. find a complete television schedule on c-span.org and let us know what you think about the programs you're watching. call us at the following number. e-mail us at the following address. citizen tweet at the following address. join c-span conversation, like some facebook, follow us on twitter. headline.a no indictment in eric garner chokehold case for nypd officer. are staging a diet and in grand central station. they are reacting to a staten island grand jury the decided not to bring criminal charges. the decision triggered outrage and spurred protesters to take to the streets. to helpt obama vowed heal the rift that exist between the police and those they observe -- serve. here's what he said. >> is some of you may have heard, there was a decision that came out today by a grand jury not to indict police officers who had interacted with an individual named eric garner in new york city, all caught on videotape. it sp

h.w. bush sent his secretary of state james baker to ask this committee for the authority to respond military -- to the iraqi invasion of kuwait. the country was divided. congress was divided. this committee drafted an authorization and it passed the congress with a majority as bipartisan. armed with that mandate. they built the coalition that won the first gulf war. that was a different time. it was a different conflict. it called for a different response. it was also this senate at its bipartisan best. what we need for you today to strengthen and unify our coalition is that kind of effort. the world would be watching what we together are willing and able to do. this is obviously not a partisan issue. it's a leadership issue. it is a test of our ability and our nation's ability to stand together, a test of our generation's resolve to build a safer, more secure world. i know every one of you wants to see a bold, bipartisan mandate to strengthen our hand to move closer to the goal. thank you. i'm pleased to answer any questions. >> thank you, mr. secretary. i think there is undoubtedly -- and

h.w. bush sent his secretary of state james baker to ask this committee for the authority to respond military -- to the iraqi invasion of kuwait. the country was divided. congress was divided. this committee drafted an authorization and it passed the congress with a majority as bipartisan. armed with that mandate. they built the coalition that won the first gulf war. that was a different time. it was a different conflict. it called for a different response. it was also this senate at its bipartisan best. what we need for you today to strengthen and unify our coalition is that kind of effort. the world would be watching what we together are willing and able to do. this is obviously not a partisan issue. it's a leadership issue. it is a test of our ability and our nation's ability to stand together, a test of our generation's resolve to build a safer, more secure world. i know every one of you wants to see a bold, bipartisan mandate to strengthen our hand to move closer to the goal. thank you. i'm pleased to answer any questions. >> thank you, mr. secretary. i think there is undoubtedly -- and

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h.w. bush sent his secretary of state james baker to ask this committee for the authority to respond military -- to the iraqi invasion of kuwait. the country was divided. congress was divided. this committee drafted an authorization and it passed the congress with a majority as bipartisan. armed with that mandate. they built the coalition that won the first gulf war. that was a different time. it was a different conflict. it called for a different response. it was also this senate at its bipartisan best. what we need for you today to strengthen and unify our coalition is that kind of effort. the world would be watching what we together are willing and able to do. this is obviously not a partisan issue. it's a leadership issue. it is a test of our ability and our nation's ability to stand together, a test of our generation's resolve to build a safer, more secure world. i know every one of you wants to see a bold, bipartisan mandate to strengthen our hand to move closer to the goal. thank you. i'm pleased to answer any questions. >> thank you, mr. secretary. i think there is undoubtedly -- and