mr. reagan invited gorbachev to stroll the garden to the pool house where they sat alone before a fire. ked without notes. not about arms control but about his personal feelings about reducing the level of fear and misunderstanding between the two nations. >> the main thing is they met each other as human beings, reagan in particular concentrated his attention on gorbachev as a person. he spent more time studying gorbachev than he did the esoteric things having to do with arms control. >> it is understood the president tried to dispel his negative image of the u.s. gorbachev wouldn't budge but wasn't as combative as he was with other officials recently. >> is it a good sign? >> of course. >> i would think so. >> i was at lunch when ronald reagan came out of the first meeting with gorbachev and he said this is a new type of soviet leader. >> the president announced gorbachev will visit the u.s. next year and they agreed to accelerate arms talks. the soviet leader was more negative. >> the most important problem concerning the arms race and increasing hopes of peace, we didn't succeed in r

mr. gorbachev, open this gate. mr. ll. >> announcer: "the eighties," next on cnn. >>> the only morality they'll recognize is what will further their cause. they reserve under themselves the right to commit any crime, to lie, to cheat. >> the russians are gearing up for war. >> the senate approved $136.5 billion defense budget. [ chanting ] >> the largest anti-nuclear protest in u.s. history. >> president reagan is more eager to meet with new leader of the soviet union. >> you had an agreement, mr. president! >> mr. gorbachev, tear down this wall. ♪

mr. gorbachev, tear down this wall." the speech went through many drafts and every time his speechwriters kept taking a line out -- they thought it was too inflammatory and would alienate the soviets. reagan knew better. when the time was right, the brandenburg gate, the place was right, and his entire foreign policy message that he had been expressing since his first speech had finally arrived and to heck with the speechwriters -- he gave us the words that will forever give him a word -- a place in our history. tear down this wall. four words, each one syllable. simple and clear and passionate and on the mark. then he followed through and he kept that momentum going, ending the cold war, which was completed with george h.w. bush. when you go to washington, think about aviation -- aviation is all about having optimism and clarity and consistency and follow-through if you are going to land airplanes successfully. the streets are the key to what made ronald reagan a great communicator. the ninth commandment. a great leader

mr. gorbachev, take down the wall. he said i'm putting it in the speech. >> and still talking about it, 35, 40 years later. >> listen to the bureaucrats you got to say play within the parameters. >> gene: also divide within the republican party and all of slapped, donald, what are we going to do? they are going to line up behind him now? >> they will try but i think it will be no, you used to be in the front row, you come in the arena but you're not going to be in the front row and not going to wild all the influence you used to wild. this is time to bring fresh approach and that's what reagan did in '80. >> gene: you were close to h >> i loved him. thank god he came to america as president when he did and i think what you will see all the lobbyist and all of those insiders in washington, they will be scared to death this morning because they are the establishment that fought him every step along the way and this is a guy who will surround himself i think with the rudy giulianis and with people like ben carson and so f

mr. gorbachev and i both agree on the desirable of freer and more extensive contact between the peoples of was a breakthrough. it changed the whole world. >> it changed quickly the network news business, that business that we weren't the only ones. and it was hard. you know, it is hard to be on the top little perch and have to come down off it. >> on special segment tonight, the network news, the first in a two-part series on the profound changes taking place in television news, changes being brought about by petition, competition and technology. >> there were a variety of reasons why people who worked at the broadcast networks were freaked out in the 1980s, one of them was cnn and the rise of cable. another was being taken over by foreign entities in corporate america. >> new owners spent billions buying the networks recently, and all of them want their money's worth. >> people began to find out that news could be a profit center, and that focused a lot of attention on us, a lot from people in wall street, for instance. >> if you think about the news divisions of cbs, nbc and abc, they we

mr. texas is nonnow an elite? >> says it all. and one story here quickly. mikael gorbachev is supposed to have said when he e met with then vice president bush, vice president bush said reagan is a conservative, extreme conservative. and all the block heads and dummies are with him. being one of the dummies and block heads i would suggest that is the attitude here. >> are you now throwing george w. bush under the bus? mr. texas twang is this. >> i do need to say one thung. keep in mind the number of other people from both bush administrations who have come out for hillary clinton. you have had the gang of --. discern. there is not just. >>[chatter]. -- are people who are concerned about the judgment -- with all due. >> hold on one second. >> she continued by the way to say she wouldn't let her daughter alone in the room by the way, with bill clinton or with donald trump. she said she's going to write in mike pence. these are sitting senators coming out against donald trump. >> she has to say and do what she needs to win her election. but ask someone who worked for president

gorbachev wrote in one of his memoirs that ronald reagan spent us into oblivion, and i am a big advocate of military spending. gerard: you think you cando the same with china? mrgiuliani: i will say what has happened with china. i believe you have in china, and a lot of people here know china -- i think you have in china a tension not unlike what we have between, let's call them the hawks and doves. the hawks military power help us doves sayarily, the we are so powerful and big and we have so many poor people that we have to bring out of poverty, 700 million that, let's become an economic competitor and not a military competitor. so if our navy is that much doves than there's, the win that war because the hawks can't get the money they need to come and catch us, but if obama takes our navy down here and you can kind of catch us, encourage them, now if we take our navy up here they are not going to be of and here is what i believe and know about the chinese. whatever else you think, they are enormously practical people. they also realize they have to -- things to overcome that stand two in the way of being a great world power. one is the enormous amount of pove

gorbachev wrote in one of his memoirs, i think the principle one that he wrote, ronald reagan spent us into oblivion. and i am a big advocate of military spending. mr. baker: you think could you do the same with china? mr. giuliani: i will tell what you happened with china. i believe this completely. i spent a little time in china. i believe you have in china, a lot of people here know china, i think you have in china a tension, not unlike what we have, between -- let's call them the hawks and the doves. the hawks are military power can really help us grow economically. the doves say, hey, we're so powerful, we're so big, we have so many poor people we have to bring out of poverty, 700 million, that -- let's become an economic competitor, not a military competitor. so, if our navy is that much bigger than theirs, the doves win that war. because the hawks can't get the money they need to come and catch us. but if obama takes our navy down here and you can kind of catch us, you kind of encourage them. if we take our navy up here, they're not going to be able to catch us. and here's what i believe and know about the chinese. whatever else you think, t

gorbachev wrote in one of his memoirs that ronald reagan spent us into oblivion, and i am a big advocate of military spending. gerard: you think you can do the same with china? mr. giuliani: i will say what has happened with china. i believe you have in china, and a lot of people here know china -- i think you have in china a tension not unlike what we have between, let's call them the hawks and doves. the hawks with their military , the can help us grow doves say we have so many people to bring out of poverty that lets become an economic competitor and not a military competitor. if our navy is that much bigger irs, the doves when the war because the hawks cannot catch us. but if obama takes our navy down here, they can catch us and that encourages them. if we take our navy up here, they will not be able to catch us. this is what i believe and know about the chinese. whatever else you think, they are enormously practical people. they also realize they have to things to overcome that stand in the way of being a great world power. is the enormous amount of poverty that they have. they are a first world country and a third world country combined. one half the othe