mr. gorbachev can accept. >> george bush understood he had a partner in shaping the post-cold war world andpartner was mikhail gorbachev. but gorbachev wanted to be neutral. bush always wanted a unified germany and in a very disciplined ammaner moved gorbachev toward that position. >> in a major concession, gorbachev agreed to the western position that a unified germany is free to join nato. >> once you solved the german problem, you removed the basic source of tension between the two superpowers in the cold war. >> thiis the big photo opportunity, the important picture that president bush came all this way to get. at this moment gorbachev chooses to give president bush his present. the present was a soviet cartoonist's depiction of two presidents as boxers having just knocked out the cold war with the world as referee. >> george bush and brent scowcroft, who was his national security adviser, liked to fish together and one summer they were fishing and they were thinking about what kind of world would emerge after all the dominos had fallen. it's very rare that the world is so fluid and fle

mr. gorbachev tear this wall down, things like that were recommended against, the media went crazy back then, never looking at the fact that you did have a soviet union that was very aggressive. we have seen since 1994, president clinton signed an agreement too denuclearize north korea, we've seen appease am after appeasement, resulting in very provocative establishment of nuclear weapons and tests, they now have the ability to put it of coursetogether. the focus should, be on the threat and what to we to to resolve it is our allies, note -- not the language or words used by our president to north korea to back off. >> real quick on media, have you web site warning that military figures are taking over president trump's administration, think about that and with north korea, paris fighting isis, middle east, is there no better time than new too have generals on your time like i don't know your new chief of staff, mr. kelly, it would make sense to me. >> i think two things that have been a problem, leaks and chaos. on the leak thing, i think that there is no better than general kelly to get to

mr. gorbachev. >> i'm tearing down this wall. >> but that was one thing. but his willingness to initiate gorbachev, they met in iceland. they met in geneva. and that was the human side of -- that was the side of ronald reagan that i appreciate enormously and deeply. only he could have done that. >> yeah. >> only he could have done that and met with gorbachev. >> y & r, i was surprised to learn, started out really as a three month stinlt for you. >> yeah. >> how do you take three months and turn it into almost 40 years? >> most important thing is the change of story lines. >> yeah. >> and there was a moment which wh my wife nicky on the show played beautifully by her all these years asked me about my background. this mysterious character who rufus and billionaire and she didn't know anything about him. so they came up with a story line that made me stay. i then explained to my wife that had i been left on the door steps of an orphanage at the age of 7. once i did that scene, i said i'm staying. it opened up. i playing nothing but bad guys, bored to tears wit

mr. gorbachev, tear down this wall. >> reagan was elected to increase defense spending, but he was elected principally on an argument that government should be shrunk and welfare should be transformed. the budget should be balanced. he was going to be a conservative in the white house. that was his ticket to victory. he wanted to focus on domestic affairs as well. of course, the contrast with the carter years was dramatic. well, he set out a goal at the beginning to end the cold war, build up defense spending, and he did those things, and those defined his presidency. >> i will promise you as your president, i will raise the bar. i will insist on accountability systems that refuse to leave children behind. we will put in place programs that will say we will give our children the building blocks to learn to read. we will challenge people to meet the high expectations. you mark my words what leadership can provide. it will provide an education system that says we are not going to leave anybody behind. america will be better off for it. >> george w. bush also had a very successful year after

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