mr. gorbachev? >> i am hopeful that will come about. we have had expressions that, yes they are willing. the ball is in their court, we have invited them. it is our turn to invite and we are ready when they are. but, it is necessary for them to know that we do not have any illusions. at the same time, we are willing to exist in the world. and... it's time that we sat down and found out, where the parameters are. >> you noted the other day that, the soviets spent 500 million dollars to prop up marxist regime and nicaragua. the house has refused to commit even 14 million dollars to help freedom fighters. why have you not been able to convince the people, that the cause of the contra's, and helping the controls is the right cause? >> i think part of it is, a sophisticated disinformation campaign. but the communist bloc has worldwide, to where they have been able to confuse a great many of our people. even the terms that we use, i wish we hadn't. i wish we had started doing something -- if we had referred not to the... as the communists. no

mr. gorbachev open this gate mr. goldichoff mr. gorbachev teared down this wall i understand. fear of war and the pain of division that afflict this continent and i pledge to you my country's efforts to help overcome these burdens to be sure we in the west must be resist soviet expansion. so we must maintain defenses of unassailable strength. yet we seek peace. so we must strive to reduce arms on both sides. beginning 10 years ago the soviets challenged the western alliance with a grave new threat. hundreds of new and more deadly ss20 nuclear missiles capable of striking every capital in europe the western alliance responded by committing itself to a counter deployment. unless the soviets agreed to negotiate a better solution namely the elimination of such weapons on both sides. for many months the soviets refused to bargain in earnestness there's the alliance in turn prepared to go forward with its counter deployment there were difficult days. days of protests like those during my 1982 visit to this city. and the soviets later walked away from the table. but through it all. t

mr. gorbachev tear down this wall, if you gets around to it. it is such an ugly wall, or at least paint it come on! and you know i feel like this is the big difference between trump and biden strks how they use their power. because with trump it was always like ah, shit is he going to as his power it is like aw shit is he going to use his power. also whoever decided to call taye gas tax holiday that person should be fired. it is not a holiday. what does that mean, i gas tax holiday t is like we are not charging-- that is the worst holiday of all time. you say 18 cents off of gas and i still have to go to work. is are shitting me, even ar ber day is better than that shit. this is what confuses me about this country, all right, everywhere in the world governments manage to protect their populations from corporate greed, like south africa will limit how high bread prices can go. the eu will be like you cannot pump chickens with the same hormones they use in the hulk. in china they are like crypto is done and no more dancing on tiktok, only homewor

mr. gorbachev to him here the word master, gorbachev those, yes, he said, yes, tear down this earth, thisl, and uh, an impression was called. how smart david and i are, but then i was told that david made another phone without a call. what a wonderful article came out of someone. yeah pay attention to it. and how could the president be interested in doing something about this, that it's very important here that nine people are very knowledgeable, but besides, if i may, a little bit of an activist, and when he gives out such ideas, you don't have to think that he was called to the white house and given instructions to him. this means that he probably has a very good sense of the moment. he thinks it's for this uh, for the approach that he proposes. eh, the time has come, but this does not mean that he had a house, therefore, about this path, but he will fully go, because e negotiating with russia is a little more difficult than to negotiate with washington journalists. and uh, from my point of view, there are two points that motivate not only david igneishis and there were articles, by the

mr. gorbachev, how's it hangin', bro? ( laughter ) >> stephen: how was it hangin'?ember how it hung. how it hanged. as so? to the right? but north korea's not the only foreign power biden has a message for. today, while in tokyo, japan, he was asked this hypothetical about china attacking taiwan: >> are you willing to get involved militarily to defend taiwan, if it comes to that? >> yes. >> stephen: gulp. ( laughter ) come on, joe, we have enough going on. it's like that old coco chanel saying, "before you leave the house, look in the mirror, and don't go to war with china." ( laughter ) biden's very blunt statement surprised many, including the reporter who asked it, so she followed up. >> you are? >> that's a commitment we made. >> stephen: he sounds so resigned. "i know the spark has gone out of our marriage, doris, but it's a commitment we made, so let's go upstairs and do the nasty, i guess. or, right here on the kitchen counter. it's not like the kids are around anymore to interrupt us." ( laughter ) but, this is important, because the u.s. has historically wa

mr. gorbachev, tear down this wall. nobody disputes whatever happened to a new man in . i've concluded that i will stop being a candidate for president of the united states likeof yesterday. oh , she's been speaker since 2019 and before that from 2007 to 2011.20 and democrats love though because she's a first the first woman speaker of the house. and no matter what her record , the press adulation, it nevers stops. she is a canny legislator. she knows how to get things done or historic figure. but more importantlys, nancyly pelosi runs a very, very disciplined caucus. speaker pelosiate is brilliant >>is she's a fantastic speaker. but we're here to ask what does nancy have to show for all these years in office when she first took over as speaker, democrats had two hundred and thirty three seats to the gop. he well, ed and two that number grew to two fifty seven seats in two thousand nine . that was a big majority. but by 2011 the democrats bled's 40 seats under pelosi's reign and it ushered in a new gop majority. >> thank all of you. god bless you and god bless. but the p

mr. gorbachev and i both agree on the desirability of freer and more extensive personal contact between thethat the best way to get a message to a foreign leader was to have the president go in the rose garden and make a statement. because everybody was watching cnn. >> cnn 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's hard to be on the top little perch and have to come down off it. >> a 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 business, competition, and technology. >> there are a variety of reasons why people who worked at the broadcast networks were freaked out in 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

from the hands of the soviet union and its leader mikhail gorbachev then- they, after the collapse of the soviet union, this is a small twitch that mrsith some terrible things. and yet . she looks much more changeable than most current european leaders. i think that we were talking about the fact that sanctions will destroy the economy of europe, this is true, but now something else is happening. damn, the terrible process of brain destruction is a very fast intellectual moral and political degradation of europe, it’s time for them to stop, because soon there will be simply no one to talk to, except for ours there is no one to talk to and not our politicians, but only our psychiatrist will be able to talk to them. although after the death of gandhi putin, there is no one else to talk to . we remember it is brilliantly his quote. what about merkel? she said the main one, maybe it's flowery, but she explained why in in 2008, they did not support ukraine's accession to nato because putin would be against it due to the fact that the russian federation is located next to ukraine . the russian federation would not agree on nato bases at it