father call his firstborn after him i do actually my dad was. a bit traumatized from the relationship north america had with russia during the cold war and when the soviet union fowl which was. a large part from which i have there was a huge relief in north america from like the end of the war basically so to dad mikhail gorbachev represented somebody who. you may have like saved north america from russia i don't claim to know better but having listened to a lot of your dad's lectures a thing he holds may have seen gorbachev is somebody courageous enough to break with the mold and speak up against the prevailing orthodoxy reach i hope something that we can discuss today but before we do i have to ask you how is your dad doing . dad's doing well given the circumstances he had a terrible last month and he nearly died several times.