so we agreeed to that. and then the press was going hysterical at the time. i told stories about reagan and he showed me a sail boat and it was over a half hour of pictures he had of the sail boat. we went out and told the press he only budgeted an hour for this meeting but because of the importance of reykjavik we spent an hour and 40 minutes which time we spent ten on reykjavik. and lots on other things. but it showed he was a good ally and the united states cared about it. he did care because he was cooperative on the issue that liberal part of his party wanted arms control. as the director of arms control, i could satisfy that. >> host: before we get back to reagan and gorbachev, i wanted to ask you about a character that is played throughout the book. someone you have mentioned sergio acramayo. tell me about this and his role at reykjavik and his story and why you decided to feature and have it as running secondary character throughout the narrative. >> guest: i thought it was tremendous what he did. he was a five-star marshal. our last five-star marshal

after that it is hard to know if they agreeed on anything. i think they would have had trouble dividing a lunch check. and yet, it is used so often as i am sure you know i want to give two quick examples from a works from the 19th and early 20th century from both ends of the political spectrum and a book that appeared in 1906 danger socialism or empire. and this book was stirring up fears of radical movements that were brewing back then and one sentence from the book says, it is one of the founding father references, our constitution was framed with the objective of allowing absolute freedom in business conduct. so in addition to the founder father reference, we have an absolute. it uses the word absolute. absolute freedom. and we have a filtered fact and the fact it is filtering is only once does the constitution of the united states refer to business conduct. article one section eight congress has the authority to regulate interstate commerce. from this end of the political spectrum, a book from 1895, written by man named mw howard who was

but you agreeed with reagan's turning the deal down and you still agree with it, i take it. >> i did. i didn't know how important it was going to be. i thought on balance he was right. that we would go back to the nuclear side and we should keep our options open. i thought sdi was going to be important to reinforce traditional deterants. he wanted to protect the united states with a shield against imcoming ballistic missiles. but i had no idea this was going to start a change reaction that was going to end the cold war. what happened was gorbachev gets back, he says two things, number one, sdi -- this guy is convinced there is no way. gorbachev's strategy was i am going to make reagan a deal on sdi that he cannot refuse. he find out much to his horror and misery there is no deal on sdi reagan can't convince. and he hears reagan say there has been great progress. he goes back and says i cannot make a deal that will kill sdi with reagan so i have to compete in the high tech area. he calls a meeting of the supreme soviet and says there has to be rapid reforms and they are poorly thought

government agreeed to that condition with the taliban, to prove they were going to follow through with what they were said they were going to do. >> very interesting story, many more details i'm sure, michael thank you so much for joining us. >> my pleasure. >> and a troubling new report on the scandal plagued veteran's affairs deputy, internal audit to v.a. hundreds of facilities finds more than 5700,000 veteran --57,000 veterans have been waiting 90 days or more for a first appointment and 64,000 falling through the cracks. the federal government is engaged in a battle with watch dog organization about information it received from whistle-blowers about fraud and mismanage am at v.a., the inspector general has is upine subpoena the group, but it will not comply because it was pull those people at risk. house veterans affairs committee is holding a hearing on have scandal tonight, to start at bottom of hour, bebefore that we'll talk with veterans affair committee member, congresswoman jackie in just moments we coming right back sy there. >> a humanitarian crisis on the border, border p

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in many respects agreee one who did not to with the special prosecutor. she is the more combative of the two when it comes to giving no quarter. as you can see on a personal level, bill clinton, i think, is more of a next revert and more charming. certainly beon can charming and she is quite talented as a politician in her own right, but i think that she holds her cards more closely and trust fewer people. >> amigo back to what i asked earlier. how did they do it? how did they come through all with him being popular and she is the odds-on favorite to be the democratic candidate? how have they done it? >> it is astounding. butn't say how they did it, it is astounding. >> let's go to another topic. 2005.s you in it is on an msnbc documentary about the trail of terror. it is all about jihad and iraq. >> this grainy video obtained by nbc news captures on tape a dramatic incident which the u.s. military says occurred on september 14, 2000 five in east baghdad. the video shows a suicide bomber whose mission failed. he ramped a tank but his bomb did not go off.

also at that time ncaa agreeed to pay 20 million dollars to group of former players after unauthorized of their likeness in video game by bay area game maker electronic art after ea agreed to pay 40 million dollars in similar settlement last week n.oakland, tiffany will so that, abc 7 news l. >> the tunnel will be reverting back down to 2 or 3 bore over the next couple week. brace yourselves east bay commuters. cal-trans plans to do some work that will force them to close bore 1 and 2 the east bond tunnel possibly the same time but only at night. work will begin at 10:00 p.m. tonight. it involves realining the approach to bore no. 2 and replacing median barrier there. caldecott fourth bore open with great fan fare last year. cal-trans said it saved to 15 ment of travel for drivers headed in the off peak direction i can speck to the to the effectiveness and greatness of the new bore. never one to bore spencer here with the weather and relief is on the way from these blistering tichlts hard to believe things track rapidly. triple dinl to it 20 degree drop in some polices tomorrow. so we

at&t has agreeed to a bide by the 2010 open internet order. thank you. i look forward to your questions. >> thank you, mr. bergmayer. >> mr. lieberman? >> thank you. this will transform the competitive market and consumer experience. this is cause for concern. congress and regulators therefore must review it impending deals and examine to address the market problems fueling them. focusing on at&t's deal it is important to recognize that directv is not only a nationwide provider of paid tv service it is also a programmer with interest in three sports program and national programment. smaller cable operators are concerned this deal will lead directv's programmers to hold out for even higher rates. with 26 million subscribers, at&t and directv combined will command better programming deals than directv would alone. this means higher video profits for both directv and u-verse. regilators have accepted that as the per vehicle profits of a ve vertically provider so does the rival cost of programming. paid tv providers will feel the pinch win we negotiating for

lawsuit was brought by nine students who claim this violates constitutional rights and a superior judge agreeed they take away from the fundamental right to education. david welch is behind this and says he only has a gripe with imcompitant teachers. >> the six million children and their families depending on us i ask you seize the moment to make public education such as it serves our children. >> the judge placed a junction on the rule and a stay. >> teachers unions are saying they will appeal this. do we have information about the appeal? >> that is right. they say they are highly disappoi disappointed with the ruling and they will appeal. >> when you attack teacher's right to a hearing, due process, you ask for a teacher turn over factory and that is affects the students in a dramatic way. >> but the other sides it effects them by having in comp tent teachers that can't be fired. >>> lawmakers get a crack at chuck hagel as to why we did the bergdahl deal. we will listen about bergdahl's health, the commanders and what might they do in the future. >> and what an underdog over a republican pow