"the berlin wall. once, it divided east from west. now, on its way to becoming an artifact of history. this is the cbs evening news, dan rather reporting tonight from in front of the brandenburg gate in berlin, germany. good evening. these are the sights and sounds of the continuing celebration of germans about the symbolic, not the literal, at least not yet, but the symbolic tearing down of the berlin wall." germany would formally reunite a year later. but for a country afflicted by decades of turmoil figuring out where to go would be a cautious process but one that germany finally had the freedomto make. if there's one obsessionmost cultures throughout the decades have shared, it's the fantasy of the super- human and few names have embodied that fantasy quite like spider-man. the center-piece of what's become an empire, thanks to the obsession of many that all began in august of 1962. by the early 1960s, there was already a gluttony of comic book superheroes but a lot of them lacked an important trait - relatability. so when marvel

you can either have a berlin wall where you do not let people out or you can have a berlin wall whereou do not let people in. it depends on where your heart is and where you are with god. i think things need to change and it needs to change in a big way. our government is not doing it. the reason why trump and bernie sanders are doing well is because they are bringing the subjects up and this is what people want to have taken care of. none of the people on that stage right now are doing it except for donald trump and bernie sanders. host: you mentioned bernie sanders, he has been critical of this administration for its efforts to allow drilling in the arctic. that drilling also a backdrop of the president's trip to alaska this week. noting therk times" president is paying little heed to the gas drilling he has allowed to go forward just this month, but there are some activists and environmentalists who are trying to remind the public about the drilling that has been allowed. sanders, in a recent tweet on the drilling in the arctic said that at a time when our planet is warming due to

the berlin wall to the ground. why mess optimistic? because the same thing is happening today. john: you work for bloomberg view. you have a column of this week in which you argue that ted cruz "the most underestimated candidate in the field." make your case. al: i knew ronald reagan, i cut i covered ronald reagan. i think he is underrated for a lot of reasons. he is tough and incredibly smart. he has lots of money, he has the right message. every time he attacks mitch mcconnell they hated here in the beltway. whole lot of southern delegate -- southern delegates will be picked. any right-wing candidate can coalesce that movement, it will be ted cruz. he has a shot. john: i think ted cruz gets as much love as he deserves. his strategy seems to be we are going to cozy up to trump. crumbles, he wants to be here with all of his boats. what if trump doesn't crumble? you are left standing there holding a big pot of money and with a lot fewer votes you need to win any primary. you are dead right about that but it will be

the berlin wall to the ground. [applause] why am i so up the missed the? tic?hy am i so optimis because the same thing is happening today. john: you work for bloomberg view. you have a column of this week in which you argue that ted cruz is, "the most underestimated candidate in the field." make your case. al: i knew ronald reagan, i cut for -- i covered ronald reagan. i think he is underrated for a lot of reasons. he is tough and incredibly smart. he has a lot to money the top he has the right message. they love it out there in the .ountry folk top any right-wing candidate can coalesce that movement, it will be ted cruz. i am not sure it will happen, .ut he has a shot o john: i think ted cruz gets as much love as he deserves. his strategy seems to be we are going to cozy up to trump. we're not going to criticize him because when he crumbles and falls apart, we want to be there. what if trump doesn't crumble? by the time you get to the sec primary, you are left standing there holding a big pot of money and with a l

berlin and says mr. gorbachev, tear down this wall. getting beyond the important speech and have significant it was to the 10 year period you just discussed in terms of his approach to the cold war and the fall of the soviet union. james graham wilson: at the end of the day, there was no operational policy that flowed from it in the reagan administration. that is to say, they did not follow up my coming up with a policy for how to bring down the wall. the basic tenor in reagan's ofversation towards the end his administration was that maybe this was something that could happen in several decades. to give another example about the berlin wall, he said to me about hemorrhages and your said said ton november -- me that henry kissinger said to him in november that what would have been on his watch was the very gradual start of a very gradual communication of soviet -- diminishing of soviet control. it might come down within the next two decades. it happens within a year and not because reagan said to tear down the wall. when it came down th

foreign and domestic pilots including leadership during collapse of the soviet union and fall of the berlin wall and passing the native americans with disabilities act. [inaudible] >> good afternoon ladies and gentlemen and welcome to houston's bookstore. it's a beautiful afternoon. thank you for coming endorsed a span of a fast. today we are pleased to welcome back to new hampshire surfer subtle terms of governor and when asked to become george h.w. bush chief of staff. please chime in welcoming for the quiet man indispensable president via george h.w. bush. [applause] >> when they sang gibsons for their hospitality. i'm an old book and books are adding and i think the way you've been able to handle such that the scope in an intimate as though they'd should satisfy any look at it and i recommend anybody looking for a place to browse and find grace to have to read, this is the place to come. i'd also like to thank you for taking a little bit of time to join us today. i wrote the "the quiet man" because i feel george herbert walker bush had in his one term as extraordinary presidency as we've had

we went from our hostages in iran to winning the cold war and tearing the berlin wall to the ground. [applause] optimistic? because the same thing is happening today. millions of americans are waking up, saying, this doesn't make any sense, we just finished a bus tour through seven states. every stop, men and woman came up to me -- one woman in charleston said, i voted for barack obama in 2008. i stayed home in 2012. and this year, i am voting for you. [applause] another men and total suck, oklahoma -- a working men with calluses on his hand with greece and sweat on his shirt, walked up to me and said, i have been a registered democrat my entire life. morning i went down to the county clerk and i registered as a republican to vote for you. [applause] that is happening all over this country. we winwe win this race? this race running a populist campaign of hard-working men and women against the bipartisan corruption of washington dc. clinton andary bodies. for all of us, freedom isn't some abstract concept. it is personal, it is real, it is our families. i think about my dad, pastor ra

the dividing line, like the berlin wall, has disappeared doesn't mean we are not facing similar threats. so it makes it more difficult for us to understand that these threats are real. and while, you know, the free world is much stronger than 40 years ago, for the first time when the free world, you know, dominates this planet both economically and militarily, but at the same time we don't have the same political will. we don't have the same consensus of the public that there's an evil that makes us, you know, concentrate in to oazing it. opposing it. so we could feel indecisiveness, weakness. actually, unwillingness to even pay attention to these threats. and that's why here in america or in europe, you know, time and again we can hear the same voices. oh, let's, you know, retreat, you know? what happened in ukraine is not our business. what happens in iraq is not our business. wait a second. we live in a world where everything is globalized. anybody can have access to information, any event this the next few world by just supplieding a finger on the screen -- sliding a finger on the s

ring sung right now in egypt, in hong kong, you will hear them sung in tiananmen square or on the berlin wallear it sung in ferguson, i've heard it sung every place where there's a group of people yearning to have the rights that are routinely afforded to everyone else. i want people as they read this book to know i'm just trying to capture a snapshot of this music at this time and how it got from where it was to hear as is potent, powerful transformative agent in american culture. ♪ >> up next, the c-span cities tour of waco, texas visits the collection of letters, books and papers of the english poets robert and elizabeth barrett browning. >> robert and elizabeth barrett browning were victorian poets. they were both born in the 1845, 46,a and met in and lived for46, about 15 years in florence, italy. one of the things most familiar about elizabeth would the her lee andem, aurora especially the sonnets for the portuguese. she's known for her 43rd sonnet which is widely used for greeting cards and advertisements -- how do i love the -- let me count the ways. i know everyone has heard that bef

that is called the berlin wall. that is substantial. >> we have wursts and traditional and we started new creations, cheddar brats. >> are you digging in, greg? questions. i have never been a fan of the white sausage. why is it white? >> it is veal and pork. so they are whiter meats. traditional. this is what you see in new york all of the time. greg: you make them up good. >> we try our best. we have the berlin wall here. a half pound, this is the one you stole earlier. greg what is that? >> a double double, bratwurst, bacon, tomato, like a double cheese burger. greg: how much? >> the wall is 14 bucks. it is a half pound of meat. the others 7-9 bucks. greg: if she finishes it, it is for free? >> that is the policy. >> how long do i have? >> finish it. greg: give her as much time as she needs. what else here? i want to know the address. >> 85th and second. >> upper west side. >> thank you, once again. which means small room. there is the food. 1937. i wonder what the rent was in 1937 and what it is today. >> my gran

host: you also look at 1989 and this is the year you're the only network newscaster who was at the berlin wall. and it all began with a tip from a friend in it? guest: it did but we didn't think the wall was going to come down. without a lot was happening in the east and there's not much going on here so let's go there. my motto as a journalist has always been it's never a mistake to go. just get on the airplane ago, something will happen. [laughter] so i didn't think i would base daddy there when the berlin came down but it came down the second day we're there, almost by accident. in fact east german officials who made the announcement turns out it was a mistake the way he made the announcement, i am now rushing over to the wall, we have satellite capacity and i'm thinking as a journalist well my god there's no bigger story in the war, this is the symbolic end of the cold war. and i'm looking around bbc doesn't have any they're not even german television had the live capacity, we were the only one. i'm a big outdoorsman so i had kind of a ratty coat so i don't want to offend anyone it was a r

allow oorn europe to break away, the idea which was the first thing he does after te fall of the berlin walland the execution of the group in romaine ya is to fly to romania because foreign policy was not totally dead yet, and the desire was to track something out of this and for the ussr to remain the tall of international security in eastern europe so that for a year or two after the fall of the berlin wall soviet diplomacy still was -- one entirely the rest of optimism. it was realism except that the polls, the polls were of the germans. so that one something to work with there. the polls thought to themselves will the new germany accept the old borders? or will they want a bit of poland back? now that -- now that they're becoming a reunified country, so it wasn't totally unrealistic so it was a dynamic process right to the end of the ussr. [inaudible] thank you for showing us the end of the cold war from both sides. [applause] >> thanks for coming along. [laughter] [inaudible] after talking about his book robert service joined by former secretary of state joe schultz to discuss the book

we went from our hostages in and to winning the cold war tearing the berlin wall to the ground. why am i so optimistic? because the same thing is happening today. wakings of americans are up, they are saying this doesn't make any sense. we just finished a bus tour through seven states in seven days. every stop, men and women came up to me. one woman in charleston, s.c. said, i voted for barack obama in 2008. i stayed home in 2012. and this year, i'm voting for you. another man in tulsa, oklahoma, working man with calluses on his hands, with greece and sweat on his shirt, he walked up to me and he said, ted, i have been a registered democrat my entire life or he said, this morning i went down to the county clerk and registered as a republican to vote for you. happening all over this country. how do we win this race? we win this race running a ofulist campaign hard-working men and women against the bipartisan corruption of washington, d.c. hillary clinton embodies. us, freedom isn't some abstract concept. it's personal. it is our families. i think about my dad, pastor rafael cruz.

the only thing that would fall is the berlin wall. he continued, i heard the other speakers at the convention saying we won the cold war. and i couldn't help wonder who did they exactly mean by we?" reagan knew. he always knew. going back to his days in hollywood when soviet agents, pro vac ters. but the soviets always had a political head established in the united states of america. soviet agents threatened to throw acid in his face in the '40s. and in the 1960s said they had a bowl at headquarters with reagan's head on it. he hired private security to protect his wife and two children. a strike by a communist leaning union in 1946 shut down the studio where reagan was beginning to film "night on to night." he told congress, we man into a one man battalion, ronald reagan. it was later learned to be funded by moscow. two men tried to lay gasoline bombs and throw into their home where nancy and their son was sleeping. they slipped away in the darkness. to his everlasting congress when he testified on unamerican activities he didn't say

the only thing that would fall is the berlin wall. he continued, i heard the other speakers at the convention saying we won the cold war. and i couldn't help wonder who did they exactly mean by we?" reagan knew. he always knew. going back to his days in hollywood when soviet agents, pro vac ters. but the soviets always had a political head established in the united states of america. soviet agents threatened to throw acid in his face in the '40s. and in the 1960s said they had a bowl at headquarters with reagan's head on it. he hired private security to protect his wife and two children. a strike by a communist leaning union in 1946 shut down the studio where reagan was beginning to film "night on to night." he told congress, we man into a one man battalion, ronald reagan. it was later learned to be funded by moscow. two men tried to lay gasoline bombs and throw into their home where nancy and their son was sleeping. they

for example, as the berlin wall was coming down, some of his advisers were encouraging him to go and in effect dance on the wall, take credit for this great thing the united states had done. he was wise enough not to do that. that would force gorbachev to have to respond. and he gave me a lot of freedom as education secretary to try to raise standards and encourage us to improve our schools community by community rather than from washington. so i always have had and do have a great respect for h.w. bush. i think his presidency, as time goes on, will be valued much more highly than it even is today. if you had to pick two people, which i in fact, did when we had tennessee homecoming a statewide celebration of the 3,000 place in tennessee that people call home. i had to pick two people to be the co-chair of that who symbolized tennessee. i picked mini pearl and alex haley. they were tennessee. and many wanted to be katharine hepburn. but she had a better opportunity at the grand old opry and she took it. she lived next door to the governor's residence. and people ran for governor in ord

you can either have a berlin wall where you don't let people out or you can have a berlin wall where you don't let people in. it depends on where your heart is and where you are with god. i think things need to change and it needs to change in a big way, and our government isn't doing it and the one reason why trump and bernie sanders and them are doing well is because they're bringing these subjects up and this is what the people want to have taken care of and none of the people up there on that stage right now are doing it except for donald trump and bernie sanders. >> james, you mentioned bernie sanders. bernie sanders has been critical of this administration for its efforts to allow drilling in the arctic. of course, that drilling in the arctic also a backdrop of the president's trip to alaska this week. "the new york times" reporting that the president is paying little heed that he allowed to go forward just this month and there have been activists and environmental groups in alaska who are trying to remind the public about the drilling that's been allowed. bernie sanders in a r

the only thing that would fall would be the berlin wall. he continued, i heard those speakers at that other convention saying, we won the cold war and i couldn't help wondering just who exactly do they mean by we? close quote. reagan knew. he always knew. going back to his days in hollywood when soviet agencies and their friends and supporters including a healthy number of democrats such as henry lawless and alger hiss, that the soviets always had a political beach head established in the i'd of america. soviet agents threatened to throw acid in his fate in the 1940s. the soviets said they had a bullet at a their headquarters. he knew in the most personal terms and he was so concerned, he hired security for his wife and two children. a strike by a communist leaning union in 1946 shut down the studio where reagan was begin to go fill night after night and reagan pushed back. later, communist members sterling told congress -- the striking union was later funded by moscow. during his time as governor, two men tried to take gasoline bombs and t

i let the along very well now. ( laughs ) >> kroft: the berlin wall, which once divided east and west, is now gone except for a section that has been turned into an art display. checkpoint charlie, once the epicenter of the cold war, is now a tourist attraction, full of kitsch. statues of karl marx and friedrich engels still stand in the eastern part of berlin, relics of another era, as is the man who straddled two worlds and got away with it. when you do business everywhere, the challenges of keeping everyone working together can quickly become the only thing you think about. that's where at&t can help. at&t has the tools and the network you need, to make working as one easier than ever. virtually anywhere. happy anniversary dinner, darlin' i'm messing up every dish, pot, and plate... ...to show my love. ta-da! all this devotion only calls for a little bit of dawn ultra. now even more concentrated. just one bottle has the grease cleaning power of two bottles of this other liquid. you still got it, romeo. a drop of dawn and grease is gone. a new season brings a new look. a chance to t

the channel will become the berlin wall where innocent people die trying to cross. the guardian goes on to show from invoking language used by cameron last week to describe migrants. he called them a swarm. this is the new political lexicon. sx sx4xc - hello, i'm john cleese. now, have you ever wondered what makes sacred art really sacred? i mean, does the so-called creative spirit lie within the artist, or is it something channeled through the artist that comes from somewhere else entirely? in either case prepare to be totally delighted by what follows: the first-time meeting of a tibetan lama and a navajo sculptress. so settle back take a deep breath and let your creative spirit float in the wind as we join our host, phil cousineau with his esteemed guests for this colorful, art-drenched episode of global spirit, the first internal travel series. [percussive music]

, the eastern republic states along russia traveled there was key to bringing down the berlin wallhe believed in engagement. i think it is an old fashioned conservative idea this idea with engaging with neighbors as opposed to attempting to isolate them. and we also need to be consistent from the standpoint what we do with other countries. there are a host of other countries around the globe that tragically don't have great human rights records. but what we've we've chosen is do whether with china or a host of other places is the say if we engage we may be able to bring more change than if we don't. i think the same holds true in cuba. >> politically speaking does this put republicans in a bind going into 2016? >> not really. because as you know too often is the case of diffused costs and concentrated benefit in the world of politics. so the people who care legitimately down in south florida, whose grandparents came over, who saw real oppression in cuba, they care a lot. the average person in kansas or idaho or somewhere in south carolina, it is just not a front burner issue. so i

the only thing that would fall is the berlin wall. he continued, i heard the other speakers at the convention saying we won the cold war. and i couldn't help wonder who did they exactly mean by we?" reagan knew. he always knew. going back to his days in hollywood when soviet agents, pro vac ters. but the soviets always had a political head established in the united states of america. soviet agents threatened to throw acid in his face in the '40s. and in the 1960s said they had a bowl at headquarters with reagan's head on it. he hired private security to protect his wife and two children. a strike by a communist leaning union in 1946 shut down the studio where reagan was beginning to film "night on to night." he told congress, we man into a one man battalion, ronald reagan. it was later learned to be funded by moscow. two men tried to lay gasoline bombs and throw into their home where nancy and their son was sleeping. they slipped away in the darkness. to his everlasting congress when he testified on unamerican activities he didn't say

damien: i can remember when the berlin wall came down 25 years ago, and we all thought that was the end of the iron curtain that separated east and west. well now another barrier is being built in eastern europe- -- this time in hungary, and its purpose is to keep refugees out of europe. most are fleeing war and persecution in places like syria. if they manage to survive crossing the mediterranean, they make it to greece, they then have to walk hundreds of miles through the balkans to hungary, because, if they make it across the hungarian border, it can then be easier to reach western europe, the final aim. but it's a perilous journey as our reporter found out. ((when -- out. reporter: it's a risky endeavor. ahmad shehabi is trying to reach germany. a syrian of palestinian descent, he's already made it to greece. he came on a rubber boat to the island of samos, where he then landed in jail. >> they don't take gave us any cover or any sleeping bag. we sleep like this, on our back, like this, without anything. and it was cold, very cold. we have children, we have families. reporter: every

we went from hostages in iran to winning cold war and tearing the berlin wall to the ground. [applause] optimistic? is happeningg today. millions of americans are waking up and saying this does not make any sense. bus to workshed a through seven states and seven days. every top, men and women can open to me -- came up to me and said you know, i voted for barack obama in 2008. ed home in 2012, and this year i am voting are you. [applause] another man in tulsa, oklahoma, a working man with calluses on his hand, with greece and sweat on his shirt walked up to me and , i have been registered democrat my entire life. he said this morning i went down to the county clerk and a registered as a republican to vote for you. [applause] that is happening all over this country. how do we win this race? running a populist campaign of hard-working men and women against the bipartisan corruption of washington dc. [applause] that hillary clinton embodies. us, freedom is not some abstract concept. it is personal, it is real, it is our families. , pastorabout my dad rafael cruz. he spent a lot o

ring sung right now in egypt, in hong kong, you will hear them sung in tiananmen square or on the berlin wall ferguson, i've heard it sung every place where there's a group of people yearning to have the rights that are routinely afforded to everyone else. i want people as they read this book to know i'm just trying to capture a snapshot of this music at this time and how it got from where it was to hear as is potent, powerful transformative agent in american culture. ♪ >> while we were in waco, the c-span tour visited the texas rangers hall of fame. we will hear about the agency and get a look at items in the museum, including some of the guns confiscated from the criminal couple, bonnie and clyde. >> the institute of texan culture in san antonio said the second most well-known thing in texas is the texas rangers. first thing the alamo. everyone remembers the alamo, right? they have had a long legacy. we're talking 200 years of legacy of upholding values of law and order and justice. it is something a lot of foreigners have taken two. we hear about ranger reenactment groups in the ukraine, b

proportions united states could have done a victory dance over the soviets particularly when the berlin wall fell i will never forget watching my dad on tv as abundance said he shed over there to celebrate with the german people but rather than be a leader he would have faced greater vulnerability to transfer without bloodshed a dictatorship of the proportions fell without one drop of blood it was an amazing feat things to the fantastic leadership of ronald reagan then the humility of george h. w. bush to do the right thing rather than what would make him look popular. these are the leadership skills necessary to day forever country prepare to be a strong leader to read here to principles to be accommodating. no better example than that. almost six years ago senator ted kennedy praised the

and a few hundred kilometers behind the berlin wall, there is another symbol. in the center of warsaw, there is a sign that notes the distances to two capitals. in one direction, it points towards moscow. in the other, it points towards brussels. headquarters of western europe's unity. the marker says that the distances from warsaw to moscow and warsaw to brussels are equal. the sign makes this point. poland is not east or west. poland is at the center. it is doing so today by being magnificently unreconciled. poland struggled to be poland. and to secure the basic rights we often take for granted, demonstrates why we dare not take those rights for granted. defending the reform bill of 1866 gladstone declared you cannot fight against the future. time is on our side. it was easier to believe in the march of democracy in gladstone's day. we are approaching the end of a bloody century plagued by a terrible invention, totalitarianism. democracy's enemies have refined their instruments of repression. yet optimism is in order. because day by day, democracy is proving

an estimated 5,000 managed to get past the berlin wall. captured trying and nearly 200 others killed. for 28 years the wall stood as most visible symbol of the cold war synonymous with the divide between east and west, american-style capitalism and communism. finally on a historic night it came down as east german guards opened the borders allowing east and west berliners to roam their city freely but walls as a means of separating and isolating people and cultures are still a thing including in the united states as evidenced by donald trump's plan for the u.s.-mexico border. >> i said we need to build a wall and it has to be built quickly. and i don't mind having a big, beautiful door in that wall so that people can come into this country legally. but we need jeb to build a wall. we need to keep illegals out. >> but history has taught us building a wall whether to keep people out or to lock them in can have far reaching and sometimes devastating consequences. just like that wall bi-secretarying berlin which the government of east germany b

the berlin wall had just been built.iet union had tested the most powerful weapons ever developed. china was on the verge of acquiring a nuclear bomb. less than 20 years after the end of world war ii the prospect of nuclear war was all too real. with all of the threats that we face today it's hard to appreciate how much more dangerous the world was at that time. in light of these mounting threats a number of strategists here in the united states argued that we had to take military action against the soviets to hasten what they saw as inevitable confrontation. but the young president offered a different vision. strength in his view included powerful armed forces and a willingness to stand up for our values around the world. but he rejected the prevailing attitude among some foreign policy circles that equated security with a perpetual war footing. instead he promised strong, principled american leadership on behalf of what he called a practical and attainable peace. a peace based not on sudden revolution in human nature,

foreign and domestic pilots including leadership during collapse of the soviet union and fall of the berlin wall and passing the native americans with disabilities act. [inaudible] >> good afternoon ladies and gentlemen and welcome to houston's bookstore. it's a beautiful afternoon. thank you for coming endorsed a span of a fast. today we are pleased to welcome back to new hampshire surfer subtle terms

proportions united states could have done a victory dance over the soviets particularly when the berlin wall fell i will never forget watching my dad on tv as abundance said he shed over there to celebrate with the german people but rather than be a leader he would have faced greater vulnerability to transfer without bloodshed a dictatorship of the proportions fell without one drop of blood it was an amazing feat things to the fantastic leadership of ronald reagan then the humility of george h. w. bush to do the right thing rather than what would make him look popular. these are the leadership skills necessary to day forever country prepare to be a strong leader to read here to principles to be accommodating. no better example than that. almost six years ago senator ted kennedy praised the president to call ronald reagan he did now to destroy his opponents he took office with the evil empire in his sights one was a soviet union the other was the federal government he brought down the former and then brought to what might be considered unthinkable people can disagree but efface the n.h. other

the berlin wall had just been built.iet union had tested the most powerful weapons ever developed. china was on the verge of acquiring a nuclear bomb. years after the end of world war ii, the prospect of nuclear war was all too real. with all of the threats we face appreciates hard to how much more dangerous the world was at that time. in light of these mounting threats, a number of strategists in the united states argue we have to take military actions against the soviets to hasten what they saw as inevitable confrontation. but the young president offered a different vision. strength, in his view, included powerful armed forces and a willingness to stand up for our values around the world. but he rejected the prevailing attitude among some foreign equatedircles that security with a perpetual war footing. , he promised strong, principled american leadership on behalf of what he called a practical and attainable peace. not on a sudden revolution in human nature

back in the 80s before the fault of berlin wall and the evil empire as president reagan termed it, i visited a number of the countries and made contact with people who were active in the underground, anti-communist resistance elements in places like poland. john: tell the blinking light story. >> okay. in 1986, the marshal law declared in december of 81 was still in effect. every night i stayed in a different home trying to stay ahead of the regime. every home belonged to somebody active in the resistance. john: in any home, they were taking a big risk? >> yeah, they were required by law to report a visiting foreigner. none of them had done so. i was told a couple was very special who was going to host my visit. they had run underground radio for solidarity in the first six months of martial law. they were detected and arrested after six months of that activity. he was given four years in prison. she was given three. there i was in their apartment in november of 86. neither one had been out of prison very long, and i asked them about running an underground radio station. i said when

when the berlin wall fell. >> i think that was very important the american student without a lot of by 88 and 89 the soviet union was entering a critical phase and was giving away concessions that were unimaginable five years before. but somehow were shot gorbachev needed to maintain his dignity. and indifferent. president might not have had that. >> i think they did a very, very well. >> do you think that things would have been different for the different american president? how much do you think the personalities matter as against the same macroeconomic problems in the ussr? >> i served president eisenhower i had some contact in the kennedy and johnson administrations and served in the nixon administration in three different posts and my favorite is reagan. he had a deep values and his ideas have continuity stuck with what he thought. when he came to washington they called him a boob or something like that and he was happy with it because he knew he would go right by before they realized that's what happened. so i thought he was fantastic in that sense. he was a senior fellow here an

the berlin wall had just been built. the soviet union had tested the most powerful weapons ever developed. china was on the verge of acquiring the nuclear bomb. less than 20 years after the end of world war ii, the prospect of nuclear war was all too real. with all of the threats that we face today, it is hard to appreciate how much more dangerous the world was at that time. in light of these mounting threats, a number of strategists in the united states argued we had to take military action against the soviets, to hasten what they saw as inevitable confrontation. but the young president offered a different vision. strength, in his view, included powerful armed forces and a willingness to stand up for our values around the world. but he rejected the prevailing attitude among some foreign-policy circles that equated security with a perpetual war footing. instead, he promised strong, principled american leadership on behalf of what he called a practical and attainable peace. a piece based a gradual evolution in human insti

in 1979 we did not know the berlin wall would fall 10 years later.he arabe did not know spring would've rubbed in 2011. anybody who says they know what -- thell look like supreme leader is well into his 70's. there is no succession plan. you can make a cogent argument that the likelihood is through more contact with the west, which is what the vast majority of the population of iran craves, most young iranians are pro-western, that with a relationship where iran, the only top 20 economy in the world is not integrated with the global economy, you can make a cogent argument that the likelihood is over the next 15 years you can see some softening of the regime and as this new generation rises to power, an iran that is more to our liking. can i prove that? can anybody prove that? no. i think that is a reasonable bet. if iran goes in the other direction, all options are open. charlie: tell me how you see the possibilities of a coalition against isis today with the overlay of the shia-sunni conflict. isis is a terrible threat to the west. we have already s

the berlin wall had just been belts. the soviet union had tested the most powerful weapons ever developed. china was on the verge of acquiring a nuclear bomb. less 20 years after the end of world war ii, the prospect of nuclear war was all too real. with all of the threats that we face today, it's hard to appreciate how much more dangerous the world was at that time. in light of these mounting threats, a number of strategists here in the united states argued that we had to take military action against the soviets, to hasten what they saw as inevitable confrontation. but the young president offered a different vision. strength, in his view, included powerful armed forces and a willingness to stand up for our values around the world. but he rejected the prevailing attitude among some foreign policy circles that equated security with a perpetual war footing. instead, he promised strong, principled american leadership on behalf of what he called a "practical" and "attainable peace" -- a peace "based not on a sudden revolutio

. >> reporter: 25 years since the berlin wall came down, new barriers are going up now, faster than anye the cold war began. they leaked back then and few expect them to work now. his fate, like those who have come before him, and the many who may follow, is up in the air, at the whim of some chilly political winds. nic robertson, cnn, london. >>> short break. when we come back, china's government steps in with new measures to stop the stock market. we will look at whether the latest plans are having much impact. that's ahead. one of the world's most famous white sand beaches is not looking so good right now. we will tell you about the muck that shut down part of paradise. that's next. devhighest quality,the clinically proven nutrition isn't easy, so at gnc, why do we do it? why do we include key ingredients found in fruits and vegetables to create the world's best multivitamin programs? why do we do over 150 quality checks before putting them on the shelf? well, here's why... ♪ celebrating 80 years of quality life and quality products. for a limited time buy one vitapak and get one hal

in a united germany, the berlin wall is a fading memory.les, central europe is again home to thriving democracies. last week i was in hanoi to mark the 20th anniversary of normalization of relations between the united states and vietnam. think about that. a long and terrible war that inflicted indelible scars on body and mind followed by two decades of mutual healing followed by another two decades of diplomatic and commercial engagement. in this period, vietnam evolved from a country torn apart by violence into a dynamic society with one of the world's fastest growing economies. and all that time, through reconciliation, through normalization, cuban-american relations remained locked in the past. meanwhile, new technologies enabled people everywhere to benefit from shared projects across vast stretches of ocean and land. my friends, it doesn't take a gps to realize that the road of mutual isolization and estrangement that the united states and cuba were traveling was not the right one, and the time has come for us to move in a more promisi

. >>> on this day in history, the berlin wall was to be built to isolate themselves from the west. over the next 12 years, east germany saw three million citizens go to west germany. >>> a major pen company inks an apology after an ad campaign. bic honored women in south africa with a facebook post many found sexist. it said look like a girl, act like a lady, think like a man, work like a boss. bic south africa executives are sorry for offending anyone. >>> more than 170 elvis artifacts are on auction at graceland. it's to commemorate his death in august 1977. among the auction items, no blue suede shoes. a suit he wore in a movie. estimated price around $20,000. or for $30,000 to $50,000 you can get his viva las vegas jacket and if you have $100,000 to spend, you can own his personal handgun. elvis is engraved on the barrel and one side of the wooden grip has the emblem tcb, taking care of business and a lightning bolt. >>> sesame street is on the move. you will soon be able to catch big bird and the gang on hbo. [ music ] how to get to sesame street >> the television show that pr

the berlin wall had just been built. most powerful weapons ever developed. china was on the verge of acquiring a nuclear bomb. less than 20 years after the end of world war ii the prospect of nuclear war was all too real. with all of the threats that we face today, it's hard to appreciate how much more dangerous the world was at that time. in light of these mounting threats, a number of strategists here in the united states argued that we had to take military action against the soviets, to hasten what they saw as inevitable confrontation. but the young president offered a different vision. strength, in his view included powerful armed forces and a willingness to stand up for our values around the world. but he rejected the prevailing attitude among some foreign policy circles that equated security with a perpetual war footing. instead he promised strong principled american leadership on behalf of what he called a practical and attainable peace. a peace based not on a sudden revolution in human nature but on a gradual evo