and reagan just wanted to have gorbachev tear down that wall! while mean while the v.a.as telling the researchers to underreport the number of v.a. hospitals with an inordinately high mortality rate. and america fell in love with a family called the simpsons. not far enough back? all right. what's up, man? the 1960's, man. the beatles experimented with "the white album," while in vietnam the military was experimenting with a "different" color. agent "orange." don't worry, troops, this groovy herbicide won't cause you any harm. unless you consider cancer and nervous system damage harm. whoah, mannnn. i just had a crazy vision of the future! the reagan administration is gonna deny federal liability in agent orange contamination, and suppress evidence of harm to vietnam veterans. it won't be properly addressed for another 20 years after that -- man! not far enough? how about this... the year was 1932! while most of america was being served delicious000 world war i veterans marched on washington to get the war bonuses they'd been promised 15 years ago but instead of bonuses,

gorbachev, tear down this wall. what part of evil empire mr.chev tear down this wall did you not get from the 1980s. >> i understand. well, i mean i think it's just its depiction. it's our-- it's joe weissberg and his depiction of, you know, a singular story within that world. here's my secretary problem with you. >> all right? on okay. >> you're a mom right. you're a mom. >> oh what happened there. >> i just wanted to make myself-- that's what spies call a-- honey strap. what is the honey strap by the way. >> you'll find out later. >> colbert report after dark. >> all right, here's the thing, you're a mom right, you got a couple kids of your own. >> yes, i do. >> okay. you're in the series the americans you're a mom whose's also a sexy russian spy who is stealing state secrets and having sex with pem all the time. isn't that an unrealistic image for women to have to live up to? i mean imagine your own life, having to take the kids to like soccer practice or gymboree and in between you have to steal, you have to steal the submarine plans. some

gorbachev was discussing unification of germany. am not going to talk about the myth that we promised nato would never move east. it is a lie. gorbachev raised the question, shouldn't russia join nato? james baker pooh-poohed him. saidter regretted that and he should not have done that. he should have engaged gorbachev on that question. acts of theirst yield and government -- yeltsin government -- they had to withdraw because it was so embarrassing. i am wondering how much damage has been done by the lack of engagement with russia. and its interests with nato. >> yes, sir. >> first of all, i cannot agree on you -- more on your statement. thank you so much. [laughter] the --y, i agree with yes. that is where i technically agree. point of president putin. was unclear. i would put it anyway, if you read my memoirs and somebody publishes them -- [laughter] i want russia to be, and -- westerno become a democracy. as a diplomat, i met with a lot of confusing signals from nato all the time. even the prime minister said, that is very intere

gorbachev. mr. gorbachev, tear down this wall!ring a challenge to soviet leader mikhail gorbachev. as the current conflict with russia gets more intense by the day, what can president obama learn from reagan. who better to talk to than ken adelman, the author of reagan at reykjavik, 40 hours during the cold war. ken, you're here now. what happened in iceland that brought down the soviet union? >> first of all, the story of reykjavik is a great story. it's like anç agatha christie mystery. in an isolated house, creeky and old house, two men met over the weekend and come up with amazing things. what happened there is ronald reagan stood up to the soviet union, he stood up to mr. gorbachev on the stpreupblg defenseinitiative. -- on the strategic defense initiative. >> it was not supposed to be this historic event but things got on track quick. usually staffs get together and tell everybody what you're going to sign but this got personal because ronald reagan said i'm going to get rid of nuclear weapons the more he talked to him. >>

he should have engaged gorbachev on that question. one of the first acts of the yeltsin government in december 1991 was to raise the question of nato membership. the foreign ministry later said it was a mistranslation but foreign ministry officials assured me at it was a true traps layings. they had to withdraw because it became a political embarrassment for yeltsin and you permanently. i wonder how much damage has bun done with our lack of -- with russia. >> first of all, i cannot agree more on your statement. thank you so much. [laughter] >> and secondly, i agree with the assumption of your question, yes. that's where i technically agree and cede the point of president putin when he says that we had -- what was it -- unclear. i would put it in a way, if you read my message, somebody publishes my memoirs, you'll find it -- i am pro western in terms i want russia to become a western democracy, not only russian lead going to london or miami, but in -- as a diplomat and practitioner, i met with a lot of confusing signals from nato all t

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but gorbachev apparently seems to believe still today that he had such a promise. and president yeltsin believed that he had a promise, and they detail how he was led to believe that, that partnership for peace was with instead of nato in -- [inaudible] not the first step, not a preparative step which i knew because delbert and then christopher and my western european colleagues spent time to explain that to me. while they failed to tell that to president putin -- to president yeltsin at that time. so that brings me back to my point. it's not enough for the to be on the right side of history. it's important. but they should speak in clear terms. that's what russians deserve. that's what putin deserves. that's what russian parliament deserves. that's what ukrainian people in particular today because they are suffering in the war actually. so they deserve very, very clear message. and the message which meets the end. because somebody whispered something to somebody, you know? somebody hints that, yes, we will go very far in giving you protection from wherever there i

that she instituted after stalin's death, that the thaw in the soviet union led to gorbachev and the soviet union. >> absolutely, as much as he wanted to caping, and he wanted to change, he wanted to change the dictatorial system. he started the exchange in the festival of use, and for the first time the soviets saw foreigners, and they were not evil as the stalinist was telling everybody. suddenly when he came to the united states, the first time in 1959, travelled all over the place. it had debates with the rockefellers as the governor of new york, telling them how much better communism is, because he poor coal miner is in charge of the soviet union. he was trying to change. he brought the washing machine to the soviet union, because luxury products is not what they did. >> self-serve caf tearias. >> exactly. >> he tried. he opened the intelligence. arts was possible. fret reek pelini was shown, winning the moscow film festival. he tried, but was a despot that came out of stalinism. >> you wrote that he would have admired gorbachev but despondent over vladimir putin. >> yes, becaus

when gorbachev acquiesced in the reunification of germany for example that nato would not know one each for their deeds were valid violating major league by president clinton and continued to be violated by george bush. i don't blame russia for its great for our instincts to stop it. so that's a big part of the negotiating posture both countries are taking to the ice age for example could wind up green announcing the agreement that i believe was announced in tbilisi where we said that we were looking for georgia to eventually eventually be a member of the site of the american is going to die for tbilisi and article five applied to tbilisi with my tomato a phony alliance immediately. i make those having a hard time as it is anyway. it doesn't have the resolute desk trying anymore since the soviet threat went away and were desperately trying to find one for a doubt are out of area operations became the latest attempt to do so in afghanistan and elsewhere so visit this is a complex problem but it does have the answers to it. it just requires exquisite diplomacy had a lot of ability on both

. >> you write that he would have admired gorbachev but would have been it's pond ept over -- despondent over vladimir putin. >> i think so, gosho chof tried to change the system. they were devoted communists, they believed in applied correctly - we haven't seep it applied correctly in any county, but they believed it could bring great good to the nation. and with vladimir putin, he would agree with his idea that russia should be a great country and see a lot of it was self-serving. there's a lot of investigation or conversation of how rich vladimir putin is, and would have despised the whole getting well through changeness. >> an incredible story is he was deposed in 1964. the soviet government was taken over by stalinists who took the soviet union back to where it had been. you were able to go to an elite school. they didn't aust ra cries you and your family after he was deposed, but they eliminated him, there was no rmps to him in -- reference to him in anything that you studied. >> he was there when i went to school in 1954 to 1985. anything was done in the soviet union. it was done

. ♪ >>> before putin, before gorbachev, khruschev, stalin and lenin, there was this.ew lived in unimaginable luxury. while their people worked and starved. didn't work out so well for paul, did it? >> not really. >> they choked the dude to death, right? >> actually, he was strangled with a piece of cord. >> the czars of previous centuries were certainly living the good life. money no object when it came to personal comfort or luxurious lodgings. and today's imperial powers seem not far behind. putin allegedly had a billion-dollar palace built for him. we couldn't license the actual smuggled photo, but our artist rendering looks like this. a putin spokesman dismissed all this, telling the "new york times" we have congress halls built for the kremlin but if you call all of them putin's palace, it is nothing but absurd. vodka. haven't tasted that before. so what would i be doing on my outing if i were a czar, looking for some kulaks to oppress? >> hunting. enjoying life. >> picking up some good speed here. >> oh, okay. >> some have suggested that russia is, after all thi

. ♪ mattress discounters ♪ >>> before putin, before gorbachev, khruschev, stalin and lenin, there was, very few lived in unimaginable luxury. while their people worked and starved. didn't work out so well for paul, did it? >> not really. >> they choked the dude to death, right? >> actually, he was strangled with a piece of cord. >> the czars of previous centuries were certainly living the good life. money no object when it came to personal comfort or luxurious lodgings. and today's imperial powers seem not far behind. putin allegedly had a billion-dollar palace built for him. we couldn't license the actual smuggled photo, but our artist rendering looks like this. a putin spokesman dismissed all this, telling the "new york times" we have congress halls built for the kremlin but if you call all of them putin's palace, it is nothing but absurd. >> vodka. haven't tasted that before. so what would i be doing on my outing if i were a czar, looking for some kulaks to oppress? >> hunting. enjoying life. >> picking up some good speed here. >> oh, okay. >> some have suggested that russia is, af

gorbachev, tear down this wall, but in reaction to eight or 10 really difficult years, it's not the worstpproach to take for some of these problems. >> yankee wall. david and michelle, thanks. great to see you all. we will be right back. stay with us. for 16 years, google has helped us navigate the information superhighway alongside its core business investing in the internet of things. one such project is a driverless car. they have relied on modifying existing vehicles and yesterday it unveiled its own prototype. it has no steering wheel, no breaks, no gas pedal. it takes all responsibility from the human driver and relies on a combination of radar and laser sensors. ron medford is the director of safety. i am pleased to have both of them at this table to talk about this development. congratulations. take me back through the evolution of trying to produce a driverless car. >> we started google five years ago with a vision of how to make transportation better. we looked at safety on the road. you can get from one place to we kill anbut amazing number of people on our roadways every year.

empire: the american ambassador's account of the collapse of the soviet union," and "reagan and gorbachev how the cold war ended." and that does it for our broadcast on ukraine. when we come back, we will talk about what happened in santa barbara this weekend, the massacre. stay with us. ♪ [music break] >> this is democracy now!, democracynow.org, the war and peace report. i'm amy goodman with aaron matÉ. turn now to the massacre in santa barbara, california where a gunman killed six other people and wounded 13 others. elliot rodger, 22-year-old college student, fatally stabbed three roommates. he then opened fire at a nearby sorority house, killing two women. he continued his rampage with a drive-by shooting on scores of pedestrians, killing one. the attack ended when he crashed his vehicle, found dead at the wheel of a police called self-inflicted gunshot wound. the rampage was part of a plot rodger outlined in videos and a manifesto posted online hours before. he described his anger is being sexually rejected by female classmates. he spoke of watching "war on women" for failing to see

and both of them, gorbachev did a fine job, reagan did a sensational job. >> what is your take on the is no kind of -- today you don't see the kind of strategy that reagan laid out, a long-term strategy. it's remarkable that during the research for this book i recount a conversation i didn't know about that on the plane on the way to 1980 receive the republican nomination, stu spencer, an adviser to reagan, says, ron, why do you want to do this? why do you want to be president? and reagan says, to end the cold war. okay. he knew how it was going to end. he said in the '70s even before that time we win and they lose. and that was his consistent -- >> but the question was asked of reagan what was your strategy? >> we win and they lose. and his strategy laid out was an sdi delegitimatization of the soviet union, real reductions in arms control and nuclear weapons and a buildup of the forces. and he had those four principles were clear. mika, the fact is that kind of strategy laid out clearly and then pursued over eight years is lacking today. >> remarkable story, a remarkable book. if yo

is it possible he feets that as margaret thatcher said about gosh -- gorbachev this is a government we can do business with. >> he has been careful to do this in a way you would not be able to trace it back to the kremlin. he understands, now, that the world realizes he is a bad actor. that is probably influencing what he is doing. >> charles? >> i don't know whether he has been deterred or whatever, but, i think he also is, perhaps, responding to the fact that in the eastern ukraine, all the disruptions, provocations, violence that his minions and face it, these are we russian agents and soldiers. they are not pro russian ukranian, have not been able to stir up a big popular revolt for joining russia. in fact, the popular response has been pretty modest. i think he may have realized that was a limitation on what he could do, perhaps more than anything the west was imposing on him. remember during the cold war finland didn't join nato and stayed in the gray area and now this is supposed to be the happy ending that awaits ukraine? that would have to be negotiated between the next govern

election, so is it possible he feels that, to flip a phrase, that margaret thatcher used about mikhail gorbachev this is a government we can do business with. >> he has been careful all along. a lot of the disruption that's been employing on in ukraine, we know, is coming from russia, but he has been very careful to do it in a way that wouldn't necessarily be able to trace it back to the kremlin. so i think he understands now that the world realizes he is a bad actor in this and that's probably influencing to some degree what he is doing. >> charles. >> oh, i don't know whether he has been deterred or whatever that much. i think he is also perhaps responding to the fact that in the eastern ukraine all these disruptions, provokations, violence, that his minions, and let's face it, these are actual russian soldiers. they're not pro-russian ukrainians. they've not been able, truly, to stir up a big popular revolt for joining russia. in fact, popular response has been pretty modest, and i think he may have realized that that was the limitation on what you can do. perhaps more than anything that the

[laughter] and then we got gorbachev, and he had, you know, that whole thing.ughter] anyway, he had broken into russian programming to reassure an anxious nation that he was not planning secretly to auction off the corpse of lenin, and he took pains to denounce me personally -- [laughter] as a brazen liar and an international provocateur. [laughter] i thought, cool. [laughter] so eventually everyone got their sense of humor back. maybe except the interior minister. six months later i was on the train going up to new york from washington. i openedaÑ my washington post, d there was a huge, huge headline, "kremlin deluged request offers -- with offers for lenin." [laughter] and the weird thing about it was if this was a hoax, it would have been a front page story. it was a big, big story. but it had apparently eluded the 900,000 readers before it, they were apparently too busy to read newspapers. how reassuring. [laughter] and they, they were, you know, just avid to have this bit of -- [inaudible] and the top bid had come in from dallas, texas. [laughter] not, ala

. >>> and some are describing the moment stopping at the wall as the reagan moment where he told gorbachevo take down the wall. >>> up next, hear from a neighbor of eliot rodger sharing the experience with the shooter before the rampage and what he knows about who may have been inside the apartment with him. stay with us. humans. even when we cross our "ts" and dot our "i's", we still run into problems. that's why liberty mutual insurance offers accident forgiveness with our auto policies. if you qualify, your rates won't go up due to your first accident. because making mistakes is only human, and so are we. we also offer new car replacement, so if you total your new car, we'll give you the money for a new one. call liberty mutual insurance at... and ask us all about our auto features, like guaranteed repairs, where if you get into an accident and use one of our certified repair shops, the repairs are guaranteed for life. so call... to talk with an insurance expert about everything that comes standard with our base auto policy. and if you switch, you could save up to $423. liberty mutual i

mico gorbachev said during one of his conferences the russians did an awful thing to america and by you i mean down in that and and it seems that. part of the american political establishment are rediscovering now to me or at least an opponent in russia knows what it is that is. about it does us no good whatsoever just to scream at each other it doesn't do any good but what we need to say are there ways in which we can resolve this issue is good for the your cranium people is good for the russian speaking people in the euro grain is good for and good for the whole region . you're watching r.t. international coming to you live from moscow it's good to have you with us let's move on now and switzerland has ruled that giving the nazi salute in public is perfectly legal as long as you're not trying to be racist according to a new ruling the actor is only punishable if you're trying to spread hate or ideology meanwhile jewish groups are upset about the move assays peta owner has been following this story for. the highest court in switzerland overturned a conviction for for rape on racial cha

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gorbachev, tear down this wall. of but in reaction to eight or 10 really difficult years, it's not the worst-- it's not the worst approach to take to some of these problems. >> rose: thank you all. thank you very much. jeffrey. thank you, e.j. thank you, david, and michelle, thank you. great to see you all. >> thank you, charlie. >> thank you. >> thank you. >> rose: we'll be right back. stay with us. for 16 years, google has helped us navigate the information superhighway. alongside its core business, the company has invested aggressively in the so-called internet of things. one such project is a driverless car. until now, google has relied on modifying existing vehicles. yesterday it unveiled its own prototype. the futuristic vehicle has no steering wheeled whooelz, no brakes, and no gas pedal. it takes all responsibility from the human driver, instead relying on a combination of radar and laser sensors. chris urmson leads the google car project. ron medford leads safety. i am pleased to have both of them at this t

gorbachev tear down this wall, or bush after 9/11 proclaiming the people who knocked these buildings down will hear all of us soon. can anything hes have the same influence as ike still has? foreign policy is still an area where the president could have a massive impact. he is still a great orator. can he come up with a speech that has that same sovr lasting impact on foreign policy? >> i don't think we're going to see it as west point, but the fact is the stage of his presidency, the combination of being the commander in chief and having the ability to use the bully pulpit helps him. it frames issues in a different way. it takes discussion in a different way. i think if he uses the speech to talk about his foreign policy more broadly, to talk about the limitations that we have in the country now, it's a little bit different and significantly more powerful than the more defensive tone that he had when he did this at a press conference during his asian trip. >> norm, it seems the white house has been awfully edition combobulated. the president is at one point talking about raising the

gorbachev does not come out as a hero. they have consolidated power on standing and committee.l use that not only in terms of things like the anticorruption campaign but how this will drive economic reform going forward. what is important here is the structural theme. have a 10 year term. what they have put in place with it is aparty reform, question of what will be the structure in the future? to put this in their perspective, they would like to be the third in line. mao consolidated the country. a new structure for the future would be his legacy. up in how he manages growth in the next five years. what is the growth strategy? it is tied up with the currency. is a big portion of his legacy westmark --? >> going back to this point of structure, in the past we used to break the system and rebuild. we can no longer do that. they are focusing on things like the revenue relations between the provincial and central government. the role of markets. the open capital accounts you have. tax reform issues. a big one will be pollution. issues are antal question of ultimately political leg

. >> this is crucial, the secret -- a sequence from gorbachev to tin. >> we don't know where the peoplet to go. the people don't necessarily want to be associated with russia, but they don't trust tf. you might have a separate republic within ukraine. a tougher stance in east ukraine. let's get some surveillance perspective on these markets. the dow jones is up someone hundred 48% since the fear, the blood, the gore of february 2009. it was easier then. how can anyone stay the market now or even add capital to this historic run? thiso you develop at 16,006with the dow hundred 95? >> it was easier now than it was last year. last year it was the least volatile year. now things are not going straight up. they're up, they're down, there's ukraine. there's more opportunity to find pockets. we made more investments in the first quarter than we had made in the first three years. was that because of this selloff? downward -- the dow was down a thousand points in the first week of the new year, but, there are opportunities here. yes, we are at new highs area don't forget, over the last six or se