what is gorbachev going to do? military parade through the heart of east berlin preached reform and offered a gorbachev proverb. those being late, he said, will be punished by life itself. >> gorbachev felt he could put a happy face on socialism, that he could modify it. but he got the genie out of the bottle and couldn't get it back in. >> the time has run out for honecker. he resigned today. the official reason given was poor health. >> the people have their government on the run. today, in the bid to convince people that he's serious about reform, the east german leader, who has had the job for less than a month, managed to convince all of the members of the government he inherited they should resign. the question is this, what next? >> the pressure on the east german government was getting enormous. and as part of the kind of package to present themselves as human, there had been a resolution passed which is going to introduce new rules about immigration. he went to this press conference, he hadn't been at the

gorbachev, open this gate. [ cheers and applause ] mr.ev, tear down this wall. [ cheers and applause ] >> hmm. could you see donald trump stepping up, michael, the way ronald reagan did? >> well, in a different way. you have to understand, ronald reagan new his audience. the audience in front of him, they were all free. the audience he was speaking to were the people on the other side of the gate, the backside of that gate who were not free, just like the evil empire speech, you know, it wasn't the people in front of him he was talking to, it was the people in gulags a half a world away that let them know there was a president standing strong and standing for them and wanted them to in fact go free. that's who his audience was and i think donald trump has to expand his audience past the talk radio group and past those other people to hispanics, women, and others in order to really move forward in this campaign for the presidency of the united states. i cannot see him giving that speech. >> everyone has been saying the same thing on this p

gorbachev, open this gate. mr. "the eighties," next on cnn. >>> the only morality they'll recognize is what will further their cause. they reserve under themselves the right to commit any crime, to lie, to cheat. >> the russians are gearing up for war. >> the senate approved $136.5 billion defense budget. >> the largest anti-nuclear protest in u.s. history. >> president reagan is more eager to meet with the new leader of the soviet union. >> mr. gorbachev, tear down this wall. ♪

gorbachev, tear down this wall. this wall. [ cheers ] ♪music ♪you fill up my senses ♪like a night in a forest ♪like the mountains in springtime♪ ♪like a sleepy blue ocean ♪you fill up my senses ♪come fill me again ♪come let me love you ♪let me always be with you ♪come let me love you ♪come love me again >> mr. gorbachev, tear down this wall. john: many americans consider ronald reagan a hero of freedom -- [ applause ] . john: and this audience does? he confronted the tyranny of the soviet union. the wall did come down and the soviet empire crumbled soon after. reagan's actions played a part, but lots of people took big risks to fight communism. larry reed heads the foundation for economic education. and you went to a bunch of countries to spread subversive literature? >> that's true. 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 i

>> is it a, ronald reagan, b, mikhail gorbachev. >> alisyn, gorbachev. >> which president challenged jimmy carter, also forcing a brokered -- >> ted kennedy. >> that is correct. >> it is like covering the white house. >> exactly. all that political information came in handy. >> yes! >> after george h.w. bush announced his presidential candidacy in 1987, "newsweek" magazine released an issue with bush on the cover with what headline. a, no joke. b, read my lips, no new taxes. c, what's wrong with a boring kind of guy. d, fighting the wimp factor. >> don? >> d. that is right, fighting the wimp factor. originally conceived to accelerate information sharing, in 1999 the worldwi wide web wa invented by who? >> c. >> that is incorrect. >> kamal? >> d. >> d, that is correct! >> sold for just under $4,000 in 1985, what communist produced car became the fastest selling new york -- >> kamal? >> hugo? >> that is correct! nicely done. very nicely done. >> on fire! >> the idea for which '80s video game was targeted towards and inspired by women because its creator says women like food? a, donkey

gorbachev, tear down this wall. >> could you see donald trump stepping up the way ronald reagan did?, in a different way. we've got to understand ronald reagan knew his audience. his audience in front of him were free. he was speaking to the other side of the gate who were not free just like the evil empire speech. it wasn't the people in front much him he was talking to, it was half a world away to let them know there was a president who was standing strong for them and wanted them to go free. that's who his audience was and i think donald trump's got to expand his audience past the talk radio group and past those other people to hispanics and women and others in order to really move forward in this campaign for the presidency of the united states. >> hasn't everybody including you been saying the exact same thing on this program but donald trump. douglas i'll ask you considering what michael said do you see donald trump stepping up that way that ronald reagan did in that speech, tear down this wall and building coalitions. >> ronald reagan there is talking about tearing down the wa

the ronald reagan, years later, was having discussions with the soviet leader, prior to gorbachev. that particular day, they canceled the tops and ronald reagan left the meeting and was met by the press. he told the press it was dwight eisenhower's atoms for peace speech that his administration endorsed completely, and that is what we are dedicated to. the vice president -- the president had made dwight eisenhower's goals his policy. june 1984, the day -- d-day, ronald reagan flies to normandy to honor american troops. and eisenhower had been in charge of d-day. he said, i will forever stand for ike's victims, they are -- they are my heroes. and an aircraft carrier half by -- passed by while president reagan spoke. after he spoke, he was flown by helicopter over the aircraft carrier. the sailors on the ship formed the letters, ike. ronald reagan said, the detailing it was the heroic operation that was planned and commanded by general d eisenhower. he spoken to the microphone, after they formed the ike, and he shouted, i like ike, i love ike. lastly, we will hear ronald reagan's far

if we can see the thought bubble over his head like a cartoon, it would say, i'm not going to be gorbachev. i'm not going to give up communist party control as we go through economic development. charlie: they essentially made that decision along time ago when they decided to focus on economic change rather than political change but clearly he is aware how there is pressure against the party so he fights corruption and tries to make the party more efficient so it can maintain the kind of control that it has. >> that's corruption anticorruption effort in china is vast. hundreds of thousands of cases. . the pressure at home that he has and variousty organizations has been intense. the trunk to consolidate control of the communist party to ensure that it continues as they try to go through these various conditions that we talked about witches extraordinarily challenging for this country and for him personally. >> seems to me that as the president with his presence in asia was to enhance that relationship across the board he wanted to pivot from the middle east as it was expressed, you were pa

that ronald reagan 30 years later, was having discussions with the soviet leader, prior to gorbachev. that particular day and drop of the arms reduction talks and reagan left the meeting and was met by the press. he told the press that there was dwight eisenhower's atoms for peace speech that his administration and diet -- endorsed his view completely. this is what we are dedicated to. ronald reagan made achieving eisenhower's goal his own official policy. june 1984, ronald reagan flies to normandy to honor america's troops, which were eisenhower's troops, having been in charge. ronald reagan said, i will forever stand for ike d-day veterans, they are my heroes like they are his. when he delivered that address on land in normandy, often -- off the normandy coast was the uss dwight d eisenhower aircraft carrier. it passed by and her aircraft flew over reagan while he spoke. after reagan spoke, he was flown by helicopter and went over the aircraft carrier. formedlors on the ship the letters, ike. reagan said, but d-day landing was eisenhower's. her wrotenspires efforts on both sides of

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gorbachev tear down this wall. [cheering] >> history will record one of the greatest astonishment.east. ♪ [ soft music ] e.t. phone home. when you find something you love, you can never get enough of it. change the way you experience tv with xfinity x1. stuart: the establishment media is pretentious of donald trump. they are pouring scorn all over him. no less than five anti-trump headlines. how about this one. donald trump returns to stupid strategy. trump with a victory leading to lunacy. mr. trump's pick for finance is right with contradiction. this is one of my favorites. warren takes lead in attack to trump. you know. conservative news outlets. you will rarely see anything pro- trump. so where is hillary? she is barely mentioned. a damaging revelation in the e-mail scandal. no negative press today. started voting in west virginia. not a word about the coal problems. she is not likely to do well. interesting. hillary goes unscathed in the media, but takes a hit in the primaries. trump walks away with the votes. doesn't that come to the heart of this election? a guy that keeps o

gorbachev tear at it down this wall.roughout the obamayears, we have never done better than 2% growth. this president trashes the record. president obama is out there on the far left. he really does not like private enterprise. he loves government. >> that was smart. let's bring in someone who knew president reagan. it president reagan and his economic mess. >> the person that knew him best. the chief of staff. jim baker. in my book, he wrote, he brought us through a tougher session and helped establish one of the greatest periods of peace and prosperity. noninflationary economic growth. i think that that really puts that to rest. i don't know why. on the left, wanting to take on and denigrate reagan all the time. he was one of our great residents. >> the perfect proxy for what made america successful from day one. the pull yourself up by the bootstraps. the notion that any of us, no matter where we are born, can decide where we end up because of the way the system is laid out. completely countering to what president oba

winston churchill, mandela, gorbachev, all that sort of thing. >> kings, queens?gs and queens. >> now this is the picture gallery which is -- the room in the house. and i, i -- i love seeing all of this. because this is 500-year-old room as it always was. >> what would people do in a room like this? >> on a day like today, go up and down it 20 times, it is a mile. that's what they would do, drift along. >> the gym. >> it was, without the sweat. >> reporter: it is clear charles relishes the history of the house. but growing up here wasn't always easy for him and diana. your mother left when you were little? >> yes. >> reporter: after their mother left their father remarried. their new stepmother gave her own children, althorp's bed rooms while relegating charles and diana to the smallest rooms. >> we were put up in the attics. for a house like this, very, very, very modest rooms. >> we go upstairs to see. the first time cameras are allowed in. >> former maids' rooms. >> junior maids, i would imagine. >> how old were you when they told you this would be yours someda

gorbachev, open this gate. tear down this wall. >> that party is now the party of this. >> i will build a great, great wall on our southern border and i will have mexico pay for that wall. mark my words. when mexico sends its people, they're not sending their best. they're bringing drugs, they're bringing crime, they're rapists and some i assume are good people. donald j. trump is calling for a total and complete shutdown of muslims entering the united states until our country's representatives can figure out what the hell is going on. knock the crap out of him, would you? seriously. okay? just knock the hell -- i promise you, i will pay for the legal fees. i promise. >> i don't know anything about david duke, okay, i don't know anything about what you're even talking about with white supremacy or white supremacists. >> there has to be some form of punishment. >> for the woman? >> yeah. there has to be some form. >> joining me, philip bump and suzanne gamboa and daily beast reporter michael tamaski. philip, tha

and by not going, by not rubbing it in mikhail gorbachev's face of the failure of the soviet system, among other things, he made it easier to work with v int job -- gorbache repelling saddam's invasion of kuwait and the reunification of germany. worked tohis modesty his historical advantage. i will tell you one thing about george w. bush. certainly,ow -- we undoubtedly many of us have an opinion about the middle east and the consequences of war in iraq. but we won't know for some time to come what is the ultimate result is. but here is one thing that i guarantee you of the second bush and in aget credit for curious way deserves credit. and by the way that he should share with barack obama. , by discarding their most profoundly held ideological servetions, presidents the national interest. the classic case is thomas jefferson, buying louisiana. he said later on i stretched the constitution so far it cracked. it ran absolutely counter to everything jefferson believed about small government and the way with limited indicative authority. -- executive authority. fast forward to the collap

same thing with the economy, you may not yet see something quite as startling as gorbachev's approacht his party congress, but kim jong-un is already far down this road on this new philosophical basis on the economy. the problem is, it has not been codified, therefore those people who are operating in the markets on the basis of this new idea, do not have any top cover. it could be ripped away at any moment, so nobody wants to go to far in risking their next on this stuff -- there necks on this. my question is, does he provide a philosophical basis that provides a floor, so that people are fairly confident that they have come to this new plateau and can operate from that level? he may not do it. i am not predicting, i am just saying that if we do get it it is liable to be a nuance, and people will think, we better look again. let me think. a couple of real simple things, and you are sure to see on the television, shots of the fireworks, or buildings that have been painted and people will talk about how people were working 14 hours a day to clean up the city in order to make it pretty

it would say, i'm not going to be gorbachev. that's what it would say. i'm not going to give up a communist party control here, control generally as we go through economic development. >> rose: well, they essentially made that decision a long time ago when they said we're going to focus on economic change rather than political change. clearly though he is aware of how there is some pressure against the party. so therefore he fights corruption, and he tries to make the party more efficient. so that it will be able to maintain the kind of control that it has. let me move. >> but that's corruption, anticorruption effort in china right now is vast. hundreds of thousands of cases. you know, and the pressure at home that he has puts on society in various organizations of china has been intense. again, i think trying to consolidate control of the communist party and ensure it continues as they try to go through these various transitions that we have talked about, which is an extraordinary challenge for this country and for him, personally. >> rose: it seems to

ronald reagan, one of our best presidents, said to mikhail gorbachev tear down the wall. mr.wn the political wall, reach across party lines and listen to america. >> reporter: interesting idea. next up. >> joe moholic. >> reporter: who did you vote for? >> i voted for donald trump. >> reporter: tell me why. >> donald trump is going to have -- make changes instead of promises. in the past couple months look how companies have moved out of indiana or illinois, carrier refrigeration, nabisco, ford is going to build plants all in mexico. >> reporter: and you think he's best positioned to actually bring jobs back online in this country. >> well, we need changes, okay. i think he's going to make the changes to help the companies to say, hey, okay, we're going to help you out so you can stay in the united states. >> herb divine. >> reporter: so, herb, you voted for ted cruz, i understand. why did mr. cruz get your vote? >> i think he's a man of impeccable character, he has integrity. i think he tells the truth and what he says, i believe he's going to do it. so i'm a constitutional

thank god we began to talk at reykjavik, president reagan and president gorbachev. thank god we now have a new start treaty. but as part of the new start treaty, there was a faustian deal and that faustian deal was that we're going to build a new generation of usable war-fighting nuclear weapons in our own country. and that faustian deal is one that will then be lived with with this next generation of americans and citizens of this planet. so we need to ensure that we can have this debate. the fears that i think are going to be engendered into the minds of those in china and russia would result in a new dangerous nuclear competition that would have our new defenses be responded to by them building new additional nuclear weapons and by putting them on high alert because you would have to put them on high alert if you were in russia or china if you thought that we had a defensive system that could knock them down if our planning included attacking them. and we don't want either country to be on high alert for a nuclear war. up don't want that -- you don't want that. t

gorbachev and i both agree on the desirability of freer and more extensive personal contact between the the united states. >> we began to realize that 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. 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 were 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 spend billions buying the networks recently, and all of them want their money's worth. >> people began to find out

you may not get something quite as startling as gorbachev's approach at his party congress. kim jong-un is pretty far down the road on a philosophical basis on the economy. the problem is it hasn't been codified. the problem is those people operating on the markets on the basis of the new idea don't have any top cover. nobody wants to go too far. do the max on this. did he pro vietd a philosophical basis that provides a floor now. you can operate at that level. he may do it. i'm not predicting, if we get it it's liable to be nuanced. and it will be very easy for people to say there's nothing here. kwee bwe better look at that. oh, a couple of real simple things, and i am sure to see on the television shots of the fireworks or buildings in pyongyang that have been pointed and people will talk about how people will work 14 hours a day fixing up pyongyang in order to make it pretty for the congress. well, yeah, they did that for the sixth congress and for the fourth congress and that's what they do. so for us in the outside we may say, well, what is an extraordinary, depressing

gorbachev and i both agree on the desirability of freer and more extensive personal contact between thee united states. >> we began to realize that 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. 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 were a variety of reasons why people who worked at the broadcast networks were freaked out in the 1980s. one of them was cnn. and the rise of cable. another was being taken over by foreign entities in corporate america. >> new owners spend billions buying the networks recently, and all of them want their money's worth. >> people began to find out

same thing with the economy, you may not yet see something quite 's startling as gorbachev approach at his party congress, but kim jong-un is already far down this road on this new philosophical basis on the economy. the problem is, it has not been codified, therefore those people who are operating in the markets on the basis of this new idea, do not have any top cover. it could be ripped away at any moment, so nobody wants to go too far in risking their next on this. -- necks on this. my question is, does he provide a philosophical basis that provides a floor, so that people are fairly confident that they have come to this new plateau and can operate from that level? he may not do it. i am just saying, if we do get it, it will likely be no wants -- nuance, and people will think, we better look again. a couple of real simple things, and you are sure to see on the television, shots of the fireworks, or buildings that have been painted and people will talk about how people were working 14 hours a day to clean up the city in order to make it pretty for the congress. yet, they did that for

also, president reagan dealt with gorbachev that was not typical. he was not afraid to deal with him. he came out with real changes that were positive that made the world safer. the other thing that donald trump is doing, which is very reagan-esque, he's assuring everyone that he's going to increase our military capability so that in fact he'll be looking at putin in a way in which he has a real deterrent that right now we're beginning to lose. >> darrell issa, congressman from california, thank you for joining me. we hope it's a wonderful weekend for you and your family. thank you very much. >> thank you. >>> coming up, more on donald trump's claim about california and where he's getting ready to speak. there are protests outside there. he's inside. he's going to be speaking. these are pictures from an earlier event today in california. >>> also, who knew north korea's kim jong-un's aunt has been living in the united states for years and now she's telling stories about what he was like when he was a little boy. kenneth, are they closing the stage t

if that's all you focus on, you leave out the fact that reagan understood before most people that gorbachev was actually someone we could do business. that was margaret thatcher's phrase. she saw it too. and that reagan never liked nuclear weapons. and it's worth remembering about ronald reagan, he didn't intervene in very many foreign conflicts. the only war he fought was in granada which had an army of about a hundred people. and, you know, if you remember when the marines were blown up in that tragic episode in lebanon, i was actually, covered that war and interviewed the marines about a month before. and they were saying, they were questioning what are we doing here. so i disagreed with reagan's decision to put them there. but he pulled them out right away. he did not go to war. so that side of reagan i very much respect. the other part of reagan i respect is, you know, if you look at him -- reagan is a complicated figure. my chapter on reagan in the book is called "the ambiguous hero," and i argue that on the one hand keys are right -- conservatives are right who want to see him as an

we also detail how, for example, donald said gorbachev was going to stop at trump tower., on the darker side of some of the details we get out of this film, were number one in the construction of trump tower, some of the substandard building materials used, the way that he used tax credits that were designed for building low income housing to build highly leveraged buildings with other people's money. talk a little about this issue of these polish workers. what donald trump did to them and how john barron figured into it. >> well, donald through a subcontractor hired about 200 polish men, most of whom were here in the country illegally, and they worked alongside members of the house [ inaudible ]. normally that site would be shut down right away but the mob controlled these unions and donald had the same lawyer as the mobsters and donald had no trouble, therefore, with the unions because of this. there's good reason to think donald met personally with fat tony salerno, the head of the biggest crime family in new york, and donald didn't pay these workers that were supposed

gorbachev, tear down this wall, and mexico will do the same thing in a few years saying, mr. down this wall and mr. trump will have to do it because he's on the wrong side of history. >> governor weld, good luck in the race ahead. good to have you on "new day." you're always welcome to talk about what matters. looking forward to having governor johnson on again. >> thank you, chris. >>> of course, the invitation accepted. high doesn't want to be on "new day"? the head of the libertarian ticket on "new day" tomorrow to make his case to you. alisyn? >>> chris, next we're going to get reaction to what you just heard from former governor weld and what the chances are for these other parties now throwing their hats in the ring. we'll also look at whether or not hillary clinton has a plan to take on donald trump. stick around. people have eyebr? why do people put milk on cereal? oh, are you reading why people put milk on cereal? why does your tummy go "grumbily, grumbily, grumbily"? why is it all (mimics a stomach grumble) no more questions for you! ooph, that milk in your cereal w

gorbachev, tear down this wall. that's not when it happened. it was 1967 during a televised kennedy, itrobert was a question that ronald reagan answered and on may 15, 1967 call to tear down the lane -- the berlin wall. he did that several times during the campaign for the presidency. thank you. [applause] thank you. i have one more most important question. anddo our guests and beauty -- viewing audiences get a copy it's on amazon> and i hope you will purchase it. shipkes about two weeks to . thank you very much. if you have any questions, please don't hesitate to e-mail me. i would love to chat after you read it. >> thank you for being here. if you are interested in more information about discovery institute, you can go to our website. we will have a link to the event on the site as well. thank you. >> thank you. [applause. ] >> you're watching american history tv all weekend every weekend on c-span3. to join the conversation, like us on facebook at c-span history. long, american history tv is joining our comcast cable partners to show kate th