i had about eight hours to think about a one hour and 25 minute meeting with gorbachev. he will packages soviet line for western consumption much more effectively than any, i repeatedly of his . tests predecessors. his disarming smile and warm eyes. and they would bounce back to establish a communication. that is give a little pretty didn't get the feeling that he had to prove how tough he is. it was different. he seemed self-confident chatting not being worried that showing tap total lack of knowledge. brings a general secretary to quantum i forwarded no overbought appearance. it he base the out of the sum of the faceless looks at some of his predecessors have . is a large very prominent birthmark across his bowling head, but his attractive manner of presentation, you just don't notice it all the time. he will handle for sandwell will preinstall predictable helping at home and show the west and much more reasonable face have been said that. the question will be with this new look man, really be a more effective spokesman for tired of failed policies globally have enough

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gorbachev? pres. reagan: we have had expressed since that they are willing. the ball is in their court. we have invited and we are ready when they are. but it's necessary for them to know that we don't have any illusions about them. at the same time, we are ready to exist in the world with them. it's time that we sat down and found out that just found out where the parameters are. william: you noted the other day that the soviets spent $500 million to prop up the marxist regime in nicaragua. the house has refused to commit even $14 million to help freedom fighters. why have you not been able to convince the people that the cause is the right cause? pres. reagan: i think part of it is the sophisticated disinformation campaign apparatus that the communist bloc has worldwide. to where they have been able to confuse many of our people. even the terms we use, and i wish we hadn't, i wish we would start doing something i will do from here on. if we had referred to the communists not to the congress, but as the freedom fighters, these are nicaraguans fighting for fr

she had lunch with miss gorbachev and this hands to the suit was designed by james galliano's.ne of the truly most important class addresses that she wore and colors that she wards exemplified in this portrait dressed by james. she word for her official portrait but she also wore it to a number of other events and it's quite elegance and stunning. >> from her style, i want to ask about the use of the white house for entertaining. there were lots of state dinners, it seemed, during the region years. how did they use? them >> they use them strategically. number one, they liked entertaining. i mean, having come from hollywood, the social life was important to them. the nancy reagan herself talks about this. and when i interviewed her a couple of years ago, she said, you know, this is an opportunity to play host to a visiting head of state. you invite -- she said, anybody will come. and they -- of course, they would have -- you know, whoever the hollywood stars of the time -- or from frank sinatra to elizabeth taylor, and you name it, i mean, you're invited to the white house state

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. -- incidentally, it happened that gorbachev was coming with her husband, and i could not leave her, so i invited her to speak with me. i got highly criticized by them saying, she does not there come by herself. she's taking her to protect her. it was a difficult speech. it turned out, there was one student from south america who we were treating to this great education, and a girl from maine. they are to before the speech, the girl from maine called and said, i'm so embarrassed this is built into a great thing. i was getting calls from president nixon saying, you tell those girls to go to the devil. i had a lot of people for me, but i did not want to get into spitting fight with the girls, but there it was. rice, on the plane, going up, it was ridiculous, she did not speak any english. we had an interpreter, and she said, i said do you mind if i work on my speech a little bit? she said, are you giving a speech? i said, well you are as well. she said, i am? she went into the ladies'room, and i said to the interpreter, doesn't she know she's giving a speech? he pulled the speech out o

on the soviet union she believed strongly in negotiating with mick kyle gorbachev and she didn't pushn because they saw eye to eye, but she pushed back against staffers who she thought didn't have his agenda at heart. you have to think about this, there's differences in the reagan administration over our talks with the soviet union. there is not a difference of opinion in the reagan family. nancy knew where reagan was, he was there in '76, that campaign that judy was talking about, jerry ford calls reagan up to the stage, he gives an impromptu speech. he talks about nuclear war, armageddon and how that can't be our legacy. so nancy knew that's what reagan wanted and she pushed in that direction but she didn't push against reagan, she pushed against aides that she thought didn't know what reagan really wanted. >> i think she was a moderating influence on him and i think she wanted for him the best possible -- she wanted him to be the best president that he could be and to have the best legacy and she felt the best legacy was a legacy of moderation. in some ways you're right, they didn'

but it was there that george entertained president gorbachev and many other foreign leader plus. john major. i remember he had just come into office, and he and norma came up to camp david. and i remember him saying to george, well, i'm with you. and that was very important then. but just a lot of talk. we were up there when -- was caught finally. we had all the family for christmas up there, easter. george w. did the same thing. and i think maybe i'll throw this in too. i remember hearing that one of the first ladies said it was so costly being the wife of the president. it's not costly at all. you don't pay your telephone bills. you don't -- well, you do pay, i guess your -- you pay for your food. we had guests all the time. and it would say so and so, one egg, 18 cents. you never could live as cheaply as you lived at the white house. so, it cost -- 90-some people taking care of you. you did pay, i think, for your dry cleaning. and we had someone we took who lived with us, 91 now still doing our ironing and washing. and she lived there. and we did take care of those things. but

he says my father thinks gorbachev is an idiot. why did dung think that efficient have was an idiot? one important reason is that gorbachev attempted to reform the soviet economy by taking his hands off the he levers which controls the soviet economy and by doing so he ultimately lost control and failed to execute on his objectives. china residents leaders have taken a different approach. china's leaders have kept their hands on the levers which control the economy. the commanding height of the banks, the oil firms, the telecom firms, many large industrial firms remain state-owned. and that gives china's leaders a powerful lever which they can use to execute on development objectives and on management of the economic cycle. on development objectives, china's leaders can direct state banks and state firms to acquire technologies and put those technologies to work at enormous scale in the chinese economy. bringing china closer towards the productivity frontier. on management of the economic cycle, china's leaders can direct the state

president reagan and president bush had both work with gorbachev and we had reached out to boris yeltsin who became the president of russia, and then essentially the leader of the former soviet union, if you will. so i really thought the future was quite bright and we had a great team in the first bush administration. jim baker was secretary of state. dick cheney was secretary of defense. brent scowcroft was national security adviser. we all worked together smoothly, so seem to me that the prospect was very bright. >> and yet when you read your book, doesn't look like the last 30 years, everything penned out in exactly the way that you were hoping in some ways. the big question is what went wrong? >> that really was the germ of an idea that really led to my writing the book, was you were who were at end of 1992 and fast-forward 30 years and we have set at every turn -- be set at every turn by internal and external we received as withdrawing from global leadership role, in some respect we are. we are fighting three simultaneous crises here inside the united states, our racial crisis, and

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gorbachev, tear down this wall. >> person, woman, man, camera, tv. if you get it in order, you get extra points. >> joining me now to discuss, political strategist reed. tell me about your goal. what is your goal? >> so as we said when we launched last december, we have one goal, which is to beat president trump on election day and try to excise the system. we have 99 days to go and the president is lagging well behind his approval rating, they are absolutely in the tank. it's 61% disapproval and i think for now on, everybody who can and do everything they can to focus their efforts to make sure shall trump is a one time president. >> i want to focus on what takes aim at the president. listen. >> the reason we have more cases than other countries is because our testing is so much. >> kung flu. >> i think at some point, that is going to just disappear. we are like wise getting it under control. >> we showcases, 99% of which are totally armless. we want to get the schools open. i didn't listen to our experts. we have therapies and vaccines. we are losi

in fact, i told general secretary gorbachev that if and when we were able to establish there is such a weapon, they have been working on such a thing for 15 years longer than us. if we should get it first, i would be willing to share the information with them. get ridasis that we all of our nuclear weapons. reporter: are you afraid that -- >> i'm sorry. that's wonderful, mr. president. >> i can understand the argument for this strategic defense. is there a danger that insisting on this would miss a historic opportunity of doing a deal with the soviets on this missile? fmr. pres. reagan: no, it seemed perhaps that way at reykjavik when we finally found ourselves agreeing completely on the eventual elimination of all the weapons. and then, the general secretary put the price on that as our stopping the development of sdi, so i came home. we are now back negotiating on a treaty to cut in half the strategic ballistic missiles. many people in europe are logically afraid that sti might be a sign -- sdi might be a sign of a weakening american commitment because the united states could defen

. >> gorbachev did most of the work to change the soviet union, but reagan met him halfway. reagan encouraged him. reagan supported him. >> freedom of the press, which we'll get to later, madison called it freedom of the use of the press and it is indeed freedom to print things and publish things. it is not for what we refer to institutionally as the press. >> lectures in history on american history tv on c-span tv every saturday at 8:00 p.m. eastern, also available as a podcast.2020 >>> that's martin with us this morning, tea party patriots d tt cofounder and delegate to the 2020 rnc convention.i am m remind our viewers why you wantt started the tea partyo patriot. >> thank you so much for having me. i'm an alternate rather than a delegate. i want to make sure no one gets upset and i'm clear about that. we got involved in 2009 because of the out of control spending we saw in 2008 and 2009 with rne banknt. bailouts and stimulus bills. and we were upset with the out of control growth of government. and we started doing tea parties in february of 2009. we did one again on tax

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last august he terminated the reagan-gorbachev inf treaty, which helped controrol the potential for nuclearar growing from european conflflic. now he has dismantled the open skies treaty that goes back to eisenhower. that is gone. demandsmposed frivolous to try to delay negotiations on the new start treaty, which the russians have been pleading for for a long time. this is due for renewal in a few momonths. may alreadady be too late to negotiate it. the last of the arms control treaties he is now threatening to carry out nuclear weapons would- tests that undermine the comprehensive test ban treaty almost 30 years. the united states never ratified it, but itit has lived up to it. all of this openens the door wir for other countries to react the same way. the arms industry, of course, is euphoric. there g getting huge neww contrs and devevelop major weapons too destroy alall of us. this encourages others to do the sasame. so there are new contracts down the road for hopeless s means so try to defend ourselves against the monstrosities we're helping to construct. this is trump raising toward -

gorbachev, tear down this wall. >> person, woman, man, camera, tv.f you get it in order, you get extra points. >> the lincoln project on presidential oratory to take us off the air tonight. and that is our thursday evening effort. thank you so very much for being here with us. on behalf of all my colleagues at the networks of nbc news, good night. >>> tonight on "all in," with four million coronavirus cases in the united states and millions of americans on the brink of economic ruin, republicans leave town without even a draft of a bill to help. tonight senator corey booker is here on that. >>> then as polls show biden beating trump by 13 points in florida and coronavirus cases skyrocket, trump abruptly cancels his jacksonville convention. >>> plus, the country's slide toward tyranny after another night of tear gas attacks on protesters. >>> on capitol hill, an astonishing moment as alexandria ocasio-cortez takes to the floor

gorbachev, tear down this wall. >> person, woman, man, camera, tv.f you get it in order, you get extra points. >> joining me now to discuss, political strategist and co-founder of the lincoln project reed galen. reed, thank you so much. these ads you put on are very effective and very interesting. tell me about your goal. what's your goal? >> as we said when we launched last december we have one goal, which is to defeat president trump on election day and to try and excise trumpism from the american political system. we've got 99 days to go and the president is lagging well behind. his approval ratings are absolutely in the tank. i think he is at 61 disapproval. i think from now on, everybody who can and should do everything they can to focus their efforts on making sure that donald trump is a one-term president. >> i want to play this ad from the lincoln project that takes aim at the president's handling of coronavirus. let's listen. >> the reason we have more cases than other countries is because our testing is so much. >> kung flu. >> i think at s

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were 2 political force one was those reprise any by the chinese students their hero was me high gorbachevwho happened to be in their slogan was the. unions today charles to more than so the idea was political reform 1st as a reform 2nd otherwise china will be hopeless and the mess you which opposite he saw. it he sought you know china must have economic reform 1st as a reform 2nd this priority must be set clear. unfortunately at that particular moment in 99 the 2 political forces could not reach a compromise so definitely a tragedy occurred. it was more than a tragedy it was a massacre. of which the memory remains a raw presence in modern china. why does the chinese state still fear the few. the few who speak out and i'm thinking of. that place i mean the man won the nobel peace prize. and he's in prison he's a violet the child is a law by the margin so. pretty free of expression similar views by many people but he really going to dijkstra. challenge the government to implement democratic reforms and spent a total of 13 years in prison. why can't a confident china accept a criticism like

gorbachev, tear down this wall. >> person, woman, man, camera, tv. if you get it in order, you get extra points. >> the lincoln project on presidential oratory to take us off the air tonight. and that is our thursday evening effort. thank you so very much for being here with us. on behalf of all my colleagues at the networks of nbc news, good night. >>> coronavirus case numbers climbing, and the u.s. has reached another record. 4 million infections recorded. health experts swarn that the virus is spreading rapidly. >>> also, president trump abruptly cancels the republican national convention in jacksonville, florida, citing coronavirus concerns. >> and major league baseball is back. dr. anthony fauci was there to throw the first pitch for the washington nationals.

she invited -- idle she invited raisa gorbachev, the wife of premier gorbachev, who would be visiting at the same time, and the two of them went up to wellesley. >> we have a little clip from her address to the graduating class at wellesley that year. >> (begin video clip) >> barbara bush now, i know your first choice today was alice walker. >> barbara bush guess how i know? known for "the color purple." instead you got me, known for the color of my hair. >> barbara bush for over 50 years, it was said that the winner of wellesley's annual hoop race would be the first to get married. now they say the winner will be the first to become a ceo. both of those stereotypes show too little tolerance for those who want to know where the mermaids stand. (applause) so i want to offer a new legend. the winner of the hoop race will be the first to realize her dream -- not societies dream, her own personal dream. (applause) and who knows? somewhere out in this audience may even be someone who will one day following my footsteps and preside over the white house as the presidents spouse. and i wish t

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gorbachev, tear down this wall. >> person, woman, man, camera, tv. if you get it in order, you get extra points. >> the lincoln project on presidential oratory to take us off the air tonight. and that is our thursday evening effort. thank you so very much for being here with us. on behalf of all my colleagues at the networks of nbc news, good night. >>> super happy to have you here. there is so much going on today and tonight. we've got a packed hour planned. but i want to start with this. we just got in this transcript, and i want you to hear this. so the background here is a story that you know the general contours of. the president's longtime personal lawyer pleads guilty to multiple felonies and goes to federal prison. among other things, he pleads to making large illegal payments to benefit the president's campaign when he paid more than a quarter million dollars just before the election to stop two women from speaking publicly about affairs they said they had with the president. th

gorbachev, tear down this wall. >> person, woman, man, camera, tv. now is rick wilson, co-founder of the lincoln project and a former republican political strategist. he's the author of a book titled "running against the devil." rick, thank you for being here. i've been looking for a conservative to talk about the fact that the things that donald trump is doing and arguably the things he's been doing for 3 1/2 years, but right now, the things he's doing should tear apart the heart of conservatives who believe in states rights, believe in smaller government and believe that the federal government should not be overreaching and believe in the first amendment of the constitution of the united states. >> the idea of constitutional feeli itity as an element of conservativism in this country has been thrown out the window. donald trump is engaged in armored forces into the streets of our country not to engage in domestic law enforcement but to engage in a political prank meant to fire up his base. this is a -- this is a departure from constitutional conser

. >> gorbachev did most of the halfwayt reagan met him .t reagan encouraged him. >> freedom of the press, as we will get to later, madison use to call it the freedom of the use of the press and freedom to press things, publish things, not what we refer to institutionally as the press. >> lectures in history on c-span3, every saturday at 8:00 p.m. eastern. lectures in history is also available as a podcast. find it where you listen to podcasts. >> the largest stone fort in the united states sits at the mouth of the chesapeake bay near hampton, virginia. up next, fort monroe casemate museum director robin reed gives us a tour, showcasing the fort's history, from the colonial era, through its completion in 1834 and its role in the civil war. mr. reed: welcome to fort monroe, located here on the very pleasant place we call point comfort. we actually call it old point comfort. that has been that way for a long, long time. it is here that over 400 years of history have occurred. in fact, some would say even longer. some would say even thousands o

in 1987 when the inf treaty was concluded between gorbachev and reagan it was really just the u.s. and the soviet union that had these major arsenals with the capability of destroying each other. since then so many other countries come into that space. china is the most one but, of course, we had some of the other nuclear powers appear on the horizon over time. we've got pakistan and india that are constantly on the verge of a nuclear standoff that were deeply concerned about. we have all the existing nuclear powers and from the p5 the u.n. security council where we stuck at issues like the nonproliferation treaty to deal with. there's a complex set of issues here that we absolutely have to attend to and think we've got off to a belated start but at least reasonable start in getting back to the negotiating table, recent discussions in vienna but we haven't figured out how to sequence the get. we are running against the clock. that's one area which is on the agenda we really do have to take care of. i would have felt that the pandemic would be another but i think what we have sadly

she invited the wife of premier gorbachev who would be visiting at the same time and the two of them went up to welsly. >> we have a little clip from that year. >> i know your first choice today was alice walker. guess how i know. known for the color purple instead you got me. known for the color of my hair. for over 50 years it was said that the winner of welsly annual -- would be the first to get married. now they say the winner will be the first to become a ceo. both of those stereotypes -- the winner will be the first to realize her own personal dream. who knows, somewhere out in this audience may even be someone who will one day follow in my footsteps and preside over the white house as the president's spouse, and i wish him well. >> i don't want to spend too much time on this but in your book you wrote about the fact this is classic barbara bush but ultimately something of a missed opportunity. >> well, i think she had the chance to possibly raise some other issues in that speech. and certainly not that the things that she covered weren't important. reading to your children, es

gorbachev. that's who we are as a country. and i'm just not going to apologize for it. and here's the thing. why aren't we talking as a group together on a bipartisan basis, instead of tearing each other down, why aren't we talking about the great things that we've been achieving? 50 million tests. think about that. 50 million tests. more than russia, india, the u.k. combined. right? that is an extraordinary achievement. how many ventilators? how many p.p.e., etc.? i have all sorts of numbers. but we've got an extraordinary production. 19 billion gloves. 775 million surgical masks. 187 million 911 respirators. 32 million face shields and we keep pumping them out. doctors have been working through the night trying to figure out how to keep people alive and work through this pandemic and fight through it. our fatality rate is going down and has been going down for 12 consecutive weeks. we should be applauding that. championing that. we shouldn't be back bite being what the president says or somebody in this body says. we should be championing the greatness of this country

gorbachev is the one who made russia. thank god he made russia great again.od that donald trump made america great again. he is the third party. long before he even ran for president, kratz decided -- democrats decided they did not want hillary clinton in the white house, and for good reason. she wants open borders from the tip of south america to alaska. she is a danger. , people decided even before donald trump was the candidate that no way should ,illary clinton and democrats and especially democrat union members, they are the ones who, even to this day, people are afraid to say that they are voting for donald trump. my son in our house, put out a trump flag. i am happy he did. people are maybe going to burn your house down, and that is how serious it is in this country. host: go ahead and respond, christopher. guest: if the gentleman thinks that mr. trump has made america great again, all i can say is we probably have different editions of great. -- definitions of great. 2016 the -- the 2016 republican primary process, there were 17 republican candidates