gorbachev, open this. you see. mr. gorbachev, tear down this wall. right. wow, that. yeah. one of the advantages was that i'd lived through all of it, and that's the way of those times, the great times, you know, inspiring times and what reagan did, really, for all of along with all of us, he was the voice of the american people. i think. wow. i want to bring will here. and one of and to a very early part of the reagan presidency and a very consequential moment and invites some commentary but to the team in the back. let's go ahead and play clip number one. that mr. president the aircraft, the controllers are threatening a strike. well, they do that. no, sir. legally essential public service. they have all signed a no strike contract. a contract is a contract. that's the way i learned it. they forfeited their jobs. so so this is a very significant moment in the reagan presidency. and it comes very early on. so will i invite you to and then we'll kick it around? yeah, i such a powerful moment and i believe we're is this august third, 1981, 81. yeah. and we i just think that

gorbachev, tear down this wall and. so reagan made me, you know, a republican or helped to make me a republican in the 1980s. and then i was involved in, you know, working at the wall street journal editorial page and serving as a foreign policy adviser to republican presidential candidates, etc., etc. but, you know, i don't think there's sort of been nearly as good of a book. if i were still in kind of my republican bubble, which and again, that's why i'm thanking donald trump for nudging me out of that bubble and allowing me to see ronald reagan in republican party in recent history. i think with greater objectivity and i would have it possible for me in the days i was, you know, a republican partizan. thank you. for mr. boot. what would reagan have have made of trump? and if were politically active from 2016 to now, what what part what role do you think he would have played in the trump phenomena? would he be like the kinzinger or liz cheney or would he have somehow gone along? and the other thing is what a counter f

it was during glassnost, and gorbachev was in charge. and he wanted western influence.t hbo, called me and said, "you want to go to moscow and do a show? no one's ever done it before," and so let's go. so, i said, "oh, wow, that's scary." so, we went on a reconnaissance trip in august. and we travelled from leningrad to moscow. and that's -- the title came from that. you have to take a midnight train from leningrad to moscow. and so we met all these people and thought, can i do this? what's the hook? and then i found out while i was there that i had about 30 relatives in moscow that i did not know existed. and so, the show became about finding my roots again and going back to where i came from, basically. so, i started out, as we all do, making your parents laugh in our living room. and most of the relatives were from restov-on-don or odesa, right? and so, that's where i started. so, here i was doing the show, thousands and thousands of miles away from home here, performing again, for relatives but this time where they came from. >> seth: it's -- i'm glad -- glad is not

i could see in his notes that he fell in love with reagan in his private talks with gorbachev. now, it was not the job of the russian note taker at the reagan gorbachev meeting to fall in love with reagan. but he wrote, this is a genial, soft spoken man. but funny if you criticize his country or attack it, he comes out like a lion. exclamation point. and you could tell the note taker approve of the the lie. and so so i think of that sort of thing when i think of reagan he, he was he was not two faced for a politician for a political figure. he was amazingly genuine. he never thought he had to play another role. he only had to be himself. so all of this, in a way, it's so obvious and it's sort of a cliche, but i still can't get over it because it was so remarkable. i have some more things i want to ask you about president reagan, but before that, a couple of things about. the book and one thing that certainly caught my attention, not just in the book, but as a devoted reader of your column over the years, is the sheer variety of work that you do. i was just looking you've you've

gorbachev, tear down this wall. >> i'm ready to roll.od to see you again. >> buchanan sensed an opportunity to revive the right's isolationist tradition. his rival for the soul of the gop was reagan's successor, george herbert walker. bush. >> congratulations. >> bush was the quintessential establishment republican determined that america should continue to lead the world after the fall of the berlin wall. he helped reunify germany, germany is united. >> germany is free. tonight. the battle has been joined and he led an international coalition to kick saddam hussein out of kuwait. >> the skies over baghdad have been illuminated. >> that victory was swift and convincing. >> kuwait is liberated. >> bush declared a new world order led by the usa. >> a new world order, where diverse nations are drawn together in common cause. >> the economy today, the economy, the economy. >> but across the nation, many americans did not feel they were winning. >> unemployment is the highest in nearly a decade. >> the country was in a recession. let me tell

gorbachev himself said about reagan that reagan himself was there in the real hard times to carry forward the negotiations and perhaps most importantly because of the power of ideas, he was right that the people of eastern europe, the warsaw pact that had been allied with the soviet union, that they wanted freedom and democracy. as soon as the soviet union began to end with the berlin wall coming down, there's a vast outpouring of people moving toward the free world and soon the free world includes a united germany, the czech republic, slovakia, hungary, et cetera because people did, in fact, desire that freedom and those nations quickly applied for membership in the european union and as quickly as they could also nato because they wanted to protect that freedom. it turns out reagan was totally right on those things. as is almost always true with reagan it was most eloquent, but the ideology was the most important. i now want to talk about some conclusions that can be drawn, and i want to begin with the stereotype of reagan as a grade b movie actor as old hop-a-log. remember that line i

one was named goosby and the other one in the same gorbachev that i believe yazdi and gorbachev. yes. and anyway, they they assured me the shah could come in to york for treatment and they would protect our people. and in iran there were. but we had over 5000 americans still working iran in addition to the embassy personnel and and the only proviso was that the shah had to agree ahead of time that he would not make any political statement while he was in new york. and he agreed to that. so that was the circumstances under which i let the shah come and then the student militants, our embassy and khomeini held off for about three days. and then he backed up the students and the president and minister resigned in protest because their word of honor to was violated. and that's the the whole thing started. and, of course, it lasted, as most people still remember, 444 days. so the last three days i was president. i never went to sleep. i never went to bed. i spent up all of that time negotiating the release of the hostages. and at 10:00 on inauguration morning, all hostages were in an

and then gorbachev of 1987. i think no new clue war, and this is of absolutely a, you know, a vital interest sunday cold that this is also in vital interest of the united states. i say, so because sometime ago, mr. kirby who is a white house communications coordinator, or whatever. he was asking the question, so answering questions and remote escalation and about the possibility of nuclear weapons being unemployed. and she said, oh no, no, we don't want escalation. because then the, if there is some nuclear element, then you oh, your, at the, on the lice would suffer. so even mentally she excludes the united states kind of stuff. and this is something which, which makes the situation, it'd be 3. so it might, if, if this means that it's a prevails, then some reckless steps would be taken, then this is but, so what i think you're saying is american policy makers. imagine there could be a nuclear exchange that doesn't directly affect the united states. and you're saying that's not true, that's, that's what they sai

and then gorbachev of 1987. i think no new clue war. and this is of absolutely a, you know, a vital interest sunday cold that this is also in vital interest of the united states. i say, so, because sometime ago, mr. kirby who is a white house communications coordinator, or whatever. he was asking the questions of answering questions and remote escalation and about the possibility of nuclear weapons being unemployed. and she said, oh no, no, we don't want escalation. because then the, if there is some nuclear element, then you oh your, it be on the lice. would suffer. so even mentally she excludes the 9th of states kind of stuff. and this is something which, which makes the situation, it'd be 3. so it might, if, if this means that it's a prevails, then some reckless steps would be taken, then this is but, so what i think you're saying is american policy makers. imagine there could be a nuclear exchange that doesn't directly affect the united states. and you're saying that's not true, that's and that's what i said, yes, you know, but you

basically they to reproduce the statement by re going them. gorbachev of 1987. i think no new clue war, and this is of absolutely, you know, a vital in through sunday cold that this is also in vital interest of the united states. i say so because sometime ago, mr. kirby who is a white house, communications, college and nato, whatever. he was asking questions of answering questions and about escalation and the both possibilities of nuclear weapons being unemployed. and she said, oh no, no, we don't want escalation. because then the, if there is some nuclear element, then you will, your deal know, lice would suffer. so even mentally she excludes the united states kind of stuff. and this is something which, which makes the situation, it'd be 3. so it might, if, if this means that it's a prevails, then some reckless steps would be taken, then this is but, so what i think you're saying is american policy makers. imagine there could be a nuclear exchange that doesn't directly affect the united states. and you're saying that's not true, that's. that's what i said, yes,

korb khafrb said years ago -- gorbachev said that they would never be able to take the united states militarily, but they would have to do it slowly and divide us. and i wish -- my christmas wish would be that we call each other americans. i know you do it because it's a republican line, democratic line. i'm an american. i'm not an independent. aim not this, that, or the other thing. i'm a mother. i'm a child. the one thing is is elon musk has got so much bidding in doing with the chinese, elon in a russian name to begin with. he's south african. the thing is what bothers me most about him, and the reason i called you because i haven't been watching any of this stuff it upsets me too much, is because he's not -- mr. biden, our president, our president and leader now, regardless of what people think of him, he's still our leader. we should respect him and we should have respect for ourselves. he's not hiding anywhere. we know where he's at. if we need him, he's there. he's older and the man that's coming in is right behind him, he's just as old. except he's got all his cronies coming

gorbachev, jack nicklaus has a ball sack the size of a baby head!hen: yes, we miss you, ronnie, we miss you. that's true. we fact-checked that. we couldn't say it, but it was true. a lot of crazy to unpack here, but what stands out to me is the idea that professional golfers take group showers. [laughter] it's an individual sport, it's not a team! you really think that arnold palmer at the height of his career was soaping it up down at the why? if you go to a golf tournament says hey, let's all take a big shower together, get the hell out of there! that guy doesn't work there, okay? you are about to play what we call a water hazard. [laughter] now, trump didn't just reference arnold palmer's manhood out of nowhere. he gave a 12 minute preamble. which i watched. he took the crowd behind the peen. >> arnold was just arnold. he was just better than anybody else and arnold started winning immediately. started winning immediately. he got into wake forest, you know that, right? wake forest and he was immediately as a freshman captain of the team and there

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when reagan came on the floor, mikhail gorbachev, it was amazing, when that happened.o, i think that the market is getting behind him, right? there's now a poll out, 65% of americans are now comfortable in the fact that he's going to be the able to take this economy forward. and if you can see what's happening all a around. not only is it these big tech ceos getting involved, but he even said it when he said anyone that want os to come to this country and invest a billion dollars, no red tape, they're going to get what they want, they're going to bring business bark bring jobs back, get this u.s. economy going, and i think people are excited about that, right? i will say this, i think the market is excited about it, but if some of this stuff that he's talking about gets dragged out, if the tax cut thing gets dragged out, it doesn't look like it's going to happen, that's going to end up taking a little with bit of the wind out of his sails in the new year. so you've got to pay attention to how that comes along. but for the most part, i think the market's telling you the

deals with democrats and ultimately, his crowning achievement as president was working with mikhail gorbachevthe world's number one communist, to peacefully end the cold war. despite a long career as an anti-communist. so i think that shows you why he was ultimately successful as president. he was able to pivot to the center, compromise and get things done. >> something else that i learned from max boot is that even among those who worked with him and knew him best, ronald reagan was hard to really get to know. and one person boot uses as an example of that difficulty was the person who met with ronald reagan several times in writing and in preparation for his final presidential address. another guest of mine this year, peggy noonan. i'm a reader and admirer of peggy noonan of the wall street journal, who in another life was a speechwriter for president reagan. she writes and speaks with a level of dignity and grace. she's smart, she's witty, she's grounded. this year, peggy noonan published a collection of her work called a certain idea of america. selected writings. each chapter contains a

and it was the soviet union then under gorbachev. but was moving closer to the west and and it was seen as a positive development, certainly in the west. and then, of course, following mcdonald's. but after the soviet union collapsed, the large number of western companies, closed companies, whatever, open branches in in russia, it came as well. obviously, the swedish manufacturer now, you go into great and very interesting detail in your book about it's taken now for mcdonald's has had to leave. it's no longer mcdonald's is it stores for its restaurants but taken over they have a different name now and the same is true for a large number of western firms, but not all of them. so you talk a little bit about how difficult been for western firms to leave russia and what they've lost economically, but also why so many western firms are still operating in russia. yeah, it's such a fascinating story. the full scale invasion and created all these discussions amongst cis wheat's executives trying to figure out how do they respond to this? be

and you had, you know, leaders who were very emblem of that and gorbachev come and expect a similar demonstrationd say there might be a complicated situation because january 6th is when they're supposed to meet in a joint session of congress in the house chamber to certify the electoral college. and they have deemed this to be a national security event. and if you're dealing with that, and now they have to wrestle with are they going to allow the public to come into the building -- you know to give their respects that's usually what they do or delay that by a day or two or does that look a little bit different. we don't know but this will happen some time probably just after the first of the year. >> president elect trump's day one plans for america might be -- ♪ ♪ president-elect trump's day one plans for america might be in swrep did i if a hogs speakership battle delays his certification mike johnson faces tough road house. house democrats say they're united against him at least one gop congressman has said he will not vote for johnson. >> they think they're somehow going to get a more conserv

decades later gorbachev's successors attempting to destroy his legacy, make no mistake, vladimir putins an evil man who, like other dictators throughout history despises freedom and hate to those who seek it. we are watching daily assaults on democracy and they are a reminder to all of us of president reagan's famous words, freedom is never more than one generation away from extinction. we didn't handed on to our children in our bloodstream. it must be fought for, protected and handed on for them to do the same or one day we will spend our sunset years telling our children and our children's children what it once was like in the united states when men were 3. that is why in 2020 more than any other governor in america i traveled to 17 states to campaign for donald trump's reelection efforts. i knew that elections have consequences and i did not want to wake up and have a leader who wouldn't put america first. his administration restored america's dominance on the world stage, made us energy independent, feared our adversaries and we were respected by our allies. he created an economy p

this his second book on the cold war, actually in his first one was triumph of improvization and gorbachev's adaptation. reagan's engagement in the end of the cold war. so he's written on both bookends now, both the formation of cold war containment strategy and, then also the reagan years, where the cold war successfully concluded. and what we're going to get into today, i'd like to get into that. i think really counts. here is how timely this is. paul nitze, as james points out, is not a household name in the states, even as you have people like henry kissinger or even george kennan, who people and they know the history of u.s. foreign policy. but nixon was one of the main architects of of the most important strategies we've ever had. and he did it at a time when was going wrong. all him and i'd like to start by taking a quote from his own words in a retrospective on nsc 68, which was released in 1950, it was orchestrated by the state and then sort of newly formed national security council. but they said we were fundamentally to reassess our national security in the whole big picture of am

. >> his next door neighbor, leonid gorbachev, was home when police pried the door open with a metal bar. he says they turned the place inside out and found piles of cash. israeli police say nisanov led a seven person cell of israelis who gathered intelligence for iran for more than two years and are now awaiting trial, and the haifa seven are allegedly just one cell. israeli authorities say they have uncovered multiple spy rings in recent months. if you go check the last years and the last decades, we can count on two hands. >> how many people got arrested for this last six months? we have over 30 israeli citizens that got arrested. >> so that's unprecedented. >> yeah, of course superintendent mark goren, who oversaw the investigations, says the arrests foiled multiple assassination plots as well as ongoing intelligence gathering efforts. >> while some of these alleged iranian spies were accused of plotting to kill senior israeli officials, others had a different task photographing israeli military bases like the nevatim airbase right behind me. and israeli officials say those photo

gorbachev, tear down this wall. >> the '80s were about to become the 90s.ar just ended practically overnight. >> the berlin wall is still standing, but it's significance as a barrier to freedom has crumbled. following the dramatic position by eastern leaders to lift travel restrictions to the west. >> there was a disbelief it was actually happening. really? they are abandoning communism. they are dissolving the soviet union. and suddenly people talk cameras to the wall and nobody fired a gun or anything like that. >> what you are watching live on television is a historic moment. you are seeing the destruction of the berlin wall, the line dividing east and west germany. >> people began with their bare hands. >> taking it down, you know, it was, wow, what a moment. >> i remember my roommates and i in this cramped apartment, but everybody was gathered around the tv and watching and it was extremely helpful. millions of people were going to be liberated from this communist fastest authoritarian government. >> for 50 years, we had understood the world as divided

gorbachev and i both agree on the desirability of freer and more extensive personal contact between theeoples of the soviet union and 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 into 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, you know, it's hard to be on the top. little perch and have to come down off it. >> on 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 are 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 spent billions buying the networks recently, and all of them want their mo

you know, margaret thatcher, who was the prime minister of the united kingdom, mikhail gorbachev, general secretary of the soviet union. come. and so we would expect some sort of a similar demonstration, this time with president carter. i will say that there might be a little bit of a complicated situation, because january 6th is when they are supposed to meet in a joint session of congress in the house chamber to certify the electoral college. and they have deemed this to be a national security event. and if you're dealing with that, and now they have to wrestle with, are they going to allow the public to come into the building, you know, to give their respects? that's usually what they do. or do they delay that by a day or two or does that look a little bit different? we just don't know. but this will happen sometime, probably just after the first of the year. >> president elect trump's day one plans for america might be in jeopardy if a house speakership battle delays his certification. current house speaker mike johnson faces a tough road ahead. house democrats say they're united agai

gorbachev to tear down that wall. between east germany and west germany. there didn't used to be an east and west germany before that timeline. but on the heels of world war ii and the occupation of that. it required the berlin airlift just a couple of years after world war ii to keep those people sustained. because of the russian bear having taken over that portion of germany when they completely misread what the treaty at the time was to keep germany in line after world war ii. instead russia took it as an opportunity to take it over. and so many other what had been free state freerks countries in the area. poland. they imposed all that. it wasn't willful. indeed, communism might sneak in but you have to shoot your way out of it. is what people have learned. so in the case of this issue with cuba right next door, 50 plus years castro. so i'm glad my florida colleague can point this out because her own state has been the recipient of many people escaping communism and trying to have the life that really we're all deserved as human beings. if we take -- if

it might seem ironic the first freedom award was presented to kel gorbachev by president reagan southopeful time that was. decades later the successor is attempting to destroy his legacy. make no mistake vladimir putin is an evil man. who like other dictators throughout history despise freedom and he hates those who seek it. we are watching daily assaults on democracy and they are a reminder to all of us of president reagan's famous words "freedom is never more than one generation away from extinction. we didn't pass it on to our children in our bloodstream. and must be handed on for them to do the same or one day we will then our sunset years telling our children and our children's children what it once was like in the united states that's why in 2020 more than any other governor in america i traveled to 17 state to campaign for president trump's reelection effort i knew that elections have consequences and i did not want to wake up and have a leader who wouldn't put america first. his administration restored america's dominance on the world stage made us energy independent feared ou

question please about the border, but remember reagan opened the border, but then he was telling gorbachevar down that wall. i would like to know, those people that were sent from texas and florida by their governor, were they vetted to see if they had a criminal record in their hometown before they were sent to new york? host: what's your point, ralph? with asking that question. caller: asking that question because we're talking about all these people, all these criminals that we have around the cities here that are committing crimes. we're saying that, hey, all these people are committing crimes here in the states. and the other thing is, these people that are coming from the border, they are not bringing in drugs. congress not being true to us because it's a sophisticated operation and the drugs, they are not bringing drugs, they are coming in here. and the worst day in america is better than the best day in these countries. that's why they're coming here. host: all right. ashley hayek. guest: because your country is not as great as america isn't a reason for you to illegally enter into

reagan with gorbachev almost a limited all the nuclear weapons in iceland.appened so trump could do the same thing as a republican he can get away with it. if you say to the treaty on the prohibition, then under 500 for the world makes it a lot safer. item two is for the department of government efficiency, elon musk and those guys what they need to do is go after the thousands and tens of thousands may be more people that keep their money in offshore places, they hide their money from the irs and don't pay taxes on it. the isle of man, places like that. check the panama papers from a few years back. they should not cut irs people they should increase the staff so they can go after the rich million and billionaires that are doing this and some of them -- it would be great if elon musk testified and said i've been doing that i will stop doing that now. that's not an allegation may it's not true, it's just a guesstimate. host: that's jay in maryland speaking of the president-elect, the des moines register reporting this morning that the president-elect to sue