gorbachev takes control. the death of constantine chernenko was announced today, the world waited to see who would win the struggle for control of the kremlin. it was a short wait -- just 4 hours and 15 minutes. winning that power is 54-year-old mikhail gorbachev. now the world is watching -- watching what the new kremlin leader will do. gustafson: the politburo has reached for the youngest man among the four members and the one who comes advertised, anyhow, as the one most likely to rock the boat. for all those making it big out there... ...shouldn't your mobile service be able to keep up with you? get wifi speeds up to a gig at home and on the go. introducing powerboost, only from xfinity mobile. now that's big. xfinity internet customers, cut your mobile bill in half vs. t-mobile, verizon, and at&t for your first year. plus, ask how to get the new samsung galaxy s25+ on us. phillips: at 54, gorbachev is the youngest man to lead the soviet union since stalin. unlike his predecessors, gorbachev might feel le

. though gorbachev, critically, got the changes the wrong way round. freedom of speech and of the press going. they chant in russian about the shortages of food, the rotten services and the awful infrastructure. and by the time the kgb — the soviet secret police — and took power for three chaotic days, not many people were prepared to stand up for their new freedoms. shouting, horn beeps i watched as the coup collapsed and gorbachev returned, but he was essentially finished. and another former soviet apparatchik, boris yeltsin — pushed him aside four months later. 14 different countries, including latvia, where i am now, and, of course, ukraine, broke away from russia leningrad's new mayor announced that the city's old name of saint petersburg i went round to meet him, but alas, a certain vladimir putin. i witnessed the russian economies the economic horrors of the 19905 explain a great deal putin himself, no longer deputy mayor of saint petersburg but pushed by his kgb connections into the topmost reaches of politics, from the habitually drunk yeltsin in 2000. to the west and western i

and today i'm meeting with gorbachev. gorbachev will package the soviet line for western much more effectively than i repeat any his predecessors. he has to disarming smile, warm eyes and way of making an unpleasant point and then bouncing back to establish real communications with interlocutors. and i skipped a little. i didn't get the feeling he had to prove how he is as different with andropov and chernenko and even brezhnev he same turning to gromyko chatting from time to time. but not being worried worried that gromyko might differ, afraid to show lack of total knowledge front of your makeup. this gushy comrade brings the general secretary a quantum leap forward and overall appearance. his tailored is not rival divas man at adler's, but he better out of the penny's basement. looked at some of his projected. he has a large prominent birthmark across his balding head, but because of his attractive manner of presentation, it's not something you. you notice all the time. i feel you want to meet you. he will handle his en

that and in 1979, iwatched as he and his politburo colleagues — of shortages and controls. though gorbachevthe changes the wrong way round. he introduced glasnost, or openness, in the economic system, took time to get going. they chant in russian for three chaotic days, for their new freedoms. shouting, horn beeps and now, to take up the story right away, we have john simpson, our foreign affairs editor, boris yeltsin — old, drunk but sprightly — pushed him aside four months later. old name of saint petersburg would be restored. his ginger—haired deputy with a kgb past — a certain vladimir putin. i witnessed the russian economies fall about the way older russians support putin, even now. putin himself, no longer deputy mayor of saint petersburg into the topmost reaches of politics, took over as president he was young, popular and effective. and western ideas, to cut it off from ukraine apparently believing that people there wanted to join up resistance to the russian invasion. i went to kyiv soon afterwards to interview him for unspun world. the russians have upped their game with the help

but there is very much a strain that found with khrushchev, gorbachev and yeltsin. in recent ruston -- russian history there are movements which get cut off because they are not strong enough. so for me it is a hope that the democratic side of russia would emerge after putin and in that democratic side emerges a gorbachev type leader who will reach out to the west and find in the west a friendly hand and ready to help the east. it is the same planet and we have to share it and find a way to do that without war. without a small war becoming a big war, you have to be incredibly careful. host: this is marianne in the keystone state, republican. good morning. caller: good morning. guest: good morning. caller: i have a question about the cuban missile crisis. i only heard it once that khrushchev took the missiles out of cuba because we, the united states, agreed to remove missiles that we had pointed at russia. and that's why it was settled so quickly. is there any truth to that? guest: there is some truth to that, yes ma'am. we had known for a long time now that the uni

but there is very much a strain that found with khrushchev, gorbachev and yeltsin. in recent ruston -- russian history there are movements which get cut off because they are not strong enough. so for me it is a hope that the democratic side of russia would emerge after putin and in that democratic side emerges a gorbachev type leader who will reach out to the west and find in the west a friendly hand and ready to help the east. it is the same planet and we have to share it and find a way to do that without war. without a small war becoming a big war, you have to be incredibly careful. host: this is marianne in the keystone state, republican. good morning. caller: good morning. guest: good morning. caller: i have a question about the cuban missile crisis. i only heard it once that khrushchev took the missiles out of cuba because we, the united states, agreed to remove missiles that we had pointed at russia. and that's why it was settled so quickly. is there any truth to that? guest: there is some truth to that, yes ma'am. we had known for a long time now that the uni

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is his second book on the cold war, actually in his first one was a 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, what i'd like to get into that i think really counts. here is how timely is paul nitze? a, as james points out, is not really a household name in. the united states, even as you have people that can kissinger or even george kennan, who people know and they know the history of u.s. foreign policy. but nisei was one of the main architects of. one of the most important strategies we've ever had. and did it at a time when everything was going wrong all around him. and i'd like to start taking a quote from his own in a retrospective on nsc 68, which was released in 1950, it was orchestrated by the state department and then sort of newly national security council, but they said we were to reassess national security policy in the w

gorbachev, tear down this wall. uh, it really does feel like we are living through something momentous. is it, uh, is it good for for us? for the world? >> no. i mean, vladimir putin is a thug. he's a murderer. he is the menace to the world. he's the enemy of the united states. i think most republicans are very wary of vladimir putin. and i think the long term strategy is to make sure that his oil and gas doesn't get him anywhere right now. john mccain used to say he was a gas station with nukes, and that's all it was. russian oil is currently selling for about $68 a barrel. it needs to sell at about 50 to put putin out of business. american wells can make profit about 45. and so i think the policy of the trump administration that is to contain putin is to make america the energy capital of the world. i think some of what you're seeing on the diplomacy front, maybe isn't it doesn't sit well with a lot of republicans. but i think the long term play here is to put putin out of the gas business and out of the oil busin

gorbachev, tear down this wall, and it kept coming out and finally he said, well, i guess i'm the one who got elected president and so i'm going to say, tear down this wall, and the wall came down. but also, we've had stable borders really since the soviet union fell and we have felt like we had gotten beyond that. >> right. sen. wicker: and if you want to invade your neighbor, you can always think of a reason. and vladimir putin is just as clever as hitler was. you know, hitler didn't want to invisaed anybody, he said. he -- invade anybody, he said. he just was so concerned about those german speakers over in the land. it is absolutely out of hitler's playbook and anybody that reads history should know that. >> so they should not be in the g-8? sen. wicker: no. >> should ukraine have a chance to be in nato someday? sen. wicker: i wouldn't rule it out. but in the meantime, though, it may not happen in five years or this year or five years or 10 years. but in the meantime, can't peace-loving, strong allies of the united states and europe join together somehow and say, yes, we will defe

gorbachev, president reagan said, called the soviet union, rightly so, an evil empire. but he also struck some incredibly effective arms control agreements. and we won the cold war. so i think that's the right approach to take. and hopefully that will be the one that the trump administration pursues. >> yeah, i agree, it seems that the bigger challenge is going to be china and president xi. every other country is kind of, you know, capitulated to the threat of a tariff or the demands of donald trump. but president xi went in the other direction. so it might be a little trickier with china. they clearly have their territorial ambitions. they had no respect for president biden and kamala harris. they were flying their fighter jets, you know, even even threatening an international airspace. our jets and international waterways, our navy. and that's not going to be tolerated under donald trump. >> no, there's no question that that china represents that critical threat. look, we've got a lot of threats, sean, right now. i mean, we are overloaded with threats, wickedly comple

reagan even said he developed a bond and friendship with gorbachev. so i think it's inevitable that you have to take these steps to establish diplomatic channels and actually get to a lasting truce that protects ukraine's future. and as j.d. vance said last week, in europe, it's sovereign independence. >> you know that even your fellow republicans senator wicker, the chairman of the senate foreign relations committee, criticized the secretary of defense last week for basically giving up a number of concessions, including territorial concessions in ukraine, nato membership in, i'm sorry, ukraine membership in nato in 2022. you mentioned you made a direct tie between american concessions to russia and what you feared would be the wrong message china would take when it came to taiwan. take a listen. >> it's not just vladimir putin and europe that's watching the rest of the world is watching. and most particularly, xi jinping is watching what happens in ukraine. and if he sees the united states and the west faltering after a few months and pressing ukrain

this has been going on since 1998 since the breaking of the promises by james baker to president gorbachev. the nato would not move uh, one inch be on the eastern board is a big united germany that so now the started, we could talk about that for us, but that's the fast the button administration was just continuing the basic american policies since the beginning of the ninety's and the resistance to the idea that the russian federation needed sets and little conditions of security for, for its cell phone, for the rest of eastern europe. so nothing's really not well, it has changed bites and was not talking to poach it. trump is talking to booting, that is a huge step in the right direction. as i said earlier, i'm keeping my fingers crossed. let's see what they have to say one to one another tomorrow and the day off from the day after. as they get you into the details of these talks about the future of you. great. all right, of course we were listening to your address to the un security council meeting yesterday. you were absolutely spot on from understanding the routes of these issues. now

criticize trump for even giving any praise to a dictator but keep in mind reagan also befriended mikhail gorbachev when he brought down the wall and brought an end to the ussr. and there's a pattern with ronald reagan and trump and he knows where he's trying to go and negotiate an end to the bloodshed. with the end of the agreement is between me and donald trump and zelenskyy and prudent. >> we appreciate your times for staying up late. and the former white house chief of staff mike meadows is now coming on with us as well as kellyanne conway and intelligence officer rebecca com for who knows russian pretty well we start with the rebecca. what does a vladimir putin think? >> vladimir putin would like to ended the war but on his terms which are unacceptable to washington and president trump's team. and he maintained a wartime footing several years prior to the beginning of this war which is why he feels he can keep going unless he meets that requirement. if they did that they would look like idiots. investing $200 billion for three years and 1,000,000 russians are dead and what do they have in retu

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and that led him to be willing to break with his own foreign ministry and convince his president, gorbachevhat it was better to have germany united in natea than as a separate entity. president carter's personal relationship with is a dat and camp david was really important. he took the two leaders toth gettysburg batfield to show them that fact that war is not the solution. more wars will gust lead to more deets. begin, by the way, he was so moved, he gave the getties burling address with no notes. secondly, he went to an chabot dinner that he arranged as camp david and stayed the whole time to try to bond. these kinds of relationship are very important. when i was doing the holocaust negotiations with germany. i bonded with my german opponent who had a great feeling that hey had to atone for their world war ii sins and that was very helpful. having these perm rhythms which shall when you don't have it, then you're in trouble. somp david ii in 2,000. the second camp david with prosecute clinton, arafat of the p.l.o. and barat. barat and arafat was like oil and water. clinton wasn't able to

and that led him to be willing to break with his own foreign ministry and convince his president, gorbachevhat it was better to have germany united in natea than as a separate entity. president carter's personal relationship with is a dat a camp david was really impoant. he took the two leaders toth gettysburg batfield to show them that fact that war is not the solution. more wars will gust lead to more deets. begin, by the way, he was so moved, he gave the getties burling address with no notes. secondly, he went to an chabot dinner that he arranged as camp david and stayed the whole time to try to bond. these kinds of relationship are very important. when i was doing the holocaust negotiations with germany. i bonded with my german opponent who had a great feeling that hey had to atone for their world war ii sins and that was very helpful. having these perm rhythms which shall when you don't have it, then you're in trouble. so at camp did ii in 2,000. the second camp david with prosecute clinton, arafat of the p.l.o. and barat. barat and arafat was like oil and water. clinton wasn't able to

and eventually, as you know, gorbachev withdrew from afghanistan in somewhat of of defeat or, disappointment or disgrace. so i think we have to be strong taking a stand, make sure we take a stand on justifiable and enforceable grounds. and i believe that president obama has just as much fortitude and wisdom, maybe more so than i had when i was president. so just ask the obvious question should president obama be to president and russia if move further? we all understand your argument about crimea, but if you move further across the border of ukraine, independent nation in, the moldova and transnistria so the united states and its allies are reserve the right to respond in whatever way they with the use of military force as obviously a possibility. i think the warning of our using our own military forces be maybe excessive. i'm not to tell president obama what to say. i hope i can say this three or four times. i'm not trying to give advice, but i think that it certainly would be legitimate and maybe advisable for president obama and nato's forces as well as many countries as possible to say w

gorbachev. tear down this wall. >> john kennedy saying. >> a torch. >> has. >> been passed to a new generation. >> harry truman declaring that america. >> would fight against russian aggression, against soviet. aggression everywhere. it does. it does far. >> more than. >> just change. an analytical construct. >> it changes the very meaning of. >> america itself. and it's not. just former republicans. it's not just former cold war warriors like myself. >> it's not. >> just conservatives who believe that. independence democrats believe that as well. as does the wall. >> street journal. >> editorial page, which is the voice of conservatism. >> and. >> has been for a very. >> long time. and its latest editorial titled. the rapid. >> rehab of vladimir putin. >> the wall street journal. >> editorial board writes in part, this global politics. >> can be an ugly. >> business, but. >> the looming rehabilitation of. vladimir putin. >> is especially hard to take. mr. trump said last week after a. >> phone

and the glasnost moment with gorbachev. and, you know, having that be part of of his legacy. and i, i think i'm glad to hear you say that you feel squeamish because i remember zelenskyy walking into every room in the united states and getting standing ovations and people crying and people saluting. his ambassador here. and i think those people, those ukrainians who we told over and over again that we had their back. >> we did. we have. >> a feeling incredibly abandoned today. >> i agree with scott's point that people want to see an end to this war. we don't need the needless killings. but where my issue was, was the negotiating tactics here. why would pete hegseth go out there and say, on the world stage, oh yeah, we're not going to have ukraine join nato? oh yeah. they're not going to get back to their original territory. why would we already give up those bargaining chips before negotiations have even begun? i agree, they're probably not going to get a perfect solution, but why would we already show our hand and reward vladimir putin for invading a sovereign nation? that ju

gorbachev, tear down this wall.o steal. and then he ends it literally. in the spring of 1988, playing with babies in red square. that's where the republican party was 40 years ago. now it's in a place where, as you suggest, jonathan, it basically is going back to a pre-world war two great power politics where the rule of the strong predominates, and principle, which is always, as david knows, far better than i do principles, always a flexible matter in geopolitics. but we have at least tried since we entered the second world war, after nazi germany declared war on us in the first week of december 1941, the united states has attempted to ground its policy in a principled ethos. this becomes a moment where if you are russia, if you are china, if you are a foreign power, what is the lesson of this? the lesson is aggression will be rewarded. and the fundamental principle since 1945 has been that we cannot award reward aggression. it's a deep and fundamental thing. >> i think john seems to be right. what you're saying is

gorbachev gave it back and then stalin -- after stalin stole it.hey are not talking about the deficit at all. why are we killing babies we should turn those into clinics and get rid of obama care. the taxes are enormous to ensure somebody with pre-and 16 -- with pre-existing conditions. host: here is bill in safety harbor, florida. good morning. >> thanks for taking my call paid i think basically the problem with our government is the union and we will never conquer it, it is too big. i have seen it over the past 40 years start with young kids that would get summer jobs at little towns and they would put a man with them whose full-time and he would give them two or three hour breaks and that's how they were broken in into the workforce. the union does not give you productivity. they are destroying us. host: ok. philip in springfield, massachusetts, democrat. caller: this is my second time calling and i watch you every day. there is a lot of fear being experienced. i just hope president trump can do the right thing and maybe we can all get the check

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