nina khrushchev. it was a pleasure. thank you. >> thank you very much. >>> from china tonight, extraordinary scenes of violence. in a far western region of that country, more than 150 people had been killed. more than 800 injured in writing of what began at provincial capital and spread to the city of kashgar. worst violence in decades. our report coming from abc stephen mcdonald who is in beijing. >> reporter: police struggle to control the streets of the regional capital of urumqi. and the attacks weren't only restricted to cars and buildings. han chinese who were passing by were attacked by the crowd. one woman fell to the crowd and was not spared. the government blames uighurs abroad for promoting the clash which started yesterday. >> translator: this is a typical incident of baiting, smashing and looting overrode by overseas' forces. it was premeditated, planned and organized. >> reporter: thousands of protesters had marched through the streets, calling for an investigation into an earlier incident. they'd seen foo

. >>> and on our weekly roundtable tonight, nikita khrushchev's granddaughter, you won't believe what she had to say about russia's dmitry medvedev. >>> from the world's leading reporters and analysts, this is what is happening from around the world. this is "worldfocus." made possible, in part, by the following funders -- >>> good evening. i'm martin savidge. as leaders of the world's major industrialized countries and at their summit meeting in italy, president obama challenged his counterparts to do much more to help develop nations to deal with hunger and he succeeded. getting them to commit to $20 billion to the effort. the president told a news conference how he understood hunger in very personal terms. saying that he had learned lessons from family members still living in kenya. his father, you'll recall, was born there. he said, they, themselves, are not going hungry but live in villages where hunger is real. the president at the summit and beyond, that's our "lead focus" tonight. >> reporter: president obama again took the lead in pushing the nation's at the g-8 summit toward

nikita khrushchev premier boasted that his defense factories are churning out nuclear missiles like sausages and the u.s. congress the joint economic committee held five days of public hearings on the effects of a limited nuclear attack. scientists are detecting hazardous levels of radiation in milk as a result of age bomb tests in the atmosphere. in a physicist toward a country and tantalize cross with mayor of on launchers on how to try and survive and win a nuclear war. it was this twin precipices, the prospect of endless impossibilities an instant annihilation, both teetering on the edge of in a decade that gave 1959 its distinctive swoon and ignited its creative energy. the latter half of the preceding decade especially from 1945 to 47 when america credit the bomb when world were to emerge as a sprawling global power also marked a different turning point but it would take another dozen years before the nation sat out or stumbled fourth and a clear direction before it responded to the shifting contours' and redefine itself in the light and shadows period, by the other generation those th

certain things happen in the khrushchev tape, khrushchev's son said in the book, after the material was published in english and the k.g.b. came in and confiscated tapes, many years later, he discovered, he thought, after the publication took possession of these tapes, they would carefully listen to what he said and study what he said and many years later to his surprise, never happened, they just blocked the whole collection of tapes in the door and never bothered to revisit them, so that this parallel, striking a parallel between the soviets and the communists, china's reaction to part of history that they wish never happened, there's a sharp contradiction to how i feel, and that is basically the motivation to work on this material. >> it might be helpful for the audience to very quickly tell everybody what happens. >> what happened indeed? >> in other words, what was the role during 1989 and what were the issues which divided the leadership and ended him up being put out of office. >> all right, there is no simple way to really talk about this. but there is one angel that you can tak

. >> that is how we describe khrushchev when he defeated solid. >> while he was more modern. -- when he defeated stalin. >> as the empire was disintegrating -- >> i would like to take this opportunity to remind our listeners that on a serious back some listeners i am joined here by these journalists. back to sitting down with our enemies. sanctions. margaret threat -- margaret thatcher said they did not work. and they have not. they have results that are not desirable, unintended consequences. >> the germans have man -- have made 1700 deals in iran. >> you don't know what they are doing in the dark. how do you feel about sanctions? >> the only sanctions i have seen that makes sense would be to deprive them of 60% of the gasoline they need, because they don't have sufficient refining capacity. >> nothing else? >> they all drove around in cars these days. i think there ascensions and there are sanctions. i go to world war room one, a blockad i, that wasn't just a ll document. it was in war-time also. >> i was in world war ii. the blockade of iran would be a serious form of sanction, it

there is a strong temptation in moscow to test obama in a way that nikita khrushchev tested john kennedy in 1961. you remember the berlin crisis and the cuban crisis. the military exercises which are now going on near the georgian border, which is a clear demonstration of russian forces and an attempt to intimidate, it is also a kind of test for obama because i believe it is creating a certain background, a certain environment for the forthcoming negotiations, including those on the@@@@@@"")rr arms control problem we should not forget that russia is the only country which can destroy america and america remains the only country which can destroy russia. this mutual destruction remains on the agenda. we cannot deal without it and we cannot forget about this legacy of the cold war. i believe fritz ermath remembers an interesting experience of the 1980's went american competitive strategy brought to lead an interesting phenomenon in russian military buildup. -- brought to life in interesting phenomenon. the soviet union actually started a kind of dual approach in response to single military

nikita khrushchev posted his defense factories were churning out nuclear missiles like sausages. in the u.s. congress the atomic energy committee held five days of public hearings on the effect of a limited nuclear attack. scientists were detecting hazardous levels of radiation as a result of the h bomb tests in the atmosphere. a physicist named herman toward the country in large crowds of marathon lectors how to fight survive and win and nuclear war. it was this twin principles the prospect of infinite possibilities and instant annihilation both teetering on the edge of a new decade that gave 1959 its distinctive swooned and it might its creative energy. the latter half of the preceding decade especially from 1945 to 47 when america created the bomb won world war ii and emerged as a sprawling power also marked a vivid turning point that it would take another dozen years before the nation set out or stumbled fourth in a clear direction before it responded to the shifting contours and redefined itself in the light and shadows. the path was carved by the younger generation, those w

this contrasts with khrushchev's hectoring in vienna of a young president john kennedy. after his session with putin, fox asked if the president still believes as he said five days ago that putin still has one foot stuck in the cold war. >> i think that he would admit that his formative years were shaped in the cold war, and that some of his continued grievances with respect to the west are still dated in some of the suspicions that came out of that period. i found him to be tough, smart, shrewd, very unsentimental, very pragmatic. >> and who wields more power? >> the prime minister, who i just met today, obviously still has enormous influence. interestingly, nothing putin said contradicted anything that dimitry medvedev has said. it was consistent. >> translation, mr. obama would not and could not take to the bank what he heard yesterday from president dimitry medvedev until putin verified it. on missile defense, senior obama officials say russia is moving closer to seeing iran as a potential nuclear threat. mr. obama is reviewing plans to build iner interaccept interce

recognize this scene of then vice president richard nixon standing alongside soviet premier nikita khrushchev in moscow at an american model house exhibition. meant to show off the fruits of capitalism in 1959. the unscripted starring -- or sparring between these two leaders over the merits of communism versus capitalism came to be known as the great kitchen debate. how long has it been since this historic day? 50 years exactly, that cold war showdown. a half century ago. the first real political use of the tv medium happened on july 24th, 1959. it's the 50-year anniversary of the great kitchen debate. tonight's "big number." that's "hardball" for now. catch us weekdays on 5:00 to up:00 eastern. up next, "your business." here's one for your skin that's clinically proven. olay professional pro-x wrinkle protocol is as effective as the leading wrinkle prescription brand at reducing the look of wrinkles. that's because olay has teamed with a highly specialized group of dermatologists and created a wrinkle protocol that gives you the results of the leading wrinkle prescription brand, without a pr

affairs at the news school here in new york and granddaughter of the late soviet premier nikit a khrushchev. welcome to the two of you. assessing with how this summit went this week between the president and the russian leadership there. nina, how do you think it went? >> i think it went very well. there was a whole range of policy issues that two leaders agreed on. and even the meeting with the prime minister, now prime minister vladimir putin and barack obama went well. i mean there was no contest. >> a lot of people were looking at that, right? that was the crucial meeting. >> i thought it was a crucial meeting and it was very civil. it was very cordial. barack obama made a lot of effort to backtrack his earlier comment that vladimir putin is one foot in the cold war in the past. and another foot in the present. he said that, yes, he's -- >> is that a mistake? >> i thought it was a mistake. i really thought that that comment was a mistake and it was a strange one to be put forward right before the meeting. but nonetheless, i don't think it affected much and the meeting wentwe and both le

international aairs at the news school her in new york and granddaughter of e late soviet premier niki a khrushchev. welcome tthe two ofyou. assessing with how thi summit nt this week beeen th prident and the russian leadersh there. nina, how do youthink it went? >> think it went very wel. there w a whole range of policy issues thatwo leaders agreed on. nd even the meetingith the prime minister, now prime minist vladimiputin and barack obama went well. i mean tere was no contest. >> lot of people were looking at that, right? that was the crucial meeting. >> i thought it was crucial meeting andt was very civi it was very cordial. barack obama made a lot of effort to backtrack his earlr comment thatladimir putin is one foot in the cold war in the past. and anotheroot in the present. he said that, yes, he's -- >> is that a mistake? >> i tught it was amistake. really thought tt that comment was aistake and it was atrange one to be put forward right before the meetin but notheless, i don'think it affected much and the meeting wentwe d both leaders we very coral. alough i don't think that they are ing to

. >>> and i'm comparing the russian meeting with president kennedy's first crack at khrushchev. kennedy came out shaking. we're coming back in two minutes. are you all right? a ferocious white whal wrecked my boat. ll, i'm sure we can helpou, captain... ahab. so you don't hav to pay a deductibl that means you saved $5 $500? i could t an electronic fish-finder. that's the spit. saving you money oat insurance. now at's progressive. mr. evans?his is janice from onstar. i have receivean automatic signal you've beein a front-end csh. doou need help? yeah. i'll contact emergency services and stay th you. you okay? yeah. onstarstanda for one year on 14 chevy mels. >>> all right. we're back with the dog pound. we're talking economy. we just heard martin hutchinson insist that this baby is not taking off yet and i'm looking for some pork for me, because i say, yes, it has. liz, the old obama apologist, you, you must join me and say the economy is turning around. >> not going to do it. listen, i think things are getting better, i certainly hope they continue to get better. but the jobless

recognize this scene of then vice president richard nixon standing alongside soviet premier nikita khrushchev at an american model house exhibition. the unscripted starring -- or sparring between these two leaders over the merits of communism versus capitalism came to be known as the great kitchen debate. how long has it been since this historic day? 50 years exactly, that cold war showdown. a half century ago. the first real political use of the tv medium happened on july 24th, 1959. it's the 50-year anniversary of the great kitchen debate. tonight's "big number." >>> up next, how big a political problem do republicans have with this so-called birthers movement, those wackos who insist president obama is not an american. we'll talk to one prominent conservative who thinks enough is enough. >>> and this weekend on "the chris matthews show," we'll be talking to our panel of top reporters about why former president bush refused to pardon scooter libby and what bush people think libby and cheney are hiding. welcome to the now network. currently, thousands of people are enjoying the new palm pre

nixon showing khrushchev.s in home maybe that capitalism thing does work. brian: they exiled him. the guy in the back ground whose eyebrows would eventually meet would take over. steve: indeed. alisyn: for the launch of the mono brow. thank you for that history lesson. brian: i owe you a favor. alisyn: president's key points in health care plan. do they actually hold water? peter johnson jr. who specializes in health care litigation is going to join us next to separate fact from fingz. brian: if you are packing on the pounds. take a look at what you are drinking. you won't believe how many calories and fat are in and how much fat are in some of the stuff you drink. we will pinpoint the biggest offenders. tell you what's good and what's not. - hi. - crowd: hi! i hate my phone. what do i do? ( shouting ) this is crazy. you. let's run a free upgrade check. see if you're due for a new smartphone. don't i need to go to my carrier's store for that? no, you don't have to. we sell phones and plans on all the major net

he went to moscow where khrushchev gave him the lenin prize. went to china and hung out with mao tse-tung. until recently a dubois's birthday was national holiday in china. when dubois died a few years after this, the longest personal greeting his widow shirley graham received was from cho en-lai himself. shortly thereafter the young president of the independent republican -- republic of ghana. who shared a platform with dubois in manchester, at the pan african congress inch 1945, all the young, african freedom fighters, kinyatta, incruma all revered dubois. father of pan africanism and father of anticolonialism. so he wrote to dubois in 1960 and he said, dr. dubois whatever happened to that encyclopedia "africana"? dubois responded and told him the same sad tale i told you. he wrote back and said move to ghana and he had it the encyclopedia on free african soil. in 1961, ladies and gentlemen, w.e.b. dubois at age of 93 did three things. he and cherylly graham joined american communist party. they renounced american citizenship and repatriated

a year later, khrushchev put nuclear weapons in cuba. to this day, our people don't know how close we came to nuclear war. in june of 1967, the egyptians were determined to erase israel from the face of the earth. they thought they'd have the help of syria and the soviets. the israelis knew it as we did. the israelis knocked the hell out of the egyptians, plus jordan. the soviets began to be concerned about what was going to happen to syria. the hotline had been in use three years. for the first time it was used, they sent a message to johnson and said, "if you want war, you'll get war." at the same time, we had the soviets and chinese supporting the north vietnamese. we totally misjudged the threat. we believed that vietnam, as eisenhower said in 1954, was a domino, and if the soviets and chinese controlled it, the rest of southeast asia would fall -- cambodia, laos, malaysia, thailand, indo-china, and maybe india -- and that the communist strength would be so increased that western europe would be in danger. now, that's what we thought

khrushchev predicted wrongly that the soviet union would overtake america in economic prosperity.he "time" magazine reported vice president nixon managed in a unique way to personify a national character proud of peaceful accomplishment. such as its way of life, confident of its power under threat. today, i pay tribute to president nixon for his diplomacy and years of service to the nation, including at the kitchen debate 50 years ago today. i yield back the balance of my time. the speaker pro tempore: for what purpose does the gentleman from texas rise? mr. poe: request permission to address the house for one minute. the speaker pro tempore: without objeion, so ordered. mr. poe: mr. speaker, american taxpayers spend millions of year screening people who board an airplane. we check i.d.'s, pes, pockets and computers and take off our shoes and check everything. the next attack on our country is not going to be because someone is flying in an airplane but because someone has access to our airports and airplanes who shouldn't. a wfaa in dallas reports that the san antonio facility hi

. -- jack kennedy coming out of his first meeting with khrushchev not looking strong.'s be honest, obama will have many years to deal putin. putin is really the one who calls the shots. president obama will be diplomatic and try to make friends with leaders. part of the narrative says that george bush did not do that. i would remind everybody that george bush says he looked at putin in the eyes and saw his soul, so this is not a new strategy, trying to make friends. the peace through strength. host: what does he have the due to appear strong? buff up? a handshake that look him in the eyes? some of the things here -- bringing down nuclear-weapons. guest: image does matter. gorbachev got out of his car in a big coat and another comes barreling down the steps -- so images do matter. but missile defenses key. it is dangerous that president obama has called on paris to reduce missile defense. it is purely defensive. -- has called on congress to reduce missile defense. i urge president obama to not give any ground there. host: what does he have to do to be successful in your

accompanied vice president nixon to moscow in 1959 for the historic meeting with premier nikita khrushchev. the next year he represented nixon in setting the terms for his debates with john kennedy. he was his press secretary in 1960 when he ran for governor of california in 1962. when he ran for the presidency again in 1968. he resigned in 1973, when year before the watergate scandal forced president nixon to st ep down. next is diane from laguna, california. good morning. caller: how can this economy get better, i think, is as soon as president obama gets more focused on fixing it. he is absolutely obsessed with this health care and his cap and trade. i think he has lost his desire to make the economy is priority. i think that was a way to get him elected. i think it is how he got elected, and i think he is now so obsessed he has this feeling that he wants to be president and walk away -- i do not think he cares if he gets reelected in four years. he wants to say that he passed this health care and his cap and trade -- and i voted for him, so you are aware of that -- and i am frightened

. -- jack kennedy coming out of his first meeting with khrushchev not looking strong.et's be honest, obama will have many years to deal putin. putin is really the one who calls the shots. president obama will be diplomic and try to make friends with leaders. part of the narrative says that george bush did not do that. i would remind everybody that george bush says he looked at putin in the eyes and saw his soul, so this is not a new strategy, trying to make friends. the peace through strength. host: what does he have the due to appear strong? buff up? a handshake that look him in the eyes? some of the things here -- bringing down nuclear-weapons. guest: image does matter. gorbachev got out of his car in a big coat and another comes barreling down the steps -- so images do matter. but missile defenses key. it is dangerous that president obama has called on paris to reduce missile defense. it is purely defensive. -- has called on congress to reduce missile defense. i urge president obama to not give any ground there. host: what does he have to do to be successful in your

carlson was a reporter for the washington post for many years and it tells the story of nikita khrushchev visited the united states in 1959i believe. when he came here and a time in the cold war at its peak and he was the quintessential russian and he came here and traveled the country and went out to iowa and then how the cornstalks war and when into hollywood and disneyland yen and he captured that moment in american history and told the story when i gather is enormous good humor and also history of a very tricky time so that is the first book and rating. the second book and good to read is chrism buckley, i think all those who follow this canvassing have heard a little bit about the book received one way or another as a famous line is what is said to his mother, he looked at her as she was about to take her last breath and she said, i forgive you. what i'm hoping is that my grandchildren don't say that to me when the time comes but when i read the excerpts of the book in the near times magazine i realized how truly revealing it is about the way ahead in which families of a certain time

peter was a reporter for "the washington post" for many years and he tells the story of nikita khrushchev's visit to the united states in 1959 i believe come up when he came here at a time of the cold war was that it be. he was the quintessential russian galumphed and he came here in the travel the country and he went out to i went and looked at how the corn stocks were and he went out to hollywood in went to disneyland. he captured that moment in american history in told the story with what i gather is enormous good humor. it is also a history of a very treating kinds of that is the first book i will be reading. >> the second book i'm going to read his chris buckley's luzhin bomb and pop. all of us to follow this kind of thing have heard a little bit about the book corsi net one way or another the now famous line what he said to his mother on her deathbed. he looked at her as he was about to take her last breath and he said i forgive you. what i'm hoping is my grandchildren don't say that to me when the time comes but when i read the excerpts of the buck in "the new york times" magazine i