her lover, mark stern, was actually mark weinberger, an international fugitive, and he was apparently capable of anything. monica: first thing, ok, i go to the carabinieri, to the police. i know where he is. i'm sorry, mark, but-- you need to tell the truth. exactly. buzz: i think that was a very tortuous decision, but i think at the end of the day, she felt she had an obligation. i give her a tremendous amount of credit. she did the right thing. rob stafford: it was inside this carabinieri station that monica specogna told police her lover, perhaps her first since becoming a woman, was a wanted man. was she crying? um, not exactly. but she was very, very scared. who really was this mark she knew? rob stafford: colonel di vita says soon after monica left the office, a local rental agent walked in, also complaining about a man named mark who hadn't paid his rent in three months. most important, the agency had a copy of mark weinberger's real passport. he left a copy of his real passport? colonel di vita: a copy of his real passport, yes. and he's a fugitive on the run? yes, you can't r

i'm so glad i have marked weinberg here. he can help me with a couple developments in the news. trade discussion. this is a movie playing out in real-time. first off on this trade thing, i was just discussing ronald reagan took it to the japanese for dumping computer chips on the market. were told later on he regretted that whole battle. the japanese saved but it soured relations for a while and he didn't like the way played out on the world stage. what you make of the way this is playing out. >> ultimately it didn't work but it did bother him. relations were very important to him. it wasn't always about the substance. sometimes it was about the style. alliances were important and friendships were important. communicating in a positive friendly way made a difference to him. he thought you could get more business done that way than being a bully. >> the argument has been since we tried the nice guy routine with the chinese and some of the other countries that take advantage and to little avail. here's the president heading off to montana espousing this top view of the world that

mark weinberg is with me, expert on russia relationship, you have 20 seconds to tell me whether you thinkin won or trump won? >> putin won, trump missed opportunity to call him out, he dodged every opportunity to do it and he missed a chance he won't get again. stuart: quickly, walid phares, same question, did putin win or did trump win, that press conference? >> very difficult to answer. i was ready to talk about international and suddenly the whole moment became about russia meddling and, of course, the consequence. one thing i retained is that offer made by president putin, i don't know how it will impact. stuart: ashley, you were watching with me, your comment. ashley: we know putin is great kgb and outmaneuvered our president. i thought mr. trump was going to push hard. this was his opportunity to get into the face of vladimir putin and say, why did you interfere or try to interfere -- liz: he didn't do that. instead the president said putin made a strong and powerful denial. again, . the president did not -- stuart: tried to. liz: they tried to affect -- liz: broke into state electo

. >> mark, you know, one of the back stories here -- i think it is alluded to, more than alluded to in your book -- is the role that ronald reagan, casper weinbergerd we not end up through that decade basically outspending them and them trying to keep up with us, spending themselves into oblivion? >> something like 70% of what the soviets spent throughout this period was on defense and in trying to keep up with the united states, and certainly they had more troops and more tanks, but the u.s. had a qualitative edge in technology that essentially kept the russians ten years behind where the u.s. was. there is some debate among historians about how much u.s. spending actually pressured the soviet union into collapse. bye-bye the time th bye-bye -- but by the time there was a soviet leader willing to talk to wrr aronald reagan and e time ronald reagan understood what the soviet fears were, there was a match ready to be made. i think that's one lesson that if the current president is inclined to learn lessons -- >> no -- perhaps y >> perhaps he can take from ronald reagan. as you know, ronald reagan read a lot throughout his entire history. probably r