. >> mikael gorbachev told a summit that the talks had failed because of the united states. >> had nothing -- >> the president didn't watch gorbachev speak, but the reaction of advisers was to portray the summit as anything but a failure. >> believe me, the significance of that meeting is not that we didn't sign agreements in the end, the significance was that we got as close as we did. >> a great many people are still trying to figure out what it was that mr. reagan and mr. gorbachev almost agreed to. the reagan administration has not done a great deal to clear up the confusion. >> why are you hiding him? show yourself. >> president reagan today gave yet another version of what he says he said and understood about arms patrol proposals made at the iceland summit. and it sounds like what gorbachev said. >> we're talking about arms reductions, possibly even the complete elimination of ballistic missiles from the face of the earth. >> imprecision language from ronald reagan is nothing new, and often it doesn't matter, but he is telling us that the agreements are nearer than ever before and i

back in the times when boris yeltsin came in following mikael gorbachev. a period of detente between us and the russians. not so good under mr. putin, owl though there are some changes going on there have to see how that plays out. but you cannot understand, russia, soviet heritage and legacy, one has to realize that mr. putin spent the first 41 years of his life under communism. the was ten years being trained by the kgb. so one lesson from the cold war is legacies matter, that ideology matters. you can't touch base with somebody like that without taking into account that he has spend most of his life under communism. >> host: here's the book "the brief history of the cold war." lee edwards and elizabeth edwards-spalding. this is booktv on c-span2. >> here's a look at some upcoming book fairs and festivals happening around the country... >>> book of the recently visit capitol hill to ask members of congress what they're reading this summer. >> right now i'm reading a book called "dream lean." this is a book about the history of opiates in our country. it'

global news 24 hours a day -- mikael gorbachev is among them. mark of them this is bloomberg.rd round of nafta negotiations will kickoff tomorrow. u.s. commerce secretary wilbur discussed the -- administration's focus on mexico ahead of those talks. >> the reason they have so many free trade agreements is that their basic tariffs structure is so high. much higher than ours. that is one of the issues that we have. have given away so much on a unilateral basis. take europe. charges 10% tariffs. we charge 2.5%. them towe going to get drop a 10% tariff just to get relief from 2.5%. our unilateral disarmament toually is an impediment making trade freer globally, because we do not have that much ability to trade down tariffs. >> when do you expect we will see a new deal? somewhere close to year end, for several reasons. the mexican presidential election, canadian provincial elections, midterm elections here, and our promotion expires in july. the nature of congress these days, we don't know if that will be renewed. as we move into 2018, it will become progressively more difficult to