mikhail gorbachev comes to power in march of 1985.f course, he not only institutes glasnost and perestroika but begins a series of meetings with president ronald reagan. so mikhail gorbachev ascension to power is unexpected and reform is unexpected and matched by level of interest by ronald reagan. george h.w. bush in contrast is much more skeptical of gorbachev. his national security adviser always liked to point out that either gorbachev was a fraud on which the united states was a fraud or gorbachev was for real and he may have good intentions but kobe dispatched with a single bullet and the soviet union had the ability to destroy the united states. the bush team once it took office, once george h.w. bush became president, when i'm speaking of bush i'm speaking about george h.w. bush was much more cautious. one of my surprises is how much tension there was between the reagan team and bush team. political scientists who are not interested in this topic but work on presidential transitions used the reagan-bush transition as a particu

mikhail gorbachev introduced a certain amount of liberalization, which allowed people to hold her tests without being arrested. people in estonia, latvia, and lithuania seized the opportunity to set a joint world record, forming the longest human chain in history -- 600 kilometers of people holding hands. >> from above, it looked like a traffic jam, but on the ground, it was the largest demonstration in the history of the soviet union. august 23, 1989 -- never before had so many people turned out. some dressed up for the occasion. others came straight from work. they formed a human chain six hundred kilometers long across the three soviet baltic republics -- estonia, latvia, lithuania -- signaling the beginning of the end of the soviet union. a quarter of a century later, a quickstart is a stroke of luck -- a quick start is a stroke of luck for this vehicle. jonas had no second thoughts about taking his family to the original demonstration. their granddaughter was two years old when she joined the demonstrators. half the country was there, so nobody was left to babysit her. >> we saw li

so mikhail gorbachev's ascension to power is unexpected and his interest in reform is unexpected and ched by a level of interest by ronald reagan. george h.w. bush in contrast is much more skeptical of gorbachev. his national security adviser always liked to point out that either gorbachev was a fraud on which the u.s. should be on its guard, or gorbachev was for real and he may have good intentions but russia could be dispatched with a single bull eat and the soviet union had the ability to destroy the united states. the bush team once it took office, once george h.w. bush became president, when i'm speaking of bush i'm speaking about george h.w. bush was much more cautious. one of my surprises is how much tension there was between the reagan team and bush team. political scientists who are not interested in this topic but work on presidential transitions used the reagan-bush transition as a particularly vicious one. some scholars described it as bush fired everyone. in the internal sources i was surprised to see bushl+avómyr d saying mush for brains reagan e reaganites. all kind of

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mikhail gorbachev comes to power in march of 1985.f course, he not only institutes glasnost and perestroika but begins a series of meetings with president ronald reagan. so mikhail gorbachev ascension to power is unexpected and reform is unexpected and matched by level of interest by ronald reagan. george h.w. bush in contrast is much more skeptical of gorbachev. his national security adviser always liked to point out that either gorbachev was a fraud on which the united states was a fraud or gorbachev was for real and he may have good intentions but kobe dispatched with a single bullet and the soviet union had the ability to destroy the united states. the bush team once it took office, once george h.w. bush became president, when i'm speaking of bush i'm speaking about george h.w. bush was much more cautious. one of my surprises is how much tension there was between the reagan team and bush team. political scientists who are not interested in this topic but work on presidential transitions used the reagan-bush transition as a particu

least to the point in one nine hundred ninety where according to both former soviet president mikhail gorbachev and former u.s. ambassador to russia jack matlock as well as the classified documents of meetings between the former german so foreign minister and soviet foreign minister that there was a clear commitment made at that time in one thousand nine hundred during the german reunification process that need to would not expand eastward into europe in fact the quote was not a thumb's with further to the east and of course that has been broken time and time again over the past two and a half decades to the point where. we were needed with situating missile defense shield sites in poland and in romania the point guided missile destroyers to rota spain over the next two years as part of the nato missile shield and of course commentating with obama's announcement in june that a one billion dollars would be put towards a european security fund specifically to help poland and the eastern european nato allies this is just another part of that bigger picture that shows that nato is not committed to

arsenals on a regular basis to make sure the treaties weren't being violated one the clock back mikhail gorbachev and ronald reagan put pen to paper on that day in one thousand nine hundred seven that made so many headlines it's such a big news it marked the first time the two superpowers agreed to reduce their nuclear arsenals the landmark agreement paved the way for the removal of other types of weapons and ultimately helped bring about the end of the cold war as well . and if you'd like to see the full interview with russia's deputy defense minister you can sign the website stream if you want to check it out of r.t. dot com sixty minutes past eleven at night now but with more news from moscow after this short break. live. live. live . cross talk rules in effect that means you can jump in anytime you want to. live. there's the media leave us so we leave that maybe. i will see motions to cure. all your party physical. shoes that no one is asking with the guests that you deserve answers from it's all politics only the mark to live. their dog days ahead it seems to finland economists say the count

ukraine boils down to a february one thousand nine hundred ninety promise bade by james baker to mikhail gorbachev that note that nato would not expand one inch eastward if gorbachev assisted in the peaceful unification of ukraine the west broke that promise specifically bill clinton broke their promise every time nato expanded russia russia and went ballistic so to speak and but they were ignored so long as they were weak will finally in two thousand and eight ok i'm sorry or just using the pretext of shelling walter finish your point come on hello be fair guys finish your point walter all you use use using the pretext of shelling in georgia the russia invaded and shut lopped off pieces of georgia and essentially it was a smack across the face of the united states and nato saying you're not going to expand there to any further and the same thing as happened in ukraine when when the when the coup changed the government from a somewhat pro russian leader unocal which to the to the coup regime. this russia did exist made sure it secured its black sea fleet by. making allowing a referendum to take pl

to make sure that the treaties weren't being violated me maybe you'll recall it yourself when mikhail gorbachev and ronald reagan put pen to paper on that day back in one thousand nine hundred seventy it marked the first time the two superpowers agreed to reduce their nuclear arsenal the landmark agreement paved the way for the move of the types of weapons to and ultimately helped bring about the end of the cold war. and just a tip you off if you'd like to see the full interview with russia's stepper defense minister it's streaming on our website r.t. dot com thanks to choosing out international seventy minutes past ten in the evening they'll be back with more news after a short break. i was. in december. more likely to be raped in college than in the real world. i didn't think that to each other when they knew each other i thought it was a stranger on the bus this. girl complaining about the son of an alumni. millions of dollars from the school why listen to somebody who's going to lose money at the school of schools that make money based decisions are much more common than they would ever adm

the chronological sculptors from july 1991 that starts with president george bush and mikhail gorbachevand that goes all the way to december. and so i have written the beginning and then i came back and so for one semester on the 21st we decided there was no soviet union anymore. so when i came to the university of alberta we had a foreign crisis and at that time i was working and i thought, come on, i can't do that. and so coming from the soviet union i changed my view on that and so i decided, okay, i will teach more about the foreign crisis, but they knew nothing about economics and so let's teach about democracy in moscow. so what i know and my perspective is very different. this is about national identity and who is interested in nation and the republic and so i prevailed by the time the course was disintegrated. not exactly because of the drive for democracy. and so when i revisited literature on the soviet union it was three years ago and i still wasn't satisfied with that. there was little in terms of the perspective of the experience that i have and it was a very important part

. >> a few weeks later in mid-may, the situation intensified when soviet premier mikhail gorbachev heads to china. for the first sino-soviet meeting in years. >> remains a world turned upside down tonight. he was an advocate in his home country. his visit gave them an opportunity to go to the streets and express themselves in a way they had not before. >> they knew they had the world watching them. >> and this also enraged the chinese authorities who are used to stage managing every photo op. and suddenly they had no control. >> after gorbachev leaves and the protests continue, chinese authorities change their tactics. >> the chinese communist party cracked down, and they declared martial law. >> despite repeated warnings from the government, the protesters refused to leave tiananmen square. everyone expects the government to act, but few predict what actually happens next. >> on the night of june 3rd, the square was filled with people milling around. we started getting rumors the army was starting to shoot its way into the center of downtown beijing. >> all of sudden we hear this noise.

-russian relationship is much worse now than it's been since really at any time since mikhail gorbachev came to power in 1985. i think part of it is personality. i think president clinton, president yell tin had a good relationship and president bush and president putin did for a period of time. president obama had a pretty good relationship with president medvedev. but the problem has been since putin has come back to power, russia has taken actions like giving edward snowden asylum that have really made -- caused a great deterioration in relations. so it's worse now than it has been really since any time since before 1985. >> all right. angela, thanks so much for joining us today. we so appreciate your insights. >> thank you. >> we'll be watching that meeting tuesday. angela stent. >>> even more dangerous than al qaeda was before 9/11. that is what defense secretary chuck hagel is saying about isis today. so how does the u.s. and allies stop them? our panel will start there, as we're looking ahead on "sunday morning futures." when a pro at any 2014 pga tour event sinks a hole-in-one,

finally willing to take a risks on a man in his 50s, and that man of course turned out to be mikhail gorbachevhile, and he institutes glasnost and perestroika, but he also begins meeting with president reagan. his interest in reform is unexpected, matched by a somewhat unexpected level of witness by reagan. george h.w. bush is much more skeptical. brent scowcroft always liked to point out that either gorbachev was a fraud, or gorbachev was for real, and he may really have good intentions but he could be dispatched with a single bull and the soviet union still could is it destroy the -- once george h.w. bush -- was much more cautious, and one of the biggest surprises in my research was just how much tension there was between the reagan team and bush team. political scientists who word d. used the reagan/bush transition as an example of a particularly vicious one. some have -- -- i was very surprised to see bush documents that referred to mush for brain reagan-its all kinds of phrases saying that it's good that grownups are back in charge. the practice offage summits with gorbachev comes to an e

. >> he understood the pressures on mikhail gorbachev, both culturally, from members of his party andhe communist party, and that he had to work as president of the united states to allow these changes to take place in a way that did not make gorbachev feel like he was losing. and i think that's one of the great talents and arts that george bush displayed as president of the united states. >> both sides committed themselves instead to achieving a strong effective treaty. >> democracy had prevailed. nato had prevailed. the united states' values had prevailed. this was a time when any normal average person would have gloated and said we did it, we're number one, we're this, we're that. but president bush did not do that. >> i remember at the time recalling something that churchill wrote. he wrote it becoming prime minister, he felt at the moment he became prime minister that all his life had been a preparation for that moment. i think as the soviet union trembled on the brink of collapsing, george bush's experience, george bush's background, george bush's nature, george bush's instinct

. >> yeah, i mean, the guy's name was like, mikhail gorbachev or something, you know, it would be a hellwn. >> reporter: at least there is a middle name, lee. so now, after some basic detective work, brennan's theory takes a big leap from speculation to certainty. >> well, what i did was i took that information, i went back to the hotel registry, and lo and behold, what do i find out, that there was a michael lee jones jr. that did stay at the airport regency hotel. and -- >> reporter: that's a pretty big moment. >> yeah, well -- that's an ah-ha moment where you say, hey, i was on the right track. i got the right guy. they notated on his card that he did work for center plate. the mike jones that i was looking for was the same mike jones that was in miami at the miami boat. okay? that i know. now, i just got to find out, where the hell is he? >> reporter: brennan's gut instincts have been on a true winning streak, so he figures, why not roll the dice once more? michael jones doesn't work for center plate anymore, but brennan is willing to gamble he hasn't switched careers. >> i said, the

night and previous hours on the telephone with margaret thatcher, helmet kohl and especially mikhail gorbachev pleaded with him not to do anything because the great concern was this excitement in the crowd would get out of hand. that violence would ensue. that no one could control this incredible change that no one had foreseen. each of them had in the back of their minds a singular example of celebration going too far and being turned into violence by those who had thought it had gone too far which was, of course, tiananmen square which had happened only months before. time and again, president bush and his staff said to themselves and approached changes in eastern europe by suggesting, let us not go too far in celebrating those who are democratizing from the streets up. let's not celebrate those reformers because those reformers have enemies and those reformers, i.e., those in control of the communist state have tanks and have guns. and we can see what can happen when they get pushed too far. and ultimately the great fear of the administration t