>> this was the show of mikhail gorbachev's show and tell day. r eric honn eker had a military parade through the heart of east berlin preached reform and offered a gorbachev proverb. those being late, he said, will be punished by life itself. >> gorbachev felt he could put a happy face on socialism, that he could modify it. but the freedom genie got out of the bottle and couldn't get it back in. >> the time has run out for honecker. ed the leader of east germany retined today. the official reason given was poor health. >> the people have their government on the run. today, in the bid to convince people that he's serious about reform, the east german leader, who has had the job for less than a month, managed to convince all of the members of the government he inherited they should resign. the question is this, what next? >> the pressure on the east german government was getting enormous. and as part of the kind of package to present themselves as human, there had been a resolution passed which is going to introduce new rules about immigration. he

called castro a symbol for an entire era of modern history, and former president of the ussr, mikhail gorbachevo as an outstanding politician, outstanding person, and our friend. now russian president vladimir putin said castro is a strong and wise man who always looked in the future with confidence. and mexico's enrique nieto called castro a friend of mexico. further afield, south african president zuma credited castro with helping to defeat apartheid. of course, it was cuban soldiers who dealt south african troops a major defeat during fighting in angola during the late 1980s. the cuban government has declared nine days of mourning, as you mentioned. castro will be cremated today. his ashes will be interred at a cemetery in santiago de cuba next week. back to you. >> and matt, it's not just the world leaders that have been reacting to the news of castro's death. as we saw in little havana, we see people who have left dhaub are celebrating in the streets. have you heard any word of that happening? >> reporter: well, yes. that's the most poignant reaction. but it's certainly a time of reflectio

whether it is correspondence from pravda or mikhail gorbachev, if i could just get him alone in a room i think i could convince him. >> reagan's secret thought was his charm and sweetness. the press corps needs to know, could charm anybody. clinton. >> clinton responded, reading parts of it, and and the one valuable, the only valuable thing in the can of starr report. and list all the books, the study back in the oval office, among the books, first in its class, annotated notes by dc and hrc. i can only imagine what those were. fast-forward two years, clinton hasn't talked to me for two years. for a lot of different reasons. we never meet until the association of newspaper editors have their annual convention in washington where the president speaks. and bill clinton had just fallen off the front stairs in florida. he comes in, gives his speech and to work the rope line which he has to do, he has to come by me for the first time in two years which i'm completely tongue-tied, had so many questions i wanted to ask and bill clinton always said the right thing to say. congratulations on yo

whether it was the correspondent or mikhail gorbachev, boy, if i could just get them alone in a room, i think i could convince them. [laughter] >> well, you know, reagan's secret sauce was his charm and his sweetness. and people, i mean, the press corps used to melt right at his feet too. he could charm anybody. all right. who is next? clinton. [laughter] >> there's so many, but -- [laughter] when my book came out, clinton responded by reading parts of it to his taffe, the parts that were -- staff, the parts that were inof courseous -- innocuous to, and denying the other half existed. to me, the only valuable thing in the kenneth starr report on the lewinsky scandal is an addendum where it lists all of the books in that study behind the oval office. and among the books it says is "first in his class" with annotated notes by b.c. and h.r.c.. [laughter] so i can only imagine what those notes were. fast forward two years, and clinton hasn't talked to me for two years after the book came out for a lot of different reasons. and we never meet until the association of newspaper editors has t

the former leader of the soviet union, mikhail gorbachev said two weeks ago that this is the most dangerousman history for the development of nuclear war. so i will not sleep well if donald trump is in the white house. but we shouldn't fool ourselves into thinking that all is well if hillary clinton is in the white house. i will sleep us knowing that we have a strong movement for a rational foreign policy based on international law and human rights. maria: if it's clear you're not going to win, will you tell your supporters to vote trump? >> no, absolutely. trump is a total wild card. we have to build a movement. under richard nixon who was one of the most repressive presidents ever, we accomplish all kinds of things. we brought the troops home from the town. go forward with its rights to choose and we got that from a conservative supreme court. we got the clean air act and the clean water act and worker protection. we did that because we were an active and very assertive political movement at the time. that's what we need. that's what you get by voting green in this election. we actually b