george bush understood he had a partner in shaping the post-war world, and that partner was mikhail gorbachevgorbachev wanted to be neutral. bush always wanted a unified germany and a very disciplined manner, moved gorbachev towards that position. >> in a major concession, gorbachev agreed to the western position that a unified germany is free to join nato. >> once you solved the german problem, you removed the basic source of tension between the two the superpowers in the cold war. >> this is the big photo opportunity, the important picture that president bush came all this way to get at this moment, gorbachev chooses to give president bush his present. the present was a soviet cartoonist' depiction of two presidents as boxers having just knocked out the cold war with the world as referee. >> george bush and brent scowcroft, his national security adviser liked to fish together and one summer, they were fishing and they were thinking about what kind of world would emerge after all the dominos had fallen. it's very rare that the world is so fluid and flexible that world leaders can think this

he wanted mikhail gorbachev wanted to get a deal that would be good for mikhail gorbachev. that humility comes from within the individual and something we should search for within leaders, exactly opposite what we chose last 20 years or so. >> host: karen in hayesville, north carolina. good morning. >> caller: i used to be a democrat. i voted for barack obama twice. and i think that barack obama has done so much damage to this country.y. he has turned the democratic party into an anti-white people party. especially, anti-white christian people party. i think we're seeing the results, the fruits of his labor to turn this country against white people. >> host: how would you respond to that? >> guest: well i understand that sentiment. but i, i have a differentt perspective. i spent a lot of time looking at these issues, karen, i heard a lot of people like you, i hear a lot of that in texas. i'm not white myself. many people think i'm white. . . and i agree barack obama did not do enough to address thek a issues of inequality, problems of education access, the problems of peopl

we wanted a couple of minutes. >> a great honor. >> except that was not the real mikhail gorbachev. nstead, it was a renowned gorbachev impersonator. donald trump had been duped. the following day, he did get to meet the real gorbachev at a state dinner. that was 1988. but two years earlier, things were not as friendly. >> today it was the soviet's turn once again. they kicked out of moscow five american diplomats, their retaliation for the 55 soviet diplomats who are expelled from the united states yesterday. they also withdrew more than 250 soviet citizens who helped run the american embassy in moscow. drivers, maids, and so on. >> reporter: in moscow, not one of the embassy's 260 soviet employees showed up for work today. diplomats began doing the maintenance jobs, which will now take up much of their time. >> how about a hammer? >> volunteers staffed the embassy snack bar, the only place in moscow to get a hamburger or a pizza. >> in addition to expelling five u.s. diplomats, the soviets declared were spies, gorbachev banned locals from working at the u.s. embassy in retaliation.

about any investigation of the shooting of the pope, and john paul ii said no, let it go. 1989, mikhail gorbachev was visiting the vatican. by the way, why did he go to russia? it was not gorbachev's fault. the russian orthodox church did not want john paul ii to come to russia. but things are over and things are getting better. a cia stationas chief. he also wrote a book about this in the early 1980's, as did clay sterling. he said john paul ii said, if i come out publicly and say that the soviets did this, they will just deny it. they launch a disinformation campaign. he didn't want world war iii to be started over him. what was done was done. he survived. time to move on. this is a guy who is an eternal window of a 2000-year church. he's thinking eternity. he doesn't care whether or not this gets reported by open the "washington post" in 1985. all right, let me finish that up. 1989, the collapse of communism. ronald reagan no longer president. spring of 1989, he was meeting in his century city office with four poles. one had brought in members of the polish solidarity movement. they were getti

but it's threatened in the same way that a republican president ronald reagan together with mikhail gorbachev threatened it if you like by bringing in the intermediate range nuclear weapons treaty at the end which effectively ended the cold war that very treaty and. i haven't seen this in the newspapers at all that very treaty is wiped out in these latest sanctions that ends the last treaty but might stop. a nuclear attack on logic a gradual build and reluctantly i just get them to i mean we know the drazen may had no hesitation in saying she'd press a button globe it was a loft of a note it's in this context that you read this news that. we have to go to the pacific fleet says publicly that he would be prepared to destroy the whole of china using the table is to say that publicly in in such in such a threatening to food b.s. atmosphere in the world. it it it shows the degree of irresponsibility if a nuclear war breaks out it will almost certainly break out by mistake or accident i can think for a moment but even some of the lunatics that have gone along with this is you legislation that is g

it is a quote from mikhail gorbachev. the cold was, gorbachev came to the united states and he went to fulton, missouri, and there are in the anniversary of churchill's famous address in 1946, said that an iron curtain was falling across europe, gorbachev, three years after the fall of that berlin wall, declared that the end of to hold war was a victory for common sense, reason, democracy. the united nations should create structures which are authorized to impose sanctions to make use of other means of compulsion when the rights of minority groups are being violated. he went on to underscore the universality of human rights, the acceptability of international interference wherever human rights are violated. today democracy must prove it can exist not only against the antithesis of totalitarianism. this means this group from the national to the international arena. on today's alleged agenda is not just a union of democratic state but also a democratically organized global community. it's an extraordinary statement. well, s

responded to a hard line coup in the soviet union that threatened to p tole the soviet union mikhail gorbachev cold war. when it was over bush got on the telephone with gorbachev and told him he was glad he was still alive. >> it was a good call. gorbachev is still in the crima. he will return either tonight or toe tonight or tomorrow to moscow. he tells me things are you should control. >> bush had come to the white house with two decades of experience in national security and here it showed. without a president with that kind of experience and judgment, there's a very good chance that the cold war would never have ended at the time it did and on terms that americans had long dreamt about. electric light orchestra ] ♪ sailin' away on the crest of a wave, it's like magic ♪ ♪ rollin' and ridin' and slippin' and slidin' ♪ ♪ it's magic introducing the all new volkswagen tiguan. ♪ higher and higher, baby the new king of the concrete jungle. when this guy got a flat tire in the middle of the night, so he got home safe. yeah, my dad says our insurance doesn't have that. what?! you can leave worry be