on his inaugural visit to moscow eggen krantz met with mikhail gorbachev who assured the new east german leader that the soviet union remained its stalwart friend and supporter. a to the digital into the mikhail gorbachev spoke about his first telephone conversation with a gun krentz he affirmed that the relations between the two countries had always focused on the desire to move forward together. at the uk but that this betrayal deeply touched the hearts of all ordinary russians this is never happened before. or the russia whether we call it democratic or liberal. russia trade the germans and yes it was a trail. i knew pretty heavily shia. but here that. we gave the german democratic republic the right to freely determine. we did not negotiate the safety of the people who had always been our loyal allies . and that was criminal. case coming can. beno conrad's remain seated. minister. shall we implement the plan for a day x. . this is not you. i have to think. in those comrades these are the soviet union will no longer protect us and that's the situation that. and what we do now. because

slowed significantly after the end of the cold war when mikhail gorbachev became the leader of the soviet union recently there's been a lot of talk about north korea and their nuclear missile program and now with president russian president putin who gave a recent state of the nation speech where he discussed cruise missiles that could reach anywhere in the world it raises the question of what's going on and for. boom bust perspective on business and finance how much money is being spent on these sorts of things and which companies are profiting from the development of star wars type systems and here to discuss is probably the best person around in the world a former pentagon official michael maloof michael thank you so much for being with us let's time travel you were at the department of defense then when i was out talking about nuclear arms awareness week and things and it was a sort of an unnerving time but take our viewers who don't recall back to what was going on and then which were the companies that were involved in this strategic defense initiative at the time well it was at the

the seeds of which had been planted by the soviet union's last premier, mikhail gorbachev. - [sachs] almost everybody was facing extreme uncertainty and alarm at a collapsed economy, empty shelves, high inflation and tremendous political turmoil. - then under the advice and guidance of western economists, western business leaders and western politicians russian started to implement what has been known as shock therapy reform. (mournful music) - [news reader] a chicken costs nearly two weeks' pay. only those with hard currency are assured of getting something. - [narrator] tens of thousands of state-owned enterprises had to be privatized, reshaping the entire russian economy. - [buchanan] it was seen as really something like the period of the 1870s, 80s and 90s in the united states with robber barons doing exceedingly well, and the people not doing well, and their standard of living falling. - [polyakova] each state enterprise was assigned a certain number of vouchers and then people can buy them up. those who had the connections, who had some money already, not your average russian c

president ronald reagan held a series of meetings with soviet leader mikhail gorbachev their efforts to scale back the arms race between the two countries eventually led to the end of the cold war finally if this meeting happens donald trump would become the first u.s. president to meet with a north korean leader while in office his change of heart is in part thanks to south korea this is the man doing the running between p.r. myaing and washington d.c. and he's finally reached a major milestone. by poor president president thought that you know meeting north korean leader kim jong un he is committed to to do provide. him pledged to north korea really good frame from any for the nuclear or this or tests that he thrust his eagerness to meet the president from that phone as possible it is a sentiment shared by the u.s. president who confirmed that a meeting is being planned. the historic breakthrough comes after south korean negotiators held talks in pyongyang on monday it was here they learned that denuclearization was on the menu. far from giving up their bombs in recent years north

slowed significantly after the end of the cold war when mikhail gorbachev became the leader of the soviet union recently there's been a lot of talk about north korea and their nuclear missile program and now with president russian president putin who gave a recent state of the nation speech where he discussed cruise missiles that could reach anywhere in the world it raises the question of what's going on and from a boom bust perspective on business and finance how much money is being spent on these sorts of things and which companies are profiting from the development of star wars type systems and here to discuss it probably the best person around in the world a former pentagon official michael maloof michael thank you so much for being with us let's time travel you were at the department of defense then when i was out talking about nuclear arms awareness week and things and it was a sort of an on. nerving time but take our viewers who don't recall back to what was going on and then which were the companies that were involved in this strategic defense initiative at the time well it was at

now the soviet leader mikhail gorbachev was extremely concerned about nato expanding the borders. he asked president bush not to do this. he saw the political risk within russia of this undermining the democratic forces that he had unleashed. president bill clinton had logical directions he could have gone. one was the direction advocated by george kennan who is now well into his 90s and still commenting. he said don't even think of expanding nato. this is what we fought for to get to this point. let us see if we can support the forces in russia and reach an accommodation understanding. the other logical position is the republican position that basically says we need to protect our new allies in central andon eastern europe. age 93, 97 says it will be the most fateful error in the entire post-cold war era that will inflame anti-western dictatorships. to restore the atmosphere of the cold war to the relations and foreign o power. top state department officials said this was nonsense and the united states could have its cake and eat it too and we could provide withouts alienating ru

the new president and communist party leader mikhail gorbachev was an acting reforms to popular acclaim also among many ordinary east germans. the east german regime including arish milka in general secretary eric whitacre oppose these reforms they had already witnessed many changes over the years and plan to simply wait out gorbachev's reforms for them political transparency glasnost and perestroika could only herald the beginning of the end the end of socialism the soviet intelligence service the k.g.b. agreed. didn't listen he refused to listen to anyone he was sick sick with narcissism if you will meet zero for the first time ever the k.g.b. was sidelined it continued to function but no one was interested in what it had to say to this or had his own vision his own view of the world those of us in the k.g.b. in russia we always panic whenever gorbachev announced a new initiative of the money will be. they were always poorly thought through absolutely populist and also very dangerous. to deal with it but. tired i want to go back to myself. you're not tired mr. i realize you're very an

misunderstanding of the amnesty bill was the start of the shadow of the cold war.ad he wasn't going to hand mikhail gorbachev a 500,000 evicted americans, illegals or whatever you want to call them. manyny of them have fled communm in nicaragua and cuba and also walsobeheaded with we had a whiff of policy where we accepted the communist immigration countries who are looking for political asylum in the united states. so i go through this all the time as a g misunderstanding on the immigration that is much moree sophisticated than you heard previously. .. >> when you're talking about a george wallace or pat buchanan, the way that newt gingrich helped to talk the fire politics so deeply. but i was actually referring to was the final speech that ragging gave want you to imagine donald trump's anything remotely like the is a god bless him teeming with people of all kin kinds, living in harmony peace. the city with reports that hunt with commerce and creativity and if there had to be walls the walls had doors and the doors were open to anybody with the will and the heart to get here. that is how i saw ten see it s

bush discuss the relationships between president reagan and mikhail gorbachev as well as the relationship between george h.w. bush and mr. gorbachev. this is about 1:15. >> we have a great panel. so phillip zelikow is going to chair the panel. i think everybody knows phillip and he's written a terrific book on the end of the cold war the bri principal author of the 9/11 commission report and he's writing a book on decisions for war in ways that illuminate old crises and old decisions like going to war in 1898 or wilson going to war, reassessing these decisions so we're looking forward to phillip's next book. at the same time he's doing about a dozen other things none of us can keep track of and sometimes we don't know about. so phillip. thank you. >> thank you. i'm sorry to say we need to wait for james wilson to show up and so he's probably out there somewhere having a good conversation. if we can send the search party out. >> the state department is always late to the table. [ laughter ] >> one of the messages of this. >> so far it's been a great panel. [ laughter ] >> it's rather intim

walking away, yes, that is what ronald reagan did in reykjavik 30 years ago in mikhail gorbachev.had a great agreement, then don't develop anti-miss sell defense systems. yeah, we're not close to it anyway, give it away. reagan said no. he walked away. everyone criticized him. he was right and we won the cold war. when you go in as obama discovered don't say red line unless you mean it. trish: yeah. >> have you thought through step by step like a chess game. what if they do that, what if they do this. i imagine we can make some progress. trish: this is the way he is negotiating his entire life we have to prepared for he have route come. >> people feel backed into a corner or can't publicly say look like they're backing down. then you are going to force them to do what neither of you want them to do. so if you given them a face-saving, face is very big especially in asia. if you give them a way they can say, we got what we wanted or we got something so it doesn't look like they were forced to back down. melissa: yeah. >> the chinese are very sensitive. what the europeans did to the

getting the first nuclear disarmament agreement of the cold war had it not been for reagan and mikhail gorbachevlding a personal relationship and talking and reagan talking with other russian leaders, such as -- during those years. i think we have got to also give the president a kind of wide latitude here because he is just going to talk. and begin to lay the groundwork for the negotiations that will follow. >> yeah, but reagan never did it without george schultz and wineberger. tils said yesterday he didn't think we ought to have negotiations. the president contradicted him. that's what i worry about. what kind of message are we sending? it's not unified. >> jason: i think it's a positive step forward. i thank you both for your expertise on this topic. thank you for joining us tonight: we have update out of california. coming out of our los angeles bureau. there has been a hostage situation we have been reporting on fox news and we have will carr who is in our los angeles bureau to give us an update. >> and, jason, we have just learned from our correspondent adam housley from two different mem

ronald reagan did that in 1985 when he met with mikhail gorbachev in reykjavik.rocess of preparation is now what's most important here. >> i was having this conversation with my team yesterday about how the word "sanctions" sometimes is hollow. it just becomes, you know, a placeholder like insurgence was a few years ago. in relaying this to the viewer, the listener, sometimes they don't really get what that is. can you detail for us which sanctions now are hurting which parties that would get kim to this, this position where just several months ago, not too many months ago, he was saying he would never give up and is having a conversation about denuclearization and accepting the u.s.-south korea military exercises? >> as many people know, we've been imposing sanctions on north korea for a while. the trump administration has stepped up that effort, and it's hitting key sectors of north korea's economy. and that has to hurt. but the point here is i've been talking to north koreans since november, twea2016, after presi trump was elected. beginning then, they basical

forcefully evicting illegals, guests, whatever you want to call them, at a time when he's lecturing mikhail gorbachev on the virtues of freedom and democracy. that's number one. number two is that many of these refugees, not all, but many had fled communism in nicaragua and cuba, and also we had a wet foot policy where we accepted communist, emigres from communist countries looking for political asylum in the united states. to say that reagan -- i go through this all theok time, ths misunderstandingn of reagan on immigration. it's much more sophisticated than youit herald previously. laugh. >> ivi think that's your cue, charlie. >> i wasn't sure what question you asked him, but i think it had something to do with civility -- [laughter] and when,n, perhaps, we -- [inaudible conversations] to engage in that. i, at some point maybe we'll talk about the role that newt gingrich played in all of that, because as you go back, and i also have gone back historically and what were those, what were those moments, what was the recessive gene in conservativism that popped out in donald trump, you know? whether yo