>> this was the show of mikhail gorbachev's show and tell day. ich honecker in a military parade through the heart of east berlin. he preached reform and offered a gorbachev proverb. those being late, he said, will be punished by life itself. >> gorbachev felt like he could put a happy face on socialism, that he could modify it. but the freedom genie got out of the bottle, and he couldn't put it back in. >> overseas, time has finally run out for erich honecker, the 77-year-old leader of east germany. he resigned today. the official reason given was poor health, but growing political unrest made today's change inevitable. >> 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

next on american history tv, we take you to 1988 when president ronald reagan and soviet leader mikhail gorbachev delivered new year's day messages. the two had signed a treaty. president reagan addressed the soviet people from the white house and general secretary gorbachev addressed the american people from the kremlin. this is about ten minutes. >> good evening. this is ronald reagan, president of the united states. i'm speaking to you, the peoples of the soviet union, on the occasion of the new year. i know that in the soviet union, as it is all around the world, this is a season of hope and expectation, a time for family together, a time for prayer, a time to think about peace. that's true in america too. at this time of year, americans traveled across the country in their cars, by train, or by airplane, to be together with their families. many americans, of course, came to the united states from other countries, and at this time of year, they look forward to hosting friends and family from their homelands. most of us celebrate christmas or hanukkah and as part of those celebrations, we go t

gorbachev can accept. >> george bush understood he had a partner in mikhail gorbachev. gorbachev wanted to be neutral. bush always wanted a ianified germ and in 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 an 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 th

take you back to 1987 when president reagan visited west berlin and called on soviet president mikhail gorbachev to tear down the berlin wall. the next year the two leaders were talking and they delivered a new year's day message to the people of the other country and had the 1988 moscow summit that produced a treaty on reducing intermediate missiles. we'll show highlights. that's today on the special edition of american history tv while congress is on break. >>> taking a look at congress' work today with the house continues their discussion and work continuing on wednesday. the senate is back at 3:00 p.m. eastern to consider the nomination of brit grant to be a judge for the 11th circuit court, as he's a former clerk for brett kavanaugh. watch the house live on c-span and the senate on c-span2. and tonight american history tv continues in primetime with president ronald reagan and the cold war, including highlights of the president's 1987 trip to west berlin and his tear-down this wall speech. american history tv in primetime starts at 8:00 p.m. eastern. >>> this august on american history tv o

a happy new year to all of you. >>> president ronald reagan and soviet general secretary mikhail gorbachev met for the fourth time in 1988. it was president reagan's first trip to moscow. the leaders finalized the intermediate nuclear forces treaty that they signed in 1987 ratified by the u.s. senate a few days earlier. up next on "reel america," a complation of videos from the presidential reagan library. we'll see a walking tour of the two

. >>> president ronald reagan and soviet general secretary mikhail gorbachev met for the fourth time in 1988. it was president reagan's first trip to moscow. the leaders finalized the intermediate nuclear forces treaty that they signed in 1987 ratified by the u.s. senate a few days earlier. up next on "reel america," a complation of videos from the presidential reagan library. we'll see a walking tour of the two leaders and the remarks from the ceremony from the imf treaty. this is just you should under 3. [ cheers and applause ] [ band playing ] [ band playing ] [ speaking foreign language ] >> translator: esteemed president ronald reagan, esteemed first lady reagan. on behalf of the people in the government of the soviet union, i extend to you my sincere greetings on the occasion of your visit. welcome. it is now almost six months since our meeting in washington which went down in history as a major milestone in soviet american and in international relations. now on this return trip, you, mr. president, have traversed the great distance that lies between our two capitals to continu

. >> president ronald reagan and soviet general secretary mikhail gorbachev met for the fourth time in 1988. it was president reagan's first trip to moscow. the leaders finalized the treaty they had signed in december of 1987, which had been ratify bid t -- ratified by the u.s. senate a few days earlier. >>> up next on reel america, a compilation of videos. we'll see the arrival of president reagan and first lady nancy reagan, a walking tour of red square with the two leaders, and their remarks after a formal ceremony for the inf treaty. this is just under 30 minutes. ♪ ♪ [ speaking foreign language ] >> translator: esteemed mr. ronald reagan, president of the united states of america, esteemed mrs. nancy reagan. [ speaking foreign language ] >> translator: on behalf of the people and government of the soviet union, i extend to you my sincere greetings on the occasion of your visit. welcome. [ speaking foreign language ] >> translator: it is now almost six months since our meeting in washington, which went down in history as a major milestone in soviet-american and in international rel

with its new leader mikhail gorbachev in the middle of the one nine hundred eighty s. . perestroika meant restructuring towards liberalization and democratization it certainly had a positive impact on the international situation astonishing news from east germany by the east german authorities have said in essence of the berlin wall doesn't mean anything anymore. but inside the u.s.s.r. the weakening of kremlin control had different consequences. in ukraine a nationalistic political organization not owed needed for people's movement emerged in one nine hundred eighty nine due to this my openness. they advocated for independence of ukraine from the u.s.s.r. and became an incubator for leaders of ukraine in the nazis. in one thousand nine hundred one one of them new book founded svoboda an openly radical nationalist party preaching the good old principles of bondage era. if you. heard jew crane from the jews in russia ukraine for ukrainians and so on his statements got him fifth place in the simon visa and all center top ten anti semitic world leader rankings of two thousa

jong un is very different than any of his predecessors so i remember when ronald reagan and mikhail gorbachev sat down and the process for that and reagan was also a very strange and unusual president who thought he had a feeling for what was going on there russia better than the intelligence community did and this it turned out he did he turned out to be more successful in understanding gorbachev than the consensus you know among among the talking heads so i think that in the in the trouble case. there's a there's a v.c. here in the u.s. who says the problem with the press is that they take trump literally he and not seriously and that's just backwards you should take him seriously and not literally i know that trump likes to compare himself to reagan a lot and you obviously advised the president the reagan we can confidently say change the course of history for the better i had a chance to talk to many people the russian people here yesterday who had an experience of seeing reagan engage with gorbachev for example and many of them noted that he was a very very likable man regardless of what

but mikhail gorbachev and reaganea helped in 1985 and 87. but that summit is where they signed the intermediate range forces treaty marking the realization of president reagan impossible. >> this may give you difficulty but the max is do i trust but verify? >> they also met twice but that yeltsin got so drunk he was found outside the white house in his underwear trying to hail a cab. vladimir putin met with george w. bush 2001. >> i could get a sense of his h soul. >> even though the putin exchange was said to be frosty. shannon: thank you very much. our other top stories former fbi lawyer is refusing to appear for a capitol hill interview. her lawyers are accusing gop lawmakers to be bullies. we are following the new developments tonight. >> tonight the house judiciary oversight committees went out this letter says fbi lawyer lisa page to show up tomorrow with her former lover and colleague more face more legal trouble. >> it does appear. >> to be in complete defiance of cooperation with the reform committee over seven months and now before

i've been covering summits in the finnish capital since the cold war since president bush met mikhail gorbachev here as have plenty of other people here today and all of us agree we've never seen anything like this press conference before in one nine hundred ninety even when president bush wanted to kill gorbachev help on the iraq war you could never could have imagined a press conference where he walked in and said their interests converge as president trump did today with president putin i think we we will be discussing later in this show the most substantive thing that came out of that and that's the shock in washington at the things president trump said the way that he rejected his own intelligence and in fact embraced president putin's denial of any interference what the europeans would have liked to hear was barely on the agenda at all ukraine the iran nuclear deal crimea these things a very significant significance to europeans didn't even come up let's pick up that point and without a hundred phenomena in washington tell us about the reaction that it's under. well what we have seen so f

bush met with soviet leader mikhail gorbachev 28yes . and hello a from fox today ins, n finland.d mifiumrst in-depth meeting betwn the two leaders as they discuss trouble spots across the globe. but casting a t shadow over summit, the new indictment of russian intelligence officers for interfering i 2016 election. in a moment we will discuss expectationsor the talk with u.s. ambassador to russia, jon huntsman. and tomorrow, i will sit down vefor an exc interview with president putin on fox news channel andfi grst word on whathe two leaders discussed. but first, let's bring in chief white house correspondent john roberts here in helsinki. >> chris, good afternoon to you. if president trump is lowering expectations for what ome out of tomorrow's stin helsinki saying ittmi cum mightt but one thing is clear, these two leaders do havk an awful lot t about. >> presint trump is seeking to distance himself from the friday indictment of 12 russian agents were meddling in the 26 election. the president tweeting "these russian individuals did their work during the obama years. it why didn't

bush and mikhail gorbachev in 1990 and bill clinton and boris yeltsin in 1997. cbs this morning co-host norah o'donnell is leading our coverage of this historic summit and joins us now. norah? >> reporter: and good evening to you, demarco. president trump arrived here ahead of his russian counterpart who attended the final match of the world cup soccer tournament in moscow. well, now comes the superpower summit the world will be watching. president trump has no public appearances planed until tomorrow when he will have breakfast with the president of finland at the presidential residence here in helsinki. later in the day mr. trump will meet with putin at the presidential palace. now, before heading here from scotland this weekend president trump in an interview with cbs news tried to downplay expectations of any breakthroughs with putin president trump touched down in finland sunday just hours ahead of a high-stakes sit down with russian president vladimir putin. a top advisor tells cbs news the two leaders are expected to spend about 30 minute alone with just

to 1987 ronald reagan and mikhail gorbachev signing the intermediate range nuclear forces treaty that prevents both parties from possessing ballistic missiles with ranges between 300-3400 miles, both countries have accused the other of violating the treaty. george w. bush met with vladimir putin in slovenia, the two leaders agreeing to open cooperation toward common solutions but the invasion of iraq in 2003 with sour the relationship. next, pres. obama attempting to start a new chapter in 2010 by signing the new start treaty with dmitry medvedev and obama can't on an open mic discussing missile defense before his reelection. >> i had more flexibility. >> reporter: he stepped down in 2012 to let vladimir putin reclaim the job and accused the us of encouraging mass protests in moscow against his return to the presidency. now comes donald trump calling for a more productive relationship with russia since the campaign trail. dan sullivan highlighting why this administration could make it happen. >> rebuilding our military. this administration has given lethal weapons, the javelin antitan

the ussr had been transformed by mikhail gorbachev and his policy of openness known as glasnost. >> a happened very quickly. >> big mac is big mac. >> coca-cola, coca-cola. >> a romance with things western. >> freedom came fast, and it exposed the rot at the heart of soviet communism. across the soviet union hundreds of thousands of people began demanding democracy and national independence. it was once again what putin feared most. the people rising up. and finally the people won. >> tonight in moscow at the kremlin the red flag of the failed soviet union at last came down and the flag of russia rose. >> 300 years of history erased. >> soviet institutions like the kgb simply ceased to exist. >> vladimir putin views the break-up of the soviet union as he says himself to be the greatest geopolitical tragedy of the 20th century. >> it was a traumatic time, and it sparked a profound change in vladimir putin. he became a politician, deputy mayor in his hometown of st. petersburg. it was not a big job, but putin clearly had big dreams. he commissioned this rarely seen documentary about him

leaders in russia including this one with president reagan and soviet leader mikhail gorbachev and whats in washington reacting to robert mueller's indictment of 12 russians interfering in the 2016 election.

one of my favorite reagan moments was when he first got together with mikhail gorbachev.rmed gorbachev. it was clear. i have a picture of gorbachev looking up at reagan like kind of with awe and admiration. reagan was playing the role of his lifetime which was to be president of the united states. >> mr. gorbachev, tear down this wall. >> reagan's lasting image would be of strength, grit, and the conservative cool that would inspire future generations. >> he made it cool to be republican, which, you know, growing up was not the easiest thing in the world to be. so, yeah, he has a special place for a lot of us. >> like lee did before him, reagan changed the story of cool in his time. but the pendulum of leadership always swings back and forth. where will it come from next is anybody's guess. i've been making blades here at gillette for 20 years. there's a lot of innovation that goes into making america's #1 shave. precision machinery and high-quality materials from around the world. nobody else even comes close. now starting at $7.99. gillette. the best a man can get. afte

bush and mikhail gorbachev in 1990 and bill clinton and boris yeltsin in 1997. norah o'donnell is leading our coverage of this historic summit. she joins us now from the finnish capital. nor norah? >> and good evening to you, demarco. president trump arrived here ahead of his russian counterpart who attended the final match of the world soccer tournament in moscow. well, now comes the superpower summit the world will be watching. president trump will have breakfast with the president of finland at the presidential residence here in helsinki. later in the day, mr. trump will meet with putin at the presidential palace. now, before heading here from scotland this weekend, president trump in an interview with cbs news tried to downplay expectations of any breakthroughs with putin. president trump touched down in finland sunday just hours ahead of a high stakes sit-down with russian president vladimir putin. a top adviser tells cbs news the two leaders are expected to spend about 30 minutes alone with just translators before an expanded meeting with staff. mr. trump

david: i think back to ronald reagan and his dancing with mikhail gorbachev, that took months and years occasionally walking out of some. why should we expect anything less this time? >> i think the concern we have is we have to move in this right direction now. i believe the president does not want to pass this proper local his successors as it was passed to him. he wants to wrap this up by 2020. he wants them to be well on their way to complete denuclearization of nuclear weapons and missiles. he wants wants to know when he turns this thing over to his own administration for another four years that he completed the mission. that's the path he is on. it's not an unreasonable path. i think it's aspirational to get it done in a year. and i think that's where his mindset was. but i think a couple years is definitely possible. david: i'm wondering if you can quickly wrap what the intentions are with the summit between president trump and putin? >> i think from the president's point of view, establish a personal relationship that could lead to eventually improving on some of the fundamental

leaders in russia including this one with president reagan and soviet leader mikhail gorbachev and what was accomplished in 1985. >> lawmakers in washington reacting to robert mueller's indictment of 12 russians interfering in the 2016 election. >> thank you for joining us. welcome to "america's news hq" on sunday. elizabeth prann. leland: i am leland vittert very nice to be with you at home. president trump on his way to finland ahead of a summit with russian president vladimir putin and he says he has low expectations for the meeting. >> nothing bad is going to come out of it and maybe some good will come out of it. i'm not going with high expectations. i don't really -- i can't tell you it's going to happen. >> john roberts live. chief white house correspondent we always have high expectations for your reporting. what are your sources saying? >> well, i would hate to burst your bubble swelled to the best i can. the president lowering expectations for the summit, also lorraine expect patience for the coverage will receive if we put some pictures of the president leaving there in scotl

mikhail gorbachev and ronald reagan held some of 1985 and '87 but the '87 summit in washington is where they signed the intermediate-range nuclear forces treaty. marking the realization of president reagan's impossible vision. watch. >> though my pronunciation may give you difficulty, the maximum is [speaking russian] trust but verify. >> boris yeltsin and bill clinton met twice and developed a genuine rapport. clinton later revealed that yeltsin got so drunk he was found outside the white house in his underwear trying to hail a cab. during his first term as russian president, vladimir putin met with george w. bush in 2001. watch. >> i found them to be very straightforward and trustworthy. we had a very good dialogue. i was able to get a sense of his soul. >> president obama met with both dmitry medvedev and m putin, though the putin exchange was had to be "frosty." >> shannon: trace gallagher, thank you very much. our the top story, for taylor lisa page is defying a congressional subpoena by refusing to appear for a capitol hill interview. her lawyer is accusing g.o.p. house lawmakers

one day he would call the soviet empire the evil empire and tell mikhail gorbachev to tear down the wallfter that, he's got him over to his house having hot dogs. and john f. kennedy -- at the height of the missile crisis on the brink of warfare. you've got to look at it from a historical perspective too. >> i welcome the history. we love history on the beat. ronald reagan did not take their word for it. he said trust by verify. he never went in public and undercut the intelligence agencies at any point, let alone 21 times, let alone on a world stage with the foreign leader in that case, different russian leaders, and this comes on a night, and i want to play for your reaction, on a night when we're getting new sound of donald trump in a new interview saying that he's not comfortable calling vladimir putin dishonest about any of this stuff when, again, our intelligent agencies and our doj have said the meddling occurred, which does make putin dishonest given what he's claiming in the chris wallace interview. for the benefit of your response, let's take a listen to this new sound from pre

soviet leader mikhail gorbachev was extremely concerned about nato expanding to russia's borders. he pressed president bush not to do this. he saw the political risk within russia of this perhaps undermining the new democratic forces that he had unleashed. president bill clinton had jew macs logical direction in which he could've gone. one was the direction advocated by george cannon who is now well into his 90s and still commenting. he said don't even think of expanding nato. this is what we fought the cold war for, to get to this point. let us see if we can support the democratic forces in russia and reach an accommodation, and understanding about what sovereignty and independence means in central and eastern europe. the other logical position was the republican position which my call the dole gingrich position a binding the contract with ama which basically said george can is speaking nonsense that russia will always be russia, we need to protect our new democratic allies in central and eastern europe. bill clinton being bill clinton chose a third option. which was to expand na

next on american history tv, we take you to 1988 when president ronald reagan and soviet leader mikhail gorbachevo had signed a treaty. president reagan addressed the soviet people from the white house and general secretary gorbachev addressed the american people from the kremlin. this is about ten minutes.

. >> the 1986 summit, ronald reagan and mikhail gorbachev, very low expect atioations, butt happened.> they made a deal to eliminate all nuclear weapons on both sides. but reagan really wanted his star wars strategic defense initiative, gorbachev insisted as part of the deal he had to get rid of the whole idea. reagan balked and said i won't do it, and it ended with no deal at all. but it laid the foundation for conversations that continued after that, for something called the inf. the missile defense system or treaty that came out of that, which we still have today. it's a contentious issue. we're probably going to have conversations tomorrow between trump and putin about inf. but it was very successful. >> it was a significant, historic moment. you know, michelle, it was pretty surprising today, some would say shocking when the president was asked about the u.s. foes right now, and he started off by not talking about russia or china or north korea. but listen to this. he said this, we don't have the clip. but i say i think we have a lot of foes. i think the european union is a foe.

. - i had in mind to send a secret emissary to mikhail gorbachev after the election with a comprehensivend the colwar-- serious arms reductions, opening up trade, citizen exchanges, a whole range of things. i had gotten to know gorbachev. i think i was among the first to say, "this isn't your garden variety communist leader." if he had agreed to that, i was going to invite him to the inaugural, january of '89, and then that day, sign all thesegreements ended the cold war. - i mean, this guy had really thought hard about and what he was gonna do. - the first goal of our competitive trade policy is to give americans more opportunity and control over their economic future. in short, economic empowerment. - the assumption about him in the late 1980s ishe's the leader of the boomer generation, right, the boomers are making inroads in every part of the culture, but in politics, they're stilut out. hart's the first guyle to reach that pinn the first guy who's gonna be the boomer who's assumed to be able to win the predency. - because we are going to select not only a leader, we're going to sele

american history tv, we look back 40 years to 1988 when president ronald reagan and soviet leader mikhail gorbachevve new year's day messages. the two leaders had signed the inf treaty to eliminate intermediate nuclear missiles. present reagan addressed the >>> there's a broadway musical about the shooting of alexander hamilton who was shot by the sitting vice president. that is pretty dramatic. we have had terrible times, political times. there was one brawl in 1868 before the civil war that had 80 members rolling around on the floor fighting one another. one of the members had a quip, he pulled his wig off during the fight. someone else yelled that he scalped him. that was enough levity to stop the fight. >> congressional historians richard baker, donald ritchie and ray find, sunday night at eight eastern on c-span's q&a. >>> up next on american history tv, we take you to

far better than ronald reagan's first summit with mikhail gorbachev.h: i would like to hear some good news right now, sir, because from what i saw, i did not like that our president wasn't defending us and in honoring his intelligence community. so you walk me through this why was it so good in your view. >> sure. so let's go to the objective facts, one, two, three, four, five. we went into this with the russians actually supporting north korea. we came out with them pledging to support the united states and trump in denuclearization of north korea. we got a pledge for a joint u.s.-russian business council which can push forward a lot of that cooperation. we got a pledge for a working group on cybersecurity. we got a promise to allow mueller's team to come over and actually participate in the interview with those that we'd like extradited. we got an agreement on u.s.-russian cultural exchange and we also got agreement to a greater cooperation or continued cooperation on military side in sir is i can't, understanding that we will support israel. on the

happened see to president trump, i go back to a child of the '80s when presidentrump stood up to mikhail gorbachev and stood up to russia. here is an opportunity where tha president had chance and didn't take america's side. is that how you see it? >> yes he was given a chance to the world stage to say russia interfered in our election and it's intolerable andll the s not happen again. he didn't. he sided with hputin. blamed the u.s. >> he asked questions, whato you hold russia accountable for. right away he wenthiack to ary clinton and the election. he continued to criticizes americans and our intelligence. >> what does that do to fox news. he looked like a guy who just had a very satisfying lunch. he was smiling, relaxed,jovial. the foreign minister said it was better supper this meeting. what does that do forss ? >> it emboldens russia to do iat he's doing for a long time, try toluence other countries. we only saw the press conference. we didn't see his performance in th meeting one-on-one. for two hours what did president trump talk to mr. putin i have no idea. i'm certainly concerned about wh

happened with president trump, i go back to a child of the '80s when president trump stood up to mikhail gorbachev and stood up to russia. here was an opportunity where the president was given that chance and didn't take america's side. is that how you see it? >> yes, he was given a chance to the world stage to say russia interfered in our election and to say it's intolerable and the shall not happen again. he didn't. he sided with mr. putin. >> he also blamed the u.s. >> he asked questions, what do you hold russia accountable for? right away, he pivoted back to hillary clinton and the election. he continued to criticizes americans and our intelligence community. i mean, that's outrageous. >> what does do to vladimir putin? he looked like a guy who just had a very satisfying lunch. he was smiling, he was relaxed, jovial. the foreign minister said it was better super this meeting. what does that do for russia? >> well, i think it just emboldens russia to do what he's doing for a long time, try to influence other countries. we have only seen the press conference. we didn't see mr. trump's performanc

even ronald reagan, in a joint press conference with, gorbachev, remember that, mikhail gorbachev, talked about in very firm tones how the russians wanted to go one way on this administration's space defense initiative and how he politely but firmly insisted he wanted to go the other. he then gave the ground and the discussion back to gorbachev who was a little taken aback, a little bit stunned. reminded that this president wasn't going to even politely take a lie from the guy next to him. that was then. it is not now. ♪ do these moves look familiar? then you might have a condition called dry mouth. biotène is clinically proven to soothe and moisturize a dry mouth. plus, it freshens breath. biotène. immediate and long lasting dry mouth symptom relief. has your best interests in mind? well if you don't, you're not alone. but me tell ya', for the past couple of years i've had the great pleasure of catching up with dozens of people 50 and over who are actually customers of the aarp auto and home insurance program from the hartford. and i've gotta tell you, if there's one thing i've heard tim