mr. gorbachev, open this gate. [ cheers and applause ] mr. gorbachev, tear down this wall. >> shep: president ronald reagan not only helped end the cold war, but he also had a sense of humor. >> one of these stories, the one i'm going to tell you, i told to general secretary gorbachev and he laughed. [ laughter ] the story was an american and a russian arguing about their two countries and the american said, look, in my country, i can walk into the oval office. i can pound the president's desk and say, mr. president, i don't like the way you're running our country. and a russian said, i can do that. the american says, you can? he says, yes. i can go into the kremlin, to the general secretary's office, pound his desk and say, mr. general secretary, i don't like the way president reagan's running his country. [ laughter ] >> shep: when doctors diagnosed president reagan with alzheimer's, he wrote a letter to the nation with the help of his wife, nancy. it reads: my fellow americans, i have recently been told that i'm one of the americans who wil

mr. gorbachev, open this gate. [ cheers and applause ] mr. gorbachev, tear down this wall. >> shep: president ronald reagan not only helped end the cold war, but he also had a sense of humor. >> one of these stories, the one i'm going to tell you, i told to general secretary gorbachev and he laughed. [ laughter ] the story was an american and a russian arguing about their two countries and the american said, look, in my country, i can walk into the oval office. i can pound the president's desk and say, mr. president, i don't like the way you're running our country. and a russian said, i can do that. the american says, you can? he says, yes. i can go into the kremlin, to the general secretary's office, pound his desk and say, mr. general secretary, i don't like the way president reagan's running his country. [ laughter ] >> shep: when doctors diagnosed president reagan with alzheimer's, he wrote a letter to the nation with the help of his wife, nancy. it reads: my fellow americans, i have recently been told that i'm one of the americans who wil

mr. gorbachev, tear down this glacier. now listen, is there an album, because you know albums sell great with songs associated with movies. is there an album of like, of like whaling songs that go with this. >> do you happen to know of any good whale songs. >> stephen: oh, who ray and here ray and up she rises up she rises early in the morning. you sing that you get that, throw a little-- on it or something like that, mary j. blige. >> what if we did like a stephen colbert, you know, sing songs for the whales cd. >> stephen: well, the movie going to be a huge success. >> thank you. >> stephen: drew barrymore, big miracle in the theatres captioning sponsored by comedy central captioned by media access group at wgbh access.wgbh.org now, robot, kick 'em in the knees. bears have weak knees. and you should vibrate, 'cause the robot's full of radiation. yeah, that's it. frank. how many bears did i say you could have? one.

mr. gorbachev tear down this glacier. now listen, at bulls sell great, associated with movies, is there an album of whaling songs. >> dow happen to know of any good whale songs. >> stephen: hugh ray and up she rises, early in the morning ♪ ♪ you sing that, you get that, you throw a little-- on it or something like that. >> i mean-- . >> jon: mary j. blige. >> what if we did like a steve be colbert, you know, sings songs for the whales cd. >> stephen: well, the movie is going to be a huge success. >> thank you. >> stephen: drew barrymore, big miracle, in the theatres next friday. we'll be rig we want to protect the house. right. but... home security systems can be really expensive. so to save money, we actually just adopted a rescue panther. i think i'm goin-... shhh! we find that we don't need to sleep that much. there's an easier way to save. geico. fifteen minutes could save you fifteen percent or more. >> stephen: that's it for the report, everybody. the report, everybody. good night. charlie: thank you so much for tak

mr. gorbachev tear down this glacier. now listen, at bulls sell great, associated with movies, is there an album of whaling songs. >> dow happen to know of any good whale songs. >> stephen: hugh ray and up she rises, early in the morning ♪ ♪ you sing that, you get that, you throw a little-- on it or something like that. >> i mean-- . >> jon: mary j. blige. >> what if we did like a steve be colbert, you know, sings songs for the whales cd. >> stephen: well, the movie is going to be a huge success. >> thank you. >> stephen: drew barrymore, big miracle, in the theatres next friday. we'll be right

mrs. gorbachev? i'm sure you remember those stories. >> yes, i do. yes, i do. i guess because when -- well, it was a big -- this was the first time that there had been a meeting between us and soviet union. but then when they got -- when we got over there and meetings started, the press didn't have anything -- they couldn't get into the meetings, couldn't talk to my husband or gorbachev. so they concentrated and reza and me, more than i thought was necessary, really. it wasn't really vital as to what i had on or what she had on. you know, there were very important decisions being made there. >> when you look back at these days when you were in that white house for eight years, what are the positive moments you remember? what kind of days were the most fun days for you? >> well, when you're in the white house, there's so many highs and lows. it's -- you really can't pick. the lowest day was when ronnie was shot. that's an easy one. it because there were so many highs, and there were so many lows. >> did you get tired? >> sure.

mr. gorbachev, tear down this wall. shortly thereafter the wall did in fact come down and what ronald reagan said of course. but we all cheered that internationally, getting rid of that symbol as we are building something that is not just the same kind of thing but it looks so similar to what i remember. a great difference. you have in east germany this attempt by the government are the most part successful in keeping its citizens from leaving and here we are trying to keep the mexicans and others from coming north. but let me read from the book, "calexico" true lies of the borderlands, and give you a sense for how that felt to me as i was walking along the border, checking out that wall. i followed the wall on the road for a couple of miles and it turned into first-rate but i got back to town. in places, the wall was okay to, a harsh blind spot making it impossible to see activity on the mexican side. it's more sophisticated components leave feeling spaces between upright posts that are spaced tightly enough together t

mr. gorbachev tear down this wall. they tried to talk him out of saying it. it fell two years later. sometimes clear language can be right. i believe in the case, some of us have been saying for a very long time, this is a much harder problem than we have been willing to talk about. i said as early as december of 2003 when there was republican administration that we had gone off the cliff in iraq, that we were trying to do things that we couldn't accomplish and faced with enormous problems. >> to bring the issue back to the debt ceiling. last august there was budget act deal and we raised the debt ceiling to $16.4 trillion. it was expected that would take us through the year 2013. thousand the budget, now it appears the bipartisan policy center we could hit the ceiling before the end of the year. that is very grim report. how do we get out of this problem? >> well, if obama is president you probably don't. he will deliberately bide his time, wait until the last minute. he'll anouns nouns our choices is default or give in. what the republican house is start this week and start reformi

mr. gorbachev tear down this wall.eah, that kind of moment where people see it, feel it, want to be a part of it. that hasn't clicked for romney yet. and hopefully going into -- after the wind he gets in the sails here going into super tuesday, he'll find that voice like hillary clinton found her voice in new hampshire and begin to speak in a way that allows him to pull that base closer to him. that they then become an army for him going into tampa and then into the fall. >> that was my question coming off that point to you, joe, is at one point we know the party doesn't love mitt romney. >> right. >> large factions of them dislike mitt romney. at what point do they say this is the guy we have? this is our candidate. we really, really, really don't want president obama on for four more years. >> i think it's going to happen a lot faster than we think. i've got serious concerns with mitt romney. i'm really, really scared he'll be another george w. bush, big-spending statist republican. that said, you know, if people lik

president of afghanistan it was rather strange when the mr karzai during this interview quoted unwittingly the former soviet president gorbachev referring to afghanistan as the moving war in full display. correctness mr karzai was carefully spared. from their answers. to most important challenges facing afghanistan right now that is their rampant corruption. that is suffocating the country. and. our growth. leading factors there could precipitate the implosion then a stand from within that was r t contributor currently of herself you can catch more of his analysis in our blog section at r.t. dot com also right there for you now are all mine explosive reflections from iraq party asks people on tough ronna how they feel about their country's controversial nuclear program and hears from students who volunteer to do atomic research. also anonymous strikes again as happy divison bring down several u.s. government websites and the latest sap to protest against online censorship. is it. down the official ante up location your i phone on pod touch from the dumpster. video on demand. old girls. and r.s.s. feeds now in the palm of your.

the president of afghanistan it was rather strange when mr karzai during this interview quoted unwittingly the former soviet president gorbachev referring to afghanistan as the bleeding wound in full display of poetical correctness mr karzai was careful this spared from answering two most important challenges facing afghanistan right now that is there rampant corruption. that is suffocating the country. and the narco aggression there. too leading factors there could precipitate the implosion of ghana's stand from within. russia and china came under international fire when they refused to take sides in syria's conflict and vetoed a u.n. security council resolution it's just the most recent example of the two standing largely on their own when i was resident in new york went to ask people in the big apple whether the two countries should be feared. if you believe the news media you should fear china and russia this week let's talk about why if they wanted to china could wipe out the us in probably three minutes but anyone with an atomic bomb could true so why china in particular. chinese people are very dangerous why are they wh

president of afghanistan it was rather strange when the mr karzai during this interview quoted unwittingly the former soviet president gorbachev referring to afghanistan as the leading war in full display of poetical correctness mr karzai was carefully spared from answering two most important challenges facing afghanistan right now that is there rampant corruption. that is suffocating the country. and the narco aggression there. too leading factors there who precipitated the implosion of ghana's stan from within and later the moscow out team takes you on a trip to live the life of the rich and famous in the russian capital. the scene is here in the russian capital with dozens of galleries opening up every year and contemporary art especially being explored and developed more than ever before with you and it is the laws on taking pieces out of the country this allows various collectors or international to take full advantage of the growing industry and such a creative and profitable market is any. my friend is going to love it here. russia and china have come under heavy criticism after their veto of a u.n. security council res

the president of afghanistan it was rather strange when mr karzai during this interview quoted unwittingly the former soviet president gorbachev referring to afghanistan as the leading war in full display of correctness mr karzai was carefully spared from answering to most important challenges facing afghanistan right now that is there rampant corruption. that is suffocating the country. and. aggression. leading factors there could precipitate the implosion of ghana's stand from within. healthy shoppers who think they're buying organic food from russia supermarket shelves may need to think again with fake standards for labeling products buyers often don't know what they're getting but farmers are making a change for the better paving the way for russia to become a provider of organic food for the rest of the world that was cover reports. to feast for the eyes but not necessarily for your stomach and many would be shocked to find out what exactly makes its way onto our plates. if only people knew what their sausage is made of or how their yogurt was bottled they would be very upset and would stop buying anything at all of the s

the president of afghanistan it was rather strange when mr karzai during this interview quoted unwittingly the former soviet president gorbachev referring to evgeny stand as the leading rule in full display of correctness mr karzai was careful the spared from answering two most important challenges facing afghanistan right now that is there rampant corruption. that is suffocating the country. and the narco aggression. leading factors there could precipitate the implosion of ghana's stand from within. and you are with our team little later we embark on a quest for eternal life with our special report. any match once. these. two. ever. eternals fark is going to think about what. do we old wants to see this on forever. russia and china have come under heavy criticism after their veto of a u.n. security council resolution on syria it's just the most recent example of the two standing largely on their own parties the resident asks people in the big apple why the two countries seem to be so feared and mistrusted. if you believe the news media you should fear china and russia this week let's talk about why if they wanted to china cou

mr. gingrich also deployed president raking on's 1985 meeting with mikhail gorbachev, and iceland.he said it was "the most dangerous summit for the west since adolf hitler met with met 1938." question, has newt gingrich overstated his role in the reagan administration? pat boone. >> first, that's an outrageous comment, where i was with ronald reagan right down there in lofty house. and -- and that the comment this compare this to munich was outrageous. gingrich's comment. but look, in the reagan white house, newt gingrich was considered quite frankly by a lot of folks to be something of a political opportunist and who was not trusted and who had played no role whatsoever. he was a rockefeller republican in the great goldwater battle, where conservativism came of age. i do think this, though. newt has been pounded managers leslie, had people he worked with basically turn on him and dump on him down there in florida, which somehow i think may have had some role in the fact that the great fighter and battler of south carolina had no fight in him whatsoever in the monday and thursday d