mr. gorbachev teardown this question mark. >> economy? >> mr. this wall. >> i dunno. >> the berlin wall. ♪ >> i have no idea who he is. >> can i give you an idea acquired. >> jimmy carter. >> he was a former. >> chickens. >> corn?wh vegetables? >> pena former -- peanut farmer. ♪ jfk. >> excellent what is his middle name? >> franklin. >> franklin. >> joe. >> jackie. >> that was his wife and. >> ♪ >> he said ask not what you -- what your country can do for you ask what you can do for your countryç. >> what do you do for your country? quick. >> by w paid taxes when i buy my soda. >> oh my god. >> i am completely blank. >> harry? cemetery potter. [laughter] >> key dropped the bomb. >> nevada. >> japan. >> nagasaki hiroshima. >> correct. ♪ twe >> coming up the tweets of the week. don't go anywhere. i'm only in my 60's. i've got a nice long life ahead. big plans. so when i found out medicare doesn't pay all my medical expenses, i looked at my options. then i got a medicare supplement insurance plan. [ male announcer ] if you're eligible for medicare,

mr. gorbachev, tear down this ... >> tear down this ... >> economy? >> mr. hev, tear down this wall. jesse: what were they talking about? >> i don't know. >> the berlin wall. >> i have no idea who he is. jesse: i wish i didn't know either. jesse: can i give you have a hint? >> jimmy. >> jimmy carter. jesse: he was a farm early before he became president, do you know what he farmed? >> corn? wheat? vegetables? >> receive was a peanut farmer, right? >> i know him. jesse: who is this? >> john f. kennedy. jesse: what does the "f" stand for? >> franklin. >> franklin? >> fitzgerald. >> remember the supermodel he dated. >> jackie. jesse: that was his wife. >> marilyn monroe ♪ happy birthday mr. president jesse: he had a famous saying ask not what your country can do for you have ... >> ask what you can do for your country >> ask not what your country can do for you, ask what you can do for your country jesse: what do you do for your country? >> i pay taxes when i buy. oh, my god. >> what's the white plans name >> i'm completely blank on this one. jesse: harry >> har

mr. gorbachev, tear down this wall. >> they met in reykjavik, in iceland, they met in geneva, that was the side of ronald reagan that i appreciate enormously and deeply. and only he could have done that. only he as an arch capitalist could have done that and met with gorbachev. >> y & r i was surprised to learn started out as a three month stint for you. how do you take three months and turn it into almost 40 years? >> most important thing is the change of story lines. and there was a moment when my wife nikki on the show, played beautifully by her all these years, asked me about my background. this mysterious character who's ruthless and a billionaire, and she didn't know anything about him. so bill bell came up with a story line that made me stay. he -- i then explained it to my wife, that i had been left on the doorsteps of an orphanage at the age of seven. once i played that scene, i said, i'm staying, it opened up -- i've been playing nothing but bad guys, bored to tears with it, russian bad guys, german bad guys, every bad guy imaginable. and this opened a whole array of possibilitie

mr. gorbachev, was hard for you to leave we would come as far as we have from the days when people were card-carrying communists? rep. michel: when i think back on the transformation of so many things during my tenure here in congress, is just amazing. what television has dumped the whole political scheme of things --our country it was in its in our country. it was in its infancy when i first came here. the explosion of that element into our political life. with respect to the soviets, they were perceived as the ungodly enemy. i don't know whether or not in those days we were well enough informed or gifted to proceed how this whole thing might unfold as it has. i was fortunate enough to go to the soviet union in 1957 and i have been there three times since in an official capacity. i was one of the first to sit , and -- withbitol gorbachev, and to see the evolution of leadership in the soviet union since 3-4 years ago. -- there have been a lot of changes. military vehicles distinguish from civilian. time i would return, you saw the military being diminished invisible proportions as distinguished from

mr. gorbachev, was it hard for you to believe it would come as far as we had when people were commies?rd-carrying rep. michel: when i think that on therep. michel: transformation of so many things during my tenure in congress, just amazing. it's amazing what television has done to the whole political scheme of things in our country. atwas just in its infancy the time i was here in washington 40 years ago, and the impact and the explosion of that element into my political life. with respect to the soviets, they were perceived really as the ungodly enemy. know that whether or not in those days we were well enough informed or gifted to perceive how this whole thing might unfold as it has. i was fortunate to go to the soviet union the first time in 1957. not in an official sort of way, but with a group of is this man from home -- businessmen from home. i have been there three times since in an official capacity. o'neill and i were the first to sit down with gorbachev. of thethe transformation style of leadership in the soviet union versus 30 or 40 years ago, there have been an awful lot of

mr. gorbachev, tear down this wall. the wall came down. nuclear detente, prosperity. in 1988, his right hand was a george bush. we respect the bushes. we respect george bush. there was a shift. there was a shift that was absolutely stunning. after being the right hand of ronald reagan for eight years and seeing the bold choices and moves that he made, much like what we have seen from donald trump. the establishment on the left and the right have attacked donald trump. what is george bush's slogan in 1988? no, that was '92. kinder, he said a gentler nation. a kinder, gentler nation. right after he saw what ronald reagan did. now george bush is a good man. put was the globalist flag in the ground. that was the beginning of it all. after reagan we have had bush, obama --bush ii, [boos] we needed a force of nature to take the ship back. as donald campaign, trump over and over again. ran, we thought he could win. another good man. here he is. he is doing a debate. do you remember the second debate? i am an actor and i'm sitting at home. i see that debate. this, talkinge ab

mr. gorbachev, if you don't tear down this [ bleep ] wall, i'm going to lose my [ bleep ]." [ laughter andlause ] of course, it was trump himself who spent the entire press conference whining about perceived grievances and slights and pushing false claims with zero basis in reality. just to give you an idea how all over the place this press conference was, at one point trump made this bizarre claim about the drug problem. >> drugs are becoming cheaper than candy bars. [ light laughter ] >> seth: i think i know what happened here. donald, that's not the price, that's the name. trump then claims, claimed amazingly his former national security advisor michael flynn, who trump fired, did nothing wrong when he secretly discussed sanctions with the russian ambassador. in fact, trump even said that if flynn had not contacted the russian ambassador, trump would have ordered him to do it himself. >> i don't think he did anything wrong. it certainly would have been okay with me if he did it. i would have directed him to do it, if i thought he wasn't doing it. >> seth: he did something i would have t

mr. gorbachev, tear down this wall.sident said, i don't want to touch medicare, social security. those are benefits i think people earned and deserve. i want them on the books. is this still a small government republican party? >> i think president trump is sort of of two minds on this stuff. republican party loves to talk about entitlements and fixing them but never do. they have that in common with the democrats. they never do. trump has stayed away from that. but on the other hand, i don't think he is a big government guy because he is a tax cutter and a deregulator, and he has a budget plan which will come out soon that purports to put about $10 trillion outside -- out of the budget in the next ten years. that's a very big number. he wants to get rid of a lot of agencies. he is a frugal business guy. i think the entitlement thing is not necessarily definitional. i think your point on trade is more interesting. i think in general trump is, you know, more a populist guy. populists can be conservatives. the biggest spl

mr. gorbachev, tear down that wall. donald trump just said about putin, i don't know putin, i have no dealings in russia. obama can make a deal with iran, number one in terror, no problem. do you see these two as parallels? >> i think the deal with iran was a bad deal, very bad deal. that's why i opposed it. when you have the largest state sponsor of terrorism, you're allowing them even if they follow the deal to get the nuclear weapons, that was a terrible deal and everyone understands that. >> can you explain why our president seems certain to shelter russia and vladimir putin from criticism? >> i'm not for sheltering russia. i'm more than willing to criticize russia and mr. putin but i don't think it's wrong to engage as long as you can criticize when it's appropriate and as long as you can stand up to him which i think this stlags. >> you have no questions why our president seems to be sheltering putin and russia? >> that's your terms. >> you don't see it that way? >> i don't agree with what he said but i think it's

mr gorbachev, open this gate. berlin ist frei. berlin is free.seness —— fifa biba and wall i've been speaking tojens spahn — the deputy finance minister — i've been speaking tojens spahn the deputy finance minister — a rising star in angela merkel‘s ruling cdu party. potentially a future rival. i asked him if he agreed with european council president donald tusk that the european project is now in real danger. the united states has a specific change of order. after world war ii, the united states were like parents, some kind of, for europe and the european, but that might change. i think it shows we have to grow up. we have to defend ourselves. get more independent. talk about a defence union regarding foreign security policy. it might be a chance to unite europe. donald trump talks about fairness. he doesn't like one—sided relationships, and germany has a huge surplus with the united states. are you worried he's going to come after you? we have to talk about it. be very frank. when it comes to our surplus, we need to be frank. i want to be clear

mr. gorbachev tear down this wall when bill o'riley asked mr. trump about it. >> in 24 hours on the phone of the russian leader, the pro-russian forces step up the violence in ukraine. >> yeah. >> did you take that as an insult? >> no, i didn't because we don't really know exactly what that is. they're pro forces. we don't know are they uncontrollable, are they uncontrolled. that happens also. we're going to find out. i would be surprised but we'll see. >> cnn's phil black has been on the front lines and joins us live from eastern ukraine. phil, tell us what you're seeing. >> jake, at the front line ukrainian controlled town, it's really the focus of the recent escalation, we heard and saw constant bombardment through the afternoon. artillery fire flying in both directions. now, today both sides seem to say that they suffered relatively few military casualties. no losses on the ukrainian side, only two fighters killed on the pro-russian separatist side f. true, then those losses are relatively light given the intensity of what we were seeing. cr

mr. gorbachev, of course. that's not there's a constructive myth in this country, no it was reagan. stephen colbert said to you in one segment. you put the evidence out there. people will make of it what they will. our job is to partly popularize it, publish it on the web, get it adopted at a book. for the paper back they are splitting it into two volumes. >> i want to briefly, in russia, still, the public and cthe elit believe that the united states worked la worked hard and long to bring down the -- how do you brief evidence to say look, they tried to keep it together as much as they could. >> another question. >> okay. in the back there. >> gary, i work for u.s. a. id. i was in desert storm, and germany. i went from germany to desert storm. how much did afghanistan weigh on gorbachev's mind-set and the soviet union in general? >> emens burden. when gorbachev comes to power on list of priority is item number one, bring back the troops. by president time he came to power it was clear to the p pregorbachev leadership they were not going to win the war. throughout the first years esp

mr. gorbachev, tear down this wall. >> reporter: reagan left office after eight years as a historic successterviewed him in his final week in august, ronald reagan had surprised just about everyone. >> did you begin to think you made it as a lucky star hovering over ronald reagan that luck will be part of your life in some fashion? >> whether i call it luck or answered prayers, i realized that i was very blessed. >> well, there's a long list of possibilities -- >> i have covered 24 conventions. >> we will have to wait and see. if donald trump captured the party he will change the gop. >> in 2004, i first interviewed an illinois state senator named barack obama. >> i think that the biggest issue is restoring a sense of hope and possibility among voters. >> election nights are my favorite. >> lets go back to the 2000 election. there's a lot to talk about that one. but what strikes in your mind? >> in 2000, tim russert and i were like brothers. we were morning, noon and night political junkies. we could finish each other's sentences. that night of course was the wackiest night i've ever been o

mr. gorbachev and the soviet union and the president laid out the agenda to take advantage of the opportunities remember clearly editorials almost daily in the "new york times" and the "washington post" attacking the president for not aggressively addressing this opportunity. what the president was doing was laying the ground work with phone calls and background contacts and preparation and obviously everyone knows how amazingly successful george herbert walker bush was in guiding the collapse of the soviet union, the unification of germany and really the breakup of the communist world. >> bill: that answer suggests there was a lot of diplomacy involved. as you can compare and contrast that to what's happening with iran from last week, with north korea from over the weekend, the tweet from the president, i want everybody to under established and know the united states of america stands behind japan its great ally 100%. what is the challenge with north korea, let's start there. >> i think north korea is really a challenge with the chinese and the russians. i think the chinese clearly have the gr

mr. gorbachev and i both agree on the desirability of freer and more extensive personal contact between thees. >> we began to realize that the best way to get a message to a foreign leader was to have the president go in the rose garden and make a statement. because everybody was watching cnn. >> cnn was a breakthrough. it changed the whole world. >> it changed quickly. the network news business. that business that we weren't the only ones. and it was hard. it's hard to be on the top little perch and have to come down off it. >> a special segment tonight, the network news. the first in a two-part series on the profound changes taking place in television news. changes being brought about by business, competition and technology. >> there were a variety of reasons why people who worked at the broadcast networks were freaked out in 1980s. one of them was cnn. and the rise of cable. another was being taken over by foreign entities in corporate america. >> new owners spend billions buying the networks recently, and all of them want their money's worth. >> people began to find out that news could

gorbachev usineil gorsuch. gorsuch made the comments with two senators in a meeting. all this while appellate lawyers delivering a letter complaining about mrtrump. the author of the letter, lawyers across the political spectrum believe the attacks on individual judges and on the judicial branch are improper and destructive. judges face ethical constraints in the ability to respond directly. the letter calls on the president to retract personal attacks. >> the president has been firing off tweets pressuring judges or criticizing them. the opinion of the so-called judge which essentially takes law enforcement away from the country is ridiculous and will be overturned. a decision on whether that judge crossed the line when he halted the president's executive order could come as early as today. we get more from jeff zeleny at the white house. >> reporter: the president delivering a sharp tone against judges. questioned if politics was involved in their decision. >> i don't want to call a court biassed. we haven't had a decision yet. but courts seem to be so political. it would be so great for our justice system if they would be able to read a

mr. espaillat: thank you. back in 1988, then-president ronald reagan issued one of his most famous speeches, tear down this wall, as he addressed then-soviet leader gorbachev to insist he open the barrier dividing west and east berlin. it was perhaps one of the most exciting times as we watched to see finally the cold war would end. it was a moment it was a moment of hope and strength and character that propeled our country to a higher standard throughout the global community. today, in stark contrast to that famous speech given by esident ronald reagan, president trump's orders the construction of a $25 billion wall that divides communities, separates families and perpetuates fear and hate and sets a dangerous president and fails to elevate our country and confidence abroad the way it was back when president reagan gave that famous speech. the economic ramifications will be devastating to the entire going as far north as new york city, because it's $25 billion that will be spent or more that will be spent on building this wall that could otherwise go to ther meritorious projects. this executive action also secures insecures communities, a program that hel