now let's go past the reykjavik meeting. february of 1987, gorbachev is facing a the politburo and is telling them we have got to come to terms because these missiles are pointed it right at our heads. let's go to zero. they want zero. the defense minister said how about the british and french missiles. they wanted compensation and gorbachev in effect says get real. we don't want a war with britain and france. what you talking about. we are scaring everybody else, that is giving them an excuse for an arms race. if we get by with forcing us into an arms race we're going to lose it. exactly what president reagan assigned to delay tactic. i would say people at the time, reagan didn't pay that much attention to details. his eyes would glaze over, numbers of missiles and warheads and stuff and fruit, didn't look at those things. he concentrated on basically how do i understand a fellow? how do i convince him to do something that is in his own interests? his current policies are not. we spent much more time and i think effective t

now, let's go past the reykjavÍk meeting.bureau and is telling them, we have got to come to terms because these missiles are pointed right at our head. let's go to zero. they want zero. the defense minister said wait, how about the british and french missiles? they had wanted compensation. gorbachev in texas get real. for not going to have a war with rickman fan. are you talking about? and then he began to berate the defense ministry, said you have been lobbying our people, spending so much on defense you are scaring everybody else. that has given them an excuse for arms race and i'll tell you if we let them get by with forcing us into an arms race, we're going to lose it. exactly what president reagan was trying to do tech tickly. i would say that, you know, people at the time, i know some of martin's colleagues would say well, reagan really did pay that much attention to details. his eyes would glaze over bb gun into numbers of missiles and warheads and stuff. and true, he didn't look at those things. he'd concentrate on th

at reykjavÍk, we arrived, many people said unprepared, country.united states team arrived with some of the largest volumes of possible positions that, in response to soviet position that he could possibly see. they were totally prepared. the difficulty was again sdi, and jack i know was in to take of one of the opening sessions, but as the two men met again, the relationship having been fostered to the exchange, having fostered by george shultz's reports back to the president about his many meetings with gorbachev, it became clear that somehow or another the soviets had to be brought to understand that sdi was not going to be negotiated away. at geneva in one of the side stories, you may have all heard about, the president had said to mr. gorbachev, and we were using simultaneous translation, not done before, a wonderful tool. instead of having to sit through the session as people talked for 30 minutes and then had to sit for 30 minutes of translation, these men were engaged actively across the table. when president reagan said i will share with y

now, let's go past the reykjavik meeti meeting.bruary of 1987, gorbachev is facing the politburo and is telling them we've got to come to terms because these missiles are pointed right at our head, a pistol at our head. let's go to zero. they want zero. the defense minister said how about the british and french missiles? they had wanted compensation. gorbachev in effect said get real. we are not going to have a war with britain and france. what are you talking about? then he again to berate the defense ministry, saying you have been robbing our people spending so much on defense you are scaring everybody else. that has given them an excuse for an arms race and i will tell you comrades, if we let them get by with forcing us into an arms race we are going to lose it. exactly what president reagan was trying to do tactically. i would say that people at the time -- i know some of marvin's colleagues would say reagan really didn't pay that much attention to details, his eyes would glaze over if you got in numbers of missiles and warhead

an ongoing person haven't seen wiki leaks post person joining us on the line from reykjavik and he gets right by you kristen great has ground to a whole with public sector workers walking out of their jobs in a twenty four hour nationwide strike aimed at putting pressure on the government over tough cuts that recent good news such as the latest tranche of bailout cash and the decision by the rating. now the international community i have asked the e.c.b. m.d.c. have tours of austerity which makes investors happy but of course makes the people angry and soon to see this strike going on and people a lot of people get very upset in greece while the investor community is relatively happy because you know there is more greater safeguards that their money is going to be returned to them in the form of laws so i think that you going to continue to see this is exactly where he'll go up and the people are happier but the investor community is less acne and then you're going to have a swerves to the right where you have more austerity making people more angry and more riots and more protests and