he said, okay, we have complete superiority over soviet union, we can win a nuclear war soviet union, but one soviet if even missile gets through? how many americans will die? 600,000 and as kennedy said that is more, as died in mericans who the civil war. so superiority in a nuclear not mean all that much and kennedy actually ended weaponsking that nuclear deterrent.eful for even though the soviet union had many less missiles than we did, just end, that was prospect of one soviet missile anding on american city was sufficient to deter kennedy from cube a. host: jackie kennedy wrote a khrushchev talking about diplomacy in the situation. ou and he were adversary and allied in determination the world should not be blown up. you respected each other, could with each other, the danger that troubled my husband, war little men.rted by big men know self-control and by fear andre moved pride, if only in the future big ones sitake the little down and talk before they start to fight. back to what we were saying about kennedy and khrushchev having common and ience in nuclear war the madman in th

it was one time a part of the soviet union. i think there will be contradictions between russia and china geopolitically in that region. never mind the models that they offer. can it be optimistic at looking at the united states and looking at our way of government? looking at the european model and at theditions, end of the day, the systems that have evolved, supported by robust institutions, and our institutions in the u.s. are still robust, that they have much more staying power than the rule of man. trumps --w usually maybe that was a bad choice of words -- [laughter] the rule of law does usually prevail. i think for the u.s. though, we can't have our head in the sand. , we can sayt china smugly that it is a system doomed to fail, but people for 30 or 40 years now have been saying that china would run out of steam politically, economically. there are too many contradictions. still today, it is doing well. for the u.s. whether we look at , russia or china, getting our political house in order is important. it goes beyond tha

of the soviet union. the second point is that the diffusion of global power that is ongoing today -- we talk about the rise of china properly -- the rise of india, the rise of many others. on a relative basis, europe is going down, we can have a debate about the united states in a relative basis. about theoday triangular relationship also needs to come to grips with this triangle in a greater strategic context and it is not just the three of us. it is a lot more than that. regard topoint, with relations between the united states, russia, china today. here i would have a different take then my colleague tom, where a do have more concerns. expressed -- then he had expressed. then we can have a conversation this evening. russia and china, the strategic relationship has evolved since the 1990's. call the axis of convenience and now it is a strategic partnership. there are arms sales from russia to china that continue. military to military dialogs. joint exercises. i don't want to overstate that. there is an i

and soviet union. and more than just that it was in 1959 where belgium said we are giving you that independence. you're going to get your independence next year. as what happened in other parts in africa, when they leave it leaves a power vacuum or at least kind of the availability for other influences orlando beganic leaders to rise up. people sort of organizing political parties and guy who came to the forefront it was just a couple years ago which kind of tells you he met with sefl war. it is a section of the belgium congo. they wanted to be independent separate from the new state of the congo. and so he is confronted with having to deal with this because they were rich if congo was generally. and so it looks to the united states and says hey, i need your help to kind of bring these guys back to kind of crush this rebellion and bring it into the new state of the congo. the united states for their part is like i don't know if i really want -- we don't know if we want you to have complete control over

we have empowered the soviet union. the soviet union took a vacation on the pacific war until the last two weeks. they are going to go supply mao, and they will be ambiguous about that. china is going to turn communist. 1946,ill be very quick, 1947. they are devastated. they are facing communist in places, overthrow like japan, the philippines, north korea, italy, germany, all of western europe. here is what the united states is asked to do. has no much appreciation for less sympathy. we have this full mobilization. with britain the empire is exhausted. there is no support in britain for the empire. there will be nationalist social health care, this social program that will throw churchill out. at its basis is, let's not spend money on the empire, but spend money on home and read. we will inherit the empire's responsibilities, but we have the worst pr in the world, because we know have to save italy and we have to save the french,least american, and british zones of occupation and rebuild them. we will have to save japa

soviet union, right? as the soviet union and cuba become closer and closer partners, the soviet union says hey, there's a country that we're friendly with 90 miles from the coast of florida. i wonder if they would let us put some nuclear weapons on that island so that we can be right in range of the united states. right? they plan on it. they start building facilities in cuba. they start putting the warheads on ships and sending them to the island. reconnaissance photos of which this is one, from american spy planes, look at this and they say, you know what they're doing, they're building places to store these weapons. they're building places where they can launch nuclear weapons 90 miles from the coast of the united states. we cannot allow them to do this. then the united states discoffers that these ships have left the soviet union carrying the weapons. so on tv jfk announces what's going on and demands that the soviet union turn those ships around, no weapons in cuba. this is what comes to be called th

i mean who could have imagined a coalition that would have the soviet union, china and then the middlern states, as well. standing up to one of their own. >> hundreds of demonstrators gathered to protest the inevitable. all but one, that is. >> whatever america goes to war, there's going to be protests in the streets. but you needed congressional support or you wouldn't have popular support. >> the world looks to the president. he can play an historic role in leading us to solve this crisis in a nonviolent way. >> make no mistake about it. our vital interests are at stake. >> bush knew that you had to let that process go forward. you couldn't just declare war and do it. >> the hope of peace remains in my heart and the hearts of us all, but this debate is now about war. >> power in a matter of days can bring this villain to his knees. >> let us stop beating the drums of war. let us oppose this march to violence. >> nowhere is it ordained that the new world order must begin with a new word war. >> they had a great national debate and the argument for going to war prevailed. >> president

we talk about the collapse of the soviet union. we think of the collapse of the soviet union was a total natural process. the way it is regarded in russia or china is to take it very seriously. that has relevance to our regime. what was it that caused the soviet union collapsed -- two collapse?- to to reforms of trying an authoritarian system and power -- in power. it makes it extremely difficult because it seems to raise in norman dangers -- enormous dangers. >> i do not want to tickle your opportunity to comment -- to take away your opportunity to comment. i want to talk about the strategic balance in areas of cooperation among these three relatively different powers. my other point is i see jonathan with a microphone and i am anxious to get some questions from the audience as well. i think we will let tom make his comments. also, comment refer on areas of cooperation. then we will open to the audience in our remaining 15 to 20 minutes. together someie of the themes from the discussion thus far. one is to underscore that the worl

i should say the soviet union's -- union is pro-german. i don't mean neutral, right before hitler went into poland. he had the nonaggression pact. that is the icing on the cake. as early as 1937 they had trade agreements. hitler is being supplied now in critical areas like oil, wheat, coal, iron or from the soviet union. there is a series of specific movements from bulgaria, hungary, all of this area of eastern europe is supplying as it was not at a very advantageous rate. we all know about mr. mussolini. since the late 20's there has been a expansionary government. they have gone all the way , we cannot see until somalia, libya. on march 10, 1940 he invades france. he does it -- he does in 40 days with what the fathers were not able to do in four years. all of france, belgium, holland and luxenberg. at this point, algeria, morocco, the french colonies fall to control under vichy, allied with germany. spain, they bought on behalf of the forces under the spanish civil war five years earlier. four years earlier, portugal was staying. turkey

do we ever fight the soviet union on the central plains of europe. no, i would argue we know a lot about it so it never happened. so when i tell folks the future, i say, i just-- just describe the future so it is this. leave it exactly the same thing and a completely different answer. we told you this was what, the soviet union, central plains of europe. nato. it's unknown, unknowable and constantly changing. both of these describe the future. in general terms. this was describing a known problem. this is describing an unknown problem. so i tell folks, the guy that designs the army, i only have to know one thing about the future. is it a known future or unknown future. that's describing, not predicting what can happen in the middle east. all i have to do is know if it's known or unknown. if the future is known you design a kind of army, you write a kind of dock doctorate. you train people differently. >> i get asked this question a lot. we went to a venue once and i was sort of token land sky. way i was an army there. and we had a navy add rat and ai

the soviet union's domination of eastern europe. the greek civil war. the stagnation of western european economies and the collapse of chinese national forces. by comparison, the assessment of was that let america was largely immune to soviet aggression. ambassador put it to the brazilian press, they asked him about the economic aid, when will it come, the u.s. ambassador put this to the press -- "the situation might be graphically represented as a case of smallpox in europe competing with a common cold in latin america." needless to say he could've chosen better words than that. also, there was only so much money. the secretary of state tried to explain why there would be no marshall plan for latin america at bogota. he invited let americans to trust in free-trade principles. latin americans would prosper once western europe and japan recovered and could resume regular trading patterns with europeans. marshall's speech was greeted by stony silence by latin american delegates. the reality is, there was only so much money. during the marshall plan years,

mikhail gorbachev, the vice president is becoming president of the soviet union. >> it was announcedthat gorbachev was ill and therefore a committee would take charge until he recovered. >> a column of tanks is reported to be heading toward the russian parliament in moscow where thousands of people have gathered in defiance of the new soviet government. >> gorbachev's whereabouts tonight are unknown. there are thoughts he is under house arrest. he certainly isn't able to act as he wants to. >> gorbachev every year liked to holiday on the black sea. and his aides showed up at his dacha, they cut off communications and took away his nuclear codes. >> the kgb chief, the military commander, the minister of the interior and the prime minister joined forces to mount the coup. >> nothing threatens mr. gorbachev. he's in a safe place. except he needs some time to feel better. >> edouard shevardnadze warned today that the right-wing coup would have tragic consequences. it is the beginning of civil war. >> there seems to be extraordinary drama here in moscow tonight. scenes of destruction, of

what the idea was, if war between the united states and soviet union for excel, civil war, he thought, would probably break out in several latin american countries. the united states would be forced to take violent action to maintain supplies of raw materials, which the united states was receiving from latin america, and retain important not to facilities. kennan wrote in his memorandum that the united states cannot be complacent about these communist activities. what was the united states to do in view of the nonintervention doctrine? he looked at the monroe doctrine and said the monroe doctrine and never prohibited united states from defending itself from foreign ideologies such as communism if it was introduced and let america. the nonintervention doctrine he said, was a problem. but what the united states had to do because of that, was to develop what he called new ways of exercising its power in latin america. he said "we should apply ourselves to the liberation of techniques of course of measures that can impress other governments with the dangers of antagonizing us with the tol

our job was to project a credible threat, to be here every day demonstrating to the soviet union that even if they launched a surprise first strike against us, we would be able to ride that out and retaliate quickly and with enough force that we would devastate the soviet union even if they had launched their missiles first. we're at the titan missile museum in arizona about 25 miles south of downtown tucson and we're in the launch control center of the missile site. that's essentially the nerve center of the missile site itself. from here, using all of this equipment, the crew has a bird's eye view of the condition of the missile and of the missile site. they first have to receive a launch order telling them to execute their missile and what time they're going to do that. and in order for them to do that they're going to need two keys, two launch keys. one launch key for the crew commander and one for the deputy crew commander. the launch keys are secured in what was called the emergency war order safe to the crew. the ewo safe is secured by two padlocks, and these are combination pa

in many ways it was a civil war, but also in international conflict instigated by the soviet union. soon, the chinese were involved as well as the americans and the u.n. it was a war in which the civilian population got caught up in the war. one in 10 koreans, both north and south, died during the 3-year conflict. hundreds of thousands of others, millions really were injured in one way or another. thousands of orphans on both sides. a very tragic event. the american public was dissatisfied with the war the way it was being fought. it was a limited war. not being fought for what americans believed at the time how we fought wars. we fought for unconditional surrender. they really never did that, even world war ii kind of finessed the issue of the japanese emperor. the public, as the war dragged on into a stalemate, lost interest. news of the warm moved from the front page to the midsection of the newspapers. americans also became concerned about the issue of the atrocities that were committed by the north koreans. news of atrocities committed by u.n. command was kept largely silent un

because what was being foreseen was the possibility of war the unitedt between states and soviet union, and then there is disorder in latin america, united states has to become involved in order to materials that it is getting from latin america, the strategic materials, and also the mid to late -- military facilities. 562 advised that it is important that every ever be made to develop an effective inter-american military collaboration in time of peace to ensure collective hemispheric defense immediately upon the outbreak of war. to skip this one so we can get to the legacy. very quickly. hazard, and it is a personal hazarding, of a description of the legacy that president truman left behind with respect to u.s. policies toward latin america. first of all, from explicitly affirmed the legacy which he had received when he became president. non-interventionism together with interventionism. pan-americanism and the good neighbor policy. second, he completed the inter-american project by formalizing by treaty the principles of nonintervention and collective defense and the permanent organi

to be here every day demonstrating to the soviet union that even if they launched a surprise first strike against us, we would be able to ride that out and retaliate quickly and with enough force to devastate the soviet union, even if they launched their missiles first. we are at the titan missile museum 25 miles south of downtown tucson. we are in the launch control center of the missile site. that is essentially the nerve center of the missile site itself. from here, using all this equipment, the crew has a birds eye view of the condition of the missile and the missile site. then it is also from here that the crew would launch the missile if they were ordered to do so. so, in order to launch a titan ii missile, the crew needs a number of things. first of all they have to , receive a launch order that will tell them to execute their missile and what time they will do that. in order for them to do that, they will need two keys. one launch key for the crew commander, and one launch key for that deputy crew commander. the launch keys were secured in the emergency war order safe. the crew.o

we had the peace dividend during the clinton years after the end of the soviet union, that's when the big dip happened and we built up after 9/11 and it's come down again. >> coming down from a very high level. even now we spend more on the military annually than the next seven largest spending countries combined. david: they're not spending a lot, john. >> i would add in this case, that our military from 1945 from the north koreans and a ruler that have none at all in the first place. david: military hardware of the united states is terribly out of date and some of it just can't work. we have 50% of all our b-1 bombers can't fly. we have 70% of u.s. marine corps fighter jets can't fly, we have all these accidents happening with the marine ospri, with e need to fix this stuff. >> i agree with you, we need to get military spending back up to 4%. you look historically, david, our country has been the safest and we've gotten into fewer conflicts when military spending was higher than lower, when armed forces had the most up to date tanks, ships, et cetera and where we can cut back if nec

i have been a long history of fighting the soviet union and communism. and no, the fact is that i believe that we should try to have peace with russia. i'm certainly not in any way trying to compromise the truth or anything that would put our country second to what russia everything i do in terms of i am the chairman of the committee in congress that overseas our relations with russia. everything i do there and in my personal life and such is done for what's good for america i happen to think that working with the russians now to help defeat radical islam is a good idea. so they end up calling me names and trying to cast

three years later the soviet union collapsed.ension was significantly reduced and she was forced to take janitorial jobs to eke out a living. lyubov's checkered life even made the newspapers. >> translator: when i heard an opera and ballet theater had opened in vladivostok, i was happy, but at the same time i was sad. happy because the theater i dreamed about since i was five years old had become a reality, and sad because it came too late. the spoon has to be set on the table at supper time. you know what i mean. >> this year lyubov turned 66 years old. she still keeps her pointe shoes as a cherished memento. it's july 30th, the grand opening day of the festival. valerie, the festival's artistic direor, holds a press conference. >> translator: tickets have just about sold out. we've never seen ticket sales like this in vladivostok. everything about this festival from the ticket sales to audience interest and to the number of performances is on an unprecedented scale. of course, our costs were commensurate with the scale of the e

cut back sharply after world war ii so much that that's why north korea invaded south korea with soviet union and china and look at what's left us today. david: steve, excuse me, sabrina, we had the peace deal and lucky to buy into that and then we saw obama and bin laden and others take advantage of it. >> agree, part of having strong military is also having strong diplomatic core and that's a lot of areas that we are seeing cuts. recent victory for the trump administration is that they were able to get the united nations 15 to 0 to vote for sanctions and i think that that's something significant that we are not talking about. i think they go hand in hand. david: we have to leave it at that, gang, great debate. excessive or appropriate, president trump feuding with senate majority leader mcconnell for saying he has, quote, excessive expectations of congress. someone hearsays the health care industry is proving the president has this one right.

the soviet union was our enemy in the world -- cold war. but things were supposed to change in 1991 when a new democratic russia emerged from the rubble of the soviet collapse. and i think the reasons we've gotten are multiple. the point i would make and the point i make in the book is that things were bad before 2014. there were lots of negative incidents. the snowden's arrival in moscow in 2013. what happened to the annexation of eastern ukraine is things become unmanageable and the tensions have spiraled out of control. and it was one thing on top of another rather than a particular incident since then that has create the broader climate. and russia's actions during the election in 2016 are only understandable in the context of the broader crisis in the u.s.-russia relations that has been underway since 2014. in other words, russia had the capability to do what it did in 2016 and 2017 and probably even 2008. it's a very capable cyber actor but it didn't. and the reason i think is that it's gotten to a place where risk taking behavior has

at it just -- adjust into a new post soviet union world. host: eight years as the labor secretary, both terms of george w. bush, what was he like to work with? elaine: he was very, he was a very good boss. he expected his people to do their jobs. and, um, he gave you the ability to do your job. so i thought he was a very good boss. and he hits -- and his white house was experienced, because he was with his father when president george h.w. bush was president. and i think president george w. bush learned a great deal from those four years. even though his administration transition period was cut short due to a dispute about who had won the election, on january 20, they were ready. host: how do you prepare to manage an agency or department like labor or not transportation? elaine: i think first of all it is important to understand the contribution of the career ranks. for example, when i came in and secretary of labor and as secretary of transportation, the first thing i did on the very first day was gather the acting heads, the career leader

so we focused our army to defer or defeat the soviet union and the central plains of europe. and redesign the army that way and to beat embattled was our doctrine and i am in charge of writing of the follow-up manual for that and we have a gold standard so i refer back to that. and then it would look eerily similar to this. and to describe that environment we're operating in so we have a known enemy enemy, we know a lot about it then sent they knew exactly how we would fight the soviet union and we knew what coalition we would fight. that was nato and in that coalition tuesday and would be a nato on monday we went for decades ago got in or out of nato. so what we had was a challenge focused on a well known enemy. and we were part of nato. and then to build an army and that with the known problem you by certain kinds of a but it and d train people a certain way. so we did have a known problem so what you will do is take your tank this is your location and then the soviets will come over in the way we will trade you is every 90 days to go up to the scene -- to the same location

certainly the problems caused by the soviet union always concerned him by this time. but he never had and never would give up on his dream of a world peace under a regime of international law embodied by the united nations. that is what he spoke to the american colony about in brazil. the united nations, he said, "is the only hope we have peace in the world." and the collective defense, everything going on with respect to latin america at this time were intended to supplement what was being done at the united nations. and what was hoped the united nations would do. truman is taken by motor launch to the uss missouri, and the trumans enjoy a leisurely trip back to the united states. now, third trip, again, the important visit on this third trip was to puerto rico. truman had intended on his way back from brazil to stop in puerto rico, cuba and virgin islands. but he did not do it. instead, the next time he came to key west, he got on the airplane and flew to san juan. more than two years before this trip to san juan, in october, 1945, truman had asked the congress to a

collapse of the soviet union in use ideology came into being the united states the exceptional country you know little control of the wall. all right said we say higher than they do and we can simply ignore it or we can shoot anyone who wants so there's you know a little approach but it was a very short person by the way i think it was and we see this being it's crumbling it's crumbling but we have this new plays. on the block from china to russia then i'll take it any more and united states rather than sort of change in trying to recognize certain realities that there is a multi you know what should be. a low and they persist and i think that's that's the ideology you know and you know you've watched this this bilateral relationship very closely one of the things that i find very interesting is that you have. from political leaders in the united states and particularly the liberal media uninformed liberal media very bombastic statements about russia and particularly and it's president vladimir putin but you don't see the only other on the other side you don't see that kind of bomb but

and sixty's those two ships passing in the night you got the soviet union mexico these countries are china are now going toward freedom going toward to an enlightened twenty first century and america's going back to retroactive right you know going back to reactionary neo con warmongering sylvia like nonsense and in this is why we like going to mexico city not only are the taco stand i shower in mexico. who. give course back in the eighty's when i last lived here the early ninety's you know the thing used to be if i don't drive your car across the mexican border don't try it down there because the police there were so corrupt they were just like take your car and. and send you away and arrest you if you complained so. it's now the canadian government for example warns their own citizens against going to the u.s. because they might they said that if you drive your own car there and you have any cash in your car there's a good chance the police might take that cash from you now australia of course is there's a huge shock there that they're citizen was assassinated by a police officer i

much in the news she was a sensation but did she grew discontent and then defected back to the soviet union84 immediately regretted and wanted to leave almost as soon as she got there luckily gorbachev rose to power after 80 months what turn out she landed in chicago and then a very turbulent life more difficult than most as i argued my book i think a great mislaid it her if she told the truth to have a rebellion of conscience. >>cspan: she died in wisconsin. >> a nursing home. >>cspan: soldier far was one of how many?. >> i think 60 was the last count. >> key was a dictator of uganda in the '70s a vicious man some people's idea of a dictator. he spent one year under the royal family protection and gadaffi and he kept having kids almost to the very end and the first born 1948 to the last one in the mid-90s that is the speed of his children believe it or not he seems to have been a pretty good dad they called him big daddy he was jolly and fun-loving the kids are a mixed bag. >>cspan: to far is interviewed on television soap pay close attention to what he says about his father. >> he was a v

there are going to be 140 shipments from the soviet union to cuba. lanes detected the soviet ships headed for cuba. but after the bay of pigs disaster the u.s. wanted hard evidence of what they had aboard. >> the cia gets more missions to fly more. >> they needed to be able to prove to the world it you russians that were building the sites. >> the job fell to richard hiezer of florida. the air force pilot began to fly cia missions to find photographic proof of missiles. he was no stranger to nuclear weapons. he had been at lagoon on 1 march, 1954. >> i was allowed to fly on the day they set off bombs. >> as he piloted the u-2 at high altitude over cuba, he could remember what he had seen. >> if hundreds of them were detonated all over the world, it'd make swiss cheese out of the earth. >> u-2 pilot richar august of '62 soviet ships were pour nothing cuba secretly carrying massive amounts of military hardware. they were hell bent on a massive arms build up just 90 miles from america's shores. >> kennedy's people are watching. >> the soviets were always

computer glitches, start a war by accident, this is not a regime that has act together like the soviet uniondid. we have to deal with that at some point. dagen: capri the backdrop at least as we deal with this growing threat from north korea is an economy that looks stable with unemployment incredibly low at multiyear low and more than a million jobs created since president trump took office? >> well, i think we do node thoo put this entire thing into context, there's no question that there is a level of volatility and uncertainty within the market right now because of the obvious concerns surrounding north korea and nuclear capabilities, at the same time, we found ourselves the in all-time high, 22,000 on the dow, at one point, what goes up must come down a little bit and there's going to be a course correction, what we are seeing right now is a little bit of the fact that we were hiding historic skews and it was going to come back down regardless of what was going on in north korea, that north korea circumstance did add to volatility, the volatility index is, i think, at the highest at lea

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went to the soviet union and other countries to ask for that, can i expect less of my own country? the answer to that is a emphatic no. we need to pass a comprehensive immigration reform bill. the united states senate passed a comprehensive immigration bill. it had -- you provided security for the border. if you talk to anyone from the hispanic or asian american caucus, they would say that security at our borders is critically important. we understand that. in a age of terrorism, we just saw the other day, domestic but terrorist -- terrorism nonetheless. we need to make sure we know who is coming into our country. we have always been a country that lifted its lamp beside a golden door, offering hope and sanctuary, escaping from violence, sanctuary from -- for people. unfortunately, we do not seem to be carrying that roll out -- role out as it should be by people in our country for people who want to build a better life here and escape the violence that threatens their lives and their families. here in maryland, dreamers add over half $1 billion annually to our state's economy. drea

and soviet union to work out a model of deterrence. we haven't done that yet with the north koreans. we hope they realize the military mite of the u.s. is mighty. >> jordan chiang, thank you very much for calling in, appreciate your expertise, sir. >> joining me now is ned price. thank you for being here. the president has tweeted again, this time, retweeting more jobs numbers from two days ago. i hate to put these two things side by side, but there's a lot going on right now, it's a big development, the american public is by and large pretty scared of what's going on in north korea, and the president of the united states is i guess conferring with -- not conferring, he's watching the news, he isn't in any sort of meeting, he's tweeting, and he's not tweeting about this, what's your reaction? >> well, a couple things, katy. i think only half facetiously, in some ways, that is the perfect response from the president of the united states, the commander in chief. i would not want to see president trump engaging in a back and forth or even