the people from within it imploded the economy don't forget that after the collapse of the soviet union america sent in a whole brigade of wall street bankers to liberalize the economy and created a whole new class of kleptocratic oligarchs that have now under the current administration it's taken almost 20 years to you know fixed up problem that was pretty much created by american bankers there's one thing to just say ok we need to stop crime and you do need to stop crime but there has to be a plan as well and you can't just be to let in these american bankers who are going to financial eyes and hollow out your economy chris are not then continues there is probably no single event more responsible for current vote. discontent and the financial crisis and tarp and lloyd was right there at the center of it amazing but he's pointing out that lloyd blankfein was way more responsible for trump being elected then anybody else any nein there is no weaponized mean that could possibly do more than what lloyd blankfein did with the collapse of the economy his also paying hillary clinton $500000.00 to gi

molotov was on hand to greet the soviet union's distinguished guests. america's secretary of state. ton. the flags of the three countries flew over the field, and under them stood together the united states secretary of state, the soviet foreign minister and england's foreign secretary. mr. harry hopkins arrived. prime minister churchill. the kremlin guards formed the guard of honor. president roosevelt, who also flew in from malta, was greeted by the russian reception committee. mr. roosevelt and mr. churchill. ♪ ♪ playing the national anthem, the president and prime minister inspected the guard of honor. ♪ ♪ the kremlin guards marched by in review. ♪ the little town of yalta at one time was famous as a seacoast playground of the czars. now, it was to be the scene of one of the most fateful meetings in the history of the world. the palace, one mile outside town. here, most of the conferences were held. czaralace was built by nicholas ii, and has 50 rooms. bore the symbol of a new russia. the conference room was ready. mp's directed traffic into the palace grounds. present at the con

soviet union. made your father call his firstborn after him i do actually my dad was. a bit traumatized from the relationship north america had with russia during the cold war and when the soviet union fell which was. to a large part and i have there was a huge relief in north america from. the end of the war basically so to dad mikhail gorbachev represented somebody who. may have like saved north america from russia i don't claim to know better but having listened to a lot of your dad's lectures i think he holds may have seen gorbachev as somebody who rageous enough to break with the mold and speak up against the prevailing orthodoxy reach i hope something that we can discuss today but before we do i have to ask you how is your dad doing right now dad's doing well given the circumstances he had a terrible last month and he nearly died several times. better than i've seen him in at least 6 months so i'm happy to be here anyway. i don't think there are many people who don't know who jordan peterson is at least among our audience but for those who haven't been following his progress housewife's again you describe it in the

soviet union. made your father call his firstborn after him i do actually my dad was. a bit traumatise from the relationship north america had with russia during the cold war and when the soviet union fell which was. to a large part of which i have there was a huge relief in north america from. the end of the war so to dad mikhail gorbachev represented somebody who. may have like saved north america from russia i don't claim to know better but having listened to a lot of your dad's lectures i think he holds may have seen gorbachev as somebody who rages enough to break with the mold and speak up against the prevailing orthodoxy reach i hope something that we can discuss today but before we do i have to ask you how is your dad doing right now dad's doing well given the circumstances he had a terrible last month and he nearly died several times. better than i've seen him in at least 6 months so i'm happy to be here anyway. i don't think there are many people who don't know who jordan peterson is at least among our audience but for those who haven't been following his progress housewife's again you describe it in the old wor

professionals is proof that you made the right decision 40 years ago to leave the soviet union, come here to the united states of america in search of a better life for our family. do not worry. i will be fine for telling the truth. >> do not worry. i will be fine for telling the truth. let's start with nbc's geoff bennett telling the story. that is true. i think he comes down on the right side of the history but the president says that the decision of whether he is moved out is up to the national security council. pretty much everything that happens on the national security council in this administration at least is up to the president. so what could come next for vindman and what is this sort of say about vindication and payback from the president? >> reporter: here's what we now. lieutenant colonel alexander vindman on the job as i stand here and speak to you. i spoke to a person close to him this morning saying that as far as he knows there's no change to his work status, that he showed up at the white house today just like every day since testifying before the house. also, told separately, vindman planned to leave

elected professionals is proof that you made the right decision 40 years ago to leave the soviet union and come to america a better life for our family. do not worry. >> why do you have confidence to do that? >> congressman, this is america. this is the country i've served and defended, that all of my brothers have served and here right matters. >> right matters. joining us to discussion, cnn national security analyst samantha vinegran, senior adviser to the national security adviser under president obama. welcome back. let's start here. you've got this new right on cnn.com about what happened with sondland and vindman and write it's dangerous, there's great danger in removing nsc members like vindman who have long-standing relationships. talk about the danger and your initial reaction to this -- these two dismissals. >> reporter: good morning. in the first instance, in my day, people were fired when they didn't do their jobs. in this case, vindman -- they were fired because they dutifully did theirs. they spoke out through legally protected channels to report on and to testify about the president's misde

professionals is proof you made the right decision 40 years ago to leave the soviet union, come here to the united states of america in search of a better life for our family. do not worry i will be fine for telling the truth. >> reporter: vindman's twin brother, also in the military and worked at the nsc, was also escorted ou of the white house today according to his attorney a spokesperson said both brothers will return to jobs at the army now lester >> hallie jackson at the white house, thanks >>> also tonight the democratic presidential candidates facing off in their final debate before the new hampshire primary and joe bid major changes after a disappointing finish in iowa. nbc's kristen welker our brand-new poll. former vice president den. in a memo to staffers his campaign manager announcing biden is elevating his veteran aide anita dunn to an expanded role tll aow suffered a devastating fourth place finish in iowa. >> we took a gut punch in iowa. >> reporter: now with new hampshire up next the latest nbc news/marist poll shows biden in fourth place again. in the lead bernie sanders who has a narrow edge ove

states there's a paradox there because we ended the 20th century, the 1990s with america the single global power. the soviet unionfeated, people talked about a unipolar world unites it seem to dominate all. since 2000 we've had terrorism, disappointing wars in iraq and afghanistan, we had a financial crisis we've had withdrawal. it is not been a great 20 years. what's gone wrong? >> in 1991 for the first time in five years there was a single european global power there's only one global power, the united states. it was the first country the staged a revolution against imperialism, but there was. it did not have the institution managing and it did not manage it. had a world war ii model. they attacked us, we are going to hit them with everything we have. so there is no settled a anything. we have learned a great deal. barack obama and donald trump, although they would not admit it had a similar view and reduce the amounts of action to take increase the amount of action we take. gerry: is that wrong customer. >> i think it's quite right. it's self-evidently expect 18 year losing wars so ending was probably a good i

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america can to great things? and we can compete with china? >> right. >> talk about that. >> i like going back sometimes and reading ronald reagan because his acceptance of challenges, whether it was the soviet union, was always on the basis of america's strength. and it's very important that we recognize that, yes, china is a rising power and all this, but china has a lot of demerits. you think about the demographic bomb that they face. and, by the way, you can get into authoritarian envy, you know? authoritarians can get things done. look at the great airports they built. oh, my goodness, they build roads. you can build an airport in china in the time that it takes to get a permit to be a hair dresser in the united states, right? [laughter] now, this is all true. but authoritarians also make bad decisions efficiently. a few years ago they decided in china that population control was a problem, and now we have a one-child policy efficiently, even brutally carried out, and now 34 million chinese men don't have mates. so the problem with authoritarians is if you're going to be only nip tent, you better be omniscient too, and most human beings are not. so to authoritarians make a lot of mistakes. we

elected officials is proof you made the right decision 40 years ago to leave the soviet union and come to the united states of america in search of a better life for our family. do not worry. i'll be fine for tell iing the truth. >> you realize when you came forward out of sense of duty that you were putting yourself in direct opposition to the most powerful person in the world. do you realize that, sir? >> i knew i was assume iing a t lot of risk. >> i'm struck by the phrase do not worry you addressed to your dad. was he a warrior? >> he did serve. it was a different military though. >> if you were putting yourself up against the united states. >> he deeply worried about it because in his context there was the ultimate risk. >> why do you have confidence that you can do that and tell your dad not to worry? >> congressman, because this is america. this is the country i have served and defended that all of my brothers have served and here right matters. >> thank you, sir. i yield back. >> that was still an exchange that gets chills from many of us and got an applause there within the hearing room. congressman, what do

professionals is, proof that you made the right decision 40 years ago to leave the soviet union, come here to the united states of americain search of a better life for our family. do not worry. i will be fine for telling the truth. >> why do you have confidence that you can do that and tell your dad not to worry? >> congressman, because this is america. this is the country i've certainserved and defended, that all of my brothers have served, and here, right matters. >> the other official fired, gordon sondland, the u.s. ambassador to the european union, he was a major donor to trump's inaugural committee and he was a political appointee, the u.s. officials tell cnn sondland was a dead man walking, after statements like this. >> aerceveryone was in the loop. it was no secret. everyone was informed via email on july 19th. days before the presidential call. >> an adviser to the president summed up the firing this way. flushing out the pipes, the adviser said. it was necessary. >> joining us now, samantha, former senior adviser to the national security adviser for president obama and historian of the presidential library. v

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professionals, it's proof that you made the right decision to leave the soviet union and come here to the united states of america for a better life, and don't worry, i will be okay for telling the truth. >> reporter: i talked to several that said they hoped the president realized he can't cross a line anymore, anybody from rob portland from ohio, and susan collins of maine, andly saw murkowski, and they said they hoped the president has taken something away from this, and susan collins was asked by reporters about the prospect of vindman's removal. >> thank you. another key impeachment witness, bill taylor, the former top u.s. diplomat in ukraine told jake tapper that he was deeply worried about smears against lieutenant colonel vindman and others. >> does it bother you when you see how guiliani was out there smearing lieutenant colonel vindman who you respect? >> i do. >> it must bother you to see that? >> yeah, of course it bothers me when i see somebody unfairly attacked, anybody unfairly attacked, and so certainly it does does. >> let's discuss this with democratic congressman, a member of the oversight and

professionals, it's proof that you made the right decision 40 years ago to leave the soviet union, come here to the united states of america in search of a better life for our family. do not worry. i will be fine for telling the truth. >> there was also news on the 2020 election front tonight. four days out, of course, from the new hampshire primary. the latest nbc news marist poll shows the race narrowing to four main candidates. we'll have more on that later. >>> richard spencer is now endorsing mike bloomberg's bid to keep the president from winning a second term. spencer, you may recall, was fired after he opposed trump's decision to pardon a navy s.e.a.l. who had been charged with war crimes. he's the first trump political appointee to come out in support of one of his former boss's opponents in the 2020 race and today spencer explained why he is backing mike bloomberg. >> we need leadership, proven leadership like mike. we need honesty. we need integrity. he respects opinions. he is not the sole i have the only answer, which is a very dangerous position to be in. >> we will get to our leadoff discussion in just a mom

. >> you made the right decision 40 years ago to leave the soviet union, come here to the united states of america in search of a better life for our family. do not worry. i will be fine for telling the truth. >> democrats say the payback goes too far as they weigh whether or not to continue investigations into the president. >> that's a shame. what a patriotic person. it goes too far. >> what about those vulnerable republicans who said the president had, quote, learned his lesson? friday saturday susan collins of maine was defending her vote to acquit even as the news of this purge began to break. >> i obviously am not in favor of any kind of retribution against anyone who came forward with evidence. >> all right. joining me now executive director of stand up republic and 2016 independent presidential candidate evan mcmullin. shanny pettypiece and author of "do morals matter, presidents and foreign policy from fdr to trump," joseph nigh. joseph, i'll start with you because this week has been momentous. the president's state of the union address was unusual even by donald trump standards. thursday

our elected professionals is proof you made the right decision to leave the soviet union and come to the united states of america in search of a better life for our family. do not worry. i will be fine for telling the truth. >> so the family had, refugees, they settled in brooklyn. the two twin brothers, they go into the military. u.s. army officers. they have an older brother that is a commissioned army officer. vindman serves -- served in iraq. wounded, received a metal. is this the appropriate way for him to be treated? >> it's not only inappropriate, it goes against the whole idea of our country and our government which is that you tell the truth even to people who hold power and you're going to be okay. and, you know, it reminds me of another moment in the testimony that i could never forget which is the u.s. diplomats were talking to the ukrainian diplomats about urging them not to follow the corrupt path of investigating the political owe opponents and they said like you want us to do with the bidens and clintons? >> that was a powerful moment. what if anything can the u.s. senate, for example, you're a s

. >> you made the right decision 40 years ago to leave the soviet union, come here to the united states of americad not be worried. >> that's an update out of washington. meanwhile republicans making news about trying to demand records for joe biden's son, hunter biden and his trafs. all of this raising questions about what the end of the acquittal means and whether there is still an effort to use government power to go after the bidens or other people donald trump considers on his enemies list. we're going to get into that and a whole lot more. thanks for joining me. on where has joe biden been the last few days and what does he want at the debate? >> yes. he's here today in new hampshire. i was sit go here with local media. meeting new hampshire voters where they are in their living rooms and tonight he'll lay out the case for his candidacy. he will raise tough questions that voters need to ask themselves about who they want to put forward. we have dhoots are pro foesed socialists. and take away the right of people the choose their own health care. we have people who tlak experience and the stea

america. >> you can argue when bernie sanders went to honeymoon in the former soviet union, it wasn't a socialist country. it was a communist country. i think his comments really tripled down on the idea that we're not talking about some low level tinge of socialism. we're talking about tyranny, authoritarianism, and the opposite of freedom for individuals which is completely opposite of what america was founded on and what it stands for. >> well, you're exactly right and i thought it was so interesting that bernie was applauding castro's literacy program. i said, my goodness, he was probably excited that castro was teaching them how to read the communist manifesto which was probably in his bedside table. it wasn't a gideon bible that was in there when he was honeymooning in the soviet union. and it's just that different perspective. and i have to tell you, joni talked about her experience as a college student and that awakening for her. and when we travel, i -- in 2003 in mezul in a bombed out shell of a build being a group of women that some of us from d.c. were the first free women that these

you made the right decision 40 years ago to leave the soviet union and come here to the united states of americasearch of a better life for our family. do not worry. >> the military can handle him any way they want. >> i'll be fine for telling the truthful. >> what a great ad. pointing to just one still picture of vindman and showing you what everything that vindman had on his uniform jacket meant about what that man has done for america. it is an ad by the lincoln project. an organization of republicans committed to defeating trump in 2020 after trump removed the decorated veteran from his, and his brother, by the way, his twin brother, from the white house. vindman had testified in the impeachment investigation on november 19th. he was removed two days after all but one republican senator voted to acquit donald trump, including this particular republican senator. >> i believe that the president has learned from this case. >> what do you believe the president has learned? >> the president has been impeached. that's a pretty big lesson. >> well, donald trump told reporters, he wanted the army to

professionals is proof that you made the right decision 40 years ago to leave the soviet union and come here to the united states of america in search of a better life for our family. do not worry, i will be fine for telling the truth. >> he got thrown out of the white house today. walked out. we should all stand and give him a show of how much we supported him. stand up and clap. get up there. who we are. that's who we are. >> president trump said quote you'll see when he was asked about a possible pay back for his impeachment on friday. hours later the hammer fell on two key witnesses in the house inquiry. eu ambassador gordon sondland that gave a million dollars to trump's inauguration but later testified that trump sought a quid quo pro with ukraine was fired and the man on the left, vindman, the top ukraine expert on the national security counsel and who criticized his conduct on the july 25th call was escorted out of the white house. and who did not testify in the inquiry was also removed. i want to bring in the political reporter for the washington post. thank you for joining me. vindman had said. we just played the

professionals is proof you made the right decision 40 years ago to leave the soviet union and come here to the united states of america in search of a better life for our family. do not worry. i will be fine for telling the truth. thank you again for your consideration. i'll be happy to answer your questions. >> colonel vindman did in fact have his life threatened for giving testimony involving the president in the impeachment inquiry. that's why the army prepared to move him and his family to a secret location and provided them ongoing security in the wake of his testimony in the face of threats. well, now as of tonight, he and his brother have both been fire frd their white house jobs as active duty military officers in what is clear retaliation for him having testified during the impeachment proceedings. the fate of the witnesses who testified in the impeachment inquiry and other government officials who were involved in it and know what happened is a pretty daunting list at this point in terms of where are they now. kurt volker is the u.s. envoy to ukraine. he resigned right before his testimony. he's out of a job

states there's a paradox there because we ended the 20th century, the 1990s with america the single global power. the soviet unioneen defeated, people talked about a unipolar world unites it seem to dominate all. since 2000 we've had terrorism, disappointing wars in iraq and afghanistan, we had a financial crisis we've had withdrawal. it is not been a great 20 years. what's gone wrong? >> in 1991 for the first time in five years there was a single european global power there's only one global power, the united states. it was the first country the staged a revolution against imperialism, but there was. it did not have the institution managing and it did not manage it. had a world war ii model. they attacked us, we are going to hit them with everything we have. so there is no settled a anything. we have learned a great deal. barack obama and donald trump, although they would not admit it had a similar view and reduce the amounts of action to take increase the amount of action we take. gerry: is that wrong customer. >> i think it's quite right. it's self-evidently expect 18 year losing wars so ending was probably a

decades after america's cold war and the collapse of the soviet union, the president of the united statess now helping the president of russia help the president of the united states to get reelected. >> the news on bernie sanders may force them to change your opinion a little bit by his outrageous charge comes from anonymous sources in the new york times and washington post think russia is interfering in this year's election campaign. on behalf of donald trump. after the last investigation from pressure collision fell flat and altered president trump. democrats really prepared to go this route again? >> the thing is, this is coming back to stop the democrats in the face. poon wants to help. [laughter] we have to make sure we limit interference in the elections but here's the concern. it's almost like a forward here for president trump, if he actually with these reports, loose forward to try to combat this, someone might say he's trying to undermine bernie sanders campaign. it's damned if you do, damned if you don't. >> what bernie sanders reaction is. >> he says, this is bernie sanders r

america safe and strong? how should we relate to the soviet union? keep in mind, we have had many good presidents who came out of domestic politics but understood our country and what it stood for. reaganok at president who had more success in for policy the domestic policy. the best example is president gorbachev who came out of a left him of domestic politics and former successful abroad than at home. --you are relying on your >> when i graduated from the school of foreign service with a degree in international affairs i would be the only president ever elected who studied foreign affairs in college. i worked for the foreign relations committee of the united states and and spent 11 years working on global economics. i am involved in a portion of this but i think the more important thing is do you know it to do and you have good judgment? what is your policy going to be? >> thank you a lot. i did not think i was going to catch you. >> i am sorry i didn't get to answer that out there. >> i wish you good luck in the future. >> thank you. what is your

professionals is proof you made the right decision 40 years ago to leave the soviet union and come here to the united states of america in search of a better life for our family. do not worry. i will be fine for telling the truth. >> there is also news on the 2020 election front tonight four days out, of course, from the new hampshire primary. the latest nbc news/marist poll shows the race narrowing to four main candidates. we'll have more on that later. meanwhile, trump's former navy secretary richard spencer is now endorsing mike bloomberg's bid to keep the president from winning a second term. spencer, you may recall, was fired after he opposed trump's decision to pardon a navy s.e.a.l. who had been charged with war crimes. he's the first trump political appointee to come out in support of one of his former boss' opponents in the 2020 race, and today spencer explained why he is backing mike bloomberg. >> we need leadership, proven leadership like mike. we need honesty. we need integrity. he respects opinions. he is not the sole i have the only answer, which is a very dangerous position to be in. >> we will get to o

professionals is proof that you made the right decision 40 years ago to leave the soviet union and come here to the united states of america in search of a better leaf for our family. do not worry. i will be fine for telling the truth. >> do not worry. i will be fine for telling the truthful leading off our discussion, a mexico of the house intelligence committee hxt and he questioned lieutenant colonel vindman. also here, jeremy bash at the cia and defense department. and josh, former senior director for former terrorism. he's the executive director for constitutional add cassy and protection. you and i have had spoken many times. i have fewer words tonight than he have on most nights. there are people who have poenltd pout the president is entirely, entirely within his right to have vindman reasigned, to have gordon sondland, a trump reporter and fund-raiser called back. we're not entirely sure why vindman's brother has been reasigned but there is month part that anyone can could not convenience me does not feel a lot like authoritarianism tonight. a night of long knives. >> i think leaders in those countries exact retri

. >> you made the right decision 40 years ago to leave the soviet union and come here to the united states of americaarch of a later life for our family. do not worry. i will be fine for telling the truth. >> that's an update out of washington. republicans making news, trying to demand records for joe biden's son, hunter biden, and his travels. all this raising questions about what the end of the acquittal means and whether there is an effort to use government power to go after the bidens or other people that donald trump considers on his enemy list. we'll get into that and a whole lot more. i'm joined by communications director for joe biden's campaign, katie bettingfield. thanks for joining me. >> thanks for having me. >> absolutely. as mentioned, i want to get into that. let me give you a quick, clean opener. where has joe biden been the last few days, and what does he want to get across tonight at the debate? >> yeah. so he's here today in new hampshire. he was sitting down with local media, meeting voters where they are in their living rooms. tonight, he's going to lay out the case for his candi

foreign-policy is, when is it appropriate to use force, how do we keep america safe and strong, how can we relate to the soviet union? keep in mind, we have had many good presidents who came out of domestic politics, but who understood our country and what its interests were. just look at president reagan. he had more success in foreign-policy arguably than the policy, no experience. and president gorbachev came out of a lifetime of domestic politics and has had far more -- has been far more successful abroad than at home. >> you are relying on your -- [indiscernible] gov. clinton: not just that. when i graduated from the school of foreign service with a degree in international affairs from georgetown university, i would be the only president ever elected to actually studied foreign affairs in college. i worked for the foreign relations committee of the united states senate, and i spent 11 years working on global economic affairs. i'm very involved in a portion of this. but i think the more important thing is -- do you know what to do? do you have good judgment? and what is your policy going to be? >> thank you. gov

soviet union the u.s. promised aid to strengthen iran's armed forces and in return for weapons america would get a while. i . already cut. them off and the americans gave the shah modern weapons to build up his armed forces. there were countless military advisors in iran who decided what would be done and what wouldn't ask you to do it and the things they did was certainly not a service to democracy that bush diminished a democratic. in the 960 s. iran was still very much a developing country most people were tenant farmers with most of the land in the hands of feudal lords and big landowners including numerous mullahs and religious foundations. was. on january 11th 963 the sham put forward a comprehensive reform program aimed at significantly improving the people's living conditions he called it the white revolution. and you know this if it will make the white revolution that his majesty decided to undertake was truly his idea and his decision. he wanted his country and his people to develop to be shared a little bit at a nationwide referendum was held on a vast majority voted in favor of the m.p. share