gorbachev discovered that he was also in the dark as the soviet leader. >> soviet newscasters deliberatelyident, reporting it after the latest five-year plan and crop reports. eight or nine minutes into the news, an announcer said that only two people had been killed in the incident, contradicting one news report that casualties numbered in the thousands. >> chernobyl was not a flash in the pan. every few weeks there would be something like chernobyl because of structural defects of the soviet system. >> officials say that because this took place at the soviets' newest reactor, it's another indication of the inferiority of soviet technology, and they say that they brought on the accident not taking the same safety precautions taken in the united states. >> chernobyl reminded the soviets that they couldn't play in the game of modern technology. they couldn't protect their own people and they couldn't hide it anymore. >> gorbachev's biggest challenge was how to get his country moving again, and in order to do that, he needed to end the arms race, he needed to spend more money on improving li

it is soviet american relations. in a period of decent relations between the united states and it is soviet american relations. russia, the foreign ministry jointly compiled and produced the volumes. this -- in book in the state department. wasn't enough to have one, you had to have two. it captures the memorandum of the conversations of their telephone. it shows both sides of the story. it's a he said he said because both sides of each meeting. sometimes you wonder if they are at the same meeting. you can use the contrast to uncover what really happened. , which ishat source invaluable. and then confidence. you have a number of memos. kissinger would have a secretary and takenon the phone down initially on shorthand and typed it out in long form. there are tens of thousands of these pages of telecom transcript in the national archives. every time kissinger talks to , almost every time there is a record for it. people also struggle to do that same type of practice. years anget to the 40 exit resign the presidency, a

and the soviet foreign minister, the president of the soviet the president of the soviet union makes a speech, i will not make a handshake with bloody's in vietnam and so on. once the have transcripts they can ship to annoy. -- hanoi. look, we drove a hard bargain to those capitalist americans. once that had been done that was the end of it. and here's the decisiveness. you can see when nixon had a man crush on him. [laughter] so, the soviets , that was anixon way to nixon to send a message to the soviets. this soviets sent their own message to nixon by having the trade minister visits the white house about 1.5 weeks before nixon the parts. here's a great -- nixon departs. here is a great picture. he is staring at kissinger. this sly look between them. in a second. there you go. hey, we did it. sent their own messages. may 1972 you sign the anti-ballistic missile treaty, a cornerstone of arms control with the soviet union. you sign an arm agreement on the limit of offensive arms. other agreements including cooperation of efforts on science and technology, medicine and cancer research

and soviet union. there were other back channels between a news man who served in the nixon administration and another soviet agent, and there in aplaque in georgetown restaurant in washington, d.c. that says in this spot, the world was saved. back channels can be useful. they can also have murky ties to intelligence. think the soviet agent was a , and in reality he was kgb. he had a direct line to the criminally -- the kremlin leadership. he was able to de-escalate the crisis. you are going to wonder why i am going back to this. it is to show you the magic of photoshop. the the book cover. the lampshade reappears. this reminds me, your event at camp david, they had recording devices at camp david. some really great tapes because nixon used to blow off steam when he went to camp david. that was the last taping system installed. he didn't just have them in the oval office. my book, the focus is on the two of richardher side nixon, henry kissinger and dobrynin wasnin. from the kennedy administration thro

soviet relations. that deterioration in u.s. soviet relations.nd it blames this deterioration not on the kremlin but on reagan belligerence actually uses word reagan belligerence, and it says that this is due to reagan's refusal to engage in modification to his politics or policies. so -- kennedy and the document and the document at least framing of kennedy offer blaming deterioration in u.s. soviet relation on t rouged reagan. >> so soviet or kennedy or all of them are blaming them? >> this would be defense later of the kennedy people as you know, well that's their interpretation of this. but according to he's couching this and language of this is kennedy's interpretation. >> kennedy approached them. kennedy approached them through john to and who later comment on this in london times article in february 199 dismissed it like owing -- you know, not what people are trying to make of it. when. my first book in 2006 only media source in the country that touched it was you're from philadelphia.ce cn8 which is like a regional cable news outlet, i did

soviet troops confined to bases in poland. the civil government had ceased to function during the pope's five days there. i remember thinking, these people are in trouble. my refined judgment now having thought about it and looking back, the pope did not call for a revolt, instead he turned the hourglass upside down and started the sand running out on that form of rule. reagan could help, but he could not have done it without that happening. peter: could the pope have done it without the united states, without ronald reagan? steven: that is a big question. i think reagan, casey, bill clark thought of the vatican as a better source of intelligence and insight into what was going on. peter: i have never been able to resist paula for 30 years. paula: on poland, i do not know how many people know this, but at the same time reagan said advanced let poland be poland, the pope in 1981 cent a private note to brezhnev about the troops that were amassed on the border and made an appeal. his moral uplifting, his involvement, engagement,

mark: kennedy or the soviets? we make this would be the defense of the kennedy people so that is their interpretation of this but according to others he is in this with the interpretation. >> he approach them and later was commented in the article february 1992 and dismissed it that is not what people are trying to make of it. but when the crusader was published 2006 the only media source in the country that touched it, you are from philadelphia was a regional cable news outlet. i did that show and actually called kennedy's office and said what is your response to this professor book? they argued with the interpretation. >> what did kennedy want to do? . >> it was it - - within the context of the 1984 presidential election just around the core. so they are communicating in 1983. >> right before he is up for reelection kennedy makes contact with the kremlin what does kennedy want to do with the kremlin? . >> according to the document kennedy believes it is the fault of reagan's and not the fault of the soviet union

the soviet union was a different matter. the soviet union began to raise the question of oil futures with the north vietnamese listening to that. >> these talks taking place in paris more from 1968 and the johnson white house. on march 31 president johnson had ordered bombing in all areas of north vietnam except the immediate panhandle about the dmc. an area where infiltrators and supplies of war continued to pour. >> as a result of this decision, the talks with hanoi began in paris on may 13. during september the ambassador , president's chief negotiator at the talks reported that after four months and 21 formal sessions there still have been no subnet, subnet it to discussions. they clung to their long-held demand that all bombing must stop. before they would discuss anything else. the president and close counsel with his top military and foreign affairs advisers repeatedly asked for assurances that hanoi would reciprocate with some form of military de- escalation should the bombing be completely stop. no such assurance wa

to cut it off from the soviet union would strike a big blow indeed. for most of the soviet union the second world war was about fighting the invaders of their land. but it wasn't quite so simple for ukraine the truth is ukraine has never been a united country. when world war two broke out a large part of western ukraine's population welcomed the german soldiers as liberators from the recently forced upon them soviet rule and openly collaborated with the germans. the real scale of collaboration was not announced for many years after the war but we now know that whole divisions and battalions were formed by ukrainian collaborators such as s.s. c. and not to go and roll into battalions. just in the beginning of the war more than eighty thousand people from college cina region voluntarily enrolled into division s.s. galad seen in a month and a half notorious for their extreme cruelty towards the polish jewish and russian people on the territory of ukraine. members of these military groups came mostly from the organization of ukrainian nationalists b.-o. u

it's not only the soviet interiors that have survived here but some soviet political habits as well. alexander became famous already in the soviet period as an innovative scriptwriter he knows a thing or two but censorship since the soviet film industry was subjected to it officially. if parker. school could not. do. or. if you. do your st charles to be where you mystery school. absolute. war. keep the know if. you want to make. a big shiny. three of a woody. are you. not. it. would have been. which. would you go to. the bad with. the bull. rush hour or. so there's no censorship just friendly advice from an official historian or a political scientist on duty. and public spaces in moscow a full of intellectually alert people no different from their counterparts elsewhere the modern world. there are public events that have no sign of government control. yet such appearances may be misleading. to doc is known for shows that have based on real life stories it believes it's a victim of politically motivated harassment right now it's been thrown out of its premises by a bully landlord or t

news who was nabbed by the soviets in the 1980s and then traded for soviet intelligence assets. an american spy. is that what we're looking at here? i don't really know, but it's a very unusual case, i think. >> steve, ambassador jont huntsman has already visited whelan in prison. is that sending a signal to the russians about how seriously this is being seen? >> yeah, absolutely. i think it's the right thing to do. ambassadors rarely, as a matter of fact, in my recollection, never in my 30-year career did i see an ambassador go in for something that is normally, you know, a very low-level type of visit just to make sure that the american prisoner is okay. but, again, getting back to something that susan was just talking about and why this would be so important for the ambassador to go in, it's because this isn't a spy case. paul whelan is not a spy. just as maria butina is not actually a staff intelligence officer herself. she's simply somebody that is being used by the kremlin. i think the real reason that we have this poor american in prison, by the ware, where unspeakable th

maybe it's arab diplomats, former nazis or the soviets. there's a debate about, much like we struggle with anti-semitism today, are there ties behind all these people, are they lone wolves? what's driving it? morris abram says he suspects the soviets have a hand in it. this is a chance to make human rights work by forcing change. he is moving through a series of things in the kennedy and johnson administrations and ends up as the u.n. delegate on human rights and stepped into -- into a leadership role with the american jewish committee. why does morris abram think that going to the-up with in explosive topic is going to succeed? because he knows all the politics. the answer is because he said we've just begun to succeed in this country. cial segregation is so decisive. even liberals are hesitant about it but we've just begun to make major strides in this country and this is the moment where civil rights is really beginning to realize the promise of equality and in this country, we're able to actually fight back against segregation and figh

i think he was quite pro soviet at that time.he was-- he would have argued, i suspect he was keeping, you know, communications open, that you couldn't cut off the soviet union completely. but soviet union had interesting things to tell him. telling him little bits of nuggets of information to put in his speeches and he was being used. there was a certain glamour to meeting kgb officers at that time. thought to be something people on the left did. it was sort of a spurious spycraft if you like and quite a few did. in his defense. looking back on it, he denied it utterly. when he was accused of it during his lifetime he flatley denied he ever knowingly met a kgb officer. i think that the word knowingly is a bit of a weasel word. if he didn't know there were kgb officers in these meetings he was being stunningly naive. you have a question. [inaudible question] >> is there a mic? sorry. it's coming to you. >> the title "the spy and traitor" through most of the book i assumed one was gordeevski and the other was ames, those terms are

he talked about two different views of power in the soviet union. about the think ideology, he very big issue in those days. remember when i started i worked a little bit with nathan, and he was, he loved operational cold -- code stuff. so, and other people thought it was just nonsense. think aboutou ideology? >> it is a great question, easy to answer. he was karl mannheim's graduate student. sociologists, he linked ideology to one's particular position within the social order and like his advisor, i talk about this in the book, he argued intellectuals were uniquely able to be above ideology and uniquely evil to his social position and they used pseudo-marxist terms. one of the reasons they were perfectly situated to give good advice is because they were not hammered by social position in the class structure. they were able to literally rise above it and see everything a man provide good advice. >> thank you. >> it seems to me there is another way of telling the story you tell and an older tradition of antidemocratic foreign-policy, rooted in the eu

the soviets, we're not proving anything. that's exactly what the soviets said in public too. that was a lie. let's go back to may 1961 speech where president kennedy tells us we're going to the moon in a decade. a race needs a competitor. in the summer of 1961 we didn't have one. from the soviet perspective, kennedy's challenge was laughable. sent a man around the earth and orbited the earth, took alan shepard put him in a capsule and plopds him from florida and dropped him in the atlantic ocean. suborbital flight. no big deal to the soviets if you already sent somebody around the earth in earth orbit. they were getting mixed messages. they keep offering space cooperation and -- are you serious about this? they don't know. the soviets were more worried about pressing defense issues. they were trying to spend more money on defending their country against the u.s. missile gap they were looking at on their side. when does the moon race actually start? anyone take a guess? on our side it starts here. on the soviet side it starts in august of 1964. long after president kennedy was

communist looking to the soviet union to help them. but if the worlds comprised of only liberal democracy, those disenchanted people inside your liberal democracy have no foreign ally, wood dre will son referred to this as making the world safe for democracy. this is liberal hegemony. >> can you walk us through the failures of this exitment -- commitment. >> the first is the bush doctrine and the bush doctrine was all about spreading democracy in the middle east. iraq was just the first stop on the railroad line. they were going promote democracy in syria, iran, and so forth and so on. and of course that bass at catastrophic failure the amount of blood on 0 hands in the middle east is just hard to describe. second great failure is nato expansion and ou expansion and our effort to take those two institutions, that's to and eu, and match them up to russia's doorstep and create a giant zone of peace in western and eastern europe. this of course led to the crisis over ukraine and most americans believe that russia's responsible for the ukr

when tensions between the united states and the soviet great, thee too soviet union blockaded berlin. question for harry truman was, what do we do? berlin?linquish do we send in military forces, potentially starting world war iii? you know, what is our solution? that was to institute an air providing supplies into berlin from the air. and once this got started, it turned out to be quite successful. and it really expanded. at one point, on a daily about 594ost 600 -- planes each day flew supplies the cityin to keep going. air-liftwould not only in food and fuel. now, the air lift went on for over a year, but the soviet union eventually backed down and access to berlin. this exhibit is about truman's decision to recognize the state june of 1948. coming out of world war ii, many displaced persons throughout europe and, holocaust had devastated the jews in europe. a particular interest in trying to help the of the holocaust. many of them tried to get to palestine. the british had tried to keep them from getting into palestine. the british made notice had done in if greece and turkey, ther

and soviet troops. i thought that was a tremendous accomplishment that i'm glad to have been part of, the development of that doctrine and i brought that knowledge here with me to congress. after the fall of communism. after the disintegration of the soviet union, i believe that we were working for peace. ronald reagan talked about peace through strength. the goal was not strength, the goal was peace. and we needed to go and reach out to find ways of working with russia and to try to meet more of our neutrally beneficial goals and goals that would be helpful to the entire world. we needed to do that and russia was in turmoil. well, i might just note that there are some people that didn't share my desire to try to bring russia into the family of nations and wanted to continue a treat russia as a par inch and american policy as being unrelenting hostility towards russia. communism was our enemy but the people were not. and ronald reagan did have an iron fifth and against those soviet-backed regimes and at

the soviet union, and it is not necessarily considered by americans or even the soviets, now russians, certainly not the afghans, a good thing that they did so. where did he get that idea from? >> i think that idea's borne out of frustration. the president has been -- this ties into the comments and the discussions i think you and i have had about syria as well, which is that the president promised that he would have a different middle eastern foreign policy. and he's just very frustrated with the slow progress in afghanistan, and i think that was probably a comment borne of frustration. >> i think one of the challenges that previous chiefs of staff, especially for this president, not just for this president, but especially for this president, have had is controlling the flow of information and making sure that the information that gets to the resolute desk is accurate and is the best information. i know that outgoing or gone chief of staff john kelly, that was something he put a lot of effort into, making sure that the bad information did not get to president trump and good informati

and so when tensions between the united states and the soviet union became too great, the soviet union blockaded berlin. and so the question for harry truman was, what do we do? do we relinquish berlin? do we send in military forces, potentially starting world war iii? you know, what is our solution? that was to institute an air lift, providing supplies into berlin from the air. and once this got started, it turned out to be quite successful. and it really expanded. and at one point, on a daily basis, almost 600 -- about 594 planes each day flew supplies into berlin to keep the city going. and they would not only air-lift in food and fuel. now, the air lift went on for well over a year, but the soviet union eventually backed down and reopened the access to berlin. this exhibit is about truman's decision to recognize the state of israel in june of 1948. coming out of world war ii, there were many displaced persons throughout europe and, of course, the holocaust had devastated the jews in europe. so truman had a particular interest in trying to help the survivors of the holocaust. many o

the soviet union, 1917 and 1989. many people think when russia's government transition away from communism and did what we could arguably say that is a capitalistic autocracy, that all of that disappeared. in fact, i was roundly attacked by one person when they kept referencing the kgb in the media and saying these things by the basis of the kgb, and this journalist said the kgb ceased to exist 25 years ago. no, the kgb changed its letter some kgb to fsb 25 years ago and then they went to work the next day and continued the same thing. thing. i tried to bring about continuity in knowledge base of what our opponents were doing over all this time and then how it survived the communist era and became the perfect topic and weapon systems which really required the money, resources and dedication of a capitalist society to turn it into the lethal weapon that the used to attack the united states with. >> host: the director directorf national intelligence, dan coats, has talked about the fact that russia's efforts are ongoin

competition with the soviet union. that is the usual answer and a think that people think we went to the moon because this guy flew in space in april 1961. the u.s. was embarrassed once again by the soviets beating us into space. while the flight prompted president kenny to go to congress, and it was clear that was one of the big props for him, but the decision was made for other reasons. not because president kennedy was a believer that we should go find oxygen on the moon or because it is there or he thought we had to have a civilization that spanned the solar system, not really. when kennedy began his term, both of his speeches at his inauguration and it is first state of the union address a few days later, yackley tried to defuse the space freeze. he said that we should cooperate in space rather than compete with each other and basically offered a reset and said let's be friends and cooperate in space. in fact even after making the speech were he said we could get to the service of the moon within a decade, the nex

it had nothing do with terrorism in the soviet union. he must have grabbed pieces of history and is thinking of check nia. this is truly an astonishing ignorant statement by the president. >> gentlemen, it's so scarring. it's hard to visit afghanistan and not come face-to-face with the shards of the old soviet military. you'll see a tank track, pieces of artillery. it litters the countryside. >> yeah, it was a disaster for the soviet union. a bunch of 18-year-old draftee boys fighting these nationalists, patriotic app -- i so it's hard to imagine what the president was thinking of when he made this assertion. there's certainly no comparability at all between the soevt experience and after began stan which whas stamped the population into the ground and the attempt by nato allies to support putting afghanistan back together. i think that must be his purpose to delegitimize what we're doing in afghanistan, and now it essentially ends the likelihood of a diplomatic initiative to end the war. >> frank, you and i always take even. i think the

it was a disaster for the soviet union. a bunch of 18-year-old draftee boys fighting these nationalist, patriotic afghans who were basically responding to communism as an atheistic, you know, affront to islam. so, you know, it's hard to imagine what the president was thinking of when he made this assertion. there's certainly no comparability at all between the soviet experience in afghanistan, which was stamped the civilian population into the ground and the attempt by the nato allies, and much of the world community to support putting afghanistan back together. i think that must be his purpose, to delegitimize what we're now doing in afghanistan, given the fact he tweeted out this unilateral, we're going to going to cut our troop presence in half in afghanistan, which i might add now essentially ends the likelihood of a diplomatic initiative to end the war. >> frank, you and i always talk about things that take place in plain sight. i'm just a civilian. i always think the feds are operating at a higher level. but the presi

physicist for allegedly spying on behalf of the soviet union. so he gets arrested here, he's a soviet physicist. he's charged as a spy. to get him back, the soviets, three days later, arrested an american journalist in moscow who worked for u.s. news and world report at the time. and the point of his arrest had less to do with him than it did with the fact that they wanted that soviet physicist back. and sure enough, the soviets ended up swapping the american journalist in moscow for the russian physicist in new york. they had something to trade, see? and it wasn't quite that simple, there was other retaliation on both sides. it was a big diplomatic standoff. but the principle is worth knowing from history, right? as one russian accused foreign agent right now sits here in an american jail with a cooperation agreement, and one american, now newly sits in jail over there. so, again, the state department and the secretary of state mike pompeo do not seem at least publicly exercised about this newly arrested american in moscow. but this thing is wo

this was part of the soviet union and kremlin. as a patriot, as a man who believed in the judeo-christian values of his country, he decided to resist. not with a gun or a bomb, in college she started his secret christian underground association. it would spy on the soviets, collect sensitive information about how they were stealing the national treasure of hungry, how they were reneging on the requirements of the treaty and smuggle that information to the west, so that a democratic country could use it against moscow. they did for eight months. they would give out that information to vienna. they found a nation interested in that and it was u.k. their reports ended up landing on the desks of none other than kim filby. kim filby, who, if you are a history buff, was one of the five deadliest traders to the west that we have ever seen. the so-called cambridge apostles who were recruited by the soviets, who penetrated the highest echelons of the british establishment, the fco, and kim filby collected these reports until he could ident

it's not only the soviet interiors that have survived here but some soviet political habits as well. alexander became famous already in the soviet period as an innovative scriptwriter he knows a thing or two about censorship since the soviet film industry was subjected to it officially. parka. the school could not. or. could laws on there. that you don't. need somebody a dog to your st charles to be where you missed the school to move. toward and. keep the. know it to. be shiny. three of a woody. are you. not. a. new. to the squid was. it. which you. got. the bit with. the bull. rush or. so there's no censorship just friendly advice from an official historian or a political scientist on duty. and public spaces in moscow a full of intellectually learned people no different from their counterparts elsewhere the modern world. there are public events that have no sign of government control. yet such appearances may be misleading. to doc is known for shows that have based on real life stories it believes it's a victim of politically motivated harassment right now it's based on out of its

and the soviet union in strength right in the heart of europe. two powers that had been , havezed by that conflict very different views of what the conflict was about and what the notre should hold and were of a mind to compromise. the only way stalin knew how to control a country or region was by eliminating dissent. that was unacceptable to the united states and its allies. the united states also had a that after to put it bluntly the europeans had screwed up twice in a generation it was time for the americans to put their own imprint on the future piece. what you got is a war that shifts in terms of values and perceptions into a cold war confrontation with the soviet union in which the rebuilding of germany is accelerated and the rebuilding .f japan is accelerated >> thank you very much for your comments this morning and please forgive a question from someone who is very new to the sub check. >> they are always the most difficult. please carry on. >> my understanding is that women in great britain were out marching for the vote. and then a gen

british interests were not best served by having a heavily nuclearized soviet union. he thought eisenhower would not address that whereas the democrats might. >> yes, sir. we have a microphone. right here. >> thank you also for coming here, it's been real treat. and having read your book on halifax many, many years ago, i can't wait to read your book on churchill. you probably get this question a lot since "the darkest hour" came out, the movie, and now being an expert, obviously, on both the leading characters in that, what is your take on the movie? do you think that the artistic license that they took was necessary to get the story out to a wider audience? i'm just curious as your thoughts. >> thank you very much for reading my first book, "the holy fox," i wrote it 30 years ago since when i've written five other books with churchill in the title or subtitle. i really feel as though i was walking with destiny and all my past life was preparation for this hour and this trial. [laughter] the -- i loved the film. i thought it was great. i loved gary oldman's prostheti

into the soviet union. he was a middleman for everyone in the east coast. during world war ii after the he saw the light. he said how can the system i've so adored now work with hitler. and he left the communist party and went underground, he say for his life and took his family with him. but he kept all the documentation of his work for the soviet union. after the war ended, he had found jesus, he found the love for his country and said he has a duty to help the true administration know the moles inside the u.s. government and the east coast. nobody was interested, the white house was interested, the fbi was interested until richard nixon of capitol hill was very interested. as such whitaker chambers became the man who testified for the third time ever in life hearings on capitol hill. i am a former communist, and one of them is that man over there, he had the act halter and had to be the highest man in the u.s. administration who was on the left. he was a darling and all the left foundations, writing all

meaning the soviet union was right to invade afghanistan.said, quote, the reason russia was in afghanistan was terrorists were going into russia. that is what the president said yesterday in the cabinet room. and you may not care at all why the soviet union invaded afghanistan in 1979. that is fine. but the president randomly volunteering that analytical take on that matter yesterday ought to pique your interest because that view does not exist in nature in this country. no one -- no liberal, no conservative, no contrary out of the box foreign policy thinker -- nobody holds the belief in american politics, in american academia, in american fantasy foot ball chat rooms -- i spent the day looking. this is not a live issue anywhere in u.s. politics. it is not a live issue among weird conservative fringe media figures that you might not know about that the president might love. there is no fox pay per view podcast where judge janine sits around in the studio with other pals cooking up revisionist history justifications about why soviet special o

they are not a superpower as was the soviet union. they can stabilize things and as such there's one strategic level china the viewers don't have to take my word for it is to displace america by the 100th anniversary of the chinese revolution and they are doing god with all instruments revitalizing the military and pieces in the south china sea using economic warfare from afghanistan it was the largest copper mine in the world or whether it is with espionage in the u.s. that that's what they are doing and he very rapidly came around and he now understands and that is where we have the investigation and the e commander-in-chief understaffed to the america and he's dealing with it. >> host: in a section you bring in whittaker chambers and you said one man against the world. tell briefly is the story and how that relates to this whole theme of healthy when it witnesses but truly life-changing book and he was a man that had been a soviet agent before world war ii and took classified information and smuggled it to the soviet union and he w

they are not a super power as was the soviet union. they can seriously destabilize things but they're not a super power. as such, there is one strategic level threat we face and that's china and china, your viewers don't have to take my word for it, you don't need the clearance go to your favorite search engine and just type in one belt one road. one belt one road is the chinese communist parties vowed strategic plan to displace america by the 100th anniversary of the chinese communist revolution for 2049 and to become the world's most powerful power and they are doing it with all in sturements of national power revitalizing their military, building these military bases in the south china sea using economic warfare from afghanistan, they own the largest copper mine in the world , which is in afghanistan now belongs to the chinese state whether it's in africa with rare earth minerals or espionage in the u.s. costing us billions of dollars every day, or go back to political warfare, go back to propaganda, the so-called institutes across

the soviets in the cold war were always over there and uses soviet investments inside of america.nsidered treason to help the soviet union but with china it's the opposite. they are considered her friends and it's a little bit too conservative to be against china these days. mark: how is donald trump doing with respect to china? he seems to be changing the paradigm. >> he has their attention. they are in a feisty fighting mode where they are matching all the tariffs and they are saying they are innocent of all of these allegations he is made of various reports of technology theft, technology transfer and many others. they claim this evidence doesn't hold up and do something that's really quite dramatic. they said china is leading the rest of the world in favor of free trade against president trump. even i who have great admiration for chinese strategy as you can tell, even i didn't think they would be that dramatic to say we are protecting the world against president trump in terms of free trade. a lot of people believed it. mark: is actually hurting them somewhat. >> the value of

many belonged to the other soviet republics.o, who has said that the collapse of the soviet union was the greatest geopolitical tragedy of the 20th century. he has -- he is very anxious to blame that war for a failure that was much more inherent in the evil of the soviet system, itself. >> let's listen to what chuck rosenberg said about this. >> the president of the united states is echoing directly the line of the kremlin on a whole bunch of things, and so whether or not it results in an indictment, whether or not it's something we ultimately can see, touch, feel, and hear, this is something that u.s. intelligence officials have to understand. why is the president saying what he's saying? >> and david, u.s. intelligence officials have different methods than the special prosecutor about how to find this out. >> well, rachel maddow made a fabulous point in her presentation on this where she reminded everyone that in the very beginning of the trump administration that the trump administration was accepting crazy soviet propaganda,

the soviets did not invade afghanistan to stop terrorism. educator, it just embarrasses me when i hear the president say things like that. but to your point, it is striking that he does pick up on these very strange ideas in conversations with leaders. most certainly vladimir putin. i know because i remember an idea that putin floated to him last july when he said wouldn't it be a great idea to interrogato interrogate a bunch of americans in response to the mueller indictment. you remember that story. and president trump came out and said that's a great idea. solve there is a pattern here of him picking up these very strange ideas from people like putin and then stating them as if they are facts. >> and you were one of the americans who president putin thought should be allowed to interrogate. >> yes. that one i caught. that one caught my attention, believe me. >> well, i'm -- does this happen with other presidents? is this not that unusual? obviously, world leaders do have conversations. they meet at summits. they have phone conversations m

. >>> russia used to be the soviet union.fghanistan made it russia because they went bankrupt fighting in afghanistan. russia. but russia should be fighting, and the reason that russia was in afghanistan was because terrorists were going into russia, and they were right to be there >> so while trying to defend his position for pulling the troops out of syria and afghanistan, president trump spark ed a whol new controversy and criticism over his bizarre and false remarks about the soviet invasion of afghanistan 40 years ago. the president appearing to endorse old soviet union talking point s points in the cabinet meeting earlier in the week about the 1979 invasion by the soviets which they justified as a extension of the brezhnev doctrine. and the decade-long war was universally condemned at the time and since throughout the noncommunist world and leading jimmy carter to cancel participation in the 1980 moscow olympics and after the russians retreated and leaving afghanistan shattered and the taliban in control, it largely bro

what reagan didn't take into consideration was the paranoid overreaction of the soviets. a recently declassified us intelligence report shows that for the first time since the cuban missile crisis the world was close to nuclear war. just like in one nine hundred eighty three the malaysian boeing crash was leveraged against the enemy. a new wave of sanctions hit russia mediately after the tragedy. the united states is imposing new sanctions in key sectors of the russian economy almost a year and three months later the dutch safety board published a report that is itself flights m.h. seventy crashed because of. three well four and or i have the today just outside of the airplane avesta left side of the cockpit the report didn't blame any specific group or person and estimated a very wide area of three hundred twenty kilometers as a zone from which the missiles fired at the same time the russian producer of boog missiles day conducted its own independent investigation. that they speeded me up the fullest. lou of the delegates i mean if you like it the nist is up a school dur

the former soviet republics are now independent states. yet russia still holds sway economically and culturally in some parts of the former empire bordering on the russian federation.