she joins me tonight from washington, and i'm also happy to welcome to the program william tubman. he is a pulitzer prize winning author. his latest book is entitled gorbachev. his life in times. and mr. tillman is also in the u. s. capital. tonight to both of you, welcome to the program. i'm glad that you could take the time with us this evening to talk about the life and legacy of mikhail gorbachev. his death became known public knowledge about 24 hours ago. the west has been emoting ever since about a great statesman inside russia. we've had a telegram from the kremlin, sent to the family, and that's about it. we in the west, it seems wish that we had had more gorbachev. and in the kremlin, you get the sense that they are wishing that they had never had any gorbachev. professor stent. let me start with you. what do you say to that? is that how the dividing lines or tonight? well, they carry a certainly like that in western europe and the united states. gorbachev is a great statesman who and ended the cold war, allowed germany to unify peacefully and really liberated millions of

are rapidly returning the phrase voiced here by many what is that at the end of an era writer, william tubman wrote a biography of gorbachev. he says the formerly that was viewed very different, differently at home and in the west. well, he stood for what he actually did not want to call western values. he wanted to call them universal values, freedom, democracy, piece of. and that's why the west appreciated what he did. on the other hand, russians experienced the troubles that his reforms led to in their own lives on their own skin. that is, the economy got worse. instead of better, the country became polarized on nationalism and ethnic separatism exploded. uh, tearing apart the union itself. so i understand that a lot of st. russian people, soviet people felt that he had failed them. on the other hand, i wish i wish that in retrospect, they would understand that if he had not tried their lives would probably be even worse. let's take a look now at some of the stories making headlines. pakistan is calling on the international community to do more to help victims of devastating monsoon floods

the phrase voiced here by many is that at the end of an era while are less bringing william tubman, who has written extensively anna quite an interesting biography of mccoll garbage have. he joins us from am hurst in the u. s. 8 of massachusetts to we have him on the line. i've just been told we've just lost the line to 1000000 william tab and we'll try and see if we can get him back up a little bit later. in the meantime, moving on to pakistan, which has seen quite a devastating humanitarian crisis which has caused a which was caused by weeks of one, sued rain and heavy flooding. areas in the self are likely to be flooded again as water surges from brother, rivers in the north. more than 1200 people have been killed and much of pakistan is under water. the one says the scale of the design, the disaster is unprecedented. and officials are warning all the danger from disease and even famine has uri, debbie was forced to flee her home as pakistan's flood waters rose. when they receded, she returned to a house caked in mud. the mother is trying to look after her newborn baby in unsanitary

william houser. that one felt extremely poignant because you literally could have removed much like tubman's articleand speech. you could have removed dates and references to the vietnam war and literally reprinted it in journals today, and it would still be incredibly relevant and incredibly poignant to some of the things the military is continuing to work through. so 50 years later, 50 years later, a group of army doctor writers are putting their finishing touches on three operations, which is a capstone book to the united states army, and determining which quotes in which vignettes would make the cut. and they decided and settled through some pretty amazing leadership and some pretty amazing research that to foster young, young females, young tacticians in the future. it was time to include her ideas, her thoughts. this is the team that did it. i contributed, like i said, just a small, small portion to this. and i am really, really proud to be a female service member who has worked alongside some of these individuals. it takes really insightful, forward thinking leadership historically minded lea

tubman. it's said that she could have freed many more if they had but known they were slaves. williamtill, elijah anderson, frederick douglass and of course the great abraham lincoln. all persons who worked as liberators. i will be saying more about this, if you missed out on some portion of it tonight, i will present it in a similar fashion at a later time. and i'm grateful for the time. again, mr. hoyer, i thank you for being a riempous ally -- righteous ally of enslaved people. and mr. president, i'll be eternally grateful to you for being a righteous ally and a person who issued the statement recognizing slavery remembrance day, august 20, of each year. i yield back the balance of my time. the speaker pro tempore: pursuant to section 1 of house resolution 1230, the house stands adjourned until 9:00 a.m. tomorrow. >> cox, along with these other television providers. giving you a front row seat to democracy. >> high school students, it's your time to shine. you're invitessed to participate in this year's c-span student cam documentary competition. in light of the upcoming midterm el