. >> i don't mind tough talk when reagan called the soviet union an evil empire he was telling the truth and that's fine. the problem with donald trump's rhetoric is it's self-destructive. first of all, it may put the north koreans in a corner where they can't back down because of their own psyching needs and creates a context where north korea can do whatever they want in the atmosphere, and suddenly we look like the bad guys. that's the interesting thing about the speech was so nationalistic. >> yeah. if you're the country who is the top dog in the world, which we are, you need international organizations and alliances to exthe end your power. if you take that away, you diminish yourself. so his nationalistic pose makes sense if you're vladimir putin, a second-rate power, but if you're a top-rate power it's self-destructive and we have less leverage rather than more. >> woodruff: wheark, what do we look for in the weeks to come? right now, it is literally a war of words. a lot of people are listening thinking are we going to go to war? >> i certainly pray not, i hope not. i take some c

union. >> the collapse of the soviet and president ronald reagan and his team. >> rose: the destruction of it. >> yes. a once in a life time geo political, not a century, once in a country's history where your rival collapses and we squandered it -- by the way they go on tv -- i don't want to hear it. it gets over me like nothing else. do you know why? they're idiots and they've got us in this situation and they question a good man like donald trump. >> rose: who are you -- >> i can't name names. >> rose: you have to name names. >> condaleesa awe rice, george w. bush, his entire national security apparatus and -- >> rose: colin powell, condaleesa rice, cheney. >> all of them. it's three administrations. that's who trump ran against. he ran against the bush clinton apparatus. that's what he defeated the bush apparatus in the primary, he defeated the clinton apparatus in the general election. that's what the american people rejected. that's when they knew they were getting a donald trump. by the way every day he is there, every day he is there, working through exactly opposite of what the

union. moscow says its a defensive exercise, but others see a more ominous purpose. nick schifrin has our report. >> reporter: on day two of the imagined war between nato and russia, the cacophony of combat crescendoed. ( explosion ) russia's military exercise is called zapad, or west, and it began with the military responding to a hypothetical threat to russian ally belarus. soldiers quickly crossed the belarus border and unleashed hell. 70 jets and helicopters. 250 tanks helped defend belarus. and that was before the scenario escalated. an airborne operation dropped tanks 20 miles from nato-meber estonia's border, preventing a hypothetical incursion by nato troops. 10 russian ships set to sea to escape hypothetical incoming nato cruise missile strikes. and witnessing it all, russian commander in chief and president vladimir putin, whose allies say they genuinely fear nato launching this kind of war. >> nato now is after russia's regime change, and therefore we have to defend ourselves, so

[applause] from the soviet union to cuba o venezuela, wherever true socialism or communism has been adopted, it has delivered anguish and devastation and failure. those who preach the tenets of these discredited ideologies only contribute to the continued suffering of the people who live under these cruel systems. america stands with every person living under a brutal regime. our respect for sovereignty is also a call for action. all people deserve a government that cares for their safety, their interests, and their wellbeing, including their prosperity. in america, we seek stronger ties of business and trade with all nations of good will, but this trade must be fair and it must be reciprocal. for too long, the american people were told that mammoth multinational trade deals, unaccountable international tribunals, and powerful global bureaucracies were the best way to promote their success. but as those promises flowed, millions of jobs vanished and thousands of factories disappeared. others gamed the system and broke the rules. and our great middle class, once the bedrock of american prosp

union. the incident was an inspiration for cornwell's most memorable success, "tinker tailor soldier spy." the book and this bbc adaptation are about the search for a russian mole at the highest level of the circus... >> we have a rotten apple, and the maggots are eating at the circus. >> kroft: ...conducted by le carrÉ's portly spymaster and favorite character, george smiley. >> le carré: it's a very close bond. george smiley is my secret sharer, my companion. and i think that, because i'm given to exaggerated emotions at times, smiley moderates me as a writer. >> kroft: the character, played by alec guinness in this bbc version, is about as close as le carrÉ gets to a hero. at best, middle-aged, a hapless cuckold, he is measured, sensible, clever and devoted to his job. what do you like best about smiley? >> le carré: i think how he toughs it out. >> kroft: survivor. >> le carré: more than that. he does a good job. >> tidy up! >> le carré: and much of it is distasteful to him. but he

union, nobody had the balls to stand up, implying that xi jinping would if it came to it send in the tanks to pursue china's views aggressively. and i think if you look at the china dream, the great national rejuvenation of china, this is to use american terms a blood and soil fascist dream. we have those here and it's the ultimate forcible if necessary absorption of taiwan. i don't think it's a dream that in any way is derived from advice he's getting from the pla in large measure because he's purged most of the people in the pla who could have opposed him. if people in the pla are imposing this on xi jinping how is it they're not getting purged too? this is an individual who i think is very comfortable wearing the reins of power. it feels that it's his mission to preserve the ccp and to expand its influence and feels like he has the political wherewithal to do so and to push forward and that it's what the ccp itself wants him to do or needs him to do if it's going to survive. it's a return to late 1980s neo-authoritarianism. it's very much a discussion that was in vogue almost 30 y

union to cuba to venezuela, wherever true socialism or communism has been adopted, it brings devalue. the ideologies only contribute to the continued suffering of the people who live under these cruel systems. america stands with every person living under a brutal regime. a respect for sovereignty is also a call for action. all people deserve a government that cares for their safety, their interests and their well-being, including their prosperity. in america, we seek stronger ties of business and trade with all nations of good will, but this trade must be fair and it must be reciprocal. for too long, the american people were told that mammoth multinational trade deals, unaccountable international tribunals and global bureaucracies were the best way to promote their success. but as those promises flowed, millions of jobs vanished and thousands of factories disappeared. others gamed the system, and broke the rules. in our great middle class, once the bedrock of american prosperi prosperity, was forgotten and left behind, but they are forgotten no more, and they will never be forgotten

olga: on some of these construction sites, work stopped in the 1990's, after the soviet union fell apart. the chernobyl disaster put an end to other plans. and on top of that came the economic crisis. reporter: the crisis hit the transportation infrastructure especially hard. a subway station had been planned for under the academy, but it, too, is just a shell. the trains don't stop here. the young men at the ice-skating rink are going to do some rope jumping. they're here for the adventure -- not to steal the materials. oleg: we want to do and see what's not allowed. forbidden fruit tastes the sweetest. reporter: in the early 1990's, work began on a new bridge over the dnieper. it's been rusting away for years, now. it would take over 300 million euros to complete -- money ukraine simply doesn't have. some say it's becoming kiev's new landmark. olga: i see this bridge as a monument to the city government's mismanagement. the construction could've been completed long ago. i hope they'll finish it some day. then we'll have a monument to corruption. reporter: the young adventurers are amon

even during the height of the cold war, including soviet union, they have never threatened to use nuclear weapons, unless they are attacked by nuclear weapons. but north korea has blatantly publicly threatened that they will strike the united states with nuclear weapons. so far, this has been and remains a war of words. but if american planes do clash with the north korean military, the risk of tipping into conflict increases dramatically. danny savage, bbc news, seoul. our correspondent gary o'donoghue is in washington. and another tweet from president trump this morning, this time about an american student who was held there. this was a student that returned from north korea after a year in prison in a coma back injune, and then died. there was a lot of circumspection around the way the american described that. this morning, donald trump said he was unbelievably tortured. that's the first time he's made that accusation, the us has made that accusation. that will ratchet up the pressure, bear in mind that north korea already says america has declared war on it, and has threatened to shoo

union, and his feeling that we're his number one rival. r wants toermine the eu uroeapean-andmerican ayllian. and so i see it as-- you know, i was doing my job. i was honored to do my job, to stand up and speak out on behalf of american values and our democracy. and partly because i'm a woman, which does seem to get him a bit agitated. ( laughter ) ( applause ) and he actually has said that. some things about that. >> stephen: did he ever say anything to you personally that demonstrated his-- >> well, heemte ie hek, kno there's an expression, we certainly know it in new york, " ( laughter ) >> stephen: yes. ( applause ) >> and every time i met with him, it would be... okay. the whole deal. and so i'd go to meetings with him-- one in particular, we were esd the pressoutside of moscow. just berates america about one of the many things that annoys him about us. and then the press leaves, and i've got four or five things we're trying to deal with him and russia on. and i always came to my meetings with him trying to find something that i could

union, and to bring china into the family of nations. long before he was present he wrote about this in an article in foreign affairs magazine, talking about how this new century was going to be a center of an information age. this is richard nixon in 1965. an information age dominated by computers and that the old communist monolithic societies would not be able to compete with the nimbleness of science that's going to be needed in the 21st century. so he sees this happen as he's president. he goes to china. he makes this amazing breakthrough, and he comes back and is talking to henry kissinger on one of the infamous white house tapes, and iago starts to whisper and he says you know, henry, the american people are a bunch of sheep. they watched me on television with all that handshaking and stuff in china, and you and i know it really doesn't mean a thing. y this is richard nixon not really being cynical about the american people but bad mouthing subkeys yet such a sense of inferiority. that's where, i should've used it in the book. it

one of the reasons we never had a cataclysmic war with the soviet union during the cold war is because the soviet leadership and we know this from the kgb, from the files from the soviet archives opened up. they believed ronald reagan was willing to launch a nuclear first strike. it was through peace through strength knowledge of that we never got to a war. right now the regime in pyongyang seems to be convinced that they can do whatever they want and there will be no military consequences. donald trump made clear today that if they do not back off their pursuit of nuclear weapons and the missiles to deliver them to the united states, then he will destroy their regime. and the united states is capable of doing that and willing to do that and it's only through their -- if they get that through their thick head then will we ever have a chance to have this solved peacefully. >> martha: gentlemen, thank you very much. >> you are not going to strike them first. okay. they are talking about the rhetoric. the idea -- and we never did. crews che khrushchev said bury you. it wasn't just reagan.

detente with the soviet union. >> the sad truth is i think nixon would by today's standards be considered maybe a conservative democrat. maybe at some levels a radical leftist. [ phone ringing ] >> hello? >> here's one of the men around the president we don't hear much about. alex butterfield, deputy assistant, who handles much of the paperwork. >> my first meeting, i can't tell it without acting it. nixon came out from behind his desk and looked very tentative. he had no idea what to do. so he began to gesture. >> okay. >> no words came out. no discernible words. it's just this deep guttural rrrrr. this is the president. i couldn't believe it. >> alexander butterfield would play a crucial role in the watergate investigation. he had direct knowledge of the secret taping system in the office. >> haldeman came to me and he said the president wants a tape recording system. the secret service has a technical security division, electronics guys and communications guys. so that's who i went to. the first thing he indicated, he intimated that they had done this before. he didn't say we did it fo

just knew that's the way the soviet union did business. they lied. baghdad bob, same thing with baghdad bob. it sent a message across the world. i'm not trying to be funny when i say we have a president of the united states who will lie or distort facts every single day. and that sends a message to people across the globe like the soviets did from 1918 to 1991. >> i remember when i was a kid, the joke was the soviets say we invented baseball, and it made everybody laugh, because it was well, it was baghdad bob like. we do have a president who says things that just have the world scratching their heads thinking is this america? is that what i just heard? >> if republicans take a look at that op ed. david and julie, thank you very much. zblnch co >>> coming up, the u.s. splits with south korea over the response -- over the reaction. we'll talk to ben cardin and senator ed markey. and glen thrush with his reporting on a series of issues from trump's decision to take on south korea to the president's complicated path concerning the program so-

president reagan dealt with the soviet union and nuclear disarmament. president trump dealing with north korea and its nuclear weapons now. what are the similarities and differences? >> the differences are so striking. ronald reagan came to power during the cold war at a time when the soviet union was huge and had a mighty, mighty nuclear force, as did the united states. but it was a government where relations weren't great, but at least you could talk to them. president trump, who has had far less government experience than president reagan did, is now dealing with a leader in north korea who is so unpredictable and hasn't responded to any of the sanctions and the other diplomatic things. so it is a different time and they're two very different presidents. >> and doug brinkley, you know, president reagan, though he had been an actor a long time before, came into office with very set views about how you felt about the soviet union. i'm not so sure that president trump came in with quite a similar background when it comes to north korea. >> not at all. i

i talked about how stalinism, the former soviet union, fascism, nazism, the imperial japan, the killing fields, cambodia, 9/11, 2001 resulted in the deaths between that period of over 100 million human souls and despite all of that there is a mindset that says evil can't happen in our time. i hate to be the bearer of bad news. yes, it can, and it might very soon and thanks to the naivetyy of bill clinton and barack obama following in the footsteps of chamberlain, president trump today has to confront a threat and there are likely no good solutions and no good outcome. the united states security council on saturday did vote unanimously to sanction north korea, china and russia jumped on board, a good step but we're dealing with an unpredictable mad man. kim jong un. he wants and has nuclear weapons. he doesn't seem to care about the idea of mutually assured destruction like the former soviet union did and we know north korea reportedly deficiency they're now working to get the ability to put a nuclear warhead on missiles capable of hitting the united states. that means cities like boston

andaffection for communism the soviet union was not necessarily second nature to folks in spokane. but on the one hand, they might be anti-soviet, but on the other hand they were very pro-soviet and grateful that so much had been done for our worlds fair. ♪ >> the opening of the fair came in early may of 1974. and about 80,000 people came to it. richard nixon, president nixon, gave the opening speech. >> it is a great privilege to be here on this sparkling, beautiful day to speak about what this particular occasion means, not only for now and the days ahead in this summer when i hope that millions will come to see it, but looking down through the faces of history perhaps to the year 2000, 25 years from now, when we celebrate a new year that comes once in a thousand years. back to seelook what we did now to make that a new year that was not only the greatest new year for america, but for every nation in the world. today we speak of the of very meant in terms -- the environment in terms that we should, cleaning up the air and water, the legacy of parks, of all those other things th

russian jews who left afterred the collapse of the soviet union. not just the nuclear program, but its support for terrorism and its effort to expand its regional influence. i think putin in a way liked the argument about sovereignty. it's an argument that does benefit him in some respects. kennedy: was the president not tough enough on russia? >> he made it clear when he defended ukraine and he talked about the south china sea. sovereignty means you treat others in effect as worth respect and when you don't, you will bear the consequences. i'm a defender of american sovereignty. i'm less concerned when everyone else's. we make decisions about our safety. and equally significantly we make decisions about matters internal to the united states, gun control, death penalty, climate change. that is news in u.n. circles. and i think more than the language about north korea and iran. my favorite language about venezuela and socialism, the notion we are going to look after our own interests was the most of shocking. kennedy: president trump pushing republi

. >> but bernie honeymooned in the soviet union enough said. guy, stick around. >> i'm not going anywhere. >> huh in. >> i'm not going anywhere. >> did you know that. >> did i know bernie honeymooned in the soviet union. >> i'll google it. i'm not that well versed in bernie sanders honeymoon destination. >> when you drive somebody with a bernie bumper sticker, do you check it out >> no, you don't i'm sure you do something other than check it out. >>> north korea launching another missile over japan today. joining us is john park, director of the korea working gro group. we have this discussion just about every day. another binary choice. do we see the day where we have to just accept that north korea has the nuclear capability to hit the united states or is there some other way of preventing that? are we -- is that eventually inevitable, professor? >> that's what we're looking at now. this is a fully fledged program, rather than something where it's an event and north korea is trying to raise up the price, get bought out, somehow kicking the ca

union to reduce nuclear weapons. a whole generation of younger people have not grown up with this terrible reality of the catastrophic consequence of any nuclear military action. it's almost like, you know, minds have sort of moved away from this whereas they were focused during the cold war. that needs to really engage now. this is really dangerous. this could be a blunder into some kind of confrontation, negotiation and talks and understanding what is going on needs to happen. most people believe that the kim dynasty and kim jong-un is not suicidal and doesn't want the destruction of his country but you have to be very careful when you are not talking that messages are not misinterpreted or misunderstood. it has to be very clear now the messaging between all sides. >> it's interesting you say kim jong-un is not crazy. >> i said not suicidal. >> yes, but a few years ago it was a question that was asked in the literature on north korea, is he crazy? most people now view him as a rational player who is advancing towar

union as it was then. we're going to have to wait and see what they decide to do. but confrontation is, in terms of a military confrontation we've heard from all our cnn military able sis analysts and , many experts that any kind of military action in this regard would immediately cause -- i mean, the kind of horrendous casualties that one doesn't want to talk about on an open line almost. even if it was conventional it would risk so many hundreds of thousands of people in south korea, in japan, including u.s. personnel, u.s. officials and others. so it's a very, very tricky situation and one that's going to require incredible calm heads and expertise. >> we are thankful for your expertise and thank you for joining us on the line from london. thank you. christiane. let bring in colonel francona who has been with us almost three hours now. i thank you. i am grateful. i just want to pick up on the statement that was just made on north korean state television. they have confirmed the north koreans saying they

union to cuba to venezuela, wherever true socialism or communism has been adopted, it has delivered anguish and devastation and failure. those who preach the tenets of these discredited ideologies only contribute to the continuing suffering the people who live under these cruel systems. america stands with every person living under a brutal regime. our respect for sovereignty is also a call for action. all people deserve a government that cares for their safety, their interests and their well-being, including their prosperity. in america, we seek stronger ties of business and trade with all nations of goodwill, but this trade must be fair and it must be reciprocal. for too long, the american people were told that mammoth multinational trade deals unaccountable international tribunals and powerful global bureaucracies were the best way to promote their success. but as those promises flowed, millions of jobs vanished and thousands of factories disappeared. others gamed the system and broke the rules and our great middle class, once the bedrock of american prosperity, was forgotten and

the soviet union to its knees. it didn't work in cuba, and in russia's case, gorbachev came through and was a reformer. you don't have a reformer in north korea. china would advocate trade with north korea, to open up the borders and negotiation, and what is the alternative? it hasn't worked. it hasn't worked, but does that mean... the west at one point was feeding the north korean population, we were shipping oil to them and it made no difference whatsoever. i would say that china should look to its own interests here because this man kim jong—un is so deranged, there's no assurance that he won't use his weapons against china or his other neighbours. we will have to leave that for another week, i apologise. i am not sure he is a madman though. he's very rational. we will debate that another time. thank you very much to all of you. please do join us again next week if you can. thanks for being with us. bye bye. hello there. a showery afternoon to come for many today. some of the showers merging together across sc

he moved to it was invaded by the soviet union the communist empire dominated by russia. caruso was a boy he went to stony and finally won independence in ninety nine he won. most of the point doesn't understand the cost of freedom. thirty eight years old member of the soviet times i remember soviet. and i don't want that back. he's not you know it's not granted. as we can see in the front today even though he knows the story on its own could never defeat russia with a population of just one point three million they're out numbered one hundred to one. we're leaving. but he believes they could inflict enough pain to make moscow think twice. if we don't actually face to invade other countries the more we're exercise the less likely somebody to attack us but i think that second guess this must be as expensive as possible. you just have to glance at the map to see why a stone is weary. it's not only dwarfed by russia which is nearly four hundred times its size it's seen how easily moscow can take back former soviet territory in twenty fourteen and captured ukraine's province

union. >> yeah. there were many, many more female engineers in engineering school there than there were here in the united states where women were still having problems even getting admitted to engineering programs. so, yeah. no, i mean, i think one of the things that was very clear doing the research into "hidden figures" is that the story is so important. the stories that we tell ourselves, the stories that we, that we disseminate inside the country, outside of the country, you know, all of these things affected the decisions that people made in a very real way, and the government was involved in shaping those stories both internally and, you know, externally. >> now, your book covers a wide swath of history. it starts in 1943, comes all the way through to the end of the space program. "hidden figures," the movie, doesn't do that. now, i went through the whole book looking for ken costner, i didn't see -- [laughter] no kevin costner.laugh so, and i know you said you enjoyed the movie and didn't hav

union in december the u.s. sent to the war. from september on old jews in germany were ordered to wear a yellow star than the deportations began. ice-t. five hundred four when the jews were being persecuted and had to wear the star things happened quickly in the town. a family who lived downstairs in our building was simply taken away. in the autumn of nineteen forty one got so much time straight the young poet who had communist sympathies the two became a couple. they became active in the resistance group that had formed their own show it's a boys'. kut-o. told her friend wrote about athens. tunisia venters you know at first she said she'd given a few supplies to french prisoners of on trains. i decided it was no big deal. but then she said that she was involved in a sad news cycle of people. and told me what she was doing. i blew up i saw right away when she was headed i did only i could to make it clear to her that she was in great danger. in the actual files expression and. we all have to keep our nerve in

in no way, in the way the litany of diplomatic dealings with the soviet union or arguments about whose weapons were bigger could ever penetrate ordinary thinking. now there is never a certainty in trying to guess the what ifs of history. still, i pose the question of what would've happened if he had not seized the canal issue. almost everyone i've talked to thought he would have done badly. some of reagan's intimates like , said he would not run again if you have lost badly in 1976, which he was about to be before he took on the canal issue. some others like mike deaver and , other advertising men who work ed for him and mr. spencer a , sometime campaign manager, but and he would have persisted he would have run again. and won. nancy reagan told me to just didn't know, she said that had never talked about it. that does ring true. reagan was not a man to spend time looking backwards. but my own judgment is if he had lost north carolina, no. reagan would never have come close to ford in delegates. he would not have had the campaign funds to continue his 1976 bid credibly and had he soldi

that's what ronald reagan did with the soviet union. remember he went from 1981 after the inauguration as the focus of evil in the modern world to kissing babies with gorbachev in red square in 88.ry hoff contemplate the condition in which the still form an its g important part uniting one bond of common interest with so many different states getting the proud title of the american citizen protecting their commerce, the literature and art, facilitating the communication, defending theme e frontiers and making the name respected in the remote parts ot the earth and the extent of the territory is increasing, it's advancing the art that renders the life and science is to elevate the mind, the education spreading the delights of religion and morality and general information into every cottage in this wide extent of the territories and states and hold it as an asylum where they find a refuge and a support.e, work on this picture of happiness and honor and say we are citizen of america. he won that battle by acting on two different levels by

he hit the soviet union and cuba and the death struggle over communism and what it's done the people. i think mara is right for there was a little bit for everybody in this speech. could've been the best speech of the presidency so far. >> bret: i've talked about this earlier. the joint address, saudi arabia, warsaw, the outlier of afghan policy. in the the -- you saw the outlf a trump doctrine. >> i think the doctrine comes down to a hardheaded realism but as a realism in the sense of articulate what kind of government identifying the flaws of government, for example. iran and venezuela. standing up and articulating specific challenges in terms of american interests, why you have to address particular issues. i do think on the iran issue, unless president macron is willing to play good cop-bad cop with the president, it's going to be tough to do that in a way that keeps the europeans happy. perhaps president trump doesn't care about that. we will see. >> bret: standby, we are getting word secretary of state rex tillerson is on his way. just met with the russians. we are at the white

policy in europe and asia focused on the countries of the former soviet union and east asia of the terrorism and financial intelligence of the department of the treasury where he focused on illicit finance. and so we welcome both our witnesses to the committee. without objection, the witnesses for prepared statements are going to be made a part of the record and all members here will have five calendar days to submit any statements or additional questions or any extraneous material for the record. with that, i would suggest and would begin with you if you could summarize your remarks and then we will go to questions. >> thank you very much, mr. chairman. >> ranking member angle, members of the committee, thank you for the opportunity to appear before you today to discuss the ever increasing challenge that north korea poses. the threat posed by the ballistic missile and nuclear program is grave. six nuclear tests on september 3 is an unacceptable provocation that ignores repeated calls from the international community for a change in their behavior. it followed the august 28 ballistic missile

union bellerose kazakhstan and ukraine willingly gave up the nuclear weaponry that the soviet collapse because to their territories and over the years several other countries were willing to abandon clandestine nuclear weapons development efforts when reassured by the united states and others that their relationships with us and the global community unable them to meet their national security needs without such tools the republic of kazakhstan is a particularly illustrative example of the wisdom relinquishing nuclear weapons in partnership with the united states and aided by the cooperative threat reduction act spearheaded by u.s. senators sam nunn and richard lugar kazakhstan opted to remove from its territory former soviet weapons and related nuclear technologies and joined the nonproliferation treaty is a non weapon state this courageous decision by the leaders of kazakhstan greatly reduced the prospect of nuclear weapons components of nuclear weapons or nuclear materials and dual use technologies from falling into the wrong hands nuclear weapons introduce complexity into relations

the soviet union, remember siberia? you get the picture. does joy, as she forgets and insults hundreds of millions who died in the worst times ever. hey, hysteria pays the bills. i can say safely that the best time to be human is right now! the statistics show it far less poverty, decline in worldwide violence, vast improvements in hygiene, medicine and technology. but i guess you can't say that when you live in a left wing bubble where 91% is every single person you know and everyone else you believe is hitler! i don't know, that seems a little low to me. i think it's about 98%! >> kimberly: thought you would bump it up. plus or minus 3% margin of error. i 100% if you do the math. i don't know. quite interesting. so here's the problem. i think that the media, obviously, is very fixated on president trump and they're going to harbor and sort of like hype on anything that they feel is going to be negative publicity, press, etc. but he has a bad, fractured relationship with them. right? i mean, he does. for whatever reason you want to blame h

soviet union, united states. china, if you just go by ibm world bank numbers, china is closing in on us. -- imf. some other economists, justin lin, estimate by 2030 they will be double our economy. despite -- there for quite differently. so in his overall strategic picture look at 20 or 30 years all at one time, the united states, a new united states president it seems to me who toe from the business world has to look at the overall strategic context or my view is trilateral cooperation among south korea and japan and united states is very important and makes a lot more sense than ten or 20 years ago. so to answer your question to them, i do think it needs political cover. it needs a framework of some kind. it will probably help a lot with both japan and south korea with him to say the americans want this. there's an american framework year if we're not doing it because korea and japan love each other. waiting it because the americans want this. but the damage our relationship with china, that will exist and we w

[applause] from the soviet union, to cuba, venezuela, wherever through socialism or communism has been adopted, it has delivering anguish, devastation and failure. those who preach the tenets of these discredited ideology only contribute to the continued suffering of the people who live under these cruel systems. america stands with every person living under a brutal regime. our respect for sovereignty is also a call for action. all people deserve a government that cares for their safety, their interests, and their well-being, including their prosperity. in america, we seek stronger ties of business and trade with all nations of goodwill. but this trade must be fair and it must be the same. for many years we were told that multi-national trade deals, unaccountable international try baoub always were the best way to proper most their success. as those promises flowed, millions of jobs vanished and thousands of factories disappeared. others gamed the system and broke the rules. and our great middle class, once the bedrock of american prosperity, was forgotten and left behind. but they ar

or would soviet union. [inaudible] >> hello. a fulbright scholar, i'm going to ask you about the role of global institutions. i'm wondering how you would respond to the criticism that even if you call this book of world history, is still a history of east versus west. still history of the global north. if we look at the role of global institutions before the global society what we see is a very dynamic discussion about the experiences some of socialism and the ideas of regimes versus global socialist regimes. we also see a dynamism and evolution of ideas of the systems coming from global countries themselves. i wonder how you would respond to that criticism and where these actors in your story? >> so the questions do me a great honor by coming to listen to me. your own work has influenced my understanding of the cold war. if we had change, in a way it would've been a different book, it depends on how you employ the true terms. the reason why called my 2005 is built into the cold war the book as you know is best understood as a f

on "reel america," we continue to look at 1980's cia briefings on the soviet union. this details what the agency argued was a vast system of indoctrination in the soviet union, which discouraged individualism and encouraged passive acceptance of kremlin rule from cradle to grave. in 2011, the cia's information management services declassified over 200 documents regarding intelligence on the soviet union that the cia provided the reagan administration. included in the release were video briefings created by the directorate of intelligence for policymakers. >> the soviet communist party has not faced a serious internal threat to its political rule since the 1920's. yet, after years of force sacrifices by the population, shortages of food and clothing persist. housing remains inadequate. intellectual and artistic expression are stifled. and growing corruption reaches all levels of society. the soviet people respond with public displays of cynicism, but they almost never openly challenge the authority of the leadership. the soviet regime does not hesitate to enforce its

works of up next, we continue to take a look at the soviet union. the internal propaganda is a 15 minute film from 1995, and telling what the cia argues is a vast system of indoctrination that discourages individualism and encourages passive acceptance of chrome and roles from cradle-to-grave. in 2011, the information management service classified over 200 documents regarding intelligent on the soviet union. the cia provided the reagan administration, including enemies were video briefings created by the director of intelligence for policymakers. >> the soviet communist party has not faced a serious internal threat to its political rule since the 1920's. yet after years of force sacrifices by the population, shortages of food and clothing process. housing remains inadequate. intellectual and artistic expression are stifled. and growing corruption reaches all levels of society. the soviet people respond with the public displays of cynicism, but they almost never openly challenge the authority of the leadership. the soviet regime does not hesitate to

media are presented in the soviet union as typical. for example, in chicago, a hispanic union organizer was murdered in 1983. two years later, the only mention of him in u.s. media is a brief story on the inside page of the chicago tribune. that story was about a march held in his memory. but they had a three-part series to review the case as an alleged case of big business keeping workers subjugated. another kind of soviet manipulation is the russian edition of the book "working." the u.s. version reports successes and failures in nearly 600 pages. the russian translation is about one third as long and emphasizes the failures and disappointments of working americans. the soviet media portrays the u.s. political system as an oligarchy, ruled by the capitalists who control the impoverished masses. moscow radio said the american has been lulled by the demagoguery of those who have been bought by capital. they say american society is repressive and are in the opposition of a majority of their own people. they have said that thousands of p

works of railamerica, we take a look at video great things on the soviet union. is a 15rnal propaganda minute film from 1995, and telling what the cia argues is a vast system of indoctrination that discourages individualism and encourages passive acceptance of chrome and roles from cradle-to-grave. in 2011, the information management service classified over 200 documents regarding intelligent on the soviet union. the cia provided the reagan administration, including enemies were video briefings created by the director of intelligence for policymakers. >> the soviet communist party has not faced a serious internal threat to its political rule since the 1920's. yet after years of force sacrifices by the population, shortages of food and clothing process. housing remains inadequate. intellectual and artistic expression are stifled. and growing corruption reaches all levels of society. the soviet people respond with the public displays of cynicism, but they almost never openly challenge the authority of the leadership. the soviet regime does not hesitate to enforce i

we continue to look at 1980's briefings on the soviet union. minute the 15 unit -- 15 film from 1985. in 2011, the cia information management service declassified over 200 documents according intelligence on the soviet union that the cia provided at reagan administration. included were video briefings traded by the directorate of intelligence for policymakers. >> the soviet communist party has not faced a serious internal threat to its political rule since the 1920's. yet after years of force sacrifices by the population, shortages of food and clothing process. housing remains inadequate. intellectual and artistic expression are stifled. and growing corruption reaches all levels of society. the soviet people respond with the public displays of cynicism, but they almost never openly challenge the authority of the leadership. the soviet regime does not hesitate to enforce its role through the violent suppression of individual liberty, but april -- but it prefers to use less onerous methods of control like various propaganda techniques. the use of

media are presented in the soviet union as typical. for example, in chicago, a -- unionhuman organizer was murdered in 1983. two years later, the only mention is a brief story on the inside page of the chicago tribune. that story was about a march held in his memory. russia reviewed the case as an alleged case of big business keeping workers subjugated. another kind of soviet manipulation is the russian "working."the book the u.s. version reports successes and failures in nearly 600 pages. the russian translation is about one third as long and emphasizes the failures and disappointments of working americans. the soviet media portrays the u.s. political system as an oligarchy ruled by the capitalists who control the impoverished masses. moscow radio said the american public has been lost by the demagoguery of those who have been bought by capital. they say american society is repressive eared they say -- is repressive and are in the opposition of their own people. they have said that thousands of political listeners alike pushing in pri

media are presented in the soviet union as typical. for example, in chicago, a hispanic union organizer was murdered in 1983. two years later, the only mention is a brief story on the inside page of the chicago tribune. that story was about a march held in his memory. but russia reviewed the case as an alleged case of big business keeping workers subjugated. another kind of soviet manipulation is the russian edition of the book "working." the u.s. version reports successes and failures in nearly 600 pages. the russian translation is about one third as long and emphasizes the failures and disappointments of working americans. the soviet media portrays the u.s. political system as an oligarchy ruled by the capitalists who control the impoverished masses. moscow radio said the american public has been lost by the demagoguery of those who have been bought by capital. they say american society is repressive and are in the opposition of their own people. they have said that thousands of political prisoners are languishing in u.s. prisons tod

the ar strike against soviet union. the number two was protecting lanes because a we knew the germans had tried in to cut off europe from the united states and world war ii in with submarines and will failed. but with the numbers of soviets were producing in one kwraoyear 60 o they could probably do it. so, we spent a lot of time, resources in the concept of protecting the convoys, which it turns out the soviets were not phrafpbing to go after. planning to go after. that was a secondary mission for them. i will close by saying there evening i will go into much more etail with some of the documents. also, i must take issue with my panel members. i often take issues with organizations and some of you me on tv and read my books and articles. totallyay the c.i.a. is wrong, incorrects and just unbelievably bad during the cold war lots of shots were fired and several score americans and score russians were kill killed. i will be happy to go into afterwards. thank you. >> i think he would like to make statement, too. the refer

borders soviet union helped build and to have options a second. thanks for talking to you professor at the national institute of languages and civilizations you know. saudi arabia suspended its dialogue with kantaras qatari media were accused of misreporting phone conversations between the emir of qatar and saudi arabia's defense minister donald trump urged the gulf states teen night against iran and expressed his willingness to act as mediator between doha and riyadh early though the u.s. president to lead counsel was a sponsor of terrorism if i can help mediate between cutter and in particular the u.a.e. and saudi arabia i would be willing to do so the nation of qatar unfortunately has historically been a funder of terrorism. at a very high level donald trump made those remarks in june when four countries in the region first diplomatic transport links with the gulf nation saudi arabia egypt bahrain and the u.a.e. all accuse capital of supporting terrorism the us has its largest air base in the middle east encounter around eleven thousand america

union in the early 1960's, was that soviet union was bleeding china drive. one of the reasons was soviet loans were five-year loans. they were repayable in short term. i haven't read much about the chinese being bled dry by the soviets in the late 50's and early 60's. the marshall plan to china and how that affects the relationship. it is a bit outside the scope of your book. it would be fascinating to hear your reflections on it. gregg: i was say that in their interesting source on soviet aid to china, what caused the collapse of this relationship at the economic level is another book in the same series as mine . i forgot what it is called. it deals with the sino-soviet split. what is interesting in his book. he deals with -- not only does -- this question of the soviets bleeding the chinese dry it also , has a lot to do with how the soviets were implementing there a projects on the ground. i like his interpretation in part because it gels more closely with mine. a lot of what he is saying in the book is the soviets were sometimes imperious and arrogant in

and soviet union as moral equals. mr. reagan came to the berlin wall to try to prove that isn't so. >> thank you. there is one sign the soviets can make that would be unmistakable. general secretary gorbachev, if you seek peace, if you saek pros perty for the soviet union and eastern europe, if you seek libelization, mr. gorbachev, tear down this wall. >> in the middle of celebrations of its 750th anniversary. the president suggested this occasion could bring the two sides of the city together. but it hasn't. mr. gorbachev's already established himself as a slud political chess player. when mr. gorbachev is weak, however, is at home with an ailing economy. mr. gorbachev's dilemma is that he cannot move any faster than he can drag along party conservatives and the old guard. an agreement could politically strengthen his hand to deal with his greatest need at home, modernizing a third world economy. >> yes, i have a very brief statement. i'm pleased to report that i'm in route to denver here. i received a call from geneva a

union the dissolution of the soviet dissolution of the soviet union in one thousand nine hundred two and the emergence of the us as a hyper power striking the world. so what we're left with in north korea and specifically is that russia and china but neither one of them are proponents real proponents of the regime in north korea their people and it's not a real communist not that russia and china are communist anymore no matter how much americans like to believe that they are they certainly don't want a nuclear arms race in their backyards east asia but japan south korea looking develop nuclear weapons they don't want to but they don't want north korea to collapse. unilaterally with u.s. military bases running up north korean peninsula and you know they're you know faster because they want to be organic dissolution of north korea and the united korea the u.s. will never allow that to happen on terms that would allow south korea to emerge with its own sense of geopolitics that might draw even a little bit closer to china and towards more historical tag unism with japan. but i see this

union the dissolution of the soviet dissolution of the soviet union in one thousand nine hundred two and the emergence of the us as a hyper power striking the world. so what we're left with in north korea and specifically is that russia and china but neither one of them are proponents real proponents of the regime in north korea their people and it's not a real communists not that russia and china are communist anymore no matter how much americans like to believe that they are they certainly don't want a nuclear arms race in their backyards east asia but japan south korea looking develop nuclear weapons they don't want to but they don't want north korea to collapse. unilaterally with u.s. military bases running up north korean peninsula and you know it's very faster because they want to be organic dissolution of north korea and the united korea the u.s. will never allow that to happen on terms that would allow south korea to emerge with its own sense of geopolitics that might draw even a little bit closer to china and towards more historical tag unism with japan. but i see this is a

union the dissolution of the soviet dissolution of the soviet union in one thousand nine hundred two and the emergence of the us as a hyper power striking the world. so what we're left with in north korea and specifically is that russia and china but neither one of them are proponents real proponents of the regime in north korea their people and it's not a real communists not that russia and china are communist anymore no matter how much americans like to believe that they are they certainly don't want a nuclear arms race in their backyards east asia but japan south korea looking develop nuclear weapons they don't want to but they don't want north korea to collapse. unilaterally with u.s. military bases running up north korean peninsula and you know they're you know faster because they want to and organic dissolution of north korea and the united korea the u.s. will never allow that to happen on terms that would allow south korea to emerge with its own sense of geopolitics that might draw even a little bit closer to china and towards more historical tag unism with japan. but i see th