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

the radiation was coming from 750 miles away at chernobyl in the soviet union. a terse announcement picked up from radio moscow. >> the soviet government reports an accident at the chernobyl nuclear power plant in the ukraine. >> the instinctive reaction of the soviet bureaucracy was to deny that anything had really happened. as a result of which, people died. not only were ordinary soviets not getting the truth about chernobyl, the top leaders were not getting the truth. gorbachev discovered that he was also in the dark as the soviet leader. >> soviet newscasters deliberately played down the incident, 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 react

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

zone wasastern controlled by the soviet union. the united zones by states, great britain and france. germany,apital of berlin, was buried deep inside the soviet zone. when tensions between the united states and the soviet great, thee too soviet union blockaded berlin. the 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

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

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

union, bring down the soviet union. i went of course and part of that is i was able to get to know the leadership of the mujahedin that were fighting soviet troops in afghanistan when in fact i went to fghanistan and i fought with troops in the mujahedin and fought against soviet soldiers at the battle of jalal bad. yes i had that -- of jalalabad. i had that type of experience. when our pakistani friends and saudi friends betrayed us and betrayed the people of afghanistan by supporting the creation of the taliban a radical islamic terrorist organization, our saudi friends and our pakistani friends created that, and i continued to go to afghanistan during that time period. while i was here in congress. and meet with the war lords that i had met with during the time we were fighting the soviet union. one of them, commander ma pseudo, who i met on a number of occasionsing was murdered three days before 9/11. i knew had been tipped off by other contacts i had in afghanistan that there was an attack being planned on the unit

>> the soviet union in the 1970's was on the march. it was involved in helping to bring about communist takeovers in many countries around the world. you mentioned indochina. the soviets were heavily responsible for the north vietnamese victory in south vietnam. they and their propaganda apparatus around the world was a huge part of it. the north vietnamese generals declared the fundamental reason, maybe the decisive reason for their victory, was the effectiveness of their propaganda and psychological operations against the united states during that war. then you had a procommunist coup in south yemen. you had communists take over in namibia. you had a communist take over in grenada and another one in nicaragua. there was soviet-cuban subversion all over latin america. much of this is documented in the grenada archives, which nobody studies anymore. these were the internal documents of the new jewel movement, when we invaded grenada, we got a hold of their internal documents, which had black on white agreements, soviet and east german,

union didn't invade afghanistan because of terrorist attacks on the soviet union and that it was not a good thing that they went in there, right? i mean -- >> again, i think those are comments the president made borne out of frustration for where we are. and i'm not too concerned about the details. >> what do you think is going to be the biggest challenge for you as the acting chief of staff for president trump? >> oh, i haven't found any yet. it's actually been a lot of fun -- >> you haven't found any challenges? >> no, seriously. people bump me in the hallway and say i don't know whether to congratulate you or console you. it is actually a lot of fun. working in the white house is the best job people can have. it's a tremendous privilege and opportunity and if you do it properly, i think it can be a lot of fun. one thing i've learned -- i talked to james baker. he and i developed a friendship. his grandson worked for at omb and i called him after the announcement. i said do you have any advice? and he said, yeah, just remember you're the chief of the staff, not the chief of the pre

russia used to be the soviet union. afghanistan made it russia because they went bankrupt fighting in afghanistan. russia. the reason russia was in afghanistan was because terrorists were going into russia. they were right to be there. the problem is it was a tough fight, and literally they went bankrupt. they went into being called russia again as opposed to the soviet union. you know, a lot of -- a lot of these places you're reading about now are no longer a part of russia because of afghanistan. >> i hope you have some time here because there's a lot to unpack about what he just said. the soviet union did not literally go bankrupt. the economy collapsed, which is not the same as going bankrupt. hat tip to our friends at "the washington post" for that one. afghanistan may have been a part of that, but it certainly didn't cause the soviet economy to collapse. and as for the soviet invasion of afghanistan, the united states government was all about keeping a friendly socialist government on its border, okay? but wait, t

the soviet union had reached nuclear. a with the united states -- nuclear parity with the united states. you will have agreements over incidents at sea between the soviet navy and the u.s. navy, do not throw that away. nixon does this. the soviets had their own cancellation crisis. brezhnev was securing his position. he put the final nail in the coffin. the ukrainian party boss did not want to go through with the talk to improve relations because for the soviets, they saw the opposite of what nixon did. the u.s. has been conducting an illegal war in vietnam, has been bombing our ally, we are supporting our ally, and you are throwing them under the bus. let, necessarily, or ometimes you don't let your partners, your client states, dictate your policy. nixon gets to moscow and during just with nixon and kissinger and brezhnev and a leaders but excluding both rogers and the soviet minister, president pogor ogordny makes a speech i will not shake the hand of something vietnam and once they have the record to ship to a hard li

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 the 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 real. certainly 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.-

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

and the soviet union in 1933. is themple most think of movie where mixing can go to china taking an anti-communist with credentials to go to the world's largest communist country and establish relations after they had ceased for more than two decades. the story of that is interesting. it is not just nixon wanting to chinaish relations with but china wanting to establish relations. nixon playing the title card and mao zedong playing the american card. there are elements of that in the nixon tapes. nixon sent out feelers to establish relations with the communist chinese. he tried it originally with poland. the johnson administration tried it with paul and -- poland. he tried other channels. the one that worked was between a mutual ally between the u.s. and china, pakistan led by a dictator. active inhannel went march-april of 1971, there was a message saying, we had messages from the u.s. from different sources. this is the first time a toposal has come from a head a head. nixon the one head, sending it through paki

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

treaty of the us unilaterally pulled out of each allowed the soviet union in the us to put up missile defense in one spot the us put it around their nuclear command launch center and right at the soviet union put it around moscow they put sixty some and so i miss all defense launchers around moscow so what did the us do to counter that they did the same thing they targeted moscow with more than one hundred warheads. using that to pressure to get to pressure they had received because if they ever see believes that. washington for example has the capability to attack without adequate response then you can pressure moscow for example or other powers to do what washington wants them to do it in diplomatic and political military terms and in other terms that's what it's about it's first and foremost ok and this was announced by the trump administration but the trump administration is in a lot of trouble now we had this. buzz feed fake story coming out we had the moeller investigate. people come out and say that was the full story which is remarkable because that's never happened before. we

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 not mutually exclusive. i wonder, do you assign either term or both terms to each of those two men? >> i assign both terms to both men. they are both spies and they are both in a way traitors. tr

a document that was found in the central committee archive of the soviet union. and that would have been when had they first started opening the archives when boris became president after he resigned in late 1921 and document was found, it was the committee on states security of ussr across the tape which is kgb and one was writing to the head of the soviet union. so right here okay you have a document with the two top people in the ussr, head of the kgb to head of the soviet union. and the subject has -- says a special importance regarding senator kennedy's request to general secretary. so right there if that doesn't grab your attention i don't know what does. and it says in the first paragraph that on 9/10 of this year 1983 that a kennedy confidant john the california democratic senator he wasn't senator at that point but he was -- >> best friends with kennedy old boss school classmate, and they said that he was there on behalf of senator kennedy making a request to the soviets so he went to kremlin. >> i don't know if he went to kremlin but he was in moscow on

treaty of the us unilaterally pulled out of each allowed the soviet union in the us to put up missile defense in one spot the us put it around their nuclear command launch center and right at the soviet union put it around moscow they put sixty some anti missile defense launchers around moscow so what did the us do to counter that they did the same thing they targeted moscow with more than one hundred warheads last year. using that pressure to get to pressure they had to receive because if the other city believes that. washington for example has the capability to attack without adequate response then you can pressure moscow for example or other powers to do what washington wants them to do it in diplomatic political military terms and in other terms that's what it's about first and foremost ok this was announced by the trump administration but the trump administration is in a lot of trouble now we had this. buzz feed fake story coming out we had the mole or. people come out and say that was the full story which is remarkable because that's never happened before. we have the government

treaty of the us you know larry pulled out of each allowed the soviet union in the us to put up missile defense in one spot the us put it around their nuclear command launch center and right at the soviet union put it around moscow they put sixty some. missile defense launchers around moscow so what did the us do to counter that they did the same thing they targeted moscow with more than one hundred warheads. using that pressure to get to pressure they adversely because if they ever see believes that. washington for example has the capability to attack without adequate response then you can pressure moscow for example or other powers to do what washington wants them to do it in diplomatic political military terms and in other terms that's what it's about first and foremost ok this was announced by the trump administration but the trump administration is in a lot of trouble now we had this. buzz feed fake story coming out we had the mole or. people come out in saying that was the full story which is remarkable because that's never happened before. we have the government shutdown we have

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

and was signed paul important and why all of the soviet union baltics you could not imagine the bold exclude big box of nato they are part of nato but still don't. see if nothing to do the one of the reasons that's being cited by the time for the new station by the white house for withdrawing from the i.m.f. to achieve is that there are new powers like china that have these intermediate range missiles and the they're not within the within the limits of their states you but it in fact when they state it was signed in one thousand nine hundred seven before that for years moscow was telling the united states that and the different powers like france that's right and the keys i'm curious here where they have those intermediate range missiles and bless include them within the hour and have to see what was the action no so paris and london were saying we have independent. support so it's their fault but it's gone both circle because now the russian position is that why don't we have an international agreement for all these other kind of six russia but he did that and now the united states

treaty of the us unilaterally pulled out of each allowed the soviet union in the us to put up missile defense in one spot the us put it around their nuclear command launch center and run the soviet union put it around moscow they put sixty some. missile defense launchers around moscow so what did the us do to counter that they did the same thing they targeted moscow with more than one hundred warheads last year is about it's about using that to pressure to get to pressure they had their say because if they ever see believes that. washington for example has the capability to attack with. response then you can pressure moscow for example or other powers to do what washington wants them to do it in diplomatic in political military terms and in other terms that's what it's about first and foremost ok this was announced by the trump administration but the trump administration is in a lot of trouble now we had this. buzz feed fake story coming out we had the mole or. people come out and say that was the full story which is remarkable because that's never happened before. we have the governm

be reformed both the european union and the soviet union are trapped inside an ideological minus set which makes them intellectually incapable of reforming and that mindset is of course post nationalism globalism and so on and michael is the greatest example of this he thought that with that force of his personality and his good looks and whatever he could change things but since he never wanted to change the most important things namely the european policy the euro and so on his country and the rest of the european union just like the soviet union will remain mired in decline for as long as it takes to break up ok mark let me go to you how do you react to went to john laughlin had to say yeah i don't see that mccrone was ever intended as a voice for reform i think he was more intended as a last desperate hope. of the technocrats and brought ols to buttress the status quo to prevent a radical reformist such as as the pen from gaining power with the collapse of the socialist party due to the unpopularity of the law and. mccraw in the literal ross trial banks there was brought up as th

they looked at what happened with the soviet union. the soviet union devastated by world war ii, demolished by war going back and forth, yet 12 years later after the war, 1957, they beat the united states by launching the first satellite. they must know something about how to get from zero to 60 really fast. that's what was appearing to many of the leaders of the countries. this advantage was a huge threat to the west. kennedy realized we needed allies and friends in the world and he had traveled extensively in his time in congress in the senate around the developing world. he knew this was a big issue that these countries were being duped by soviet propaganda pulled into the soviet orbit because of the successes in space. kennedy's political solution was brilliant. very clever guy, right. one up by the soviets every few months in space, so he moved the goal post. we're not going to fight about what happens next, who the first person to do x, y or z is. you launched the first woman in space, so what. let's go to the moon. prove that yo

meaning the soviet union was right to invade afghanistan. he 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 speci

union's invasion of afghanistan and the defeat of the soviet union suffered in its ten years of war in afghanistan. vladimir putin wants the world to believe a lie about that chapter of soviet history. and that lie is now best recited for american audiences by possibly the only american who believes it. donald trump. >> it tthe reason rush wasia wa afghanistan was because terrorists were going into russia. they were right to be there. the problem is it was a tough fight and literally they bent bankrupt. >> literally, they did not go bankrupt. they lost a war and were driven out of afghanistan, but in the process essentially created al qaeda, and donald trump is now saying the soviet union was right to do that. there has been much speculation by david frumm and rachel maddow about how the president came to believe this extremely dangerous fairytale. vladimir putin told an austrian news agency last june that he and president trump, quote, regularly talk over the phone. surely, vladimir putin has all of those phone calls recorded and transcribed. it is standard procedure for the presid

union didn't invade afghanistan because of terrorist attacks on the soviet union, and they -- it was nod a good thing that they went in there, right? >> i think those are comments the president made borne out of frustration for where we are. i'm not too concerned about the details. >> what do you think will be the biggest challenge for you as the acting chief of staff for president trump? >> i haven't found any yet. it's actually been a lot of fun. >> you haven't found any challenges? >> people keep asking me. i don't know whether to congratulate you or console you? it's actually a lot of fun. this is probably the best job that many in the white house are ever going to have. working in the white house is a tremendous privilege and tremendous opportunity. if you do it properly it can be a lot of fun. one thing i learned -- i talked to james baker. he and i have developed a friendship. his grandson worked for me at omb. i called him and said, secretary baker, do you have any advice? yeah, just remember you're the chief of the staff, not the chief of the president. your not going to cha

we discovered the chinese were hawks against the soviet union. in our own system we have advocates, dr. kissinger and president nixon worked out a balance of power with the soviet union and we discovered the chinese were willing to use force and fairly aggressive efforts including sniper rifles being provided and commando rates inside of the soviet union. i covered this in one of my chapters and frankly i was delighted that the cia permitted us to come out. it's 30 years ago but there still some sensitivities and they helped us in cambodia. the u.s. and several other countries i tell the story in 100 year marathon they got together with the chinese intelligence service and provided weapons to the cambodian persistence to kick the enemy's army out cambodia and afghanistan and they were the secret projects but the chinese show themselves as fierce opponents of the soviet union and who can guess otherwise? of course he thought there would be anti-communist pro american for the rest of history but it turned out that was a tactical move. at that time

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 that day 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 policy foreign thicker, nobody in american politics, american academia, american fantasy football 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 operators needed to raid the presidential palace in kabul christmas 1979. nobody thinks russia invading afghanistan in 1979 was good move. yeah, they had to do that because of the terrorism. it's not what happened. and there is nowhere in america, nowhere where president tr

it had nothing do with terrorism in the soviet union. i think 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 t

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

argued the soviet union was a society in which only political union elites and the ordinary people had the capacity to make consequential decisions. spire inserted into the true report which declared that control of the power of the sodium union, a little group of soviet leaders, and for this reason, american psychological warfare must disrupt networks of trust that enable soviet elite to function. the joint report became the 31, the official strategy paper guiding anti-soviet psychological warfare. indeed, it endorsed all of .pires arguments first that the soviet union was a regime run by elites, and second that creating mistrust --ld in the early 1950's, and number of government programs, most loadable -- were paid to ideas developed in spire's section of the report. the talk by to end discussing one of the broader implications of intellectual development and career. first, to repeat my major the transatlantic ideas about democracy, intellectual, and responsibility in the public that rose in dialogue with nazi-ism's emergence, are crucial to understanding the military intellectual co

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

. >> russia used to be the soviet union. afghanisn made it russia, because they went bankrupt fighting in afghanistan. russia. the reason russia was in afghanistan was because terrorists were going into russia. they were right to be there. the problem is, it was a tough fight. and literally, they went bankrupt. they went into being called russia again, as opposed to the soviet union. [ laughter ] >> set look, sometimes you get involved in something that goes so badly, you have to change your name. for example, you take a job as donald j. trump, and you leave it as proner 567891. hcheers and applause ] although, let's est. let's be honest. best outcome, trump cooperates onth mueller, rolls on eve else and goes into witness protection. [ laughter ]r "hi, i'm yw neighbor, ronald bump. [ laughter ] i don't want to say why i moved here, but it was obama fault." [ laughter ] t also, i love hmp thinks it's an amazing insight to say russia used to be the soviet union. he thought it was so iive, he said it twice. >> russia used to be

on the one hand, the soviet union is a very anti-septemberic country at this point. it is publishing propaganda -- deepizes jude aim and udeyism and morris abram is portrayed here, about how rabbis are secretly trying to take over the world. there are millions of use jews who in the soviet union at that time are unfree to leave and persecuted. can't practice their religion and just years before, joseph stalin had murdered nearly the entire jewish leadership. all the famous intellectuals, writers. he'd locked them up and murdered most of them. plus, the soviets are beginning to market propaganda in which they say that, in fact, israel and west germany is an alliance of former nazis and newer nazis. this is an anti-septemberic caricature. so there's a lot going on right there. the we question is, can you use the anti-semitic moment to make human rights address it or will it only get caught up in the cold war? to add another twist to the story, some of the jewish groups are asking might be -- maybe this whole anti-septemberic thing is a soviet k.g.b. operation. there's

. >> russia used to be the soviet union. afghanistan made it russia, because they went bankrupt fighting in afghanistan. russia. the reason russia was in afghanistan was because terrorists were going into russia. they were right to be there. the problem is, it was a tough fight. and literally, they went bankrupt. they went into being called russia again, as opposed to the soviet union. [ laughter ] >> seth: look, sometimes you get involved in something that goes so badly, you have to change your name. for example, you take a job as donald j. trump, and you leave it as prisoner 567891. [ cheers and applause ] although, let's be honest. let's be honest. best outcome, trump cooperates with mueller, rolls on everyone else and goes into witness protection. [ laughter ] "hi, i'm your new neighbor, ronald bump. [ laughter ] i don't want to say why i moved here, but it was obama's fault." [ laughter ] also, i love how trump thinks it's an amazing insight to say russia used to be the soviet union. he thought it was so impressive, he

actually the same reason why the soviet union couldn't be reformed both the european union and the soviet union are trapped inside an ideological minor set which makes them intellectually incapable of reforming and that mindset is of course post nationalism globalism and so on and michael is the greatest example of this he thought that with that force of his personality and his good looks and whatever he could change things but since he never wanted to change the most important things namely the european policy the euro and so on his country and the rest of the european union just like the soviet union will remain mired in decline for as long as it takes to break ok mark let me go to you how do you react to what john laughlin had to say yeah i don't see that mccrone was ever intended as a voice for reform i think he was more intended as a last desperate hope of the technocrats and brought olds to vote trysts the status quo to prevent a radical reform is such as as the lumpen from gaining power with the collapse of the socialist party due to the unpopularity of a large. mccraw in the liter

union after world war two. the straits times is reporting that an independent committee of inquiry will investigate the death of a singaporean actor. aloysius pang died in hospital after an accident during a military training exercise in new zealand. and the south china morning post has an image of hong kong activist, joshua wong, in a scuffle with security guards. he's protesting lawmakers‘ plans to make it a crime if anyone publicly and intentionally insults the chinese national anthem. and those are the papers.

union's invasion of afghanistan and the defeat of the soviet union suffered in its ten years of war in afghanistan. vladimir putin wants the world to believe a lie about that chapter of soviet history. and that lie is now best recited for american audiences by possibly the only american who believes it. donald trump. >> the reason russia was in afghanistan was because terrorists were going into russia. they were right to be there. the problem is it was a tough fight and literally they bent bankrupt. >> literally, they did not go bankrupt. they lost a war and were driven out of afghanistan, but in the process essentially created al qaeda, and donald trump is now saying the soviet union was right to do that. there has been much speculation by david frumm and rachel maddow about how the president came to believe this extremely dangerous fairytale. vladimir putin told an austrian news agency last june that he and president trump, quote, regularly talk over the phone. surely, vladimir putin has all of those phone calls recorded and transcribed. it is standard procedure for the president

treaty of the us unilaterally pulled out of each allowed the soviet union in the us to put up missile defense in one spot the us put it around their nuclear command launch center and right at the soviet union put it around moscow they put sixty some anti missile defense launchers around moscow so what did the us do to counter that they did the same thing they targeted moscow with more than one hundred warheads. using that pressure to get to pressure they adversely because if they ever see believes that. washington for example has the capability to attack without adequate response then you can pressure moscow for example or other powers to do what washington wants them to do it in diplomatic and political military terms and in other terms that's what it's about it's first and foremost ok and this was announced by the trump administration but the trump administration is in a lot of trouble now we have this. buzz feed fake story coming out we have the moeller investigate. people come out and say that was the full story which is remarkable because that's never happened before. we have 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

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

so there's a big difference between russia and the soviet union and all the other soviet republics. the russians were in afghanistan not because of terrorism but because they just wanted to dominate afghanistan. that's all it was about. for him to say that it was entirely appropriate for them to be there is incredible in light of the fact that we were helping the maja hugh din who later morphed into the taliban to get rid of the russians. so it's an interesting interpretation of history, i'll put it that way. >> that is a very generous response. thank you so much director. i appreciate your time. >> thanks, don. >> its a new day in washington. the democratic majority in the house and president trump already wrangelling for control. who come out on top? with moderate to severe crohn's disease, i was there, just not always where i needed to be. is she alright? i hope so. so i talked to my doctor about humira. i learned humira is for people who still have symptoms of crohn's disease after trying other medications. and the majority of people on humira saw significant symptom relief and