In the fall of the berlin wall im joined by my guest John Laughlin in paris he is a political scientist and historian in washington we have harold james hes a professor of history and International Affairs at Princeton University as well as author and editor of a number of books including when the wall came down reactions to german unification and in cork we cross to Geoffrey Roberts he is emeritus professor of history at University College cork and a member of the Royal Irish Academy all right gentlemen cross talk rules in effect that means you can jump in anytime you want and i always appreciated let me go to john and paris 1st i mean 30 its been 30 years now believe it or not because i remember it so vividly when it happened a few months before i had been living in poland for a number of years and an avid student of Eastern European communist affairs at the time john 30 years on what is its meaning because i look at cursory reviews of you know that and commenting on it. It is the pe
In the fall of the berlin wall im joined by my guest John Laughlin in paris he is a political scientist and historian in washington we have harold james hes a professor of history and International Affairs at Princeton University as well as author and editor of a number of books including when the wall came down reactions to german unification and in cork we cross to Geoffrey Roberts he is emeritus professor of history at University College cork and a member of the Royal Irish Academy all right gentlemen crosstalk rules in effect that means you can jump in anytime you want and i always appreciated let me go to john and paris 1st i mean 30 its been 30 years now believe it or not because i remember it so vividly when it happened a few months before i had been living in poland for a number of years and an avid student of Eastern European communist affairs at the time john 30 years on what is its meaning because i look at cursory reviews of you know that in commenting on it it is the peopl
A chance of that much Germanys Social Democratic Party confirms its 2 new leaders not challenging that posses Coalition Deal with the chance of us conservatives. Champions pirated music prepared to take on this seasons League Leaders bunch of back in a battle of the hopefuls i ploughed back of taken the lead by stole my roses side up 4 points ahead. With a view to extending. Im still gal welcome to the program. Germanys chancellor is on her 1st official visit to the former auschwitz the death count the site in poland was the nazis not just that come during the 2nd place. Im going back to visit marks the 10th anniversary of the foundation tasked with preserving the memorial to pay tribute to the victims of the count and spoke of the need to remember the atrocities committed there. Identify the peca trait has and to commemorate victims in a dignified manner that is our enduring responsibility it is not open to negotiation and it is a need to quote hot and with the effort be an integral p
Communist regimes are gone and the wall go ahead john. You know well like you peter i lived through those events very directly like you i was studying Eastern European studies at oxford at that point i spent that summer in 1909 in romania and hungry and indeed in september 89 i was in west berlin and was there when the 1st east berlin is arrived in west berlin having driven through czechoslovakia hungry austria and the whole of germany so i have a very strong memory of it as well i would make 2 points the 1st is that none of it would have happened without gorbachev decision to pull the rug on the Eastern European communist regimes that was decision he took in june and which he announced to the german chancellor helmut kohl at the time and all the events that we remember now the jangling of keys in Wenceslas Square in prague the torch is the candlelight the songs and so on all that was nothing but operetta it was political operetta it was froth. On the on the on the tidal wave of histor
Nancy pelosi is now here and the. Last tuesday we observe the anniversary of the adoption of the constitution on september 17th sadly on that day the Intelligence Community x. Inspector general formally notified the congress that the administration was forbidding him from turning over a whistleblower complaint. On Constitution Day this is a violation of the war shortly there after press reports began to break of a phone call by the president of the United States calling upon a foreign power to intervene in his election this is a breach of his Constitutional Responsibilities the facts are these the Intelligence Community Inspector General who was appointed by President Trump determined that the complaint is both of urgent concern and credible. And its disclosure he went on to say relates to one of the most significant and portage of the director of National Intelligence is responsibility to the American People on thursday the Inspector General testified before the House Intelligence Com