Mikhail gorbachev, why did you write this book . So i thought that it is important to write a book about the time of perestroika because perestroika had far reaching consequences for my country and for the world. I cannot accept it when people speak but gorbachev is silent. I had to speak out and i did that and i about the time of perestroika because perestroika had far reaching consequences for my country and for the world. I cannot accept it when people speak but gorbachev is silent. I had to speak out and i did that and i tried to avoid the temptation of the writers of many memoirs to prettify myself, to show myself in better life. I tried to keep within the facts. I have a lot of facts about various events, about all that happened and about my relationship with various people in domestic and international politics. I could say a lot. I tried to write about the most important things. At first i dictated 10,000 pages of material. Here, this book is equivalent to 1,000 pages of typewr
Time but ive been sick with pneumonia. Not quite able to duty, expect to be able by monday to resume work. We are laying still here, and no prospect for an advance on the enemy. Our men are about half that for duty. This is the unhealthiest camp i have ever seen. Western virginia, no comparison to it. You see a soldier and an officer writing home during the war, and the war that he enlisted in. He was not drafted, but it just gives a good historical account of the things that they faced, the obstacles and triumphs that they have. But it was a hard life. A lot of people dont realize that the casualties in the civil war were not battle wounds. It was illness, sickness. And he certainly experienced debt. In the rights throughout the war, im not feeling well. At one point they had to carry him by ambulance, and its obvious from some of these bad when he was in the middle of some of the hardest fighting, he was sick and he was able to still lead his men. And s s that battle was over, appare
Announcer this is cnn breaking news. Breaking news tonight. The most powerful evidence yet that President Trumps wiretap claim was blatantly false as the fbi director testifies before congress and reveals a criminal investigation of the trump camps possible links to russia, a probe that began back in july. James comey joining with the National Security Agency Director to flatly declare that is no information to support mr. Trumps claim that he was wiretapped by president obama or by british intelligence. Comey also publicly confirming for the first time that the feds are investigating russias alleged meddling including the possibility of collusion with the Trump Campaign. Also tonight, the white house is refusing to back off from the wiretap claim or offer any apology claiming todays hearing didnt change anything. Mr. Trumps official twitter account going into overdrive, commenting about the hearing realtime. The president and many republicans are downplaying testimony that could be da
Suggest a new Conspiracy Theory. After an ominous rocket engine test, north korea says its not afraid of the u. S. And threatens to use what it calls its Nuclear Sword for selfdefense. I am wolf blitzer. You are in the situation room. Breaking news. Fbi director james comey today publicly rejected President Trumps claim that he was wiretapped by president obama. And then comey dealt the white house a stunning new blow, saying for the first time that the bureau is looking into alleged links and coordination between russia and Trump Associates, part of a criminal investigation into russian meddling in the u. S. Election. That investigation has been going on, he says, since july. National Security Agency director mike rogers joined comey in telling the House Intelligence Committee there is no information to support the wiretapping claims, and rogers flatly denied that his agency asked its british counter part to carry out a wiretap. That follows a claim by the white house that infuriated
You want to shoot me, too . Unprecedented access, hidden from the world until now. Come with me to the secret state inside north korea. North korea, a nation holding its Nuclear Sword over the u. S. And its allies, threatening to strike at any time. A society in a constant state of readiness for war. Life on the inside is a mystery to most of the world. Ive reported from north korea more than a dozen times over the last few years. Each time, we open the door a little more. And see this country and its people in unexpected ways. Just like this. Yep, even in north korea, kids love video games. For these 14 and 15yearolds, these are not just games. This is practice for real life. Most of these boys and a lot of the girls will spend their first years of adulthood serving in the Korean Peoples army, just like their parents and grandparents before them. What do you like about this game . Translator killing the enemy. Hitting the enemy . Who is the enemy . Translator americans. This hatred of