James Baker
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Oct 27, 2026
Jeffrey SachsGUEST
And Hans-Dietrich Genscher said this on January 31, 1990.
Jeffrey SachsGUEST
U.S. Secretary of State James Baker III said it to Gorbachev's face, said it directly to him on February 9th, 1990.
Jeffrey SachsGUEST
And Helmut Kohl, the Chancellor of Germany, said it directly to Gorbachev on February 10th, 1990.
Jeffrey SachsGUEST
I knew all of these people.
Jeffrey SachsGUEST
So I was at Kohl's residence.
Jeffrey SachsGUEST
I was with Hans-Dietrich Genscher.
Jeffrey SachsGUEST
I knew James Baker III.
Jeffrey SachsGUEST
The idea was end the division of Europe, but not take advantage of the Soviet Union by moving NATO eastward.
Hans von SpakovskyGUEST
That bipartisan split really has only occurred in the last 20 years.
Hans von SpakovskyGUEST
In 2005, for example, Jimmy Carter and James Baker formed a bipartisan commission election reform.
Hans von SpakovskyGUEST
And for example, back then, they both recommended you should require an ID to vote.
Hans von SpakovskyGUEST
That was a bipartisan recommendation.
Scott HortonGUEST
This Ariel Sharon guy and the Israeli regime is really at the core of George W. Bush's war on terrorism policy here.
Scott HortonGUEST
This is not James Baker and Houston going to war.
Scott HortonGUEST
This is, you know, this is a whole other agenda.
Scott HortonGUEST
And it ain't about the quigley's old anglo-american establishment and the rockefeller regime and whatever this is something entirely different and you know clearly he was right about all of that and so um and then all the great stories about the neocons and the office of special plans and all of that stuff came out right as the war got going there were a couple before but especially rise the war got going there all these stories about the office of special plans and just told the entire story of who these kooks are the separate government as colin powell called it of richard pearl and his gang and um And so that was what kind of set me off on this thing where I realized like it's really crucial to learn about this.
Connie ChungSOUNDBITE_SPEAKER
Dukakis today dismissed a poor showing in the polls and said he is in a marathon race.
Connie ChungSOUNDBITE_SPEAKER
A magazine report says George Bush is likely to name James Baker secretary of state if Bush becomes president.
Connie ChungSOUNDBITE_SPEAKER
A new study says more than five million jobs were lost in the U.S. because of last year's trade deficit.
Connie ChungSOUNDBITE_SPEAKER
Another study says a lack of child care in businesses costs the economy about $3 billion a year.
Ray McGovernGUEST
So he says, how soon can you talk to us about what we do about Europe? And Gerovachev says, well, another month.
Ray McGovernGUEST
So on the 1st of February, James Baker, Secretary of State for George H.W. Bush arrives in Moscow.
Ray McGovernGUEST
Now he's a real smart Texas lawyer, right? Nothing against Texas or against lawyers.
Ray McGovernGUEST
But he says, now, how would this be? We'd like to have a reunited Germany.
Ty BrickerHOST
It was a declassified memorandum of a conversation.
Ty BrickerHOST
It was really a conversation between U.S. Secretary of State James Baker and the Soviet president of that time, Mikhail Gorbachev.
Ty BrickerHOST
All right.
Ty BrickerHOST
And this was in 1990.
Scott HortonGUEST
This Ariel Sharon guy and the Israeli regime is really at the core of George W. Bush's war on terrorism policy here.
Scott HortonGUEST
This is not James Baker and Houston going to war.
Scott HortonGUEST
This is, you know, this is a whole other agenda.
Scott HortonGUEST
And it ain't about the.
Tim YoungGUEST
Well, he definitely, John Kerry.
Tim YoungGUEST
Well, it was John Kerry, Hillary Clinton, James Baker at one point.
Tim YoungGUEST
Yes, he was the first
DanPANELIST
Hispanic Latino U.S. secretary of state.
Jeff KuhnerHOST
In other words, don't move into Hungary, Czech Republic, Poland, all these are the Baltic states.
Jeff KuhnerHOST
And Bush 41 and his secretary of state, James Baker, gave Gorbachev their word.
Jeff KuhnerHOST
It will not move, quote unquote, NATO will not move, quote unquote, one inch to the east.
Jeff KuhnerHOST
Well, Soviet Union collapses.
Roger StoneGUEST
When the Russians agreed to the reunification of East and West Germany, we, the United States, signed two different agreements, the Budapest Memorandum and the Minsk Accords.
Roger StoneGUEST
signed by James A. Baker III on behalf of George Bush, in which we agreed not to push Ukraine into NATO, which is to say not to put NATO missiles paid for by U.S. taxpayers on the ground in Ukraine aimed at Russia.
Roger StoneGUEST
To me, not different than the Russians mounting missiles in Cuba 90 miles from our shore in 1963.
Roger StoneGUEST
Obama already gave them Crimea.
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