getting around prague is easy.m trains to trams to horse-drawn carriages and river boats for sightseers. but most of all, it's a city for walking. there's so much to see and hear. [ small ensemble plays ] and you had better plan on exercise to work off the great food you find around every corner. a particular treat is a tasty pastry called "trdelnik." dough is rolled around a stick, heated, and then dusted with cinnamon. delicious! >> everybody should come to prague to see, like, remnants of communism. and it's great, 'cause it's a bridge between western and eastern europe. so, prague's, like, a really unique place in europe. >> while i was there, the city was mourning the death of its first freely elected president, vaclav havel. in 1989, he helped lead the young country from communism to democracy. since the transition was peaceful, it's known as prague's velvet revolution. one thing you can't do in prague is lose track of time. clocks are everywhere, all shapes and sizes. in fact, the city is home to one of the

prague has the lennon wall.teen kids news," i'm lauren. >> there's an entire history lesson in a state flag. you just need to know what to look for. >> when the american colonies declared their independence from england, one led the way with a rousing motto. >> the year was 1774, two years before the declaration of independence, and new hampshire declared their own independence from great britain. the motto at the time was "live free or die," and it's still the state motto today. >> another revolutionary first for new hampshire is pictured here on the state flag. in 1776, the warship raleigh was the first to fly the new american flag. new hampshire is home to many other firsts. the first potato was grown here. america's first astronaut in space, alan shepard, was born here, as was the first free public library. >> new hampshire is known as "the granite state," and it's because their number-one natural resource is granite. this is a particularly good stone for building bridges, houses, even statues. and although

why did you call it "prague winter"? >> because the story is basically about my choke slovak background and prague as the center of a lot of events that took place before and during the war. and the winter because obviously opposite of spring which is what people now think about prague in terms of the prague spring and the velvet revolution. but there were two very bad winter,, very specifically. kind of the winter of '38-'39 when the munich agreement took place and the nazis marched in to prague in march, '39. and the winter of '47-'48 when, in fact, the communist coup happened in february '48. and there were lots of attacks and various events that took place that in period and then -- so they were two pretty tough and cold times in the history of czechoslovakia. >> rose: and what would have made a difference? >> well, i think in the first case what would have made a difference is czechoslovakia was a brand new country created in 1918 as a result of woodrow wilson, basically, and world war i and a country that was a fun

. >> i want to say thank you for considering the prague stairway renovation. thank you. >> thank you. >> linda lighthowser. >> hello commissioners. i also want to thanks for this round of community opportunities fund grants. i work very hard with the prague street neighbors to get signatures for this project and i want you to know these were not people involved. i thought it was important that you know that. they live adjacent to crocker amazon park and wanted to use the steps that are in total decay. they volunteered to do maintenance once the project is completed and to watch over it and supervise it. they went to their churches and school groups to gather the signatures and these people are so grateful how government works. thank you. >> thank you. any others to speak on the consent calendar? being none, this item is closed. commissioners we would need a motion to approve the consent calendar without 5e. >> item e will be taken off? >> yes. >> and then provided separately after this vote. is there a motion? >> commissioner harrison? >> i apologize. >> befor

has been pretty well confirmed that he did go to prague and he did meet with a senior official iraqi intelligence service in circles in baku last my next guest was in charge of analyzing the intelligence on that precise claim mark racine is a former supervisory special agent in the f.b.i.'s counterterrorism division and joins me now from our new york studios mark welcome to the program thank you oughtn't to be here thank you thanks for joining us what was your role in the intelligence community during the run up to the war in iraq ok in one nine hundred ninety nine i became the f.b.i. new york joint terrorism task force representative to the cia's counterterrorist center specifically to the squad that dealt with bin ladin called the alec station . and that capacity my job was to facilitate and coordinate matters that the cia and the f.b.i. agreed to work on. i was not a headquarters body and so after nine eleven but notwithstanding that cut through the minutia of the exact titles i was at the agency as a liaison. after nine eleven happened there was this push to somehow make the conn

that that failing in our ability to monitor people leaving our country to say he was in prague ok fine if you want to use that failure of our system not the f.b.i. is of course to say that he can't track the fact that he left the country but we don't have him coming back in doing so you can't have it both ways and we do to nestle drive that very care careful track of that mickey herskowitz was hired by the bush family and in ninety nine to write a charge to keep george w. bush's autobiography to ghostwrite it and he has told a reporter robert parry that george that when he was interviewing george w. bush for the book that bush told him that if he ever became president he would invade iraq and he would do it he felt that his father had blown it he would do it the right way he would have a real war and and thereby get enough. tical capital to accomplish is his serious political goals like privatizing social security which is the main thing that he tried to do right after he was reelected in riyadh rated in two thousand and five there was that and then other people have talked about david

it's put to bed. >> event without defensive evidence. >> it's pretty well confirm head did go to prague and meet with a senior official of the iraqi intelligence service last april. >> i was sitting in my den at home in washington, d.c., and i remember looking at the tv screen going what did i just hear? and i first time in my life, i actually threw something at the television. because i couldn't believe what i had just heard. >> over and over again, the vice president for years would say, "we had a report of this meeting." it's true. there was a report. and nobody believed it. that's what they didn't add. >> we clearly know that -- >> in a pbs interview on "the news hour with jim lehrer," national security adviser condoleezza rice reveals with certainty more evidence of saddam's supposed terrorist link. >> we know too that several of the detainees, in particular some high-ranking detainees have said that iraq provided some training to al qaeda in chemical weapons development. >> the key high-ranking detainee rice is referring to is an al qaeda commander named ibn al shaykh al libi. >>

. >> her book is "prague winter, a personal story of remembrance and war," with more than 1,000 people waiting if three hours to get her autograph. dan ashley will speak with her today in san francisco. >> a message of perseverance is inspirational. >> we are all looking forward to the weekend. with the big lunar new year celebration in redwood city tomorrow downtown, and you will emcee? >> yes, at the family friendly event. >> maybe easier to get there than the one in china town, wherever you go the weather will be great. no need to worry about wet weather. now, you can see live doppler 7 hd shows it is dry. no radar returns. sprinkles are possible overnight from this system up to the north, and notice, though, the radar runs from here moving west to east rather than north to south and it will slide down the tail end of the cold front and so we my have a sprinkle. here we are in south beach toward richmond and mid-50's around oakland and san jose and upper 50's and 60's in appeal appeal and walnut creek and here is how it looks in walnut creek right now, you are looking south, all the

." >> from prague comes a czech intelligence report of a photograph allegedly showing mohamed atta meeting with a high ranking iraqi intelligence officer. the photograph of the supposed meeting is never made publicly available. >> mohamed atta was a slight guy, barely 5'5", 5'6" and skinny. the guy in the photograph was muscular and thick and had a neck the size of two of my necks. that's not mohamed atta in the photograph. sent it to the lab anyway. in my mind the matter is put to bed. >> but even without definitive evidence, the vice president goes public with it. >> it's been pretty well confirmed that he did go to prague, and he did meet with a senior official of the iraqi intelligence service in czechoslovakia last april. >> i was sitting in my den in my home in washington, d.c., and i remember looking at the tv screen saying what did i just hear? and first time in my life i actually threw something at the television because i couldn't believe what i had just heard. >> you guys are pros at this as reporters. i want to get to the final one. the nail in the coffin. you guys know almost

. >> her book is "prague winter, a personal story of remembrance and war," with more than 1,000 peopleaiting if three hours to get her autograph. dan ashley will speak with her today in san francisco. >> a message of perseverance is inspirational. >> we are all looking forward to the weekend. with the big lunar new year celebration in redwood city tomorrow downtown, and you will emcee? >> yes, at the family friendly event. >> maybe easier to get there than the one in china town, wherever you go the weather will be great. no need to worry about wet weather. now, you can see live doppler 7 hd shows it is dry. no radar returns. sprinkles are possible overnight from this system up to the north, and notice, though, the radar runs from here moving west to east rather than north to south and it will slide down the tail end of the cold front and so we my have a sprinkle. here we are in south beach toward richmond and mid-50's around oakland and san jose and upper 50's and 60's in appeal appeal and walnut creek and here is how it looks in walnut creek right now, you are looking south, all the s

. >> it's been pretty well confirmed that he did go to prague and he did meet with a senior official of the iraqi intelligence service in czechoslovakia last april. >> i was sitting in my den in my home and remember looking at the tv screen saying what did i just hear? and i -- first time in my life i actually threw something at the television. because i couldn't believe what i had just heard. >> over and over again, the vice president for years would say we had a report of this meeting. it's true. there was a report. and nobody believed it. that's what they didn't add. >> that is from "hubris" based on the same book by david corn and michael isikoff on monday night right here. i will be hosting the documentary on what happened when our government lied us into war. how they got away with it, and whether we understand it well enough to stop it from happening again the next time somebody inevitably tries it. that's monday night 9:00 p.m. eastern here on msnbc. we understand that this is likely to cause some political upset when we air it, but sometimes you've got to do that anyway. aft

evidence, the vice president goes public with it. >> it's been pretty well confirmed that he did go to praguee did meet with a senior official of the iraqi intelligence service in czechoslovakia last april. >> i was sitting in my den in my home and remember looking at the tv screen saying what did i just hear? and i -- first time in my life i actually threw something at the television. because i couldn't believe what i had just heard. >> over and over again, the vice president for years would say we had a report of this meeting. it's true. there was a report. and nobody believed it. that's what they didn't add. >> that is from "hubris" based on the same book by david corn and michael isikoff on monday night right here. i will be hosting the documentary on what happened when our government lied us into war. how they got away with it, and whether we understand it well enough to stop it from happening again the next time somebody

overall the president's address was safe and prague mamatipragm >>> it's been nothing but good vibrations all the last couple days. >> it has. it will get better. into valentine's day we'll turn up the heat. it is actually pretty comfortable out there already. we're enjoying this unseasonably warm weather. it continues today. we had pretty thick fog out there this morning and still had a little patchy fog over the san francisco bay. you can see that here from this live picture. blue sky later on today temperatures will climb to the upper 60s. even warmer than it was yesterday. right now 58 degreeses in sunnyvale. two to three degrees of warm, then hazy sunshine. a cold start to your valentine's day but a comfy and warm afternoon ahead. great day to make afternoon lunch plans. keep that in mind. it's free. rain on the way as we head throughout the end of your seven-day forecast. we'll show you when things are going to change, the cold, the wet. so yeah we're going to have some major changes to get through. enjoy the warm zwrup. >> sounds like tomorrow mother nature and cupid have a pretty

the president's committed to hising pro a prague agenda. the speech he gave in prague in 2009 committing to us lower this world's reliance on nuclear weapons and further reductions in concert with the russians if possible, as part of that agenda. >> rose: so iran can be they can be he nor musely helpful and back to syria they can be helpful. give me some sense of the time frame in syria. because hi a cbs news correspondent here recently who has been in syria saying, you know, sometimes she believes it's approaching a stalemate. you are suggesting that's not true. that the rebel forces are winning and assad is losing, not withstanding what happened in aleppo when they go in an come back and all of the kinds of give-and-take of this kind of war. >> well, it's become a full-fledged internal conflict. >> civil. >> even though the forces are from outside in part. >> in part they are from outside because of the attraction of the most extreme forces coming in. >> right. >> i don't think anybody can tell you what the time frame is here. for a resol

from prague comes a report of a photograph allegedly showing atta meeting with a high-ranking iraqi intelligence officer. the photograph of the supposed meeting is never made publicly available. >> mohammed atta was a slight guy. 5'6" and skinny. the guy in the photograph was muck lar and thick and had a neck the size of two of my necks. that's not mohammed atta in the photograph. send it to the lab anyway. in my mind it's put to bed. >> but even without definitive evidence, the vice president goes public with it. >> it's been pretty well confirmed that he did go to prague and he did meet with a senior official of the iraqi intelligence service in czechoslovakia last april. >> i was sitting in my den in my home and remember looking at the tv screen saying what did i just hear? and i -- first time in my life i actually threw something at the television. because i couldn't believe what i had just heard. >> over and over again, the vice president for years would say we had a report of this meeting. it's true. there was a report. and nobody believed it. that's what they didn't add. >> that is from "