but it was the congress center built in one nine hundred sixty nine that put davos on the map as a location for international business and medical conferences the best known is the annual world economic forum. is what. professor talk of the founder of the world economic forum with professor dr klaus follow up and he decided it should take place in davos before it's very he wanted it spirit its climate to help shape the. whole it was a well known holiday resort and he hoped its atmosphere with the help participants discuss matters in an open minded way but it was to get that's the background to the spirit to this day when the president of the small mountain village of davos first became known internationally in the late one nine hundred century as a health resort. sixteen hundred meters above sea level it's dry pollen and might free climate made it ideal for as maddox and tuberculosis patients. shattered been all at that time in europe one in seven people died of tb they were just sick they actually died of it it was a terrible play by one of. wealthy patients would stay in a luxury wellness

court in the state sent it back to the district court and right now i'm standing outside of the congress center where that trial is happening at the moment and the statute of limitations runs out in july twenty twenty so the clock is ticking can we expect a verdict in that time. well that is the big question of the day all i can say though is that families are really hoping that before the statute of limitations ends within twenty twenty that they will have. some sort of. completion some sort of a way of knowing that their children their friends their brothers and sisters didn't die for nothing. lou sand is outside the courthouse in disarray all thank you very much for that. and for the latest on bitcoin's dramatic rise or maybe fall over to get hurt thank you never know these days and actually it's a bit of both the virtual currency tumbles more than twelve percent in volatile asian trading on friday after touching a record high above sixteen thousand u.s. dollars in the session it soon dropped below the fifteen thousand dollar level again the largest us crypto currency exchange has been strug

will you support and get congress to join in and make the bipartisan working group the power center for the congress to take over operation of the government next year? rep. taylor: i am not sure about congress taking over the operation of the government next year, any more than it the legend -- than the legislative branch, but i think it is important to work in a bipartisan way. my freshman class does that. every bill we have put forth so far this year has a democrat cosponsor, sometimes it is harder to get them on board, but we can say that. i am not sure exactly what you are asking, but it is important that congress works in a bipartisan way for the american people. host: let's go to maryland. joey, hello. caller: good morning. i have a question. disingenuous and hear congress to continually refer to social security and medicare as entitlement programs. from my understanding of it, the taxes taken from our income are for those programs. so it is not as if you are taking money from somewhere else to give to those programs. so i think, because that is the case, absolutely it is an enti

we made available to congress sensitive information regarding the fusion center questions. we made a confidential informant available to speak to them regarding uranium one. we recently provided congress with text messages between an fbi agent and lawyer working on the investigation into the 2016 presidential election, and the clinton email server. we are going to do more. we will not be reluctant to admit error. we will not hide and be excessively defensive. we will never fail to monitor our people and insist on the highest standards of behavior. even the church treasurer is not protected from review. everyone has to be accountable and responsible. you can have arrogance seep into an institution and that is not acceptable. we want to be open to the public and go as far as we can to do that. there are limits. we are not able to just reveal everything and every criminal case that may be percolating, nor in every potential personnel manner. we have activity being carried out by the inspector general, and we have the professional standard group that watches and monitors the hig

center. >> congress is going home because lawmakers funded the government long enough to avoid a shut down until january 19th. after that is major uncertainty about how the tax dollars will be spent, whether or not the nsa can still spy on people. what happens to people brought into this country illegally as children and what kind of government assistance victims of natural disasters will get since the senate never voted on the hurricane and wildfire aid that passed the house with democratic yes votes. puerto rico governor thinks that means the commonwealth will come out with even more. democratic leaders demanded a daca deal by the end of 2017. on thursday when they realized democrats were softening their stance, they pleaded with the minority leader to stand firm to no avail. nancy pelosi appears poised to use it as leverage before the next spending measure is considered. >> it's this year extended. it's the process. >> the daca issue is a rare policy proposal that republicans are ready to work with democrats on. >> you have to be careful you don't get polarized. you don't go so far down

at the same time, people are flocking to a new shopping center in concord. >>> if >>> congress has approved a stop-gap funding bill. it is waiting for president trump's signature ahead of a midnight friday deadline. he has said he will sign it. the bill includes an extension of funding for the children's health insurance program and the foreign intelligence surveillance act. >> we are ready to boring together across the aisle to ensure there's no delay. >> we hope the future will be different and our republican friends realize their legislative and political goals are better served by bipartisanship and compromise rather than grid lock and strife. >> the house passed want $81 billion disaster aide bill for hurricane and wildfire recovery. the senate is not expected to reveal the bill until of a the new year. >>> tonight a change at the top of one of the silicon valley's biggest countries. eric smith is stepping down. he will remain on the board of directors and serve as a technical adviser. he first joined google in 2001 as a ceo. a replacement has not been named. he is excited to dive in.

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congress of the chaos computer club. normally this c.c.t.v. cameras at the leipzig conference center record everything but right now they're switched off one major theme at this year's chaos computer club congress is privacy including house state surveillance and spices tems endanger it then. those who want to be able to hack an entire population need to find a unique vulnerability on every single device but that doesn't mean that this point of access will only be exploited by authorities fighting crime. and looks that. chaos computer club members have warned that such vulnerabilities leave users open to being spied on by criminals or even foreign governments but digital rights groups also warn users that they're handing over too much personal information voluntarily including to big businesses like facebook and google. is a document of and this data is used to build the most accurate user profile possible this is then used for business and sometimes even to manipulate us it's not always for profit but very very often it is the chaos computer club says it's expecting about fifteen th

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before congress tackles the shutdown issue, they're centered on tax reform. they're working on it to vote on it this morning. >> they delayed voting when they couldn't agree on the so-called fiscal trigger. edward lawrence is on the hill. help people understand this fiscal trigger and why it's a big sticking point here. >> for some republicans it's the deficit and how much it would add to the deficit. the trigger would be language inside the bill that would sort of roll back the tax cuts to increase taxes if the economic development didn't happen the way the administration wanted it to. late last night, the partic parliamentarian said language like that doesn't fall in line with rules of the senate. they couldn't do that. that made the bill fall apart. today they're goingto try to sway those at least four senators. >> edward, on a different topic. rex tillerson -- he's planning to fire his secretary of state now. >> eun, senior administration officials are saying quietly that there is a plan. they tried to find a plan to replace rex tiller son. the plan is so

a last minute infusion of cash from congress will get providers like the ryan community health center in new york through the holiday season here seventy five percent of patients rely on some form of government subsidized health insurance money but medicaid covers the poorest families while the children's health insurance program provides affordable care for parents who make more money but still not enough for private insurance congress has not been able to agree on a long term funding plan for chip just one of many uncertainties hanging over parents not only do we have problems with chip we have problems with community health centers not getting funded and that's that if we don't get the funding for that we know we're going to have to cut costs probably services as well the staff the umbilical hernia is getting smaller so i don't i don't think so a loss of services is a worry for sewall roll who works in retail and can purchase insurance through his employer but doesn't earn enough to cover his one year old son disappointed because if that happens what are we going to do. they should

the trump white house the center of it all. in congressa hotly contested tax bill on the verge of becoming law. >> historic tax relief as a giant present for christmas. >> reporter: in alabama, a pivotal senate race rife with controversy down to the wire. tonight the supreme court finally allowed the most recent incarnation of the president's long-delayed travel ban to take effect. and of course, overshadowing it all, there's the russia investigation. >> i think what we're beginning to see is the putting together of a case of obstruction of justice. >> reporter: on any given night, any one of these stories could be leading the news, but in the trump era, it's all coming at you at once. this latest news storm started friday with michael flynn. he pled guilty to lying to the fbi. that's a felony. now he's helping the special counsel. >> no, i'm not. >> reporter: the president insists he has nothing to fear. >> what has been shown is no collusion, no collusion. there's been absolutely -- there's been absolutely no collusion. >> reporter: poss

in particular, the big issue, the last emperor congress and the centers of this time was the decisionr most merchants six -- merchant ships which was an admission that thewould be involved in war. stone turned back, he supported wasn't in april of 1917, he falls into line but this unity within the democratic party and more generally will persist, we can see it in all the legislation of what you declare war, there are so many other issues you have to decide, finance, resource mobilization, all those things will be deeply contentious. one other thing to say is that it is interesting to hear that live about the x confederate and the cathartic moment of sexual reconciliation and how that was interpreted or how older americans, even younger americans in 1917, what is seen, what was happening through the prism of the american civil war which still casts such a shadow over everything that was happening in the united states, we open talk about the spanish-american war of 1898. it was interesting to hear that was still has all americans interpreted 1917. >> i would head onto this that it was h

congress so far. from "washington journal" -- host: we're joined by a professor of government at american university and found -- and former director of the university center for congressional and americans studies. we also have a member of brookings institution. thank you. we are going to rate this current session of congress. we're coming to the end of the first year of the 115th congress. would you rate them? has it been a success? guest: it is good to rate a congress compared to other congresses. let's take the first year of the obama administration. -- andls passed within within a few weeks, stimulus package passed. dodd frank and the affordable care act passed eventually. this one has had problems. the tax bill did a lot of things that are important, but one tax bill failed in repealing the affordable care act. 12 --hey improved approved 12 district judges. that is good. but they have not done very well. they have some oversight hearings, but we have not seen anything from the oversight hearings on russia and the election. so i would give them, if they were in my class, i would give them a d. host: a d? because of what they did not accomplish? guest:

mean, all of these expert groups, these pollicy analytic groups, the tax policy center, the tax foundation, even congress'sffice of management and budget, and congress' own joint tax committee, all of them find that the biggest beneficiaries of these tax bills, above the the senate and the house tax bills, are people who are already very well off. and the middle class is going to get hit with a tax increase. >> what's your sense of what's going to happen to that ultimately? we know what happened in the house. what's going to happen in the senate? >> well, there's going to be a vote this week in the senate. i think it all comes down just like that vote on health care, on replacing and -- or repealing and maybe replacing obamacare, it's going to come down to three senators. if three senators, republican senators, decide not to go along with the rest of the republican party, that's the end of tax reform. but there's going to be a huge amount of pressure on those three republican senators. >> there's a lot of talk in washington and beyond for that matter about whether or not the republicans can use this vote t

congress. in the breaking news center, erin coleman, nbc10 news. >>> back to the election surprise in alabama. this afternoon president trump is distancing himself from ray moore. a state that hasn't elected a democrat to the senate in 25 years. roy moore faced sexual molestation allegations throughout the race. early today the president tweeted, the reason i originally endorsed luther strange and his numbers went up mightily, is that i said roy moore will not be able to win the general election. i was right. roy worked hard but the deck was stacked against him. another tweet reads, if last night's election proved anything, it proved that we need to put up great republican candidates to increase the razor thin margins in both the house and senate. doug jones becomes the first democrat to win an alabama senate seat since 1992. with republicans holding a two-vote majority in the senate his victory will have major consequences for president trump and his agenda. lauren mayk is on capitol hill right now getting reaction to the upset and the president's speech on tax reform. she'll have a live repo

the center for american congress, a think tank says the president will save 11 to $15 million a year because of these new business rules. so why does he say the overhaul will cost him money? >> this will cost mae fortune this thing, believe me. this is not good for me. >> the president said the tax bill will cost him a fortune, it's actually not the case. how does he figure this will cost am lot of money? >> look, we expect it likely will certainly on the personal side could cost the president a lot of money. patients that i see that complain about dry mouth. they feel that they have to drink a lot of water. medications seem to be the number one cause for dry mouth. i like to recommend biotene. it replenishes the moisture in your mouth. biotene definitely works. [heartbeat] welcome back. republicans say the tax bill benefits the middle class him critics say it's a give away to wealthy business owners. even president trump's ideas of what's at the heart of the tax plan afear have evolved in recent weeks. let's listen. >> the beetle heart of our plan is a tax cut for working families.

reporting live in the sat center jeanette reyes channel6 "action news." >> jeanette we'll see what congress does today. meteorologist, david murphy joins us. going to be really warm. >> yeah its mild out there already as you step outside. storm tracker6 live double scan shows you that most of the area is dry but if we take that overhead view, you can see that we have that little cluster of light sprinkles and showers mainly in southeastern pennsylvania creeping toward the east, chester county, a couple of spots anyway seeing some of this. this is overall pretty low impact rain it should be over by the coast by about 7, 8 o'clock this morning but maybe some of you in parts of the region get a sprinkle on the windshield this morning. as we take a look outside we're starting out with a fair amount of clouds. a couple of sprinkles around. nothing here in center city just yet and there's love park and christmas village and a hub of activity this time of year especially as we get later into the day and at night, it's really been busy there on weekend nights especially. 43 degrees is your temperat

center. >> reporter: and congress is going home, lawmakers funded government long enough to avoid a shutdown until january 19th. after that, there's major uncertainty about how your tax dollars will be spent be whether or not the nsa can have the tool to spy on people. what happens to people brought into this country illegally as children and what kind of government assistance victims of natural disasters will get since the senate never even had a vote on $81 billion worth of hurricane an that passed the house with the help of democratic yes votes. puerto rico's governor things hunting on that bill means the commonwealth will come out with more >> with respect a bill that attends to our medicaid needs for puerto rico. >> democratic leaders had been demanding a daca deal by the end of 2017. thursday, when the congressional hispanic caucus realized democrats were softening their stance they pleaded with chuck schumer to stand firm to no avail. now, nancy pilosi appears poised to use it as leverage before the next spending measure is extended >> it's the process. >> reporter: the looming daca i

president trump tried to close the center but wascked by congress.l housed there. >>> and prisonen australia do in the suspect terrorism as a man drove into pedestrians leaving 19 injured. this unfolded during rush hour on a busy street in mel born. he went through stoplights and crashed into a station sending people flying into the air. and the driver and australian citizen was detained. >> this is horrific and evil and we are not defined by these sorts of incidents. >> police do not believe the act was -- but are trying to figure out the exact motive. >>> the driver of a tractor trailer misjudge the the height of an overpass in wayne and created quite a mess. chopper 6 hd was over the scene at king of prussia road at 9:00 this morning, it's impact send the truckum on to its side. they checked to make sure the bridge was safe and it was and everything got back to normal a short time later. >>> and an agreement was made handing over the horses to belong to the philadelphia carriage company to the city of philadelphia. civil rights activist claims the

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center? >> well, we appreciate the -- what congress tried to do in appropriating funds to the center through nih. as dr. collins will attest, there's been some challenges associated with transferring those funds to fda, some legal challenges. we look forward to continuing to have discussions about how we could -- how we could fund this. it hasn't been funded to date in part because of the challenges associated with how the money was allocated to nobody's fault. >> it's a frustration for us too. so if there's something we can do to help let us know. i just have -- i have a couple of more quick questions. i want to ask about the irb provisions. you guys know that for about ten years i worked on a protection for patients and research act that would streamline the irb process and i was really happy to get some of that signed into law as part of cures. i know thatment of the irb provisions in cures have not been implemented yet but i'm hoping maybe you can talk to us about how the secures provision that's streamline the irb process will help reduce administrative barriers for scientific research.

host: the last word, andy green for the center of american progress, announcer: congress returns this week for votes on key legislation before christmas. government spending runs out friday, if ever 22nd, and congressional leaders are working on additional funding for the 2018 fiscal year. also, house and senate negotiators have her agreed on a revised tax reform bill that most -- that both sides must approve before it goes the president to sign. the house is scheduled to vote on tuesday and the senate could vote that same day. that is according to senator cornyn. senator cornyn: this would mandate a $25 million cut in medicare. we will deal

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impingement vote in congress over corruption allegations pedro pablo kaczynski is accused of receiving illegal payments from the brazilian construction giant brush a company that's been at the center of a massive bribery scandal across latin america the u.s. president has signed his government's tax reform bill into law the one point five trillion dollar bill was approved by congress on wednesday making it the biggest overhaul of the u.s. tax system in fessing is its charms first major legislative victory of his first year in office and from a chief strategist steve allen has been asked to testify at a congressional investigation into russian meddling in last year's election about the full news hour in just over twenty five minutes now inside story. for washington from both. series with the un's vote on jerusalem the u.s. president nations who didn't support him over as well the vast majority didn't so what if past will this have on diplomacy.

mollie: for a year we have been told the dossier was the center piece of the probe. now that congress and other people are asking questions about the dossier. now it's not wasn't that important. the big problem with the dossier isn't if it was the only reason why the probe was started. it's whether it was used to secure a wiretap. howie: do you think george papadopoulos was the guy who got the balance rolling? mollie: in a weird way it's a worse case than saying the dossier was the launch of a probe. hearsay from an australian source who didn't report it for months. there is something sketchy about this story. mara: the fbi did interview chris steele, the author of the dossier. howie: i'll ask you about "the washington post" story the other day quoting three sources saying the president's legal team plans to target mike flynn as a liar if he makes accusations against president trump. does this smell like a leak from the trump side? cathy: it's all about spin. we are not sure who is going to win with the spin game, the spin cycle. mara: do you think the "post" was used to concerned a m

centers for another two years. so california could potentially lose over $300 million in funds if congress does not extend this funding for over 1,200 community health centers in california. the san francisco community clinic consortium which is a collective of the san francisco community health centers, estimates that the funding loss to san francisco would be between $5 million to $10 million with about a million dollar impact to d.p.h. and the next federal item that i want to talk about is the opioid crisis funding. this is not directly tied to the a.c.a. but there are some potential avenues to increase funding to d.p.h. so i wanted to mention it and i know that everyone here is already aware of the opioid crisis. in 2016, we had more than 64,000 people nationwide die of overdoses to opioids. and drug overdoses are now the leading caused of injury and death within the united states. so it was expected that our current administration would act on this issue and in october our current president declared the opioid crisis a public health emergency. and in november, trump's commission on the opioid crisis released its

congress this year. a spokesman for the center saying that she regrets the kremlin decision but will continue to hold the russian government accountable for actions. senator shaheen was planning on visiting russia with other senators. the trip is now canceled. >> and congressional leaders from both sides of the aisle are scheduled to meet with top white house officials on wednesday to discuss the status of the so-called dreamers. and those who are brought here illegally by parents as children. and a potential government shutdown. joining me now we have a congressman from new york. thank you for joining. this is the final weekend before we go into the new year. >> thank you very happy new year to year. >>. >> kicking things off we have a big meeting coming up about midweek. and the president has been very clear that he wants to see very specific things going immigration in exchange for any movement on helping the dreamers. ashley tweeted democrats have been told and fully understand there can be no daca without the desperately needed while the southern border. and an end to the chain migration and ridicul

congress to move on. denied receiving illegal payments from a brazilian construction firm at the center of a massive bribery scandal. spain's political crisis looks set to continue after separatist parties won the most seats in catalonia snap regional election it's a blow to the spanish prime minister who called the vote in the hope of defeating the independence movement the deposed president. who is in self-imposed exile said that movement is now stronger than ever. the spanish state has been defeated the. last one has got a slap in the face from the citizens of catalonia today. the three parties. are not in any way behind the political party. with these results and the situation needs to be rectified to be fixed we want you to rectify all those people you have hurt the united nations says at least sixteen people have died while waiting for medical evacuation in syria's besieged mr an entire region the head of the un's humanitarian task force for syria says many more will die unless medical aid is allowed in. the red cross says the number of suspected cholera cases in yemen has reached one million more tha

now time for a christian ski's opponents in congress to move on president denies receiving illegal payments from a brazilian construction firm at the center of from massive bribery scandal marianna sanchez has more from lima. this was certainly not an expected outcome for four days now analysts have been saying all along that it was very possible that the precedents of two thousand would be removed from office but the main promoter of this impeachment of popular force party did not get was eight votes short of the eighty seven goals needed to impeach the president said about lutein ski. in part i think it's because one faction of the left wing party that had promoted the motion to impeach the president has changed. is changed around in the last few days and now they were saying that this was in fact echoes rationals hooligans of precedent and the other reason i think for this unexpected outcome is that. part of the members of pussy more tea party of the popular force party led by kiko from humanity abstained from voting at least ten members of her party abstained from voting spain's political crisis looks set to continue after separatist

will of the sounds as they were live from london also coming up the most american center and played upon the table yes congress passes president trump's tax bill including big cuts in corporate tax rates. poland's president signs in ceylon controversial judicial reforms despite a threat from the to suspend his country's voting rights. zimbabwe's new president makes fixing the economy is number one priority in the state of the nation speech. there warm welcome to the program u.s. president donald trump a stress. and to cut off financial aid to countries that vote in favor of a draft united nations resolution against his decision to recognize terrorists them as israel's capital earlier the u.s. ambassador to the u.n. nikki haley warned members of the u.n. general assembly that trumpet assets report back on how they voted a warning he told a short time ago i like the message that mickey said yesterday the united nations for all of these nations that take our money and then they vote against us at the security council or they vote against us potentially at the assembly they take hundreds of millions of dollars and

congress. it?would you rate our guests james thurber professor of government at founder university and of american university center for congressional and presidential studies. right-hand side with us fellow of government studies with brook, institution. your questions, comments, about this congress. continue to dial in this morning. it to the top of the hour when the house gavels in for the morning legislative session. let's hear from todd in michigan, a democrat. caller: hi. we are next it flint, michigan and i'm a democrat and i voted for president trump. americans are getting a little when red of washington everybody in washington seems to a millionaire and how they got to be a millionaire i have idea. i would only assume it lobbyists. but the regular american people in ot have lobbyist washington. our lobbyist is president trump. it is nonstop negative about pru president trump and makes everybody in america that voted for president trump. media looks stream at always as we are scum bags. host: how has president trump changed washington, molly? uest: i think that if we are talking about congress, he's actually

congress. he doesn't like to be overseen , he likes to be front and center all the time. his solution to trying to run congress is to tweet or hold a rally or sign an executive order. he is going to run into exactly the same problems that hoover did. you can't work autocratic liana thomas lee in congress. >> very interesting. we think the audience and we are ready for questions. first question. >> this lady right here. >> have a question about his early life. what were the influences in his childhood and in his environment that caused him to be a person with so much confidence, so much drive, so much ambition and so much self empowerment that he could achieve everything he wanted to achieve. >> it was a one stop sign town he grew up in, a tiny little place without much to it. there were no theaters, there was a school but no sports fields, there was very little in th the way of worldly and amenities but his parents were fairly well-educated and they were community leaders. his mother was a quaker minister and his father was on the town council and so on. they were not very