it is the city of prague in czechoslovakia. it is an old city with a lot of beautiful old and gothic architecture. this is a dirty apartment house which looks really dirty and grubby right now in this picture. the reason it is dirty and grubby is because this picture was taken immediately after the communist regime folded in the late 1990s and it was not taking care of. was an apartment building that belonged to my grandparents and it has now been fixed up and painted and it looks like a new building. my family was living on the second floor and you can see that rectangular white window. that was actually my room, my brother and i used that bedroom and the rest of the apartment belonged to my parents where my father and mother were living. my dad was a physician he was a doctor and he had his office as part of the apartment as well. we grew up in this is sort of embarrassing but we grew up not even realizing we were jewish because we were not practicing juice -- jews. we were brought up in sort of a universal religious philosop

four months later, he was president of czechoslovakia. i spent the summer of 1990 traveling across south africa in the months after nelson mandela walked out of prison and into history. in 1991, i traveled throughout the soviet union as that country, too, suddenly became alive to change. the newspaper series i wrote, even the title spoke to what a momentum, hopeful time that was. beyond apartheid on south africa. for the soviet union, awakenings. in this present dark moment, it's worth noting that history turns and can turn again, especially when individual citizens stand in defense of their rights and of the institutions essential to keeping democracy strong. it's also my honor today to introduce three eyewitnesses who will share their stories of living in democracies in the process of betrayal and collapse. one of them, retired army colonel franco k cohen, was a 13-year-old who got out of nazi germany days before the attacks on jewish businesses and families like his. five years later, he was a soldier in the battle of the bulge, servin

i spent that summer reporting in poland, czechoslovakia- hungary, and romania. in prague, i sat in the kitchen. he had just gotten out of the prison and he was in an argument with his advisers as to whether or not they should have a protest. he said it would only show how few supporters he had. four months later he was president of czechoslovakia. in 1990, i traveled across south africa. in 1991, traveled throughout the soviet union as that country, too, suddenly became a life to change. in the newspaper series i wrote, even the title spoke to what a momentous, hopeful time that was. beyond apartheid and for the soviet union, awakenings. in this present, dark moment, it is worth noting the history terms, and that it can turn again. especially when individual citizens stand in defense of their rights and the institutions essential to keeping democracy strong. it is also my honor today to introduce three eyewitnesses who will share their stories of living in democracies in the process of betrayal and collapse. one of them, retired army colonel frank cohn was a 13-

belgium as well or czechoslovakia. as far as i know they have not recognized even the czech president today he warned about military interference in venezuela so european union position is divided in this case as you quite rightly said it's nice to take this but what do you make of italy's veto of the declaration in favor of quite a. i think this is a very wrong decision to recognize quite all. and this will lead to further polarization of the situation and i think it would be much better for the german government or for the european union to have a have a neutral stance and to support for example the initiative of mexico and why. and even as you know the red cross now from from venezuela colombia they. said they cannot support the so-called who money carrying eight of the us because it's not independent it's not neutral i think we should have a neutral stance. on the situation. for the awesome clear similarities between the venezuelan situation and the one in syria where the u.s. and the mainstream media accuse the le

it was 80 years ago today that people burned down synagogues in czechoslovakia, germany, and austria while the police looked the other way. in pittsburgh, they ran into the buildings with bullets flying at them. it was 80 years ago today the jews were killed and politicians turned their backs. in pittsburgh today, we stand shoulder to shoulder, democrat and republican, to say never again. it was 80 years ago today, the community leaders allowed the holocaust to begin. in pittsburgh today, we stand as one to make sure that we follow what we believe to be the right way. we can defeat hate. i loved our expression stronger than hate, and showing the steelers symbol with the star of david, and it said something about not only pittsburgh, but the response that came from around the world. it was more than just stronger than hate. we were saying an attack against one is an attack against all. >> [ applause ] >> thank you, mayor bill. earlier today, in another session, you talked about a club that nobody wants to be in. mayor burke is a member of that club, the club where there has been mass

general since the financial crisis most of the most prominent rising of late was in countries like czechoslovakia hungary and lithuania if you could believe that so that's where we are right now construction is getting more expensive and home sales for the most part are still going up well it's part of the e.u. for now but let's just hop over the channel to the u.k. i mean to save london which we've done you know multiple stories on how high prices are in the city of london but is housing generally more affordable in the u.k. and if so can people even find places deliver they just highly sought after. well let you know for twenty years it's becoming less and less and less affordable but last year the trend was blocked if you will and housing became more affordable the most that it's speed that the most jump in affordability in the last eight years so that's that's big news but that does not apply to to london which we'll get to in a second and other big cities the reason for this jump in affordability most people cite is that wages went up in the u.k. last year an average of three point six perce

things change in 1938, the invaded austria in march 1938 and they start to take over arts of czechoslovakia so for americans, americans are to realize that have greater territorial ambitions beyond germany. by november 1938 you have the violent attack on jews across germany and the former austria, and that is arguably the biggest story about -ism in this 12 year period. historians have talked about the paper walls that kept immigrants out. we were very motivated or very interested in and letter that albert einstein wrote tell of eleanor roosevelt in 1941. he said to roosevelt and your government has erected a wall of your credit measures to keep immigrants out, can you do something about this? this paper wall or this is our kind of take on this paper wall, what you see here is items from the museum's collection ship tickets, passports, letters of sponsorship from refugee organizations, affidavits of americans parenting their support or sponsorship for immigrants. all of these things that all this paperwork that immigrants, potential immigrants had to line up in order to make it to the unite

with a little poor little belgium that wasn't the case you know adult fare or intervened in the czechoslovakia to protect cities in germany it was nothing about carving out an empire for the third reich in central and eastern europe that was mentioned at the time and of course we had the humanitarian reasons that we were going into afghanistan to liberate women we're going to overthrow the evil dictators saddam a scenic cetera and this is been the hype for every war which governments have tried to sell the to the people i think inside the united states of america the moot question is how much support is there among ordinary americans for any potential military intervention in venezuela and my mind suspicion but actually talking to americans is is that that is not majority support the majority of americans are very cynical about this stuff because of past experience and also remember trunk was elected on a pledge to cut back on these foreign adventures to go into a new adventure and a lot of america a huge escalation so again inside the united states what we need to see is a mobilize asian agai

another example on social media, given that czechoslovakia, poland and hungary can we once again speak from peter, two of the greatest drivers of populism at the refugee crisis and economic austerity and he asks if they diminish, would we see the surge in populism decrease. do you think migration is the biggest issue of the day in europe? put up your hand. very slowly hands going up but a tiny, tiny minority. hugh brunson, on the panel, is putting up his hand. 0ruphilland if on the panel, is putting up his hand. 0r uphilland if income equality, economic, is the most telling issue? we see many more hands. i come from albania. it is pa rt hands. i come from albania. it is part of europe but not part of the european union. the european union hesitated for a number of reasons, like reform. why it at a time of crisis in europe does the european union not speed up procedures to the western balkan countries which have a very strategic position to their geophysics of europe? a very strategic position to their geophysics of europe ?|j a very strategic position to their geophysics of europe? i d

there was a moment when poland and czechoslovakia were fighting over a bit of territory that each wanted. and the council of four, lloyd george, george clemenceau, woodrow wilson, and the tory orlando called in the leader. he said i would send troops but i am not sure i can rely on them. i am not sure i can get them there. there is no way we can project our power into the center of europe. said, i have ae solution. and they turned to him with a certain amount of relief. and he said -- we will send both sides a telegram. on theyou an indication limits of the power of those that were in paris. peace conference was meant to be a preliminary conference and it turned into the real thing because they took so long to come up with the terms, that they did not dare call in the defeated nations and go through the whole thing again. the initial idea was to get together and cobble together the terms. it had taken them so long to get the peace terms that they wanted -- what they did was cobble together a treaty, presented to the germans, and give them two weeks to send in any comments they had by wri

combined her love of cycling with a world traveller and embarked on a cycling trip including poland, czechoslovakia and hungary. and her brother his. she is also survived by her loving colleagues and friends in northern california throughout the world. the second in memoriam i would like to submit his on behalf of my self and supervisor peskin. we would like to close the meeting in memory of joseph but kelly, a beloved member of the north beach and marina communities. joe died on january 8th. he was a proud, native san franciscan. he attended marina middle school where he met his wife. after attending the college of marin, he began working full-time for the leather manufacturing business. the business started by his italian immigrant father. the company was renamed the kelly belt, and joe along with his parents, built the company into one of the most successful companies in the united states. joe and mary charlie on junior 27th, 1951 at st. vincent of paul church. joe was an integral part of the school and church community, participating club fundraisers such as the themed bazaars and dinner partie

it is ted to slovaks who died attempting to flee communist czechoslovakia. later, at a news conference, the secretary issued his warning. >> russia is not the only nation that seeks to erode sovereignty and freedom in europe. i raised in my meeting with the foreign minister the need to guard against china's economic and other efforts to cre dependence and manipulate your political system. ourwant to make sure tha friends and allies, our nato partners, those that are inside of the e.u., we want to make sure that they're aware of those risks and that's our task. >> woodruff: pompeo is on a five-nation european tour. he travels to poland tomorrow. a top british official today condemned an attack on a bbc kemeraman at a trump rally. a man wearing a merica great again hat violently pushed the meraman at the event in paso, texas last night. the british foreign secretary called it unacceptable. late a white house statement said president trump wants rally goers to brespectful and peaceful. ark kelly willut run for the u.s. senate in arizona, as a democrat. he says

countries like poland, hungary, czechoslovakia, which showed declines in judicial effectiveness. the opinion of their citizens about the judicial effectiveness in those countries. the other global indicator that declined significantly was trade freedom. i think you all have probably noticed the news about the increased protectionist tendencies in countries around the world, and even here in the united states. we certainly picked that up in the index of economic freedom. you can see here, the importance of trade, the country's that are judged free in the index of economic freedom both depend on and a benefit from trade much more highly than burma do the unfreeies that are o or repressed. the results of the index have online. the entire text of the index, all of our databases are available on heritage.org/index. we can also provide even more data if you contact us directly at heritage.org. we are happy to have people use the data. it is freely available. there is no gateway here or anything like that. we have found over the years that researchers pay a lot of attention to the resul

gorbachev begins to say yes. 88, this is spreading ,o those two big countries poland and czechoslovakia you see the rebirth and reemergence of solidarity. a great book i just read that i thought about using for this course that i may use next year, talks a lot about this and about someeagan was trying, with success, but not a lot of success, to get the pols deliver ice -- to liberalize. there is another group watching this. thathe eastern europeans could be a problem for gorbachev. who are those people? not the eastern europeans. non-russian. say the georgians, ukrainians, baltics, lithuanians, estonians, let the in's --let alone all of the muslim southern republics. the gamble he is making here is that the soviet union can be reformed and that communism can be strengthened. , once someone gets a taste of this kind of freedom, what do they usually want? >> more of the same. >> more of the same, and then independence. while american and soviet lateions are improving, by 88 and early 89 when bush comes in, what is happening is that the soviet union and eastern europe -- the rains are bein

there are more people leaving the uk from poland and czechoslovakia than arriving in britain.see an increase. immigration from states outside europe is up, 261,000, that is the net non—eu migration figure, the highest level since 2004. it is being driven by international students, particularly from china and india, and also people coming to britain who have a definite job offer. it looks as though some shift is going on here. people from outside the eu are taking some of thejobs outside the eu are taking some of the jobs that were previously done by people from inside the eu. danny shaw, our home affairs correspondent. israel's attorney—general has said he intends to bring corruption charges against the prime minister, benjamin netanyahu, pending a hearing. mr neta nyahu faces indictments for bribery, fraud and breach of trust. 0ur middle east correspondent yollande knell is injerusalem for us. what can you tell us about this latest development? in the last couple of hours the prime minister has been given the formal letter, notifying him of being charged in three cases. polic

back in 1989, there was the velvet revolution in chec czechoslovakia.w ferdinand marcos in the philippine. venezuela is a banana republic without bananas. its oil production has fallen by two thirds. neil: you are saying don't do anything to intervene at this time, it would only complicate matters? >> i think it would complicate matters. i think we have to show our support and most of the world has. the only countries that haven't are members of what i would call the coup club. countries like syria and iran -- neil: do venezuelans know about all this food, medicine and aid that can't get in? are they aware of that? >> it's hard to tell, really, because what happens is the media is censored. a lot of the way this gets out, we hit what i like to call the what's app wall which is most messages and information gets through on what's app groups but you have to have a certain type of telephone which is an expensive telephone in order for that to work. neil: but all that food and medicine out there, it's not reaching them. they are going to be pretty annoyed.

cohen testified that he had never been to prague czechoslovakia. at the end of the day, he said that there was nothing concrete. >> questions have been raised about whether i know direct evidence that mr. trump or his campaign colluded with russia. i do not. and i want to be clear. but i have my suspicions. >> republicans focus during the hearing yesterday on the fact that cohen has a bad track record, and they also focused on the person you should be seeing on the left-hand side of your screen, lanny davis. they alleges that that was the fixer for yesterday's testimony, and he has been a long time clinton operative who would have a lot to gain by securing the testimony from cohen. testified that he had witnessed a phone call between then canada trump, political operative roger stone, as well as the head of wikileaks about the impending release of hector dnc emails. he said that call happened in the summer of 2016. >> told mr. trump that he had just gotten off the phone with julian. he told mr. stone that within a couple of days, there would be a m

he has done this before, back in the early 2000s when we working with poland and czechoslovakia to put, ground-based bases in those two countries, putin, you know, lost his mind. it is the one thing that will as you send him over the edge, if he thinks we're working with nato to shore up missile defense systems on the continent. there was a back and forth. there was a lot of bombastic talk from putin at the time. he threatened to put missiles along the russian border with nato countries. we made a deal with poland, the polish government, went out on a limb to agree to this, and then the previous administration, president obama's administration, backed off of that pledge. in fact, i think we all remember that hot mic incident, i will have more flexibility in 2012 when he was talking to medvedev. that was in part about missile defense systems. he would have more flexibility on missile defense systems to back away from this idea. stuart: we remember, mike, we really do. i don't want to go too much of a tangent, i'm sure you heard, mccabe, former fbi guy, suggesting that president trump mi