this factory outside prague once employed 20,000 people. now it has 300. scepticism about the european union is on the rise across the continent. anti—eu parties are emboldened by the brexit victory in the uk. it extends to the very top of the ruling elites here. to speak about independence is a joke. we wanted to be integrated in the eu. but not unified. i think that the role of the national government is now rather limited, most of the decisions come from brussels, not from prague. so this is not independence. despite the decline of its heavy industry the czech republic has one of the lowest unemployment rates in europe. trade with the single market has given in the country's economy far more than it has taken away. public opinion, for now, seems committed to staying in the eu. this man has worked at this plant since the early 1970s. do you think people have become disillusioned with the european union since the very optimistic days of 27 years ago? if there was a referendum now, do you think that czech people would vote to stay in the european union,

this steel factory, outside prague, collapsed under market forces. its workforce fell from 20,000 to 300, but openness to europe has given the czech economy far more than it has taken away. it has one of the lowest unemployment rates in europe. there is, even in this dereliction, little appetite to walk away from that success story. translation: i think most people would vote to stay in the eu, at least i would. i look at my family and i think for the sake of my children, my grandchildren, for their future, it's better to be in the eu. germany is europe's centre of gravity now. pianos from this factory sell around the world because they are among the best in the world, and that is germany's economic strength. the pursuit of unity in europe has been germany's way of turning the page on its own dark past. the eu has been germany's act of contrition and of redemption. the pianist, saleem ashkar, is a palestinian, now settled in berlin. what i do see is a country here that has been traumatised by its past and, as a result, has become extremely thoughtful

this steel factory, outside prague, collapsed under market forces. its workforce fell from 20,000 to 300, but openness to europe has given the czech economy far more than it has taken away. it has one of the lowest unemployment rates in europe. there is, even in this dereliction, little appetite to walk away from that success story. translation: i think most people would vote to stay in the eu, at least i would. i look at my family and i think for the sake of my children, my grandchildren, for their future, it's better to be in the eu. germany is europe's centre of gravity now. pianos from this factory sell around the world because they are among the best in the world, and that is germany's economic strength. the pursuit of unity in europe has been germany's way of turning the page on its own dark past. the eu has been germany's act of contrition and of redemption. the pianist, saleem ashkar, is a palestinian, now settled in berlin. what i do see is a country here that has been traumatised by its past and, as a result, has become extremely thoughtful

reporter: in prague the christmas markets are a symbol of a transition. a dictatorship and poverty to one of the fastest growing economies in the eu the country's wealth has quadrupled in a generation. the anti-communist revolutions of 1989 changed the shape of europe. watching as they gave voice to the continent. it was thrilling to stand beneath that balcony and watch an entire nation take control of its destiny. it wasn't just democratic transition. at the heart of the revolution was the idea they were returning their country to the heart of europe. is it still so? some argue that having taken control of their national destiny from moscow, the former communist states gave it away to brussels. independence,of it is a joke. they wanted to be integrated. unified. the role of the national government is rather limited. most of the decisions come from brussels, not from prague. this is not independence. former communist bloc has its own rust belt. this steel factory collapsed under market forces. the workforce fell from 20,000 to 300. economyas given the mor

and it is a reproduction of the famous one that's in prague. and the only difference is, is the one in prague is diamonds, this one is rhinestones. but you can see how absolutely beautiful it is. and it's used during adoration into the center of the piece there. - so, where have you gotten all of these from, over time? - well one of the main focuses of the museum again, was to rescue these artifacts and statues from the closed parishes in cleveland. so we actually raised enough money to buy everything back. - [natalie] so these are not donations. - [lou] that's correct. the majority of the museum was all pieces that were purchased, that came from donations from some of our, very generous people. at when you have rescued them are extremely meaningful to-- i know you've had to had to actual restore a lot of them yourself. - correct. my job is not only the curator, which is the person that decides which artwork is put on the floor, and how it is represented and displayed, but i'm also the restoration artist. if you'd like to take a look over here,

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we went to budapest, warsaw, prague, east berlin. that trip had a lot of impact on me. host: in what way? rep. mcdermott: in terms of seeing with these people had lived with and how quickly they were ready to come back into the system. a year later, someone from czechoslovakia had the youngest member in the parliament to contact me and said, teaches how to run a congress. that guy came over, he was sent over to my office. he was in my office and i had an opportunity to help shape the beginning of the parliament in the czech republic. there are so many things that happened that were related to trips that i took. i took trips to africa, i went to india in 1991, and i went there are times afterward because i fell in love with india. it is the most complex country on the face of the earth, six major religions, 18 official languages, north and south and muslim -- it's a society you never totally understand, and i help to deal with their aids epidemic. they gave me a lifetime achievement award from the aids foundation of india, and i am very proud of that. i'm proud of that,

. >> back in court today comedian bill cosby will appear before a judge in norristown, the argument prague cute remembers expected to make at today's hearing. >> string of crimes in one community that has even police officers outraged. >> and making a decision, big news president-elect donald trump is expected to announced to. and the cabinet position he may have in mind for a former foe. well today is tuesday, december 13, good morning, i'm jim donovan. >> i'm rahel solomon. fortunately we're waking to up much nicer wet they are morning. justin in for katie. tells us how the rest of the day will shape up. meisha as always watching traffic conditions, good morning. >> good morning, jim, welcome back. >> i tried to bring my suitcase, but you're not that small. >> now you just made me feel bad about myself. thanks a lot. >> good morning, everyone, road ways are looking good. they are nice and dry, yes, oh, today good. some construction out there. >> yes, dealing with the weather nice and quiet. we like that for december, things could be worse. average temperatures, we will be talking about c

euphemism for torture and at that moment the state department starts bombarding moscow and warsaw and prague with demands for the release of this american family. the family are released but they do not want to come home because they are afraid of the mccarthyist america. but this is one of the amazing twists in the story. when the ambassador contacted them after they requested asylum saying they fear returning to the u.s., he says quite reasonably this is not consistent with american citizenship. this came as a total shock to him and believe that he explained it, his loyalty is to the american people, not the contemporary government said he considered himself a loyal dissenter but this would come as a shock, one of many little moments where your jaw drops. >> i am quoting myself, he had the gift of seeing only what each was to see if. i just want to ask you about this before we go to questions. it's a combination of the villains and the repression of the uprising many people then saw the soviet regime for what it was and they stayed loyal but in 68 before he died spring was repressed and th

according -- in prague. in the eyes of world zionists, czechoslovakia has become the important spot in europe. when i gave this presentation to a professor, the director of the museum of history of polish jews, he said, in fact, 1946, the state of israel existed. i have about two minutes left and i have two slides and i would like to get into a little bit of the how and why. i and happy to take more questions during the q&a. according to one man's memoir, he details the reaction of polish government officials. zuckerman says, those in control of the borders made a phone call and said the border should remain open and that was how the borders opened. what i was able to find, legal crossings began to accumulate making the flow of these refugees increase and continue and what is interesting about studying what is happening on the ground is trying to figure symbiosis of work. one associate has one idea and another person says that she is wrong in the first woman has to leave. the jewish joint redistribution comm

and we have to push things back with the direct bottom line but those federal prague -- programs that our insolvent with their own board of trustees reports so in 10 years of federal revenue will go just to entitlement programs. so that is not need that is the main grab. of the budget committee. so that kind of evidence where virginia is a well-run stay. we don't want them to think we are anti-government then go by flowers. and education is in the constitution of the stage. we have to do that and we should do that. but i got pants on fire to say we debated on the salad bar. we did. go check again that we debated what is on the salad bar at your local school at the federal level. >> host: you say that vertical component returns governance to the stage. even if some of the implications and i thought that was an interesting point. the key is we are supposed to be a democratic republic. that just means there is a fair process and your a fiscal hawks use. and there is still free them. there is a large number of options. >> so i point out the federal government is the creation of the state

warsaw, berlin, prague, i haven abaaoud pest, buk rest and sofia. all these famous cities and the populations around them line the sphere and all are subject in one form not only to soviet influence but to a very high and increasing measure of control from moscow. everybody talks about how great that speech was, how famous it was but what nobody mentions, it was a massive disaster at the time. churchill also wrapped in there a lot of please for special american/british relationship to save the british empire. it was met with protests, winnie, winnie, go away. united nations is here to stay away. don't be a ninny for imperialist -- >> they said it was -- accused the british leader of being unable to free his thinking from the roll of the drums and flutter of the flag of empire. he makes this iron curtain speech which actually truman helps craft as a trial balloon for his anti-communist initiatives and after the speech, he says we've got to back off from this. the american public is not ready for these -- our approaches yet. in february -- in february

thereupon he caused to rest, then marched into prague. the republic was destroyed. the democracies had lost a valuable ally. italy's reward was albania, again bloodless. slight resistance. now europe realized the hunger of the aggressors could not be appeased. on april 14, 1939, president roosevelt appealed to hitler and mussolini for a 10 year guarantee at peace. and hitler mocked, as he called the role of his future victims. [speaking german] narrator: the reichstadt roared. hitler had signed a treaty of friendship with poland. he had given poland a slice of czech territory, and now it was poland's turn to ascend the sacrificial altar. the democracy had pledged themselves to come to the aid of poland, and then hitler executed what seemed at the time a .assive political scope having come to power as the savior of germany from communism, having gained support in certain circles of the democracy of the slayer of the red dragon, having built his insider -- his entire system on the communist crusade, hitler sent his foreign minister to moscow. his policy of collective

is going to skyrocket so people who are concerned about about our fiscal circumstance should also be prague pragmatisn it comes to u.s. military policy and should think very carefully before insisting there's no alternative but to dive in deeper and to a circumstance that we've already made a mess of. >> the book america's war for the greater middle east of military history. andrew is the author and we now they're able to exercise the right to vote and able to vote for the candidate of your choice not just because he's african-american, because they were african-americans running for president prior to this. it was because they saw this person representing their political mindset. to go from that period of time in 18 \70{l1}s{l0}\'70{l1}s{l0} and \80{l1}s{l0}\'80{l1}s{l0} up until the time of the barack obama administration you can see the two sides of the power that is grown over the years. >> what were some of the most significant challenges? >> in my book i talk about the history as a pointed out before of those african-americans who were in politics and yanking hundreds and some of the

they reported to prague headquarters that germans like this. what you do about that? the germans had to think hard. the press conference said he can print this that -- if this. but respond to it with the greatest possible vehemence. it says another 14 points. roosevelt was trying to reduce the risk of war for which he was responsible. it was his fault, not adolf hitler's. he was trying to divert world opinion from the fact that england and france were trying to encircle germany. one paper said it is astounding that the head of a major nation would lower themselves to sending such a shabby propaganda pamphlet disguised as a note to another head of state. a shabby propaganda pamphlet. but they know roosevelt had the initiative. hitler had had centerstage. everybody was looking at hitler trying to figure out what to do. suddenly roosevelt had grabbed centerstage and the germans did not like that. they had to figure out a way to get the spotlight of history focused back on them and on health hitler. does on adolf hitler. you had curtains like this. this one says a peculia

when he first got to office he delivered a speech in progress a -- prague and talked about a world without nuclear weapons. four summits have been aimed at getting the international community to secure the nuclear arsenal and draw down. a lot of questions about how this is going to play out in terms of policy and some red flags raised about the fact that he's doing this on twitter. this comes as just moments ago, the president-elect sent out a statement saying i just got this letter from russia's president vladimir putin and then he essentially praised the letter he got. let me read you both the letter from vladimir putin that the president-elect says he got reads, i hope that after you assume the position of the president of the united states of america we will be able by acting in a constructive and pragmatic manner to take steps to restore the framework of bilateral cooperation. president-elect trump responded to that, seeming to praise it. he said a very nice letter from vladimir putin. his thoughts are so correct. i hope both sides are able to live up to the thoughts and we do not hav

effectively focused on trying to draw down nuclear arsenal and president obama delivered the speech in prague where he envisioned a world without nuclear weapons and since then, he has held four nuclear security summits in which he has gotten various international communities to draw down nuclear arsenal. so it couldn't be a bigger break than the president's current policy whit coen it comes to tht what will it look like when the president-elect takes office and that remains an open question, katy. >> kristen welker in west palm beach. i'm joined by jim heinz of connecticut. member of the permanent select committee on intelligence. congressman, normally, the president-elect doesn't start changing policy, talking about policy until he is inaugurated, especially when there is a sitting president still in office. sean spicer was asked about this on fox and let's listen to how he responded. >> should he have checked with barack obama first? >> no, he's the president-elect. he doesn't need to check with people. we respect there's one president at a time and this president is not going to sit back

he gave that speech in prague eight years ago and said that was he was going to be working toward and since then, has convened four nuclear security summits trying to get the international community to secure and reduce their nuclear stockpiles. so this is a major break, at least in terms of rhetoric from what we have heard from this administration and administrations going all the way back to ronald reagan. now, sean spicer was also pressed earlier today about whether or not the president-elect consulted with the current commander in chief. >> should he have checked with barack obama first? >> no, he's the president-elect. he doesn't need to check with people. we respect the fact there's one president at a time, but this president is not going to sit back and just wait for things to happen. he's going to get things done. >> reporter: and you have a number of foreign policy experts who are expressing concern about the fact that the president-elect seems to be trying to negotiate this policy via twitter. that's also a break from past administrations and in terms of how this is received

. >>> 100 miles east of prague are the moravian islands of the czech republic. considered the green heart of the nation, the highlands consist of small villages like mira. population 420. an almost equal number of men live right next door in this medieval castle. mirov prison. >> filming in mirov was extremely difficult in the sense that everywhere you turn there is a beautiful shot and you want to stop and go oh, there's another one. get another shot. we didn't have that kind of time. we had other elements in the story to capture and different people we wanted to talk to. but you could spend all day, two days, three days, just shooting these beautiful, incredible architecture type shots. >> the nation's oldest prison, mirov was built in the mid 13th century to protect the land holdings of a local bishop. it was first used as a prison in the 14th century. today, it is a maximum security institution that houses the czech republic's most notorious criminals. it has been called the czech alcatraz. >> translator: that's just because of the type of convicts that we h

go to prague and visit with some of our colleagues and friends that are working in radio-free europe and talk to them about what is being done. >> just so i understand, when you say we the american people, again, does donald trump believe that? >> i think mr. trump is fully aware that the russians have made attacks and attempts on our critical infrastructure systems. and that they are always seeking to -- >> including the election? >> influence and spread through propaganda. what we also have to -- >> including the election? i'm only directing because you were -- >> stephanie, what we have to say regarding the election is, yes, the democrats are upset. but we also have to realize that the russians did not take control of those keyboards and write those e-mails. >> pardon me, it's not just the democrats who are upset. it's not just the democrats who are upset. >> are they upset that was revealed? of course, they are. >> excuse me. john bolton has said he believes the russians have been interfering. we have heard that from lindsey graham. it's not just the democrats. >> that's right. >

more than 400 people took part in the annual post christmas day swim in prague. swimmers compete in 750, 300 and 100-meter races. this year the water was just above freezing at 39 degrees fahrenheit. get this the group's old defendant registered swimmer 87-year-old woman. >>> oh, my gosh. the changing of the guards means utter chaos for those who work inside the white house. coming behind the scenes look at moving day at 1600 pennsylvania avenue. >>> they can catch you by surprise but also be deadly. we're talking food allergies and kids can be most vulnerable but new technique that actually involves tricking your kid's body into not having a reaction. we'll show you how it work. sean. >> temple spending the holidays in annapolis for the military bowl. see what they did over christmas to give a little something back. that's coming up later in sports. tomorrow's the day we'll play something besides video games. every day is a gift. especially for people with heart failure. but today there's entresto... a breakthrough medicine that can help make more tomorrows poss

the last witness, 72-year-old polysheppard describing how she hid under a table, prague as bullet casings fell around her. until roof told her he'd let her live to tell the horrific story. >> he came into the building. >> reporter: newly released audio from her 911 call capturing the panic inside. >> there's so many people dead, i think. oh, my god. >> you said there's so many people dead? >> i think they're dead. yes. >> reporter: roof listening expressionless and emotionless showing no remorse. the defense rested its case without calling a single witness. late yesterday they did try to get two mental health experts to testify on dylann roof's behalf but a judge denied that motion. carol, there's been a lot of drama surrounding dylann roof's defense. up until about two weeks ago the 22-year-old said that he wanted to defend himself. he did an about-face but only during this phase, the guilt phase of the trial. we do expect roof to represent himself during the sentencing phase. carol? >> all right. nick valencia reporting live in charleston, south carolina. with me now cnn legal analyst p

it was prague natick and forward looking as you would expect but it was pretty down beat. across the sector huge optimism and we had that earlier today when david faber interviewed the co-head of the investment bank. very upbeat. >> we know it is 100 basis points until the banks really get some cushion on their bottom line, so a little bit more room to go. >> a little bit more room to go and they're not in super prof profitable mode yet. >> the spread is narrow. >> between the short and long end you want more of a spread but the improvement comes fastest at lower levels. that's why they're off to the races. >> thank you. >>> when we come back a look at the biggest dow gainers since we hit 10,000. closing in on the all-time high. >>> welcome back to "squawk alley." we are makinging the move, just about 75 points away after a two-thirds of a percent gain in early trading. take a look back at the last time we crossed above into that 10,000 mark between 10,000 and now. what stocks have led the way? among current dow members yunitd health care up during that time. home depot sh

he made the speech in prague which he suggested the goal was elimination. he hasn't made much progress along that line. i would have hoped there would have been another treaty by now and he hasn't and in fact they're embarking on a preextremely expensive path to modernize nuclear weapons which i think frankly is a the wrong way to go and they should be limiting them more and should e eliminating the -- one leg of the triad, the land-based part of the triad which is the most destabilizing should go and should just get rid of them and have just submarines and bombers, i think, and the numbers should continue to go down until you reach a stability in the mid hundreds or so. but the interesting thing is it's not a vivid issue and you can have a presidential candidate who doesn't know what the triad is and to think this would have been impossible 15 years ago or certainly 30 years ago, so we continue to live ith them as if the threat is gone. the other thing i wish obama had accomplished was a policy of no first use which george bundy and robert mcnamara and oth

the one government stalin had allowed to return in total from soviet in london back to prague. the communists popularity in czechoslovakia was writing -- ing high. they never quite for gave the west for allowing hitler's to take czechoslovakia. for the three elections, the communists got 38% of the vote and build eight polish and government. czechoslovakia wanted to join the marshall plan badly. they sent word to the united states that they were interested but this was absolutely too much for stalin. he ordered them to fly to moscow, where they got an extreme dressing down. if you go to paris, stalin said, it will shows you want to cooperate in action aimed at isolating the soviet union. it will be a break the end success for the western powers. so the czechoslovakian's had no choice but to return home. one said he had gone is an independent foreign minister for czechoslovakia and returned home as a mere lackey of the soviet union. he was convinced the united states wanted to create a hostile environment -- stalin was -- and he did not take part in talks anymore because he thou

president obama gave that speech in prague where he committed the united states to pursuing a world without nuclear weapons and many believe that one him the nobel peace prize. how do you assess progress since then on the issue? >> i think it's mixed. he is certainly, president obama has had nuclear weapons on his brain since he was in college but he went to columbia, 1 million people marched in central park when he was at columbia against nuclear weapons in 1982. he wrote his senior thesis on nuclear weapons and when he got to the senate decades later, he was very interested. he would travel with other senators to russia and former soviet states and you could tell he was very concerned about the protection of this material. and so, he chose as the topic for his first speech abroad in 2009 that we should be seeking the peaceful security of a world without nuclear weapons. he did win a piece part price because of that but the citation [inaudible] within a year, in order to get the new treaty ratified with russia, he essentially had to endorse this modernization plan otherwise the senate whic

hundreds of swimmers who took part in the post christmas day trotradition in prague. this year it was 39 degrees. that is down right cold. the oldest swimmer is 87 years old and you have to think they paid entrye fees to do this. that brings up so many questions. >> like why are you doing this? >> keep working on it. >> the trump transition team will prepare for lengthiy confirmation hearings. setting up a war room to promote the nominee and fend off criticism. president-elect trumpy's choice may come under scrutiniy with possible conflicts of interest. john heart is editor and chief. and former communication director. welcome to you, gentlemen. >> eric, start off with mr. trumpy's picks and has the tranition team to do we are talking about a war room. which are problematic. >> i think you've got the secretary of state is an issue. the treasury side will be issue. there will be prep. you will see more prep than before. i think the democrats are coming for blood. this is the first chance they can come back at republicans and certainly to fight back against what they se

with the berlin blockade, the communist takeover in prague and finally the war in korea, the cold war became hot, or very cold, depending how you want to see it. the new enemy was communism in general and the soviet union in particular. the persecution of nazi war criminals became less and less of a priority. as a consequence, nazi immigration came to a halt. most nazi perpetrators had little to fear after 1950 and easily managed to integrate themselves in postwar societies. the escape of holocaust perpetrators and nazis was ultimately only possible because the interest in punishment quickly decreased after 1946, 1947. the escape of nazi criminals and collaborators should therefore be seen in the contsks denaziification, war crime trials and the early cold war. it was not an anomaly but an integral part of this history. it also showed both the successes of western allied attempts of accountability, new standards in international criminal law and human rights, but also the limits of postwar justice. thank you for listening. [ applause ] >> aren't you taking questions? >> we're taking q

in 2009, the united states joined 45 other nations in prague to issue was was known as the terezin declarations which affirmed these declarations. 71 years after the defeat of the nazis and liberation of europe, many are not able to pursue their claims in court because of restricted statutes of limitations in the states. these require a claimant to bring a case when the loss was discovered. the information required to file a claim regarding artwork stolen by the nazis was not brought to light until many years later, forcing courts to dismiss cases before they could be judged on the merits. in some cases the law would have wanted it to be brought to the court before world war ii. such efforts have been ruled unconstitutional as an infringement on the federal government's exclusive authority over foreign affairs. federal legislation, therefore, is needed to bring justice to this area. this bill would set a uniform six-year federal statute of limitations for claims of nazi-confiscated art from the time the identity and location of the artwork and the ownership of the claimant are discovered. it wo

trump will be the greatest prague mattist and deal-maker washington has ever seen. he's already making deals. >> i think that's his -- he comes from a deal-making background. the congress, republican congress had had a lot of things they wanted to do and the critical thing here is he has to feel like it's working and the economy work out for the michigans, ohios, the pennsylvanias that go vote for him. two years from now they have to appeal their logic better. the critical thing is he's not a guy driven by ideaology, he's been a democrat and now republican. heather: flexibility being the key. joe, what do you think about that? >> i think ed is right, part of that is -- look, we all were watching as the dow went from, you know, 10,000 to 19,000. heather: almost 20,000. >> no, no, michigan, wisconsin, places where ed was talking about didn't feel any of that and now we are calling the trump rally to 20,000, can he deliver change, economic improvement to those people who are not -- they didn't take part in this rally and they didn't take part in it. that's where i thin