so the french germans the british now regard the us as a greater danger to their interests than china which you regard as your prime danger how much blame do you think washington should take for that. well a lot. sometimes events drive us in a direction that we shouldn't be driven. we. we don't feel the same way about her european friends or were more like our you know there are a lot of recriminations these days to get over iran. in regard to the round deal that europe continues to abide by surely one that you get out of well we didn't walk out of it the president had states at that time barack obama entered into that agreement. over the objection of a lot of us it did not have the things in it that it needed to have and it was very weak it did indeed address one issue but i viewed the

iran. deal as a deal to try to discipline a bad boy in the classroom that was doing 5 bad things they dressed one of them but they're interested a big one didn't they dressed one of them a big one they addressed one of them ben rhodes in the short time that we have left let's look ahead to the next presidential election next year. what kind of democratic party do you think is going to be capable of beating donald trump with his massive following his dominance of the airwaves his dominance of social media which proved so devastating in the last presidential election what kind of democratic vote is going to be able to i think under the current of the massive following is 40 percent he is the most unpopular us president to run for reelection in my life he sets the news agenda yes everyone then doesn't they dominate. take

a look at what. they did have to live with the world as it is the democratic party just routed down from republican party. we won 40 seats in the house yeah and won by the largest popular vote margin in history a midterm election the largest democratic victory in the house since watergate. voters in the european parliament elections have shaken out the continent's politics turning away from the major power blocs that have dominated brussels in recent years and boosting the smaller groupings the greens the liberals and the far right apparently european voters weren't so keen on the status quo in the more do you accept a share of the blame for the for the 1st voter participation has been very very high historically 51 percent more or less in medium in and out of europe but they don't like the status quo and i came out to say that but this liberal democratic legitimacy to european institutions shows that people start to understand how

relevant to european union is and that it really affects their daily life and they future their one mark and ability they want more transparency i think they will ask much more participation for whoever is going to run europe in the future that's a nice way of spinning it isn't it the top jobs were carved up in the kind of backroom stitch up that people were told wasn't going to happen again. and it did it did despite all these promises why you let the voters than not i mean 1st of all why do you speak about the backroom deal i mean it was so transparent. and all the process in the names in the game i think it was very very true not at all into the outgoing commission president he called it not very transparent quite an indictment from john burns of wasn't it's true but i don't have to agree with him on this point i think it's not the best process but it's the pros at this is right in the treaties people are losing faith in the here's the paradox isn't the highest level of support for membership since $983.00 but more than half the people of europe

think he was likely to collapse within a generation all the while for the 1st breath to see also the leg presses that are slightly out of the chaos and implosion that are fortunately we have seen in the u.k. has been a vaccination rather than infection for the rest of europe we have seen so you should be stronger so as a result of that we have seen if i can finish my sentence to europe barometric country after country you are planning a popularity has increased even in hungary with a few exceptions republic and we have seen one after the extreme right political parties dropping the agenda of leaving the european union and leaving the euro why all the doubts about whether the e.u. can actually stay together i mean spain's foreign minister yours a barrel was asked the interview if it was so fragile europe was so fragile it could break up his comment was honestly yes honestly yes yes or europe has always

been growing start out of big crisis we were born out of the ashes of world war 2. and there we are it is that is one of the best places in the world to live we never had it so good in europe but voters are the they are very disappointed very disappointed and it was supposed to be about them you were seeing the turnout go down in every single election since the european elections started and this was the big push to rope more people in because they were going to be listened to and they weren't yes i mean the call it's a bit this is a big failure whichever way you like to spin it but it is a big factor i mean the publication of democracy representative democracy is what i'm talking about but the participation in the european elections has been raised also because of the better understanding of the citizens about the need of the because the expectation they might actually be listened to that's why they voted they were told it is going to be different let's just go back to europe and the new political landscape after the european elections e.f.t.

is joining the. identity and democracy group which is going to be the 5th largest group in the european parliament the 3rd largest which is what you're aiming for your party promises to be a thorn in the flesh of the stuff what does that mean she's going to block and disrupt create trouble now what we're trying to get out is the message that we're in favor of the european union and that has been set up by the founding fathers of the european union we're against the f a closer union we want to keep the server serenity of the nation states what we think is that democracy only functions within a nation state and we want to work together where it is necessary to do so but we do not want to move towards ever closer you know extreme right populist did not have. the earthquake they expected to have been actually have an earthquake of scandals and the liberal liberal conservative forces are stronger than previously

the greens advanced the socialist collapsed the extreme left lost almost 50 seats finance ago there was no far right at all was there so you hold the door open for them during the last 5 years i think this is not the time for blame game me this is the time to stand for the truth isn't it time to look at what happened the achievements of the last 5 years back to reach a passing variance come to being a board just united kingdom and the more damaged weaker government the reason why was a very minor heart was never in leaving you why you saw it as a car in the damage limitation exercise so you say that she said she was quite concerned to live a practice that she promised on the numerable cations to deliver back she failed and in the end i'm afraid we'll have to fail well sure the party lost confidence and so did the house of commons but there was a lot of ignorance on the live side wasn't that i mean even among some of the most

visible campaigners like boris johnson.