joined by german lawmaker dr andrea snick from chancellor merkel c.d.u. party he's a member of the foreign affairs committee thanks for being with us dr nick how do you think germany would react if chancellor merkel suggested postponing a planned election the way president trump as. i think this is a pretty unimaginable scenario under german standards the election law is. the domain of the palm and we have a tradition to do everything in election law and a broad consensus between government and opposition parties and we have the federal president who takes the ultimate form of decision as a stroke of safeguard so i think there is such a scenario would be pretty unimaginable undetermined circumstances. under presidential us german times have hit a new low current polls indicate the troubles on likely to win reelection if democrat joe biden becomes the next u.s. president do you think relations between these 2 countries will improve i think this is a is a fair assumption. we would work on the on the basis that at least communication style and cooperation be