the school of public policy at the london school of economics and joining us from berlin thorsten benner is the co-founder and director of the global public policy institute welcome to you all nina if i can just start with you of course we now have the results of the elections there hasn't been the surge that perhaps people were expecting of the far right but what do you make of it in general do you sense a shift in european politics there are several top lines from the elections the 1st is of course the populist surge that was the narrative going in because that is indeed what happened 5 years ago and that seems to have been a lloyds and that was always going to be the case because the picture that's emerging in my view is a bigger fragmentation big losers last night where a lot of the kind of traditional center right and center left parties true for germany true for france and also new parties doing really really well doing much better than projected and we're talking about the liberals and the greens so you for have fragmentation and this almost you know the obsession or with the narr

frank figliuzzi, jeremy bash, katie benner and fill rucker.hanks for come option the broadcast again on this consequential wednesday night. >>> coming up for us, what we witnessed today and what it's done to the name of one william barr. >>> attorney general william barr is in alaska tonight and that's not far enough from washington to avoid the blow back from what we witnessed in the stern words from mueller today. in plain english, bill barr might have played his old friend bob mueller when he got out ahead of the mueller report and did advanced damage control, giving air cover to his boss, the president, by speaking first. today mueller directly contradicted some of barr's claims. here are some examples. >> under long-standing department policy, a president cannot be charged with a federal crime while he is in office. >> we specifically asked him about the olc opinion and whether or not he was taking a position that he would have found a crime but for the existence of the olc opinion, and he made it very clear several times that that was no

for sure let's focus now on the german the politics we can go to berlin and speak to at thorston benner who joins us from there it was then that the german results actually were some of the 1st ones to come in or the projections anyway and we saw there that angular merkel's coalition partners certainly did very badly she sort of managed to hang in and the if the the far right party didn't do as well as some people were predicting what do you make of those results because germany of course is key to the e.u. the biggest country within it 96 members in the european parliament. look like in most other european countries the pro european forces still have a vast majority in germany if you add them up but the landscape is fragmenting and that's the trend in many european countries in germany you see the demise not just of the social democrats but also of merkel's party the christian democratic union if you take voters under the age of 60 most of them actually voted for the green party and voters under the age of 3033 percent made the greens the strongest party is only if you take in pensione

with us for more, two people who know a thing or two, sam stein, for the daily beast and katy bennereporting for "the new york times." sam, talk about your reporting tonight, what is or was mueller repaired to say, what was justice trying to do to him if anything to prevent him from testifying? >> so, our reporting is a little limited on that first front. what we know is mueller had given indications to people on the hill that he was ready to testify about his report. we don't know if it is going to be a public testimony or private testimony or what kind of hearing it could be. the indications were given and then subsequently what we are reporting tonight, the department of justice has dragged its feet on scheduling such a hearing or testimony, of the special counsel, robert mueller, continues to be an employee of the justice department. there is a mounting sense of frustration on the hill that the star witness, the author of the mueller report can't be brought up yet to answer questions even as there is mounting missed information confusion with what portrays and how mr. mueller rel

thanks to these two thoughtful journalists, sam stein and katie benner. thank you for coming on on this tuesday night. >> coming up, donald trump once named him as a top foreign policy adviser to the campaign. that man still wants to meet donald trump. we did deep inside the mueller report with new reporting from our series called "uncovered" when we come back. - hey, mike. check out this time-space wormhole i created. - how's it work? - let me see your togo, and i'll show you. - earl! you have my lunch. - pretzelrami is back, with our famous pastrami and a bigger soft pretzel roll. and try the new turkey bistro with warm turkey and smokehouse bacon. or the new hot club chicken dijon with black forest ham. the new hot pretzels, only at togos. how far would you go for a togo? >>> carter page, ph.d. -- >> that man, carter page, ph.d. is back in the news. it is reported that even after getting caught up in this russia investigation, carter page is still eager to meet president trump and we quote, aftering hearing that trump reached out last week to another f

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katy benner, justice department reporter for "the new york times" and phillip rutker, thank you-all for being on our broadcast tonight. frank, i'd like to begin with you. for the long view, what is it we have just witnessed? >> we saw a man of great integrity, a public servant, career public servant stand up and take control of a situation that he was losing control of. the talk of public testimony, congressional senate hearings, house hearings, he decided enough was enough. he was going to speak. people who know mueller know that this was both typical mueller and a-typical because today he publicly although in a measured fashion rebuked his boss. that's very atypical for mueller. what was typical today is the measured tone, the sticking to the facts and not becoming the story himself. the take away for me with regard to the attorney general is i have far more questions than answers and i have leadership questions, how did we get to the point today where there was a major dysfunction, disconnect between the attorney general and the special counsel with regard to the rules they were play

betsy woodruff, glen kushner, katie benner, and david kay johnston. katie, i want to start with you putting on the old financial reporting hat here. this is a lot of stuff happening, for those not familiar with investment banks and the units looking out for suspicious transactions, what do you make of the reporting today? >> yeah. sure. so i just want to take a step back and say that deutsche bank and donald trump had a long relationship together that's proved controversial since donald trump became president. deutsche bank has been in trouble for helping russians launder money and lending donald trump money even after multiple employees in the bank have at any different times said that this person is overstating at assets. the loan doesn't look like a guy idea. defaulted on bonds. you have a long history of deutsche bank and donald trump that sets the back xwrouground today and we have seen in 2016 and 2017 employees within the bank yet again raised warnings saying there's something strange happening here. in the case of jared kushner, there's money

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for sure let's focus now on the german the politics we can go to berlin and speak to at thorston bennerho joins us from there it was then that the german results actually were some of the 1st ones to come in or the projections anyway and we saw there that angular merkel's coalition partners certainly did very badly she sort of managed to hang in and the if the the far right party didn't do as well as some people were predicting what do you make of those results because germany of course is key to the e.u. the biggest country within it 96 members in the european parliament. look like in most other european countries the pro european forces still have a vast majority in germany if you add them up but the landscape is fragmenting and that's a trend in many european countries in germany you see the demise not just of the social democrats but also of merkel's party the christian democratic union if you take voters under the age of 60 most of them actually. voted for the green party and voters under the age of 3033 percent made the greens the strongest party is only if you take in pensioners