at a time when these 2 so-called sister parties chancellor merkel's christian democrats and the bavarian social christian social union when they were barely on speaking terms but that has all changed in part because marcus or has moved more toward the middle of the political spectrum and distanced himself from the right wing populism of his predecessor but also because the 2 of them are winners and winners love other winners both of them emerge from the corona crisis looking quite strong in the public opinion polls because in both cases they showed very clear leadership and made it clear that the absolute priority would be public health and everything else was 2nd and when you look at those pictures from the day it looks like it could have been a job interview or i mean it even looks like it did have been a 1st date to me can we say tonight that mark is miracles hand-picked successor is that we've gotten that far. you know we cannot say that and she made that very clear today saying that she was not going to be annoying taking a successor and then passing over another question that tried to drill a little deeper on t

these 2 parties the chancellors christian democrats and it's a very and sister party the christian social union which is mr surface party when they were scarcely on speaking terms so what has changed well mr assert a has moved toward the middle of the political spectrum and distanced himself from the right wing populism of his predecessor and frankly a winner loves a winner both and medical emerged from the corona crisis looking very strong indeed the ratings that you mentioned they are largely attributable to the fact that both showed a very clear disciplined leadership to try to nip corona in the bud face interesting so some of it does this mean because it is now medicals had picked. no it doesn't i think when she tries to play her cards close to her vest that she absolutely means that she had a hand picked successor that was the woman who is now the defense minister and a great crown convo or that did not work out well at all so i think that the chancellor is very much now doing a wait and see but i mean can we expect that would throw his hat into the ring and how might he do that. it's quit

time when these two so-called sister parties, chancellor merkel's christian democrats and the bavarian social, crisped in social unionwhen they were barely on speaking terms. . that has all changed. in part because markus soder has moved more toward the middle of the political spectrum and distance himself from the white rating -- right-wing populism. but also because the two of them are winners, and winners love other winners. both of them emerged from the corunna crisis looking quite strong in the. public opinion because in health and everything else was second. brent: when you look at those pictures from today, it looks like it could have been a job interview, or even looks like it could have been a first date. can we say tonight that markus soder is angela -- angela merkel's handpicked successor? melinda: no, we cannot say that. she made that very clear today, saying she was not going to be anointing a successor and passing over another question that tried it drill deeper on that. she had a handpicked successor. that was the current defense minister. that didn't work out too well. i think she is going to be very

christian, muslim, jewish faith leaders as well. law enforcement, police unions and black for social justice.if these are the same baseball bats. police officer said four officers were injured, including the chief of the nypd. he has fired up. certainly mad about this. david webb. post of the david webb show. great to have you back on. your reaction to this. >> what we see growing is an environment where the police are the targets and those criminals, because that is what you are when u.s. all the police officer, are a emboldened to cay out those actions. they do not fear retribution in the casen of new york from bill de blasio and his administration. they don't fear retributionon in seattle, in atlanta, in d.c. in this environment where we are in a crimeware crime typically b spikes, the summer with a hot day, hot nights, hot weekends. the lack of fear of authority and disrespect for authority plays out in the communities. this has immense thought to a community because crime drives business out. it harms the community. it increases the danger to live there. it increases the cost of living i