human rights activist kati marton, conference chair wolfgang kissinger and institution senior fellow constanza. you probably know the council doesn't do big talks but we do talks with books. and kati marton's latest which is called "the chancellor: the remarkable odyssey of angela merkel" launches today. i'm congratulations kati, it's a great review in the new york times just yesterday that i saw especially for the new yorktimes . we're going to talk about the great chancellor and today is a doubly good reason to talk about it because as we were just discussing in the chat, german parliament was reconstituted today and as a consequence, the chancellor is no longer a seated member of parliament so she sat in the vip guest area as opposed to with the former fellow armamentarium for the first time we can already start talking about legacy. with that let me turn it to first kati and say that when you write a major book about somebody, i think it's fair to say that you intend to have an impact about how they are perceived by the general public. so i want to ask you tell us, how you'd like angela me

you have to go last since we're talking about angela merkel but do respond to what constanza just had to say and tell us how you think germany feels run today and how much angela herself has had an impact on that. >> i think one of the many impressive things of this 16 years of angela merkel has been even though many germans were upset by so many decisions. some didn't like her decision to walk away from nuclear power for example . many as everybody knows were enraged that she would allow 1 million strange foreigners who flood this country. but the interesting thing is that germans maintained the idea that she could be trusted. i mean, her popularity of course went up and down but i would argue that the interesting thing about angela merkel is that even though those who may not have ever voted for her trusted her. the fact that she lived a totally scandal free life, that she was never anything but took back given to her by some middle east dictator was appreciated by the german housewives there. this is where i come from. so she enjoyed and or mistrust. and that was mentioned earlier

[música] mariano: sí, lo acepto, me casé con constanza sin amarla y ahora que me divorcié de ella...

constanza: lo voy a pensar. buenas tardes. jesús: violeta.

constanza: regina me ha impulsado y el trabajo me h

human rights activist kati marton, conference chair wolfgang kissinger and institution senior fellow constanza.

human rights activist kati marton, conference chair wolfgang kissinger and institution senior fellow constanza. you probably know the council doesn't do