our danielle pletka a senior fellow at the american enterprise institute and host of a weekly podcast on global affairs called what the hell is going on and ian bremmer the president of the aeration group a consultancy that focuses on political risk around the world and author of us versus them the failure of globalism and in berlin germany we have wolfgang ischinger former german ambassador to the united states and the united kingdom and now chairman of the munich security conference it's so great to have all of you here today this is a big heavy subject and wolfgang i want to start with you after the successful conference you just had when you laid out this this this question about what is the world without the west essentially at the front leading to solve problems so what is your diagnosis of the global order as we see it today well it's the 1st of all let me say how great it is to be on your show and to talk about these very important issues for for the international community and for us the west now would we believe my team and i would we believe we can diagnose is a double phen

eugene robinson, danielle pletka, maria teresa kumar and nbc white house correspondent, "weekend todaynchor, peter alexander. welcome to all of you. so, michael bloomberg. maria teresa, this is alleged comments that bloomberg -- this is from a "washington post" look-back on bloomberg on women. it feels like pretrump this could have been disqualifying in a primary. quotes that have been attributed to him. if women wanted to be appreciated for their brains, they'd go to the library instead of bloomingdale's. referring to lawsuits about discrimination. when bloomberg saw certain women, he said i'd expletive that in a second. when bloomberg learned that garrison, someone that worked for him, was pregnant, according to her lawsuit he allegedly said "kill it." he has denied that he said those words in a deposition. is this going to be damaging to him as he tries to become a mainstream democrat? >> this is where it's going to get tough. who is going to show up for the american public. is it going to be mayor bloomberg or philanthropist bloomberg? i say this because philanthropist bloomberg is