joining me tonight here at the big table are two of the eleven authors of that open letter joined by dieter berger she's at the american jewish committee here in berlin and john to show you heads of richard holbrooke form at the american academy here in berlin to both of you welcome to the day this is an open letter. but you must have had certain people in mind when you wrote it to whom is this letter addressed. we were very concerned a course about the impact of the current us administration on chairman policy we have a new government it was clear that a new government was coming in germany and we very much hope that those who are negotiating a coalition agreement take notice of what we're saying so it's addressed to the new government the new government is one of the target audience is quite clearly there is a dynamic now you know a negotiation process has just started about forming a new government but of course there's other target audience as well you know there is of course this this group of people that were addressed in the quote that you just used the people that are actively thinking abo