america evan steen thanks for joining german president from folder steinmeier is set to make a rare appeal for national unity this easter weekend steinmeyer is asking germans to set aside a crisis of trust in the government there is growing frustration as corona virus infections rise despite months over strictures on daily life the authorities are also under fire over the slow pace of vaccinations the president says new thinking is what's needed. the pandemic has held up a mirror to our country reflecting our compulsion to lay down rules for everything our fear of taking risks the shunting back and forth of responsibility how can we change that and how can we make our institutions more resilient we will have to address that at the moment however we are in the midst of the 3rd wave and it would take all of our strength all of us together to overcome its. deadly chief political analyst melinda crane joins us now to put the german president's remarks into a bit of context for us hello to you melinda i'd like to go right to what he just said in that clip we played about germany facing itself i

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