on the exposer welcome to the program german president frank meyer is making a rare appeal for national unity this easter weekend sign buyers asking germans to pull together and set aside a crisis of trust in the government there is growing frustration as corona virus infections rise despite months of restrictions on daily life if they already are also under fire over the slow pace of vaccinations the president is urging people to remain positive despite the setback. isn't enough some months ago after the 1st wave we were already complacently deeming ourselves a pandemic world champions and now it's the opposite we are practically vying to outdo one another in doom and gloom does everything really have to be a super liga of in germany as good to put it now shouting in triumph now sun can despair we're not pandemic world champions but we're not an utter failure no we're the federal republic of germany we may often have our doubts but there's plenty we're capable of and it's our capabilities not our doubts which matter now compass it. chief political correspondent linda crane joins me now

to her guns and urging germans to adhere to the tough restrictions over easter german president frank meyers delivering his easter message to morrow is expected to echo what she says. he's expected to echo it and also to be have a similar speech to the one that he held exactly one year ago on easter were called the coronavirus pandemic a test for humanity and asked germans also to show solidarity with their fellow citizens and he is also expected to thank the people that have helped germany to overcome this pandemic and as we've heard it germany germany's chancellor angela merkel also said that this new virus mutations mean that the 3rd wave in germany is actually a new pandemic so those are the voices that that's what we expected to hear tomorrow from president from german president from quite a shy man who said that this is extremely challenging times but specially on easter with christians all around the world celebrate lives victory over death we should restrict i was activated as well ok thanks for the look ahead and inside the debut correspondent benjamin alvarez gruber. next we turn t

unexpired sir welcome to the program german president frank meyer has made a rare appeal for national unity this easter weekend more and more germans are losing confidence in the government because of the slow rollout of covert 19 back scenes also on saturday 10000 people rallied against lock down restrictions in the southern city of streetcar. trust between jemison the government has sunk so low during the pandemic that this man has had to step in chairman president francophile to steinmeyer doesn't set. see all that he used his largely ceremonial role to cool for unity. we must all pull together my fellow germans we must give it everything we've got there's no use merely being outraged about others or about our leaders rather than constantly pointing out what doesn't work we should point out that things do work when everyone does their bit chancellor angela merkel has struggled to bring the same lock down rules nationwide because health restrictions are decided at the state level just before easter the chancellor had to reverse last minute plans for a shutdown over the holiday after

one of william buckley most prominent co-conspirators, from lack of a better term, frank meyer, just five years later in 1960, he coins the doctrine of -- fusionism. most students of modern american conservatism scholars, pundits, commentators, grew up in the fusionism paradigm. it was profoundly and remarkably successful in accomplishing what it set out to do. fusionism was described as quite literally trying to fuse old traditionalist conceptions of conservatism, the russell crowe wing of moral traditionalism, and essentially fuse it with free market economics. i think from an early age, the modern conservative movement was kind of infatuated with the laissez-faire, what some people are calling market fundamentalism. it was there at the onset. people like friedrich hayek and milton friedman became icons for the intellectual and funded best use of the american right -- intellectual and funded bastions of the american right. his home state of arizona and three states in the deep south. barry goldwater ran on a fusionist platform, the traditional three-legged stool platform of social

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everybody [ cheers and applause ♪ ♪ ♪ >> announcer: tonight on "late night with seth meyers," rob lowe creators and stars of "frankand" domhnall and brian gleeson, write and director of "promising young woman" emerald fennell and now, seth meyers >> seth: good evening. i'm seth meyers. and this is "late night. how is everybody doing tonight all right. that's really good for a thursday let's get to the news. president biden announced sanctions and other measures against russia today in response to cyber attacks and election meddling well, you have made a powerful enemy today. no, no, no, the other one. yeah, there you go president biden announced yesterday he will withdraw all u.s. troops from afghanistan by september 11th and said, quote, "it's time to end america's longest war, but don't cry cause it's over, dick. smile because it happened. president biden met in the oval office today with the congressional asian pacific american caucus to discuss diversifying the administration. said biden, "that's perfect, cause i actually know a great hawaiian guy i would love to hire just keep getting his voicemail. vice pres

we're watching mike santoli checking the action and robert frank with the latest on a potential capital gains tax hike and joining us is michelle meyer and janet lowe but mike start us off with this market. >> the market is looked a little bit indecisive in the last week but hard to argument with the strength volumes are low. investors are fully exposed to stocks already and yet the market continues to show that the path to least resistance is higher for now this is a two-year look at the s&p. i chose that because it is fascinating how we've essentially kind of resumed the trajectory, if you go back to three years, resume from the precovid crash bull market as if it looks like it was kind of a bolt in the blue that did not have a lot to do with the ongoing fundmentals. this is a 42% gain over two years. it is very high but not unprecedented in the late '90s, a lot of clusters when you have two-year gains of 42% from an all-time high. also the tone of the market has flipped back and forth between offense and defense. take a look at high beta parts of the market, cyclical and more aggressive versus low volatility and much more cautious