jobs with layoffs across the country, incorporates treading water and number two is investment, frederick maerskhave the debt break feed into the conversation as we have donald trump tougher than his predecessor and party leaders spoke to each other, frederick said he wants to grow germany to be independent from the u.s. and this is crucial because he will be dealing with immigration. tom: trying to remove dependency . i was at the green party of the those is a trump administration that has meddled in german politics. talk to us about the rewriting of the landscape. kriti: clearest readthrough was elon musk speaking about the afd immigration stance and jd vance made comments that shock to europe. the policy stance from the u.s. was a 180 but the most shocking point was the u.s. major military presence, trump talked about removing it in the u.s. pushed back, frederick maersk has been talking but ali crook, take a listen to what he had to say. >> we have a clear mandate, olaf scholz is done. we got to change course of germany. we will meet our security needs and there will be a change of policy. k

judy: we don't know if that's going to happen, we assume frederick maersk will be the new chancelloretting up a coalition but if germany is not back on its feet they will not assume european leadership. it has been lacking under the current chancellor and it -- it -- a strong german economy is not only linked to a strong european union, it could give europe and germany the leadership is needed. joumanna: yeah. do you think germany can make this come back with the threat of tariffs hanging over the country? >> great question. germany cannot do this alone. they've got to going united. this is about europe speaking on the changes. joumanna: thank you julie dempsey at carnegie europe. will bring you all the news this week including a special program when the polls close live from berlin. germany's chancellor says europe is strong enough to stand up to trump but olaf scholz said the eu is open to talks to avoid a trade war. >> i am in favor of free trade, this is a big advantage we have and many of the growth we have is because of free trade. free trade is better than tariffs and i don't