politics from the german council on foreign relations welcome nicholas 1st to ford how representative is the mood in county for the rest of the nation i think it is pretty representative it's pretty representative because people seem to not have fully made up their minds so there will be a group of people who will vote for trump for sure but as you can say there are some people who would be willing to also support the democratic candidate if the candidate is right and if the issues are the ones they are. what they consider as important now you're a foreign policy and relations the one who's been watching in the past few years to see how dom's drum has been performing he's shaken. on the one stage from joe many specifics of what would another 4 years of triumph mean well they certainly would mean more insecurities because there will be more erratic decisions on the side of the u.s. president and most likely the economy will suffer because germany's interests and needs as europe at large a stable trading partner are both in the united states but also in china and both markets now are ge

the big day but with me is nicole wren verge she is a us politics analyst with the german council on foreign relations and joining us from our studio in washington d.c. is joseph marino a former federal prosecutor and f.b.i. consultant both of you welcome the judge let me start with you 5 days of testimony looking at this as a prosecutor has the case been made that successfully shows that the president is guilty of an impeachable offense what do you say. well it's difficult because what constitutes an impeachable offense is such an objective concept because it's really anything that members of congress say that it is so if we were building a traditional criminal prosecution right basically if we were trying to say that the president was guilty of bribery or extortion or some other federal crime i would say the democrats have gone a long way to establishing the elements of a prosecution with respect to impeachment which we keep saying is really a political case you know look they have done what they need to do and they probably did it yesterday with him basser sunland to describe kind of fill in the ga

in 2013 a survey of experts -- i use that german air courts dash at the council on foreign relations found that 92% of these experts believe american public had become less supportive of taking an active part in world affairs. they actually quite good reason for this, because in a 2013 poll from the pew research center, for the first time you found a majority of americans, 52%, agreed with the statement that the united states should mind its own business internationally and let other countries get along the best they could under own. first time in history since the early '60s when this question started to be asked in that way. in 2040 the chicago council on global affairs also recorded a new record low public support for international engagement. they found only 8% of americans think the united states should take an active part in world affairs. these trends, maybe they don't sound that spectacular on the surface to you, but to people who are foreign policy observers in d.c., these numbers were terrifying. there was a lot of hemming and the still to this day, hemming and hauling abou