jobs within three years that's certainly good news let me now draw enough political correspondent hans grantho is standing by at up alimentary studios in but. let's first get some context to this what was described as a very fishy crisis remind us what was the feeling in germany when these tens of thousands of refugees appeared in the country. well there was of course a feeling of crisis and it was a crisis for germany in the sense that nobody expected hundreds of thousands of people to be arriving to be standing at the doorstep of germany and wanting to get in so it was amongst other things a logistical nightmare in some sense one had to find accommodation for these people food for these people medical attention for these people and at that stage germany very much opened its doors and a lot of people mobile the simple people went to train stations for instance and welcome the refugees to germany there was this feeling that germany needed to help these people because they were in a dire situation and hans and jim one chunk of that point amid a statement which came back to haunt to and became

granted himself exemptions. we will see if he ends up climbing down from this rhetorical position as well. >> yeah. and jonathan lamire, let's talk about the president's personality as it relates to everything hans was just laying out because that seems to be at the center of this. nancy pelosi and chuck schumer are perfectly capable of pursuing these dual paths. like i said, we have seen other presidents negotiate it successfully, try to put points on the board, basically, while still fighting back against inquiries from congress. this president does not -- and i was thinking this this morning, as this was unfolding. this president does not seem to have the capacity to do that as a human being. i mean, you have covered him for quite some time. what about today surprised you and what didn't? >> first of all, happy infrastructure week. >> i think this is really the infrastructure week after what happened. i mean, like do we have another one that really competes? >> i think infrastructure week is the friends you meet along the way, casey. what we have from this president today was not surprising in most ways. it was perhaps a little more dramatic than some of his other moments. but we know he has