patrolling the border that separated east and west germany together with foreign minister heikal mass this was also an oak asian to ease the recent tensions in the u.s. german relations. it was a bit of a walk out every way from a very very very strong. you can say. you could say i saw a piece of history that i was a tiny little part of back in the late 1980 s. i think it's indicative of the incredible important relationship between our 2 countries mychal massie expressed gratitude for american support of the german reunification process as it always because. we are committed to see you with great solidarity and gratitude that we owe our freedom to you as well as our unity. sheed annoys company also wanted to show solidarity with jews living in germany in the eastern city of hollow together with mass he visited the side of of recent anti semitic attack and they are nazi gunmen had shot that 2 people last month after he was unable to enter a synagogue and carry out a mass shooting thank you thank you for coming here with me today thank you for being here to bring honor to those individ

marking the 30th anniversary of the fall of the berlin wall on thursday he and his german counterpart heikal did some room in this thing together to try and improve code relations between the countries. it was in some ways a deeply personal visit us secretary of state my pump you used the 1st day of a stay in germany to return to his former military base he was stationed here is a soldier in the eighty's one of these 2 teams back then patrolling the border that separated east and west germany together with foreign minister. this was also no cajun to ease the recent tensions in the u.s. german relations. it was a bit of a walk down memory lane for a number of. members struck but you can see. you can see i saw a piece of history that i was a tiny little part of back in the late 1980 s. i think it's indicative of the incredible poured relationship between our 2 countries michael mass expressed gratitude for american support of the german reunification process is it always because. we have committed so you with great solidarity and gratitude that we owe our freedom to you as well as our unity. c

but there's one thing that is interesting to mention the german foreign minister heikal mosque just recently actually this week he thanked many countries all around the world for that and waltham and involvement in the fall of the berlin wall for you were german reunification but he didn't mention the united states with one word not at all and well that sparked criticism in the united states. now the secretary of state's well them travel to but where he's due to inaugurate a statue of whom. is actually a statue no one or barely no one in peru and everyone say it's the statue of ronald reagan the former u.s. presidents and he's actually honorary citizen of berlin and many city officials thought well that's sufficient but now he got the statue is it will be placed at the balcony of the u.s. embassy in the heart of pollution and a run of regular process will have the opportunity to look at the side where the berlin wall once stood and where he hold this very famous iconic speech asking his son his counterpart mr gorbachev to tear down this wall that was a 987 and of course we all know that 2 ye

almost made it all journey into his german posse yesterday said that with the german foreign minister heikal mass how significant do you think that was. step on bail has a german history a person all history tied to this country could in fact prove important when it comes to trying to resolve some of those issues where the united states and germany have problems and i also expect that that is the hope of german officials who have been particularly worried about u.s. foreign policy since donald trump became u.s. president who are worried about what they describe sometimes as an erratic foreign policy or it is an unpredictable foreign policy so the fact that mr pompeo has this personal connection to germany i think is seen here in berlin as a way where german politicians could at least try and make sure that that relationship does not to become any more difficult than it already is any more difficult than all those issues that i've discussed really german officials have stressed time and time again that they want to have a good relationship with the united states something else that mr pompeo