allies horst say her first they too are now almost certainly looking forward to another term in office. joining us for more is d.w. political correspondent hans brandt ons the latest polls continue to give merkel's c.d.u. a double digit lead why has it been so hard for any candidate to pose a serious threat against her it's got to do with personal issues not only popular amongst us but quite far beyond that even as far as the left wing left party or even the green party the environmentalist greens and obviously also amongst versions of the social democrats amongst all of these people as a person is popular despite all maybe also because of her policies what's a very crucial in that is that she has been governing for twelve years and people are basically satisfied with her record and she is a kind of guarantee of continuity of a kind of calmness in the in the political sphere in a situation where the rest of the world is in a lot of upheaval the same polls have also placed the right wing populist a.f.d. party and third place what their election into parliament need for germany. well you

allies horst zehava they too are now almost certainly looking forward to another term in office. joining us for more is political correspondent hans front. hons really does post continue to give merkel c.d.u. a double digit lead why has it been so hard for any candidate to really break through and pose a serious challenge to merkel merkel spoke of personal standing is not restricted only to voters of her own party the c.d.u. there are in fact voters also in other parties stretches as far as the environmentalists greens and also of course in the. social democrats they are people who respect her for her political achievements in the last twelve years and there is also a sense that medical is a. guarantor of stability that in difficult times worldwide she. stands for continuity and allows people to live their lives without being too strongly affected by what goes on in the world these same polls place the far right populist party a.f.d. in third place what with their election mean for poland parliament what it means for germany you can say that in a sense it's a kind of normalize at

days rhetoric is hauntingly familiar we spoke with horst zellweger a holocaust survivor who endured forced labor under the nazis and saw most of his family murdered now ninety years old so my guess is that for him the rise of a.f.g. comes as no surprise it's a kiss most i didn't do it can deal with. fascism in germany never went away it just took on a new form you know you feel. like it's the. yeah yeah i don't see. we will hound this government we will hunt down chance of the america or whomever else we need to we will take back our country and there are people. who go through that and want to see one thing from the borders from one hundred thirty nine again. yeah. clearly remembers the beginning of nazi rule in germany at school in berlin he was virtually abused and beaten up by his classmates. the thing. it started with him calling me horrible names like smart alec jew or jewish pig. it got worse and worse more offensive and then deadly. in my two. sixty one members of bigots extended family were murdered in the holocaust fascism and germany's coming to terms with its nazi past our core

joining me for tonight's rumble are charles sauer economist and president of the market institute and horst cooper attorney and senior fellow at the national center for public policy research thank you both for being you know thank you let's get started bernie care is finally here today vermont senator bernie sanders officially unveiled his plan for single payer health care saying it was the start of a long fight and to the international shame that is our current health care system . we begin the long and difficult struggle to end the into the national disgrace of the united states our great nation being the only major country on earth not to guarantee health care to all of our people as proud americans our job is to lead the world on health care not to be woefully behind every all of the major country bernie's plan the medicare for all act of twenty seventeen would gradually phase every single american into the existing medicare program over a four year period from that point onwards health care would be free i repeat free for everyone in the same way that when you call the fire department

but then horst single for. also at some point said t tt these w well integrated very employer should not be deported. and effective and i think we can all be sure that this topic will remain with us for sometime. and now having discussed internal perspective let us talk about foreign policy. the shows more than one hundred thousand people have cross mediterranean this year. to. come to europe most attempt from africa. is it possible at old to seal. the european vote and decide what you want. some expositor almost no that's not the first place we cannot sealed european bota and we shouldn't be. because we have to patrol that you know and we don't only have fortis in the south in the mediterranean but. just as much and the east or in the north. we out of course very concerned about the mediterranean bought it. that's since we cannot close it we need good immigration policy. but if we only talk about immigration policy it might help us in germany but it doesn't help in the mediterranean as such on the crowd. or ye