joyce karam is washington bureau chief for the pan arab newspaper "al-hayat." and alan gomez focuses on latin america and immigration issues among other things for "usa today." and we welcome all three of you to the "newshour". thank you for being here. geoff dyer, let me start with you. as you said you've reported from europe, based in the u.s. now but also reported from asia. let's start with europe. we heard the president's comments today, said world leaders are rattled by what they're hearing from donald trump. donald trump said it's good people are rattled. what are you hearing from the europeans? >> several european leaders came out publicly criticizing one of the main candidates to be the president to have the united states. that is a rare thing that doesn't happen very often. david cameron called donald trump's plan to ban muslims divisive and stupid. the italian prime minister said he would vote for hillary clinton, even angela merkel has come out of her way to say how much she admires working with hillary clinton. this is an unusual situation. politic