talking about the importance not just for that country buffer geopolitics, kate brady of the washington post. good morning. >> good morning morning, or afternoon as it is here. host: we talked about these elections, for to them as snap elections, can you expand that means today? guest: it is a snap with a bit of a delay. the chancellor, he's centerleft government collapsed back in november, and this election that is taking place today has 59 million people eligible to vote. they are all heading to the polls across the country in this early election that should actually have been taking ice in september, and is ultimately a budget issue, a spending issue for this year, 2025, that brought down then government. so the polling stations have been open for several hours now, since 8:00 a.m. this morning, local time, and we are expecting the early prognosis to already trickling around 6:00 p.m. this evening. of course as you mentioned, huge global geopolitical issues have been raised in the selection as well. this election really does come at an extremely pivotal time and for germany, for euro

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there is a election in germany this weekend, and this is a story from kate brady from the washington musk, elon musk and jd vance. his comments supporting a far right party. there are also just so bizarre and absurd that it does not resonate with german politics. this way of acting and interfering is unknown to germans. >> look, i don't know whether or not outside like, do u.s. presidents really control elections? do they really move public opinion in germany? i'm pretty skeptical. >> is the fact that they're trying. >> they're trying. they also, in musk's case, owns a popular social media platform that, you know, we have this big conversation in this country about tiktok. and can the algorithm like actually, you know, predetermined outcomes. to me, the broader question with the german elections is just what's the number that the afd is going to get? and, you know, when you talk to sort of colleagues in germany and try to get a sense for things, no one really knows how, how far they will go in the actual balloting. polling is pretty broken in this country. i think we can all, you kno

kate brady, thank you for your time. guest: thank you. host: back to your calls an open forum. in oregon, a democrats line. thanks for waiting. caller: thank you for taking my call. i was really interested in the quincy foundation. sounds like a member of the ku klux klan to me. i just am really curious, i am probably a lot older than a lot of your callers. i grew up with my younger siblings doing duck and cover out of fear from nuclear weapons from the soviet union. and, you know i don't understand why we would ever trust a communist dictator to talk with us -- talk with anyone about negotiating anything. i still remember khrushchev kicking his shoe off pounding the desk and saying we will bury you. i think there's a history there that we need to remember about the russians. host: john in michigan, independent line. caller: good morning pedro. independent line, i haven't voted democrat or republican in over 10 years. and i never will vote for a democrat or republican. i think you should have more independent lines or take more calls because americans more identifies independen

kate brady, thank you for your time. guest: thank you. host: back to your calls an open forum.n oregon, a democrats line. thanks for waiting. caller: thank you for taking my call. i was really interested in the quincy foundation. sounds like a member of the ku klux klan to me. i just am really curious, i am probably a lot older than a lot of your callers. i grew up with my younger siblings doing duck and cover out of fear from nuclear weapons from the soviet union. and, you know i don't understand why we would ever trust a communist dictator to talk with us -- talk with anyone about negotiating anything. i still remember khrushchev kicking his shoe off pounding the desk and saying we will bury you. i think there's a history there that we need to remember about the russians. host: john in michigan, independent line. caller: good morning pedro. independent line, i haven't voted democrat or republican in over 10 years. and i never will vote for a democrat or republican. i think you should have more independent lines or take more calls because americans more identifies independent

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