kauder had held the post for 13 years and he had never faced a challenge her.head of the vote most of the observers close to the chancellor say the expected that kauder would be reelected. u.s. president donald trump has delivered a blistering attack on globalism in his second speech to the u.n. general assembly. he says that all countries should act in their own interests and that the u.s. will never recognize the international criminal court. trump lashed out at iran, accusing its leaders of sowing mayhem in the middle east and of enriching themselves at the peoples expense. he also said iran must never be allowed to develop a nuclear bomb and he called on the international community to isolate the regime in tehran. with me here at the big table is nicole renvert, associate fellow with the german council on foreign relations. she watched president trump's speech closely for us. it is good to see you again. we have the u.s. president again here, nothing but strong criticism for iran and its leadership. iranian president hassan rouhani has fired back. what we h

so it was very dear to her heart that volker kauder was winning that election. the parliamentary group of her party has not followed her she is clearly weakened. i caught up with one of the leading figures of the fdp, which is an opposition party, the liberals, i asked whether he thin thinks angela merkel is weakened after that vote. >> she is weakened if you go into your own parliamentary group and say i want this guy who i worked together with 13 years to be re-elected because i like him, he's my guy, i can work with him. and then another says the same, and then as a result we get something nobody expected. journalists didn't expect this i thought it would be 60/40 for kauder then you are weakened, you underestimated the feelings in your parliamentary group and you underestimated how much pressure there is to do something new >> let's look at what that means for her standing overall is that the end of an era? is that a revolution like some call it? what would you call it >> it's neither of the two i think it's the slight going down of angela merkel. it is -- i