request i've got to the chief political editor mikaela shiffrin are here with me on the set and we're joined by correspondent elaine humphrey in washington for the view from there thank you so much to you both want to give you the 1st word michela if i can now do you think that the german government is looking favorably at this request from the u.s. to join this naval coalition to secure the strait of hormuz if you ask me what i think no and we've already heard from the head of the foreign affairs committee and all but what can do is from other machall c.d.u. party leaving that out having a mission in the region under u.s. command at the same time the u.s. is germany's closest security our in fact european german security depends on the united states and so official political speak will be that many would always look favorably at it but will already hearing here from the social democrat side who are also in a coalition government if you see a similar scenario basically to the iraq intervention it is very unlikely that germany will go into any kind of alliance of that kind of robust na