has disregarded the government's rules of procedures and behave so scandalously if mr schmidt doesn't resign of his own free will and mackel would be expected to respond accordingly and seat merkel probably will not go that far but she has stressed that such episodes must not be repeated zones this on the wide successful cooperation within the federal government will not be possible to move a new government for germany is not yet in sight and the debate over life is not making cooperation attempts any easier. for the german chancellor says that she is horrified by a knife attack on a local mayor known for his migrant friendly policies now the attack happened on monday evening in a restaurant in western germany the mayor and dreyfus host don was taken to the hospital but later released also dying says he thinks the attacker was motivated by his progress u.g. stanton's in two thousand and fifteen host time was awarded an integration prize after he took in more refugees than required under a government quota. w.'s rebecca my it was in the town of alternate today gauging the reactions of

i spoke by phone with my colleague mr schmidt today at twelve thirty and made it clear that i was sticking to my no and that therefore germany has to abstain on this issue and cannot agree to the extension. this is and this is a serious breach of trust within the acting government i have to ask myself in light of this god alone decision whether mrs merkel has her own people under control. but. with talks on a new grand coalition just germinating the time could hardly have been worse but the agriculture minister say he gained important concessions in exchange for his yes vote. i feel it is my duty in the government to take decisions that need to be taken. but i also decide based on the facts and nothing else that. under. the voters' bitterly divided the acting grand coalition the e.u. decision to permit use of life for sake for another five years cannot now be revoked what ever the possible dangers no one doubts glyphosate is good at killing weeds the concern is now that it could kill off any chance of germany forming a new government. all right from the fields into the studio i'm joined no

democrats in fact it seems that there are quotes from some quarters here that the agriculture minute mr schmidt we saw in our report should resign after this controversy he's caused that's right the opposition greens have come out and called for his resignation schmidt's opponent in the cabinet the social democrat environment minister barbara hendrick she said that her resignation would be. would restore that loss of trust that now exists she didn't actually openly call for his resignation she said the ball is now in chancellor merkel's court she must do something to he or that loss of trust so we'll just have to see what happens so a lot of talk about trust here chris what can i get michael and the conservatives do to continue this damage. well pressure is growing on chancellor merkel to react in some way or other i don't know whether she's going to fire this minister he's actually from the very allies of christian democrats so it's slightly complicated for her to just get up and fight him she can do it if she wants she hasn't done it so far maybe she'll find some other way of centering him bu

i spoke by phone with my colleague mr schmidt today at twelve thirty and made it clear that i was sticking to my no and that therefore germany has to abstain on this issue and cannot agree to the extension. this is and this is a serious breach of trust within the acting government i have to ask myself in light of this go it alone decision whether mrs merkel has her own people under control for america. i ignored or not i'm kerf at. the head of talks about a new grand coalition between the s.p.d. in the conservatives the timing could hardly have been worse. but the agriculture minister says he gained important concessions in exchange for his yes vote. if you let me finish i feel it is my duty in the government to take decisions that need to be taken. but i also decide based on the facts and nothing else that. he's under the vote has bitterly divided the acting grand coalition the e.u. decision to permit use of life or say it for another five years cannot be revoked whatever the possible dangers no one thoughts the efficacy of glyphosate when it comes to killing weeds the concern is that it

prepared by the federal government in terms of the issue itself in contrast to hendrix i am more on mr schmidt side but the behavior does not correlate with what is stipulated in the government's rules of procedure. for the chancellor the timing could hardly be worse it comes just as she had planned to negotiate with the c.s.u. and s.p.d. about forming a grand coalition while the social democrats believe the controversial weed killer damages the environment and people's health the c.s.u. feels it's a practical aid for farmers either way the debate is disrupting talks in other areas. let's talk about those talks in other areas. thomas welcome thomas so how is this likely to affect negotiations to form a new government. well it could seriously affect them if we look at the possibility of those future talks it is still unclear whether there will be those talks initially leaders of the respective parties will meet with the german president on thursday but if they do decide to then have exploratory talks one of the elements that is necessary if you want to form a coalition is trust and it's precise

when i spoke by phone with my colleague mr schmidt today it's been thirty and made it clear that i was sticking to my no and that therefore germany has to abstain on this issue and cannot agree to the extension of this kind of behavior is not designed to promote trust between negotiating partners. sockless i can only say that i made this decision based on the fact. and in this bird of our own the standing of strong environmental protection. as it were. and i think it's well known that building trust account is one of my main priorities. now once belonged to. ok this comes at the worst possible time for germany with the collapse of a possible coalition talks between partners that might have worked christopher spring gate from the political bureau joins us now from our christopher what effect is this going to have on the hope for coalition negotiations between the social democrats and all americans conservatives well. initially it'll have a destructive effect the one key thing one needs to know about the way that political coalitions government coalitions in germany work they agree on pr

prepared by the federal government in terms of the issue itself in contrast to hendrix i am more on mr schmidtside but the behavior does not correlate with what is stipulated in the government's rules of procedure. for the chancellor the timing could hardly be worse it comes just as she had planned to negotiate with the c.s.u. and s.p.d. about forming a grand coalition while the social democrats believe the controversial weed killer damages the environment and people's health the c.s.u. feels it's a practical aid for farmers either way the debate is disrupting talks in other areas. staying in germany and chancellor mechanize express shock at a knife attack on a conservative man known for his migrant friendly policies the attack took place in a kabob rested on the western german city of altena authorities say it's likely the stabbing was politically motivated local media say a man asked. if he was the male and then stabbed him a first time was taken to hospital but released later in two thousand and fifteen the man became known nationally for his birthday many policies towards refugees. ok let'

these allegations artie's editor in chief has the remarks by schmidt made where the firm was grilled on why it hadn't carried out the move before mr sell gado why did gould google give preferred status to russia today a russian propaganda arm on you tube. there was a period of time where russia today qualified really being revert artie's preferred status after the i.c.a. came out january two thousand and seventeen it took you to september of two thousand and seventeen to do it the removal of r t from the program was actually a result of as as i understand it is a reason result of some of the drop in viewership not as a result of any action otherwise so there was there was nothing about r t you or is content that. meant that it stayed in or stayed out. media consultant neil wallace is certain google's actions against a politically motivated. i don't think it censorship you don't have to like the stories that russia today covers you don't have to want to read the material coming from sputnik but i really do not believe it is in any way except of all that a bunch of politically correct. democratic party supporting people certainly in

mr. kushner, after the election, trying to set up a back-channel meeting. at this point in time you actually need a list. peter schmidt, george papadopolous, the list goes on. at some point in time the trump administration should stop calling this a witch hunt because after all, the first witches were bagged earlier this week. tell us exactly what took place. >> congressman, if you didn't hear the president this morning as he was departing the white house heading on his trip to asia, let me read you the last bit of what he said when talking to reporters because he slammed his own department of justice for not going after his political enemies, his political foes, and he said they should be looking at those things, talking about the democrats, talking about john podesta, et cetera and he said, quote, a lot of people are disappointed in the justice department, including me. what is your reaction to that? >> i think a lot of people means those sitting in the white house right now. the president has failed to take responsibility for anything that has gone wrong in the campaign, and during this presidency. i look back to t

schmidt, that is the problem. the problem is that there is a leader who as "the wall street journal" says this morning sometimes mrts are so transparentally false that you wonder if he's laughing as he writes it. there are republicans, there are independents, a lot of women that are deeply offended by this president. the fact that he will not expand his base beyond 33%, he doesn't try to. he seems to keep playing only to the base, but peggy's right. republicans can't win their primaries without donald trump. and they can't win competitive general elections with donald trump. so what do you do if you're a republican? >> you prepare -- >> other than retire. >> you prepare to lose. the dye is cast here, joe. there is no more time on the clock. paul ryan said yesterday, we're with trump. and thus the dye is cast. >> oh, god. >> but you look at the special elections, the georgia six race, tom price's previous elections had been at about 66%. the republican who wins the special election before price resigns in disgrace and the committee spends $50 million to save the seat, he wins with 49%. math is an underappreciated v