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Nationalist surge thats been -- that weve seen has sort of been stalled here in france. and probably because france is so important, such a big country, it means it wont come up in other big powerful european countries. it still exists in east european countries part of the eu. in germany, we saw a rising far right party coming up, nationalist party afd. that already has started to crumble and if angela merkel is going to face any threat, its more going to be on her more socialist flank. she her...

It seems that tonight at least that that wave has crashed on to french shores and were not sure how much further its going to go. now le pen has said that shes going to be in the head of the opposition, which is as my colleague christopher dickey just said, shes probably more comfortable being in the on sings than in power. but, you know, her predecessors and her colleagues, they fate doesnt bode well for her. nigel farrage went from championing brexit to now he quit his position with the europe...

We had a thorough investigation on the causes of this attack, who was to blame, why was the perpetrator not discovered before he was able to commit the attack, but of course the afd, the populist right wing party tries to capitalize on these events, but i have to say without much success yet. so maybe the germans are not really -- they havent been impacted as the french. >> is it possible that we are witnessing peak populism? by which, the populist trend we have all seen in reference to presiden...

The impact on the political stage was basically limited to those who would expect. we had a thorough investigation on the causes of this attack, who was to blame, why was the perpetrator not discovered before he was able to commit the attack? but of course the afd, the populist tries to categorize on this event. so maybe they are -- they havent been impacted like the french. >> is it possible we are witnesses peak populism, by which i mean the pop list trend we have all seen, it may be -- you kn...

More, need to put that 2% into our nato pot and agree with that and on the issue of vladimir putin this stresses out europe out no end with the kremlin and faked news to be interfering in the elections to the benefit of these nationalists, will its le pen, afd in germany, et cetera, et cetera and the germans are very worried about that an a resurgent russia who wants to put its power out around the world so shes going to ask donald trump -- shes probably going to explain and wonder why he hasnt ...

Security? >> thats a good question. when you see headlines like these this morning and in the context of what you just heard in the reports, they knew him. they did nothing. thats not exactly right. they did a lot but couldnt keep him for legal reasons. they had to let anis amri go but there is plenty of blow back, political blow blow back and lets talk to dominique thomas from ucla. you are a specialist on eu studies. what do you thi-- how will it h chancellor merkel. >> 2017 will be the german...

Taken these people in, but theyre not going to be here forever. weve got to start figuring out how to move them on or send them home. so hes clearly feeling the pressure. and this attack in berlin is going to just exponentially increase the pressure. >> she said, as we just reported, if it turns out to be a refugee that carried out this attack, it would be especially hard to bear. michael, it would be hard to bear for the national psyche and very hard for her to bear politically right now with t...

Arab world they want to see her toppled and see elected or coming in to power far right anti-muslims politicians because in the isis binary there is no democratic integrated west. theres only us versus them. >> just the rumor of being a refugee initially sent them talking. >> tunisian national we dont know what his situation is. afd for germany came out and said these are merkel dead the dozen people who were killed. im sure youll see things from the more virulent anti-muslim group. anybody you ...

There are three regional elections leading up to the fall election. merkel is preparing herself for political opponents, particularly on the far right, to capitalize on this. >> which they were doing yesterday, saying that these people were merkels dead. >> yes, thats true. i mean if you look at the far right anti-immigrant alternative for germany, afd, from what we know of their strategy for next years campaign already ahead of this attack was really to stir provocations that will trigger nervo...

Sides. >> what is interesting, right wing up rising in the u.k. can and france are quite different from the one you have here in germany, because youre talking about the far right doing extremely well out of this and potentially in the election next year. >> yes, i mean the afd, the alternative for deutsc can eland probably will make it into the parliament next year, but i dont believe they will be in government because they dont have the votes to form a coalition, and none of the consensus or t...