so that piece of it you can feel the kind of philosophical gap between merkel and him. merkel, when he got elected, she did say something nice. as tom pointed out. but she finished that statement by saying, but our partnership rests on shared values alone. meaning, if you don t share our values, there is no point in having an alliance with the united states. so i think that we re in an odd situation today, anderson, where the chancellor of germany has become the leader of the western liberal order. it s also interesting, their opinions on letting immigrants come into the country whether they are migrants or refugees. germany has let in as many as 1 million people. if we were talking about before many from syria, many war-torn areas, many without vetting. cursory vetting at best. almost none as far as we can tell with anything like the vetting american refugees,