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Political life as negotiations to form a new government collapse. the breakdown in talks raising the prospect of new elections just two months after the last election seemed to guarantee merkel a fourth term. lets go live to berlin and bring in cnns atika shubert. bring us up to speed on whats happening there. >> reporter: well, at the moment, whats happening is that the president, walter steinmeier, its his job to kind of find a way out of this political dilemma, and hes saying, look, everybody...

Like i mean you have the pro-business party on the one side the inventor of the screens on the other side you have two conservative parties involved this is a make show which is on like you but on the other side i mean you have experienced this in the silence so far a few years ago and we just mike it has existed already. and it exists in this because on the business and the level so it is a rather unlikely coalition but they also do want to be successful i mean the longer they they talk with ea...

Game. youve been through it. ive been through it. we count delegates. right now i can count fairly easily count races for romney. take california and new york. new york is proportional but california is not. and thats a big bloc of delegates just in that one state alone. jon: to hear you counting races for romney, this is something wrong with this picture, bob beckel. >> doesnt matter which one it is. were looking forward to see the three of them on the trail. >> does my heart good to hear bob s...