That he does not know we had for better results album especially when. I promise our members of the voters think that we wont just go back to business as usual and this picture defeat needs thoroughgoing analysis of about the size we are saying i do not want to lose germany to an invasion of foreign people from foreign cultures and as simple as that it is due to the good with the when you walk through the city center and in ten or fifteen women come towards you fully veiled then people say thats ok this is not part of our culture we do one thing we have oil and we want to change the direction of fun it takes reached the turnaround of ice and its food supply its days was that the next government just a follow a clear european compass on this compass has to point to all georgia im not towards populism so i can usually stew for policemens i want to name any thing now that i explain and i want to run the red lines. Also on the show the view from washington ill talk with a u. S. Congressman about the future of american german relations now that trump is in the white house and the far right is moving into the German Parliament thats coming up in about eight minutes. We begin the day with the day after it has been twenty four hours since the results of the german election began shocking and surprising some delighting and satisfying others of the takeaways are clear chancellor uncle americal will retain her position for an historic fourth term but her power has been diminished her conservatives along with the other Mainstream Party the social democrats together gave up almost two million votes to the new party in parliament the far right alternative for germany the a f d and like a script from a Donald Trump Campaign speech candidates last night valved to quote take back the country and they promise to hunt down the german chancellor with an investigation into what the party claims are possible crimes in connection with her refugee policy but first the a. F. D. Will have to bring its own house in order to day the party leader and its best known member this woman petrie she resigned just a day after winning a seat in parliament she announced that the f. D. A. Has lost its way now if youre a pessimist this will not surprise you if youre an optimist this may be the best news of the entire election. Nothing in the German Parliament will stay as it was behind the scenes power plays and Party Leaders sounding each other out the first bombshell came from the f. T. As one of the leaders of the far right party walked out of its news conference. I had decided not to be part of the f. T. s Parliamentary Group but is it as an individual member of parliament. Frank a petrie is unlikely to be the last in the f. T. To distance themselves from the extreme right elements within their own party but chancellor Angela Merkel is facing bigger problems after the social democrats ruled out forming a grand coalition with her conservatives a three Way Partnership with the business friendly liberal democrats and the environmentalist greens seems the only possibility even if its all smiles in public their political outlooks remain worlds apart they are likely to demand a heavy price for making any compromises meanwhile the bavarian christian socialists the c. D. U. Sister party are also threatening to quit their alliance with merkels conservatives unless their demands are met as. You can my view its absolutely essential that we set out a clear commitment to stemming the influx of refugees in other words a cap on numbers. Thats what weve promised people. The f. T. P. And the greens are unlikely to go along with any cap on refugees it almost seems as if the chancellor is already missing her Old Coalition partners in the s. P. D. Here theyre not really thought of chris we will begin having exploratory talks with the f. T. P. And the greens. But i would like to add also with the s. P. D. Because it is important that germany form a strong stable government. After their hammering at the polls the social democrats are looking to reinvent themselves their leader Martin Schultz is not counting on any invitation from the chancellor. She wants to call me she can i think that since the socalled elephant round of talks yesterday she has Better Things to do with. Others. The new Parliamentary Groups will come together for the first time on tuesday the power play is just getting underway. Im joined now here by our chief Political CorrespondentMelinda Greene of the different world than it was twenty four hours ago it seems like both and indeed we ushered that big transition in the new well youre twelve quite a night so lets talk about the far right you have to look set now to have some ninety seats in the new parliament in the buddhist target i mean thats its significance number how much power with will they wield and do they have enough members or people who are qualified and competent to sit in Parliament WellGreat Questions the fact is are they even going to be one bloc normally Parliamentary Groups have a certain amount of cohesion weve already seen a major a. F. D. Leader saying today she doesnt want to join the Parliamentary Group because essentially she thinks that the people in the party many of them are not serious enough about real policymaking and that is the big question with this party many of its voters and many of those who put themselves on the list to be elected are essentially they are out of protest they want to send a clear message to established politicians and parties saying they are not happy with germanys approach to migration they want a limit on migration they want to deport migrants who are here but is that enough to carry them through in parliament that is going to be the big question and there are enormous divisions within this party yeah i mean it makes you wonder too if theyre just there to protest will the party fall apart whence it gets down to having to do business in legislators isley merkel the chancellor she has to build a new coalition to build build a new government and shes got some unlikely bedfellows to deal with pro business f. T. P. And the green shes facing lots of divisions herself also starting with of her own party were seeing a lot of pressure now from the more conservative the very and sister party for her to go in a certain direction that would surely not be aligned for example with one of those prospective Coalition Partners the greens and the greens quite liberal on a number. Matters including migration if the chancellor was under pressure to move further to the right could make it hard to find agreement these three potential partners are going to be taking out their programs and seeing where there are possible areas of compromise and where there are pretty deep divisions and one of those divisions there a critical will be for example on approaches to European Union integration that miss friendly free democrats have made a lot of noise about wanting a much less integration friendly policy than either the chancellor or the greens lean to that for example could torpedo good cooperation with the new president of france manual mac aw the chancellor was looking to work with him that may be very difficult with that kind of a coalition if she can even get there i mean theres so much horse trading going on right now will we even have a new government come christmas and if not dare i mention the words new elections very problematic she was asked last night could we can we get there by christmas she expressed optimism but it is a very open question and there truly are very deep differences between these parties now some of that may have been tactics during the Election Campaign its possible that the free democrats may roll back on some of their or more difficult statements nonetheless if they cant hammer out a Coalition New elections is normally what happens in a parliamentary system the thing is no established party wants to see that happen because if they look incompetent that could drive even more voters into the arms of the far right a f t so a lot of pressure on everybody it seems to be clarifying minds to some degree but its very early days this is going to be a long tough process linda green our chief Political Correspondent another long day for the insights the human. Well members of the German Government have been reluctant to say much about the Election Results today as the shock continues to set in but germanys defense minister ursula from the lion did speak with us earlier this is what she had to say about her party the cd use poor results. Well i think this is not a good result and we certainly have done mistakes but if we would have known about the mistakes earlier we would have gotten rid of them so we need a thorough analysis right now but one thing is clear we do have a mandate and we will take care of this mandate does that mandate points quite clear while it does quite clearly point towards the socalled the mike a coalition that would include the free democrats we heard its leader and talk conduct coast youngling now during this Election Campaign basically to declare crimea pretty much of a territory that is beyond reprieve for ukraine how are you going to find a common line with a party like that there are many many topics where we do have a common line as far as i understood the debate around christian does remarks he pulled back immediately and for us its very clear that International Laws and international right is important for us and annexation of crimea is inacceptable. And we have a very clear position on that but there are many topics of course we will have to debate with the greens with the liberals at the moment being the social democrats refused to talk but the door will be open because i think its a good democratic tradition first of all to talk with everybody to speak with everybody because we need a stable government and at first it is the concern for the country and after that you can have a concern for the party now what did your party gets wrong in respect of reaching those voters that have now moved over to the alternative for germany the rightwing a. F. D. Party lost a million voters to two remarks on that yes we lost a million voters to the a. F. D. By the extreme left and the social democrats together last also a million voters and if you look. Of the motives of those voters of a of the vast majority did not vote for the f. T. Because of their context positions but because they wanted to teach us the other partys a lessons and the second remark is we should not underestimate a second point yes we lost the last one million to the f. T. The far right but we also lost one point three million so more voters to the liberals and thats where our competence is and thats the topics we have to focus on these are the hard working families these are people who care about topics like digitalization or education and thats where we have to focus on do you expect that under this in these new conditions of forming a coalition that the relationship of germany to the United States for instance could change well i am convinced that Angela Merkel will be the chancellor for the fourth term and you know her shes very reliable and therefore we all know that we have a deep founded friendship to the United States this is so will it foundation of zillions of relationship between our both countries and i have no doubt that this friendship will go on. And that was germanys defense minister ursula from the lion speaking with us earlier today. Well germans cannot elect their chancellor directly but if they could we know that until america would have won by a landslide last night in fact card carrying members of every party who say they would vote for mrs mayor even if they would not vote for her conservative c. D. U. Party all that strong support translates across National Borders as well polls across Europe Africa asia and north america have shown that america is a remarkably popular political figure that adoration was evident in the global reactions to the Election Results take a look european news stands carry the mixed results of a diminished merkel and the results rightwing in germany on the streets of paris and london relief mixes with on satin say. Well i think shes amazing. I think this is the only person with any sense in the world today because i think the far rights breakthrough is damaging to all the people of europe. Really feels ok so history might be repeating itself not everyone is anxious french is far right of the alternative for Germany PartyMarine Le Pen among them. His own presence is beneficial and will continue to have come during the year that we want to have that hes a europe has nations a europe of liberties and thats not a europe blocked by the demands of the European Union. And the. French president manuel mccrone is at the center of the european project he said hed phone to congratulate merkel and look forward to for the cooperation. And israel the e. F. T. Sudden arrival in the bin distract forced the government to speak out at the end said that they hope that the german people wont go fully the history of germany. And remember the holocaust and all the i will say reason that led to this tragedy in the story in all schools corridors of power leading politicians told d. W. News that german voters were punishing the chancellor for tough stance on russia the. Reason i want to point out in the results of the german election shows that German Society has entrusted in restoring normal relations with russia i hope that the signal will be heard by the federal government including by the new foreign minister. The minister and the yoke authority to put in the wood organised just who that will be and whether an easing of sanctions against russia will follow as to be the subject of Intense Coalition negotiations that may last months. Well im joined tonight from the United States by congressman ted deutch he hails from the state of florida he is cochair of the Congressional Study group on germany which arranges exchanges between the u. S. Congress and the German Parliament the bond is tossed congressman deutsch joins me tonight from his office in washington d. C. Good evening to you congressman deutsch welcome to the day after ask you have you had a chance to talk or email with members of the German Parliament since yesterdays election. Ive not had an opportunity to have those those conversations im. Out of out of deference to them im sure theyre quite busy responding at home but over the next day or so im sure that i will have those conversations about what happened in the election and. The top line the Important News coming out of this election which is a a good friend and very reliable ally of the United States won her fourth term and thats thats a really Important Message coming out of the german elections what do you think about the outcome of yesterdays elections here in germany it is true americans will be taking on her fourth term as chancellor and that is history in the making but what about the other results what struck you. Well certainly we need and those of us in the United States who care about the u. S. Germany relationship were heartened to see the chancellor win another term. We need strong leadership in europe we need strong leadership particularly in a post break that europe the transatlantic relationship is vital and so the so again the chances leadership is really important here but when we look at the results of the election its impossible not to be concerned about the outcome as it relates to a f t and the fact that there is going to be a far right Party Represented in the buddhist dog for the first time in six decades thats very concerning wheat ive read much about the elections outcome and some who have suggested that this is some sort of protest vote but what it actually means Going Forward is is very important to the United States and to all of us who care about liberal democracies. Congressman george last night one of the main candidates said that his party will now and im quoting hunt down chancellor merkel he also said that and im quoting again we want our country back which u. S. Politician comes to mind when you hear that kind of rhetoric. Well listen ive read stories i think weve all seen stories about about a. F. D. Politicians whove said that theyve modeled their campaign after the Trump Campaign and the candidate im sure the american politician im sure youre referring to the language that weve heard from from a f t some that you just quoted the way that theyve talked about the role that they will play visa v chancellor merkel is really concerning and its at a time like this when friends of the u. S. Germany relationship members of congress where there is broad bipartisan support for germany where we have the opportunity and and i might add for nato where we have the opportunity to to work with our friends in the boonies and and to help reus just as just as were satisfied and looking forward to continuing to work with chancellor m