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with anti-migrant protesters. xenophobia front and center. chance la angela merkel under pressure to react visited the city on wednesday greeted by hecklers. >> we must put all our efforts into making clear there is no tolerance for people who question the dignity of others. there is no tolerance for those not willing to help where legal and human help is required. >> reporter: xenophobia attacks on the rise in germany. investigators suspect that arsonists torched this shelter for asylum seekers. berlin expects as many as 800,000 will apply for asylum by tend of the year, four times as
talk about awkward and embarrassing, germany's leader called the white house to find out if u.s. intelligence has been listening in on her cell phone. let's bring in our chief national security correspondent jim shoe coe towe joining us from washington. what are you hearing from your sources about this very sensitive story? wolf, it's serious enough that the german chance la angela merkel called president obama personally to raise this issue. we're told by the white house he assured her the u.s. is not monitoring and will not mon ter her communications. the white house interestingly though did not specify if such monitoring had not taken place in the past. as with other cases like this with u.s. allies, the white house makes a point that other countries spy on the u.s. this is just how things are done. but officials also go on to say that they are reviewing the policy to get a better balance