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You see the public at large really never wanted a deal with greece. the german public i think feels like hey, let them go. we're better off without them. they have never believed the greeks were good for their word in terms of reforms and i think it underscores that this has become a political problem as much as an economic problem. the greeks have said fine we'll leave. socialist government. they've taken all this pain. tremendous pop ulymph. you can understand their point of view. but i don't think the math works. >> what i was going to ask you before we were technically interrupted. you wro...

Moved from the realm of politics. a week ago the greek people said decisively no to an agreement or set of measures that the creditors demanded of them. four or five days later, alexis tsipras the greek prime minister essentially agrees to those demands with approval of the greek parliament. now particularly amongst the northern european creditors there is a question of can we trust this guy. they're fed up with him. whatever the rights and wrongs of the actual measures that they want the greeks to take there are a large number of people in northern europe particularly not just the germans, bu...

Gdp in their deficit. that's like $1.7 trillion in the united states. imagine if we had to do half of that. and most of the austerity earth they felt has been that they had a credit card when the world markets saw that they were fracture u lent with their books, this he lied about their debt lied about their deficit. it got cut off. the creditors, official creditors came in and they definitely cushioned the blow but it was very hard to pay that kind of money. they have wrapped up a huge bill. it does need to be written down but most of the changes have to come from within inside greece. they t...

A lead editorial saying to stay in the eurozone the greece prime minister will have to jettison almost every promise he made to his voters. can you hear me zani? >> i'm terribly sorry. i can't hear you. >> we'll go to the others. rauna, it always seemed as though germany at the end of the day was willing to bail out greece, that it pushed hard it really made it look like it was trying its damnedest. every time it stared at the abyss it pulled back to and told the european central bank provide the funds, it wrote the checks. this time seems different. >> i think this time is different. you're r...

Direction. >> zani final thought from you. what all this means, the u.s. looks better the dollar remains stronger. at the end of the day it would be fair to say that we are back to that single engine world economy where the united states continues to power along? >> well the u.s. is looking stronger yes. let's put the greek thing in the short term in some perspective. finally the european central bank last year suddenly realized that it needed to boost the european economy more. the europeans broadly have got off the austerity kick that they were pushing so hard. the european economy, although...