european defense and germany safety and so we are making our commitments very well known. we're increasing those commitments, president trump has made it clear that he will increase defense spending. we are making our commitments very loud and we want others to also do the same thing at nato. neil: real quickly but only because you mentioned that salad thing, ambassador your name is still on that short list to be u.n. ambassador to replace nikki haley. are you interested in that post? >> look, i'm very happy doing my job here in berlin and i serve at the pleasure of the president and i will say that it's a huge pleasure to work for the president. anyone who gets to work on the foreign policy team is lucky to be having a front row seat, so you know, we all just defer to the president on that. neil: that is such a perfect answer. ambassador always good seeing you thank you very very much. our german ambassador, so let's