morning as the democratic party narrowly o ly defeats angela mes christian union party. it won with an advantage of fewer than 2 percentage points joining me now is nbc's matt bradley and molly hunter so glad to see both of you this morning. the social democratic partner will need at least one other partner to form a new government, right? >> reporter: yeah, jose, probably two other partners. you know,when we're talking about these coalitions, last time we did this in 2017, those coalition negotiations lasted for nearly six months. and throughout that time, angela merkel will remain in office she's probably going to be meeting with joe biden no one else next month -- no one else will be doing that. this is -- she remains the chancellor and you know, jose, i'm glad you laid it out the way that you did. a lot of the coverage has said that the social democrats seem to have a victory over angela merkel's party that's not really the case here. there's only one way to read this these election results are a love letter to the outgoing