let s face it, every country has its own intelligence gathering but the scale and the coscope o audacity of tapping another leader s phone. it s embarrassing especially for german intelligence to find out angela merkel s phone may have been monitored. and getting caught is one of the big issues here. you say germany and france demanding a meeting before the end of the year before the new york times. any sign this could get in the way of key cooperation between the u.s. and its european allies? on trade big discussions going on and security partnerships at stake here. any sense those could be in any kind of jeopardy? i think the security partnerships are very solid but there has been some discussion about whether or not this could possibly even detrail an eu/u.s. trade back and unlikely but certainly delay it and also a data privacy protection act that is currently working its way through european parliament and that has gathered a lot more