and i think it s a solution for everyone when he. says and it got us ninety one i m against a grand coalition so i don t care what they have agreed on i will definitely vote against it i am a member of the s.p.d. . you know i would have been in favor of a new elections but only at the beginning not now. that s why i m glad that an agreement has been reached but in my opinion it has always headed towards a no win situation probably any solution would have been considered a sellout. a no win situation well there is an agreement at least and there s a lot of people are talking about who won who lost who got the better deal in this what s your impression did the social democrats end up coming out of this doing better than many expected yes i think you have to say that the pressure from the session across was massive obviously also because there is still this vote coming
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up of the rank and file of especially democrats who have to approve this deal that gave them real bargaining power gave them a lot of bargaining power and they really did use that bargaining is a feeling that the on soto s that i m going to machall made huge concessions including for instance the finance ministry which is going to the social democrats so there s a feeling not marco did a lot gave a lot in order to ensure her last term as part of chancellor was she was in a really tough position having tried to form a coalition with a couple of other parties and that fell apart so she didn t really have too many too many options left now the social democrats still have to vote on this deal that we re talking about giving them bargaining power going into these negotiations is it a foregone conclusion that the social democrat rank and file will approve this agreement it s not a foregone conclusion the social democrats have been very very reticent about entering this coalition there s a st
wouldn t it be nice if we had a better relationship? or maybe we might be able to do a deal by cooperating on fighting terrorism and then we could have a nuclear deal on the side. all of these ideas, they have really not formulated, to put it mildly. so the russians actually i would say the white house now may be able to put together a better, more cohesive policy. but at this point it really is a point of turmoil both for the kremlin and for the white house. yes, fascinating to see what happens, as you said, they have not met in person, it will be fascinating to see what happens when that takes place. jill, thank you very much. well, joining me now here in los angeles, political commentator, mo kelly from dallas, texas, and political
nasty, democrats are going to seize on this, and they re going to try to make it a bigger deal than what it actually is. i don t think there was actually a type of crime that was committed. so what do you investigate? the guy resigned. the democrats are going to want to investigate what the substance of the conversation was, were sanctions discussed? were there other phone calls? did he have a conversation with the russian ambassador about sanctions on his own? did he not run it by anybody, was it just casual conversations or did the president know about it? the reason why they re looking at it let s be clear is not because they re going to get rid of flynn. he already resigned. it is the politics of this. they re seizing on a perfect opportunity here, a perfect storm for them to once again go after the trump administration. the damage has already been done. he lied to the vice president of