country's means into consideration the chancellor is putting the focus on beefing up the e.u. use external borders in the hope of deterring people from trying to enter europe or tall. wants to follow the austrian approach where external controls don't work national border checks should be reintroduced his party says as interior minister you already has the power to implement that but that would force a confrontation with the chancellor which could threaten the government as desperate migrants continue to cross the mediterranean the debate about what to do with them has turned into a political showdown in berlin. and for more on this dispute over immigration between the c.d.u. and c.s.u. we have melinda crane chief political correspondent joining us here in the studio thank you so much for joining us melinda because there is really more to this than meets the eye right how much of this has to do with power and with angela merkel's