This is CBS, I on the World. I'm John Batchel to London.

To Joseph Sternberg, member of the editorial board of the Wall Street Journal.

He is the political economics columnist for the journal.

And we're observing Germany, where Joe did some heavy duty reporting before the election.

And now that the election is at hand and the new chancellor to be, Friedrich Merrittz, is negotiating with the

SPD. We need to look very carefully at how the U.S. participated in the German election and lessons

learned. Joe, a very good evening to you. I read the German election and lessons learned.

Joe, a very good evening to you.

I read the numbers from the 20th electoral term.

That is the election that changed everything before this one.

In other words, why Olyf Schultz was premier.

207 seats for the SPD.

That's what he enjoyed,

but he had to form a minority government,

bringing in others, including the Greens and the FDP.

That gave him a slim majority, and that's now gone.

Instead, the Friedrich Merritt CDU has the largest number of seats, and it will form a minority government, putting together with the SPD, the Socialists.

However, your column focuses on none of the above.

The AFD, the alternative for Deutschland, which was 76 seats and bragging in the previous Bundestag, but as now you tell me 152, that is the party that

attracted attention from the Trump administration. Why and what did say? And what do you make of it now after

the election? Good evening to you. Hey, John. I mean, this was one of the big themes of the German

election campaign that just wrapped up in that national election on Sunday, February 23rd, which was

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