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This is CBS Eye on the World.

Here's John Batchelor.

I welcome my good colleague Judy Dempsey,

senior scholar for the Foundation for the Carnegie Endowment for International Peace in Berlin.

And Judy's column earlier this month about Friedrich Merritt's visit to the White House was prescient of the event itself because there are many positives to learn about Friedrich Merritt's years as a corporate

lawyer. He's a tall and very carefully spoken man. And the anticipation in some of the American media was that he's wandering

into a trap. You could call it a lion's den. You could call it a trap, a man trap, something that had

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