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Vincent McAviney: German Chancellor Friedrich Merz brings a gift for Trump · Early Edition with Ryan Bridge

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  Speaker 1: Now let's get de Vincent mcavinie in the UK for us,
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  Speaker 1: then some good morning, good morning. Now over in the
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  Speaker 1: Ival Office, we've heard Mertz meeting with Trump. Did anything
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  Speaker 1: come of the meeting?
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  Speaker 2: Yes, Fredrich Mertz, the new Chancellor of Germany, made that
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  Speaker 2: path that some leaders have fallen down on to the
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  Speaker 2: Oval Office in recent months. It seems to have gone
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  Speaker 2: off the public side pretty much without a hitch. He
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  Speaker 2: presented Donald Trump with a gift, which was his German
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  Speaker 2: grandfather's original birth certificate, which seemed to go down quite
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  Speaker 2: well with the President. When it came to their meeting.
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  Speaker 2: I mean, we were told that he had sort of
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  Speaker 2: gamed out scenarios. He would have likely have talked to
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  Speaker 2: Mark Carney and Keir Starmer, the Canadian and British prime
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  Speaker 2: ministers who had successful visits, not so much the South
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  Speaker 2: African president, and of course Vladimir Zelenski. The questions, though,
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  Speaker 2: seem to have highlighted some of the rift, particularly when
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  Speaker 2: it comes to Ukraine. Germany a big support of Ukraine.
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  Speaker 2: It's thought, with some strategic ambiguity at the moment they
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  Speaker 2: won't confirm this. Germany has given permission to Ukraine to
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  Speaker 2: use long range missiles that they're provising to strike further
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  Speaker 2: into Russia. But Donald Trump is essentially saying, you know,
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  Speaker 2: it's like he's compared in this meeting to two children
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  Speaker 2: fighting in a park. He had a two hour long
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  Speaker 2: conversation with Vladimir Putin and he said that you've got
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  Speaker 2: to let them fight for a while, and he thinks
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  Speaker 2: he knows when will be the right moment to step in,
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  Speaker 2: but won't say what that is. So they're now meeting
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  Speaker 2: behind closed doors. Of course, Germany trying to get a
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  Speaker 2: deal like the UK has to get out of these tariffs.
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  Speaker 2: Their manufacturing industry hit very hard. But they are just
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  Speaker 2: part of the EU when it comes to that, so
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  Speaker 2: they're part of a kind of multi pronged approach.
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  Speaker 1: Interesting and Vincent well have today. That's Vincent Mecha any
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  Speaker 1: O UK Europe correspond For
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