Germany and the Refugee Crisis

Guest: Hans-Jorg Neumann, German Consul General in Los Angeles  State elections in Europe’s largest economy over the weekend dealt a serious blow to German Chancellor Angela Merkel and her Christian Democrat party. It’s her open-door policy toward refugees that helped deliver historic gains to an upstart anti-immigrant party. The elections show just how seriously the migration crisis is affecting politics in Germany and could hasten the end of Chancellor Merkel’s tenure.