Katty Kay: America Has Ceded Position of Leader of the Free World to Angela Merkel

EXCERPT:

KAY: “It’s very interesting because with Donald Trump retreating from the world stage, certainly, you know, promoting hard power and not soft power, people in Europe are starting to talk about Angela Merkel as the leader of the free world at the moment, that America has seated that position to the --"
BRZEZINSKI: "To the Merkel."
KAY: "-- leader of Germany is -- is quite an extraordinary indication of where we are at the moment.”