Charlie Rose Tees Up Obama to Slam Europe’s ‘Far Right’ Refusing Refugees

Kyle Drennen | April 26, 2016
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During an interview with President Obama in Germany, aired on Tuesday’s CBS This Morning, co-host Charlie Rose lobbed softballs that invited the commander in chief to condemn any European opposition to taking in refugees from the Middle East as “far-right nationalism.”

Rose observed that German Chancellor Angela Merkel was Obama’s “favorite global leader” and someone “willing to make moral decisions when it may not be in her political interest.” Obama replied: “That's exactly right....if you look at what she's doing right now with respect to the refugee crisis, she's making an argument to the German people that, ‘Look, we're prospering now because people invested in us in a Marshall Plan and helped during reunification.’”

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