"I'm very proud of my father's advocacy", Ivanka said, adding he is "a tremendous champion of supporting families and enabling them to thrive".
"But to expect Ivanka Trump to publicly condemn her father or his record on women's issues is a bridge too far".
Merkel spokesman Georg Streiter said the chancellor had "great interest" in participating in the Tuesday panel, but that there was no one-on-one meeting planned with Ivanka Trump - though he did not rule it out.
"‶Certainly not the latter", Trump said.
Other guests include International Monetary Fund director Christine Lagarde, Canadian Foreign Minister Chrystia Freeland and the Netherlands' Queen Maxima.
The first daughter is in Germany as Merkel personally invited Trump on her first worldwide trip since her father assumed office to discuss business, foreign policy and other issues of importance between the USA and Germany.
Trump, 35, who is seen as an increasingly important influence on her father, told a women's summit organised by the Group of 20 major economies in the German capital that she wanted to use her influence to help empower women.
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A former top Obama aide, Ben Rhodes, also wrote Saturday on Twitter that a Le Pen victory would be "devastating". He is also in favour of working with Russian Federation on global issues like Syria.
Here's video of the incident (you may need to turn your volume all the way up to hear it), in which Ivanka says her father has been a champion of women long before he became president. "You hear the reaction from the audience", she said. The newspaper Berliner Zeitung, which has described her as "the president's whisperer", said German officials would "certainly be hoping that the president's daughter will convey a positive image of Germany to her father". "I'm listening, I'm learning, I'm defining the ways in which I think I'll be able to have impact", replied Trump, a top adviser to her father.
"I think the thousands of women who have worked with and for my father for decades, when he was in the private sector, are testament to his belief and solid conviction in the potential of women and their ability to do the job as well as any man".
"I grew up in a house where there were no barriers to what I could accomplish. there was no difference for me and my brothers and I think as a business leader you saw that and as a president you'll absolutely see that", she said.
"How can Ivanka Trump talk of women's "empowerment" at the same time President Trump has blocked funding for worldwide reproductive care?"
She spoke about how she is "very aligned" with the President on many issues.
"The first daughter's visit comes at a time when the Trump administration has not yet appointed a new ambassador to Germany", NPR's Soraya Sarhaddi Nelson reports from Berlin. Ms Trump converted to Orthodox Judaism before she married Jared Kushner, also an unpaid White House advisor, in 2009.
She paused occasionally to look at the slabs, meant to symbolise the chaos of the Holocaust, and donned sunglasses before emerging on the other side of the monument to a crush of cameras and onlookers.
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