he has been flexing his muscles showing the voting public that france is his own man. brian: tell me if this is correct. angela merkel is going to be leaving the scene. she was the basic leader of europe. and he wants to be the guy now. he wants to be the one in charge, correct? >> oh, yeah. definitely. that's one of the reasons why he talks about the fact that europe needs to take on more of its own responsibility in terms of defense and its future and protection. that's why he is floated the idea in addition to natos have a european joint military force. i think macron is really trying to position himself here as sort of the moral center of nato, at least the european part of it. and i think merkel is to some degree getting pushed to the sidelines. brian: i would love to see him show the same courage with the iranian protesters being shot in cold blood simply because they are without a job and don't want to pay double the price for gas. they are being shot in the street. but, instead, he is still