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The visit at the white house yesterday. the two of them seeming to have this rapport fuelled in part by macrons willingness to praise president trump, but the reality is the ideas that he laid out here in the congress today seemed much more as you were talking about, as aimed toward an audience of the world on the world stage, and in some ways a bid to be standing on it shoulder to shoulder with the president of the united states. >> i think a lot of people may have been relieved, because while ...

To a domestic audience when hes talking about the need to keep the middle class strong and secure in the face of technological challenges. he also had a fair amount about military interventionism. he said it at several points citing successful points in syria but also ones less successful. the french are fighting all throughout the west africa. at the pentagon i hear frequently that the fight against isis in mali is the french are taking a key and crucial role on this. in the military side, hes ...

>> that was the french president. we have not seen a foreign leader speak to both houses in over two years. its quite a big deal. macron and president trump are clearly on different sides of a number of major issues including the iran deal and the paris climate accord. you heard president macron really press there sort of putting the pressure on the president saying that he sincerely hopes that the united states will rejoin the paris accord, but perhaps his address to the legislative chamber cou...

Task. thats why you hear about governance issues being important. >> how do you think the speech was received within the chamber? >> well, i think you could see that in many cases democrats responded more positively than republicans to many of the things that macron had to say. i think its noteworthy that both sides of the aisle stood up when macron delivered what amounted to a pretty strong rebuke of president trumps nationalist world view. he said we cant close our doors to the world and expec...

The chamber, thats where theres a cafeteria. in that cafeteria, they changed french fries to freedom fries. both pence and ryan were part of that movement. its remarkable to see a french president in the well of the united states representatives getting standing ovations for talking about european regulation of facebook. its clear that macron brought the crowd along with him whether or not hell be able to move the substance is a different question. >> even if he cant right now, isnt macron clear...