bold words from their president macron. reporter: with a great deal of interest. this is a man who is a political novice. here in france a few weeks ago and now he is france s president. really managing to shine on the world stage as a result of things beyond his control. the calendar with the g7 and the declaration made in the rose garden which donald trump reminded the world of his particular brand of internationalism. it is hard to believe it was less than a month ago. on may 7th, emmanuel macron was the youngest man elected to france s presidency. mlet me say a few words. reporter: also the first ever to make speeches in english publicly. wherever it will leave, whoever we are, we all share the
particularly, all of this has really allowed france s young president over the course of the last few weeks to shine. it s hard to believe that it was less than a month ago, on may 7th emmanuel macron became the youngest man ever to be elected to france s presidency. let me say a few words to our american friends. reporter: also the first ever to make speeches in english publicly, which was to come in handy very quickly. wherever we live, wherever we are, we all share the same responsibility. make our planet great again. so we re getting out. reporter: it was a stinging rebuke to what donald trump had just announced in the rose garden. i was elected to represent the citizens of pittsburgh, not paris. reporter: within hours
campaign, mr. trump said over and over again that he would not cut social security, not cut medicare, not cut medicaid. let me read some quotes. on may 7th, 2015, mr. trump tweeted, i was the first and only potential g.o.p. candidate to state there will be no cuts to social security, medicare, and medicaid. on april 18th, 2015 he said, every republican wants to do a big number on social security, they want to do it on medicare, they did want to do it on medicaid, and we can t do that, and is not fair to the people that have been paying and for years, and now all of a sudden they want to be cut. august 10th, 2015, mr. trump said, i will save medicare, medicaid, and social security without cuts. we have to do it. people have been paying in for years, and know many of these candidates want to cut it. march 29th, 2015, trump said,
he will spend the next 500 or so days campaigning for that office. this is not normal. i mean it s become normal but it shouldn t be normal. it s not globally normal. the washington post had a great chart today, showing just how not normal this is at least compared to our closest allies in the democratic world. compared to say, how it works in the uk which just had their big elections yesterday. in the uk this year they dissolved parliament on march 30th which is the first step toward having an election. candidates filed to run for office in the several days thereafter, and then the election was held yesterday, on may 7th a grand total of 38 days from the beginning of the election process to the end of the election process, and now it s over, 38 days. here in the u.s. it s more like 600 days. whose process do you think is better? in terms of what happened in those uk elections last night, it was sort of a political shock wave. you don t need 600 days to build up to a suspenseful endi
sources close to lindsey graham say he will announce his presidential run june 1st, probably in south carolina. lindsey graham s announcement will come, if you re counting, roughly 240 days before the first actual nominating contest, which is the iowa caucus. lit come about 500 days before the actual presidential election in november 2016. so, assuming that lindsey graham is the republican nominee for president in 2016, hah! he will spend the next 500 or so days campaigning for that office. this is not normal. i mean, it s become normal, but it shouldn t be normal. it s not globally normal. the washington post had a great chart today, showing just how not normal this is, at least compared to our closest allies in the democratic world. compared to, say, how it works in the uk, which just had their big elections yesterday. in the uk this year, they dissolved parliament on march 30th, which is the first step toward having an election. candidates filed to run for office in the several da