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The british prime minister theresa may is fighting to stay in power at the snap election that backfired on her last week. ms. may made a few changes to her cabinet and now shell try to reassure party members who are furious. theyre so angry they lost their majority in parliament. >> the prime minister is negotiating with northern irelands democratic unionist party to former working majority. critics are calling on mrs. may to resign. she said she is pressing on with the job and plans to serve a ...

On their influence, according to british media reports the prime minister was advised to sack them or face a leashedship challenge in the party. so shecrucially, no one is talk about theresa may standing down. theres no significant call from any senior figures for her to go. it seems to be an understanding that now is not the time. this country, in just over a week is due to begin formal negotiation toss exit the european union, the brexit process is about to begin. the priority for theresa may ...

Was visiting president trump at the white house. that was not so long ago, as you can tell. now, her future is suddenly in question after an election stunner in the uk. in a major upset, theresa mays party lost its majority, losing seats when they were pretty confident they would actually win more of a majority in the end. so, what does this all mean? cnns international correspondent, phil black, is right outside 10 downing street for us. so, phil, fill us in. >> reporter: so, kate, it wasnt sup...

Permission to form a government. after a stunning defeat with the mays majority party losing in parliament. phil black is live in london with more for us. phil. >> reporter: alisyn, so a short time ago theresa may left 10 downing street and traveled to buckingham palace and meeting with the queen and following the procedure of seeking the monarchs permission to form the next government. the thing that is unusual, she is attempting to do so having lost her commanding majority of seats in the hous...

Which is going to be an election in one month. we want all people in france to be united. >> reporter: you could imagine that means yet another election as she said in june. that will be the parliamentary. macron has to go from zero parliamentarians to a working majority. you need that to pass le legislati legislation. he needs it to pass reforms he promised the french people. this is a big deal. president trump has congratulated him and said looking forward to working together. his aides hopes ...

Personal. she took about 11 minutes votes. so there are significant number of people that back what we look at. >> and its going to be interesting to see how that dynamic plays out. as we head, george, towards a lot of people are calling the award. which is the parliamentary elections coming up in june. that will be critical to determining whether or not that president who will be president by then, who will -- will have a working majority in which to implement his reforms. so not all done yet...

Lot of time, a lot of effort, and a lot of leadership. undistracted leadership, where the president puts his -- the weight of his presidency behind an organized effort to build coalitions, to communicate clearly with the american people, and to find a working majority in the congress. the congress is a tough place to work. so far, that fractious relationship has been something that is lower the presidents grade. >> dana: one thing that habits do happen before their first 100 races out, they have...

A lot of leadership. undistracted leadership where the president puts his full -- the weight of the presidency behind an organized effort to buildan coalition to communicate clearly with the american people and to find a working majority in the congress. the congress is a tough place ti work and so far, that fraction relationship has been something that lowered the presidents grade. >> one of the things that has to happen, they have to pass this funding bill and katrina, there was a report today...

>> its whoever can get the working class and the middle class to go for the same candidate wins. what has happened with the democrats is they get the multimillionaires. that doesnt take them to 50%. republicans can only maintain a majority if they can keep those people who voted for mccain and romney as well as those people who voted for trump. and that is getting people between 35,000 a year and 125,000 a year voting republican with about a five or six-point advantage over the democrats. they h...

Candidate wins. t what has happened with the democrats is they get the multimillionaires. in the poorest voters. that doesnt take them to 50%. republicans can only maintain a majority if they can keep those people who voted for mccain andy romney as well as those people who voted for trump. and that is getting people with family incomes between 35,000 a year and 125,000 a year voting republican with about a five or six-point advantage over the democrats.ix they have created a working majority fo...