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their power by showing up for next weekend second round of voting we need it's all done about majority in order to change the country's desperate a needle cnn's jim better man, is outside the party headquarters of the presidential coalition. >> jim, how stunning are these results well, a thread just as correct you i'm at the prime minister's office where we have just heard for the prime minister basically saying that the various opponents of the national rally, the far right party here going to have to form a barricade against them ever coming to power. >> what he said, it says our objective is clear, prevent the national rally from having an absolute majority in the second round from dominating the national assembly. now, according to the projections we have the national rally party, the far right party would get somewhere between 230 to 280 seats in the new parliament they will need 289 seats if they want to have a majority. so it'll it looks like the other parties involved here are going to form a blockade. tell their voters not to vote for the right extreme right-wing and hopefully get their candidates in. now that doesn't mean that there's going to be a walk in the park for mr. macron because in fact, he's going to have to rule here president for the next three years, he's going to have to stay in office and have a parliament that basically is of the opposite party they won't be a majority of the opposite party. but so i have a parliament that we'll be working against him at every stage of the game. a hung parliament essentially something i call the cohabitation here in france, that means so basically power-sharing. but macrons got powers. he has power over defense, he has powers over foreign policy, but the purse strings are controlled from here at the prime minister's office. and so it'll depend on who becomes the prime minister. and that'll have depend on who wins the next round of elections next sunday i wonder did macron anticipate or brace for this? >> um, or did he have some other objective for his decision to have a snap election hello fred ever since he called it analysts trying to figure that out, well, why did we do it? a big question mark? i think basically there are a couple of things. first he was hoping that he would get some more of his confederates in parliamentary seats. but that didn't happen. it wasn't really likely to happen from the first opinion polls seem very likely, unlikely that would happen but otherwise, they be in the background. he had the idea that putting the national rally party, the extreme right party, into power would make them blues and it sends lose the voters there are places in france where they have come to power in cities, for example and in some villages and in those places they have i'm not done such a great job of governing governing is a whole lot different than running for elections and as a consequence, i think maybe the back of his mind was please that if they came close to power, they just make so many mistakes that the public would be turned off. >> interesting, cool white, the gambled either way all right? and determines up. thank you so much. sure. yeah. let's talk more about this paris bureau chief for the economists sophie peder, are good to see you, sophie, what do you think about that ladder possible goal or motivation of the chrome that there's some expectation that the far right party members would gain some seats. let them rural, you know, or let them be in power in certain corners, people might discover they're not very good at it. and so thereby, macron kinda wins it's a crazy psychology, but what do you think? what is it? what's implausible? i mean, it's a great mystery as jim just said, which i be joined to work this out since the day he dissolved parliament. why has he done it? it is just the case that emmanuel macron himself cannot he seven, but the next presidential election because you're not allowed them to the french constitution to run for more than two hold more than two consecutive terms in office it may be that what he wants to do is to show the voters that you can make you can do sort of politics on the campaign trail. you can make promises. you can have also the extra african pledgers and your manifestos. but when you actually gets into office, it's a whole lot different, more difficult. and that that could be aware of exposing some of the contradictions of their programs and what power and the exercise of power really means. but if that is the answer, then it's a big gamble because it's not a tall sure that that is what would happen and at the end of three years in office and i think before we even get to that point, we're looking at really a lot of uncertainty. we don't even know if lopez party can form a government. we don't know if she would even want to try and form a government unless you win some minority and majority, sorry, if she does, she might not even want to go to power. so there's just so much certainty here about what what is going to happen in that i think is what's also making people feel very uncomfortable really. so there's a thinking that perhaps marine le pen would not want you know, a, a victory, so to speak, i'm in the second round of voting is going to take place at next week. that maybe it would be more than she can chew i think that she's got a lot of confidence in her 28-year-old and that's not a mistake. >> he's 28-years-old, her protege, jordan bardella. this is a young guy who's now in charge of the party. he's never held a job outside politics in his life, but he's very much her left right-hand man he is going to be the candidate. she reports for prime minister in a way she doesn't have to govern. she has him to do the job for her and that's sort of takes the risk for her out of it. but i think for him the to be whether he really wants to go ahead and fought, try and form a government which would be unbelievably unstable. because if you had, if you don't have a majority of the opposition will will bring you down. so you can imagine a period of time where you have one prime minister choice, form a government, then the president own choice? i'm a government and these keep falling. that's, that's the problem with a hung parliament because it looks very difficult for any of those three big blocks that now exist in french politics. the center, the left, and the right, the far-right to do any kind of coalition with each other. and that's the real problem. >> some marine le pen, while she may not be governing, she is the face of the movement. so does she get the credit and the blame if things go great, are things go terribly? >> well i think that's or if this situation were to arise, it would she be able to keep her hands free, clean up to a point for 2027 and then run for the presidency that's a must be part of her calculations. >> you will sit in parliament even if her party becomes does become or doesn't, she will sit in parliament. she's been elected at the first round if you've got over 50% of the vote, which she did, she has already been elected for a deputy in the parliament for the coming session. but i think what she wants wants to do is i'm erin there just in buoyant mood, you should see them to see thing they roll here. they feel that the wind is behind them. this is a party that is going to do what it can to take to get into power and show it's voters that it's not just a protest movement. this is a party that's prepared to govern, that's their, that's their plan. >> all right. sophie petr. thank you so much all right. and we have more breaking news several us military bases across europe are on heightened alert right now due to a potential terrorist threat, one of those bases is in germany where are the u.s. european command is headquartered a us official tells cnn they haven't seen this kind of threat level quote in at least ten years joining me now are lieutenant general mark hurtling, former commanding general of us army europe and seventh army and cnn pentagon course final, oren liebermann. all right. good to see both of you, gentlemen. first to you or and tell us about this alert fredricka, according to two us officials, several basis, at least in europe, have gone to what's called force protection condition charlie, that's an elevated threat level and comes with certain steps essentially to ensure the safety of service members at these facilities. it's unclear if it's just several facilities such as stuttgart, we just showed an army garrison barracks in bavaria or whether it's across the european theater. here is how the army describes force protection condition charlie, it is a rather it applies when an incident occurs or intelligence is received heaved indicating some form of terrorist action or targeting against personnel or facilities is likely so clearly the u.s. sees and elevated threat level and has responded to that accordingly. so one of the officials that cnn has spoken with, they haven't seen a move like this in ten years, if not more than that. so the u.s military in europe taking precautions here. now, it is unclear whether this is a specific threat against one base or it is just a larger threat level across europe. and we have seen that, for example, in france, which is hosting the olympics in less than a month, as well as in germany, which is currently hosting the european football championships officials in those countries have said they will deploy international police officers because of the concern over an elevated threat level and potential terror attack against gatherings like that. point out for a drink, i'll also say that the u.s. embassy in paris warned american citizens that there is an elevated threat against large gatherings. >> all right, and general hurtling. i based on your for t is what kind of precautions, what a u.s. military base have to take under these kinds of terror threats or this, this category of terror threat fredricka it, creates a whole lot of different risk aversions gate guards will be more precise in terms of cars that are entering. there will be more patrols around basis looking for any kind of attacks it would go up against the wire of a military base, which you have to consider the two areas that orange just talked about, stuttgart, which is the headquarters of not just european command, a major headquarters over wilking all of europe, but also us, africa command, headquartered there in stuttgart. but it controls forces in africa so you have 51 country's foreign countries and europe, you have 54 and africa, there could be chatter on the net that gives indication of something like this happening. but the two bases names specifically the garrison in stuttgart and the garrison and graph and bear germany is not only which is not only a major trading center, but it's a major area where forces are held. this is, this is not only looking at the protection of the soldiers and the service members that live there. but it's also telling their families, when you go out on the economy, when you go to the local cities, when you do your shot hopping on the weekend be very careful, extremely careful, and it's not just the european soccer championship that's going on in germany and the olympics that are preparing in france. but you also have the tour to france starting in just a few days as well. so major sports events a lot of crowds and anyone who's lived in europe knows whenever you have those kind of crowds during the summertime it poses a threat for someone to come into. now this couldn't just be a terrorist threat truthfully, frederick frederick gum, i'm concerned more also about threats from iran, threats from agencies get out of that country, and even threats from africa because of the support for ukraine has been happening in europe. >> okay general mark hurtling, oren liebermann. thanks to both of you, gentlemen. appreciate it. telecom president biden's campaign is pushing back at calls for him 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pushing back on the mounting pressure for biden to step away from his reelection bid he has shown no signs of dropping out, even as democratic donors remains split on what's the best path forward? cnn's priscilla alvarez is joining us right now, live from washington, priscilla, what are the president's support are saying today? well, they're certainly trying to project confidence after what was a lackluster performance by president biden on thursday night and over the last 48 hours, there have been multiple calls with allies and top white house officials and top campaign officials, again, trying to quell those concerns and try to shift the focus away from the debate and more so on the president's record comparing that to former president donald trump's records. so that is where a lot of the conversations have been, but certainly there has been panic and heightened concern among donors and other allies who and you knew that the president was facing questions about his mental acuity and his age, but had hoped that thursday night would be a stronger performance by the president to try to assuage the concerns that are held by voters. now, what the campaign has also had to contend with is editorial board's in addition to to all of what they have been hearing from, again, donors and allies and those editorial boards of the new york times and the atlanta journal constitution have called on president biden to withdraw the atlanta journal constitution calling it quote and excruciating debate. the new york times calling this a reckless gamble. now, the response to that, particularly from campaigns and your eyes are kisho lands bottoms was the following this on a post on x quote, i can think of a lot of reasons to call into candidates dropout, including violently trying to overthrow an election and then going on to talk again about former president donald trump. so that really captures what the argument has been from allies. it is, it's time to move on from the debate. an 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