i'm liev schreiber. thanks for watching. good night. hello, and a very warm welcome to our viewers joining us here in the united states and all around the world and streaming on cnn, max next i'm paula newton in new york, just ahead for us or live in paris where emmanuel macron's election gamble appears to have backfired with the french far-right taking the lead in the first row browne of voting, a campaign in turmoil. >> cnn learns what us president joe biden's family is telling him as he faces increasing pressure to stand aside after his disastrous debate, performance and all eyes on the u.s. supreme court and the hours ahead, we'll learn whether former president donald trump pumpkin claimed absolute immunity on his alleged efforts to undermine the results of the 2020 election and we do begin this hour in france where my colleague, max foster is live for us in paris where max, there is no mistaking the seismic shift in the political landscape. there yeah, the very first time ever paula, that the far-right has come out on top in the french parliamentary elections is a projection of this point, but we're getting the details confirmed as we speak and it sent protesters demonstrators out on the streets of paris last night, a huge blow to president emmanuel macron. >> but of course they've got a lot of support as well. so this is just part of the story initial estimate, silly, showing that the national rally are leading with 34% of the votes, followed by the left-wing new popular front coalition is second. they are 28%. mr. macron's centrist alliance came in third in the end around 20%. the french leader who called the snap election since it was a surprise for everyone, wasn't it says a quote, broad, clearly democratic and republican rally is needed in the next round it do go into the next round of the story certainly isn't over yet, but the national rally's parliament leader, marine le pen says democracy has spoken. adding the second round set for next sunday will be decisive sounds obvious, but she's basically saying that to her supporters, they need to get out on boats national rally leader jordan bardella said, the vote shows the french people want change and urged voters to remain mobilized 6:00 p.m. on demos pushes the vote table catholic sunday is one of the most decisive in the history of the fifth republic. clearly in the view of the results, the presidential kale still largely rejected today is no longer in a position to win. and the score or the far-left raises major concern thank you. >> to measure what bardella is pushing for is an absolute majority. as opposed to a weakened position under macron as president. so is pretty clear that he is ready to take on the role of prime minister. but once an absolute majority i tend to be a prime minister or the cohabitation governments respectful of the constitution in the office of president of the republic, but uncompromising about the policies we will implement it the service of friends and the french people let's say more now from cnn, senior international correspondent jim pittman, who's here in paris jubilant, cheers, fill the headquarters of france's far-right national well, as projections show the party dominated in the country's first round of parliamentary election seen as a fringe movement, the national rally could be positioned to assume power and become the first far-right party to enter french government since the second world war controversial diana, the party marine le pen, asserted that the second round of voting to be held next week. we'll secure their position. >> they move. let's see, a apparently democracy has spoken, and the french people have placed the national rally and its allies in first place. >> we are now getting nothing has been one. >> and the second round will be decisive complete results of the election are not finalized and much political maneuvering is expected before the second round of voting is held next week which could determine whether a seismic shift is underway in french politics, national rally's leader and le pen's protege, 28-year-old jordan bardella, could be positioned to become france's next prime minister. >> a child of italian immigrants, bardella has maintained a party's nationalist politics, and hardline anti-immigration stance across the country and its overseas territories. voters turned out in huge numbers to participate in a high-stakes election. uncertainty has loomed ever since president emmanuel macron suddenly dissolved parliament and called for snack apple elections earlier this month, sending shockwaves across the country. now his gamble appears to have backfired as his alliance of centrist parties faltered in the vote, finishing a third, according to projections in a statement, the president called for the formation of a broad alliance to block the national rally from coming to power faced for the national rally, the time has come for a broad, clearly democratic and republican rally for the second round. i did a coalition of left-wing parties also had a strong showing coming in a close second. section shell. however, no party achieved it outright majority possibly leading parliament and their political deadlock for now, the preliminary results of the election are being received with the intensity drawing some protesters out to demonstrated paris as a country with a painful history with fascism and far-right movements hills with an uncertain future. jim veteran cnn paris i spoke to journalists zhang lizzie in the last hour and disgust really how this far right party has changed from what was seen as an extreme party, a few decades ago the program that they had up until two or three weeks ago was totally different from weather advocating now, it's it's it's political tactic, which is okay. >> but for example, basic questions like what age can french people retire you know, mecole past or reform that made 64 the legal age to retire. but i'm looping few months ago was advocating 60-years-old, she's now talking about 64, 65, which the the the the law of reality is going to catch up with her very quickly, like it in italy with the aloni. same about immigration. we have shortage of workers here in france, so she cannot be as radical plus she would like to meet or what does this mean for the world if we end up in a situation because it's not over until it's over. of course, where we have a far-right prime minister and macron as president. what does that mean for french policy? because it feels like chaos. >> well, chaos or paralysis and it's, it's, it's really important if you look at the map of the world right now, i mean, not right now, but the next few weeks and months you could have you know, going from east to west, you could have put me in russia. >> you can have a european union, which will be totally this united with about half a dozen leaders who kind of side with putin, even though they don't really admit it. and then you cross the atlantic and you may have donald trump. what does that? wing us what kind of world is this bring us and what kind of europe comes out of it if mr. putin fields and boldon to titillating poland a little more. the baltic countries, that's kind of scary paula, i mean, a lot of people scared about this idea about the far right rising to power, but they did really well. >> they got lots of votes and it's young people here who are voting for them when in the past, perhaps it would have been older people. so this is definitely something going on here and its reflection, i think if cost of living and this very young leader, the far right is really tapped into that connection. it with people yeah, it has been incredible though the political shift, just to watch it unfold since macron called the surprise elections, maxwell continue to check in with you. >> thanks so much as we turn our attention to the political turmoil on this side of the atlantic, u.s. president joe biden's family is encouraging him to actually stay in the race and keep fighting after a dismal performance during last week's debate. and that's from two of his advisers who say the family also spoke about whether top biden aides should be fired. they spent time together on sunday at camp david and discussed how they could support the president. now, biden's advisers say he's closely watching polling data which is not looking so good for the president in a post-debate poll from cbs news and yougov, 28% of voters said biden should be running for president. just 28%, while 72% said he should not now in that same poll, just 27% of voters said biden has the mental and cognitive health to serve as president compared to 50% for donald trump, axios is reporting that president biden's closest aides shielded him from white house staff and others from day one. alex thompson, a national political correspondent for axios, spoke to cnn's allison camerota earlier can you explain how these aids have been shielding or protecting the president? >> yeah, absolutely. some of it is just making sure that when they meet with people, when by meet with people that every once in a while, there's not really regular meetings with not even just mid-level staff, but even that tier one above and one above that, his core team is really not bigger than about well, if people and this was really the instinct of two of his top aides. they're very nondescript of name's anthony for null and any thomasine. and their task was really made easier at the very beginning because of covid. and so keeping a really tight circle around the president was just sort of building in as a practice. but then over time those habits continued. >> so in other words, they started during covid is that do i have that right? and now they've continued to shield him from the wider staff. >> yeah absolutely. and that's part of the reason the reason why this has been such a shock to the system inside the white house is because the joe biden that they saw on thursday night was unrecognizable to them, but as many of them have said to me, this could not have been the first time that he had acted that way. there's no where in the minds of a lot of people in the white house, they are both sad because how this could affect the election. they're sad for him because there's great affection for him, but they're also angry because they feel that this side of joe biden must have been known to at least some of his close aides and they hit and they hit that part of it, not just from them but from potentially from voters and from democrats and from donors. >> can you give us an example of how they keep the rest of the staff at bay yeah. >> absolutely. so one just a little example, but the residence staff of the white house, who should be the staff that probably get the most, actually just normal a political facetime with the president. now, i talked to you a few residents have officials, including one that gave me a code that basically said from day one the. very. closest aides, the president kept them at bay, kept them away from parts of the residents would sometimes shut the door and rooms where they usually would be allowed. basically, there was a huge division between the residence staff of the white house and the biden family. they kept them very much at bay, which struck many of them as unusual, including, they said it was even unusual compared to the trump white house i mean, i know that i've read your article. i know that the white house and president biden's pushback is that he's not comfortable with butler's and servants around him. that that's just not his style. he doesn't need that much help. and so but these the people that you're talking about. the closest is the anthony banal and the anatol mussini if all of this is true and they've been protecting him, why didn't they protect him from thursday night? >> that is the million dollar question. we just don't know and i think a lot of the aids expected that joe biden, you after doing a week of debate prep he everyone i've talked to said that he seemed good, he seemed fine. it wasn't like he was lying the world on fire with his answers, but he who's doing well and they were sort of surprised. and i think the fact that they let him debaters sort of what's also driving this anger if they'd ever even knew that this joe biden was going to show up. you have as a possibility. i think there's a lot of anger within biden world that any of the claims suppose a is let him go out and stage just because of the election, because of how this could affect his legacy and i would also say part of the reason that joe biden debated is because joe biden wanted to debate until you behind closed doors, joe biden has always often says, i feel so much younger than my age. joe biden has a little bit of what i've report on his denialism about how old he isn't, how old he can come across. so i think it was probably a combination of the fact that joe biden really wanted to debate. and then the people around him were like, well, he's fine and the actual mechanics of it, we're still don't know. him are still reporting now you also have reporting this weekend. >> if there's a specific window of time during the day when president biden is fully engaged and not as engaged outside of that window. so what is that? >> absolutely. so you'll notice that the president usually if he has a public event on camera, it's usually between the hours of ten and four, and that's not an accident. it's usually those times when he has less gaps, when he's less prone to misspeaking when he doesn't stutter as much you'll notice that whenever he's traveling abroad or whenever he's having a really late rally or even a really late fundraiser, just even going through the white house transcripts, you can see that they have to correct his words a lot and he can meander. i think of one particular fundraiser just last september in new york when joe biden he did the charlottesville story that he's often told about deciding to run he basically told the same story word for word, just a few minutes apart, and then just set a recent rally in detroit, it was a late sunday night, the white house office, transcription office had to correct the presence on words nine times and so basically what aides have told me is that he is just like he is solid between the hours of ten to four, but he often makes more mistakes. he can ramble be beyond those hours and there's a reason why he doesn't have many public events before ten has reasoning isn't have many public events on camera after four, and it's for that reason the limitations of his age and how the white house is adapted around them and our thanks there for that entry from alison camerota. >> meantime, in the coming hours, the u.s. supreme court is set to decide whether a former u.s. president donald trump has presidential immunity. now, trump has claimed sweeping immunity on his federal 2020 election subversion case. cnn's jeremy herb now brings us up today the supreme court is heading into its final day of decisions on monday, where the justices will rule on a case with significant implications for 2024 election whether donald trump can face trial on election subversion charges. >> the justices are set to issue their ruling on trump's claims of absolute immunity from prosecution. a decision that trump is not fully immune from prosecution could clear the way for the former president and to stand trial this fall. but the decision could also lead to another round of litigation and appeals that would push any trial beyond the 2024 election. the case stems from special counsel jack smith's in daemon of trump last august, over his efforts to overturn the 2020 election, trump responded by claiming he was immune from prosecution because he was president. the trial judge in this case, tanya chutkan and the circuit court of appeals, both rejected trump's claims of immunity, but the supreme court chose to take up this case and they heard oral arguments in april, several the justices, including chief justice john roberts, were skeptical of the circuit court decision that fully rejected trump's immunity claims. they focus on whether there should be some immunity for a president's official duties compared to his private actions this suggests is that the justices could grant trump some degree of immunity for his official actions. but not for those actions he took that went beyond his role as president. that could pave the way for the election subversion case against trump to move forward. but how quickly any case actually goes to trial? depends on whether the justices address trump's conduct specifically in their ruling or if they only set a standard for prosecution that the lower court would then have to apply to to this case. if that happens, trump could potentially start a whole new round of appeals likely pushing any trial beyond the 2024 election in november the special counsel, asked the 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