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She campaigned on an anti-euro, france-first message, and we heard that in her concession speech. leland: it was far from a coming together speech. elizabeth: right. the 39-year-old pro-business centrist backs a stronger e.u., macron was an ex-president of france. his campaign was the victim of a hacking attack, some including fake news on a file-sharing web site. that was late friday right at the cusp of a blackout period that is traditional, and so a hot of the voters weren't able to see -- a lot of the voters weren't able -- leland: there were some right-wing web sites that shared it, but i...

It appears she might get as much as 11 or 12 million votes, doubling the best score that her national front party has done in the past showing clearly a populist strain, a nationalist strain, a concern among the french people for the future of this country. back to you folks. elizabeth: you talked about how this being a safer bet, greg, but i do want to ask you, these were both outsider candidates, by all means. they were running on a globalism platform and a nationalism platform, so how difficult going forward is it going to be for macron to govern? >> reporter: it's going to be very difficul...

Talcott on the ground with the very latest. hi, greg. >> reporter: that's right, the polls have been closed about 20 minutes now, and it's looking about 65, 66% for centrist, moderate reformer emmanuel macron and looking about 35, 36% for marine le pen, the populist, nationalist rival of the 39-year-old apparent winner of this presidential election. as you note, both had been moving around in the minutes since the polls have closed. marine le pen has come out, she has offered her support for emmanuel macron but has also said that she has concerns for his presidency. her pitch played well in so...

Elizabeth: well, now former, if you will. leland: greg, when is the inauguration? >> reporter: indeed, they will give their acceptance speech, the macron camp, in about an hour or so. what's really important is tomorrow is liberation day, victory day here in europe, and macron will be appearing with the current president, hollande, right on the camps el say for a -- champs-élysees for a military appearance. then in the coming week we will see the transition of power. it will be a pretty quick transition of power. remember, francois hollande, he decided not to, not to seek re-election. his num...

So he has a task ahead, but he's gotten backing from other main candidates and main political figures. so he will have support for his mission as well, guys. leland: you know, greg, what's striking to me is you're in paris which is a hot spot for macron's support. there's really a divide in france between rural and urban, between the haves and the have nots in this economy. and as you point out rightly, marine le pen, the daughter of a true anti-semite, a woman herself who's been accused of anti-semitism who has by any stretch of the imagination pretty radical views that reasonable people coul...