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Blow to the e.u. but as kellyanne conway pointed out this morning, that was a vote that the former president got wrong. >> president obama hasn't had a very good recent track record electorally, and he really dismissed brexit which, of course, was a huge success. i think they're missing what's going on all across europe which is, and the world frankly, where people are just telling the establishment, stop telling me who to be, what to think, how to worship, how to raise my children, where my hard-earned money should go. people are really asking for sovereignty and security. >> reporter: but in...

Former president barack obama who enforced the more moderate candidate, emmanuel macron. in fact, he went so far as to declare his support in a video released just three days ago. watch this. >> he has stood up for liberal values. he put forward a vision for the importance role that france plays in europe and around the world, and he is committed to a better future for the french people. he appeals to people's hopes and not their fears. >> reporter: so this election in france really became kind of a proxy war between former president barack obama and president trump. laura? laura: yeah, kristi...

They cook well, they make great wine, and look at french television news. you would not see that in america. a live, continued broadcast riding along in the motorcade as it happens of the president. i mean, we just don't do that, and we'll see if he gets out of that, one of those vehicles. he's behind. but you mentioned le pen. she may have lost, yes, but she certainly hit a nerve considering the terrorist activities and the attacks that france has gone under, and she got about 35% of the vote. that's more than double than the national front previously. so as you said, she is vowing to come ba...

They needed 216 votes and got 217. priebus says, look, republicans are not in danger. >> sometimes in life you have to do what's right, not what's politically expedient. we believe this is going to be a better product, and by the time that people see that the premiums are lower, it's a better service, there are more options and more choices, they're going to reward the republicans that stood up and said we're not going to see the obamacare system -- which is failing and collapsing -- to continue any longer. >> reporter: priebus went on to say that he expects senate majority leader mitch mcconn...

Without insurance policy. well, the health secretary, tom price, saying on another network earlier today that's not true. these same americans will be able to purchase their health care at the state level. >> absolutely not. and we believe strongly that the medicaid population that will be cared for in a better way under our program, because it'll be more responsive to them. these decisions will be made closer to them. right now you've got washington, d.c. dictating to the states and dictating to patients exactly what must occur. >> reporter: meanwhile, sally yates, the former u.s. attorney in...