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We want to pick up where we left off with a great panel. elise lavin has been joining us now with ron brownstein, patrick healy. did i forgot anybody? no, we're all here. this potential runoff race scheduled for may 7, kind of a one-two punch with french elections there. but with these two how potentially influential might the outcome be for u.s. foreign policy? >> i think potentially it could be very influential. you saw how marine le pen spoke against president trump's decision to strike in syria just a few weeks ago. marine le pen really kind of trying to associate herself with president tr...

France expressed itself in a centrist way. it chose macron over melenchon in this first round of voting. as jim said with all these different considerations now going to the second round. but what's been achieved here by these people who got together around this unlikely candidate it was somewhat of a laughing matter. no one thought that emmanuel macron could do it. tonight he has. it's been shown to be the largest one. and that is something quite extraordinary. no one here can quite believe it. >> so far the outcome showing neck and neck between le pen and macron. i want to bring back jim bit...

Macron came nearly out on top, and he is expected to crush la pen in final may 7 vote two weeks from now, what does today's results in france mean for us. deputy assistant secretary of defense for homeland defense under president george w. bush. good to see you, a surprise for some, considering last week's shooting, isis inspired by radical jihadist. served 20 years in prison, didn't put la pen in the number one spot. but she did make the run off. which will happen in two weeks. >> yes, i think it is pretty definitive that you know, she is not a nonentity any longer, she is a force to be recko...

Wins she promises on hole a referendum like in uk within 6 months letting people decide whether or not france stays in the ui, today is round one of the election, it will likely head to a second round, in france you have to have 50%, if not you go to round 2 that is set for may 7. >> all right, voting on sundays too. >> we'll watch that. >> president trump turning his attention to one of his signature campaign promises. >> we'll have a big announcement on wednesday, to do with tax reform. the pr process has begun long a. >> so what can we expect? maria bartiromo is here, "sunday morning future...

Open on the mainland. there are four top contenders hoping to get into the may 7 runoff. this comes in the wake of a shooting death of a police officer in a tourist destination in paris. gregg palkot has more from paris. reporter: voters are going to the polls in an election described as important and unpredictable. deciding between 11 different candidates for their next president, the two top vote getters will go off to a runoff. neither of the leading two candidates are from major parties. marine le pen is a populist. the population is upset about a stag and the economy and concerns about in...