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French reaction. they have a domestic problem. i'd go to macron, "look, we screwed up. how do we help you now? what would help you, given your domestic political thing? we do not want the far right to be the next government of france. whatever we've had now is a tea party compared to what u.s.-french relations would be, what it would mean for nato." the united states needs to help macron. >> do we want le pen's party, you know, running france and nato? you know, willie, let's just play the game we seem to play every four and a half years. the old, imagine if this happened with the last adminis...

Blindsided. which one is it? >> yeah. the white house says it is surprised by how surprised france is. you don't hear allies this close, richard, saying things in public like, "this is a knife in the back. this is a betrayal. this is a fraying of our alliance." sometimes the conversations happen privately, but these weren't leaked or reported. it was public comments from the minister of france, saying, our long-time friends stuck a knife in our back. >> the issue came up, and american officials kind of played blind, deaf, and dumb. never said, "oh, by the way, we're going to crash on this." th...

What your european allies think." on that very day, they're stabbing them in the back. >> i was there. it was in cornwall for the g-7. macron and biden are sitting on beach chairs with the sea behind them, expressing their friendship and everlasting alliance. macron saying, "look, we can count on the u.s. again." later that day is exactly when biden met with morrison and johnson, australia, uk, and u.s. started hammering out that deal. the same day. french are going to be angry. there needs to be fence mending. this will not be a permanent splintering of the alliance, but it didn't go down wel...