he congratulated the french president-elect on his win and planned to meet with him at a nato meeting in brussels later this month. joining us now is david rothkopf, the author of the new book "the great questions of tomorrow." and returning to raszewski laz, laura haynes, she is spokesperson for emmanuel macron, the president-elect of france. laura, thank you very much for joining us tonight. you went from being a reporter covering our presidential election here in the united states to now working on one in france. and just quickly, did you tell us, did president obama call mr. macron today? did they make contact today? >> yes, absolutely they made contact today. and you know maybe that the -- was in washington and had a meeting with president obama. and when he was in office