Im sorry. I have to call another time. Host the last call is from oklahoma. Billy, are you there . Billy is not there. This is the story at washington post. Com. Will france survive this election . James mcauley is joining us outside of paris and a correspondent for the washington post. Caller thank you for having me. Talking to you from le pen headquarters outside of paris. Give us a sense of what you are looking at today. Pen is having le her results watch party here in the town. Any kind of industrial rust belt. Host how many candidates are on the ballot and what would require a runoff . Caller it is convoluted at the moment. Were likely to see a runoff if not one candidate can win 50 of the vote or more. We are to see a secondround. Host when Police Officer killed and the shooter was also killed. What impact did it have on the election today . Its an interesting question and one difficult to ascertain any kind of clarity on. The president ial campaign has a hard deadline. There is very little time. There were popular candidates. The investment banker versus marine le pen. The polls that came out after , the conservative former Prime Minister that has really to fight off charges of corruption after the nepotism scandal. We donty can say . Know what the terrorist attacks told if any. Host the election of donald are there parallels . Caller yes. In a broad sense, very much. The le pen agenda is very much about what defined. Establishingt borders. Antieuropean. Hell remember they all remember that. Those broadbrush similarities are absolutely the case. The question is who should those resources apply to. The u. S. Republican line. It is working class french of voters. After 8 p. M. , we may have the first round. Given the contentious nature of the tight race. Host his work Available Online at washington post. Com. We turn our attention. The inside story on what happened with the Hillary Clinton campaign. The coauthor is jonathan allen. A ranking democrat. Lawmakers return this week. Here is a preview. I think we had a lot of negotiating leverage. Its been done with democratic votes. I suspect that some republicans couldnt put in this funding mechanism. The one thing that i think we would like to have. The republicans are in charge of the entire government now and no one will confuse whos to blame. I suspect that we republicans want to make sure they get something done a little bit more than we do. One of the elements of compromise im hearing about. More funding as a way of a compromise, would you please be prepared to support that . When the Administration Proposed the skinny budget. Cut, if then increase comes at the cost of any reduction, it will be a nonstarter. I think it is something i can support