garner enough support given this shift and given that rise from the far right linda, we ll certainly see how that plays out in july. of course, looking at these results, the french president s party didn t do well. emmanuel macron calling snap elections for later this month. yeah. look i think again, it wasn t a shock that the national rally and other far right parties did so well. but what was a shock was how emmanuel macron reacted to this. he didn t have to do this. he could have come out and said, look, this is a protest vote and just carried on. but on the one hand, i think he didn t have a whole lot to lose. he already lost his his overall majority in parliament. he s already struggled to get some key policies through and this may be a calculation that this is a chance to win back a mandate. and alizée source telling cnn that the approach will be convince, convince, convince in the lead up to these elections, the first round just three weeks away. but in his sp
now basically just what we saw europe why tonight as these results can now, these are projections, but gives you an idea of what s happened is that the far right in many different countries made pretty substantial gains. now, the far right, i have a different set of views when it comes to issues like russia and ukraine, it s difficult to see how they ll function is very unified block. and yet it is expected that their results are so strong in so many countries could mean that they re going to have a bigger impact on the european union. things like immigration policies then they have had in the past. but the biggest news tonight from europe is that in france, the far-right has come out on top with such a resounding victory more than 30% of the vote, then emmanuel macron, the centrist leader of france, has dissolved parliament. and what we ll do is now have parliamentary elections here france that could see if the results go to the far-right as they have at european level, the
Across talking real collusion im joined by my guest Richard Goodstein in washington he is a Democratic Political strategist and a former adviser to Hillary Clintons two president ial campaigns in miami we have john karr below he is host of off the cuff on rebel media and in phoenix we cross to Josh Bernstein he is a t. V. Talk show host all right gentlemen cross talk rules in effect that means he can jump in anytime you want and i always appreciate josh im going to go to you first because one of my one of the crosstalk rules is always go to the person that got up early is for this program and that is you want to talk about some of the things thats coming out of the the f. B. I. In the in the special investigation into. Alleged collusion with russia during the election we have this peter stroke you know and hes written some you know with his girlfriend some pretty nasty things about donald trump you know hes. Hes an a. T. M. He is a nuisance sees a menace what you know all these kind of
Cruz who was set to testify alongside fema chief brock long today. We received a statement by the congressman thompson stating that the majority of the republicans for the second time in a row has canceled the with no date for it to be rescheduled. Im just wondering, what are they afraid of . Amy than a federal judge blocked part of president terms transgender military ban. We will speak with the former trans marine who is the challenging the ban. All of that andore, coming up. All that and more, coming up. Welcome to democracy now , democracynow. Org, the war and peace report. Im amy goodman. In new york city, eight people were killed and 11 more injured when a driver intentionally drove a pickup truck down a bike path along manhattans hudson river tuesday. Officials are calling it an act of terror. Police say the attacker was 29yearold Sayfullo Saipov. He reportedly drove a rented home depot truck down the massacre will lane bicycle and killing at least eight people before crashing i