the books, all completely illegal but it is what we do at night. exactly. it keeps us busy. it is what we do. we picked a bunch of winners at the harness racing in yonkers last night, too. so we had a big night, we re feeling good about ourselves. remember one thing, too, macron beat le pen five years ago by 32 points. right. 10 million votes. it is not going to happen this time. it will be closer, but he has a large margin ahead of her. maybe it will be tighter, but it is you know, he is still the favorite. well, in the back room of bookies that we have, again, as you noted, they did call buster douglass over tyson. they also picked unfortunately sham over secretariat in the belmont, so their record is mixed at best? it is. but le pen, for some reason in the united states, people lie about supporting donald trump because they re ashamed to say they support donald trump. but it seems to me that le pen
if as expected no single candidate reaches the 50% threshold, the two leading candidates head to a runoff. it s scheduled for april 2a, but if it were taking place now, macron would beat le pen with 53 percent of the vote. the french president was out campaigning again today, and reasserted one of the key pillars of his campaign a united europe. translation: our role, - our defence, our protection, it is a european one that we are building. i tell you this very frankly europe doesn t take anything from france s strength. our voice is made stronger by europe. when we act alongside the germans, italians, spanish, belgians and dutch, amongst others, we become even stronger. at this time, the sanctions we impose are more cruel. the support we give to the ukrainian people and its army is even more significant. it is through europe in the new geopolitical world that france will never become the us
expected to beat le pen by a lot by 25 points. with that said after brexit and the united kingdom after donald trump won the presidency in donald trump, you will be forgiven if you do not trust polls in a contest like this any more. for what it s worth, i got to tell you the trench polls did seem to be precisely accurate in predicting the outcome two weeks ago. as for this second definitive round sound, though, there may be no reason to distrust the french polls, but we also have absolutely no idea what the effect is going to be of this last second massive russian attack. joining us now live from paris is nbc chief foreign correspondent richard engle. thank you for being with us tonight. i appreciate you staying up for us. reporter: well, it s strange but it is not entirely unexpected. i was waiting for something like this for the other shoe to drop. i thought maybe it was going to be a terrorist attack or some
expected to beat le pen by a lot by 25 points. with that said after brexit and the uk, after donald trump won presidency in the united states, you will be forgiven if you do not trust polls in a contest like this anymore. for what it s worth, i got to tell you, the french polls did seem to be precisely accurate predicking the outcome two weeks ago. as for this second definitive round on sunday, though, there may be no reason to distrust the french polls, but we also have absolutely no idea what the effect is going to be of this last-second massive russian attack. joining us now live from paris is nbc chief foreign correspondent richard engle. thank you for being with us tonight to cover this very strange story. appreciate you staying up for us. reporter: well, it s strange but it is not entirely unexpected. i was waiting for something like this, for the other shoe to
is obviously still going to happen on sunday. now the polls say that macron is expected to beat le pen by a lot, by like 25 points. with that said, after brexit and the united kingdom after donald trump won the presidency in donald trump, you will be forgiven if you do not trust polls in a contest like this anymore. for what it s worth, i got to tell you the french polls did seem to be precisely accurate in predicting the outcome two weeks ago. as for this second definitive round on sunday, though, there may be no reason to distrust the french polls, but we also have absolutely no idea what the effect is going to be of this last-second massive russian attack. joining us now live from paris is nbc news chief foreign correspondent richard engel. thank you for being with us tonight. i appreciate you staying up for us.