steve: with just three days until the final vote, the french presidential race is tightening up. centrist candidate, emanuel macron holds the lead with just under 60% and far right candidate marine le pen has a solid 40. brian: here is hoping i can some day say those things like you just did, steve. last two weeks le pen has been closing the gap on the favored to win candidate. could would he be seeing the frump effect happening in france? here to weigh in is author and journalist mark steyn. who do we root for in this in the american progressive. i m routing for marine le pen, macron is like a hollow suit. sock puppet of the euro establishment. i was listening to whirl whining a couple days ago why
abby: it turns out obama once dreamed of being our commander-in-chief. the revealing transcript. former president idolized president trump and everything he stood for writing. this i may not be donald trump now but just you wait if i don t make it, my children will. brian: wow, that s unbelievable. steve: more juicy nuggets coming out now that he is not president. ainsley: fbi director james comey standing his ground over the clinton email investigation. it makes me mildly nauseous to think we might have had some impact on the election. honestly it, wouldn t change the decision. ainsley: judge napolitano says comey was out of line. is he here to explain why. brian: the judge is exasperated one way or another i m going to find you i m going to getcha get that getcha one way or another i m going to win you
reports without removing americans names. apparently they unmasked 30,000 american names initially. and then eventually 6,000 names were circuited within the government with the names right out there. and the whole idea behind the fisa thing is to protect american names. that s the last thing you want out there is somebody s actual name. but they did it. ainsley: so sloppy. steve: could be just. brian: sinister, that s what it could be. same word. i would like to add this, this just adds to the confusion of selection. i salute dianne feinstein for saying she has a problem with it. that shows a sincerity for getting to the bottom of it. she also knows too, if susan rice can get away with it so could future administrations including the current one.
understandably on the vulgar side. so, lawrence, i m wondering have from you, what do you think the fallout, if any, will be for season colbert? oh, he will be fine. he will be fine. if it was someone lick me getting on tv like that as a conservative we can t even go on college campuses and give speeches right now because they want to silence us. but when you are a liberal or progressive or in hollywood in the bubble, then somehow they rally around this behavior. you got the dnc leader using profanity with kids at the rally. there is no standard when it comes to the democratic party right now. this guy would be fine. if it was me, i would probably be off air. that s why every time i m on tv i act like it s my last. you never know what they will say and they will take you off. steve: you are right about that. no, he is not right about that. no, no, no. there is a double standard and it goes like this. donald trump got to say the
house correspondence dinner is to hold up the first amendment. you bring the leader of the free world and pillary him. every president except when reagan was shot has sat there, taken his lumps, and said yes, we have the freedom of the press. we have freedom of speech and expression in this country, and it even rises to the occasion that the president of the united states can sit there and be a big boy and take it. the issue of fake news isn t what the white house correspondence dinner is about. there are comedians there. of course, that s fake. but this con flights the issue. the first amendment is to be supported. and that s what this dinner actually does. steve: all right. very good. lawrence, what do you think? let s get something straight. i think this president supports the first amendment. steve: of course. he also is dealing with a dishonest press that is clearly biased. for example, they want to