challenge to the european union project. of course, you know, the eu s greatest offender is angela merkel coming to the yat later this week. how important is that meeting for president trump? i think it s vitally important. and as you said, kate, you know, for barack obama, the merkel/obama relationship was fundamental. you know, to both american foreign policy, european foreign policy. we ll see what kind of a relationship they strike. merkel has been very, very ke d concerned about what president trump has had to say and, you know, compromising what she thinks are shared universal values. i m sure she ll probe that during their discussion. another big one is the chinese and the visit, as we mentioned, rex tillerson making his trip over there. we re learning from administration officials that eventually the president of china will come here to visit. i want to play a bit of president trump s comments about china over the last several months.
that s what french authorities want. the second thing is start keeping a record of all travel logs on planes, ferries and trains. that s very controversial. a lot of privacy activists say this is too much information to be storing. they want to start keeping better records because obviously these french attacks show there s been a major failure of intelligence. now, the emergency that was extended for three months in france and belgium talking about toughening up its anti-immigration laws, what practical effects will most people see of this issue? it s very unclear so far. so the big concern for everybody is that we re going to see the return of border checks internally. so a complete reversal of the agreement which many consider to be the ultimate triumph of the european union project. that from my understanding is quite unlikely. we have to watch to see what happens tomorrow. france has called an emergency meeting in brussels and it will be debated. but the head of migration for