and some words of unity as trump works to bring the grand old party together 144 days until the november election. i m harris faulkner and you are in the faulkner focus. moving forward from those meetings on capitol hill with house and senate republicans, the nation s 45th president is focused on key issues shoring up his allies as he is also dealing with a little bit of unfinished business. in those meetings yesterday trump reportedly called those pursuing him at the justice department dirty no-good bastards and called president biden a dope. here he is after those meetings. there is tremendous unity in the republican party. we want to see borders. we want to see strong military. we want to see money not wasted all over the world. we have great common sense. a lot of very smart people in this room and a lot of people that love our country. harris: and now we ll hear from some lawmakers who were with him. i think he recognizes now, having been through a few elections,
good to be with you, i m alex witt in for katy tur. we re right now following breaking news out of washington where the justice department has just announced it will not prosecute attorney general merrick garland for contempt of congress saying in a letter that garland s refusal to hand over audio of president biden s interview with robert hur to gop lawmakers was not a crime. joining us now from capitol hill is correspondent julie tsirkin. so let s interpret what this all means. i guess the implication being this was a political maneuver by congress. reporter: first of all, alex, this was as expected. congress, even republicans here who pushed this contempt vote. remember that just happened a couple of days ago, they successfully voted on party lines pretty much, except for one republican, to hold merrick garland in contempt of congress because he did not turn over those tapes from biden s interview with special counsel hur, and the classified documents case, republicans e
winner of the eu elections and is predicted to win 30% of the vote, and a sorry high. a call for elections once the victory became clear, arguing the legitimacy is reported to the test. the leader in the assembly welcome was the eventual decision to call a snap vote. translation: they confirm our movement is the major force - for change in france and we are ready to exercise power over the french people placing their trust in us. we are ready to turn the country around, ready to defend the interest of the french, ready to put an end to mass immigration and ready to make the purchasing power of the french a priority. we are ready to start industrialisation of the country, in short, ready to turn the country around, ready to revive france. the overall winner of the elections was the president of the european commission. and her people s party grouping. they picked up a dozen seats taking them once again as the largest group and this is her celebrating their win with supporters
for the second round. it means that in just three weeks there will be more elections, this time for the national parliament with macron gambling the national rally won t pull off a double, but how can he be sure? for the national rally leader marine le pen and her young colleague early elections offer a tantalising glimpse of the possibilities of power. but if they are to repeat their triumph at the europeans, they need to convince the public they are a party of government. translation: we are ready to be empowered if the french - people give us the support in the forthcoming legislative election. we are ready to turn the country around, ready to defend the interests of the french people, ready to put an end to mass immigration, in short we are ready to turn the country around, ready to bring it back to life. this morning president macron was paying respects to french victims of the second world war, blithely confident as ever so he seems, but his rule is at a turning point