america leaves? reporter: no, i think actually it s more sincere than that. i think there is a feeling that america has become very unreliable and capricious, or at least its president has become that way, and is that way. and i think there is a feeling that now, especially with the election of emmanuel ma crcron e in france, that europe has some new life being breathed into it. merkel is a little bit of the old guard, more than a little bit. but she s also a rock around which europe has been built. now we also have macron coming forward. he s only been in office two weeks, but already he s emerging as a superstar. his press conference today with vladimir putin in versailles, at the palace of versailles, was extraordinary. macron was completely in control through the whole thing, and putin looked like he wanted to disappear behind one of the curtains. now, speaking of macron being in control, one of the interactions from trump s foreign trip that got a lot of attention was that han
that s alarming to the authorities given the fact that more than 1,500 extremists are thought to be here. this is an unprecedented threat. what is president hollande doing today? he s getting together a joint session of congress in versailles. only the second time since 1958. he s suggested to once again reiterate two of the political parties in the classes and the elected officials that this country is in a state of war. this has been the language used by the president, the prime minister, the interior minister over the past three days. and clearly, it is designed to justify the heightened powers they re now using. we saw these 150 different raids all over france in the overnight hours, the wee hours of the morning. the enormous numbers of house arrests they ve made. the two dozen or so arrests that they ve made. the enormous number of weapons they ve seized, including heavy