this. christina. christina: millions of voters headed to the polls today in tense presidential run-off election between macron and la pen. centrist macron won first round with nearly 28% of the vote leading over le pen but this time they are the only two on the ballot. the two faced off in the election. both candidates are condemning putin s war on ukraine although la pen has been sympathetic to putin in the past and cast doubt on sanctions against russia that she believes could hurt the people of france. la pen says bringing down the cost of living would be her top priority as president and that macron has left the country divided over his economic policies, meantime macron is reiterating to voters his environmental and climate change agenda. he has also been criticizing la pen for saying that she thinks the muslim head scarf is a uniform imposed by islamists.
is willing to step up and say, the american public means more to us than our base supporters, then we will continue to see this crisis get worse. mike: brandon, final question, what s the level of the men and women in terms of their morale, the men and women in the front lines right now? i ve got 25 years in this profession and i ve never seen it worst than what it is right now. they don t want to come to work, they feel beaten, we don t feel like we can do the job to protect the american public like what we want to do. if you don t accomplish something, you don t feel fulfilled and right now we don t feel like we are accomplishing anything. mike: the french presidential election results for emmanuel macron and marine la pen will be later today. hey, christina. christina: millions of voters cast their ballot in tense
people accountable for this. this is the horror of war. we have this idea of geneva conventions, rules how to have civil war, but when you get on the ground, yes, there are people who can turn into bar barance and desecrate the basic idea of humanity. that is something that ukraine, europe, the world will have to deal with for a long time. we do, as human beings, allow this to happen time and time again. i know you re concerned about the election coming up in france tomorrow. macron squaring off against la pen, who is essentially a female trump. code word for destruction of black and brown people, the global majority in this globe, what are the repercussions of not only a potential pro-putin gop taking over the house and senate here in america, but then
when you have these pro-putin leaders taking over entire countries, what does that even for us? la pen is the example of how a putin-aligned, white christian nationalist leader, who lost, can come back, and can come back maybe better and stronger. she lost to macron a few years ago. they are now squaring off again. she has pedalled back, but let s be clear, all of her policies are still the same. she s also using the language of inflation and rising gas prices to hurt the incumbent president, all of this is the familiar talk we re hearing with the gop and biden here in the united states. la pen winning there is not only a win for white christian nationalists who onlygn of how can change its tone a little bit
and also potentially to make more stops in europe to continue this alliance held as closely together as possible. they are rightly pleased with how lockstep the west has been during this and standing up to putin, but they are nervous that months ahead, as this conflict perhaps drags on, that will be harder to do, particularly as the economic costs, if, indeed, europe cuts off russian oil and energy, that that could plunge parts of europe into a recession, that may make it harder and some of the leaders, in other european nations, who have stood with biden to this point, may face domestic challenges at home. and there s one right on the horizon, of course. that s the french election on sunday. and that runoff between emmanuel macron and marine la penn, and if la pen were to win, it could destabilize all of europe, not just this alliance. thank you so much for being with us this morning. i want to show you a pretty extraordinary scene from an ukrainian port city that is west of mariupo