to american scientists and researchers and says, i no e that trump doesn t believe you and doesn t like you and doesn t want to support research into climate change. come to france. france is your nation. france is a place where you can work. so i would say there are all kinds of parallels between the american and the french scene. obviously, there are a lot of particularities as well. but for an american audience, it s important to understand what the similarities are. you and i stood not far from where you re stand right now in the climate session in paris. but i want to look more closely at where this relationship goes now. this is the second largest economy in europe. obviously, an important ally to the united states. and even though president trump had said nice things about marine le pen, he did tweet, congratulations to emmanuel macron on his big win today as the next president of france. i look very much forward look to working with him.
landslide victory over far-right candidate marine le pen. 66% to 34%. last night le pen conceded the race and took a defiant stance. [ speaking foreign language ] that tone leaving many to ask the question, what s next? joining me now from paris, msnbc contributor chris dickey, the news editor for the daily beast. good to see you, chris, a lot of people are watching this to see how it might reflect what happens here in the united states, how might it not, how might it reflect brexit, how might it not? what is your analysis of what we saw here? well, you know, in fact, you can look at this almost like a proxy battle between president trump and his predecessor obama.
because obama at one point explicitly endorsed macron. and at another point, you had trump saying very nice things about le pen. basically, le spepen represents someone who will break up the european union. someone who is very friendly to russia. someone who will deconstruct as bannon likes to say, the old models of society and organization in the world, even if it s just because she s pursuing a policy that relies on fear and anger and nostalgia. the thing with macron is, he wants to build the institutions and make europe stronger. and he s also on certain issues, particularly climate change, he s very much like obama. in fact, i don t know if you saw it, but there s a video that he put out back in february fairly early in the campaign in english where he s talking to an american audience and is talking
champion brexit. he all but took credit. he later appeared in a campaign stop with donald trump. then he came within striking dense of the presidency. in the netherlands, it was stekd largest party last month. and they will challenge the long teem chancellor angela merkel this september. the anti-immigrant party is erasing the old line between conservative and liberal. our party has basically given up on these political categories which are categories of the 20th century. the right we know parties defy easy categories but mos share a few traits. they re anti-free trade, anti-immigrant and they re taking a wrecking ball. last night le pen propose ad grand alternative. translator: it is time to liberate the french people from
they want to get out of it. they are concept able about nato. essentially what they re preaching is a national and socialist view even though one is on the communist left and one is on the fashion rigcious righ. when david cameron called the referendum, he thought he would win it last night le pen drove home how she wants to stamp out and restrict immigration. authorities have announced arrested in what they say is a fwarted terror a tack. a lot of people in france are feeling assured by her. very strong, antii m gra-immigr