supporters like you. thank you hello, and welcome to our viewers, joining us from the united states, canada, and all around the world. i m was much just ahead. political turbulence on both sides of the atlantic. we are turning what u.s. president joe biden s family is telling him after his disastrous presidential debate performance. meanwhile, his opponent, donald trump, expects to learn in the hours ahead whether he can claim immunity on his alleged efforts to undermine the results of the 2020 presidential election we re live in paris following a crushing blow to emmanuel macron s centrist party, the far right coming out on top in the first round of parliamentary elections in france good to have you with us, and we begin with the fallout of u.s. president joe biden s dismal debate performance last week, mr. biden s family is encouraging him to stay in the race despite growing calls for him to step aside that s from two of his advisers who say the family also talked abo
the kremlin, le pen s party was financed by the kremlin, she s been defying so, in terms of the battle for democracy, this is very significant but as you said the fact that a candidate like this can gather 42% is also very much a warning sign. we re in the middle of something, we re in the middle of a struggle to see if democracy reveille, or not in the pendulum decisions that we make very soon. i mean, i hear a lot of commentators saying what a great result it is but one and three french voters didn t show up, and of those that dead foreign ten voted for a neo-fascist? yeah, i mean it s relief right. it s. relief macron did better than biden in the united states, we are relieved when the guy wants to destroy the system or the woman that wants to destroy the system isn t elected because it buys us time. . right? it buys us time, what do we do with that. time because if we just wait the government still mobilizes
votes ever for a french far-right candidate. what are your thoughts on those results and what might that closer margin before the future of the far-right, in europe and america? yeah, all the questions you asked have been linked because they mean that article you are nice enough to mention, i write about russia zone which is that ukrainian idea that there s a particular variety of russian fast-ism and they re right, the russians the world center of far-right politics at the moment. not just in it s a vision of ukraine, where it s genocidal crimes make it extremely fascist character obvious. but in its decades-long policy to support far-right politicians around the world. so, when we look at a trump or a le pen, we re looking not just at a national politics we re looking at someone who has very close connections to the kremlin, le pen s party was financed by the kremlin, she s been defying
shock the world and win and beat macron, that would have major implications for what is happening in ukraine right now, and potentially for the nato alliance. jim, what do you think? absolutely, jim. in fact, i just checked le pen s party s website this afternoon to see if their stance had changed at all. because le pen during this campaign has softened her stance a bit on europe and on nato. unless, when i check the website, it is still on the website that part of their platform is to abandon nato, abandon the integrated command structure of nato, and there is this line that the security of europe cannot exist without russia. kind of a curious thing, given what s going on in the ukraine. one thing that should be said after having said the positions, it seems a little difficult, a little hard to understand how she can actually find a path to