Hello and welcome. It is 7am in singapore, midnight here in london, and 1am in paris, where projections from the french president ial election suggest that the centrist, Emmanuel Macron, has won the first round. Several polls put him at 23 , a point or so ahead of Marine Le Pen, the anti Immigration National front representative. They go to a run off in two weeks time. Emmanuel macron said a had turned in french politics, with people expressing a desire for change in politics. Marine le pen described the result as historic. Ourfirst report comes from katya adler. One president ial election, two Rival Visions for france. Fresh faced Emmanuel Macron tops poll projections, promising fairer government, neither right nor left wing. A pro eu centrist, confident of success. Translation i hope that in a fortnight, i will become your president. I want to become the president of all the people of france. The president of the patriots, in the face of the threats from the nationalists. A president
Campaign. All as part of an effort to undermine that investigation. Hes pardononing people, perhaps sending a message to witnesses who might testify against him that they, too, could be pardoned. So stay strong. If an effort to prop up the dying Coal Industry his administration is reportedly weighing an unprecedented intervention in the u. S. Energy grid which would basically order some folks to get their lick trits from coal plants. He tipped off wall street this morning about confidential employment numbers more than an hour before they were officially released. Possibly to give himself some cover from last nights decision to slap steep tariffs on our closest allies in europe, canada, and mexico, renewing fears that he is leading us into a trade war. When given a chance to denounce a racist comment he instead attacks the press. He suggested one of his criminalityics should be fired for using offensive language
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The president right when he says witch hunt . Yeah, sure. You cant explain this any other way. A gog. Its a word you dont see in newspapers often, in fact, i dont think ive seen it before. It was in their report today of how people in the white house reacted toll Rudy Giulianis performance. Quote, the White House Council had no idea, neither did the white house Chief Of Staff nor the White House Press secretary nor the new white house lawyer, they watched agog as he freestyled on Live Television wednesday night about the president s legal troubles and unveiled an explosive new fact that trump reimbursed his long time personal Attorney Michael Cohen for the 130,000 paid to Stormy Daniels. Rudy giuliani went on fox friends to try to smooth over the mountain of lies and inconsistent statements now that have been told by donald trump and Michael Cohen about the Stormy Daniels payment. Michael cohens first statement about the Stormy Daniels payment was on February 13th which he said he was
Bottom line that was their goal heading into tonight, to live to fight inll of these in november. Brian, well accepted it over to you. Our thanks to steve kornacki. We ask only that you not stray from the big board. We will come back with results as they come in throughout the broadcast. Checking in on other news, day 502 this was of the trump administration. And President Trump wasted no time again today lashing out at his own Attorney General of his recusal from the Russia Investigation. President trump wrote on twitter, the russian witchhunt hoax continues all because Jeff Sessions didnt tell me he was going to recuse himself. I would have quickly picked someone else. So much time and money wasted. So many lives ruined. And sessions knew better than most that there was no
report would be positive, as we learned the next morning. But when aide mentioned sessions, trump abruptly ended the conversation and unmuted the television in his office, dismissing the staffer to resume watching
Violence singling out ms13 and detailing their gruesome crimes and making a case for stronger Immigration Policies and doubling down on his word animals. These are vicious killers and shouldnt be allowed into the country. The laws are horrible. The democrats are sticking up for ms13. You heard nancy pelosi the other day trying to find all sorts of reasons why they should be able to stay. These are stone cold killers. Vicious killers. And when you hear families like that and see families, these are incredible families where they lost their daughters in this case. Yet other people in the room lost sons. This should never happen. Jon joining us now is the White House Reporter at the associated press. The president is proposing a change to the way foreign aid is distributed to countries whose citizens illegally enter the United States. How would that work, jill . This is the plan the
president floated yesterday. He was in long island talking about illegal immigration and talking about ms13