investment banker, economy minister, the first french president to be elected from outside of france s two mainstream political parties. macron is unapologetic supporter of the european union an will meet with angela merkel monday. despite macron outsider status he s no populist and painted a picture today of a french economy that will need to embrace and grow with technology and that will need to be open to the world. macron s message today to the french people seem to be that they should embrace the future but embrace with french values. the french people have always known thousand find the energy, the spirit of profound change. that s where we stand. it s for this mission that i
it energizes him and i think it energizes space. elizabeth: sometimes i think people getting critical because the campaign is over and he should focus on the white house. meeting with lawmakers and promoting yourself. he feels under siege right now and he s attempting to as kevin said, returned to his face however, i think had difficulty getting back to the out side or status because if you look at pain, he s railing against the system but his secretary worked for the. [inaudible] cabinet are working for goldman sachs and he s commended himself as part of the system that he railed against. he s hired system that he railed against into his cabinet and he s trying to regain outsider status. i don t think he can do that. elizabeth: he s doing it with messaging and on that note i want to play soundbites for you. one is the white house interpretation of the investigation into russian metal thing. and behind it is the, now, acting director testifying on how important it is that the
beltway. but when he leaves and goes into these areas of the country where the support that david was talking about remains so many lid, it seems to give him energy. he received a standing ovation from the first moment that he was on stage. there were no protesters in this crowd. there were plenty of people with a make america great again hats on. he was well received. and i think that makes him feel as if the work that he is doing in washington is for the greater good. and what he told this crowd here is that when you are being deterred by people, embrace that outsider status. he said it s only outsiders that change the world. so he continues to view himself as an outsider. and if we can take anything from this message here today, i don t expect him to change vours acou anytime soon. so receptive audience there, but what about on the global stage. what are people thinking and feeling about all that has happened this week, the sequence
pennsylvania. programming basically there. kind of like samantha bee is doing with her own event. he s not the first to decide a counter program, but is this basically the president trying to demonstrate his outsider status to what is going to be this cushy elite looking journalism charity event to his message, to his narrative? sure. ultimately, he likes to poke us in the eye. there is a certain element of donald trump that just enjoys the kind of, you know, schoolyard elbowing. and this is one of those moments where pretty much just for fun they are going to schedule events to counterprogram against the white house correspondents dinner. they are going to cover trump holding a rally in pennsylvania that is not a substantiative event at all. i go to the white house correspondents dinner to see old friends in the journalism business, to celebrate good
he s not somebody who has been a celebrity and a billionaire and familiar with the power. listen in the movie how his outsider status gave him a heart. i don t want to tell some 8-year-old kid he s got to sleep in the street because we want people to feel better about their car. do you want to tell him that? no, sir. no, i sure don t. so, michael, the outsider narrative big in hollywood. well, yeah, of course it is. and the other film which is a classic film from 1979 is being there with peter sellers. and this is very relevant to trump because the chauncey gardener character in the movie who ends up in the white house as a key adviser to the president, basically gets all this information from television. he is simple minded, and