people growing older and better medicine keeping people alive longer, the french people say no to the plans. highest constitutional court is expecting to give a ruling next week as to whether or not the law is constitutional or whether parts of it have to be reined in. the protestors hoping to put enough pressure on the french president already survived loss of his majority in the parliament and two votes of nonconfidence to back down, scrap the plan and then everything will stay as it is right now. we ll see if that happens. something happened, not sure if american would come. right now the war between russia and, you know, ukraine, probably they would support financially but not physically, not maybe just sending missiles, that kind of thing, not really helping us. is it worrying to you about a possible invasion? sort of, but not too much. sort of, yeah. john: some residents of taiwan reacting to the threat from china as we wait to hear from the white house about
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protester, we just have to go and get it. traveling across the city, the protesters hush each other as they get closer to the euro next stock exchange, there they pause. then charge. through the flames and smoke that engulf the building, the sound of anger at the french president. shocking seems that for parents, nothing new. the protest against the government upping of the pension age from 62 to 64 are just the latest round to job people to the streets. and paris, there are protests almost every day, some small, some bigger. in france, we are used to, it as soon as something goes, wrong the french protest. the hardest recover he, says where the yellow vest protest of 2019, and 2020. the police, the protesters, we have never seen protests
do. but that s not to underestimate what we are seeing. i mean, we witnessed and reported on the ground for a long time what they call the yellow vest protest from just a couple years ago and i think our viewers will remember them. literally, folks wearing yellow vests upset about hikes in gas prices, now they are upset about something else and yes, the french go to the barricades on these kinds of things, gillian. gillian: the spirit of protest is certainly alive and well. greg, thank you for jumping in to help us out here with coverage of this. stand by, we have to bring you in bring our viewers more breaking news right now. john: jump to the white house where john kirby is taking questions. he was answering a question about afghanistan, saying that nobody had predicted the rapid fleeing of president ganhni and the dramatic fall. you have questions after the briefing today i ll stay here as long as you want, questions after the briefing today you know how to get ahold of me,