But what comes next once the iraqi city is reclaimed . And new jerseys governor is feeling the heat. Its bad enough to close a beach on a Holiday Weekend its another thing to then show up relaxing in the sand. Welcome to 100 days . Im katty kay in washington, Christian Fraser is in london. Emmanuel macron is either a self styled napoleon whos far too regal for the french republic or hes a political genius whos going to restore both dignity and prosperity to the country. Take your pick. After a grand state of the Union Session at versailles, the new french president has been called both. In a break with tradition, the president summoned the joint Houses Of Parliament to versaille, to hear a 90 minute address. In the speech, he said the European Union had lost its way, and the State Of Emergency will be lifted this autumn. He also told the lawmakers he wants to slash their numbers by one third. Translation so far, too often, we have taken the wrong path. We have preferred procedures to results, regulations to initiatives, turned our society to a society ofjustice, and i think by its recent choices, our people is asking us to follow a radically new path. And i refuse, as faras i am concerned, to choose between ambition and spirit ofjustice. I refuse to accept that to create equality, we should give up excellence, or to succeed, we should give up the idea of giving everybody a part to play. Werejoined here in london by peter ricketts, the former uk ambassador to paris. Do you think that this is a president who is redefining the position at the moment . Yes, i think he has thought very carefully about this. He has smashed the mould, and how this. He has smashed the mould, and now he wants to change the idea of what the french president is. He thought his lead assessor, francois hollande, was to showbiz, and he wants to give back to the presidency somebody like charles de gaulle. And i think he thinks that this is what french people want. No better place to instil some of that majesty and mystique than versailles, but the difficulty is that there is a large section on the left that do not particularly like that approach. Here is a picture of a french newspaper has cast as jupiter, here is a picture of a french newspaper has cast asjupiter, the idea that he is far too regal for the position. There is a risk and what he is doing, because he can go too far. He sensed that the mould was fragile, he smashed and now he is going to rebuild it. Putting himself a very high up as president , but also trying to ruthlessly cut the size of parliament, introducing proportional representation, simple fine lawmaking, getting on with the task of reform. And all this jupiter president stuff will be fine if he can deliver. It is one thing to have fantastic can deliver. It is one thing to have fa ntastic style, can deliver. It is one thing to have fantastic style, to revive the dignity of the office of the president. He is still got to do something that has been almost impossible for any of his predecessors, to reform the french economy, and he said today that the french leaders stop living off the public purse over fairness. To break that Social Contract is good to be extremely difficult, whatever his stylus. It is, he has got to get unemployment down. As long as i can member working unemployment down. As long as i can memberworking in unemployment down. As long as i can member working in france, unemployment down. As long as i can memberworking in france, It Unemployment down. As long as i can member working in france, it has been 10 or more, and the feeling is that too many people have been living on benefits. If he does not break it, he has got to at least show results, the fee does not do that in 12 or 18 months, then his efforts to redefine the presidency will look hollow. He needs to get reform in europe moving, but he first asked to show that he can reform france. Several Cabinet Members had to leave early on in his term. He looked so full of hope, so golden, so different, are the concerns that he may not be so different after all . I think the result is that french people are saying, this guy is actually doing it. He said he wants to clean up politics, get away from corruption, and the first hint of any involvement with scandal, and people left. And he has filled them with new people, so it is a very new team. He is setting a very high moral standard. I think people will acce pt moral standard. I think people will accept that in france, because they we re accept that in france, because they were fed up with the previous political class. But this new team how political class. But this new team now has to get very going, and i do not think they have got long to go. Peter and i used to talk a lot about Nicolas Sarkozy and francois hollande, and i wonder about how people perceive the presidency. It is most likely mixture between the queen and the Prime Minister. They missed out that has suddenly reappeared forjacques chirac, what was that about . Partly it is the lapse of time, and partly he was a president that did not achieve a great deal but preserve the dignity and a gravitas, the ad and obviously keen for people. So mac rom is maybe onto something here. Emmanuel macron. I think he thought that people thought french people were fed up with the class of politics for a generation or so. He has pulled back, he wants to talk not so much but let his actions speak. His actions today are very symbolic, but of course he can go too far. So far i think he has shown good judgment. It is fascinating. I want to make a mention of the official portrait that was released a few days ago. Nothing is done by chance, this is a bit reminiscent of obama. The book just behind his hand is the memoirs of charles de gaulle, opened halfway through as if he has been reading it and just cast it aside. And it throws back to when he first came out in front of the louvre, looking like this fear with the pyramids behind him, the ode tojoy, the european anthem, everything is being very carefully calibrated in this presidency. Nothing is being done by chance, no mistake that we are talking aboutjupiter and chance, no mistake that we are talking about jupiter and royalty chance, no mistake that we are talking aboutjupiter and royalty in the context at versailles today. That is how it is supposed to look. We talk about donald trump being the Television President , but certainly the importance of image has clearly made its way into emmanuel macrons life as well, and like you say, he has a fantastic pr and messaging team. That photo you just showed, i am not sure how well that headline is good to go down, and it does reflect concerns among the friends that he is going to go too far, this is may have been one step too far, the event at versailles. We are going to talk about President Trumping the moment, albeit treating that he is doing. All the tweeted. Emmanuel macron is keeping a distance from the journalists. It is all going to be about whether he manages to reform the economy. There is nothing and no one that can stop President Trump from tweeting. And often the target is the fake media. At some point, he wrote on his twitter feed today the fake news will be forced to discuss our greatjobs numbers, strong economy, success with isis, the border so much else the media actually does report on Policy Issues weve done it a lot on this programme. The trouble is the message from the white house gets undermined by the messaging from the oval iphone. After the storm of criticism last week, mr trump reacted this way my use of social media is not president ial its modern day president ial. Make America Great again he followed up with a meme that many of you will already have seen a video of a Wrestling Match in which the president takes down a figure whose face is obscured by the cnn logo. Here it is. Oh, my god, whats going to happen . Oh, my god cnn responded on sunday it is a sad day when the president of the United States encourages violence against reporters, a spokesperson said. Joining us now to discuss it all is molly ball, politics reporter for the atlantic. In the white houses defence is that the scene we have just seen his fake wrestling, it is all entertainment, and liberals have not got a sense of humour. They should not see this in any way as an attack on the press. And similar to what the president himself said in the tweet, but you just quoted, the president has a unique way of communicating with the American People. His instinct is when he is attacked, he will punch back ten times harder, and that is what he is doing now. They see him as the victim of unfair attacks and is therefore attacking in return. This is not a widely shared view, even, i think, this is not a widely shared view, even, ithink, among republicans here in washington and among voters i have spoken to out in middle america. There is a real uneasiness with the president s sort of candour, you could see, and the outrageous things that he says. And his own lack of focus on the a lot of Policy Issues that you mention. It is fairto of Policy Issues that you mention. It is fair to say that you look at what is happening here in the United States, around the world, and you get the President Tweeting about alias media figures, and the whole thing looks absurd at a time when there is a lot to deal with. Vds media figures. Isnt there a risk within the media, the American Media has talked about little else for the last few days, itjust looks the resident would more out of touch with what American Voters care about . It makes the president look more out of touch. If he thought the American People were interested in health care and tax reform, he could be tweeting about those things are giving large public addresses on those things, instead of being obsessed with this grudge match with the media. It may look outside the press look bad, but we are not on the ballot, we do not have to get re elected, and we do not have to run the country. So if he wants to have a successful presidency when he is able to accomplish goals he has set out for himself and to get re elected, his public image as the one at stake. His basis 3839 , like one at stake. His basis 383996, like it when he goes after the media. The polls i have seen have the number who approve of his tweeting is significantly lower than that. There isa significantly lower than that. There is a hard core trump base who are loyal to him, and they say that when trump is attacked, they take it personally. They see it as an attack on them. I have likened it to the way that people are fans of their sports teams, and inspires that level of unreasonable devotion. There is literally nothing he can do to annoy those people. But that is a small section of the electorate, and there really is a feeling that he is only speaking to that dedicated fan base, which is a pretty narrow slot, and not a unifying message. The two things that are alarming about this particular meme, the cnn one, he plucked it from an obscure reddit forum, and you wonder how he is coming across that in. And then he re tweeted that treat from his president twitter account. As the cnn statement said, he does have a numberof cnn statement said, he does have a number of residential responsibilities in front of him. Evenif responsibilities in front of him. Even if he does not have to spend his time in the reddit swamps, this came from a user with a history of racist and anti semitic comments, even someone on racist and anti semitic comments, even someone on his staff is looking for him, is that what he was elected to do or is it to focus on Foreign Policy, domestic policy, the economy and so on . It makes it harder for members of congress to focus on those things because they then have to talk about the president tweets. I wrote a piece on the bbc website this weekend, and suggested that one of the problems is that it suggests that the president is easily rattled, and americas abbas s are watching that. I think that is true, and there is an amount of jitteriness here in washington in the National Security community about this seeming reactive nests and the lack of a policy vision, when it comes to allies and enemies alike, isis appears to be on the run, but nobody has any idea about what america plans to do afterwards. There is a real back him in terms of the stance towards nato being so muddled, and many of our allies being set off balance, so i think it is true that nobody really knows what he is going to do next. They do thatis what he is going to do next. They do that is the plan. He said he would be unpredictable. He certainly is unpredictable. Thank you. President obama said he did not worry about what journalists were writing obama said he did not worry about whatjournalists were writing about him when he was in office, he worried about in 20 years time, but that does not seem to worry President Trump. Whatever the white house saying about this . They have a real feeling that the press is not giving them a real shot in the United States, and the president is right to head back. To hit back. The president may have used the media successfully during the campaign, but now they would say that the fake news on the Mainstream Media has turned against him. That is the feeling from some within the white house. Quickly on the issue of obama care, could we say. This has been a difficult weekend for the republicans, the board on health ca re republicans, the board on health care cancelled last weekend, they could be getting some bad press, but instead the press are focusing on this. The vote on health care. New health care is so unpopular for republicans, they are happy for the conversation to be about something else. The president will be in germany for a two day g20 meeting at the end of the week. And it would seem, despite the criticism, he is engaging with people other than the fake media. On twitter today he is very busy. 0ur north america editor, jon sopel, will be heading to those meetings, and hejoins me now. Is the president is trying to redirect attention to Foreign Policy issues this morning . |j redirect attention to Foreign Policy issues this morning . I am sure the white house will say he is busy with these things all the time, and it is just the Fake News Media not giving him the attention he deserves an big Policy Issues. Maybe if he didnt tweet so much about other things, we would not get deflected from them. It isa would not get deflected from them. It is a big important policy. We are trying to talk about policy, and now we are back on issues exactly, he wants to talk about Foreign Policy, he has got this meeting ahead of the gzos. We saw what happened at the g7, with america about to pull out of the Climate Change deal. We saw him at nato, equally an awkward occasion, when he did not commit to article five of the nato treaty, when an attack against one is an attack against all. It remains to be seen how he will be seen and the 620. Last week, the National Security adviser was running through the list of people he will meet. The president will meet with many world leaders, including chancellor angela merkel, Prime Minister theresa may of the uk, president Vladimir Putin of russia. Hang on, president that you put on . He carried on as if it was the most important normal thing in the world. All eyes will be on what the talk about. |j thing in the world. All eyes will be on what the talk about. I feel sorry for the other due 20 litres, nobody is going to be interested. The other 620 leaders. Hes has said he will be talking about syria and ukraine, and a lot of people are thinking a lot while you not talking about Russia Dabbling in the us election . The court at the briefing was there is no agenda yet for that meeting with president putin. It might be a bit three ruling, we will talk about whatever comes up. I think after the meeting, we will hear about the meeting that donald trump had with Sergei LavrinThe 0val Trump had with Sergei Lavrin the oval office. We will hear about russian interference in the election, but i think that that will not be raised at the meeting. He does not want to poison the relationship with Vladimir Putin, and if he does not raise it, you are accused of ignoring what youre Intelligence Services are telling you, which is that russia did intervene in the president ial election. I hope you will transform yourself magically into a fly on the well and tell us everything. A fly on the wall. I will try. Thank you forjoining us. The British Government insists the Public Sector pay cap of 1 remains in place, despite growing pressure for it to be scrapped. The foreign secretary, borisjohnson, is the latest to add his voice to calls for higher pay for workers like nurses and the police. But Downing Street says it will listen to the to the Pay Review Bodies which could recommend pay rises above the 1 cap. The Gulf State Of Qat