November rematch. Both candidates clinching their Party Nominations last night with primary wins in georgia, mississippi, and washington state. Trump, taking a victory lap in this video released by his campaign its your favorite president speaking to you on a really great day of victory, the Republican National committee has just declared as the official nominee. And so whether the official nominee of the republican party, which is a big deal the biden trump rematch will be the longest General Election president ial campaign ever. Once it became clear, the president had clinched the democratic nomination team, biden released this slickly produced video ready to protect our brain our panel is with us this morning. Lets bring in republican strategist, Kristen Soltis anderson, democratic congressman Jake Auchincloss of massachusetts remains with us. Former White House Communications director Kate Bedingfield is here and Zolan Kannoyoungs White House Correspondent for the New York Times we
personal political choice. you were a french bureaucrat, then you went to brussels to run an eu agency, then you decided to enter partisan politics not very long ago, and you joined the national rally party. what was it about marine le pen s party that attracted you? well, in fact, as the former executive director of frontex, the european border and coastguard agency, i realised that at some point brussels and especially the european commission didn t want to properly control the external borders of the european union, so we had to face and we still have to face massive illegal immigration flows. and what i realised that, officially, my mandate, my mission was officially to create a european corps of border and coastguard with uniforms and weapons to support european member states, to support them in protecting the external borders against illegal migration but also criminality. and the european commissioner at that time, madamejohansson, in charge of migration and just
every member state is free to decide on its own. and this is our political line. what we don t want, that the european commission decides on behalf of member states. and this is exactly what s going to happen. but with respect, france hasjust signed a migration pact alongside all the other members of the eu. that s signed and sealed. it s too late for you to stop that. yeah. but what is extremely interesting is that two days after this pact on asylum and migration was adopted, 15 member states sent a letter. so, ministers, 15 ministers sent a letter to the european commission asking, in fact, to focus now on combating illegal migration upstream, so before migrants arrive in europe, and especially with the proposal that the people in need of international protection, so let s say refugees or asylum seekers, should be allowed to lodge an asylum application in consulates abroad. so meaning, and this is exactly what my political party proposes, that people in need of internationa
it s great to have you on the show. let s start with your own personal political choice. you were a french bureaucrat, then you went to brussels to run an eu agency, then you decided to enter partisan politics not very long ago, and you joined the national rally party. what was it about marine le pen s party that attracted you? well, in fact, as the former executive director of frontex, the european border and coastguard agency, i realised that at some point brussels and especially the european commission didn t want to properly control the external borders of the european union, so we had to face and we still have to face massive illegal immigration flows. and what i realised that, officially, my mandate, my mission was officially to create a european corps of border and coastguard with uniforms and weapons to support european member states, to support them in protecting the external borders against illegal migration but also criminality. and the european commissioner
cyprus and luxembourg six each. remember, they don t sit according to nationality, they sit within broad international groupings. there are seven groupings in all the left, the greens, the socialists & democrats, renew europe. renew europe is the liberals. then comes the biggest group of them all the centre right european people s party, to the right of them the european conservatives and reformists, and then on the hard right, the identity and democracy group, in which marine le pen s meps will sit. so, let me show you the first projection issued in the last half an hour. you will see there the big gainers are definitely the hard right. it is only an early projection, this, but the losers on this chart very much the losers on this chart very much the greens and the liberals, which include emmanuel macron s renaissance party. neck, when you look at that chart, what do you see and what are the implications of it? i what do you see and what are the implications of it? what