the nation s top diplomat and top military leader make the highest level american visit to ukraine since the russian invasion began, meeting with president zelenskyy and bringing new promises of support. admiral james stavridis will join us this morning on this extraordinary wartime visit. and the latest developments from the battlefield. plus, a live report from france. incumbent president emmanuel macron defeats his far-right challenger. that was close. what d he get, mika? 58.5% of the vote. i just nobody could have predicted that. everybody said this race was tight. two weeks ago, it was neck and neck. this was going to be close. who could have predicted that margin of victory? i think it is nonsense. i always hear that le pen is going to beat macron, then he
Shock the world and win and beat macron, that would have major implications for what is happening in ukraine right now, and potentially for the nato alliance. jim, what do you think? absolutely, jim. in fact, i just checked le pen s party s website this afternoon to see if their stance had changed at all. because le pen during this campaign has softened her stance a bit on europe and on nato. unless, when i check the website, it is still on the website that part of their platform is to abandon nato, abandon the integrated command structure of nato, and there is this line that the security of europe cannot exist without russia. kind of a curious thing, given what s going on in the ukraine. one thing that should be said after having said the positions, it seems a little difficult, a little hard to understand how she can actually find a path to