bipartisan. you mentioned there s been tension between paris and washington of late, particularly that economic issues, but both leaders yesterday sort of put that aside and stressed the importance of transatlantic unity particularly in a time of war. what is striking to you about what they said, and where thinds stand right now as the west, as the democracies try to rally against russia? well, if you look at the last 70 years, the french american relationship is sacred and warm except for when it s not. and you have these periods of conflict. 1966, charles de gaulle when he was president of france threw out leaders of the western alliance and said to americans get out of paris, and dean rust who was the secretary of state replied to one of his aides, does he want us to take our american soldiers graves out too, those who saved france on d day, and world war ii.
responsibility in the crisis, the americans have engaged in good faith, in depth consultation, which was what the french were hoping for and what we saw today during the bilateral meeting between president macron and president biden is thought of the result of this month long series of consultations that involved high level cabinet members on both sides and many, many diplomat and many other members of the advising corps but decided to get together on a joint statement which was put out today which lunches and holes jlauncher is a whole series of initiatives and reveals important new trajectories for the french american relationship. what are some of those american relationship. what are some of those initiatives, - american relationship. what are some of those initiatives, what. some of those initiatives, what does each side get out of the franco us relation? fin does each side get out of the franco- us relation?- does each side get out of the franco- us relation? on the us si
at the white house yesterday, meeting with the national security adviser on his way, leaving the country. i mean, that is just that s just bad. right. it s bad. for this president and macron, i mean, this president came wanting to heal all of the divides that were, i guess, around the world. and the french american relationship is one that has been one of the strongest and at this point they are working to rebuild, they are working to mend fences. there s a diplomatic effort underway to fix this. we cannot, we cannot lose our relationship with france. this administration understands that. we cannot have any kind of divide with france or any of our allies that they re trying to work to rebuild since the trump administration. this will be an effort that they will work tirelessly. it s not a day, not two days. it might be throughout this administration to heal the thrift of this moment. it seems like a situation where president biden is going to have to get engaged at the
hear mr. hollande criticizing president sarkozy, i think sometimes we can laugh at politics. well, that s for sure. anne, the repair of the french-american relationship began with bush and sarkozy. it s not like obama and hollande have continued it. really sarkozy was the key here, was he not, anne? he was. when hollande was first elected, he was referred to generically as the new socialist president francois hollande. there was concern in america. absolutely. that he would be inward looking. and doing the wrong things on the economy and wrong things on security. that was the fear. it really hasn t come out that way. in fact, hollande is not governing as a classic socialist at all. we re seeing right now the president and first lady out here, getting ready to meet there s some pageantry that comes with this.