That now of course he is fully focused but it was almost as if this was tedious. at one point there was a cartoon in le monde with him turning away from a crowd at a rally and saying on his cell phone and saying sorry, vladimir, i ve got to deal with this boring thing but i ll be back to you in a couple of minutes. and that was kind of the impress that was beginning to form. nevertheless, at one point last week it looked like there might be just a 2% margin between them. it is 4%, but there s still a lot of potential support for le pen in the second round and this is by no means a done deal. macron is still the favorite but he s not the overwhelming favorite. and, john then lemir, what is the white house reaction to this? they ve got to be concerned they might lose an al lie in marone,