Silenced the defiant message from for nonwhite congresswoman after donald Trump Doubles down on racist tweets which have outraged america. Im sorry kelly welcome to the program germanys arcelor founder live has addressed the European Parliament in strasbourg as she winds up her bid to become the 1st woman president of the European Commission it was her last chance to make her case even lawmakers still on the fence about her nomination underline needs to secure a majority and a secret confirmation ballot being held later today in her speech she sought to allay concerns of lawmakers who have criticized her for being overly vague laying out a number of ambitious policy points on topics including trade quality migration and brags. There was also a big appeal to the green lobby with founder line pledging a green deal for europe in her 1st 100. 00 days achieving her goals on Climate Change she said would require a new sense of unity. We must 1st rediscover our unity. If we are united on the
As well. So you know she is somebody with a with the format as they say shes been thought of as a potential chancellor even as a potential general secretary of nato now shes got this important job and shell be with her linguistic skills which weve seen today shell be you know speaking different languages french german and english she was she was talking today as somebody whos lived her whole life she was born in brussels actually and shes lived her whole life you know around europe and shell be on the International Stage i think shell be very much at home much often lets lets pick your brains out having. Whats that observed in brussels and strasburg for some time how much difference does the personality of the president make it so it was so we have a joke for younger at the moment before him i think it was. Mr barroso what. What do they need to bring to the job that they bring Different Things to the job. That
is true but before we get into those details i would like to remind our view
is true but before we get into those details i would like to remind our viewers that we believe that the european parliament has elected from the law and as commission president with what we are hearing are 383 votes this is not official yet this is what we re hearing from trustworthy sources could it could change but if this is true it is a very small margin only 9 votes above what she would need she would need 370 votes so if this is confirmed within the next minutes the european parliament has convened again for the official results then we would have quite a different kind of commission president than earlier junko juncker was very well known for his how would i put it you know he was a very experienced european politician he d been in that business for 20 years head of the euro group he d been finance minister and also a prime minister of this country luxembourg he was known for his humor humorous side easygoing really he was a brilliant really known for things that was
a tough on the line we re bringing to the table now very disciplined she doesn t drink a drop of alcohol by the way she says if she wants to celebrate she she drinks sparkling water so that might be a little different from from the spirit in the european commission at the moment and as she did she will probably have to win over the staff of the european commission where john through juncker had decades to do that she is although she has this history in brussels and just trying to get up to date here as it often is entering the european parliament right now to hear the official results of that vote so she will have to win them over in spite of being trilingual and having lived the 1st part of her life in brussels she does not have the same kind of connections that john clode younger her most likely treat assessor had in brussels all right so what we re saying that the same thing is that you are now much more looking sort of on the line that s sitting down in the chamber. they your hand.