Pen takes on president macron later next month. le pen has not been shy about her admiration of vladimir putin in the past and her dislike of the ue and nato. le pen was ahead after the first round of voting yesterday. a le pen win would have a major impact on france. macron strongly banked sanctions. le pen has said she worried about their impact on french life. roger cohen, bureau chief for the new york times s has written about this in his paper. what does marie le pen mean despite the kindler, gentler
Trump candidate, but anti-europe candidate. the candidate for france goes alone and goes back to a more nationalist kind of view. the same kind of immigration views you heard from president trump during the campaign. mr. macron is very much the vote for staying integrated with the rest of europe even if britain is moving away. the future of france cannot be in isolation. what you always seen happen in the past is there s always been a coalescing around the macron view. the question is can that hold now given rather impressive showing that ms. le pen has. this is the first time we have seen any one regarded as a fringe group in french politics al actually do as well as she did. panel, stick around. investigators are looking
Marche. he was a late entrant into this race last year. he s squaring off against marine le pen. that was the most anticipated outcome of the vote. she s the far right populist. the very stridently anti-eu far right leader who has been called the france s donald trump. now, this is a very divisive election. as americans know very well. a lot of the same topics are going to be up for discussion here. of course, immigration, the rule of islam, multiculturalism, but more than anything else the real debate here is going to be focused around the european union and france s role in that going forward. now, emmanuel macron has been championing the european union and he said that france s place is within the union and the economy will thrive and do better in the european union. but le pen has said that if she becomes president in two weeks she s going to put union membership to the referendum. she s going to try to replicate