i think the groundwork that has gone over the last few weeks has been referenced in the joint document, joint statement that president biden and emmanuel macron have put out speaks to that. the sort of concrete efforts that have happened over the past few weeks since they first spoke back in late september. macron seems to be taking some comfort from that. talked about the nuclear relationship, talks about defense points that are important for france and important for france as well is security cooperation, particularly the sahale of africa. france is going to take something away. macron comes out of this looking much better than he did a few weeks ago. he needed that. there are elections coming up. they are both playing it as a plus, and it is for macron right now. this is the first meeting president biden, who is the only second catholic president in the history of the united states, the first meeting with the pope as president. it sounds like it was a very