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the broker an agreement. mr preston yesterday the owners mr is again delay the hca employer mandate for midsize companies. last week your economic adviser jason furman talk about the new choices that people have to find health care outside the workplace. one or two to first explain the delay and also talk about whether of the long term use the future where health insurance is less time to play its role as an option for me for the fresno. you both talk about the pursuit of the transatlantic trade agreement. i wonder if you have followed the domestic battle here over fast track authority and if that raises questions in your mind about whether such a deal could be ratified. oh he'll be industrious there was no one was fairly straightforward the overwhelming majority of firms in this country are to provide health insurance to their warriors are doing the right thing this small percentage. they do not many

of them are very small every exam tomorrow. so you read just a small category of folks who don't provide health insurance. one exempted by a wall they are supposed to make sure they meet their responsibilities so that their stories aren't going to the emergency room jacking up for real says costs and the importers and up not having any responsibility for that. what we did yesterday was simply to make a judgment in terms of their compliance because for many of his company is just the process of complying the other midsize between fifty and a hundred folks it may take them some time even if they're operating in good faith we wanna make sure we're there. the purpose of laws not to punish them that simply make sure that they're either providing health insurance in their forties or

that they're helping to bear the costs. their boys getting health insurance. and that's been systematically with what we've done in the individual mandate. the best in short americans want health insurance many of them couldn't afford it. we provide them tax credits. but even with the tax credits in some cases they still can afford and we have hardship exemptions raisins to make sure that nobody is unnecessarily burden that's not the goal the goal is to make sure that folks are helping. and have decent health care. and so this was a good example of an administratively us making sure the worst moving about this transition. giving people the opportunities to get right with the law. by recognizing that there never be circumstances where people are trying to do the right thing in a magical time. our goal here is not to punish watch our role is to make sure that we've got. people

who can count on the financial security the health insurance provides and where we got company is a wonder the right thing are trying to work with us. we want to make sure that we're working with them as well and that's to be our attitude about you know. the law generally how we make it work for the murder people. and furthermore years. in an optimal. sorta way. umm was a second for the no proportion long term in terms of employer based. well what we we have a unique system compared to many parts of the world including france were partly because the historical accident. some decisions that fdr made during wartime. back for more work to our health care has been much more tied to employers no that's not the case in most other developed countries. he has

worked for a long time by what is also true is that it is meant for your. a lot of us companies. a greater burden. more false roll to their international competitors. that's a challenge. it's also meant that folks who were self employed for example or. or independent contractors were always getting the same deal as somebody who somebody who had a job that meant that folks who work for small businesses sometimes had more trouble getting these in premiums increase in rates than folks with large companies so there was a just read a great mom and even this in the system. i don't think that i'm were based system is going to be four should be replaced anytime soon. but what the affordable care act does too. as against people so flexible. it's as if i'm working at. a big

company like ibm are. go on nights i wanna start my own company. that ought not to be inhibited from starting a new company. because the more the cuban health insurance for myself my family. i can go make that move. if i may a woman whose and i'd really like to just work with him on the farm but we can afford health insurance are all so i've been working as the county clerk's office for last. ten years. now maybe i'll go down to it no longer work. in a different job and instead work on that farm and increase the likelihood of economic success for my family. so it's giving people more flexibility and more opportunity to do what makes sense for them and ultimately i think that's going to be good for our cause. blythe you're we understood from

the start that the remedies of challenges in terms of transition year when when you've had one system or a whole lot of people did not have any health insurance whatsoever. for very long period of time. and we finally it's passed a law to fix that. we knew that the release of bombs and transitions in the process and that's what we're working with all the stakeholders of all. to address. i knew he could do. ms jones. and also that had a muted tones of regarding theater restrict our national media. with the group is don't own them up and went into one day bus to get off the ground to gamble and that will pull an old bill to passage we see

now i don't believe that is it's also unclear. in terms of reference for a darkly his interests in the ballpark. we are moving forward fast the snow from the you have everything to enter the new law in the community for trying to monopolize window is accessed or two or later they'll be keen to retain one of the son sets you some ideas and thoughts on the wrong place here's a cute little show of resolve. they are all attached to products. as seems to me is the case we can move forward there. it does rain. mr bush. you might fail. foreign investment francis been going down the aisle countries not enjoying it the total fitness to lead the benefits. with no holes in the world was of

course i clean up the phone to the isabel is often on the surface during this visit was to do when meeting with american entrepreneurs for the euro socialist taxing business to know the tune of seventy percent. so how are you going to build trust among the american and wishing them a new business leaders. and the french. this is the essence of mystical process is in washington it would be no countervailing all reporters have something in common in france and united states. of. you know of. lately. we do the scene which one of the screen the lawyer i think that all of us were traumatized by the crisis of two thousand seven two thousand and eight and pr united states doesn't

take responsibility for his role in the crisis we made some quick decisions bed all of us to stabilize the financial markets and begin the long process of recovery but it was painful there was small and you're was only because of the incredible resilience of the american people and our businesses as well as i believe some quotes on policies that we were able to begin a growth process that we've now sustained for some time when we brought our own point one rated out of the bible your europe as is a different set of challenges because of the euro zone because of. the nature of the shared currency but not completely shared governance and supervisory authorities

note that has created some particular difficult is the crosswalk and others have had to deal with that. we did not have to deal with. as a country where. a reserve currency. they could make some independent chores. tom despite that i think you're actually has made enormous strides over the last year france in particular has taken some soft structure reforms but i think you are going to help them be more competitive in the future your brain all of us and in the developing world are heading to. balance the need for growth and competitiveness. to be what we say in america lean and mean and make sure that. we are maximizing efficiency. as wallace innovation but also

to ny event. allows for the benefits of growth to be broad based and so the workers are all benefiting from some sense of security and decent wages and rising incomes and the ability to retire the securely and soul. each country's going in different circumstances the kinds of reforms we need in this country right now. revolver on things like investing in infrastructure were. here we have not made to qantas tries that i was just to see and would actually boost growth even faster. i worry that invest in skills training which every countries that have to do because businesses will locate where they think they've got the most capable most highly skilled workers we knew we still have to do more on the innovation from as innovative as we are. i think we're still under investing in research and of all souls america has an

inherent strengths. we also have some areas where we stopped we got him in progress and i think francois would be the first to say that france is in the same position i would certainly encourage american companies. to look at opportunities for investment in france. white increasingly the mortal all that option is to invest money back in the united states and i would welcome any french companies to walk under. to do business but i've been one of the great things about. our commercial relationship which is also part of the reason why i think. the that the transatlantic trade partnership could be valuable it's a lot of the group is small and medium size businesses. and they are the ones who could stand to benefit greatly from export they don't have the ability to decide where to invest in the movie and all conflicts if we can open up trade opportunities for them

because they can't unravel all orders the dawn of a lot of accounts they can move locations and open up new plants different places. if we expand trade option is for them that can mean jobs and growth in france the commune jobs and growth for the united states. and so i'm hopeful that we can up to get this deal which will be a tough negotiation them on proper we can actually get it beautiful boys it was a ulu we think the bees go. it is in the world and its most investment you're coming from the outside world. exterior changes in the world that it's been more open to foreign capital said at the disposal officer francis attractive and i want this attack dismissed tuesday and even further reinforced in the future. i look at that level of physical investment i e real investment not to mention here and not just

transferring from coming to the material physical potential investment in france i eat. companies and with that new jobs. in spite of the crisis in two thousand thirteen is kept to that level of interest to which shows that there is confidence in fact sometimes talent and inferences know how an intensive companies yeahh. there's nothing new i made them more than two thousand american companies sometimes sends me. some jobs for half a million people visited it in my country to the and the list remains one of the first foreign investors in traps. he and i hope that this will be the most in the future the american right. i mean nothing to fear from french investment here in france the twenty seven hundred best

companies character you know in the united states. and offering also some of the five hundred thousand jobs and not allow all of them silicon valley but all over the next to it. and when they're created the wall and a talented people who are coming from france in the united states the other way around it's pretty good for both economies. i don't have these protecting it vision the placenta which would mean. they torture us to regard to seattle. all in all these business people who go abroad because they were the extraordinary knowledge of cars parked on condition that may one day take a back office. this is about when to remain very attractive these soon. between nineteen eighty foreign companies. it is to what i call it an attractive discounts. would it be ok see what we have to propose but also what we have to get better. we have to tell contract also including the area of tax stability

since this is by negation that is often mentioned the ability of rules because the companies want is defending his name to the future obviously key foreign companies in france ask them whether they want to remain in dr and another one to invest in france or not and they do so because they find inside to take a welcoming country. he also put a question to be on the statement made by mr hotties the president of the french business association. on what i called the church responsibilities that we know in a plot that led to capture that noise has nothing whatsoever to do with the declaration made by this guy is sick of watching live images from the east room of the white house barack obama in the company of small small world part of a state visit by the french presidents to washington. later on. if the state department accompany the years says secretary of state john kerry with us to talk about it all socialist member of

parliament sit in there who's telling the footy show which is used to be part of it isn't aiming at six a and b i s for personal reasons are unable to go along and everything. lol so with this check me out. also wonderful and talented buy it from itunes you can see from the other side of the island from all the kids in the party of old olive to teach that the american university of paris and digital stamp business gospel for all you'll find in world politics review. thanks for being with us all with you on the beginning of this press conference of the herd said the us president. and the famous french president talk about something that the mentions of when the bomb and the joints of letter which was a joint letter with which he talks about burden sharing in that letter the two of them had said that the time that more nations to step forward and share the burden and costs of

of leadership that this press conference today of barack obama into office or long beach and a lot of questions about syria about him wrong the gollum. this is a move that more of an insight into reason for this invitation of one out in november for the state visit. well i think you mean in the parlor barack obama himself has to say is his spirit. holds true here which is that france has become in recent years. one of the more dynamic the young actors in it the only indian in an ally for the united states in its special security security operation in particular an orphan after but also an accomplished in the comments of other other more more clandestine operations france is the largest military force military capabilities in europe for his time military boxes everywhere else are going down his future germany italy to be true of united kingdom says so far it has emerged as a significant factor alongside denies its

subordinate courts morning after a long united states and some security operations in which he was united states is trying to create the afternoon on a napkin in the middle east a division of labor. the division of labor which allows for per share in the atlantic alliance. and they will be on the front side. vb as you can see our furniture and yet it wasn't for this important issue to essentially when i'm eighty i'll keep this up with this unit said in an office. this issue per cent. you've got the census and the press conference that here was a model pupil the setting up a was the message may be to the british in its parliament voted against entrenched in syria to the germans who have not been forthcoming with sending it to impart more and military intentions are starting to that in italy. um it's a message to france's hours. yes well that was said

and preference to you and the special relationship between the us and britain and president obama heads fronds and pretend to his two daughters which i found very interesting he said. i've cleaned it as a father he asked ed to teach and to be chewed two teaspoon of that when a band. but it also doesn't sound like saying that when stimulated because i think this idea and needs to be at that and she asked him who takes responsibly scenes full of lots in his knee and a reflection of reality which is that he defines the jets are going down and the fact that c and d that is saved by stepping hours off and he sounds when the word and deed hats and sold used an iraqi afghan east and then out looking more towards asia now and am presently on had a stake in hard decisions to send soldiers troops in an africa in the central republican

andrew and central african republic in a monday and he wanted to go even for the nc area which is something that wasn't done in de end first so there is candy and she adds interest and yes it is probably a message sent to other european countries to say well taking part in that response in dc. different students is very badly very badly the crew and a shot by these kind of speech. because when we do is not to do that to be the sort of miraculous to me without sovereign state and i improve. when we somehow assorted to maddie and to send to africa. but i refuse to tease and french police he hasn't shared during all this sharing of the burden off the west and while that would be a being the state. because then you know when we'll get to this is also the western us. who wants to impose their rule in

every window out. we are off a c grayling the email he says his own job and we reacted. because we have to do because terrorism. come come come even to cross check me out let's listen to a profit on its exact and get your reaction to barack obama speak in short while ago during a press conference was postponed. i have two daughters. and they are both gorgeous and wonderful and i would never choose between them. and that's all i feel about. my outstanding european partners. all of them. our wonderful in their own works. now it deserves to be a serious moral question was what i do believe is is that the us. french alliance as it has never been stronger and. the levels of cooperation were sitting

across a whole range of issues. it is much deeper than it was. i think of. fire years ago ten years ago twenty years. and the question again again does this mean that britain is no longer. i think that the mets won with one of france's replacement american president is right is at the european still hold still you'll face reality tv and knit these up because today europe disease i mean because we have budget difficulties and you know that because of the jet team in defence the scale that it is to britain at the point is that if we carry on these when we are going on now all we would have difficulties in a couple of years so we see a reason need to feed the fish trade it is and to a show on defense as well because we are in that its costs and american soon especially in question and information intelligence was in my

interests in libya says is true but i think that it is absolutely a diplomat key to the state to present soo tired that i have two daughters what is the new festival of britain and france where you know lots of america and not give way around. so since his accident he added intimate peek at them in any state. and i would say that to puncture that ounces and was attended to in irony and said don't worry for that because we are drawn up for long before you all content this ain't any id at night. it has more to tell me nowhere but missed and i agree that there's no question it was the first thing then it that i thought it's the first thing that everyone thought it was a very awkward and clumsy way to express the fact that the two allies to two friends and there's not a question of choosing between one and the other. and there's another thing there's another reason why. it is the question makes no sense because first of all there's no need to choose between one and one or the other the second thing is that

the entire alliance is stronger when you win all three in an another european countries act together rather than choosing. the problem is though and there is a problem burning cheering for enchanting and that i think is directed to germany and not to the uk uk. committed to afghanistan committed to iraq the uk armed forces are in a nest in a state of extreme having been deemed it still hadn't been worn down from a decade of war including budget cuts in and so you can obviously means that i need to purchase milk may be in operation. but the uk armed forces need to type needs time to reset the french force the french armed forces are in a different situation where it's more the future. there is a concern in terms of future budgets that the french armed forces in terms of liquidity right now in terms of operations is probably at peak level of

preparedness in and professionalism in number shown in the molly operation i agree with what you said about that the symbolism that danger symbolism of having a western alliance moving and everywhere and so on. well it has been a listen at the same time. the operation which ran from the knowledge friends friends friends was very clearly the first inning molly as it should be. and there's there's no reason germany doesn't have a vocation to be operating in africa as as a frontline force. they don't have the experience they don't have the cultural ties they don't have the historical experience and ties. at the same time that any and all of these operations was very clear whether it but it's in a counterinsurgency or counter terrorism operation. there's a first operation moving and to clear out the baggy eyes and then there's a second operation when it comes time to actually holding that territory securing it in making sure the bad guys don't come back and it's in the second we where in mali he was tiny and forces and

it was african forces that are doing the bulk of the of the work. but at the same time the youth of the concerned with those forces is that they don't have to level equipment they don't have the level of training. they don't have the logistical support so that sweeter. once the french forces have taken care of what only really they can take care of. there needs to be more of a european involvement in terms of germany the doctor agreed to move in to molly. the germans have talked about moving in and sending in more people i think it was. it consists of several tends to maybe a hundred people. but that's where really germany needs to step up there. there is the biggest economy in europe they have the skill the armed forces they have the capacity time and either germany needs to to move in with the uk germany and korea you can beat you down on the recliner. you know we are facing a new window in which we are living in transnational. and the name of the teams that we have to fight and i stayed to fight these terrorists. because that's moving very fast even

in dallas suburbs with the links you see how many children in an all french citizens british citizens band of citizens go to ski area when the going out so we haven't really had to get too wet to visit and it happens it happens we went to a reason americans we went to the regions. we went was not as intelligence services and that brings up another point is if you too. and appointed by the french foreign minister back in november of that off of you saying that um he criticized the us open over its newfound would be to seek its call isolationism to the u s units is no longer seems to want to let itself get drawn into crises that no longer correspond to a new vision of its national interest because of its strength. it's plain and simply a withdrawal which could now leave major crises to fast. well while i don't agree with that's really because americans of course it is the essence and are looking east. this is true but the terms of intelligence in terms of

combat terrorism. you know i can assure that we at mills corporation and scary on and the question of maddie's not the civil war. this is not guaranteed war heats up it has been on a smaller scale that is innate in just because it's a new large country style is a huge that you know plays at to find and to get the people's diets such as bullying has to be multilateral effort it has to be a mentor role. it happens but we know is that we're doing the job sometimes i'm waiting for the offence because the europeans idps the don't understand that we care about. we should do is act. and i proved that in time that she sent out to him sad. but the point is that too we are we old european sweet face rearranged the witches go becoming dangerous and the engine were detected on the story come back and take a very quick break stay with us. eye

welcome back before using the false and get to dates and ten beats going on before it even has resumed. use of the stories of the city will be falling for it at the top of the art course all eyes focused on that state visit by fast. to the united states barack obama accepted the french president's invitation to take part in a d day commemorations next june seventeen and a street fair. he was president of pledges to pursue civilian nuclear technology for ever this speech is marking the thirty fifth anniversary of the revolution overthrew the shah. u k's prime minister or cancels his scheduled trip that speaks of the middle east this to deal with floods. rains forecast as southern england. it said it again. bursting its banks

is a scene. and algeria reeling from its worst ever air disaster of country and to build a military transport plane coming back from the southern garrison town of time address said in the northeast one hundred and two one survivor. oh yes a bit. call. welcome back are welcome if you just joining us this is the false and get today. are we looking at stuff also owns a state visit to the united states has just been speaking in a press conference in the company of the u s president barack obama leader of the state department the company of the new us secretary of state john kerry with us to talk about it. socialist member of parliament acts and the man conservative amendment ump party. checking on two member

parliament. it is a grandson of world politics review and full of dog teaches at the american university harris accent and that's when a pickup on that point the stats team in the last member by the french foreign minister came just weeks before the invitation went out to defend present to come to watch in the state visit he was the sense that the french were saying to america hang on till. to withdraw from a from of an international policy and from hitting the major hot spots incompetence. and invitation from his income by surprise i spent it. it's also a way for the two countries to be accurate themselves on the united states to know that he still counts and in year out that it's been a major topic of being the most important one. infusing into teams of trading. and for fonts that on sunday and the trees to note that gets the us is standing and taunts

age gap but not on me and that we know that we need to united states for example and aunt deanne the indian need to look good for you too salty and syrian and crisis tea. and the problems with sand which is around the house sign and sell the dea us it is a major player. in that sounds so it's just that it's a new fishing between the have acted too. i've taken it to each country's cup contents and zones of intervention and we also agree on the fact that it almost always has to be not so natural so i did based on a regional an intervention. sarah is supported by the united nations is always in it within the framework by catherine are not the last real negotiations. we also agreed on and we know that you were that the united states. after iraq and afghanistan is withdrawn and that it will be there to help

him an on year round. we do share the same object it's anywhere. both ready to take a tough stance if at the round doesn't follow an up and didn't eat the cream and a temporary agreement that has been found in a geneva still at it. i think we can find areas of common interests but will just share that passion has risen about not set in a different way and. i'm actually a freeware eve but i think a disc as it happens at the right time when each country needs to be ash itself about who gets what. yes i wish to say that this is me these times now and today i wanted because of course states in relation to his name was and this is the key to the tune of statesmen. because we had the discretion of the zone an essay and it's a sorry and wheels or so the question of trade. you know the meaning

of those that can be a negotiation between europe and united states. and he could be very very. no dentures school boasts it's the americans want to push to lift off on some points because this would not be a second tier at the fiber is a french fun. she leaned into him self control except um you know. and also in terms of what some in europe and one stall which is indeed the free trade boycott them and that's would be very dangerous. so's the reason he said that tokyo. mosul the beatles have been some decoration in the process before days when some deep americans who cannot swim was in club season where even tell you no arrogance. so i think the reason this is due to some time to toast and i agreed to cease comes with the right time. it doesn't mean that we agree we don't agree on all subjects. oh and check me out of the more

things in a youth leader and eighty two the reference there to victorian new and stamped on ukraine where she is a certain extent division and elites phone conversation regarding ukraine to speak to the us masters a tournament is in the room right now as of the u s secretary of state john kerry speaks in the company of the postponed the launch and part of the season let's listen in for just a second the drive we wrapped never would of art without the special help with the french way thank you even know the mission of the losses to eye on the false. renewed assault on our way. noone audio appropriate. will tommy to show you on a jet made to look like layers the present rather than in france where french years later and will for ever shared a partnership ever cherish our partnership i'll probably have not forgotten your friendship and we'll bring our ben franklin

or are not only did franklin come to be called the first american. but it was also the father of the foreign service and he was our first ambassador to france. it was also frightened who wrote many of the first rules for decor. in america. and then from the moment he arrived in paris made every effort to break them all. i don't think we could get him confirmed by the senate today. but what's right with it to bring the best of the frontier spirit to rats thomas jefferson did in sharing france's cultural vitality with america. from audit yellowstone which you saw yesterday was president with pres obama. which was modeled after a palace on the sand to the paris market wall flowers on jefferson's magnificent estate. to voltaire and rousseau says influence on

the founders belief in the consent of the governed and the connection between education and liberty. france has been an inspiration from our very start. for many of us. the bonds between our two nations are rooted not just history. but also in family we know about vice president biden's grandparents the sentence. but with his middle name robin that. his family honored his french roots. while parents americans abroad. first met and fell in love on the coastline of france in brittany. only to be separated by the coming war in the late nineteen thirties my mother then living in paris had become a nurse. and was treating the wounded that more are nice. the day before the nazis entered the city she escaped with her sister ahead of their advances on a bicycle. and proceeded to four inch her way across france well. german fighters

were straightening them on route. and today their way to portugal eventually. where she boarded a ship that brought her to the united states and brought me here when my mother returned to france for the first time that the war mr president. i went with their very own child. in one of my first memories was holding her hand and walking through the bombed out and burn down remains percent this fall which had been used as a headquarters by the germans and then in retreat to spot came through. they burned it bombed. us when we walked through only a chimney. and a stone staircase stood up arising in this guy. when my father in the foreign service posted europe. the threats that we knew then was one that was still marked by the remains of war. my father once took me to visit the beaches of normandy the pilgrimage still to this day. worse the young child i could see. still some of

the duchess of wars and the skeletons of pagan books and tapes. and the burned out bunkers for i would even play it wasn't until years later walking those peaches. after i'd been to war in vietnam that i fully understood the incredible fronts the full rights of peace and liberty that both of our greatest generation's paid from the french resistance to the citizen soldiers who left farms and factories to make the world safe from terrorists. we are all deeply honored that a man who was willing to pay that price. at that time in nineteen forty four is here today seventy years ago when he was just twenty three years old. and the youngest in this unit. he flew missions aboard a b seventeen. over normandy please join me in say a special thank you to first lieutenant art or del of the united states army's

right here the uh the uh. birds are they really took an entire generation of heroes like art. to free france from fascist. and. we remember the generations earlier. at our moment of maximum me when the odds were against us and those on certain days of the american revolution the united states might not have survived beyond our infancy. without france by our side. remember that when both our nations confronted existential challenges. it was our good friends. which is rooted in our shared

principles and values that carried us through. still today. we give greater meaning to that friendship with our work together. chin almost every car in the world that is in conflict today. in libya and syria. in preventing iran from obtaining a nuclear weapon in the fight against aids and in the fight to deal with climate change. so today i want to ask all of you to join me in a toast miss universe and all. all the new radio operating the only that we had dreams of being a nation free. when men like franklin and jefferson together and show the effort to map out their devotion to liberty and independence he said they knew. in short the road. hanging at the end of the british boat broke if they fail. sad indeed. it was

frankly who famously said we must all hang together or assuredly we shall all hang separately. they operate like it. this is enough for the war chest for sonia. said every man has two countries is known in france. and today we all say that our sch our shared history and shared that his head special meaning than a meaning that they still do today and thanks to our work together throughout the word. our friendship will soar eight year old hingis posted the state department in french. john kerry the us it is to explain that he is of of friends and to cheer himself up in french oak for his guest of honor the french president was flown home in washington for that to a state visit so is our national affairs editor

toughest ever. in the toasted of the spirit of a reference to the american revolution and the fight against the british press conference earlier. there was of barack obama having to field questions from french reporters about who enjoys the special relationship now between paris and london when it comes to washington. it is a great question whether that be at the frederick letter actually ask the lead plates asset was the better friends is it that france or the uk now very clean up all the little bit of a spot there. i get the good after i have two daughters i've never allowed to choose between them all onto a grade at six a laugh or two letters would allow to choose a buddy of them. you know it's interesting but the fact that that question would even be asked now and you'd have to take some pause to think who's the better friend to the us france or the uk ten years back when we're in the cheese eating surrender monkey guarantee member that the freedom fries there are only ten years ago you have to go back too far. that question would anyone believe

that to pause to think about it it was a no brainer up but today it to have to sort of have this overarching motif this theme of the visit. it's been the sort of center taking everyone off guard saying wait. this is the france the franco us relationship. this is france in america. whatever book they are actually best of friends now find you take a step back a new site. their friends to meet you add up the poll ratings right now of brock obama and death and also a lot like the kit sixty three percent combined us a visa to readers who do need each other on many different fronts but that said bhatia can't deny he could be cynical about our baby having personally feel about each other in this and that their speed bumps the road bumps in the past that fall swap. but when push comes to shove it is true that france's right now out there on many of the fronts with the us just doesn't have a wheeler away right now to really be present and they said that perhaps the biggest visibility in this new relationship as far as france concerned is that role but very very presence of clear and visible role in africa in the region called the sahel northern africa. fighting in

the counter terrorism fight will we know the americans just are never don't have any wheel to put boots on the ground they're not going there. does obama does do that. keep it a shot japanese forgetting about your up but it's extremely helpful for him at this juncture i in america's history ii and in france's history to have the french out there willing to play this role at a time when the british as war weary as the us and with gemini while saying on paper it would like to play a more visible muscular global role just isn't there yet there's still a little political maneuvering to go. and there's still a little of bit of convincing the opinion not in that country said france is that it's the clear and present allied right now the shoulder to shoulder even though they're not exactly the same height but shoulder to shoulder with the united states to just one more question for you the messiah before all this business who called and he was saying on he was getting the sense that this visit was a little bit getting short shrift you might say in the us media

what's going to be the focus of this visit for the american press. you know idea on video and you'll have to approve right back to waking up people obviously were talking about a possible on coming stag to this add to the state is at the bachelor all lined up there's obviously been. he knows me i would take been overshadowing but there has been obviously a lot of talk among ordinary americans and americans who don't necessarily follow the intricacies of the franco us relationship this is an obvious headline grabber. it's obviously something people gotta talk about a us network this morning asking if he was the question who do you think false wall of this going to bring to the state dinner that's the type of thing that gets eyeballs on the screen that's the type of thing that will get people who may not be inclined to be all interested in a french president's visit to the us a little bit interested and wants to get them be on that question. perhaps he could then get them interested in the opposite the broader issues the geo politics of that ad that of barack obama from salon say they are now very much concentrated on

tackling together the issues iran to syria saw help northern africa climate change development keep going down the list. they're really on the same page on more issues than i would've been able to count just a few days ago. aren't i discovered many thanks for that update. far from just outside of the white house. of course he did agree on everything to be too long no no as i was going to say as always starts analysis is spot on. france is the clear and present ally right now. the problem facing any french president in any american president in terms of french american relationship is that. sadly there is a very strong and ever present league boots here is slight. mistrust of the other in france there's a leading anti americanism that often speaks in surges when america does something that france does not like like the iraq war. in america there's the lead and mistrust of the french which keeps whenever france either

doesn't do what we want them to do or does something we don't. and so that's always something that's there in the background that has to be managed. it happens the rain now and and not to strain out the truth is that in general and over time the interests of the united states and france converge either converge complement each other or co exist naturally and that's in the most of it however there are the skies with a dough. right now everything is going in the right direction and so it's a good idea to celebrate these things it when when when when the stars align but it's a it's it's somewhat circumstantial and the opportunity to ski for proposals from was eleven years ago that there was this in the preparation for the war in iraq and saying no at the time in the uk the then prime minister tony blair is nicknamed little because of his following the us. is there that the danger when you're french politician if you too glowing about the americans you too

could be slapped is a portal maybe so but i think the a d in general feeling at that time was not so much anti american anti war are aimed at seeking a case but said this to say there's one thing that hasn't been mentioned i find it extraordinary is the fact that prison obama and prisons along on to progressive need this one is of friends this list into traditional french socialism yet it is the ranking democrat that deep deep breathing has improved this is the tenth appetit and create in investing in innovation in education in helping small companies and that also help in shaping the framework for the future trade agreements between europe and the us so i think is going to be lots of discussion about max and i she is and i ended up in trees to the american people because it could potentially create many many job so maybe the americans. i put them on

its own interests is about love life of the french president's but the reality is that this deal could could you know actually creates and a huge amount of tops that i think ironically more people calling obama a socialist then went on to the very high adding insult to go for a levy on all of this month. we are nothing to do that parents use to you was a major internal current consumption remained a great power in the international system and go to wendy's active until nineteen forty perhaps nineteen thirty nine and a golf cart to reestablish france's national stature by playing into the box somewhat successful trip. overall overall france's global influence has been declining for a long period of time whether that's a good or bad thing is to complete the definition there he was in some parts the french elites is a desire to restore global status adeline very tightly online in the united states today provides the kind of

opportunity we get any comments on on on on twitter from tom saying the europeans are big talkers about defense seriously it's only the british and french to step out number the more so that path to conference to visitors and larger european issue was that whereas europeans the war. is europe in the world what can your opinion the world the european union as a unit does not have a court hearing voices and one. it doesn't have enough of it and then mounted it over terrorism issue the permit number much anything especially on the issues that are very important moss and curves of the strategic and security in the evening on normative regulatory issues to be as significant as it is within your hopes up. one of which i thot today. globally is that in a speech to the western alliance all these words from nato allies. it's what we're seeing today is eighty eight the us is moving gradually towards it it's a gradual

improvement or dishes that is holy which is dictated by the gravitational forces of the world economy and world politics or europe has been accelerating the process is or how to win by being increasingly irrelevant except in mind when you're becoming relevant when the crisis in your get out of control but the one teacher but presently on and this is what is interesting and think is one thing both on the special partnership with us but also these the most when you're eighty eight amongst the important economies in europe at the moment he's the one who wants to push and subjects it as a youth in milan on loan agreements. the reason i am nuts i saw that it draws on that point which with its interesting is that you might make the argument that it does have the time in united states is talking about others just implemented a national health care service at the residency remark made by the french president the end of. initial statements in that press conference where they were both him and barack obama

quoting the nineteenth century french thinker and politician and exceeded ten he ends up with the tongs there was a quid pro quo when he mentioned. what's in the mantra of the french republic which is liberty equality and freedom liberty and equality. sure i didn't screw up and we spoke of how history unites us to the aunt's attic so nice to talk to a list of references boy's parents in france the degree to question the ability to see how far can we care when it comes to equality twenty oh nine at how far can we care when it comes to deliberately keep the focus of devotion that will be revolutionaries whose source american independence and that is his sole republican from. wanted to be as cold as possible when painted a bit see the band as respectful as possible when it came to the core let's see what you did you get three pm until the two best picture for matilda just did. it was

very fascinating is that of course the french revolution was always more on the side of the equality and liberty in the american revolution was always much more extreme extreme maria the defendant defender of liberty over equality and oftentimes that's where things get lost in transition when it comes to two domestic politics. so one thing that i wanted to to say just in the in question the discretion of prayers europe france and america. it is going back to that uses statement that america is receiving it shows that to million on the date will be in for solid first a weight was sensing is that it shows that there's really only thing there's only one thing worse than an ever present america. two europeans and that's an america that's not present. a peak and the world becomes a much different and more frightening place when there's not. with its united states or some other global power. someone there to filling the gaps and two to

make sure that said that the system works. they are more harmoniously. and that's where will we live in a vietnamese tank engine and stand on a fake accent and often of golf. and to just say our coverage of this the visit will continue forcing the state general fund group also a normal citizen who brought obama to be sitting next to. during that dinner is coming up who don't. when american ones this is seen by an itchy spot. are you. and. it is

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