it was, chirac was still the president, and the prime minister was in charge. david: ok.istine: and he is the one who called me. david: he called you to be minister of trade? christine: yeah. david: so he called you to be minister of trade, and you went back and served as minister of trade for a couple of years. christine: yeah. david: and how did you like the job? christine: i loved it. i really loved it. it was a massive change in my life, geographically, socially, financially, as well. david: i assume the income was not the same as you had before? christine: it was like divided by 10, that's what it was. but i loved it because -- i think it was the job i most enjoyed in government, actually, will because i was selling france around the world. and i think president chirac, he knew that i was this strange animal coming out of private sector and private life and corporate life. but i think he had a lot of respect for me, and i had a huge will respect for me, and i had a huge respect for him. david: then sarkozy does get elected president of france. christine: and he asked

it was, chirac was still the president, and the prime minister was in charge. david: ok.hristine: and he is the one who called me. david: he called you to be minister of trade? christine: yeah. david: so he called you to be minister of trade, and you went back and served as minister of trade for a couple of years. christine: yeah. david: and how did you like the job? christine: i loved it. i really loved it. it was a massive change in my life, geographically, socially, financially, as well. david: i assume the income was not the same as you had before? christine: it was like divided by 10, that's what it was. but i loved it because -- i think it was the job i most enjoyed in government, actually, because i was selling france around the world. and i think president chirac, he knew that i was this strange animal coming out of private sector and private life and corporate life. but i think he had a lot of respect for me, and i had a huge respect for him. david: then sarkozy does get elected president of france. christine: and he asked me to be minister of agriculture, which

clinton and president chirac and his wife. line he says to me, "you know, michael, i've always wanted to do this." and he's standing there and i'm walking up. he says, "here." he says, "michael, you come up here and stand next to president chirac." and then he got in line and president clinton walked up, he said, "hello, mr. president," you know. [ laughter ] [ applause ] and i got a series of pictures. and it's the coolest thing. i have this series of these pictures from it. you know it was one of the great moments about "there's no business like show business." >> seth: there's no business like show business. you -- before he was a president, you had -- you got to golf with president trump. >> i did. >> seth: multiple times? >> yeah. i played with him two or three times. he's a serious golfer. he's got golf -- >> seth: what was he -- what was his attitude like on the course? was he a fun -- >> he's charmed. no, he's charming. he's always -- he was really fun. look, i really assumed, you know, once he got in there -- surprise

a call from then french president jacques chirac says but will help scuttle the coup plotters plan. and think i got a call and it was president jacques chirac he told me beryl i hope you're not planning to carry out any reckless act in cian friends i told him no problem mr president i told him not to worry i'm here to calm things down i knew i had to slow things down. his revelations coming ten months into the land sea and air blockade imposed by. the u.a.e. behind on egypt and their allies qatar denies accusations of supporting what they call terrorism qatari diplomat say their neighbors have long tried to meddle in the internal office and say the blockade and cutting off of diplomatic relations last year is just another episode of the ongoing attempt to change qatar's leadership and vision and more than two decades after the failed coup they helped plan neighbors still have an ax to grind mohamed al jazeera. all right all the news of course on our website there it is on your screens the address al-jazeera dot com that's out of syria dot com. a quick check of the headlines here on

president talking about his upcoming talks with she should be because we're meeting with president chirac so well for. the last work tomorrow i would say within a week maybe but in the meantime people are working our staff is working. with the people who work you are working very hard we make you feel that they want you and we like. our melinda so they would like to have a deal he would like to have a deal is trump in a position to demand more from the chinese now that he does have this new trade deal with north america. transfer and demanding a lot from the chinese all along i don't know that that makes a particular difference but what definitely might focus minds is the fact that both china and the u.s. are feeling some pain from the trade conflict that's been raging for some months now and particularly in the u.s. apparently donald trump was very troubled by the news this week that g.m. was laying off fifteen thousand workers and reducing activity at five different plants and definitely made a connection to trade difficulties as one of the reasons that that is happening we also know th

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the smell transports you to the all of tree groves rooted in the holy land for millennia jacques chirac amman is a fourth generation woodcarver his creations range from this nativities seen on route to a church in france to tiny statues of jesus and mary displayed in people's homes across the globe you know really a dollar free of the holy land if we are talking about a tree that grow in the holy land walk and the three grown up for twenty two hundred years three hundred years the demand for all of wood carver crafts is high but business owners say it's become more difficult to find workers that's partially due to the decline in the christian population in the holy land experts say one hundred years ago christians comprise seventeen percent of the palestinian population today it's less than two percent this is important to have a christian community living stalls and what we call them you know people living around the holiday says father jamal hodder says the struggle of living under israeli occupation continues to push christians to emigrate we see our mission here as a service of the

console on stand your way you ended up being a lame duck session for two years the end of jacques chirac said your for two and a half years at a job doing nothing and internal affairs in the post when you can also you you have this general impression that and spent one you faced a massive social protest and this is one of the most massive social causes protests ever seen in the country there's not much you can do afterwards at these internal affairs he might try to be the leader of the diplomacy continue to build his image in foreign affairs but as far as home home rule goes it is going to be very complicated for him. seventy people have been arrested in belgium as yellow vest process spread across europe people police used pepper spray on marchers who tried to break into the european union buildings the protesters are calling for the resignation of belgium's prime minister shaul michel. it is the third day of talks to end the war in yemen in sweden that one of the latest sticking points to emerge is a transitional government the rebels believe that it would work if it includes all of ye

control on stand your way he ended up being a lame duck session for two years the end of jacques chirac said you're for two and a half years at a job doing nothing and internal affairs in the post when you can also you you have this general impression that and sent one you faced a massive social protest and this is one of the most massive social causes protests ever seen in the country there's not much you can do afterwards at these internal affairs he might try to be the leader of the diplomacy continue to build his image in foreign affairs but as far as home home rule goes it is going to be very complicated for him. seventy people have been arrested in belgium is yellow vests protests spread across europe police used pepper spray on marchers to try to break into the european union buildings protesters are calling for the resignation of the prime minister mr. yemen's who the rebels say the main port city if you data should be declared a neutral zone speaking on the sidelines of talks in sweden aimed at ending the nearly four year war the iran backed rebels also suggested the united nat

time well you're right absolutely all on his own ego attacks that he actually had to go back on and chirac whenever he was president he tried to reform retirement as he is and his prime minister at the time now and you they actually had to resign in the face of protests this time natural has actually he's pushed forward a lot of his reforms he goes through major later reforms last year in the face of public backlash this time and this is the first policy that he's actually cancelled and that he's going knock on right now i mean there's a lot of people saying you know he's done for i wonder is it too early to write him off. well this is certainly the biggest political crisis that you say since he took the presidential office eighteen months ago so there's that he's faced a little pushback with almost every one of these major polls he's that is pushed through this political crisis will certainly determine the rest of his presidency and finally in conclusion in terms of the administration i mean they're pretty shaken that's right i mean they are putting more security forces on the streets tom

it was not done by francois hollande or czar cok nicolas sa jacques chirac. then he backed up several times he created what is called the jupiter effect. but people in the streets wanted him to be with them, he did not do that and when he tried it was not sometimes the best way to do it. he's paying for his communication mistake. he's paying for his image of a person who wants to do something but doesn't understand what's happening in the streets for people who are suffering and christiane, the middle-class is suffering. the democracy in many countries is upset. that's what's happening in france. there's a clash of two societies that the moment and in france it's not donald trump but it's almost a revolution. >> these are incredibly apocalyptic views and very strange because president emmanuel macron, he said to me when i got his first interview after he was elected, he said i have to work to reform this country for my people. i have 10% unemployment, i have 25% unemployment amongst youth, i must make these reforms so they can benefit from the money. that's w

the smell transports you to the all of tree groves rooted in the holy land for millennia jacques chirac amman is a fourth generation woodcarver his creations range from this nativities seen on route to a church in france to tiny statues of jesus and mary displayed in people's homes across the globe you know really a dollar free of the holy land in holy we are talking about a tree that grows in the holy land walk and the three grown up for twenty two hundred years three hundred years the demand for all of wood carver crafts is high but business owners say it's become more difficult to find workers that's partially due to the decline in the christian population in the holy land experts say one hundred years ago christians comprise seventeen percent of the palestinian population today it's less than two percent this is importance to have a christian community living stalls i wove we call them you know people living the holiday says father jamal hodder says the struggle of living under israeli occupation continues to push christians to emigrate we see our mission here as a service of the wh

president talking about his upcoming talks with she should be able to work the meeting with president chirac as well but of course work tomorrow i would say with their feet maybe but in the meantime people are working our staff is working. with the people working working very hard to make you feel that they want to do what we like. those are the melinda so they would like to have a deal he would like to have a deal is trump in a position to demand more from the chinese now that he does have this new trade deal with north america. transfer and demanding a lot from the chinese all along i don't know that that makes a particular difference but what definitely might focus minds is the fact that both china and the u.s. are feeling some pain from the trade conflict that's been raging for some months now and particularly in the u.s. apparently donald trump was very troubled by the news this week that g.m. was laying off fifteen thousand workers and reducing activity at five different plants and definitely made a connection to trade difficulties as one of the reasons that that is happening we also k