and with zemmour neck and neck with her for a time. le pen looks to have weathered that storm and she's going back up to 25% while zemmour has fallen to around 14% my guess is that's the end of zemmour's real challenge to qualify for the second round and the more le pen rises now, the higher the bar will once again be for qualifying for the runoff this means that pecresse will have to double her current predicted score of at least around 10% she would have to at least double that to make it to the runoff. >> professor, thanks for being with us. jim shield professor of french politics at warwick. >>> coming up, joe biden and vladimir putin are set to speak over the phone tomorrow amid rising tensions on the uaikrne border more on that after the break offered cnbc the downloaded today >>> welcome back to the program. u.s. president joe biden will hold a phone call with russian president vladimir putin on tuesday amid warnings from u.s. intelligence services that the kremlin could launch an invasion of ukraine as soon as early 2022 the wh

to me, eric zemmour has been created by the media.irst book, but the first book that made -- mention him was a very violent book against women, can spend on it against feminism. he became a pundit on public television. it was and even private television. he said even after being convicted, he remains public. he remains on the public television and other private media. to me there is much complicity from the media because they knew who he was. they were more interested by the noise around his statements and not echoing hate speeches. actually, to me, there's much complicity to other people that gave him -- amplified his voice because they gave him the platform to make them able to run for presidency. the atmosphere -- hate speech, racist statements, sexist statements, harassing people of color by having aggressive words against them. nermeen: could you explain what you think his actual prospects are as a presidential candidate? and very quickly, just to give some of the statements that you set have been amplified, he has compared peopl

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this is how zemmour supporters responded to an anti-racism protest.awn comparisons to another fire-breathing populist. >> they're bringing drugs. they're bringing crime. they're rapists. >> translator: they're thieves, assassins, rapists. that's all they are. >> they can try to steal the election from us. >> translator: don't let them steal the election from you. >> reporter: zemmour and trump, the parallels hard to miss. political outsiders who capitalized on their tv fame to launch an unlikely presidential bid. their promise -- >> we will make america great again. >> reporter: bring the country back to an imagined former glory. >> translator: the france of napoleon he says in his campaign announcement. he draws inspiration from donald trump, says his biographer. he loved that trump never backed down. whenever asked, he would just respond, build the wall. that's exactly how zemmour wants to run, he said. the french trump? almost. the former tv personality, still a long-shot candidate, is one part trump, one part tucker carlson. >> how precisely is di

that's how zemmour. the french trump? almost.former tv personality, still a long-shot candidate, one part trump, one part tucker carlson. >> how precisely is diversity or strength? he's not from this country in that sense. >> reporter: zemmour is a facsimile of the fox news star. same debating styles, same cable news platform, same enviable ratings and the same obsession with culture wars. >> translator: we must dhooz names from the calendar. the names of christian saints. >> my name is -- >> your mother was wrong. >> reporter: like carlson, zemmour never had interest in running for office until he did. cyril vanier, cnn, paris. >>> still on cnn -- still ahead on cnn, the dallas cowboys didn't need to win sunday night to punch their ticket to the playoffs, but they didn't hold back. they took on washington and more envelope action just ahead. st p. and now get relief without a pill with tylenol dissolve packs. relief without the water. hi. so you're the scientist here. does my aveeno® daily moisturizer really make my dry skin hea