and alen is in the left wing platform.imistic things and what happens to benoit's 7% or 8%. >> talking about the man who is indeed the hologram candidate. that's chris moore. we're going to continue talking about the french campaign. t is time for campaign beat. >> welcome to campaign beat. we're obviously counting now the hours down to sunday. but thursday's terrorist attack very much dominating the last two days of the campaign. with me to discuss this is our international affairs editor and frequent guest here on "france 24," jim shields. doug, let me start with you. a lot of candidates have been making statements in the wake of this attack. what have they been saying? >> they've been saying sometimes very opposite things. but let's start on the hard right and the right of the spectrum. you've had marine le pen perhaps come out with some of the most scathing, the hardest line comments in the wake of this attack essentially some people spreading fear in saying that there are going to be more of these attacks. raising the

. >> there is a buffalo officer who alen has shot 26 dogs himself. john: and been punished for it?ypically aren't punished. they say i was in fear of my life, even though no dog has ever killed a police officer in the line of duty ever. john: killed is a high standard. i'll bet they bit cops. >> we don't argue police officers should never shoot dogs. we don't cast police officers as the villains. once we can have discourse then law enforcement and animal welfare groups can work together for change. john: thank you. next, laws that trap ex-cons in poverty. >> i felt like i was meant to be in the hood. like i was meant to be on govern john: you get out of jail. you would like to stay out of jail. but the odds are against you. most ex-cons go back to jail. one big reason is they can't get work. job hunting is tough for everyone. by the many tougher if your employer asks, what have you been doing the last three years and your answer is prison. and getting a joins impossible if you want to work as a nurse, a barber or 100 occupations in illinois. when theresa was 19 she was arrested for

we cannot hoe that in a way that makes people understand it's real that it happened and they're not alenrn to their mother or father like jessica dave iltion does in the show and say daddy, something happened to me. and that is what we're trying to do by making this show. >> producer joy goreman and actress boe spoke at george mason for a program about sexual assault on campus. >> we want the survivors in the room today to know that your voice matters. your story is important. and your truth is real. about it tell you the story of my sglivr in the netflix tv show. >> more specifically why my life ended. >> lead character commits suicide after being raped leaving her family, friend and entire school community devastated. >> the show really shows how painful and permanent it is. so i think since we're not roman anesthetizing suicide it makes kids understand that should not be the final option that there is a tomorrow and a next year and you should reach out to anyone, crisis line, parents, loved one. >> the sexual assault aw awareness program at george mason called "it's on us" bob barnard

. >> joining me is alen gomez from usa today and broke the story on juan manuel montez. it seems there's some gray areas in his case. >> gray areas it's safe to say that. we heard about his case. we wrote about the case and then we started getting reaction from the department of homeland security. what they initially said after we published the story is juan manuel lost his status so they could deport him and today they changed their story saying he had status but violated it by leaving me country. the attorneys said he was deported. that's the what we are facing and trying to get clarity. >> they're pushing back on the headlines and usa said it was a violation and all of the fault of dhs. his lawyers are saying he didn't leave the country without being forced to. how can we clear this up so we can get more clarity? is the judge in the case going to get information right away so we can figure this out and understand what the policy is going forward by the trump administration? >> exactly. a lot of this is going t on this federal lawsuit. basically the attorneys for juan

fearing being places in internment camps from the trump administration and american muslims feel deeply alenng the trump rhetoric as propaganda and using it as a recruiting tool, alex. >> so this is making a departure from the rhetoric using during the obama era and this former l.a. official, they could see a palpable difference in the last few months under trump. >> he is seeing it and others are telling us that is the case. and after 9/11, they visited mosques and sent a message, we are not at war with islam. and the trump administration has not done that. now in fairness, the actual practical counter-terrorism policies of the trump administration so far are not that different from the obama administration because you have people like mattis and mcmaster, who are running the policy side of this and they don't agree with this hard-line view thas espoused by steve bannon and sebastian gorka and they've urged president trump not to use it. so far they are winning some policy battles but not the rhetorical battles. >> thank you, ken, for the update. >>> the new military threat to australia as