chirac was still the president, and the prime minister was in charge.nd he's 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: 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. 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 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 to be president of france. christine: and he asked me to be minister of agriculture, which i had no clue about. but

serious way following the end of the cold war in the days of the free guenter of germany and president chirac of france and every time this issue has been brought up by the europeans the americans have reacted angrily and have rejected the you know in the uncertain terms and this is exactly what washington has done today now i crawl and merkel. both know that this is exactly how america would react and they haven't really prepare the groundwork for confronting the united states over the issue so it all comes across as somewhat posturing you know nice to get some popular support in germany and france were getting a little tired of america but i don't think there's any serious moves to to confront the united states on this because what would required to get a european army off the ground would be a serious major confrontation with the americans because they're not just going to give up and they likely well the u.s. state department spokesperson have a now it's gave a statement on the issue to let's take a listen to that festival. we have a longstanding relationship with nato and nato is america

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he fired back and you are almost back to where you were when it was chirac and george w bush, when theder monkeys. we saw him shaking his knee and the president doesn't very impressed. macron seems to have taken the decision that he's going to speak truth to power. he did it to congress and got away with it and he did it on sunday. when you take on the president you get it back to fold. emmanuel macron faced criticism that he was cosying up to master donald trump. —— cosying up to master donald trump. in his speech at the weekend he said nationalism is the enemy of patriotism. it was pretty clear who that was targeted at. they don't agree. they have a different global outlook and i think that was plain to see at the weekend when donald trump seemed in a real grab the whole weekend — — trump seemed in a real grab the whole weekend —— being a grump. the french palace has not dignified it with any comments so far. thank you for joining with any comments so far. thank you forjoining us. the broadcaster cnn has filed a lawsuit against the trump administration after the white house suspended