with us this hour, chris dickey, matt bradley, steve clemons from the atlantic.t, you have been reporting on this every hour on the hour for days on end. give us what we know at this moment. it is what, 9:00 p.m. local time. >> that's right. the polls just closed an hour ago. so if you're just joining us this news is very fresh and actually as you just mentioned marine le pen, the far right populist candidate she conceded 45 minutes ago. it is astonishing how fast french polls are able to produce something like a result, almost immediately after the polls close. the polls close an hour earlier here in paris. but nationwide, almost immediately after, we got the results. those results were about 65%, slightly more than 65% for emmanuel macron. and about 35% for marine le pen. macron as you mentioned he's going to be the youngest president in french history. he's never before held elective office. he was the economy minister under the current president, francois hollande and that was one of the things that marine he present tried to present, to present him as the te

along with matt bradley and chris dickey. long and ceremonial well filmed, well watched, some with lights, some without. but the new president-elect there in france. emmanuel macron, walking towards the microphones in front of what appears to be hundreds, if not thousands of supporters of his campaign. and what a night it is. sunday, 10:30 in the evening. with many performers. the warm-up acts if you will to the celebration as emmanuel macron now takes to the microphone. he did have a victory speech earlier where he was commenting on his opponent, marine le pen, and that he addresses and he sees and he appreciates their anger is the word he used with the system. he also appreciated why the voters supported le pen and also said, i will address your needs. but overall being if you will, when you look at the translation, his message was of uniting. of being that individual that will now get to work and has been noted the next major issue, major benchmark to watch for this president when he starts in the coming weeks will be how

chris dickey, matt bradley still with me. matt bradley, the numbers here, the 30 percentage points here greater than what the estimates were. what does that say about the liberal base or the centrist base and the turnout altogether? >> reporter: well, it does say that -- i was just speaking with chris just now that it was slightly more than the polls predicted, and the polls have been pretty much on point, especially in the first round about two weeks ago. now, what this says was that marine le pen wasn't able to pull off a very clever gambit that she and others in her camp had hoped to pull off. she thought she might be able to win votes from the far left. if you think about it in terms of the political wings of less is a straight line and more of a circle, marie le pen thought maybe she would go all the way around the right side and gather from the 20% that had voted for jean-luc melenshaw who was almost as opposed to the european union as le pen was. he was just very an anti-establishment, he just had the look and attitude

joining me now from paris, msnbc contributor chris dickey, the news editor for "the daily beast." see you, chris, a lot of people are watching this to see how it might reflect what happens here in the united states, how might it not, how might it reflect brexit, how might it not? what is your analysis of what we saw here? >> well, you know, in fact, you can look at this almost like a proxy battle between president trump and his predecessor obama. because obama at one point explicitly endorsed macron. and at another point, you had trump saying very nice things about le pen. basically, le spepen represents someone who will break up the european union. someone who is very friendly to russia. someone who will deconstruct as bannon likes to say, the old models of society and organization in the world, even if it's just because she's pursuing a policy that relies on fear and anger and nostalgia. the thing with macron is, he wants to build the institutions and make europe stronger. and he's also on certain issues, particularly climate change, he's very much like obama. in fact, i don't kn

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these two pieces of macron pro capitalist but also pro social protection, how that plays out. >> chris dickeyto that point should europe and the west breathe a sigh of relief if macron wins or is this just one blip of good news against the tide against the idea because the banking sector reeked on the global economy? >> look, if macron wins this afternoon or tonight, it will be afternoon new york time, then everybody should pop some champagne corks in the west. but if he's unable to deliver on the kinds of promises he's made, if he's unable to help reform the european union and make people feel that they're participating in a prosperous enterprise, a united europe, then marine le pen will win five years from now. so i think he's going to have a very tough row to hoe, but i think he's the guy to do it. at least i think a lot of french people will come to that conclusion. >> kim, you know, marine le pen also referenced theresa may who is pioneering brexit in britain. it does almost feel like -- i read an article in "the guardian" today that you could see emerging a europe that with stands the t

. >> let's bring in msnbc contributor christopher dickey, going to join conversation right now. chrisyou look at this, some of the reports right now that you're very well aware of happening in the united states in the last 24 hours, now at the top of if you will the news cycle is the perception there in paris, in france and in europe at the moment that potentially the europe trip it's already done with, we're now moving on to the issues back in the united states? >> well, i think the feeling is -- i won't say a complete lack of confidence, but there's a terrible lack of confidence in the abilityf president trump both to govern and to make valid decisions that affect the future of the world. i think that's part of what we saw going on at the g7 summit in sicily over the last couple of days. those were very unpleasant conversations. german chancellor angela merkel made that very clear. and then to know that on top of his trurekals trans important t all the european leaders and then look at an administration almost fatally weakened about the stories that have come out about not only russ

his general audience, i want to bring in christopher dickey from paris, msnbc contributor and world news editor at the daily beast. your takeaway, chris, as we now know we don't know what was said, we don't know what was covered in that 28-minute or so meeting but we do have more information on the gifts that were exchanged and the meanings behind them. >> i think the symbolism of the gifts is interesting but i have to say since we know that president trump doesn't really like to get his information by reading i think the chances of him reading any of those encyclicals written in vatican prose are fairly slim. so i hope pope francis was able to get his message across in 20 minutes of conversation. i think we're going to see this environmental issue coming up again and again. i know from talking to people around the new french president emmanuel macron he sees that as an essential point he wants to make when he has lunch tomorrow with president trump in brussels. so that's g to kee coming up. i think also if we're going to talk about symbolism it's worth noting that melania wore what we call a veil, not just a scarf, a veil, when she m