well they so and i'm here with david mcallister who was a member of course of the e.p.the european peoples party and also the german c.d.u. where we just saw those numbers now everybody talked about the s.p.d. and how they lost their votes but the c.d.u. also significantly lost votes compared to the last european elections why is it that all those traditional parties are having such a hard time in these elections. will of course become be happy with the result in germany we were hoping for more we were expecting more but nonetheless we are the strongest political force in germany and we have contributed to the result of the being the obviously the strongest political force in the european parliament and the positive thing about this election is despite the negative results for a party in germany is that strengthens european democracy that's reference to european parliament and is also strengthens for the space in county down process we will have to analyze the result in germany and a good occasion will be the. next weekend but it also strengthen especially it seems the

and we are ready to discuss this with of a pro european constructive forces in this parliament david mcallister with me here from the european peoples party thank you for him very much for finding some time on this very emotional and very interesting evening here and with that back to you phil marks thanks for that much hoffman in brussels of the european parliament more from us across the across the evening so what we know so far in terms of an exit to polls and partial results c.d.u. in germany 28.6 percent of the greens a 2nd on $20.00 of the esprit de the c.d.u. coalition partners 15.3 percent disappointing result for them the last results that we had in the exit polls were from france where the peds national rally appears to have done very well let's join the lisa who is out with emmanuel mccall's all macho party in paris we'll get to reaction in just a sec lisa but to talk us through the rest of the figures if you have them. well there are different exit polls that have come out said they put the far right and national rally at teds we about $23.00 to $24.00 points and next comes at the o

my guests today are david aaronovitch of the times newspaper, maria margaronis of the nation, agnes poirier of french news weekly marianne, and american writerjef mcallisterlcome to you all. "sit back and watch." the advice from president trump on friday as he hiked american tariffs on chinese goods. but when elephants fight, ants get crushed. should the rest of us sit back or take cover? jef, start us off. well, these tariffs of 25%, rather than a 10%, may hit the american economy in a different way, because a lot of chinese products will be frozen out of the american market at that level. that means people will feel it in a different way. there will still be repercussions with chinese tariffs on american agricultural goods, sectors have been hit by the trade war in the us and china, but i think this has a likelihood of spreading to a greater degree, and unpredictably, as trade wars do, sometimes. as trump said, trade words are good and easy to win, and i think this is an area which he has convictions, unlike a lot of other things that he has in policy. since the reagan administration, when he started to think about running for president, he said america

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we are very keen, as we said to kevin mcallister and the guys, about new aircraft orders. davidiness. michael: i think boeing needs the orders, and ryanair has the cash if the order is right. alix: really great to talk to you. coming up, boeing admitting there was a plot in the -- there 737 maxlaw in the flight simulators. that's coming up. this is bloomberg. ♪ ♪ david: time now to look at three companies worth watching this morning. t-mobile and sprint back at it again, trying to get this deal passed antitrust in the united states. it turns out if they put t-mobile and sprint together, they have a lot of prepaid business. 42% market share. i didn't realize that. alix: sony and microsoft teamed up last week. great reporting from bloomberg shows the people who worked on the gaming technology for sony were totally blindsided. decadesically spent two competing against microsoft, and all your friends. david: it's not like the cloud -- and all your friends. david: it's not like the cloud is important for gaming. the third we are watching his boeing. brooke sutherland joins us now. no