marine le pen made it past the first round of voting along with emanuel marcron. he's in his 30s.nt trump has not fully endorsed le pen. he told the associated press that the terrorist attacks could help le pen in the election. she's proposed holding a referendum to leave the european union. the future is at stake and greg palkot has more. what do we know about le pen stepping down and what does it mean? >> it's an interesting one, shep. she made a statement in a context in an interview with french television. she said i'm only the candidate, i'm above partisan consideration saying she's stepping down for the moment as the head of the national fund party. there's not been a lot of reaction here. analysts think it's not a big deal. but underscores the baggage that the national front party still carries with people here in france. its anti-immigrant stance and anti-muslim stance having a lot of resonance with a lot of voters. it's now taken as in the context of trying to be not just above the frey but above a lot of the other publicity. this comes a couple hours after president marl

the markets hoping that that centrist, emanuel marcron will put to bed any threat that france will get out of the european union. i say that take this with a grain of salt. that was the same knee jerk mark react we had going to other way with brexit, the separate from britain from the e.u. the same reaction when had when donald trump was looking like the winner and markets tanked but the time the ballots were counted, he was doing just fine. but here's what is at stake, folks. we have the world celebrating what appears to be france staying in the european union with a run off election scheduled two weeks from now. the markets might be getting ahead of themselves. in france, europe, that's been the theme. charles payne on what he makes of that and whether that is driving this. what do you think, buddy? >> you're right, neil. stocks bolted out. polls suggesting a real easy victory for the centrist candidate, marcron. just a couple weeks from now, yes, polls have been known to be wrong in predicting not only election winners but market reaction. you recall, donald trump first of all wasn'

in first place, e emanuel marcron that borrows idea in -- ideas from the left and the right.e's favored to win. in secon wing candidate marine -- pa -- marie la pen. she wants to take france out of the european union. voters will decide in two weeks who will lead the country. >>> [sirens] >> israel state came to a standstill today as it remembered victim of the hol -- victims of the holocaust. drivers pulled over as a 2 minute siren whaled to honor the 6 million jews killed. the israel prime minister attended an official reef laying ceremony at the country's national holocaust museum in jerusalem. >>> harvard researchers have found a priceless piece of american higs ri in -- history in end land. they dis-- england. think discovered a hand whether written partial declaration of independent. it was given to the duke of richmond known as the radical duke for the support he gave to american revolutionaries. the only one like it is the 1776 copy kept under glass at the national archives in washington. >>> trending now, one last chance to pick up a video game console. >> this brand

and in frans centrist presidential candidate emanuel marcron is expected to defeat maureen le pen.acron's pro e.u., free market nationalist ideology poses the most traction amongst the french. in germany, angela merkel's conservative party is in a neck in neck race with the center left democrats with each getting a little over 30% in recent polls. the far right anti-immigrant alternative for germany party is down 7 percentage points making the party almost irrelevant. as he points out in his essay, it might be too early to tell if populism has peaked. any one of these right wing parties or personalities could suddenly have a strong showing in an election, but the lessening popularity of populism in the united states and europe could also mean that the challenge to liberal democracy has, in fact, exposed its resilience. the center is holding. up next, an incredible inside look at what six years of civil war has done to syria and her people. we have an eye witness. when you booked this trip, you didn't know we had over 26,000 local activities listed on our app. or that you could book