. >> reporter: you've heard marie le pen marie le pen and you've heard what she has to say. how do her words impact on the political scene here and what impact do you think they should have on refugees here? >> translation: she plays on the fears of the french, plays on the question of racism, that they are coming here to steal our country, to take our jobs, but they are here to take over. surely with the situation now sympathy will surely gain momentum, tapping on the sector of fear. it will affect us because it's easy to play on the factor of fear in such times. >> reporter: she says the vast majority of syrians coming to you're are fleeing for their lives. >> syrian people are coming and there is - it is a question of life for them. in syria there is bombing every day and they have to protect them from themselves from what's happening. >> reporter: in versai for the third time in 150 years members of the french senate and national assembly met in joint session. the president argued that his country is now at war. >> translation: we are not fighting a war against civilizat