. >> a spokesperson for angle merkel tweeted that the chancellor expressed her condolences after thethat her sympathy went out to the victims and their families. also on twitter, the british prime minister's office says the u.k. strongly condemned the appalling terrorist attack in paris. this latest incident on french soil comes just days before voters go to the polls for the first time of presidential elections on sunday. >> and the french prime minister has vowed to do everything in his power to make sure polling places are safe and secure on sunday. as france heads of the voting booth. >> heightened security for a very important day. following the fatal attack on police officers on the champs-Élysées, they met with ministers friday morning to fine tune election day security measures. the prime minister said citizens should not succumb to fear. >> in the coming days, me than 50,000 police officers will be in place to ensure that the election to seek calmly and safely. this is so fundamental for our country. >> in addition to the 50,000 police officers, 7,000 soldiers will also be o

sns diplomacy, rather than a long leader publicly, he tweets, pressuring lank merkel in an election yeariet diplomacy sometimes works better. i think president trump would be well advised to dial back many of these tweets, engage in more traditional diplomacy through phone calls and meetings, relying on his secretary of state realm tillerson to carry these privately. he'll be much more successful in that fashion. >> thank you. we appreciate your time. >>> up next, play ball. stay tuned. only invisalign® clear aligners are made with smarttrack® material to precisely move your teeth to your best smile. see how invisalign® treatment can shape your smile up to 50% faster today at invisalign.com >>> in honor of baseball's opening day, go dodgers, we look at some of the first presidents to throw out the first pitch on opening day. >> this was william howard taft in 1912. taft was a semi-pro pitcher in since when he started getting knocked out of box too often, he quit and went into politics. here's woodrow wilson. 1913. great to see, isn't it? warren harding here with babe ruth. he owned a clu

he still tweets after angela merkel leaves and insults germany.-- so it was not just the campaign. it was also the transition and the early weeks of the presidency. but i think the health care failure really influenced his decision to turn to some wiser heads. >> well, a lot of talk about how bannon is out, and ivanka and jared are up. but there's not a lot of coverage of what happened this week behind closed doors. like ivanka who is supposed to be for women didn't stop him from signing a bill that would put state level women's health clinics in the crosshairs. >> i'm curious -- what do you make of the speculation that is a compromise. sign that bill, but don't fight the planned parenthood bill in the budget? >> i do not feel any kind of relief. it's the most vulnerable working class women, that's the only affordable health care. they're in the crosshairs, and we saw him sign something that stopped the retirement accounts. the people who don't have 401(k)s on the jobs who have been starting to innovate at the state and the local level, so i think

he still tweets after angela merkel leaves and insults germany. was not just the campaign, senator. it was also the transition and the early weeks of the presidency. but i think the health care failure really influenced his decision to turn to some wiser heads. >> well, there's been a lot of talk about how bannon is out and ivanka and jared are up, but there hasn't been a lot of coverage of some things that happened this week behind closed doors, like ivanka, who is supposed to be for women, didn't stop him from signing a bill that would put state level women's health clinics in the crosshairs, recognizing -- >> i'm curious, what do you make of their speculation that that is a compromise? sign that bill but don't fight the planned parenthood issue in the budget? is that a, quote, unquote, compromise? >> they would not feel any kind of relief. it's a state where the vulnerable working class women, it's their only form of health care. they're the ones that will be in the crosshairs. we also saw him sign something that stopped retirement security acc

the hypocrisy, the cly ptocracy, the nepotism with jerod and ivanka, the tweeting and sort of childish behavior with angela merkel. and your guest seems like a reasonable fellow whose politics and opinions i might disagree with but he can't possibly be proud of the way this president has behaved and the impressions he's given over the first hundred days and you just showed a tweet which shows this type of inthemmerity and childish behavior. tevi: i don't think i'm displaying pride in this assessment but trying to give an assessle as a historian who looked at this stuff and someone who worked at the white house in trying to give a sense of where things are. i do think roberts' narrative is one a lot of people are talking about and it seems probably the prevailing narrative and was a lot of discomfort with the tweets and having people in the family work in the white house. at the same time, i'm trying to see if there's another side to this and there are lot of people accepting the other side as well and 96% of trump voters say they'll continue to vote for trump. so i think it's incumbent upon all people, especially

happened me that thet struck german foreign minister and the people close to angela merkel -- they were the first people to tweetacron. get back ineeds to the game when it comes to politics? achard: i think macron is european union support her. he will be a fighter of putting france back on the table. very strongly. he will to whatever is possible to bring back the french ex-pats who went to belgium and the united kingdom. be -- andhink he will i think you will be followed and supportive. and if he is able to implement a to reduce taxes, this is crucial. from breaks down the taxes more on parto be would see a lot of ex-pats who went to london, entrepreneurs, who will come back. this is why he was so successful during all of his trips to promote his program in the u.k. .nd new york in new york, i think, if he is not mistaken, this is where he got the most important support from french voters. plus in new york or in the state of new york. that is quite interesting. tohe knows that he will have be always in the same vote with germany. no choice. but i think that if macron is elected, we will not just see a standalo

about the latest thing that donald trump tweets, the latest outrage du jour and not focus on a meeting that didn't go well. if you look at the meeting with angela merkelchancellor of germany, it didn't go well and what we saw from the white house was ttempts to distract and they're successful at those attempts to distract. >> prophylactic tweeting i which is what doug heye is saying. >> i did not use that word. >> i'll use it. david gergen, i want to talk about this week the importance of this week. meeting with three key foreign leaders. al sisi of egypt, king abdullah of jordan, president xi late in the week. >> the most important meetings he has at the end of the week with china. that's the most important relationship we have anywhere in the world, two major powers, one rising, the other, you know, has been on top for a long time, but china is trying to challenge us. but there is, john, in mar-a-lago the possibility of laying the foundations for a major deal. the highest priority in international affairs for the trump administration is to de-fang north korea and they need china's help, more muscular help than anything we've seen so far to get that

merkel. it's to his credit. but you saw him tweet the following day, where do we go to trade, that remains to be seen. they have 100 days to kick the can. but wilbur ross and others in the trump administration on the economy are anywhere from moderate to extremely hawkish on china. the chinese definitely have the ability to negotiate with the u.s., but they will not capitulate, and a lot of u.s. corporations are quite unhappy with the level of access, something that the trump administration has said is the chinese eating our lunch. it's a long way to go from here to 100. still, it is much better than direct confrontation between two leaders. david: ian, thank you for joining us. ian bremmer, eurasia group founder and president. jonathan: we want to bring in the amherst pierpont global strategist. great to have you. let's start with geopolitics. america first. that we were informed there would be fewer foreign policy entanglements, and then this. what do you make of it? >> reality often gets in the way of the best laid plans, and i th

tweets or any signs of open hostility. in other words, they don't want to see a repeat of president trump's meeting with german chancellor angela merkelcase scenario they want to see a path to constructive dialogue and also to avoid a full on conflict or disagreement over important issues like trade. market access or north korea. they also are hoping to get signs of stability in this relationship and just to illustrate that further in the past hour, the global times news which is a communist party paper has started to tell the chinese public that china has main contin enjsy plans for -- on the tin jensie plans between the two countries and nothing will dissuade beijing. beijing is trying to project strength but at the same time, indicating that it's a little bit uncertain about how this meeting is going to go. >> i would love to know what the contingency plans are. eunice yoon, thank you. for more on the significance on the meeting with president xi, we have two experts. former ambassador to china stapleton and gentlemen, great to have you both. mr. ambassador, president xi comes to mar-a-lago to shake the hand of a man who accused hi