to you right now some alliance which increases and r.e.m.president because that is now coming up 1st but these people here are still happy about the results let me just give them to you says the 23.2 percent for the national really the far right party and 21.9 for the lions have people here have been telling me that nevertheless even if they came 2nd which is now the campaigns they would be happy anyways the 1st time that the man who was fighting has been dissipated in your opinion actions and also they're very happy that say many people have been dissipated in these elections apparently 52 percent that's about 10 percent. than 5 years ago and they say they say this is a really good thing because we are european basi europe is part of our d.n.a. it's a very happy nevertheless. clearly you know yes it was a gear clearly a good result for the national probably how much of an improvement is this for the . president it's a very good result for the national rally obviously but it's if this these results these 1st exit polls are could. then extend

said he was over the head if even a solstice that's the alliance that includes a man about calls and r.e.m. party so the president's party she was just speaking and saying that millions of people who voted for us this is showing that 2 years on from presidential from the presidential elections and office 6 months of social crisis due to a yellow best protests that our government is still robust and that we will carry out and continue with the reforms that we initiated in on a national level and that we will also be for the 1st time with our hot seat with the i l r e m party in the euro in column and and be the biggest national delegation in that centrist group and there was nobody tried to push the our european agenda so they made here is rather good obviously they admit that they're coming 2nd you know 1st it's that's not such good news but on the other hand to say they're saying it's a good start it's the 1st time we participated in the european elections and. we're actually quite happy about that all right lisa so that's the positive spin to this result of course that you're hearing the

essentially and that center right republicans now today's results if it is confirmed then confirmed that and r.e.m. or as it is the renaissance alliance. which includes l r e m is a stable party and that's not just a temporary temporary friend of mine really that's what they find on the underlining here really. responded lisa lewis for us there in paris covering the very latest thank you lisa. right now we're just getting the 1st projected figures on how many seats each party group each block would have in the next european parliament let's take a look at some of those figures now the leftist european united left and nordica green bloc would take 44 seats so far the center left the social democrats get 149 seats the green to see their at around 6067 seats the liberal a l d e group would receive $94.00 seats the center right the european peoples party this is the biggest block of the parliament takes $163.00 seats then we have the euro skeptic conservatives the e.c. are taking 59 seats and then we come to the populist group so we have the s.d.d. at $46.00 seats and the new proposed far right europe

the path forward is the key question because it's like that r.e.m. song, everyone hurts here. it's going to come down to who hurts more. therefore, who is more able to drag this out to get what they want? >> that's exactly right, julia. cnn's reporting is u.s. officials don't see a deal coming together today. so then what? how do you see this playing out really? >> you know, in the end, it's going to, like i said, who hurts most here. the bottom line is china exports far more as a proportion of their economy than the u.s. does. and we know that china's economy is slowing, but the economy here in the united states is still going to feel it. stocks could still fall further due to the negative sentiment, and we know how much president trump watches both the data, the gdp data, the growth data here, and the markets very closely, and of course, you know y have to bring it back to politics. president trump has got an election to win in 2020. president xi in china doesn't. a lot of swing states in the united states export a lot of agriculture to china, too, so it's not just about the