-- angela merkel. remember it was merkel who she preferredded and macron thinks he will be instrumental in keeping the european union together. the two have hit it off i'm told. the only difference here is that macron as former investment banker indicated he wants to drastically cut tax rates in his country and encourage french investment which might hurt german investment which might not be simpatico with europe and the union. trying to iron out differences. two establishment candidates. merkel's government over the weekend had a big victory, confirm a trend that goes away from populist. you saw what happened in france. saw what happened in austria. seeing what happens in the netherlands, this populist wave post "brexit," seems shifting away from populist to more establishment candidates. french and german leaders meeting as we speak. more after this. you always pay your insurance on time. tap one little bumper, and up go your rates. what good is having insurance if you get punished for using it? news flash: nobody's perfect. for drivers with accident forgiveness, liberty mutual won't rai

angela merkel with germany what they're playing off of. were you know what? there is political believe system angela merkel has with her open border policies i think devastated europe, that will disable her from ever being able to agree with donald trump. so they will play that up tremendously. but look, he took it to nato, you folks owe the american people and taxpayer more. neil: all right. what do you make, erin, of the motion that stylelisticly he kind of rubbed some europeans, some of his fellow leaders the wrong way? does that matter? >> i think we saw peaks and valleys in president trump's presentation abroad. certainly he seemed strong in his speech in saudi arabia. once we saw him conversing with some g7 leaders we saw a little bit of rankling of allies egos, some contentious hand shakes, things like that. >> what was that about, especially with macron? i was going to show him a thing or two i guess squeezing his hand and breaking it. what was that supposed to mean and do? >> macron is looking to stand up to president trump, be something of an anti-trump voice in the e

phone calls with angela merkel. barely a slap on the wrist. what do you make of that? >> it seems to me many of the british public, many of the people in mainstream media happy to lend the blame on trump because he seems like such an obvious -- not a politician, what would he know? obviously chaos missing the fact that what trump has inherited is special service, the fbi, the dark forces at work, they are obamas, a hole in the bottom and that is and trump's issue, he didn't make that happen. it happened because of obama and trump is man enough to stand up and say we take accountability, we take responsibility, we will fix this, that is music to my ears because no one in this country is saying we will fix this. we have a massive problem with terrorism come a we are under the highest warning there is, critical, our er departments were put on standby this morning to prepare for patients that haven't been hit yet, we have no one in the uk saying we will fix this. easy for the liberal left to pick on trump to address our own problems at home. neil: use a leaky bucket with a hole in the bo