There's a big NATO summit in Washington, D.C. this week. I know these big gatherings happen all the time, but this one is extra notable. For one thing, the Alliance is marking its 75th anniversary.

And as always, there's a lot of pressing issues.

Russia's war in Ukraine, countering China's influence, etc.

But the timing is really notable

because of the domestic political situation

playing out in some of these countries.

If you take a look at what Trump did in Ukraine, this guy told Ukraine, he told Trump, do whatever you want and do

whatever you want and that's exactly what Trump did to fruit and encourage him.

Do whatever you want and you went in.

After the CNN presidential debate, multiple foreign diplomats

described to CNN how hard President Biden's performance was to watch.

Well, Biden is scheduled to give a solo news conference at the summit

as he continues to resist growing calls for him to drop out of the race.

Meanwhile in Europe, a wave of populism and anti-immigrant sentiment

fueled big wins by far-right parties in European Parliament elections last month.

And as we post this, voters are going back to the polls in

France and what happens there could reverberate well beyond Europe.

My guest today is CNN senior producer Saskia Van Dorne who's based in Paris.

We're going to talk about the 28-year-old face of the far right and how he could soon become French President

Emmanuel Macron's biggest headache. From CNN this is one thing. I'm David Ryan. So, Soska, voters are heading back to the polls this weekend in France.

Can you remind us how we got here? Yeah, well David you kind of have to

cast your mind back to the European elections, which were a month ago and that kind of

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