'APOCALYPTIC': French leaders under FIRE, may declare state of emergency

[SHOUTING]. >> Harris: APOCALYPTIC SCENES. FROM FRANCE. HUNDREDS OF THOUSANDS OF VIOLENT. FAR LEFT RIOTERS FIGHTING WITH. POLICE AND LOOTING BUSINESSES. AND CAUSING CHAOS OVER THE. WEEKEND. JUST TWO DAYS AND IT LOOKED LIKE. THAT. PRESIDENT TRUMP POSTED QUOTE THE. MIGRANTS HAVE TAKEN OVER FRANCE.

THEY MUST CLOSE THE BORDERS. FAST. A SECURITY CAMERA CAPTURED. LOOTERS KICKING THEIR WAY INTO A. CELL PHONE CASE SHOP IN NICE. THEY SWARMED IN, STOLE. EVERYTHING IN SIGHT. ANOTHER VIRAL VIDEO SHOWED A. BUSINESS WOMAN BEGGING. HOPELESSLY AS CRIMINALS. DESTROYED HER LIVELIHOOD. A FORMER CLINTON ADMINISTRATION. MEMBER POSTED IT IS SO TRAGIC. THAT THIS WELL INTENTIONED WOMAN. KEEPS REPEATING THIS IS NOT THE.

CAUSE. HE GOES ON THE CAUSE IS NOT. IDEALISM BUT ISLAMISM, MARXISM. AND ANTI-WESTERNISM. GREG PALKOT IN PARIS. GREG, THAT SITUATION HAS. DEVOLVED DAILY. >> ABSOLUTELY. IT WAS A WEEKEND OF EXTREME. VIOLENCE, HARRIS. THE KIND OF VIOLENCE THAT THIS. PLACE, BELIEVE IT OR NOT. HASN'T SEEN IN A LONG TIME.

WE'RE JUST OFF OF THE STREET AND. BEHIND US ARE BURNED OUT CARS. AND TRUCKS. DOZENS HIT. IT STARTED OUT PEACEFULLY. LARGE PROTEST AGAINST A RISING. COST OF LIVING AND FALTERING. PUBLIC SERVICES AND SUPPORT OF. STUDENTS BUT HIJACKED BY. ULTRA LEFT EXTREMISTS AND YOUNG. CROOKS CLASHING WITH POLICE, SMASHING AND STEALING ANYTHING. IN SIGHT. IN PARIS AND CITIES ACROSS. FRANCE THERE WERE 2400 ARRESTS,

1500 SHOPS DAMAGED OR LOOTED. GOVERNMENT BUILDINGS LIKE A CITY. HALL IN THE TOWN IN A CENTER OF. FRANCE UP IN FLAMES. THE TARGET OF THIS ANGER THE. EMBATTLED PRESIDENT MACRON. HERE ARE SOME OF HIS STERN WORDS. FROM LAST NIGHT. >> THOSE WHO HAVE DESTROYED MUST. PAY. THOSE WHO HAVE LOOTED MUST. REIMBURSE AND SOUGHT TO BRING. DOWN THE REPUBLIC WILL HAVE TO.

ANSWER FOR IT. >> THERE WERE SOME CLASHES. YESTERDAY HERE, HARRIS, ARREST. AND DAMAGE FOLLOWED. TODAY THE POLITICAL FALLOUT IS. RAINING DOWN WITH LEFT AND RIGHT. KNOCKING THE GOVERNMENT'S. HANDLING OF THE UNREST. REELED THE INTERIOR MINISTER AND. HE OFFERED HIS RESIGNATION. SAYING A LACK OF ANTICIPATION OF. THE VIOLENCE OF THE MOB AND THE. SECURITY FORCES ACTUALLY HIS. WORDS, LOST CONTROL OF PARTS OF. PARIS AND OTHER MAJOR CITIES.

HIS RESIGNATION WAS REFUSED. FOLLOWING AN EMERGENCY. GOVERNMENT MEETING TODAY. SUGGESTED CURFEWS AND LIMITS ON. PROTESTS COULD BE ENFORCED. A POSSIBLE STATE OF EMERGENCY. ALSO A POSSIBILITY. HARRIS, I HAVE LIVED IN PARIS. FOR EIGHT YEARS AND COVERED. THESE PROTESTS FOR DECADES HERE. COMING HERE TODAY AND TALKING TO. THE PEOPLE HERE TODAY IN THE. MIDDLE OF THIS, THIS LOOKS VERY. DIFFERENT. THIS LOOKS VERY PROFOUND. IT LOOKS LIKE SOME PEOPLE HERE, MANY PEOPLE HERE ARE FEELING.

THAT THE GOVERNMENT HAS LOST. CONTROL. THAT THIS COUNTRY COULD BE ON. THE BRINK OF SOMETHING VERY. SERIOUS. BY WAY, IN SIX MONTHS TIME A. CRUCIAL PRESIDENTIAL ELECTION. POLITICS AND ON THE STREET. BACK TO YOU. >> Harris: YOU ARE ON THE GROUND. THERE. IS ANYBODY TALKING ABOUT LE PEN. ON THE RIGHT MUCH MORE SO THAN. NOT LIKE AMERICAN POLITICS AND. SOCIALISM TRANSLATES IN BOTH. COUNTRIES. >> WE HAVE HEARD, HARRIS, THAT.

SHE AND HER NATIONAL FRONT PARTY. COULD BE THE BIG WINNER OUT OF. ALL THIS. SHE HAS SLAMMED THE MACRON. GOVERNMENT FOR LETTING THIS GET. OUT OF HAND BUT ALSO SLAMMED THE. LEFT WING PARTIES THAT ARE. MAKING SOME HAY OUT OF THIS AND. HER CENTRAL MESSAGE REALLY IS. LAW AND ORDER AND LAW AND ORDER. IS SOMETHING VERY SPARSE ON THE. GROUND HERE THIS PAST WEEKEND. >> Harri.