Macron under FIRE for leaving France during violent riots as officials expand curfews

RUSSIA WHILE DEFENDING HIS. DECISION TO EASE SANCTIONS ON. MOSCOW. AFTER DAYS OF LOOTING AND. RIOTING ACROSS FRANCE, OVERNIGHT. CURFEW IN AN ATTEMPT TO CURB. CHAOS. FRANCE HAS SEEN ARRESTS AND. OFFICERS AND FIREFIGHTERS HURT. AND BUSINESSES RANSACKED OR. DESTROYED BY MASS MOBS. >> Ashley: EMMANUEL MACRON IS. GETTING HEAT FOR LEAVING THE.

COUNTRY. JEFF PAUL JOINS US LIVE WITH THE. LATEST. HI, JEFF. >> Jeff: AFTER CHAOTIC FEW DAYS, FAIRLY QUIET IN PARIS AND OTHER. FRENCH CITIES. OFFICIALS SAY OVERNIGHT CURFEW. COULD BE WHY. POLICE WERE IN FULL FORCE. THROUGHOUT FRANCE TRYING TO. PREVENT THE DISORDER. IN PARIS, BANNED ANYONE FROM.

BEING IN CERTAIN FLASH POINTS. FROM 11:00 P.M. THROUGH THE. EARLY MORNING HOURS AND BANS ON. GATHERINGS IN DEMONSTRATIONS. FROM 8:00 A.M. AND ON. THE LOUVRE MUSEUM IS CLOSED. TODAY, THE PRIME MINISTER. DESCRIBE RESTRICTIONS AS LIMITED. AND LOCALIZED. HE SAID IT IS A MIRACLE NO ONE. WAS KILLED. 2400 ARRESTED AND 3000.

BUSINESSES WERE LOOTED OR. DAMAGED. YESTERDAY PRESIDENT TRUMP SAID. THIS. >> President Trump: ONCE GREAT. NATION THAT CAN BEING LOOT ERRED. TO THE GROUND BY JIHADISTS WHO. HATE CHRISTIANITY AND HATE THE. WESTERN CIVILIZATION ITSELF. WHEN YOU SEE BURNING STEEPLES. AND RAGING FIRES IN FRANCE, THAT. IS WHAT THE RADICAL DEMOCRATS. WANT TO DO TO AMERICA. THEY ARE NOT GOING TO COME.

CLOSE. AND JUST LIKE IN EUROPE, DEMOCRATS ARE PARTY OF. ANTI-WESTERN MARXIST AND THIRD. WORLD MIGRANTS. >> Jeff: FRANCE'S PRESIDENT. EMMANUEL MACRON IS OUT OF THE. COUNTRY AND IS IN THE GULF. AIMING TO BRING PRICES DOWN, HE'S IN KUWAIT, UAE AND QATAR. HE REFUSED RESIGNATION OF HIS.

INTERIOR MINISTER. WE SHOULD LEARN MORE ABOUT HOW. AUTHORITIES PLAN TO HANDLE THE. REST OF THE WEEK IN FRANCE LATER. TODAY, THAT COULD INVOLVE. CURFEWS AND BANS ON PUBLIC. GATHERINGS. >> Ashley: THANK YOU. WE WILL BRING IN REBECCA GRANT. THANK YOU FOR COMING ON. FOLLOW-UP WHAT JEFF SAID ABOUT.

IMPLEMENTING CURFEWS. DO THEY WORK? DOES NOT SEEM A CURFEW IS GOING. TO STOP PEOPLE WHO ARE BURNING. BUILDINGS DOWN. >> A CURFEW IS ONE STEP, THERE. ARE BIGGER ISSUES HERE AND THE. CORE OF THIS AS PRESIDENT TRUMP. POINTED OUT IS THIS HATRED OF. WESTERN CIVILIZATION, WHETHER. THAT IS COMING FROM COMMUNISTS, JIHADISTS OR GENERAL. DISSATISFACTION. EUROPE NEEDS A TURNAROUND, THEY. ARE BEHIND IN AI, BEHIND IN.

SPACE TRAVEL. IT STARTS WITH RESPECTING VALUES. THEY CREATED. >> Todd: ONE FUNDAMENTAL. QUESTION, WHAT ULTIMATELY DO. THESE RIOTERS WANT? THE FOLLOW-UP IS, WHY WOULD YOU. WANT TO DESTROY THE PLACE WHERE. YOU LIVE? >> I KNOW, IT SEEMS INCREDIBLE. WHAT THEY WANT SEEMS TO CHANGE.

IN 2018, YELLOW SHIRTS. PROTESTING DIESEL TAX. THREE YEARS AGO THEY BURNED DOWN. PART OF BORDEAUX, NOW SCHOOLS, HIGH SCHOOL STUDENTS THAT. STARTED THIS BUT IT IS A BIGGER. SET OF ISSUES. WHAT DO THEY WANT? IT IS A DISLIKE OF THE SYSTEM. IT IS A PROTEST AND ALL THIS. THIS IS WHY IT IS SCARY FOR US. WE DON'T WANT TO SEE THIS HAPPEN. IN AMERICA.

>> Ashley: I WANT TO TALK ABOUT. THAT, THE STATE DEPARTMENT IS. WEIGHING IN ON VIOLENCE ACROSS. FRANCE ISSUING STRONG WARNING ON. X SAYING AS SECRETARY RUBIO. WARNED IN JULY, WE ARE. WITNESSING RESURGENCE OF. POLITICAL TERRORISM, THOSE WHO. LEGITIMIZE IT DESERVE. CONDEMNATION. ARSON IS NOT ARGUMENT, TERROR IS. NOT JUSTICE. WE HEARD MIKE JOHNSON, PRESIDENT. TRUMP AND J.D. VANCE WEIGHING IN. ON THIS, WHAT DO YOU THINK OF.

THIS? >> I AGREE, THERE IS A. DIFFERENCE BETWEEN HIGH SCHOOL. STUDENTS PROTESTING AND GROUPS. THAT EXPLOIT IT. FAR LEFT ELEMENTS AND JIHADISTS. WANT TO SOW CHAOS AND ANARCHY. THEY DONBAS HAVE -- DON'T HAVE A. POSITIVE AGENDA AND THAT IS. SCARY. THAT IS WHERE THE PARALLEL COMES. TO THE WORST OF OUR DEMOCRATIC. SOCIALISTS IN AMERICA, THEY WANT. TO TEAR DOWN NOT TO BUILD UP.

>> Todd: TO ASHLEY'S POINT, SPEAKER OF THE HOUSE MIKE. JOHNSON IMPLIED IF DEMOCRATIC. SOCIALISTS/MARXISTS WIN THIS. ELECTION, WE COULD SEE SCENES. LIKE THIS IN OUR COUNTRY, THAT. WAS THE IMPLICATION FROM THE. SPEAKER. POINT BLANK, REBECCA, ARE WE. DOING ENOUGH BEYOND POLITICS TO. PREVENT SIMILAR SCENES FROM. UNFOLDING ON AMERICAN STREETS? >> I THINK WE ARE BECOMING AWARE. AS WE TACKLE THINGS LIKE THE.

CORRUPTION CASES WE'VE SEEN AND. EXPOSE WORST OF DEMOCRATIC. SOCIALISTS WANT TO DO. AMERICANS ARE WAKING UP TO THIS. THREAT AND EUROPE IS REMINDER WE. CAN'T GO DOWN THIS ROAD AND IT. IS HIGH TIME FOR AMERICANS TO. WAKE UP. OUR VALUES,