Transcript for Nikki Haley reacts to French election results

Let's talk more about this with U.N. Ambassador Nikki Haley. Thank you for joining us this morning. Great to be with you. President trump has been tweeting about the election, calling it very interesting. It's probably one of the most consequential elections of our lifetime. Marine LE pen wants to pull back from nato and Europe. Macron wants to embrace those institutio institutions. There's changing times in every country and these elections now mean more than they ever have. But what we have said is whoever the president is, we know that France will continue to be an ally, we'll continue to work with them and look forward to seeing the result. Even if they pull out of nato? I think that every country has to make their own decisions. What you campaign on and what you actually do is something that's totally different. The people of France will speak and at the end of the day the answer will come through and we'll deal with them as we need to. Let's talk about North Korea. Over the weekend we learned that American professor Tony Kim has been detained. Any idea why he was arrested or if he'll be released? North Korea has been playing games from the very beginning. Kim Jong-un is trying to show his strength to the people of North Korea, whether it's just with all of these threats or what he's trying to do in terms of talking, in terms of trying to start war. What we've said is we don't want war so don't start one. Just by detaining a prisoner is one way he's trying to show his strength and it's not going to work. Do you think any one of those three American prisoners right now are in danger? Our focus is to get them out. That's the goal. You never like having any of your citizens that are detained, and hopefully we'll work with China and see if we can get them released. President trump did speak with the president of China, president XI overnight and China urged restraint in this north Korean situation. Is the United States prepared to explore exit ramps? For example, China has asked the U.S. To consider suspending missiles with North Korea. We're not going to do that. That is too important at this point. South Korea has been an ally from the very beginning. We want to protect them just as we're protecting ourselves and that's what we said we were going to do. We were going to have the backs of aur allies and call out our adversaries. North Korea has done nothing but give every reason why we need to have military exercises in south Korea. I think that while we've worked well with China, I think we saw a anonymous security council released last week condemning North Korea on what they're trying to do with their testing and launches and what we're saying is, look, we're not backing down from South Korea and North Korea needs to get in line and China has been great in helping us do that. Any way to de-escalate? Really the power has been through China. They have shown genuine concern. I think they are trying to put the pressure on North Korea and I think it's working. I think a lot of the rhetoric that you're seeing come out of North Korea is just more of them trying to get the confidence of their citizens, but they're not getting the confidence of people around the world. You were talking about the French election, you said people campaign in one way and govern in another. As the president approaches the end of his first 100 days, he's modified many of his campaign positions, particularly in the area of foreign policy and national security, doesn't think nato is obsolete. He's been tough on the U.N. But today he's with you hosting the ambassadors from the security council at the white house, taking a harder line on north Korea. The times that we're dealing with right now, we're seeing progression from bad actors, seeing the need for strength with our allies and we have to show force when we have to show force. We've seen the president say he's not afraid to make a decision, not afraid to act and he's going to change with the circumstances and that's exactly what we want to see in a leader. On the united nations he's proposed major cuts in funding for the U.N., dismissed it on Twitter as a club for people to talk and get together and have a good time. Do you think those ambassadors today will change his view on that? He is right when we say there's too much fat at the U.N. And I think it's great that the security council members will have time with president, see general Mcmaster and hear where we stand because these are people that make a lot of important decisions and we need to make sure they're on our side. Thanks for your time this morning.

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