• President Joe Biden described France as the United States’s “best friend,” telling French President Emmanuel Macron during Biden’s first state dinner as commander in chief that he “couldn’t have had a better guest.”
• Macron added against an image of the Statue of Liberty: “These principles are at risk, are challenged, even in our societies, in our democracies. A lot of people just want to jeopardize or reverse these principles, challenging elections.”

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