Hey, everybody, we have Colonel Doug McGregor back. Colonel McGregor is a decorated combat veteran.

The author of five books, a PhD and a defense and foreign policy consultant who was commissioned

at the regular army in 1976 after a year at Virginia Military Institute in four years at West Point.

In 2004, Colonel McGregor retired. In 2020, the president appointed McGregor to serve as

senior advisor to the Secretary of Defense. He holds an MA in comparative politics and a PhD

in international relations from the University of Virginia. And thanks so much for joining us on

the holiday. But I wanted to get a couple of quick updates from you, Colonel McGregor.

First of all, can we talk for a minute about what's happening in France?

Yes, sir. Can you describe it? Well, the last count that I heard was unrest in 40 cities

with the worst unrest in Marseille. And Marseille, of course, as a city, has a much higher

population of the North Africans, Africans, Muslims, if you will, than almost any other city in Europe.

So that's not entirely surprising. But we don't have too much information, President Macron,

other than committing additional policemen to contain the violence really hasn't said very much

or made any sweeping decisions. And I think everyone is waiting for some sort of definitive

statement from the president of the Republic about what he plans to do.

And the rioting began with a young man who was killed at a police at a traffic stop.

Yes. And the circumstances are not clear. The police been apologized, but that doesn't mean

a great deal. It doesn't necessarily mean he did anything wrong. And it's one of these situations

where the single action became a catalyst for apparently violence that was waiting to happen.

In the level of destruction and the degree of violence aimed at Frenchman, the France, the

French society, the French Republic is really quite enormous. And so one has to ask,

were they waiting for something like this to happen? Or is this just a spontaneous outburst of

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