Politics

With just one month to go until the French presidential election, President Vladimir Putin met the leader of the National Front, Marine Le Pen, in the Kremlin on Friday, and as Reuters summarized, "handed her a potential boost to her campaign to win next month's presidential election in France."

 Putin told Le Pen Moscow reserved the right to meet any French politician it wanted and that she represented "quite a fast-growing element of European political forces."

For those of our readers who are gluttons for punishment, here is a live stream of the House debate which will carry on (and on and on...) for the next several hours.  Updates will be posted below throughout the day.

http://livestream.com/accounts/300260/events/4962941/player

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