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In the next hour, MPs are expected to approve | :00:07. | :00:11. | |
legislation that would give the British Prime Minister formal | :00:12. | :00:13. | |
power to withdraw the UK from the European Union. | :00:14. | :00:20. | |
We'll be live in the House of Commons as MPs | :00:21. | :00:23. | |
Democratic Senator Elizabeth Warren is stopped from speaking | :00:24. | :00:34. | |
for critcising the conduct of the President's pick | :00:35. | :00:37. | |
Mr Sessions has used the power of his office... | :00:38. | :00:50. | |
But she goes on to Facebook to read a letter criticising | :00:51. | :00:53. | |
the controversial past of Jeff Sessions. | :00:54. | :00:55. | |
The President accuses the Democrats of obstruction but is even more | :00:56. | :00:57. | |
incensed that the courts continue to block his travel ban. | :00:58. | :01:01. | |
I don't ever want to call a court biased so I won't call it biased, | :01:02. | :01:05. | |
and we haven't had a decision yet, but courts seem to be so political. | :01:06. | :01:16. | |
Being a Trump supporter on a liberal campus. | :01:17. | :01:18. | |
I'm Katty Kay in Washington, Christian Fraser's in London. | :01:19. | :01:34. | |
Britain is about to take another decisive step towards Brexit. | :01:35. | :01:38. | |
Yes, in the next hour, MPs will be voting on a bill that | :01:39. | :01:41. | |
will give the Prime Minister the power to trigger Article 50 - | :01:42. | :01:44. | |
the formal notice to quit the European Union. | :01:45. | :01:47. | |
This is the scene in the lower House of Commons at the moment. | :01:48. | :01:54. | |
I think the PM will be pretty pleased with the way it has gone. | :01:55. | :01:59. | |
Theresa May has seen off a rebellion from her own MPs, | :02:00. | :02:02. | |
who were threatening to support an opposition amendment. | :02:03. | :02:05. | |
So, when it comes to the final vote this evening, the vote to send it | :02:06. | :02:09. | |
on its way to the Lords, we expect the bill to go | :02:10. | :02:12. | |
I have been speaking to the Conservative Member | :02:13. | :02:15. | |
of Parliament Anna Soubry, who campaigned for the UK | :02:16. | :02:17. | |
48% of people in the UK voted to remain and so did a large number of | :02:18. | :02:32. | |
MPs and people watching, particularly those outside the | :02:33. | :02:36. | |
country, might be surprised you caved in so easily. Nobody has caved | :02:37. | :02:41. | |
in. I have voted in effect in everything I believed in but I made | :02:42. | :02:46. | |
a solid promise to the people in my constituency and the country at | :02:47. | :02:50. | |
large because I was very much involved in the pro-EU Remain | :02:51. | :02:54. | |
campaign that I would take the decision, the result of the | :02:55. | :03:01. | |
referendum, and I would even though I don't agree with it, is the it | :03:02. | :03:04. | |
will not be good for my country, I made that promise and I have to be | :03:05. | :03:08. | |
true to it. If you voted for the referendum, you have got to see it | :03:09. | :03:13. | |
through, even if you do not like the result and you cannot go against the | :03:14. | :03:17. | |
promise you gave to the people, even if you do not like the result. They | :03:18. | :03:22. | |
have decided and therefore we have to execute the decision they made. | :03:23. | :03:27. | |
It would seem the Prime Minister 's home and dry in delivering Brexit. | :03:28. | :03:35. | |
She has got the support of MPs of both sides of the divide so Members | :03:36. | :03:40. | |
of Parliament for the Labour Party and the Conservative Party have very | :03:41. | :03:45. | |
much come together to honour the result in accordance with the | :03:46. | :03:47. | |
promise they gave people. What is happening in the rest of Britain is | :03:48. | :03:53. | |
that many people who voted Remain say, we just want to get on with | :03:54. | :03:59. | |
this now, and that is happening. There has not been the drift away | :04:00. | :04:03. | |
from the decision that was made back in June, so for me, we have just got | :04:04. | :04:07. | |
to bite the bullet, get on with it and get the very best we can as we | :04:08. | :04:12. | |
lead the European Union. A lot of the amendment to boating on the | :04:13. | :04:16. | |
night is whether to give or ensure the rights of European citizens here | :04:17. | :04:21. | |
in the UK on the might of the referendum. The Prime Minister | :04:22. | :04:25. | |
sympathetic to that but it all seems to be pointing to that amendment | :04:26. | :04:30. | |
being defeated. It is actually an amendment that should not be to this | :04:31. | :04:34. | |
bill. This bill as a vehicle that delivers the EU referendum to 's | :04:35. | :04:38. | |
result. The Prime Minister has made it clear that this will be her | :04:39. | :04:42. | |
priority, to make sure we do the right thing by EU citizens, and I | :04:43. | :04:48. | |
trust her on that. It will be her priority, I am confident she will | :04:49. | :04:52. | |
get a deal, and if she doesn't, there is nothing to stop her from | :04:53. | :04:55. | |
saying, we will do the right thing, even if our colleagues in the EU | :04:56. | :05:01. | |
feel they cannot reciprocate those arrangements, and I absolutely trust | :05:02. | :05:05. | |
and taken the whole word. It is more than just sympathy, she believes in | :05:06. | :05:08. | |
it and knows it is the right thing to do. There was one concession made | :05:09. | :05:18. | |
by the negotiation, but if you vote against it, then what? The Prime | :05:19. | :05:23. | |
Minister has always said, if we get a deal or when we get a deal, I am a | :05:24. | :05:29. | |
bit more cautious because I understand the realities of the task | :05:30. | :05:34. | |
ahead, but the's assume we get a deal, but will vote on that deal, | :05:35. | :05:41. | |
she said last night the Article 50 bit, there will be one of the road, | :05:42. | :05:46. | |
and the new arrangement and new deal, there will be another vote, | :05:47. | :05:50. | |
and it will take place at the same time as the European Parliament. I | :05:51. | :05:54. | |
do not think it is a great concession because what happens if | :05:55. | :05:58. | |
we do not get any deal? This place must then determine what happens and | :05:59. | :06:01. | |
that must be on the basis of all options and I will continue to make | :06:02. | :06:10. | |
that case. I will ask you for a primer on Parliamentary procedure | :06:11. | :06:14. | |
because I'm a bit confused. Smarter people than me are also a bit | :06:15. | :06:18. | |
confused. We had that vote last week, it will then went through all | :06:19. | :06:24. | |
those committees, so tonight, we are putting an amendment is not | :06:25. | :06:26. | |
necessarily in numerical order, and then vote on the bill again? Yeah... | :06:27. | :06:37. | |
When the bill goes to Parliament, it gets three readings in each house. | :06:38. | :06:41. | |
Last week, we got the full reading, and then these MPs got a debate on | :06:42. | :06:48. | |
it, and then you get a second reading followed by a vote, and at | :06:49. | :06:52. | |
that point, they could've killed stone dead. Last week, we told you | :06:53. | :06:56. | |
it was an important though, and it was. After that, we have had hours | :06:57. | :07:01. | |
of debate in committees and the house this week, and lots of | :07:02. | :07:05. | |
amendment had been put forward, and tonight they will vote on nine of | :07:06. | :07:08. | |
those amendments. When that is all done and dusted, we will have the | :07:09. | :07:13. | |
third reading and a boat which will send it on to the House of Lords. | :07:14. | :07:19. | |
Then it goes to the Lords and sales through? It should sell through but | :07:20. | :07:23. | |
the Lords at an unelected body and it would be something, in fact it | :07:24. | :07:29. | |
would cause a constitutional crisis, if the Lords were in some way to | :07:30. | :07:32. | |
defy the will of the people, so I would expect it to go through but | :07:33. | :07:37. | |
will they tried amendments on it? The government does not have a | :07:38. | :07:41. | |
majority in the House of Lords and there are a lot of Liberal Democrats | :07:42. | :07:44. | |
peers in the Lords. Even if they do, it is likely to come back and it | :07:45. | :07:49. | |
will be defeated so to my's vote will send this bill a long way | :07:50. | :07:55. | |
towards becoming law. I knew I should not have asked that second | :07:56. | :07:56. | |
question! 30 years ago, the US Attorney | :07:57. | :07:57. | |
for Alabama, Jeff Sessions, appeared before a Senate Committee, | :07:58. | :08:00. | |
nominated to serve During that hearing, | :08:01. | :08:02. | |
a string of allegations were brought forward that almost | :08:03. | :08:04. | |
destroyed his career. Before the committee, | :08:05. | :08:07. | |
Sessions testified he couldn't remember labelling a white lawyer | :08:08. | :08:09. | |
in his home state a disgrace for representing black clients | :08:10. | :08:13. | |
though, according to the record, he didn't contest | :08:14. | :08:17. | |
the allegation either. Amid the accusations of racism, | :08:18. | :08:20. | |
his nomination was rejected. Now, 30 years on, Jeff Sessions | :08:21. | :08:26. | |
is Donald Trump's pick for the highest legal office | :08:27. | :08:28. | |
in the land, US Attorney General. The Democrats are trying | :08:29. | :08:32. | |
to block it and, last night, the Senator for Massachusetts, | :08:33. | :08:35. | |
Elizabeth Warren, went to the floor to read a letter | :08:36. | :08:38. | |
from Martin Luther King's widow, Corretta - a letter sent in 1986 | :08:39. | :08:41. | |
to the Judiciary Committee opposing Mr Sessions sought to punish older | :08:42. | :08:44. | |
black civil rights activists, advisers and colleagues | :08:45. | :08:53. | |
of my husband who had been key figures in the civil rights | :08:54. | :08:58. | |
movement in the 1960s. Senators appear in the motives | :08:59. | :09:06. | |
and conduct of our colleague Senator Warren said, | :09:07. | :09:13. | |
Senator Sessions has used the awesome power of his office | :09:14. | :09:18. | |
to chill the free exercise I call the Senator order under | :09:19. | :09:22. | |
the provision to rule. The Senate Majority Leader, | :09:23. | :09:33. | |
Mitch McConnell, had stepped in with an objection | :09:34. | :09:35. | |
and a little-known rule that forbids Senators from tarnishing | :09:36. | :09:37. | |
the reputation of their colleagues. Not to be defeated, Senator Warren | :09:38. | :09:41. | |
left the chamber to read the letter to 2 million people | :09:42. | :09:43. | |
on Facebook Live. I do not believe Jefferson Sessions | :09:44. | :09:49. | |
possesses the requisite judgment, competence and sensitivity | :09:50. | :09:54. | |
to the rights guaranteed by the federal civil rights laws | :09:55. | :09:59. | |
to qualify for appointment Based on his record, | :10:00. | :10:03. | |
I believe his confirmation would have a devastating effect, | :10:04. | :10:09. | |
not only on the judicial system in Alabama, but also on the progress | :10:10. | :10:14. | |
we have made everywhere towards fulfilling my husband's | :10:15. | :10:20. | |
dream that he envisioned We talked yesterday, Katty, | :10:21. | :10:24. | |
about the controversial pick, Betsy DeVos, who was confirmed | :10:25. | :10:33. | |
as Secretary for Education, but only after the intervention | :10:34. | :10:39. | |
of the Vice President, More trouble this time | :10:40. | :10:41. | |
with Jeff Sessions. The question is starting to be the | :10:42. | :10:56. | |
Democrats, do they overplay their hand? Is there a point at which the | :10:57. | :11:00. | |
public will say, will you hold up one of these nominations? They do | :11:01. | :11:07. | |
not have the votes to stop Jeff Sessions getting through, and can | :11:08. | :11:14. | |
they carry on like this before the public gets slightly annoyed with | :11:15. | :11:18. | |
the process? Americans want things to get done and they think Donald | :11:19. | :11:24. | |
Trump is right that this has been a slow process. But she got 2 million | :11:25. | :11:33. | |
viewers on Facebook, I ... So has it backfired? Probably in terms of | :11:34. | :11:39. | |
Elizabeth Warren's popularity. I would love to see her fund-raising | :11:40. | :11:44. | |
figures today. You think it has backfired on her? No, what I am | :11:45. | :11:50. | |
saying it has been helpful to her because I suspect she has raised a | :11:51. | :11:54. | |
whole lot of money out of this. There may be a broader sense in the | :11:55. | :11:56. | |
country that people want things done and they want this Cabinet appointed | :11:57. | :12:02. | |
but I suspect Elizabeth Warren, a liberal, who has lots of liberal | :12:03. | :12:10. | |
supporters and donors. Might have backfired for Mitch McConnell? Let's | :12:11. | :12:13. | |
asks a Republican strategist. With me now is Republican political | :12:14. | :12:16. | |
strategist and former advisor to George W Bush, | :12:17. | :12:18. | |
Ron Christie. I think this might have backfired | :12:19. | :12:29. | |
for Elizabeth Warren. She said the 46% of people in Massachusetts want | :12:30. | :12:32. | |
someone is to represent them in the Senate other than her so I think she | :12:33. | :12:38. | |
did this as a ploy to get attention, to get money and try to get her | :12:39. | :12:42. | |
campaign in the Senate back contract but ultimately, trying to impugn | :12:43. | :12:49. | |
that a senator is a racist was a bad move for her. Let's take the case of | :12:50. | :13:01. | |
Jeff Sessions. He has this contentious history, he was not 30 | :13:02. | :13:05. | |
years ago deemed fit to be appointed as a federal judge because of that | :13:06. | :13:10. | |
history and allegations of racism. Yes, but these were only | :13:11. | :13:14. | |
allegations. There was never concrete proof that he was defeated | :13:15. | :13:19. | |
by the committee never made it to the vote. Jeff Sessions supporters | :13:20. | :13:23. | |
will say this is all about politics, what is the worst things you can say | :13:24. | :13:28. | |
to a southern white politician? They are racist. At that time, it is why | :13:29. | :13:33. | |
he was defeated. You think there was nothing there about what he has said | :13:34. | :13:38. | |
about the KKK, in who he has defended? I have known him for | :13:39. | :13:43. | |
several years. I just do not believe these allegations to be true. Do I | :13:44. | :13:48. | |
believe the comment can be taken out of context? Absolutely. But do I | :13:49. | :13:55. | |
believe he is racist? Know, and I think Democrats need to be very | :13:56. | :14:00. | |
careful that they are obstructing everything Trump is trying to do. It | :14:01. | :14:04. | |
is interesting to say that because we have tweaked here from Martin | :14:05. | :14:09. | |
Luther King's daughter and she does not feel the same way that you do. | :14:10. | :14:13. | |
She has been saying on Twitter today that Miss Warren kept the spirit of | :14:14. | :14:19. | |
the Senate alive and that she raised important issues to black people in | :14:20. | :14:25. | |
the deep South. I would say to that she is entitled to her own opinion | :14:26. | :14:29. | |
but here in the United States Senate we have rules and laws said you | :14:30. | :14:35. | |
cannot insult, put down or make a bad reference to a fellow United | :14:36. | :14:39. | |
States Senator. Did he say these things or did he do racist things? | :14:40. | :14:44. | |
That is very much in dispute I think. Senators have criticised and | :14:45. | :14:47. | |
impugned each other in the past. CIA boss Mike Pompeo is due | :14:48. | :14:49. | |
to visit Turkey on Thursday. It's his first overseas | :14:50. | :14:51. | |
visit as director of It follows a phone call | :14:52. | :14:53. | |
between Mr Trump and Turkey's President Trump reiterated US | :14:54. | :14:57. | |
support with Turkey, saying Ankara The two leaders agreed to work | :14:58. | :15:03. | |
together to fight the so-called One of Russia's most prominent | :15:04. | :15:08. | |
opposition leaders, Alexei Navalny, has been found of guilty | :15:09. | :15:14. | |
of embezzlement in a retrial. In delivering his verdict, | :15:15. | :15:17. | |
the judge said Mr Navalny had organised the theft | :15:18. | :15:22. | |
of other people's property. The conviction bars him | :15:23. | :15:27. | |
from running in next year's Mexicans are warming | :15:28. | :15:29. | |
to their president's tough stance on Mr Trump and the country's | :15:30. | :15:33. | |
refusal to pay for a border wall. As the President welcomed | :15:34. | :15:38. | |
back Mexicans who'd been deported from the US, | :15:39. | :15:40. | |
one survey showed 64% of voters approved of Enrique Pena Nieto's | :15:41. | :15:46. | |
decision not to meet However, the Mexican president's | :15:47. | :15:48. | |
overall popularity has sunk to a four-year low, | :15:49. | :15:52. | |
according to the same poll. It's been a tough old week | :15:53. | :15:58. | |
for French Presidential The main centre-right candidate | :15:59. | :16:01. | |
is facing further allegations about payments to his wife, | :16:02. | :16:06. | |
Penelope. One newspaper alleges her husband | :16:07. | :16:13. | |
paid her nearly $48,000 of taxpayers' money in redundancy | :16:14. | :16:15. | |
payments - not once but twice. Mr Fillon's dismissed | :16:16. | :16:21. | |
the reports as lies. Following the dramatic events | :16:22. | :16:27. | |
in the Senate on Tuesday, during which the Vice President had | :16:28. | :16:29. | |
to step in to vote on Betsy DeVos as Education Secretary, | :16:30. | :16:33. | |
Donald Trump has taken to Twitter again to voice his frustration | :16:34. | :16:36. | |
The President said, "It is a disgrace that my full | :16:37. | :16:41. | |
Cabinet is still not in place, the longest such delay | :16:42. | :16:45. | |
in the history of our country. So how hard is it going to be | :16:46. | :16:52. | |
for the new administration BBC Newsnight's diplomatic editor, | :16:53. | :16:56. | |
Mark Urban, has been taking a look. You can come here, promising | :16:57. | :17:06. | |
to drain the swamp or dethrone the establishment, but this city has | :17:07. | :17:08. | |
a way of protecting its interests, slowing down those | :17:09. | :17:13. | |
who challenge its ways. So the Trump administration's | :17:14. | :17:18. | |
process of nominating a Cabinet This level of obstruction at | :17:19. | :17:21. | |
the beginning of an administration is really record-setting | :17:22. | :17:28. | |
in a very unfortunate way. While the Senate have blamed | :17:29. | :17:37. | |
the Democrats for the go slow, they don't have the numbers to wreck | :17:38. | :17:40. | |
Trump's agenda. Rather, it's doubts among | :17:41. | :17:44. | |
Republicans that could pose the most Keen to impress the people who voted | :17:45. | :17:47. | |
for him, President Trump has signed some highly significant | :17:48. | :17:55. | |
and emotive executive orders. But you can't run the country | :17:56. | :18:00. | |
by those alone, particularly when it comes to spending money | :18:01. | :18:03. | |
or changing existing laws. For that, you need to go up | :18:04. | :18:09. | |
the hill and get people Thousands of people work on the Hill | :18:10. | :18:24. | |
in office is so widely spread the place has its own subway. Things | :18:25. | :18:30. | |
here travel at the speed legislators can work at. Many legislators have | :18:31. | :18:37. | |
discovered this. John Thierry has been a hill inside the best part of | :18:38. | :18:42. | |
30 years for the Republican majority just two in the Senate, he sees | :18:43. | :18:47. | |
risks for the White House. The numbers of the Senate especially, | :18:48. | :18:54. | |
they have tremendous power, and you will see that especially for some | :18:55. | :18:58. | |
Republicans who do not like Donald Trump will trust him, they will step | :18:59. | :19:03. | |
up and say what they feel. So there is no obedience with this Congress, | :19:04. | :19:07. | |
there never has been, especially with this President, there never | :19:08. | :19:14. | |
will be. The combination of Democrats is keen port Trump voting | :19:15. | :19:18. | |
with the small number of dissident republicans can pose or number | :19:19. | :19:24. | |
problems for the President. To avoid them, he must stick to policies were | :19:25. | :19:28. | |
he in congressional Republicans are on the same page. I believe on the | :19:29. | :19:34. | |
need for bilateral agreements with the UK or Japan, there will be | :19:35. | :19:38. | |
partnerships we can work with him on tax reform. We believe our tax code | :19:39. | :19:44. | |
is overly complex, there are over 70,000 pages on our tax code, people | :19:45. | :19:50. | |
want a simpler, fairer and flatter tax code. That is something we | :19:51. | :20:00. | |
should be focused on. Among those on powerful Senate committees, already | :20:01. | :20:04. | |
key figures will challenge Trump an issues such as the handling of his | :20:05. | :20:10. | |
immigrant ban or his professed admiration for Vladimir Putin. You | :20:11. | :20:15. | |
worried by what the President has been saying? There have been a lot | :20:16. | :20:21. | |
of things said that I would not say but I think that, as time moves on, | :20:22. | :20:30. | |
there will be a much more coming together on those issues. The | :20:31. | :20:36. | |
administration is just getting going my senses that, in the very near | :20:37. | :20:40. | |
future, things will be in the middle-of-the-road. Nominations, | :20:41. | :20:50. | |
health care or Russian sanctions, Trump's campaign pledges are already | :20:51. | :20:53. | |
being modified by people on the hill. As the President starts to | :20:54. | :20:57. | |
spend money, that will intensify. You and I were talking about this | :20:58. | :21:13. | |
before and it is still the unknown question about this presidency. Will | :21:14. | :21:17. | |
this end up being a normal presidency or will it be a train | :21:18. | :21:22. | |
wreck? I would not call it a train wreck... I do not think we will see | :21:23. | :21:29. | |
business as usual with this White House. Donald Trump views himself as | :21:30. | :21:36. | |
a businessman, he expects results, and he will continue to shake the | :21:37. | :21:40. | |
debt until he gets what he wants. The question is, how will he work | :21:41. | :21:44. | |
with Congress? Cani work with lawmakers within his party but also | :21:45. | :21:49. | |
with Democrats to find a way to get legislation to his desk. What is | :21:50. | :21:54. | |
your hunch so far? I think he will. We heard congressmen talk about tax | :21:55. | :22:01. | |
reform and secondly I think we will get a criminal justice reform | :22:02. | :22:04. | |
package. Congressmen think the sentencing of people for certain | :22:05. | :22:09. | |
crimes is out of whack and we need to fix it. I guess when people talk | :22:10. | :22:15. | |
about the idea that could go off the rails, something could go wrong, | :22:16. | :22:18. | |
what they're talking about is whether this is an administration | :22:19. | :22:24. | |
that can handle the erratic nature of the principal, the President | :22:25. | :22:29. | |
himself. However much the staff tries to normalise things, Donald | :22:30. | :22:34. | |
Trump almost gets on his own way. When I worked for President Bush, we | :22:35. | :22:37. | |
did not have Twitter back then. There is no way President Bush would | :22:38. | :22:44. | |
have used that! UC has started trying to take Twitter away in the | :22:45. | :22:48. | |
more they remove it from him, the more he sensed twits out. The | :22:49. | :22:54. | |
challenges, how do his stuff closest advisers rein him in and get focused | :22:55. | :22:59. | |
on important issues? There is a story going around today that want | :23:00. | :23:05. | |
to replace the communication of Sean Spicer. He might have a strategy for | :23:06. | :23:13. | |
the week, which is completely untied by a tweet that the President has | :23:14. | :23:18. | |
sent out. He can never really get on the front foot. He can't. The press | :23:19. | :23:23. | |
secretary has a tough enough job just dealing with the national and | :23:24. | :23:28. | |
international press in the briefing room and around Washington, DC. The | :23:29. | :23:32. | |
White House communication directors are looking at what will happen next | :23:33. | :23:37. | |
week, next month, in six months' time. And if you cannot have someone | :23:38. | :23:41. | |
who is dedicated to that job, the White House would just roll from | :23:42. | :23:45. | |
crisis to crisis. They need to replace Sean Spicer with a dedicated | :23:46. | :23:49. | |
communications director who has a better sense of what the messages. | :23:50. | :23:54. | |
What do you make of these newspaper headlines, that there is chaos | :23:55. | :23:58. | |
within the administration? There are all sorts of leaks coming out at the | :23:59. | :24:04. | |
moment. When I worked in the White House, any time we saw a leak, it | :24:05. | :24:08. | |
either meant someone had an axe to grind or someone was upset with the | :24:09. | :24:12. | |
way things were going. If you want to say something, put your name | :24:13. | :24:15. | |
behind it, I think the White House is in a very difficult time, I was | :24:16. | :24:20. | |
there one day one with President George W Bush. It takes several | :24:21. | :24:25. | |
weeks to figure out your bearings, how to work with Congress, so from | :24:26. | :24:29. | |
my perspective, the Trump administration is starting out | :24:30. | :24:30. | |
fairly well. Just before we move on, | :24:31. | :24:41. | |
I want to show you some pictures that came in just before we went | :24:42. | :24:44. | |
on air of Donald Trump meeting There is Mr Trump 's sitting | :24:45. | :25:00. | |
slightly awkwardly behind the desk and the CEO of Intel standing really | :25:01. | :25:04. | |
awkwardly right behind him. What he's trying to do, talking about | :25:05. | :25:10. | |
jobs moving to Arizona, $7 billion investment, 33,000 jobs, I think, | :25:11. | :25:19. | |
once again... This image. They look a little nervous. You can see them | :25:20. | :25:23. | |
shifting a little nervously. You think? | :25:24. | :25:25. | |
You're watching 100 Days from BBC News. | :25:26. | :25:27. | |
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Mr Trump's weighed into a dispute between his daughter | :25:35. | :25:37. | |
And what's life like for Conservatives on campus? | :25:38. | :25:44. | |
We hear from young Republicans about how they're getting | :25:45. | :25:46. | |
That's still to come on 100 Days from BBC News. | :25:47. | :26:10. | |
Sunshine at a premium for the remainder of this week, cloud looks | :26:11. | :26:17. | |
likely to dominate right across the country, filtering from the east. It | :26:18. | :26:21. | |
will make you feel increasingly cold with easterly wind and the showers | :26:22. | :26:26. | |
we see. The fall as sleet and snow. Because of this area of high | :26:27. | :26:29. | |
pressure across Scandinavia and the winds coming round from the East, it | :26:30. | :26:35. | |
comes across the cold North Sea, that will make it feel | :26:36. | :26:39. | |
disappointing, particularly on exposed East coasts. Eventually, | :26:40. | :26:43. | |
that cold air pushes further westwards. The potential for showers | :26:44. | :26:49. | |
as well through the night to across eastern Scotland, eastern England, | :26:50. | :26:53. | |
down the coastline. Showers of rain further inland, a bit of sleet and | :26:54. | :26:58. | |
wet snow mixed in there. Is he stretches to watch out for. | :26:59. | :27:03. | |
Elsewhere, a cold start the many and quite a lot of cloud around as well. | :27:04. | :27:09. | |
And easterly wind driving the cloud across the country, maybe Western | :27:10. | :27:12. | |
fringes hanging on a bit of sunshine. But not the glorious | :27:13. | :27:18. | |
sunshine do you have seen today. Always the risk of some showers | :27:19. | :27:22. | |
running in of the North Sea coast. Those showers again will be | :27:23. | :27:28. | |
primarily of rain and sleet. Further inland, we will see sleet and snow | :27:29. | :27:32. | |
falling from time to time. Look at the temperatures, 2-3d at the very | :27:33. | :27:38. | |
best. A cold, disappointing, grey day even without the showers, a lot | :27:39. | :27:43. | |
of low cloud, struggling temperatures, the best we can offer | :27:44. | :27:51. | |
is six or seven, but generally, more uniform at 2-4d. As we move out of | :27:52. | :27:55. | |
Thursday night into Friday morning, some of those showers push further | :27:56. | :27:59. | |
inland and there will be accumulation of sleet and snow to | :28:00. | :28:03. | |
the course of the night and into Friday morning, particularly across | :28:04. | :28:08. | |
the higher ground of Scotland and North East England. Friday the cold | :28:09. | :28:10. | |
of the day when you factor in the wind and the cloud around, 2-3d more | :28:11. | :28:17. | |
widely across the country. Subtle we move into the weekend, high pressure | :28:18. | :28:22. | |
seeks its way further south, that means a subtle change in wind | :28:23. | :28:26. | |
direction. Nothing too drastic but less cold, best best of the | :28:27. | :28:27. | |
brightness in the West. In the next hour MP's | :28:28. | :30:06. | |
are expected to approve legislation that would give | :30:07. | :30:16. | |
the British Prime Minister formal power to withdraw the UK | :30:17. | :30:18. | |
from the European Union. I been un-friended by probably half | :30:19. | :30:24. | |
the girls in my sorrow to. what's life like under a Trump | :30:25. | :30:36. | |
presidency? We're going to take | :30:37. | :30:45. | |
you straight back to the floor They have been going through the | :30:46. | :30:47. | |
lobby for various amendments. Nine votes this evening | :30:48. | :30:58. | |
on various amendments put Most of them being defeated. Asking | :30:59. | :31:08. | |
the government to take the Good Friday agreement into account was | :31:09. | :31:13. | |
defeated by a majority of 39. It does cause problems, this bill, for | :31:14. | :31:18. | |
devolved parliaments. But the government is going to negotiate on | :31:19. | :31:22. | |
behalf of the entire UK. There will be a third reading of the bill. | :31:23. | :31:28. | |
And then the big vote of the evening. | :31:29. | :31:30. | |
At which point MP's must decide whether to send it on to the Lords. | :31:31. | :31:35. | |
Earlier, the Conservative MP Peter Bone, who campaigned to Leave, | :31:36. | :31:40. | |
Many people I talked to on the doorstep say why haven't you | :31:41. | :31:51. | |
triggered Article 50? That's what the vote on the 23rd of June was | :31:52. | :31:56. | |
about. I think Mrs May's approach was right, now is the time to get it | :31:57. | :31:59. | |
through Parliament and hopefully early next month she can fire | :32:00. | :32:03. | |
Article 50, sent the letter across and then we will never have any | :32:04. | :32:08. | |
chance of being in the EU. That's the question you keep asking me | :32:09. | :32:11. | |
every week, when are you going to get on with it? What's all this | :32:12. | :32:13. | |
Parliamentary process. Let's bring in our colleague, Ben | :32:14. | :32:15. | |
Brown who's in Westminster for us. In the cold on the green, suffering | :32:16. | :32:24. | |
for us tonight. How many more votes to go? Three more amendments to go, | :32:25. | :32:30. | |
essentially changes to this bill, this European Union notification of | :32:31. | :32:33. | |
withdrawal bill, that's its full title. So, it's about 15 minutes per | :32:34. | :32:42. | |
amendment, a bit less, maybe. So we are in a substantive vote on the | :32:43. | :32:49. | |
bill in a roundabout half an hour's time. We are expecting that again | :32:50. | :32:52. | |
really to be a pretty comfortable majority for the government. All of | :32:53. | :32:57. | |
these amendments have been pretty safely batted away by the government | :32:58. | :33:03. | |
by majorities of around 50. For example one proposed by the Liberal | :33:04. | :33:06. | |
Democrat party and their leader Tim Farren saying there should be a | :33:07. | :33:11. | |
second referendum on whatever deal the British Prime Minister | :33:12. | :33:15. | |
negotiates, again, that one pretty easily treated. We think there will | :33:16. | :33:19. | |
be a comfortable majority on the big vote in half an hour's time. One of | :33:20. | :33:23. | |
the big questions is of the opposition Labour Party who have | :33:24. | :33:27. | |
decided to vote for this bill because they believe that the | :33:28. | :33:32. | |
democratic will, the democratic mandate of the people. But a number | :33:33. | :33:36. | |
of Labour MPs are going to oppose the bill, oppose their party | :33:37. | :33:39. | |
leadership. We'll be looking to see how many Labour MPs disobeyed their | :33:40. | :33:45. | |
party leader Jeremy Corbyn. It's interesting, this evening it looks | :33:46. | :33:49. | |
again, yet again we have an example of a Parliamentary system Pavin | :33:50. | :33:54. | |
presidential system and in the US a presidential system behaving like a | :33:55. | :33:57. | |
Parliamentary system. The Democrats seem to be determined to say no to | :33:58. | :34:02. | |
everything when they are supposed to, mice, and in the UK with these | :34:03. | :34:09. | |
votes we have people who opposed leaving voting with the government. | :34:10. | :34:13. | |
It's pretty conjugated, isn't it? There are a lot of members of the | :34:14. | :34:18. | |
British Parliament who are in constituencies which voted to remain | :34:19. | :34:23. | |
and some of them feel obliged because their constituency voted to | :34:24. | :34:27. | |
remain to vote against beginning this formal process to leave. But | :34:28. | :34:32. | |
others think, well, the democratic will of the entire United Kingdom | :34:33. | :34:37. | |
expressed in the referendum was to leave, 17.4 million people voted to | :34:38. | :34:40. | |
leave and therefore they should go with the will of the majority. Also | :34:41. | :34:44. | |
you are talking about the government, the parliament, don't | :34:45. | :34:48. | |
forget the reason that members of the British Parliament are voting at | :34:49. | :34:51. | |
all is because the Supreme Court, the highest court in the land just | :34:52. | :34:57. | |
over the road here at Westminster, they ruled that it had to be a vote | :34:58. | :35:01. | |
in the British Parliament that would trigger Article 50 to begin the | :35:02. | :35:06. | |
whole process of leaving the EU. OK then, thank you very much. Back with | :35:07. | :35:14. | |
you later. Interesting that the EU used to divide the Conservative | :35:15. | :35:17. | |
Party, now it divides the opposition, how times have changed. | :35:18. | :35:20. | |
Katty, when the referendum on EU membership took place last year - | :35:21. | :35:23. | |
it created a real divide in this country - families - | :35:24. | :35:25. | |
mine included were divided, friendships were put | :35:26. | :35:27. | |
Never discuss politics at the dinner table they say, | :35:28. | :35:30. | |
but for many it was the only topic of discussion for weeks. | :35:31. | :35:33. | |
Right, and there's something similar happening here as well Christian - | :35:34. | :35:37. | |
between those who call themselves Republican and those who don't. | :35:38. | :35:40. | |
So we've been speaking to some Conservative university students | :35:41. | :35:42. | |
about how they're coping in their liberal surroundings. | :35:43. | :35:54. | |
People would look at me like I had a million heads when I talk about | :35:55. | :36:05. | |
these extremely conservative positions. People outside my dorm | :36:06. | :36:11. | |
come up to me and say, your Diego, right? You're a Republican, why? | :36:12. | :36:19. | |
I've been un-friended and un-liked by probably about half of the girls. | :36:20. | :36:24. | |
People in my freshman class won't look at me any more. I get asked a | :36:25. | :36:30. | |
lot, how can you be Jewish and Republican, Hispanic and Republican, | :36:31. | :36:33. | |
is that being a traitor to your race, religion and gender? In the | :36:34. | :36:38. | |
liberal point of view, if you are not in favour of their beliefs you | :36:39. | :36:44. | |
are racist, homophobic, sexist, etc. I don't really feel like calling | :36:45. | :36:52. | |
myself a conservative any time soon with Trump in office. I'm called a | :36:53. | :36:58. | |
racist by people I don't even know. Anybody who has remotely | :36:59. | :37:00. | |
conservative opinion is off the rails, is not normal. There's this | :37:01. | :37:06. | |
feeling of censorship, almost, on the college campus. Diego, you are | :37:07. | :37:10. | |
Mexican, how can you do this to your people? I did attend the | :37:11. | :37:14. | |
inauguration and I attended with pride in my heart for my country | :37:15. | :37:18. | |
that I love. Going back on campus I was immediately stared at, boys were | :37:19. | :37:22. | |
pointing at me, people were laughing at me. It gets lonely when people | :37:23. | :37:27. | |
can't understand and it's just easier to withdraw myself than to | :37:28. | :37:31. | |
try to explain. I have kind of even up in the social sphere. It's | :37:32. | :37:37. | |
painful. I think this nation is in crisis of sorts. Feel hopeless | :37:38. | :37:42. | |
sometimes. People are very quick to yell. | :37:43. | :37:56. | |
You can see just how hard it is to be a conservative amongst students | :37:57. | :38:01. | |
at the moment. Here's a question - | :38:02. | :38:03. | |
what do US courts and Nordstrom Well today they are both | :38:04. | :38:05. | |
in the sights of Mr Trump. We'll tell you about | :38:06. | :38:12. | |
the fashion retailer in a moment but let's return first | :38:13. | :38:14. | |
to his ongoing battle with the courts - specifically | :38:15. | :38:17. | |
the San Francisco appeals court, which is still considering | :38:18. | :38:19. | |
whether or not to reinstate a travel ban on people from seven | :38:20. | :38:22. | |
Muslim-majority countries. Here's what Mr Trump told | :38:23. | :38:25. | |
a gathering of US police chiefs I don't ever want to call a core to | :38:26. | :38:37. | |
biased so I won't call it biased. And we haven't had a decision yet. | :38:38. | :38:45. | |
But courts seem to be so political and it would be so great for our | :38:46. | :38:52. | |
justice system if they would be able to read the statement and do what's | :38:53. | :38:58. | |
right and that has to do with the security of our country which is so | :38:59. | :39:03. | |
important. Right now we are at risk because of what happened. General | :39:04. | :39:09. | |
Kelly is an extremely talented man and a very good man, now secretary | :39:10. | :39:17. | |
Kelly, homeland security. We are doing our job, he's a great man. We | :39:18. | :39:25. | |
are doing our job and one of the reasons you probably heard that we | :39:26. | :39:29. | |
did it so quickly in fact I said let's give a one-month notice and | :39:30. | :39:33. | |
then law enforcement and General Kelly was so great because he said | :39:34. | :39:37. | |
we totally knew about it, we knew about everything. We do things well, | :39:38. | :39:42. | |
we do things right. But the law enforcement people said to me you | :39:43. | :39:44. | |
can't give notice because if you give notice that you're to be really | :39:45. | :39:49. | |
tough in one month from now or one week from now I suggested one month | :39:50. | :39:52. | |
and said what about a week, they said no, you can't do that because | :39:53. | :39:56. | |
then people are going to pour in before the toughness comes. Do you | :39:57. | :40:02. | |
people agree? You know more about law than anybody, law enforcement. | :40:03. | :40:06. | |
So I wanted to give, like, a month. I said what about a week? They said, | :40:07. | :40:11. | |
then you're going to have a whole pile of people, perhaps, perhaps, | :40:12. | :40:15. | |
with very evil intentions coming in before the restrictions. So there it | :40:16. | :40:20. | |
is, folks. It's as plain as you can have it. I didn't and I was a good | :40:21. | :40:26. | |
student, I understand things, I comprehend very well, OK? Better | :40:27. | :40:30. | |
than I think almost anybody. What worries me about what he's | :40:31. | :40:39. | |
saying there, and I'm trying to take this impartially, but he's talking | :40:40. | :40:42. | |
about conversations within the inner sanctum of the White House, so he's | :40:43. | :40:47. | |
telling people about what a judge from Boston told him or another | :40:48. | :40:51. | |
judge from the other side of the country. Surely if people are coming | :40:52. | :40:54. | |
in to share their private thoughts, strategic thoughts with him, they | :40:55. | :40:58. | |
are going to think twice? Well, Donald Trump talks through Twitter | :40:59. | :41:02. | |
and through the press in direct conversation so much that I think a | :41:03. | :41:06. | |
lot of what is happening in the White House in private is getting | :41:07. | :41:10. | |
out into the public. It's not that unusual, Barack Obama did it, for | :41:11. | :41:14. | |
presidents to disagree with what the courts have done. What is unusual is | :41:15. | :41:18. | |
what he did just there which is to suggest, and he pulled himself back | :41:19. | :41:22. | |
slightly, that courts are not politically unbiased, that they have | :41:23. | :41:28. | |
their biases. And he did that when he said the so-called judge, or to | :41:29. | :41:31. | |
impugn the professionalism of the courts. That we haven't heard before | :41:32. | :41:36. | |
and I think that is worrying. What you make of these tweets on | :41:37. | :41:43. | |
Nordstom? This is the tweet. Give us the background and why this | :41:44. | :41:53. | |
is important. In a way it is this temperament issue, should he be | :41:54. | :41:56. | |
weighing in on this when the president has said he's meant to be | :41:57. | :41:59. | |
separating his business from his government? Ivanka Trump has this | :42:00. | :42:12. | |
brand and she has now been dropped from several places. And there is | :42:13. | :42:16. | |
the president weighing in in support of his daughter. The trouble is, | :42:17. | :42:19. | |
he's the president and just after he sent out the tweet, Nordstom's share | :42:20. | :42:25. | |
price dipped, so what the president tweets has an impact on the markets, | :42:26. | :42:29. | |
and that is something people are going to watch. Nancy Pelosi, leader | :42:30. | :42:32. | |
of the Democrats in the house has already said it was inappropriate. | :42:33. | :42:34. | |
We have to leave it there. That is 100 Days from BBC News - | :42:35. | :42:36. | |
do jump onto our Facebook page where my colleague Laura Trevelyan | :42:37. | :42:39. | |
will be taking your questions with our North America | :42:40. | :42:42. | |
reporter, Anthony Zurcher. We'd love to hear comments | :42:43. | :42:44. | |
and share your thoughts - so do take a look - | :42:45. | :42:46. | |
for now though, from me Christian Fraser in London | :42:47. | :42:49. | |
and Katty Kay in Washington, | :42:50. | :42:52. |