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Donald Trump's own pick for the Supreme Court criticises him | :00:00. | :00:09. | |
Senators say Neil Gorsuch spoke emotionally of his concern | :00:10. | :00:15. | |
He certainly expressed to me that he's disheartened | :00:16. | :00:23. | |
by the demoralising and abhorrent comments made by President Trump | :00:24. | :00:28. | |
The President signs executive orders to fight criminal cartels | :00:29. | :00:42. | |
We're in Montana to witness protests for and against refugees. | :00:43. | :00:51. | |
They once defeated communism, now its a fight against corruption, | :00:52. | :00:55. | |
and the people of Romania are not giving in. | :00:56. | :01:00. | |
For Republicans, the journey to the White House | :01:01. | :01:02. | |
So, a year on, what do people in the Granite State | :01:03. | :01:07. | |
It's always good to get out of Washington and come to New York. | :01:08. | :01:28. | |
on a day when there's a massive snow storm outside - | :01:29. | :01:32. | |
Here's what Manhattan actually looks like today, | :01:33. | :01:35. | |
Don't give away all the secrets! They will think that I'm not sitting | :01:36. | :01:48. | |
in a posh office overlooking the Thames! | :01:49. | :01:50. | |
blowing through Congress at the moment. | :01:51. | :01:55. | |
The latest storm relates to Donald Trump's pick | :01:56. | :01:57. | |
The man he nominated last week is Neil Gorsuch - | :01:58. | :02:01. | |
he's now paying courtesy calls on Capitol Hill | :02:02. | :02:02. | |
to build support for his confirmation. | :02:03. | :02:04. | |
But one of those Senators, Richard Blumenthal, | :02:05. | :02:06. | |
the Democrat from Conneticut, revealed after their meeting | :02:07. | :02:08. | |
with Donald Trump's attacks on the judiciary. | :02:09. | :02:21. | |
My strong hope is that he will be more vehement publicly. | :02:22. | :02:23. | |
He certainly expressed to me that he's disheartened | :02:24. | :02:25. | |
by the demoralising and abhorrent comments made by President Trump | :02:26. | :02:31. | |
The revelation found its way onto the front pages of the papers - | :02:32. | :02:39. | |
it was the lead story on breakfast TV shows, | :02:40. | :02:41. | |
and spurred this response from the President. | :02:42. | :02:57. | |
My colleague, Laura Trevelyan, is in Washington. | :02:58. | :03:02. | |
Here is what extraordinary about all of this, it seems like Mr Gorsuch | :03:03. | :03:11. | |
went into this meeting, made these criticisms and said, can you tell | :03:12. | :03:14. | |
the world about this? Remember that he wants to be | :03:15. | :03:19. | |
confirmed as a Supreme Court justice and by saying that he doesn't like | :03:20. | :03:24. | |
the President's attack on the independent judiciary, it makes him | :03:25. | :03:29. | |
a good nominee for the highest court of the land in the eyes of fellow | :03:30. | :03:33. | |
judges, in the eyes of most right-thinking people, and for him, | :03:34. | :03:38. | |
hopefully, he's trying to persuade Democrats not to filibuster him out | :03:39. | :03:42. | |
of existence. The Democrats are mad, they want to stop at least one of | :03:43. | :03:47. | |
President Trump's nominations. All very complex. | :03:48. | :03:55. | |
Some Republicans and some Democrats particularly would think, this is a | :03:56. | :03:59. | |
man who knows his own mind, who can speak freely, which is what they | :04:00. | :04:04. | |
want. Of course. There is nothing else that Gorsuch could say, faced | :04:05. | :04:12. | |
with the President attacking the independence of the judiciary, not | :04:13. | :04:14. | |
only district Court judges but the bedrock appeals judges, who could | :04:15. | :04:22. | |
rule on his devotional immigration ban. So this is exactly what he had | :04:23. | :04:26. | |
to say. Also to reassure Republicans as well that he is not just a tool | :04:27. | :04:29. | |
of the President. The fact is that President Trump might not like him | :04:30. | :04:35. | |
as much as when he nominated him. Falling out with the boss already! | :04:36. | :04:41. | |
These executive orders as well, things have been happening in the | :04:42. | :04:44. | |
White House other than just being said. What are these crime orders | :04:45. | :04:47. | |
about? President rubbing his inauguration speech painted a | :04:48. | :04:53. | |
picture of American carnage, not just manufacturing jobs shouted | :04:54. | :04:58. | |
across the rust belt, but also an image of America in the grip of | :04:59. | :05:01. | |
violent crime. He signed three different executive orders, one | :05:02. | :05:05. | |
cracks down on drug cartels, which are spreading across the country, he | :05:06. | :05:11. | |
says, and the other one sets up a task force on how to reduce violent | :05:12. | :05:16. | |
crime. He says it is going to be a new era of justice. Although violent | :05:17. | :05:21. | |
crime has gone up in a couple assist these -- a couple of cities, | :05:22. | :05:26. | |
overall, violent crime levels are lower than they were were at the | :05:27. | :05:28. | |
high point in the 1980s. Thank you. Actually, Mr Trump's been | :05:29. | :05:33. | |
busy today on Twitter. Apart from the issue | :05:34. | :05:35. | |
of Judge Gorsuch, he's also attacked Republican | :05:36. | :05:36. | |
Senator John McCain, who had questioned the success | :05:37. | :05:39. | |
of last week's raid in Yemen, He had said that he could not see | :05:40. | :05:59. | |
how the downing of an aircraft and the death of a serviceman as a | :06:00. | :06:02. | |
success. This row has been going on. This is that we'd we got today from | :06:03. | :06:04. | |
the President. It is a 3-part tweet. So the president doesn't want this | :06:05. | :06:35. | |
to be painted in anyway as a failure. | :06:36. | :06:40. | |
No, and Sean Spicer, his spokesperson has a ready said that | :06:41. | :06:43. | |
anyone who does suggest this is failure is denigrating the memory of | :06:44. | :06:49. | |
that serviceman. That begs a question how Donald Trump, all | :06:50. | :06:54. | |
through the political campaign, can attack the war in Iraq, where 4000 | :06:55. | :06:59. | |
servicemen were killed. It doesn't quite make total sense. He has got | :07:00. | :07:02. | |
to be careful about John McKay. Donald Trump only has a two seat | :07:03. | :07:07. | |
majority in the Senate. If he annoys John McCain too much, at some point | :07:08. | :07:12. | |
the senator is going to turn around and say, I will not stick with you | :07:13. | :07:15. | |
any more, and that could be a big problem down the road for Donald | :07:16. | :07:17. | |
Trump! And not just on its opinion | :07:18. | :07:18. | |
of the President Yes, but for all the controversy | :07:19. | :07:22. | |
that's followed Mr Trump these first three weeks, | :07:23. | :07:26. | |
his approval ratings are higher than they were at the time | :07:27. | :07:28. | |
of the inauguration. Just under 50% now approve | :07:29. | :07:30. | |
of the job he is doing. And, according to another poll out | :07:31. | :07:37. | |
yesterday, the majority of Americans think Donald Trump's travel ban | :07:38. | :07:39. | |
is a good thing. And many certainly feel that way | :07:40. | :07:43. | |
in the Republican state of Montana. Aleem Maqbool has | :07:44. | :07:46. | |
been to investigate. I believe that what we've | :07:47. | :07:50. | |
seen with our President This is a man who | :07:51. | :07:53. | |
couldn't be happier. He is heavily involved in local | :07:54. | :08:00. | |
politics, and he's a preacher. His Christian compassion, though, | :08:01. | :08:08. | |
does not extend to those he feels If they come among us | :08:09. | :08:11. | |
and then try to enact If groups of radical Islamic people | :08:12. | :08:20. | |
begin to show up who will eventually attempt to harm how women, | :08:21. | :08:31. | |
those militant people need to understand that the women | :08:32. | :08:37. | |
of Montana are armed. He says those who are protesting | :08:38. | :08:45. | |
against Donald Trump's immigration policies do not represent | :08:46. | :08:47. | |
the real America. This is a local rally | :08:48. | :08:52. | |
in support of the refugees. Not a bad turnout for a weekday | :08:53. | :08:56. | |
lunchtime in the snow. But these are certainly not | :08:57. | :09:00. | |
the loudest voices on this issue The state has one of the most | :09:01. | :09:03. | |
high-profile anti-immigrant campaigns and, before the election, | :09:04. | :09:10. | |
had one of the biggest anti-refugee The anger for many is directed | :09:11. | :09:13. | |
mainly at Muslims, something local | :09:14. | :09:23. | |
politicians are tapping into - After days of debate, | :09:24. | :09:26. | |
the state Senate has just passed a bill to say Sharia law | :09:27. | :09:32. | |
can't be applied in Montana. This woman and her family arrived | :09:33. | :09:40. | |
here just a couple of months ago. They fled Eritrea with no choice | :09:41. | :09:44. | |
about where the UN sent them. After more than four years | :09:45. | :09:54. | |
of vetting, they landed in Montana - nervous, shy about | :09:55. | :09:56. | |
talking on camera, and to this storm | :09:57. | :09:58. | |
of anti-immigrant sentiment. What's striking in Montana | :09:59. | :10:03. | |
is all the focus on immigration is happening in an entire state | :10:04. | :10:06. | |
the size of Germany with a population of just 1 million, | :10:07. | :10:10. | |
where fewer than 20 refugee families have been resettled | :10:11. | :10:14. | |
since the mid-90s. But as far as many here | :10:15. | :10:19. | |
and across America are concerned, there is simply no room | :10:20. | :10:23. | |
for the immigrants, to whom the door | :10:24. | :10:26. | |
should be firmly shut. And those statistics interesting? | :10:27. | :10:44. | |
Just 20 refugees and migrants since 1990. I watch that earlier and there | :10:45. | :10:48. | |
are similarities with what happened here during the referendum vote, the | :10:49. | :10:52. | |
Brexit vote, last year. There were parts of the country where there was | :10:53. | :10:57. | |
high net migration that voted to remain in the EU, and vice versa. | :10:58. | :11:04. | |
Areas with low net migration where they voted to leave to stop | :11:05. | :11:07. | |
Hartlepool in the north of the country was a place like that, low | :11:08. | :11:11. | |
net migration, can be Ireland another. It seemed to be the theory | :11:12. | :11:15. | |
of migration or the concern about migration, and that they -- that | :11:16. | :11:22. | |
might be well founded there might be problem is with jobs. It was the | :11:23. | :11:26. | |
fear of migration rather than the direct impact. | :11:27. | :11:29. | |
Maybe once you know immigrants come you feel differently about migration | :11:30. | :11:33. | |
in general. Because this is such a big issue at the ballot box, | :11:34. | :11:42. | |
countries all over the world are speaking out on it. In Germany, | :11:43. | :11:51. | |
there were plans to speed up the deportation of failed asylum | :11:52. | :11:55. | |
seekers. Here, the cupboard has been | :11:56. | :12:02. | |
defending its cap on the number of refugee children coming into this | :12:03. | :12:12. | |
country. Only 350 children would be brought in, far fewer than the 3000 | :12:13. | :12:17. | |
that were originally asked for. There are still so many | :12:18. | :12:19. | |
children in need of help. She knows there are thousands | :12:20. | :12:22. | |
in Greece, in overcrowded | :12:23. | :12:23. | |
accommodation, or homeless. Or in Italy, still at risk | :12:24. | :12:25. | |
of human trafficking. Or teenagers in French centres | :12:26. | :12:27. | |
which are being closed down, They are heading back to Calais, | :12:28. | :12:29. | |
back to Dunkirk, back to the mud, back to the danger, back into | :12:30. | :12:36. | |
the arms of the people traffickers and the smugglers, | :12:37. | :12:39. | |
the exploitation, the abuse, the prostitution rings, | :12:40. | :12:41. | |
and back into the modern slavery that this parliament and this | :12:42. | :12:44. | |
government has pledged to end. The French are very clear | :12:45. | :12:49. | |
that they are now processing the children who have come out | :12:50. | :12:54. | |
of the Calais camp. But one of the things that stops | :12:55. | :12:56. | |
the children cooperating with the French authorities | :12:57. | :13:00. | |
is the hope of being taken into the Dubs Amendment | :13:01. | :13:03. | |
and coming to the UK. They are clear with us that | :13:04. | :13:06. | |
if they are to manage those children which I think is what she wants, | :13:07. | :13:09. | |
as well as I want - then making it clear that that is | :13:10. | :13:14. | |
not going to be definitely open Strong statements. This has been a | :13:15. | :13:27. | |
big issue in Britain, with child migrants coming in. It is not an | :13:28. | :13:31. | |
issue here in terms of Muslims coming in, or people coming in from | :13:32. | :13:35. | |
the Middle East. The geography of America means they would have to get | :13:36. | :13:38. | |
on a plane by themselves. You don't get a lot of children coming in. We | :13:39. | :13:43. | |
have had children coming across the southern border full to view had a | :13:44. | :13:46. | |
load of teenagers and young kids picked up, coming in from Mexico, | :13:47. | :13:49. | |
put into camps. That was something that double trap made an issue. | :13:50. | :13:57. | |
It has been a situation here with the cab and Calais, right on the | :13:58. | :14:01. | |
doorstep. The Government have been making a strong point today that it | :14:02. | :14:05. | |
pays more than other countries in Europe to the problem in the Middle | :14:06. | :14:08. | |
East, over ?2 billion. They said today they have offered places to | :14:09. | :14:14. | |
8000 children to come in some form. The problem they have got, and this | :14:15. | :14:19. | |
is what some of the politicians were pointing out today, is there is real | :14:20. | :14:26. | |
stress and local authorities. Their heart -- thereon 250 local | :14:27. | :14:31. | |
authorities with responsibilities for these, they have offered barely | :14:32. | :14:39. | |
two places each. They will put more pressure on local government to do | :14:40. | :14:42. | |
more to take some of the children in. | :14:43. | :14:52. | |
You can imagine what the reaction might be if Donald Trump had | :14:53. | :14:55. | |
announced something like a cap on child refugees! | :14:56. | :14:57. | |
Donald Trump's controversial nominee for Attorney General, Jeff Sessions, | :14:58. | :14:59. | |
was confirmed by the Senate last night. | :15:00. | :15:01. | |
And, earlier, he was sworn-in at the White House. | :15:02. | :15:03. | |
with just one Democrat voting for Mr Sessions. | :15:04. | :15:09. | |
It came after a series of divisive hearings | :15:10. | :15:11. | |
focusing on the Alabama senator's record on civil rights. | :15:12. | :15:29. | |
has sent condolences after a Russian air strike | :15:30. | :15:32. | |
accidentally killed three Turkish soldiers in northern Syria. | :15:33. | :15:34. | |
The soldiers were supporting Syrian rebels in efforts to capture | :15:35. | :15:36. | |
the city of al-Bab from so-called Islamic State. | :15:37. | :15:38. | |
Although Russia and Turkey back opposing sides in the war, | :15:39. | :15:41. | |
the incident comes after a warming of ties between the two countries. | :15:42. | :15:51. | |
I think the snowstorm has defeated us for a moment, and you may have | :15:52. | :15:56. | |
lost the beautiful view behind me! Japanese Prime Minister Shinzo Abe | :15:57. | :16:03. | |
is in Washington tomorrow to meet the President | :16:04. | :16:05. | |
to discuss security and trade before heading off to play | :16:06. | :16:08. | |
golf with Donald Trump at his resort in Palm Beach, | :16:09. | :16:10. | |
Florida, over the weekend. It is, of course, a key | :16:11. | :16:12. | |
strategic relationship - in fact, Mr Abe was an early | :16:13. | :16:14. | |
visitor to Trump Tower but President Trump did attack Japan | :16:15. | :16:17. | |
during the election campaign for "making it impossible" | :16:18. | :16:21. | |
for the US to sell cars there. Our Tokyo correspondent, | :16:22. | :16:24. | |
Rupert Wingfield Hayes, has been taking a look at | :16:25. | :16:28. | |
whether his claim is entirely fair. President Donald Trump | :16:29. | :16:34. | |
says it's not fair that Americans buy millions | :16:35. | :16:36. | |
of Japanese cars every year, and the Japanese buy | :16:37. | :16:38. | |
hardly any American cars. Last year, only 13,000 American cars | :16:39. | :16:43. | |
were sold here in Japan. So why is it the Japanese don't buy | :16:44. | :16:50. | |
American cars like this one? It's not just that this car is | :16:51. | :17:17. | |
"yuge", as Donald Trump might say - you may have noticed that the wheel | :17:18. | :17:22. | |
is on the wrong side for Japan, and then take a look | :17:23. | :17:25. | |
at the fuel consumption. It's about double what my | :17:26. | :17:28. | |
Toyota normally uses. So, in Japan, these tiny little cars | :17:29. | :17:39. | |
are called Kei cars. They can't be | :17:40. | :17:41. | |
more than 1.5 metres wide, and the engine can only be 660cc, | :17:42. | :17:45. | |
and they sell tonnes of them here - 1.7 million of them last year, | :17:46. | :17:50. | |
40% of all the cars sold in Japan. It's actually not true that Japanese | :17:51. | :17:59. | |
people don't buy foreign cars. Of course, they're not | :18:00. | :18:09. | |
American cars, they're German. And I understand you have actually | :18:10. | :18:31. | |
owned an American car? I liked how it looked | :18:32. | :18:39. | |
but when I started driving it, I feel like it's very cheap, | :18:40. | :18:51. | |
and doesn't feel safe. Also, the service is not so good | :18:52. | :18:57. | |
as with the German car. Japan charges no import | :18:58. | :19:03. | |
tax on a car like this, but America charges up to 25% | :19:04. | :19:06. | |
import tax on Japanese cars. So maybe it's time for America | :19:07. | :19:12. | |
to stop complaining Let's get more now | :19:13. | :19:14. | |
with Sheila Smith, an expert on Japanese | :19:15. | :19:22. | |
politics and foreign policy. Good to see you. The Americans don't | :19:23. | :19:32. | |
make cars for Japanese people, really? Exactly. I loved your | :19:33. | :19:38. | |
segment, by the way. What are they going to do about it? This is what | :19:39. | :19:42. | |
is called global competition, isn't it? Right, and the challenge has | :19:43. | :19:50. | |
always been that the American car-makers have to invest in making | :19:51. | :19:54. | |
cars that the Japanese consumers will want to buy. There has been a | :19:55. | :20:00. | |
long narrative of turf barriers in Japan, but you have to compete. That | :20:01. | :20:04. | |
is really what the challenge for our companies is in Japan. But Japanese | :20:05. | :20:11. | |
car companies to provide jobs for Americans, a lot of them. When the | :20:12. | :20:15. | |
president had all of those car workers into the Oval Office last | :20:16. | :20:19. | |
week, it was noticeable that he did not have Toyota in with him. It | :20:20. | :20:22. | |
seems that the Japanese cannot go win in this relationship, another | :20:23. | :20:31. | |
sign that the balance of power is shifting to China not America. They | :20:32. | :20:35. | |
have a friend in the White House? We will have to see. The president is | :20:36. | :20:41. | |
coming tomorrow. -- the Prime Minister is coming tomorrow. They | :20:42. | :20:48. | |
will be on the relaxed setting of a golf course on Saturday, when I can | :20:49. | :20:51. | |
talk about what has changed in the structure of both of their | :20:52. | :20:57. | |
economies. Toyota, Nissan, Honda, lots of Japanese car-makers have | :20:58. | :21:05. | |
invested in the United States. They are part and parcel of the American | :21:06. | :21:09. | |
economy. It is partly what Mr Trump has to understand as he begins to | :21:10. | :21:14. | |
think about how to talk to Japan about the future of our economic | :21:15. | :21:18. | |
partnership. Just a quick one, because we are out of time, but we | :21:19. | :21:22. | |
hear that Justin Trudeau is coming from Canada on Monday. Mr Trump's | :21:23. | :21:29. | |
supporters say they have got a lot of people on the one at the moment, | :21:30. | :21:35. | |
they are making efforts to make sure the deals are being done. They are | :21:36. | :21:42. | |
close allies with the United States, as well as economic partners. Mr | :21:43. | :21:47. | |
Trudeau said he would be willing to renegotiate the trade deal. There is | :21:48. | :21:52. | |
a lot of support for that on Capitol Hill. We will have to watch that of | :21:53. | :21:58. | |
negotiations to understand what Washington once, and I expect the | :21:59. | :22:02. | |
Japanese will be watching as well. OK, thank you for being with us. | :22:03. | :22:04. | |
The street protests in Romania this past week | :22:05. | :22:06. | |
the last days of the tyrant Nicolae Ceausescu. | :22:07. | :22:09. | |
the Romanians have packed the streets of the capital, Bucharest, | :22:10. | :22:13. | |
demanding the government throws out a law | :22:14. | :22:15. | |
that would have reduced penalties for corruption. | :22:16. | :22:18. | |
One immediate beneficiary of that law would have been | :22:19. | :22:20. | |
the chair of the governing Socialist Democratic Party, | :22:21. | :22:22. | |
that would stop him becoming a future Prime Minister. | :22:23. | :22:28. | |
Now the man who drew up the decree, the Justice Minister, | :22:29. | :22:31. | |
has resigned and the bill looks set to be rescinded. | :22:32. | :22:33. | |
Let's speak to the BBC's Nick Thorpe in Bucharest. | :22:34. | :22:41. | |
We see more people behind you, so they are not giving up, are they? | :22:42. | :22:50. | |
That's right. I'm standing in Victoria Square he in front of the | :22:51. | :22:55. | |
Government building. If I haven't lost count already, the tenth | :22:56. | :23:01. | |
consecutive day of protests. They began with the attempt by the | :23:02. | :23:04. | |
incoming social Democrat led government to pass a controversial | :23:05. | :23:09. | |
decree. The road testers came out on the streets because they said that | :23:10. | :23:12. | |
would have changed three paragraphs of the penal code in Romania and | :23:13. | :23:17. | |
would have weakened the anti-corruption fight here in | :23:18. | :23:23. | |
Rumania. It is a country that is perhaps often unfairly seen as a | :23:24. | :23:27. | |
corrupt country. It has a very tough anti-corruption directorate, an | :23:28. | :23:31. | |
agency which has managed to prosecute 1200 people, convicted | :23:32. | :23:36. | |
1200 people in the last three years. That included ministers, even a | :23:37. | :23:41. | |
former prime in a step. So many people have gone to prison, and the | :23:42. | :23:46. | |
decree would have let them out. That has now been revoked, but the | :23:47. | :23:49. | |
protesters asked along the square. Christian use the phrase people | :23:50. | :23:55. | |
power at the beginning of the programme, and this is an | :23:56. | :23:57. | |
extraordinary display of that. They got what they wanted legislatively, | :23:58. | :24:01. | |
will they get the fall of the Government as well? That is what | :24:02. | :24:06. | |
they are calling for. One of the big chance here is, "Resign!" They have | :24:07. | :24:15. | |
achieved two big successes, they have forced the Government with | :24:16. | :24:19. | |
these protests to revoke the decree. Today, they forced the resignation | :24:20. | :24:25. | |
of the Justice Minister, but they say it is not enough. Just by | :24:26. | :24:28. | |
attempting to change this legislation in what they say was a | :24:29. | :24:32. | |
brazen way, to get their own people out of jail as well as other | :24:33. | :24:36. | |
politicians and civil servants and so on, they are trying to pressure | :24:37. | :24:42. | |
rise the Government further. They want the whole government to resign. | :24:43. | :24:47. | |
Obviously cold conditions here, people still coming out onto the | :24:48. | :24:52. | |
streets, not only in Bucharest but other cities as well, Braddock lies | :24:53. | :24:56. | |
in bed demands, as crowds did in 1989. We will watch that closely | :24:57. | :24:59. | |
over the weekend. Thank you very much. Here's an example to you, out | :25:00. | :25:05. | |
in the cold with a scarf on. Braving the snow. What are you suggesting?! | :25:06. | :25:12. | |
That I am a wimp? That I had to come into this nice warm studio? I can't | :25:13. | :25:16. | |
believe it! I thought we were on the same team. | :25:17. | :25:17. | |
You're watching 100 Days from BBC News. | :25:18. | :25:22. | |
Still to come for viewers on the BBC News Channel and BBC World News: | :25:23. | :25:25. | |
He won the New Hampshire Primary 12 months ago, | :25:26. | :25:27. | |
taking a big step towards the White House - | :25:28. | :25:30. | |
what do his supporters think of the job Mr Trump is doing now? | :25:31. | :25:33. | |
And have you noticed anything "Trumpish" | :25:34. | :25:36. | |
Is what we're hearing from politicians here | :25:37. | :25:39. | |
inspired by the President over there? | :25:40. | :25:43. | |
That's still to come on 100 Days, from BBC News. | :25:44. | :26:05. | |
Good evening. What a difference a Day makes. Yesterday, we had some | :26:06. | :26:11. | |
blue skies, sunshine and warmth across the western half of the UK, | :26:12. | :26:17. | |
with double figures. Disappointing on the East Coast. Asa Miller story | :26:18. | :26:26. | |
today. It has felt noticeably colder on the West Coast, with a high of | :26:27. | :26:30. | |
four Celsius. A lot of cloud across the UK. Temperatures struggled to | :26:31. | :26:38. | |
climb up above 1 degrees. That cold feel will continue overnight. The | :26:39. | :26:44. | |
risk of some showers, rain and sleet on the coast. With any height, it | :26:45. | :26:50. | |
will be sleet and snow. A cold night with temperatures just below | :26:51. | :26:52. | |
freezing, a frost is likely to start our day on Friday. Still the risk of | :26:53. | :26:57. | |
some showers and the East, and that will continue. A lot of cloud around | :26:58. | :27:02. | |
on Friday. The best of any brightness is really across western | :27:03. | :27:06. | |
fringes, and up into Scotland. By the middle of the afternoon, some | :27:07. | :27:09. | |
glances of sunshine in Cornwall. It will not be warm, and certainly more | :27:10. | :27:14. | |
in the way of cloud generally across England and Wales. It part of East | :27:15. | :27:18. | |
Anglia and ligature, some showers and temperatures struggling to climb | :27:19. | :27:24. | |
above one of 2 degrees. Out of the Isle of Man, Lake District, Northern | :27:25. | :27:26. | |
Ireland and Scotland, we may continue to see some windows of | :27:27. | :27:30. | |
sunshine. Still chilly and a scattering of showers to the far | :27:31. | :27:34. | |
north-east. Those clear skies will allow the temperatures to form a | :27:35. | :27:37. | |
baby be sharply overnight, down from those of minus ten. At the same | :27:38. | :27:42. | |
time, more organised show drifting in. These are of sleet and snow, | :27:43. | :27:48. | |
which could lead to a Kim Lee laces of sleet -- accumulations on higher | :27:49. | :27:59. | |
ground. A cold day generally on Saturday. Sunday, a different day, | :28:00. | :28:05. | |
the same old story. A lot of cloud, still the easterly breeze with a | :28:06. | :28:08. | |
scattering of showers. Temperatures may be just a degree or so higher, | :28:09. | :28:12. | |
between four and 6 degrees. Still pretty chilly. There are signs of | :28:13. | :28:16. | |
something starting to change as we move into next week, but this area | :28:17. | :28:22. | |
of low pressure moves in. The isobars will be squeezing, but | :28:23. | :28:24. | |
perhaps a little less cold. Donald Trump's own pick | :28:25. | :30:04. | |
for the Supreme Court criticises him Senators say Neil Gorsuch spoke | :30:05. | :30:11. | |
to them about his concern over A year ago today, Donald Trump | :30:12. | :30:14. | |
won a crucial victory What do voters there | :30:15. | :30:22. | |
make of him now? Today marks one year | :30:23. | :30:34. | |
since Donald Trump's overwhelming victory in the New Hampshire | :30:35. | :30:36. | |
Primary. It was his first major step | :30:37. | :30:39. | |
towards the White House. And although Hillary Clinton ended | :30:40. | :30:42. | |
up winning the state in November, enthusiasm for Trump | :30:43. | :30:45. | |
still runs deep. Rajini Vaidyanathan went back | :30:46. | :30:49. | |
to the granite state, where the motto is "Live Free | :30:50. | :30:51. | |
or Die", to ask voters what they thought of candidate Trump | :30:52. | :30:54. | |
then, and what they make Just like the person he voted for | :30:55. | :31:09. | |
McKeith is a businessman who works in the hotel industry. The owner of | :31:10. | :31:16. | |
a small construction company, he is a registered independent, so doesn't | :31:17. | :31:23. | |
vote along party lines. If you were just a politician, I wouldn't have | :31:24. | :31:27. | |
voted for him. He connected with the New Hampshire people, because of the | :31:28. | :31:31. | |
spirit of independence that they have. Donald Trump's dreams of | :31:32. | :31:37. | |
becoming President were built on his first victory in the Republican | :31:38. | :31:41. | |
primary in this state. Now he's in office, Keith has no complaints. | :31:42. | :31:45. | |
Have I disagreed with anything that he's done thus far? No. Is he doing | :31:46. | :31:51. | |
a good job? Yes, I think he's doing exactly what we elected him to do. | :31:52. | :31:55. | |
How many of you voted for Donald Trump in the New Hampshire primary? | :31:56. | :32:02. | |
None of us did. By election day, all but one of these Republican women | :32:03. | :32:06. | |
voted for Donald Trump. Everyone here agrees the President should be | :32:07. | :32:10. | |
given a chance, but there are divisions over policy, like his | :32:11. | :32:15. | |
temporary travel ban. Right now it's a 90 day ban. All the demonstrators | :32:16. | :32:18. | |
and the women's walk and everything else they are doing, they are doing | :32:19. | :32:23. | |
things before anything happened. There wasn't enough thought to the | :32:24. | :32:27. | |
roll-out of that executive order and how it was going to affect people. | :32:28. | :32:31. | |
Sometimes he does come across as cross and I think everyone of us in | :32:32. | :32:36. | |
here would admit to that. But like she said, let's give him a chance. | :32:37. | :32:40. | |
President Trump owes a lot to the state. Here in New Hampshire he | :32:41. | :32:45. | |
scored his first primary victory, kicking off a winning streak, and | :32:46. | :32:49. | |
giving him momentum. Also here that Mr Trump got his first taste of | :32:50. | :32:53. | |
presidential politics, three decades ago. He was thinking about the | :32:54. | :32:59. | |
presidency. It was in his mind. Mike, a wood word -- woodworker | :33:00. | :33:08. | |
started a draft Trump campaign in 1987 to encourage him to run for the | :33:09. | :33:12. | |
White House. He even persuaded Mr Trump to make a speech in New | :33:13. | :33:17. | |
Hampshire, where he ruled out a bit. It was Mr Trump's antiestablishment | :33:18. | :33:21. | |
stance that appealed to Mike then, and still does now. I think the | :33:22. | :33:27. | |
thing I found most attractive was that I had experience from 1987. I | :33:28. | :33:34. | |
found that he didn't change. He's the same guy. He has waited their | :33:35. | :33:39. | |
history to come around for his moment. It's an amazing display of | :33:40. | :33:43. | |
leadership. It took me 30 years but I finally got what I wanted in 1987. | :33:44. | :33:49. | |
So did Donald Trump. He lost the state of New Hampshire by a narrow | :33:50. | :33:52. | |
margin in the general election, but he won big prize, in a journey that | :33:53. | :33:59. | |
started here, in more ways than one. New Hampshire, I want to thank you. | :34:00. | :34:04. | |
We love you. You started it. Remember, you started it. | :34:05. | :34:10. | |
They are pretty savvy voters! Year ago today you were in Manchester New | :34:11. | :34:23. | |
Hampshire. Be honest, he was top of the polls, he wins the primary, did | :34:24. | :34:27. | |
you think it was going to get all the way? No. I can remember very | :34:28. | :34:33. | |
clearly thinking that he had had this victory in New Hampshire. It | :34:34. | :34:37. | |
was an absolutely freezing night. New Hampshire primary night is | :34:38. | :34:41. | |
rarely cold. It didn't seem possible then that a businessman who had | :34:42. | :34:46. | |
never run for political office, who wasn't Billy seen by the Republican | :34:47. | :34:49. | |
party as a Republican, was going to go on to win the nomination, let | :34:50. | :34:53. | |
alone to win the presidency. If you'd asked me then I would have | :34:54. | :34:58. | |
said the chances of it happening just didn't seem there. But there | :34:59. | :35:03. | |
were clues. The Bernie Sanders vote, as well. Right. That was the canary | :35:04. | :35:09. | |
in the coal mine. If we had listened to the wise voters of New Hampshire, | :35:10. | :35:13. | |
we would have all got the election right. They saw the populist wave | :35:14. | :35:17. | |
more than anybody else. Donald Trump one and Bernie Sanders one 60-38 | :35:18. | :35:23. | |
against Hillary Clinton. Clearly there was something about that live | :35:24. | :35:28. | |
free or die state, that wanted a different kind of politician. We | :35:29. | :35:33. | |
should have focused on the New Hampshire result and not cover the | :35:34. | :35:36. | |
rest of the campaign, then we'd have known what was going to happen! | :35:37. | :35:38. | |
Let's move on. Every now and then, the team | :35:39. | :35:44. | |
here on 100 Days will be checking in with American voters to see | :35:45. | :35:47. | |
what they're making of Donald And today, we're | :35:48. | :35:50. | |
heading to the Midwest. The state of Wisconsin | :35:51. | :35:52. | |
is an interesting case study, because not only did Mr Trump win | :35:53. | :35:55. | |
it, but he wrestled it back from the Democrats, | :35:56. | :35:57. | |
as previously blue states across American's rust belt | :35:58. | :35:59. | |
turned Republican red. Let's speak to Van Mobley, | :36:00. | :36:06. | |
president of the village of Thiensville in Wisconsin, | :36:07. | :36:08. | |
Mr Mobley voted for Mr Trump You voted for Mr Trump, I think. | :36:09. | :36:22. | |
Were you surprised that he got all the way to the White House? Know I | :36:23. | :36:32. | |
wasn't. I think that when you said earlier in the show, you hit the | :36:33. | :36:36. | |
nail on the head. The two issues that propelled Donald Trump and | :36:37. | :36:39. | |
Bernie Sanders, the American people have lost confidence in the trade | :36:40. | :36:43. | |
deals that have been negotiated and lost interest in an interventionist | :36:44. | :36:47. | |
foreign policy. It's a winning coalition. What do you think of what | :36:48. | :36:55. | |
he's done so far? I've been generally pleased. I think he ran | :36:56. | :37:00. | |
his campaign here, from the outside in. Appealed to the outsiders then | :37:01. | :37:05. | |
went to the inside. He is doing his foreign policy in reverse, shoring | :37:06. | :37:09. | |
up and reassuring our closest allies, which in my view are Japan | :37:10. | :37:14. | |
and Great Britain. And then of course the Canadians and the | :37:15. | :37:19. | |
Mexicans. I think he's doing a good job and I think those relationships | :37:20. | :37:23. | |
are going to hold and be strengthened. Tell me about | :37:24. | :37:27. | |
Wisconsin. We were chatting on the phone earlier, talking about the | :37:28. | :37:31. | |
Democrats who met yesterday. They've had their annual meeting in | :37:32. | :37:33. | |
Baltimore. They were saying when they go out onto the doorstep, a lot | :37:34. | :37:37. | |
of their policies resonate quite well with voters. Why did they fail | :37:38. | :37:42. | |
in a place like Wisconsin which beforehand looked as if it would | :37:43. | :37:48. | |
have gone Democrat? I think they have their priorities misplaced. I | :37:49. | :37:52. | |
think that Hillary Clinton as a candidate was unbelievable on some | :37:53. | :37:55. | |
core issues. In the sense that people didn't trust she was going to | :37:56. | :38:00. | |
do what she said. In particular they viewed her as a liberal | :38:01. | :38:07. | |
interventionist and a free trader. I was just wondering what you made of | :38:08. | :38:12. | |
some of the criticisms of Donald Trump's first three weeks in office? | :38:13. | :38:16. | |
There has been talk about a sense of chaos in the White House. Some of | :38:17. | :38:21. | |
the executive orders he has then had to change. Some criticism of his | :38:22. | :38:26. | |
style and tweets. Things we have spoken about during the course of | :38:27. | :38:30. | |
the programme. They things that concern you about the President, or | :38:31. | :38:35. | |
not? They don't concern me as much as they concern some other people. I | :38:36. | :38:40. | |
don't deny that other people seem to act concerned but they don't concern | :38:41. | :38:44. | |
me very much. I think that's part of his style. He is a show man, in | :38:45. | :38:50. | |
addition to being an executive. I think the press would be well served | :38:51. | :38:53. | |
if they began to pay a little bit more attention to some of his | :38:54. | :38:57. | |
Cabinet nominees who have become Cabinet secretaries. I think he will | :38:58. | :39:02. | |
probably run the government the way he did his corporation, there will | :39:03. | :39:05. | |
be a show at the centre but then you've got confident executives on | :39:06. | :39:08. | |
the outskirts executing his policies. There are some wonderful | :39:09. | :39:16. | |
pics. I liked Jeff Sessions as well. How will you judge success for Mr | :39:17. | :39:21. | |
Trump? At the end of four years, what are you going to look forward | :39:22. | :39:24. | |
to see if he's delivered on his promises and done a good job? I | :39:25. | :39:29. | |
think one of the things we would like to see in Wisconsin is stronger | :39:30. | :39:34. | |
economic growth. I know that, I think this is why they need to look | :39:35. | :39:38. | |
at some of these deals again. Great Britain doesn't have as good growth | :39:39. | :39:41. | |
as it did in the past. The United States has stuck below two. Those | :39:42. | :39:50. | |
deals in the past, if they were working, the United States and its | :39:51. | :39:53. | |
major allies would be having better economic growth. I do believe he's | :39:54. | :39:57. | |
going to be successful in that. I also think the foreign policy | :39:58. | :40:03. | |
pursued in the United States since the ridge beginning in the Clinton | :40:04. | :40:05. | |
administration and going through Bush and Obama, which is a bit | :40:06. | :40:12. | |
liberal interventionist, they didn't really do a good job and it hasn't | :40:13. | :40:16. | |
been successful. I think a more realistic approach will be | :40:17. | :40:20. | |
considerably more successful. I think we will see economic success, | :40:21. | :40:24. | |
foreign policy success, and that's the key to having a good presidency. | :40:25. | :40:31. | |
I think he could be a great President, perhaps. We would like to | :40:32. | :40:34. | |
check back in with you and see whether you are happy with what Mr | :40:35. | :40:36. | |
Trump is doing. He's just at the start | :40:37. | :40:40. | |
of his term in office, but thanks to his unique style, | :40:41. | :40:43. | |
Donald Trump is already well on course to be one | :40:44. | :40:45. | |
of the most-quoted Presidents. But could the language he uses be | :40:46. | :40:48. | |
influencing the way politicians You are fake news. Fake news. Fake | :40:49. | :40:50. | |
news. Fake news. I'm really surprised the BBC is | :40:51. | :41:16. | |
reporting fake news. Yet again what we get from Labour are alternative | :41:17. | :41:21. | |
facts. That sounded like one of Mr Donald Trump's alternative facts. It | :41:22. | :41:33. | |
is all fake news. It's phoney stuff. So interesting, the way that | :41:34. | :41:36. | |
language is shaping this presidency. It seems even on the question of | :41:37. | :41:41. | |
language, Americans and other people around the world are divided, | :41:42. | :41:48. | |
Christian. If we had played Van, would he have liked what he had from | :41:49. | :41:52. | |
Donald Trump, and if we played that clip to people who didn't like | :41:53. | :41:55. | |
Donald Trump, they would have rolled their eyes and said it didn't sound | :41:56. | :42:00. | |
presidential. People are hearing two very different things. We've got to | :42:01. | :42:03. | |
keep our eye on the people in the middle who see things very | :42:04. | :42:06. | |
differently to the two coasts of the US. The interesting thing about that | :42:07. | :42:11. | |
clip, Jeremy Corbyn was talking on a breakfast programme today and | :42:12. | :42:16. | |
started throwing back. News, I'm surprised the BBC is reporting full | :42:17. | :42:20. | |
sneeze. The reality is they are now mixing apples news with a -- mixing | :42:21. | :42:29. | |
up "False news" with inconvenient news. Fake news has been made up to | :42:30. | :42:36. | |
put people off the scent... It's not asking a politician a question they | :42:37. | :42:43. | |
don't like. The President here suggesting bad polls must be fake as | :42:44. | :42:45. | |
well! That is 100 Days for this week, join | :42:46. | :42:46. | |
us again the same time on Monday, on BBC World News and the BBC | :42:47. | :42:50. | |
News Channel in the UK. From Katty Kay in New York, and me | :42:51. | :42:53. | |
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