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President Trump meets Canada's Justin Trudeau. | :00:09. | :00:14. | |
With very different views on trade and immigration, | :00:15. | :00:16. | |
the neighbours will have to find a way to get along. | :00:17. | :00:21. | |
It's the President's first face-to-face meeting | :00:22. | :00:22. | |
with the Liberal leader, who has already taken shots | :00:23. | :00:24. | |
We'll be live at the White House for their joint news conference, | :00:25. | :00:31. | |
White House intrigue - did the President's National | :00:32. | :00:37. | |
Security Adviser discuss US sanctions with the | :00:38. | :00:39. | |
And does he still have the backing of his boss? | :00:40. | :00:43. | |
Also, building the wall - we'll meet the Mexicans | :00:44. | :00:46. | |
who are already working to reinforce the US border. | :00:47. | :00:50. | |
And, testing the President - how might the Trump administration | :00:51. | :00:52. | |
respond to North Korea's latest missile launch? | :00:53. | :01:12. | |
When it comes to immigration, climate change, free trade | :01:13. | :01:14. | |
and perhaps a whole host of other important issues, Donald Trump and | :01:15. | :01:17. | |
Yes, it is going to be a "delicate" afternoon | :01:18. | :01:21. | |
He is in Washington for their first meeting. | :01:22. | :01:24. | |
But a crucially important one given Donald Trump's threat to renegotiate | :01:25. | :01:27. | |
the North American Free Trade Agreement, | :01:28. | :01:28. | |
Trade between the two countries is currently | :01:29. | :01:35. | |
Last year the US had a slight trading surplus | :01:36. | :01:40. | |
in goods and services - around $12 billion. | :01:41. | :01:42. | |
They share the world's longest international border | :01:43. | :01:43. | |
and across it they do $2 billion of trade every day. | :01:44. | :01:46. | |
But here is why this relationship is so crucially | :01:47. | :01:50. | |
important to the Canadians - 75% of their exports go | :01:51. | :01:52. | |
Which is why any new tariffs would have a huge knock-on effect. | :01:53. | :02:05. | |
This is the scene at the White House. Everybody congregating and | :02:06. | :02:14. | |
the various anchors going through their paces. We will take you live | :02:15. | :02:22. | |
there Wendy two leaders appear. -- there when the two. | :02:23. | :02:26. | |
He is a former foreign policy advisor to Justin Trudeau | :02:27. | :02:30. | |
and now a professor of international affairs | :02:31. | :02:32. | |
Do you think it is possible for the two to find common ground? Entirely | :02:33. | :02:40. | |
possible. We will see what happens in the press conference but all of | :02:41. | :02:43. | |
the indications are that the meeting has gone well. They issued a | :02:44. | :02:50. | |
statement that emphasised building conditions for jobs and both | :02:51. | :02:53. | |
countries, a priority for both leaders, and I think they were both | :02:54. | :02:57. | |
determined to make this a positive meeting. Indeed they have | :02:58. | :03:02. | |
differences, you mentioned a number of them in your introduction. It | :03:03. | :03:10. | |
will be for Justin Trudeau and -- a matter of managing the differences | :03:11. | :03:13. | |
and striking a balance over the coming years. It is one thing to | :03:14. | :03:19. | |
have one positive meeting, it is another to develop effective | :03:20. | :03:22. | |
mutually beneficial foreign policy between the two. You have already | :03:23. | :03:29. | |
had Justin Trudeau when the immigration and was introduced, | :03:30. | :03:33. | |
saying immigrants are welcome to Canada. It was not a subtle dig. One | :03:34. | :03:40. | |
positive meeting is better than one bad meeting or a terrible phone | :03:41. | :03:45. | |
call. True! I agree it will be a long-term challenge. The purpose of | :03:46. | :03:50. | |
the meeting was for them to establish a relationship and move | :03:51. | :03:54. | |
forward and that will be important the moving forward the positive | :03:55. | :03:58. | |
agenda where they have common interests but also dealing with some | :03:59. | :04:02. | |
of the differences. Canadians expect their Prime Minister both to strike | :04:03. | :04:07. | |
a working effective relationship with the US president and to uphold | :04:08. | :04:13. | |
Canadian values and stand up for Canadian interests. Justin Trudeau | :04:14. | :04:15. | |
is demonstrating that he will be able to walk that line but a lot | :04:16. | :04:19. | |
depends on what Donald Trump does in the next weeks, months and years, | :04:20. | :04:27. | |
indeed the next few minutes. We have just shown our viewers why the | :04:28. | :04:30. | |
relationship is potentially imbalanced. 70 cents -- 75% of | :04:31. | :04:37. | |
American exports go to the US, so you can talk tough but at some point | :04:38. | :04:40. | |
he will have to back off and accommodate the president. Not | :04:41. | :04:46. | |
necessarily. It is an imbalanced relationship but there are 35 of the | :04:47. | :04:50. | |
50 US states that have Canada as their principal export market. That | :04:51. | :04:56. | |
relationship is responsible or supporting millions of jobs in the | :04:57. | :05:00. | |
US. There is no indication that Donald Trump other people around him | :05:01. | :05:05. | |
see Canada as a problem for them economically. Canada has not been | :05:06. | :05:09. | |
singled out internationally even when Donald cup has been attacking | :05:10. | :05:17. | |
Nafta. My reading of this is cautious optimism on the economic | :05:18. | :05:23. | |
side. We are focused on Brexit here but I wonder for the Canadians how | :05:24. | :05:26. | |
life has changed in recent months. You were negotiating a deal with the | :05:27. | :05:31. | |
EU and the British government said, hey, what about Brexit, and then | :05:32. | :05:36. | |
suddenly Donald Trump and picks Nafta. Has that shifted the focus in | :05:37. | :05:41. | |
Canada over the past few months? Indeed it has. There is no question | :05:42. | :05:49. | |
that the rate in ship with the US is always primordial for Canada. -- be | :05:50. | :05:54. | |
relationship with. So many of the reasons you mentioned in the | :05:55. | :05:57. | |
introduction. The government was planning for difference in a Rio 's | :05:58. | :06:07. | |
-- scenarios but the government were as surprised as anybody. That | :06:08. | :06:12. | |
Canadians are great pleased that the Canada- EU trade agreement moved | :06:13. | :06:17. | |
forward and Canadians are committed to open trade and the government is | :06:18. | :06:21. | |
seeking to expand trade relationships with Asia as well. We | :06:22. | :06:27. | |
will come back to you because we still waiting for the press | :06:28. | :06:30. | |
conference to take place. We will get your thoughts on it as and well | :06:31. | :06:34. | |
it happens. Let's look at a relationship which | :06:35. | :06:40. | |
is not going well currently fill the Americans, North Korea on the back | :06:41. | :06:46. | |
of Iran testing a missile did the same. | :06:47. | :06:52. | |
The president has been pretty restrained in his response but what | :06:53. | :07:07. | |
will happen going forward? Looking at what Donald Trump did | :07:08. | :07:11. | |
over the weekend after the North Koreans tested this missile and his | :07:12. | :07:16. | |
response to it, what did you make of the president and how he faced his | :07:17. | :07:23. | |
first real international test? I believe he made the correct | :07:24. | :07:28. | |
response, basically saying that we stand behind the Japanese, without | :07:29. | :07:32. | |
overreacting, was -- without talking about steps that the US and the | :07:33. | :07:38. | |
Allies might take to this violation of a Security Council resolution. I | :07:39. | :07:45. | |
give him good marks for being restrained, because now he has a lot | :07:46. | :07:49. | |
of options on the table. Clearly North Korea was testing the new | :07:50. | :07:53. | |
administration, they would like to get into these ideological and | :07:54. | :07:58. | |
policy skirmishes, and I think the president kept his options open. The | :07:59. | :08:05. | |
next test is, what do we do? There are not good options there. The | :08:06. | :08:09. | |
first is go to the Security Council at the UN, which we are doing now, | :08:10. | :08:15. | |
possibly more sanctions, at the very least a condemnation of this | :08:16. | :08:20. | |
ballistic missile, which was intermediate, not a long one, not | :08:21. | :08:24. | |
routine but a provocation nonetheless. Full disclosure, you | :08:25. | :08:33. | |
are a Democrat and you don't hear many Democrat ever saying Donald | :08:34. | :08:37. | |
Trump does the right thing at the moment, so I appreciate that. On the | :08:38. | :08:42. | |
relationship with China in the context of North Korea, you think | :08:43. | :08:46. | |
America hasn't got a particularly good deal from the Chinese over | :08:47. | :08:49. | |
North Korea. What do you think the Trump administration could do | :08:50. | :08:56. | |
differently with Beijing? Clearly Beijing has not helped us. I have | :08:57. | :09:01. | |
never felt that they have wanted to because they want that instability | :09:02. | :09:07. | |
in East Asia. What do we do? I think sending a ballistic missiles | :09:08. | :09:11. | |
cooperative agreement with South Korea, with Japan, would get | :09:12. | :09:16. | |
Beijing's attention. They do not want this kind of geopolitical move | :09:17. | :09:21. | |
on our part and I think we have to proceed with that. Then it is | :09:22. | :09:25. | |
careful negotiations between the US and China, which I do think | :09:26. | :09:31. | |
President Trump has corrected a bit by forgetting about Taiwan, saying | :09:32. | :09:35. | |
we have one China policy, but we haven't started out well with China, | :09:36. | :09:41. | |
we have said we will impose all kinds of tariffs on them, kind of a | :09:42. | :09:48. | |
competitive warlike atmosphere that we seem to have generated from the | :09:49. | :09:53. | |
campaign. China will be key but I don't think China is the answer, I | :09:54. | :09:57. | |
don't think they will help us on North Korea, I think we have to find | :09:58. | :10:02. | |
new ways to deal with North Korea that are not on the table. I wonder | :10:03. | :10:07. | |
if I could ask you about the National Security adviser, Michael | :10:08. | :10:11. | |
Flynn. Of course he would have been in the president's here with regard | :10:12. | :10:16. | |
to North Korea but he has faced his own headlines over the weekend. As a | :10:17. | :10:19. | |
diplomat you would understand that he had to work the back channels | :10:20. | :10:23. | |
with the Russians and he would have been talking about sanctions. Would | :10:24. | :10:32. | |
that be a problem view? No. I think the national security adviser, | :10:33. | :10:34. | |
obviously he has a lot of questions to answer. Yes, it is a problem if | :10:35. | :10:42. | |
there were discussions while President Obama was still the | :10:43. | :10:45. | |
president. He will have to answer that with the president, the vice | :10:46. | :10:53. | |
president, other groups. The national security adviser is key on | :10:54. | :11:00. | |
decisions on security issues like North Korea, Iran, Russia. He or she | :11:01. | :11:06. | |
coordinates the State Department, defence Department, CIA, joint | :11:07. | :11:13. | |
policy recommendations that go to the president. While I think General | :11:14. | :11:18. | |
Flynn deserves a day in court, obviously, this issue on the Russian | :11:19. | :11:24. | |
discussions needs to be cleared up and very soon. We have had our | :11:25. | :11:29. | |
two-minute warning at the press conference so we will have to go to | :11:30. | :11:34. | |
Washington to the press conference with Justin Trudeau. | :11:35. | :11:40. | |
Let's take you straight to the East Room in the White House. You can see | :11:41. | :11:55. | |
their raids moving around -- aides. You heard Roland Parris saying | :11:56. | :11:59. | |
earlier that the Canadians are weaker economically but the Prime | :12:00. | :12:05. | |
Minister will stand up for Canadian values, he has also made some | :12:06. | :12:12. | |
criticism of Donald Trump and his immigration policy. They have to | :12:13. | :12:15. | |
work together, they have this long powder and they are important to | :12:16. | :12:18. | |
each other, but it will be interesting to watch the body | :12:19. | :12:23. | |
language. That is very interesting, because I | :12:24. | :12:27. | |
am not into body language or anything like that, but watching | :12:28. | :12:32. | |
them at the photocall it didn't look like the easiest meeting, there was | :12:33. | :12:36. | |
not the long handshake he gave to Shinzo Abe, it was a bit more | :12:37. | :12:40. | |
strained, and they have things on which they will agree, and | :12:41. | :12:44. | |
cross-border trade may be one, although they have different | :12:45. | :12:49. | |
perspectives, climate issue is one area where they will clash, because | :12:50. | :12:54. | |
Donald Trump has several climate sceptics in his inner circle and he | :12:55. | :12:58. | |
seems the part -- determine to and do large parts of President Obama's | :12:59. | :13:05. | |
legacy, but the keystone pipeline project which will carry oil from | :13:06. | :13:10. | |
Canada to the Gold Coast refineries, that is something they will see eye | :13:11. | :13:14. | |
to eye on very much. Justin Trudeau like that, the Canadian government | :13:15. | :13:21. | |
acknowledged that it was the first executive order that the president | :13:22. | :13:26. | |
signed, it was a gift to the Canadians. But I do think climate | :13:27. | :13:33. | |
change will be a sticking point between them. These are two men with | :13:34. | :13:37. | |
three different worldviews. I will try to find areas of agreement but | :13:38. | :13:42. | |
one of them is pursuing a very conservative policy here in the US, | :13:43. | :13:45. | |
socially, on climate change, economic 's comic immigration, and | :13:46. | :13:52. | |
aides is known as the liberal leader of North America right now. -- | :13:53. | :13:59. | |
economics, immigration. He is the man who goes to meet the | :14:00. | :14:05. | |
Syrian refugees, while President Trump is trying to keep them out. | :14:06. | :14:10. | |
The relationship with Kanepi will the very different to the | :14:11. | :14:15. | |
relationship with Mexico. -- with Canada. | :14:16. | :14:21. | |
Yes, Americans feel they have a lot more in common with Canada than with | :14:22. | :14:28. | |
Mexico. Mexico is an emerging economy, Canada is a fully first | :14:29. | :14:32. | |
world economy, a place Americans might visit on holiday, Canadians | :14:33. | :14:36. | |
come to America quite easily on their holidays, so there is a lot of | :14:37. | :14:45. | |
cross-border traffic not just on trade but on tourism. One of the | :14:46. | :14:50. | |
arguments on the wall has been a national security argument that the | :14:51. | :14:56. | |
Republicans have raids, the argument about terrorists coming across. -- | :14:57. | :15:01. | |
have raised. The only terrorist to do so has come across the Canadian | :15:02. | :15:08. | |
border, not the Mexican. They will talk about Nato as well, I | :15:09. | :15:14. | |
would expect. Canada is very much an important Nato partner and doing a | :15:15. | :15:18. | |
lot in Eastern Europe at the moment, as they always do, but they don't | :15:19. | :15:24. | |
spend as much, they not up to the 2% barrier that Nato would like to see. | :15:25. | :15:29. | |
They are in the doghouse when it comes to Nato spending, the | :15:30. | :15:32. | |
president very keen for other Nato members to pick up the slack. Canada | :15:33. | :15:37. | |
spending around 1% so I imagine he is putting pressure on him to up | :15:38. | :15:44. | |
military spending. From the statement we have had and | :15:45. | :15:50. | |
Roland Parris has been referring to that, the statement has been fairly | :15:51. | :15:54. | |
positive. And here they are, here we go. | :15:55. | :16:05. | |
The president and Prime Minister of Canada. | :16:06. | :16:15. | |
Thank you. Prime Minister Trudeau, and a half of all Americans I think | :16:16. | :16:21. | |
you are being with us today. -- on behalf. It is my honour to host such | :16:22. | :16:26. | |
a great friend, neighbour and ally at the White House, a very special | :16:27. | :16:33. | |
place. This year Canada celebrates the 150th year of Confederation. For | :16:34. | :16:38. | |
Americans this is one of the many milestones in our friendships and we | :16:39. | :16:41. | |
look forward very much to many more to come. Our two nations share much | :16:42. | :16:49. | |
more than a border. We share the same values, we share the love, a | :16:50. | :16:56. | |
truly great love of freedom, and we share a collective defence. American | :16:57. | :17:01. | |
and Canadian troops have gone to battle together, fought wars | :17:02. | :17:04. | |
together and forged the special bonds that come when two nations | :17:05. | :17:11. | |
have shed their blood together, which we have. In these dangerous | :17:12. | :17:18. | |
times it is more important than ever that we continue to strengthen our | :17:19. | :17:23. | |
vital alliance. The US is deeply grateful to Canada's contribution to | :17:24. | :17:32. | |
counter Isis. We continue to work in common and in common cause against | :17:33. | :17:36. | |
terrorism and work in common cooperation towards reciprocal trade | :17:37. | :17:42. | |
and shared growth. We understand that both of our countries are | :17:43. | :17:47. | |
stronger when we join forces in matters of international, is one | :17:48. | :17:53. | |
having more jobs and trade right here in North America is better for | :17:54. | :17:58. | |
the United States and also much better for Canada. We should | :17:59. | :18:03. | |
coordinate closely and we will coordinate closely. To protect jobs | :18:04. | :18:11. | |
in our hemisphere and keep wealth on our continent and keep everyone | :18:12. | :18:18. | |
safe. Prime Minister, I pledged to work with you in pursuit of our many | :18:19. | :18:23. | |
shared interests, including a stronger shared trading relationship | :18:24. | :18:30. | |
between the US and Canada, it includes safe efficient and | :18:31. | :18:33. | |
responsible cross-border travel and migration and it includes close | :18:34. | :18:38. | |
partnership on domestic and international security. America is | :18:39. | :18:45. | |
deeply fortunate to have a neighbour like Canada. We have before us the | :18:46. | :18:49. | |
opportunity to build even more bridges and ridges of cooperation | :18:50. | :18:56. | |
and ridges of commerce. -- bridges of cooperation. Both of us are | :18:57. | :19:03. | |
committed to bringing greater prosperity to our people. We have | :19:04. | :19:09. | |
just had a productive meeting with women business leaders from the US | :19:10. | :19:13. | |
and Canada where we discussed how to secure everything that we know the | :19:14. | :19:20. | |
full power of women can do better than anybody else. We know that. I | :19:21. | :19:29. | |
just want to say Mr Prime Minister, that I am focused and you are | :19:30. | :19:34. | |
focused on the important role women play in our economies. We must work | :19:35. | :19:41. | |
to address the barriers faced by women and women entrepreneurs, | :19:42. | :19:43. | |
including access to capital, access to markets and very importantly | :19:44. | :19:51. | |
access to networks. In our discussion today we will focus on | :19:52. | :19:58. | |
improving the ways our governments together can benefits citizens of | :19:59. | :20:03. | |
both the US and Canada and in so doing advance the greater peace and | :20:04. | :20:09. | |
stability of the world. Mr Prime Minister, I look forward to working | :20:10. | :20:14. | |
closely with you to build upon our very historic friendship. There are | :20:15. | :20:25. | |
incredible possibilities for us to pursue, Canada and the US together. | :20:26. | :20:31. | |
Again, thank you for joining us and I know our discussions will be very, | :20:32. | :20:35. | |
very productive for the future of both countries, Mr Prime Minister. | :20:36. | :20:44. | |
Thank you, Mr President. Thank you, everybody, for joining us. I would | :20:45. | :20:49. | |
like to extend my sincere thanks to President Trump for inviting me to | :20:50. | :20:54. | |
Washington. Any day I get to visit our southern neighbours is a good | :20:55. | :20:59. | |
day, especially when it is so warm compared to back home. We are | :21:00. | :21:06. | |
suffering from a harsh winter storm which is hitting our Atlantic | :21:07. | :21:10. | |
promises. I hope everybody stays safe. | :21:11. | :21:26. | |
HE SPEAKS FRENCH NEW LIKE ROPE We had the opportunity to talk about | :21:27. | :21:36. | |
opportunities between our countries. No other neighbours in the entire | :21:37. | :21:42. | |
world or is fundamentally linked as we are. We fought in conflict zones | :21:43. | :21:49. | |
together, negotiated environmental treaties, including 1991's historic | :21:50. | :21:54. | |
air quality agreement, and we have entered into ground-breaking | :21:55. | :22:01. | |
economic contracts which have helped both peoples. We share a common | :22:02. | :22:05. | |
history as well as people to people ties which make us completely | :22:06. | :22:12. | |
integrated. Our workers are connected by trade, transportation | :22:13. | :22:16. | |
and cross-border commerce. Our communities rely on each other for | :22:17. | :22:22. | |
security, stability and economic prosperity. Our families have long | :22:23. | :22:26. | |
lived and worked together. We know that more often than not our | :22:27. | :22:33. | |
victories are shared and just as we celebrate together so, too, do we | :22:34. | :22:38. | |
suffer loss and heartbreak together. Through it all the foundational | :22:39. | :22:44. | |
pillar on which our relationship is built is one of mutual respect and | :22:45. | :22:49. | |
that is a good thing, because as we know bullish on ships between | :22:50. | :22:52. | |
neighbours are pretty complexity and we won't always agree on every | :22:53. | :22:58. | |
thing. -- relationships are twain neighbours. Thanks to our respect to | :22:59. | :23:06. | |
one another we can look negotiate those and remain the closest allies | :23:07. | :23:11. | |
and friends. At the end of the day Canada and the US will always remain | :23:12. | :23:16. | |
each other's most essential partner. Today's conversations have served to | :23:17. | :23:23. | |
reinforce how important that is for Canadians and Americans. As we know, | :23:24. | :23:29. | |
35 US states list Canada as their largest export market and our | :23:30. | :23:33. | |
economies benefit from the over $2 billion in two-way trade that takes | :23:34. | :23:40. | |
place every single day. Millions of good middle-class jobs on both sides | :23:41. | :23:47. | |
of the border depend on this crucial partnership. Maintaining strong | :23:48. | :23:51. | |
economic ties is vital to our mutual success and we will continue to work | :23:52. | :23:57. | |
closely in coming years so that Canadian and American families can | :23:58. | :24:01. | |
get ahead. He speaks French | :24:02. | :24:15. | |
Our economies benefit from the over $2 billion that take place every | :24:16. | :24:20. | |
day. Millions of good middle-class jobs on both sides of the border | :24:21. | :24:26. | |
depend on this crucial partnership. Maintaining strong economic ties is | :24:27. | :24:32. | |
vital to our economic success and we will continue to work closely in | :24:33. | :24:36. | |
coming years so that Canadian and American families can get ahead. | :24:37. | :24:41. | |
I would like to highlight a few specifics that President Trump and I | :24:42. | :24:46. | |
discussed today. At the end of the day the president and I Sherrock, | :24:47. | :24:51. | |
goal. We both want to make sure that hard-working folks can go to work at | :24:52. | :24:58. | |
a good job, put food on the table and save up for a vacation every | :24:59. | :25:03. | |
once in awhile. -- the president and I share a common goal. Today we | :25:04. | :25:08. | |
reiterated that we are committed to collaborating on energy | :25:09. | :25:11. | |
infrastructure jobs that will create jobs and respect the environment. As | :25:12. | :25:16. | |
we know investing in infrastructure is a great way to create the kind of | :25:17. | :25:21. | |
economic growth that our countries desperately need. In that vein, we | :25:22. | :25:25. | |
know that ensuring equal opportunities for women in the | :25:26. | :25:29. | |
workforce is essential for growing the economy and maintaining American | :25:30. | :25:34. | |
and Canadian competitiveness on the world stage. As such, the president | :25:35. | :25:40. | |
and I have agreed to the creation of the President and United States | :25:41. | :25:45. | |
Council for the promotion of women entrepreneurs and business leaders. | :25:46. | :25:49. | |
This is more about dollars and cents, this is about ensuring that | :25:50. | :25:52. | |
women have access to the same opportunities as men... | :25:53. | :25:59. | |
STUDIO: You are watching BBC News. If you want to continue watching | :26:00. | :26:10. | |
this, for viewers of BBC Four, you can continue on the BBC News | :26:11. | :26:13. | |
Channel. We have continued to fight together | :26:14. | :26:21. | |
to fight the trade in opioids across our border. We will do everything we | :26:22. | :26:28. | |
can to ensure the safety of Canadians and Americans. Ladies and | :26:29. | :26:32. | |
gentlemen, President come, I know that if our countries continue to | :26:33. | :26:37. | |
work together our people will greatly benefit from this | :26:38. | :26:44. | |
cooperation. -- President Trump. In order to tackle pressing foreign | :26:45. | :26:50. | |
and domestic issues we must work with our closest allies, learn from | :26:51. | :26:53. | |
each other and stand in solidarity as a united voice. The level of | :26:54. | :26:58. | |
economic and social integration that is and matched on the world stage | :26:59. | :27:08. | |
and we will always be a model of how to be good neighbours. Winston | :27:09. | :27:14. | |
Churchill once said, that long Canadian frontier from the Atlantic | :27:15. | :27:18. | |
to the Pacific ocean, guarded only by neighbourly respect and | :27:19. | :27:22. | |
honourable obligations, is an example to every country and a | :27:23. | :27:26. | |
pattern for the future of the world. That, my friends, is the very | :27:27. | :27:32. | |
essence of the Canada-US relationship. I look forward to | :27:33. | :27:37. | |
working with President Trump income coming years to nurture and build on | :27:38. | :27:49. | |
this relationship. Merci beaucoup. We will take a couple of questions. | :27:50. | :28:02. | |
Report are -- REPORTER:. You spoke about the need to build | :28:03. | :28:09. | |
bridges, or though you have philosophical differences. How do | :28:10. | :28:12. | |
you see this relationship playing out and are there any specific areas | :28:13. | :28:19. | |
on which you decided to perhaps altar and amend your stances on | :28:20. | :28:23. | |
issues like terrorism and administration? Prime Minister | :28:24. | :28:30. | |
Trudeau, how do you see this relationship compared to that under | :28:31. | :28:36. | |
the Obama administration? We just began discussions, we are going to | :28:37. | :28:43. | |
have a great relationship with Canada, we have some great ideas on | :28:44. | :28:49. | |
immigration, strong and tough ideas on the tremendous problem we have | :28:50. | :28:56. | |
with terrorism, and when we put them together we have a group of very | :28:57. | :29:01. | |
talented people and we will see obvious results. We are also doing | :29:02. | :29:05. | |
some cross-border things that will make it a lot easier to trade and a | :29:06. | :29:11. | |
lot faster for trade. Through technology we have some really great | :29:12. | :29:14. | |
ideas and they will be implemented fairly quickly. One of the things we | :29:15. | :29:21. | |
spoke about was the fact that security and immigration need to | :29:22. | :29:26. | |
work well together and certainly Canada has emphasised security, as | :29:27. | :29:34. | |
we look towards improving our immigration system and remaining | :29:35. | :29:38. | |
true to our values, and we had a strong and fruitful discussion on | :29:39. | :29:44. | |
exactly that. There is plenty we can draw from each other on in terms of | :29:45. | :29:50. | |
how to move towards a common goal, to create free and open societies | :29:51. | :29:57. | |
that keep our citizens safe, and that is something we have a lot in | :29:58. | :30:02. | |
common on. REPORTER: Mr President, Mr Prime | :30:03. | :30:09. | |
Minister, and Mr Prime Minister can you answer in English and French? | :30:10. | :30:14. | |
Bit of a follow on from my American colleague's question will stop | :30:15. | :30:20. | |
President Trump, you seemed to suggest that Syrian refugees were a | :30:21. | :30:30. | |
kind of Trojan horse. Can you confirm that the northern border is | :30:31. | :30:31. | |
secure? Through the incredible efforts | :30:32. | :30:39. | |
already I see it happening of secretary Kelly. We have really done | :30:40. | :30:47. | |
a great job. We are actually taking people that are criminals, hardened | :30:48. | :30:53. | |
criminals in some cases, with a tremendous track record of abuse and | :30:54. | :30:59. | |
problems, and we are getting them out. That's what I said we would do. | :31:00. | :31:05. | |
I'm just doing what I said we would do when we won by a large electoral | :31:06. | :31:08. | |
college vote. I knew that was going college vote. I knew that was going | :31:09. | :31:13. | |
to happen, I knew this is what people were wanting. That wasn't the | :31:14. | :31:20. | |
anything but we did so well, that anything but we did so well, that | :31:21. | :31:23. | |
was something that was very important. I said we would get the | :31:24. | :31:28. | |
criminals out, the drug lords, the gang members. General Kelly is doing | :31:29. | :31:33. | |
a fantastic job. I said at the beginning we are going to get the | :31:34. | :31:40. | |
bad ones. The really bad ones. We are getting them out and that's | :31:41. | :31:44. | |
exactly what we are doing. I think in the end everyone will be | :31:45. | :31:48. | |
extremely happy, and I will tell you right now. A lot of people are very, | :31:49. | :31:54. | |
very happy right now. Canada has always understood that keeping | :31:55. | :31:59. | |
Canadians safe is one of the fundamental responsibilities of any | :32:00. | :32:02. | |
government, that is certainly something we are focused on. At the | :32:03. | :32:06. | |
same time we continue to pursue our policies of openness towards | :32:07. | :32:12. | |
immigration and refugees, without compromising security. Part of the | :32:13. | :32:15. | |
reason we have been successful in doing that over the past year, | :32:16. | :32:21. | |
welcoming close to 40,000 Syrian refugees, is because we have been | :32:22. | :32:25. | |
coordinating with our allies, the United States and around the world, | :32:26. | :32:31. | |
to demonstrate that security comes very seriously to us. That's | :32:32. | :32:34. | |
with. TRANSLATION: It is clear that with. TRANSLATION: It is clear that | :32:35. | :32:44. | |
if you want to have a healthy and safe society, you have to make sure | :32:45. | :32:49. | |
that you maintain, that you focus on security. And we have welcome to | :32:50. | :32:57. | |
refugees from Syria, we have been successful and always taken our | :32:58. | :33:02. | |
responsibility towards security very seriously. And our allies, including | :33:03. | :33:06. | |
the United States, understand this focus very well and they have done | :33:07. | :33:14. | |
so since the beginning. President Trump, now you been in office and | :33:15. | :33:17. | |
received intelligence briefings spend nearly one month, what do you | :33:18. | :33:23. | |
see as the most important national security matters facing us. Prime | :33:24. | :33:26. | |
Minister Trudeau, you made clear that Canada has an open door policy | :33:27. | :33:31. | |
for Syrian refugees. Do you believe President Trump's moratoria on | :33:32. | :33:36. | |
immigration has merit on national security grounds? Many problems. | :33:37. | :33:41. | |
When I was campaigning, I said it's When I was campaigning, I said it's | :33:42. | :33:48. | |
not a good situation. Now that I see it, including with our intelligence | :33:49. | :33:52. | |
briefings, we have problems, a lot of people have no idea how serious | :33:53. | :33:56. | |
they are. Not only internationally, but when you come right here. | :33:57. | :34:02. | |
Obviously North Korea is a big, big problem and we will deal with that | :34:03. | :34:09. | |
very strongly. We have problems all over the Middle East, we have | :34:10. | :34:13. | |
problems just about every corner of the globe, no matter where you look. | :34:14. | :34:22. | |
I had a great meeting this weekend with Prime Minister Abe of Japan. We | :34:23. | :34:25. | |
got to know each other very well. An extended weekend. We were with each | :34:26. | :34:33. | |
other for long periods of time. On the home front, we have to create | :34:34. | :34:38. | |
borders, we have to let people that can love our country in. I want to | :34:39. | :34:43. | |
do that. We want to have a big, beautiful open door, we want people | :34:44. | :34:47. | |
to come into our country. But we cannot let the wrong people in. I | :34:48. | :34:51. | |
will not allow that to happen during this administration. Citizens of our | :34:52. | :34:58. | |
country want that, and that's their attitude, I will tell you. We are | :34:59. | :35:06. | |
getting such praise for our stance, and its stance of common sense. | :35:07. | :35:10. | |
Maybe a certain toughness but it's more than toughness, it's a stance | :35:11. | :35:15. | |
of common sense. We are going to it vigorously, and we don't want to | :35:16. | :35:20. | |
have our country have the kinds of problems that you are witnessing | :35:21. | :35:24. | |
taking place not only here but all over the world. We won't stand for | :35:25. | :35:29. | |
it, we won't put up with it. We aren't going to let it happen. We | :35:30. | :35:32. | |
are going to give ourselves every bit of chance, | :35:33. | :35:38. | |
so that things go well for the United States. Canada and the United | :35:39. | :35:46. | |
time. Canadians and Americans have time. Canadians and Americans have | :35:47. | :35:51. | |
stood together, worked together at home and around the world. We fought | :35:52. | :35:57. | |
and died together on battlefields in World War I and World War II, in | :35:58. | :36:03. | |
Korea, in Afghanistan. But there have been times where we have | :36:04. | :36:07. | |
differed in our approaches. That's always been done firmly and | :36:08. | :36:13. | |
Canadians expect is for me to come Canadians expect is for me to come | :36:14. | :36:21. | |
down and lecture another country on how they choose to govern | :36:22. | :36:29. | |
themselves. My role, my responsibility is to continue to | :36:30. | :36:34. | |
govern in such a way that reflects Canadians' approach and be a | :36:35. | :36:35. | |
positive example in the world. Mr President, I will ask my question | :36:36. | :36:51. | |
in French first and then for you a la skit again in English. -- I'll | :36:52. | :36:59. | |
ask it again in England. TRANSLATION: Mr Prime Minister, you | :37:00. | :37:05. | |
said Canadian workers are concerned for their businesses and for their | :37:06. | :37:11. | |
work and jobs, concerning the renegotiation of Nafta. So, what | :37:12. | :37:15. | |
government that we will keep our government that we will keep our | :37:16. | :37:20. | |
jobs and businesses in the jobs and businesses in the | :37:21. | :37:28. | |
renegotiation of Nafta? In the last three months you have denounced | :37:29. | :37:34. | |
Nafta. You have talked over and over about the Mexican portion of the | :37:35. | :37:37. | |
agreement, very little about the Canadian one. My question is is | :37:38. | :37:48. | |
Canada a fair Trader? And when you talk about changes to Nafta, | :37:49. | :37:53. | |
concerning Canada, are you talking about big changes or small changes? | :37:54. | :38:01. | |
Thank you. TRANSLATION: Thank you. It is a real concern for many | :38:02. | :38:06. | |
Canadians, because we know that our economy is very dependent on our | :38:07. | :38:14. | |
relationship with the United States. Goods and services to cross the | :38:15. | :38:18. | |
border each way. Every single day. And this means a lot, millions of | :38:19. | :38:27. | |
jobs or Canadians, and good jobs for Canadians. So we are always focusing | :38:28. | :38:32. | |
on these jobs, but there are also good jobs, millions of jobs in the | :38:33. | :38:39. | |
United States that depend on those relationships between our two | :38:40. | :38:43. | |
countries. So when we sit down, as we did today, and as our teams will | :38:44. | :38:49. | |
be doing in the weeks and months to come, we will be talking about how | :38:50. | :38:54. | |
we can continue to create good jobs for our citizens on both sides of | :38:55. | :38:59. | |
the border. And doing this exercise, we continue to understand that we | :39:00. | :39:07. | |
have to allow this free flow of goods and services, and we have to | :39:08. | :39:13. | |
be aware of the integration of our countries, which is extremely | :39:14. | :39:17. | |
positive for both our countries. This is the focus we will have in | :39:18. | :39:18. | |
the coming weeks and months to come. the coming weeks and months to come. | :39:19. | :39:24. | |
We are aware of the fact that much of our economy depends on good | :39:25. | :39:28. | |
working relationships with the United States, good integration with | :39:29. | :39:33. | |
the American economy, and the fact is, millions of good jobs on both | :39:34. | :39:40. | |
sides of the border depend on the smooth and easy flow of goods and | :39:41. | :39:43. | |
services and people, back and forth across our border. And both | :39:44. | :39:49. | |
commitments to support the middle commitments to support the middle | :39:50. | :39:54. | |
class, to work hard for people who need a real shot at success. We know | :39:55. | :40:02. | |
that by working together, by ensuring the continued effective | :40:03. | :40:06. | |
integration of our two economies, we are going to be creating greater | :40:07. | :40:09. | |
opportunities for middle-class Canadians and Americans, now and | :40:10. | :40:16. | |
well into the future. I agree with that 100%. We have a very | :40:17. | :40:19. | |
outstanding trade relationship with Canada. Will be tweaking it, we'll | :40:20. | :40:24. | |
be doing certain things that will benefit both of our countries. It's | :40:25. | :40:31. | |
a much less severe situation that is taken place on the southern border. | :40:32. | :40:35. | |
For many years the transaction wasn't fair to the United States. It | :40:36. | :40:40. | |
is an extremely unfair transaction. We are going to work with Mexico and | :40:41. | :40:44. | |
make it a fair deal for both parties. I think we are going to get | :40:45. | :40:50. | |
along very well with Mexico. They understand and we understand, you | :40:51. | :40:53. | |
probably noticed Ford is making billions of dollars of new | :40:54. | :40:56. | |
investments in this country. You saw Intel announce that because of what | :40:57. | :41:02. | |
I'm doing in terms of regulation, lowering taxes, they are coming in | :41:03. | :41:04. | |
with billions and billions of dollars of investment and thousands | :41:05. | :41:17. | |
and thousands of John -- of jobs. We have so many people that want to | :41:18. | :41:22. | |
come into the United States, it's very exciting. I think it's going to | :41:23. | :41:26. | |
be a very exciting period of time for the United States, and for the | :41:27. | :41:29. | |
workers of the United States. Because they had been the forgotten | :41:30. | :41:34. | |
men and women. They aren't going to be forgotten any more, believe me. I | :41:35. | :41:38. | |
relationship with Canada is outstanding and we are going to work | :41:39. | :41:43. | |
together to make it even better. As far as the southern border is | :41:44. | :41:49. | |
concerned, we are going to get that worked out. We are going to make it | :41:50. | :41:53. | |
so that everybody is happy. It's very important to me. Thank you | :41:54. | :41:58. | |
ladies and gentlemen, thank you very much. President Donald Trump and | :41:59. | :42:05. | |
Prime Minister Justin Trudeau holding their press conference, | :42:06. | :42:09. | |
speaking for almost half an hour, making statements of commitment, | :42:10. | :42:12. | |
very warm statements of how their two countries have fought together | :42:13. | :42:17. | |
in the past. Donald Trump said the US is deeply grateful to Canada's | :42:18. | :42:26. | |
counterterror efforts, they talked about jobs, security, Justin Trudeau | :42:27. | :42:29. | |
saying they might not always agree but they will do so respectfully and | :42:30. | :42:34. | |
referred to America as Canada's most essential partner. I'm not sure | :42:35. | :42:39. | |
Brits would like that particularly but I think the Canadians were very | :42:40. | :42:44. | |
happy with that. We are speaking to a former adviser to Justin Trudeau. | :42:45. | :42:48. | |
While they spoke warmly about each other, as you suggested, and they | :42:49. | :42:53. | |
talked about the need to get along, you could also see the difference | :42:54. | :42:58. | |
between these two men. There is Justin Trudeau talking about | :42:59. | :43:02. | |
openness and integration, both on and economic front and allowing | :43:03. | :43:05. | |
refugees. Talking about Canadian values of openness and Donald Trump | :43:06. | :43:09. | |
taking the occasion to talk about how he is getting rid of people who | :43:10. | :43:14. | |
are in the country illegally, and stressing the need to secure | :43:15. | :43:17. | |
American borders and keep people out to. Yes. The narratives were quite | :43:18. | :43:21. | |
different. I thought it was fascinating. To me what was just as | :43:22. | :43:25. | |
interesting was how both men managed interesting was how both men managed | :43:26. | :43:29. | |
that difference. They were both invited several times to criticise | :43:30. | :43:33. | |
each other's approach, they both declined. I think that the people | :43:34. | :43:38. | |
around, Justin Trudeau and most Canadians will be very pleased with | :43:39. | :43:43. | |
his response, which was a very pragmatic one. Essentially saying, | :43:44. | :43:48. | |
listen, we have a different approach, I'm not here to lecture | :43:49. | :43:51. | |
you but we are going to continue our approach. It is an approach of | :43:52. | :43:55. | |
openness. As you said this reflects the way they want Canadians to | :43:56. | :44:02. | |
proceed. It couldn't have been a more interesting exchange. Justin | :44:03. | :44:06. | |
Trudeau hinted he was concerned about the renegotiation of Nafta but | :44:07. | :44:09. | |
the President made it clear that for him the situation on the southern | :44:10. | :44:13. | |
border was different to what we've already described in the programme, | :44:14. | :44:16. | |
the situation across the northern border. This confirms what the | :44:17. | :44:23. | |
indications have been now for quite awhile. Donald Trump's concerns with | :44:24. | :44:29. | |
Nafta are primarily Mexico. He did mention there needed to be tweaks in | :44:30. | :44:34. | |
the Canada- US economic relationship. It'll be interesting | :44:35. | :44:38. | |
to find out more about what that means. Overall the message was | :44:39. | :44:44. | |
extremely positive Canada. He talked about increasing our commercial | :44:45. | :44:47. | |
relationship, doing things that would benefit both Canadian and | :44:48. | :44:51. | |
American citizens, which is an interesting variant from the America | :44:52. | :44:57. | |
first narratives. I also think if I may add, this is actually good news | :44:58. | :45:01. | |
for all of America's allies. What we've seen our two positive, | :45:02. | :45:06. | |
responsible constructive meetings, back to back with Prime Minister Abe | :45:07. | :45:12. | |
and Prime Minister Trudeau, having seen very different kinds of | :45:13. | :45:15. | |
interactions between the President and the Prime Minister of Australia | :45:16. | :45:24. | |
and the President of Mexico. To good meetings may be a pattern, I think | :45:25. | :45:30. | |
we can hope that. -- good meetings. It shows there is a very different | :45:31. | :45:35. | |
attitude in government are what we heard on the campaign trail. Thank | :45:36. | :45:42. | |
you for being with us. Let's talk about that southern border because | :45:43. | :45:45. | |
among a number of executive orders the President has signed that our | :45:46. | :45:49. | |
two that relate to the US-Mexico border. One gives the green light to | :45:50. | :45:53. | |
begin work on the wall, the other increases the size of the border | :45:54. | :45:58. | |
patrol force, as well as the number of immigration enforcement officers | :45:59. | :46:02. | |
who carry out the deportations. The third of the frontier already has | :46:03. | :46:05. | |
some sort of barrier and the nearly a decade people who live in the | :46:06. | :46:09. | |
towns that straddle the Mexican-American border have had to | :46:10. | :46:15. | |
adapt to that. We report from the border town of El Paso which lies on | :46:16. | :46:24. | |
the American side, and Ciudad Juarez on the Mexican side. 2:30am. This | :46:25. | :46:29. | |
man is about to cross into the United States. For many on the | :46:30. | :46:33. | |
border it's a way of life. We are protecting his identity because the | :46:34. | :46:36. | |
American company he works for doesn't allow him to speak. This is | :46:37. | :46:42. | |
the kind of journey many people in Ciudad Juarez make to go and work in | :46:43. | :46:49. | |
El Paso. He's Mexican, he is building the wall, the wall that is | :46:50. | :47:00. | |
already there. For my job it's just to make of all this time. His family | :47:01. | :47:04. | |
and friends do not see it as a problem either. They joke with me | :47:05. | :47:12. | |
and say leave it open for them to cross. | :47:13. | :47:19. | |
This is where Luis is working on a two kilometre | :47:20. | :47:21. | |
He believes the US needs people like him. | :47:22. | :47:43. | |
Standing so close to it, it's obviously a very imposing structure. | :47:44. | :47:45. | |
They used to be a small offence here but it is now being replaced | :47:46. | :47:48. | |
The closer you get to the fence the more you wonder how the wall | :47:49. | :47:54. | |
president Trump wants to build will serve its purposes and how it | :47:55. | :47:56. | |
will affect the lives and businesses of people in border towns. | :47:57. | :48:02. | |
This man is from Ciudad Juarez and owns a small restaurant in El Paso. | :48:03. | :48:07. | |
Since Trump was arrested the Mexican currency, | :48:08. | :48:15. | |
the peso, has tumbled, and his business has suffered. | :48:16. | :48:23. | |
There's been a fence here for almost a decade, | :48:24. | :48:39. | |
and while Ciudad Juarez became one of the most violent places | :48:40. | :48:42. | |
in the world El Paso is amongst the safest cities in the US. | :48:43. | :48:46. | |
The barrier runs through this woman's backyard. | :48:47. | :48:53. | |
We have less cargo, as we say, Crossing over. | :48:54. | :49:00. | |
Despite her Mexican heritage she supports | :49:01. | :49:11. | |
I believe that he is trying to protect the US. | :49:12. | :49:14. | |
All along the border there are reminders like this that | :49:15. | :49:26. | |
for some the impulse to cross this fence or a future wall | :49:27. | :49:30. | |
This is the photo we were showing you last week as Trump was signing | :49:31. | :50:00. | |
one of the executive orders. The top men in the closed Circle. Steve | :50:01. | :50:03. | |
Bannon standing just on right shoulder. Obviously a very prominent | :50:04. | :50:12. | |
position within the administration. Very young but very influential. He | :50:13. | :50:17. | |
is said to have the error of the President. He relies on him | :50:18. | :50:20. | |
policy -- the ear of the President. policy -- the ear of the President. | :50:21. | :50:25. | |
He relies on him for immigration particularly. He did and get great | :50:26. | :50:29. | |
reviews from his TV performances but it seems Donald Trump really likes | :50:30. | :50:34. | |
him. He tweeted this, congratulations Stephen Miller on | :50:35. | :50:38. | |
representing me this weekend on various Sunday morning shows. Great | :50:39. | :50:42. | |
job. We know Donald Trump has confidence in Stephen Miller but | :50:43. | :50:46. | |
does he still have trust in MIchael Flynn? The general is under mounting | :50:47. | :50:50. | |
pressure, speculation that in the week before he took office he was | :50:51. | :50:54. | |
talking privately to the Russian ambassador about relaxing sanctions | :50:55. | :50:58. | |
on Russia. Throughout the weekend both Stephen Miller and the | :50:59. | :51:01. | |
President ducked questions about his future. What do you think about | :51:02. | :51:10. | |
reports that General Glenn had conversations with the Russians? I | :51:11. | :51:13. | |
haven't seen it. What report is that? There is a report to talk to | :51:14. | :51:21. | |
the Ambassador of Russia before you were inaugurated. I haven't seen | :51:22. | :51:26. | |
that. I'll look at that. How can he continue to serve as national | :51:27. | :51:30. | |
security adviser after misleading the President? I don't accept that | :51:31. | :51:35. | |
question as accurate. I don't have any information to add anything to | :51:36. | :51:38. | |
this conversation. I understand it's a sensitive and important matter. | :51:39. | :51:45. | |
I'm sure you'll have an opportunity to interview someone from the Vice | :51:46. | :51:48. | |
President's office... I'm sure you're well aware of the 1799 Logan | :51:49. | :51:56. | |
act, a well-known statute. That's not the problem though, forget about | :51:57. | :52:00. | |
the Logan act. The problem is the vice President went out on national | :52:01. | :52:05. | |
TV and said that Flynn never discussed those sanctions with the | :52:06. | :52:09. | |
Russian ambassador. Very bad position for the vice President to | :52:10. | :52:12. | |
be in. Not great for general Flynn to be in. I'll be back for Facebook | :52:13. | :52:18. | |
Live. So do get in touch, this | :52:19. | :52:22. | |
is 100 Days from BBC News, from Katty Kay in Washington and me, | :52:23. | :52:25. | |
Christian Fraser in London, goodbye. A scientist from Newcastle | :52:26. | :52:37. | |
University says banned chemicals | :52:38. | :52:40. |