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Dangerous US policies are causing worry and irritation,

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His comments come as Donald Trump sends his most senior diplomat

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Immigration raids - which Mr Trump says will mean

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hundreds of thousands of people being deported to Mexico -

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are a matter of concern for Mexico, but pride for the US President.

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We're getting gang members out, we're getting drug lords out,

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we're getting really bad dudes out of this country, and at a rate that

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Meanwhile, beneath the ground, we take a tour of the so-called

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narco tunnels, used by Mexican smuggling gangs.

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We also have the verdict on the early days of

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the Trump Presidency from a Supreme Court Justice.

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Ruth Bader Ginsburg has spent a quarter of a century making laws

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She tells us why she is increasingly concerned for her country.

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Well, I would say that we are not experiencing the best of times.

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Angela Merkel will be bidding for a fourth term

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as German Chancellor later this year.

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Is Martin Schulz the man to stop her?

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The US Secretary of State, Rex Tillerson,

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and the Homeland Security Secretary, John Kelly, have begun a day

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of meetings with their Mexican counterparts.

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Their mission is to improve the badly damaged relations

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The trip comes after repeated public criticism of Mexico by

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President Trump and a controversial plan that could mean the deportation

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of hundreds of thousands of undocumented immigrants

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to Mexico, regardless of where they came from.

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This is what the President said about the visit this morning.

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That is going to be a tough trip because we have to be treated fairly

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by Mexico, that is going to be a tough trip. But he is over there

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with General Kellie who has been unbelievable at the border, you see

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what is happening at the border, for the first time, we are getting gang

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members and drug lords out, really bad dudes out of this country. And

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at a rate that nobody has ever seen before. And they are the bad ones,

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and it is a military operation because what has been allowed to

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come into our country, when you see going filers that you have read

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about like never before, much of that is people who are here

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illegally. And they are and they are tough, but they are not tough like

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our people. Bad dudes, the inimitable Donald Trump.

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After meeting with the US Secretary of State,

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the Mexican Foreign Minister had this to say.

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I would like to focus on my country. We have expressed by the secretaries

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Taylor and Kelly. First of all, our concern to respect the rights of

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Mexicans living in the United States. And more specifically, the

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And more specifically, the human rights.

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And this what the Secretary of State said.

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In our meetings, we acknowledged that in a relationship filled with

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vibrant colours, two Strong sovereign countries from time to

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time will have differences. We listened closely and carefully to

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each other, as we respectfully and patiently raised our respective

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concerns. Our conversations covered the full range of bilateral issues.

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We reaffirmed our close corporation and economic and commercial issues

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such as energy, legal migration, security, educational exchanges, and

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people to people ties. We agreed that our two countries should seize

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the opportunity to modernise and strengthen our trade and energy

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relationship. We also reiterated our joint commitment to maintaining law

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and order, along our shared border, by stopping potential terrorists and

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dismantling the transnational criminal networks moving drugs and

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people into the United States. Similarly, we underscored the

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importance of stopping the illegal firearms and money originating in

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the United States and flowing into Mexico. There is no mistaking that

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the rule of law matters along both sides of our border.

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That was wrecked Helen -- that was Rex Tillerson.

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John Negroponte served as the Director of National

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He has also served as a US Ambassador in a host of countries,

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When you hear Donald Trump talking about the need for a military

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operation to get rid of what he called bad dudes and send them back

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South of the border, how much does that reflect the reality of the

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immigration situation as it is today? Well, anything first of all,

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Mr Trump sometimes is trying to speak to multiple audiences and in

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this case, I think speed a bit to his base and reiterating some of the

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things he said during his campaign. In actual fact, there are more

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Mexicans leaving the United States than arriving here at the moment, as

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far as the flow of migration is concerned, the largest flow of

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migrants to our country, undocumented migrants, has been from

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Central America. And Mexico has played a role in trying to restrain

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that flow and I noticed that was one of the things Rex Tillerson referred

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to. Send to Kelly saying there would be no mass deportations in Mexico

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City. If immigration from Mexico is not such a big issue, is there not a

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risk to the American government of creating this rift with Mexico which

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is after all an important trading partner and partner when it comes to

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intelligence sharing ground stroke issues, is it in America's issue --

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interests to have this be a bad relationship? This is an extremely

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important relationship, our third-largest trading partner, we

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have more movement across our common border with Mexico than any other

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country in the world, more than half a billion people crossing throughout

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the year. It is just a massive relationship, not to mention the

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people to people ties and that roughly 10% of the United States

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population are Mexican descent. Christian it is this a much more

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aggressive policy Donald Trump is pursuing. These are the key points

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from the directive. In theory, it makes 11 million undocumented

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migrants a target. And not just those who have come across in the

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last couple of weeks, but those who might have come into the country up

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to two years ago, they might be deep waters without due process. And

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those returned might not be from Mexico, they might be from other

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Central American States. The point I am making is that even if Enrique

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Pena Nieto wanted to oblige Trump, political, this is so difficult for

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him. 2.0 would first come at you used the word, in theory. Some of

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this is rhetorical, if you don't mind me saying. And we do live in a

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country of checks and balances and deportations usually occur with some

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due process. Look at the initial Executive orders of President Trump

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with regard to this issue. That is not the last word on it and in the

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end, these things well balanced themselves out. The importance of

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the US-Mexico relationship will ultimately outweigh some of these

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other considerations and some good equilibria is ultimately going to be

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reached. Not to say there will not be bruised feelings along the way.

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Does it put Mr Pena Nieto in a difficult position?

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I would certainly agree that it does put Mr Pena Nieto in a difficult

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position, in part because he has been going through a rough patch

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politically back home so he is being watched very carefully by his

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critics. And he probably has less room for me never than if his

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popularity ratings were higher. If you look at the statistics,

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Mexico is deporting more central Americans from its country right now

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than the United States. The Americans are paying for that, but

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if he does anger Mr Pena Nieto, things could get a lot worse on the

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US border. I think that is a risk. And I think the point you just made

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which is that the objective situation is much better than it is

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sometimes being portrayed in Washington, is a very important one

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indeed. No one mentions the fact that there are many sectors of our

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economy very dependent on exports to Mexico, the agricultural sector to

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mention one. Thank you very much.

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The plans to build that wall are getting a lot of bad

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publicity in Mexico, but the reality is that

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for the past 20 years, barriers and fences have been a fact

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of life for people living on the US-Mexican border.

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Juan Paullier has been to the border town of Nogales -

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to see how drug and people traffickers are determined to get

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I am joining a patrol of the water tunnels that run under the border

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connecting Mexico and the United States. We don't know who we might

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run into, so the police go ahead of us. We don't know what to expect.

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But caution is needed. So what just happened? They used the

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cover of darkness and wait for the right moment to creep toward the US

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and of the tunnel. So the policeman just told me that

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after I turned on the flashlights, they saw someone

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ran away. Minutes later, we catch a glimpse of him in the distance.

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He is not moving. And Sergio is pointing at this person with a

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flashlight. Sergio Belize it is better to back-up and alert the

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police, so we are heading towards the entrance of the tunnel.

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The traffickers use not only the subterranean infrastructure, the

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authorities have found more than 110 tunnels built by Mexican cartels.

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They called them narco tunnels and they name Nogales paternal capital

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of the border. In the cemetery, one of them hide in plain sight.

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This is the entrance of a tunnel which was recently filled in. They

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used to carry drugs to be at the side of the border and, as you can

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see, defence is just about from here.

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People have a way of getting round fences, I find. Trump has nominated

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his pick for a new Supreme Court Justice. Many hope he will get a

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second choice as well. The oldest member of the Court is 83

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and is pretty frail. Ruth Bader Ginsburg was appointed

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in 1993 by President Clinton and has traditionally sided with the liberal

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wing of the court. Last night, she spoke to BBC's

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Newsnight, while she was attending the final dress rehearsal

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of Dead Man Walking at the Kennedy Center in Washington, DC -

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an opera looking at the moral ambiguity of the death

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penalty in America. She started by talking

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about the current mood in America. There was a great man once

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said: "The true symbol of the United States is not the bald

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eagle, it is the pendulum. And when the pendulum swings too far

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in one direction, it will go back." Some terrible things have happened

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in the United States that one can only hope that we learn

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from those bad things. I would say that we are not

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experiencing the best of times. But there's hope in seeing how

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the public is reacting to it. The women's march, I've never seen

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such a demonstration, both the numbers and the rapport

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of the people in that crowd. So, yes, we are not

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experiencing the best of times, but there is reason to hope

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that we will see a better day. But what is important

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is that we have a free press, Think of what the press has done

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in the United States. That story might never have

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come out if we didn't Do you feel it's something

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that's maybe forgotten? Well, the importance

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of that, it's... I read the Washington Post

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and the New York Times every day, and I think that the reporters

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are trying to tell the public You're 83, you're the oldest serving

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member on the Supreme Court. How long do you think

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you can do this? At my age, you have

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to take it year by year. I'm hopeful, however,

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because my most senior colleague, the one who most recently retired,

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Justice John Paul Stevens, Do you think you should

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carry on till you're 90? As I said, at this stage of my life,

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I take it year by year. One of the more Liberal members of

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the bench. 83. She wants to go on until she is 90 and many Democrats

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will hope she can do that. Yes, it is quite rare to hear a

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Supreme Court Justice talking like that, about politics and the state

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of the country, but she has been one of the more outspoken, rare for a

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Supreme Court Justice and less so for the 10,000 Conservative

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activists... Some 10,000 conservative activists

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have converged on a convention centre a few miles from Washington

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for the annual Conservative Political Action Conference,

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known here as CPAC. It's not a gathering that's

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always loved Donald Trump. One of the other main attractions

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on the day was Steve Bannon. The President's chief strategist,

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one of the ideologues within his cabinet, and a former

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chair of the ring-wing He has just been speaking and first

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went through Trump's achievements but was not so, entry about the

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media. That is where you have seen, the

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Executive orders, the Supreme Court, the way he has been through the

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Supreme Court and the other 102 judges that we will eventually pick

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it is methodical and that is what the mainstream media will not

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report, does like they were dead wrong in the campaign and in the

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case of the transition. They are absolutely dead wrong about what is

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going on today because we have a team that is just grinding it

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through and what President Donald Trump permits the American people.

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And all of his promises are going to be fermented.

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Steve Bannon in bullish mood. He had more to say about the

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administration's policies. If you look at the lines of work, I

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break it into three verticals. The first is national security and

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sovereignty, intelligence, the defence Department, Homeland

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Security. The second is economic nationalism, and that is, as, the

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Treasury, trade. These people rethinking how we will reconstruct

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our trade arrangements around the world. The third, broadly, line of

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work, is what is deconstruction of the administrative state. So I think

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the three most important thing is, I think one of the most pivotal

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moments in modern American history was his immediate withdrawal from

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TPP. Got to set up a trade deal and let our sovereignty compact

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ourselves, the mainstream media do not get this but we are working in

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consultation and people are thinking through a raft of amazing and

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innovative bilateral relationships, bilateral trading relationships with

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people, that will reposition America in the world, is a fair trading

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nation and start to bring jobs. High value-added manufacturing jobs that

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the United States of America. On the national-security part, it was

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certainly the first... You have seen in fermented under General Kelly

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that the rule of law is going to exist when you talk about our

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sovereignty and immigration. General Kelly and Attorney General sessions

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are adamant that you will start to see with the defence budget we will

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talk about next week, when we bring the budget out, and also with

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certain things about the plan on Isis and what general matters and

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these guys think. But the third, this regulation... Every business

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leader has said it is not just taxes, it is also the regulation. If

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you look at these Cabinet appointees, they were selected for a

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reason, and that is the deconstruction, the way the

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progressive left runs. If they cannot get it passed, they put in

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some sort of regulation in an agency, that is going to be

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deconstructed and that is why this regulatory thing is so important.

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Steve Bannon speaking. Our correspondent Nick Bryant

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is at the conference for us. We don't hear Steve Bannon speak

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very often in public, not their daily on television, but when we do,

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he makes it very clear he does not like the media and he has a fairly

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radical approach to government, as we were hearing. But political nerds

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like me and you, this is like having a Harry Potter book coming out or a

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new Star Wars film. In the Star Wars analogy works because many people

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regard him as Darth Vader! He thinks he is a great figure! He has become

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this mythic figure and we rarely hear him speak. We hear about stuff,

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but we rarely hear him speak. And here he is with Reince Priebus, the

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Chief of Staff at the White House, is supposedly his great opponent in

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the West wing, so many reports about them not getting on because Reince

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Priebus was the chairman of the Republican National Committee on the

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face of the Republican establishment and Steve Bannon is Conservative

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insurgents so fiercely the Republican Party. But they were here

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talking like a couple on their honeymoon. Finishing each other's

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sentences, amazing body language with them. Obviously united in their

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hatred for the media. Steve Bannon repeatedly referring to it as the

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opposition. Is that a consistent rally for the Conservative base that

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he is speaking to? It certainly works in the room. Every time he had

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a go at the media, you sense a ripple of applause amongst the

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Conservative faithful. At CPAC. An organisation that has not in the

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past been welcoming to Steve Bannon and they have not invited him

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before. So really fascinating. Does that cousins -- suggest

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Conservatives are becoming more Conservative or the administration

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is tempering itself? Steve Bannon said something Justin, when the

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Conservative movement joins forces with the Republican Party, they are

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unstoppable and Donald Trump did that in a way that no other person

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could. Christian.

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You say it is one rule for those in the news media, but a lot of people

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in the UK would be familiar with Steve Bannon, Reince Priebus,

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Stephen Miller, these characters in his inner circle, I cannot think of

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a time before when so many members of an administration have been so

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well known to the public, in so short a time. It is just a fantastic

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cast of characters. You have not even mentioned Kellyanne Conway, who

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has been benched for the Paschal but of days and not appearing before the

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media much. -- for the past couple of days. A dramatic cast of

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characters, Jared Kushner, Ivanka Trump. It is so interesting because

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so much of the gossip in Washington is how these people are not getting

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on with each other, there are these different power hubs within the West

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wing fighting against each other rather than working together. You

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had Reince Priebus here and Steve Bannon in this rather dramatic show

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of unity and it did not seem to be put on, manufactured, prefabricated,

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they generally seem to get on. Thank you very much. Such is the way,

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people seem to have rows all the time in palaces! I find that,

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anyway! Here have been angry scenes

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across America, as constituents confront their Congressional

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representatives at local Voters keen to vent their

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frustration are demanding that the Trump administration

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is held to account. Our North America correspondent,

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Rajini Vaidyanathan, has been to Iowa, a state that

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supported a Trump Presidency, but also has passionate concern

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about the country's future. A warm welcome on home turf for

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Republican Senator Chuck Grassley. Most had come to vent

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their anger over the policies I am a person from a Muslim

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country and I am a Muslim. I ask him, not you,

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so shut your hole! The most contentious

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issue was health care. Don't you dare give me

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a vague politician answer, with memorised Republican talking

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points to cloud the truth. If it wasn't for ObamaCare,

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we wouldn't be able Chris Peterson used a novel way

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to attract the Senator's attention, I've got a present for

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you, if you want 'em. You're going to need them

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in the next few years! We went to meet Chris

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at his pig farm in rural Iowa. It's not just Trump supporters

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who are disgruntled Chris voted for Hillary Clinton

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and hopes town halls will give That's the only thing I can say

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positively about Trump. I heard somebody say impeachment,

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so I'm going to write that down. At a later Evans, the pressure was

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still on. It is time to put

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country over party. And that demand being heard

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at the town halls across America. of the Tea Party in the early days

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of the Obama Administration, where Conservatives packed out

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the town halls to put pressure on their congressmen and women

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senators when it came There are a lot of grievances

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in that Town Hall, how will you take I won't take these back

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to Trump, I'll take them I don't think you should see it

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as challenging Trump, I think you should see it

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as Congress doing its job For Republican politicians

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like Senator Grassley, the job is challenging,

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it's about balancing the agenda of President Trump with the voters

:24:18.:24:20.

who keep him in office. So, no doubt, Christian,

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that members of Congress are facing a tough time as they go back

:24:24.:24:26.

to their states, but some have And in one California district,

:24:27.:24:29.

one group has decided to launch this campaign

:24:30.:24:32.

to find their representative. Yes, those are milk bottles,

:24:33.:24:41.

bearing the face of Republican His constituents are wondering why

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he's not fronted a town hall event. California, you might remember,

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is most definitely a Democratic state, so the chance to put some

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tough questions to a Republican would no doubt be

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a well-attended event. I am tempted to say he bottled it!

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Can I just talk about the thing Obama said before he left office?

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Change only happens, ordinary people, get involved, get engaged,

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get together to demand change, maybe that is what they are doing. Into

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this and nine, Republicans were angry at those Town Hall meetings,

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protesting against ObamaCare -- in 2009. Similar to the meetings today.

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The Democrats dismissed those people and said it was manufactured anger.

:25:21.:25:25.

Republicans using almost identical language to those Liberals today,

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they should remember history. OK, lessons in history.

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You're watching 100 Days, from BBC News.

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Still to come for viewers on the BBC News Channel and BBC World News...

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Challenging the Chancellor - we report from Western Germany,

:25:38.:25:41.

to get more on the man who would be the country's next leader.

:25:42.:25:45.

And we speak to a gay man who voted for Donald Trump.

:25:46.:25:48.

What does he make of the President's push to roll back some

:25:49.:25:50.

That's still to come on 100 Days, from BBC News.

:25:51.:26:09.

We really have had quite a battering today, we mostly done with the

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storm, it is blowing itself out and it is heading towards the low

:26:17.:26:21.

countries here. Let's have a look at some of the gusts. 70 mph of the

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North West coast of England and look at that in London, 62 miles an hour.

:26:28.:26:31.

We do not often get those winds inland and that is why the storm was

:26:32.:26:35.

so disruptive and damaging, because of the severe gales inland. And

:26:36.:26:43.

aspects of the storm, snow across Scotland, Winter wonderland here.

:26:44.:26:47.

But only confined to Scotland. You can see a white across the Southern

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plans and lowlands and Highlands and the gales were way towards the

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South. As far as the early mid evening is concerned, the last of

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the gales just about clipping East Anglia, and we had an 81 out hour

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gust hummable much lighter now. If you are travelling this evening,

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this is around 9pm with showers and lighter winds. At this stage in many

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areas, the winds are very light indeed. This is the wind gusts at

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this stage, around nine p.m.. Talking about 28, 30 mph. Easily

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double that, more than double that in some areas. And tonight, the

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winds clear from that far Eastern and south-eastern coastline and we

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will have clear skies. The other hazard is icy patches and

:27:38.:27:40.

temperatures will dip to freezing in one or two spots. Friday morning

:27:41.:27:48.

begins chilly with light winds and sunshine, a crisp sunny start. The

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rain moves in the Belfast, whilst -- Western Scotland and Dublin and

:27:54.:27:57.

areas will get snow, but nice and quiet across most of England, I am

:27:58.:28:04.

pleased to say, and East Wales. Saturday, another big blow comes in,

:28:05.:28:10.

not a storm, regular cloud, wind and rain from the south-west. Mild

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winds, temperatures throughout the country in double figures,

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Aberdeenshire and Aberdeen around 11 degrees, 10 degrees in Plymouth.

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Similar on Sunday, but the rain is confined towards the north-western

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areas of the UK. The US Secretary of State

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is in Mexico for talks about President Trump's border wall

:30:06.:30:11.

and immigration plans - Mexico's Foreign Minister says

:30:12.:30:13.

current US policy is causing And also ahead - as Donald Trump

:30:14.:30:16.

revokes the government protections for transgender students,

:30:17.:30:26.

we'll find out what the leader of the "Gays for Trump" group thinks

:30:27.:30:28.

of the President's He's the man who might be

:30:29.:30:30.

Germany's next chancellor. A month after he announced his

:30:31.:30:49.

candidacy, Martin Schulz - the former president

:30:50.:30:51.

of the European Parliament - Indeed his social democrats

:30:52.:30:53.

are neck and neck with Mrs Merkel's conservatives -

:30:54.:30:57.

and one poll published today has even put them ahead,

:30:58.:31:00.

for the first time since 2006. Our Berlin correspondent Jenny Hill

:31:01.:31:03.

has been to his home town Time perhaps for something

:31:04.:31:07.

completely different. There is a new prince in town

:31:08.:31:21.

and he might just take TRANSLATION: I think

:31:22.:31:24.

he is good for his party. I like him but he still has

:31:25.:31:30.

to prove he can lead Germany TRANSLATION: Angela would be

:31:31.:31:38.

the better Chancellor. I would be happy if Martin Schulz

:31:39.:31:42.

went into a coalition with her and the two of them

:31:43.:31:46.

could bring Europe forword. Critics say Martin Schulz is more

:31:47.:31:49.

Brussels than Berlin, but questions over his EU expenses

:31:50.:31:53.

and conduct don't seem to have damaged his shot

:31:54.:31:56.

at Germany's top job. TRANSLATION: In his hometown

:31:57.:32:02.

he is known as a man of the people. He left school without

:32:03.:32:06.

qualifications, had a football career cut short by injury and beat

:32:07.:32:09.

alcohol addiction to TRANSLATION: As a football player

:32:10.:32:14.

he was not the best technician and he has lots of characteristics

:32:15.:32:20.

which make a good politician. He was a team player, his willpower

:32:21.:32:28.

and drove us to success, Germany, says some,

:32:29.:32:31.

is tiring of Angela Merkel. The new arrival has yet

:32:32.:32:36.

to unveil his manifesto but he has already promised generous

:32:37.:32:45.

and controversial welfare reforms. TRANSLATION: With Martin

:32:46.:32:48.

Schulz, the political We have missed that

:32:49.:32:49.

in the past few years. We have a re-politicised society,

:32:50.:32:52.

a process that he is driving, that will help make

:32:53.:32:55.

the parties more distinct. Germany's political

:32:56.:32:57.

story is changing. A ruling coalition of all left

:32:58.:32:58.

wing parties no longer Martin Schulz, polls suggest,

:32:59.:33:01.

is the most popular I am a bit surprised it is still

:33:02.:33:08.

going on and this impact he has, but I think it is still a long time

:33:09.:33:18.

until the elections in September and so I think it will be hard

:33:19.:33:22.

for the Social Democrats A month ago you could predict

:33:23.:33:25.

with some certainty Angela Merkel will win the September election,

:33:26.:33:29.

albeit having taken a hammering Now, almost overnight,

:33:30.:33:34.

she faces significant opposition for the first time in years

:33:35.:33:42.

from a different Germany, like much of Europe,

:33:43.:33:44.

was edging towards the political right, now it is just as likely

:33:45.:33:48.

to instead turn to the left. And after a year of global political

:33:49.:33:53.

surprise, there is sense here that In a Christian, you interviewed

:33:54.:34:18.

Martin Schulz before the American election and I was wondering what

:34:19.:34:24.

Jenny was talking about, is this a question of any big -- anybody but

:34:25.:34:29.

Angela Merkel due to her policies on immigration. We have reported AFD is

:34:30.:34:35.

doing well on the right and also Martin Schulz doing well, too. There

:34:36.:34:41.

is one thing to say about Angela Merkel, she has been a constant

:34:42.:34:45.

throughout the Eurozone crisis. When she came to power Jacques Chirac was

:34:46.:34:53.

still in power in 2005. There is still a long way to go and maybe

:34:54.:34:58.

with the Donald Trump effect and Brexit kicking and people will look

:34:59.:35:02.

again and see we need a steady hand and we need Angela Merkel. It is not

:35:03.:35:09.

a beauty pageant, the German system, it is not about personality, it is

:35:10.:35:14.

about grand coalitions. So there are three parties on Angela Merkel's

:35:15.:35:21.

site and see would have to pull in the Green party and the Communist

:35:22.:35:25.

leaning party which would drag him to the left. When interviewed him

:35:26.:35:31.

just after Brexit I asked him about Donald Trump and have a listen to

:35:32.:35:38.

what he said. He said -- you said he was a nightmare for Europe. Do you

:35:39.:35:44.

believe that? Yes. Normally I see what I think and believe I think it

:35:45.:35:51.

is a nightmare. Is he encouraging the populist movements? For sure.

:35:52.:35:56.

Look to your fellow countryman, Nigel Farage. This is a similar

:35:57.:36:05.

thing to what you can expect. If he became the next chance that he might

:36:06.:36:10.

have some work to do to convince the Donald Trump. A diplomatic mission

:36:11.:36:17.

to Washington. Nigel Farage, incidentally, is at that conference

:36:18.:36:21.

today, close friends with Donald Trump. Just look at the crowds

:36:22.:36:25.

there. Very popular with the Conservative activists.

:36:26.:36:29.

Iraqi forces are consolidating their positions inside Mosul airport.

:36:30.:36:31.

It's a strategic win for the allies in their battle to drive so-called

:36:32.:36:34.

Islamic State fighters out of the city.

:36:35.:36:36.

The troops took the airfield in a matter of hours with the help

:36:37.:36:39.

They've also fought their way into a large IS-held

:36:40.:36:45.

A woman has been killed by falling debris in Wolverhampton, England,

:36:46.:36:52.

as high winds of more than 150 kilometres an hour

:36:53.:36:55.

Storm Doris is causing disruption across much of Britain.

:36:56.:37:00.

The strong winds have led to flight cancellations -

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Over three thousand homes across the UK are without power.

:37:03.:37:18.

At the end of each week here on 100 Days we like to talk to someone

:37:19.:37:22.

who voted for Donald Trump to get their assessment of how he's

:37:23.:37:25.

A lot of his voters were Christian evangelicals, a lot of the posts

:37:26.:37:29.

in the administration have been filled by people who are

:37:30.:37:32.

So let me introduce you to Peter Boykin,

:37:33.:37:34.

he is the President of Gays for Trump and he joins us

:37:35.:37:37.

Thank you for being with us. I mention that there are so many

:37:38.:37:46.

socially conservative people but then the administration that some

:37:47.:37:51.

people might not think it is a natural fit. Is it Donald Trump in

:37:52.:37:57.

particular that persuaded you? I believe Donald Trump is a very

:37:58.:38:05.

great individual and has not just one person persuading me to become a

:38:06.:38:09.

Republican but a lot that had to do with the actions of the far a

:38:10.:38:15.

liberal Democratic party and their decisions.

:38:16.:38:18.

There has been an interesting decision taken about the use of

:38:19.:38:26.

bathrooms in schools for transgender children and the White House says it

:38:27.:38:31.

is a matter for the schools and states and rolled back and Obama

:38:32.:38:37.

policy. Part of it is Jeff Sessions, the Attorney General, who will look

:38:38.:38:41.

at a lot of these issues in that way. Does that worry you? No, it

:38:42.:38:49.

does not. I met with Jeff Sessions and he is very much welcome to LGBT

:38:50.:38:58.

concerns and we have to understand this is just a withdrawal pending

:38:59.:39:04.

consideration and it is more of Donald Trump having said multiple

:39:05.:39:10.

times this is the issue of states' rights and not the best dealt with

:39:11.:39:15.

at a federal level. There is a supreme court case of a transgender

:39:16.:39:21.

boy which will be argued on March 20 of this year. What is that in

:39:22.:39:27.

particular you like about Donald Trump since his inauguration? What

:39:28.:39:32.

has he done you most admire and respect?

:39:33.:39:37.

He has spent the first 30 days honouring every single thing he has

:39:38.:39:42.

said he was going to do. He only has had issues with the opposite force

:39:43.:39:52.

against him. He has brought jobs, tried to improve trade, protect our

:39:53.:39:57.

borders, trying to limit immigration. Would you like to have

:39:58.:40:07.

-- would you like them to have moved faster on some issues such as

:40:08.:40:16.

repealing and replacing Obama carer. That is something both sides have

:40:17.:40:20.

worked on multiple ways and that is something that cannot be changed

:40:21.:40:25.

that quickly. We do not want to rush important things and make mistakes.

:40:26.:40:31.

We rushed when Nancy Pelosi said a vote for it so we can open it up and

:40:32.:40:36.

then we can make it law, that was rushing things and you see what we

:40:37.:40:40.

got from that. Donald Trump is taking it one step at the time the

:40:41.:40:44.

things that do not need to be rushed. Thank you very much.

:40:45.:40:54.

I was going to pick up with one of the issues, we have talked about

:40:55.:41:00.

this conference today, the ball of Donald Trump there tomorrow when he

:41:01.:41:04.

appears they are tomorrow morning but they will like them all the

:41:05.:41:08.

more, talking about socially conservative issues, because of the

:41:09.:41:14.

things he has done already. One of the anomalies of the primary

:41:15.:41:18.

campaign last year is why were Christian conservatives voting for

:41:19.:41:23.

him who has been married three times, did not come across as

:41:24.:41:27.

various points being very pro-choice various points being very pro-choice

:41:28.:41:31.

on abortion rights and I think there was some confusion and it did not

:41:32.:41:43.

seem to make sense. If you look at what he has done since coming into

:41:44.:41:46.

office he has nominated the most conservative Cabinet in half a

:41:47.:41:48.

century. More conservative than Ronald Reagan's Cabinet. Put in

:41:49.:41:51.

place people in education, environmental, legal issues who are

:41:52.:41:54.

very hard right Conservative figures. This is a country taking a

:41:55.:42:00.

hard right turn so when he goes to the conference tomorrow they will be

:42:01.:42:06.

very pleased and they may have been sceptical about whether he was a

:42:07.:42:09.

real conservative but he certainly is governing as a real conservative.

:42:10.:42:17.

One thing I have seen are talking about is they were saying they were

:42:18.:42:21.

bottom up rather than top-down which is a problem the Democrats had,

:42:22.:42:26.

filling the imposed Hillary Clinton on the electorate. They have to

:42:27.:42:31.

build a structure to help the candidates. Joe Biden right now is

:42:32.:42:37.

campaigning in Delaware for a lowly state Senator and this is what you

:42:38.:42:41.

talk about, they have realised they have got to build themselves in the

:42:42.:42:46.

bottom up. They have been decimated across the country and will have to

:42:47.:42:49.

do a better job. That it's it for this week. Join us

:42:50.:42:55.

again on Monday. Goodbye for

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