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Dangerous US policies are causing worry and irritation, | :00:17. | :00:19. | |
His comments come as Donald Trump sends his most senior diplomat | :00:20. | :00:24. | |
Immigration raids - which Mr Trump says will mean | :00:25. | :00:32. | |
hundreds of thousands of people being deported to Mexico - | :00:33. | :00:35. | |
are a matter of concern for Mexico, but pride for the US President. | :00:36. | :00:38. | |
We're getting gang members out, we're getting drug lords out, | :00:39. | :00:40. | |
we're getting really bad dudes out of this country, and at a rate that | :00:41. | :00:43. | |
Meanwhile, beneath the ground, we take a tour of the so-called | :00:44. | :00:47. | |
narco tunnels, used by Mexican smuggling gangs. | :00:48. | :00:49. | |
We also have the verdict on the early days of | :00:50. | :00:52. | |
the Trump Presidency from a Supreme Court Justice. | :00:53. | :00:54. | |
Ruth Bader Ginsburg has spent a quarter of a century making laws | :00:55. | :00:57. | |
She tells us why she is increasingly concerned for her country. | :00:58. | :01:05. | |
Well, I would say that we are not experiencing the best of times. | :01:06. | :01:11. | |
Angela Merkel will be bidding for a fourth term | :01:12. | :01:13. | |
as German Chancellor later this year. | :01:14. | :01:15. | |
Is Martin Schulz the man to stop her? | :01:16. | :01:23. | |
The US Secretary of State, Rex Tillerson, | :01:24. | :01:29. | |
and the Homeland Security Secretary, John Kelly, have begun a day | :01:30. | :01:33. | |
of meetings with their Mexican counterparts. | :01:34. | :01:35. | |
Their mission is to improve the badly damaged relations | :01:36. | :01:37. | |
The trip comes after repeated public criticism of Mexico by | :01:38. | :01:41. | |
President Trump and a controversial plan that could mean the deportation | :01:42. | :01:43. | |
of hundreds of thousands of undocumented immigrants | :01:44. | :01:45. | |
to Mexico, regardless of where they came from. | :01:46. | :01:50. | |
This is what the President said about the visit this morning. | :01:51. | :01:57. | |
That is going to be a tough trip because we have to be treated fairly | :01:58. | :02:03. | |
by Mexico, that is going to be a tough trip. But he is over there | :02:04. | :02:07. | |
with General Kellie who has been unbelievable at the border, you see | :02:08. | :02:11. | |
what is happening at the border, for the first time, we are getting gang | :02:12. | :02:15. | |
members and drug lords out, really bad dudes out of this country. And | :02:16. | :02:19. | |
at a rate that nobody has ever seen before. And they are the bad ones, | :02:20. | :02:25. | |
and it is a military operation because what has been allowed to | :02:26. | :02:29. | |
come into our country, when you see going filers that you have read | :02:30. | :02:32. | |
about like never before, much of that is people who are here | :02:33. | :02:36. | |
illegally. And they are and they are tough, but they are not tough like | :02:37. | :02:41. | |
our people. Bad dudes, the inimitable Donald Trump. | :02:42. | :02:42. | |
After meeting with the US Secretary of State, | :02:43. | :02:44. | |
the Mexican Foreign Minister had this to say. | :02:45. | :02:46. | |
I would like to focus on my country. We have expressed by the secretaries | :02:47. | :02:57. | |
Taylor and Kelly. First of all, our concern to respect the rights of | :02:58. | :03:03. | |
Mexicans living in the United States. And more specifically, the | :03:04. | :03:05. | |
And more specifically, the human rights. | :03:06. | :03:07. | |
And this what the Secretary of State said. | :03:08. | :03:10. | |
In our meetings, we acknowledged that in a relationship filled with | :03:11. | :03:17. | |
vibrant colours, two Strong sovereign countries from time to | :03:18. | :03:21. | |
time will have differences. We listened closely and carefully to | :03:22. | :03:27. | |
each other, as we respectfully and patiently raised our respective | :03:28. | :03:31. | |
concerns. Our conversations covered the full range of bilateral issues. | :03:32. | :03:37. | |
We reaffirmed our close corporation and economic and commercial issues | :03:38. | :03:41. | |
such as energy, legal migration, security, educational exchanges, and | :03:42. | :03:47. | |
people to people ties. We agreed that our two countries should seize | :03:48. | :03:53. | |
the opportunity to modernise and strengthen our trade and energy | :03:54. | :03:57. | |
relationship. We also reiterated our joint commitment to maintaining law | :03:58. | :04:02. | |
and order, along our shared border, by stopping potential terrorists and | :04:03. | :04:05. | |
dismantling the transnational criminal networks moving drugs and | :04:06. | :04:11. | |
people into the United States. Similarly, we underscored the | :04:12. | :04:17. | |
importance of stopping the illegal firearms and money originating in | :04:18. | :04:20. | |
the United States and flowing into Mexico. There is no mistaking that | :04:21. | :04:24. | |
the rule of law matters along both sides of our border. | :04:25. | :04:25. | |
That was wrecked Helen -- that was Rex Tillerson. | :04:26. | :04:34. | |
John Negroponte served as the Director of National | :04:35. | :04:36. | |
He has also served as a US Ambassador in a host of countries, | :04:37. | :04:41. | |
When you hear Donald Trump talking about the need for a military | :04:42. | :04:46. | |
operation to get rid of what he called bad dudes and send them back | :04:47. | :04:50. | |
South of the border, how much does that reflect the reality of the | :04:51. | :04:55. | |
immigration situation as it is today? Well, anything first of all, | :04:56. | :04:58. | |
Mr Trump sometimes is trying to speak to multiple audiences and in | :04:59. | :05:02. | |
this case, I think speed a bit to his base and reiterating some of the | :05:03. | :05:06. | |
things he said during his campaign. In actual fact, there are more | :05:07. | :05:11. | |
Mexicans leaving the United States than arriving here at the moment, as | :05:12. | :05:15. | |
far as the flow of migration is concerned, the largest flow of | :05:16. | :05:19. | |
migrants to our country, undocumented migrants, has been from | :05:20. | :05:23. | |
Central America. And Mexico has played a role in trying to restrain | :05:24. | :05:27. | |
that flow and I noticed that was one of the things Rex Tillerson referred | :05:28. | :05:35. | |
to. Send to Kelly saying there would be no mass deportations in Mexico | :05:36. | :05:40. | |
City. If immigration from Mexico is not such a big issue, is there not a | :05:41. | :05:45. | |
risk to the American government of creating this rift with Mexico which | :05:46. | :05:49. | |
is after all an important trading partner and partner when it comes to | :05:50. | :05:53. | |
intelligence sharing ground stroke issues, is it in America's issue -- | :05:54. | :06:00. | |
interests to have this be a bad relationship? This is an extremely | :06:01. | :06:06. | |
important relationship, our third-largest trading partner, we | :06:07. | :06:09. | |
have more movement across our common border with Mexico than any other | :06:10. | :06:12. | |
country in the world, more than half a billion people crossing throughout | :06:13. | :06:18. | |
the year. It is just a massive relationship, not to mention the | :06:19. | :06:23. | |
people to people ties and that roughly 10% of the United States | :06:24. | :06:29. | |
population are Mexican descent. Christian it is this a much more | :06:30. | :06:35. | |
aggressive policy Donald Trump is pursuing. These are the key points | :06:36. | :06:41. | |
from the directive. In theory, it makes 11 million undocumented | :06:42. | :06:43. | |
migrants a target. And not just those who have come across in the | :06:44. | :06:48. | |
last couple of weeks, but those who might have come into the country up | :06:49. | :06:52. | |
to two years ago, they might be deep waters without due process. And | :06:53. | :06:56. | |
those returned might not be from Mexico, they might be from other | :06:57. | :07:00. | |
Central American States. The point I am making is that even if Enrique | :07:01. | :07:10. | |
Pena Nieto wanted to oblige Trump, political, this is so difficult for | :07:11. | :07:14. | |
him. 2.0 would first come at you used the word, in theory. Some of | :07:15. | :07:20. | |
this is rhetorical, if you don't mind me saying. And we do live in a | :07:21. | :07:25. | |
country of checks and balances and deportations usually occur with some | :07:26. | :07:30. | |
due process. Look at the initial Executive orders of President Trump | :07:31. | :07:35. | |
with regard to this issue. That is not the last word on it and in the | :07:36. | :07:38. | |
end, these things well balanced themselves out. The importance of | :07:39. | :07:42. | |
the US-Mexico relationship will ultimately outweigh some of these | :07:43. | :07:47. | |
other considerations and some good equilibria is ultimately going to be | :07:48. | :07:51. | |
reached. Not to say there will not be bruised feelings along the way. | :07:52. | :07:57. | |
Does it put Mr Pena Nieto in a difficult position? | :07:58. | :08:01. | |
I would certainly agree that it does put Mr Pena Nieto in a difficult | :08:02. | :08:05. | |
position, in part because he has been going through a rough patch | :08:06. | :08:09. | |
politically back home so he is being watched very carefully by his | :08:10. | :08:13. | |
critics. And he probably has less room for me never than if his | :08:14. | :08:16. | |
popularity ratings were higher. If you look at the statistics, | :08:17. | :08:21. | |
Mexico is deporting more central Americans from its country right now | :08:22. | :08:25. | |
than the United States. The Americans are paying for that, but | :08:26. | :08:32. | |
if he does anger Mr Pena Nieto, things could get a lot worse on the | :08:33. | :08:37. | |
US border. I think that is a risk. And I think the point you just made | :08:38. | :08:43. | |
which is that the objective situation is much better than it is | :08:44. | :08:47. | |
sometimes being portrayed in Washington, is a very important one | :08:48. | :08:51. | |
indeed. No one mentions the fact that there are many sectors of our | :08:52. | :08:56. | |
economy very dependent on exports to Mexico, the agricultural sector to | :08:57. | :08:58. | |
mention one. Thank you very much. | :08:59. | :09:01. | |
The plans to build that wall are getting a lot of bad | :09:02. | :09:04. | |
publicity in Mexico, but the reality is that | :09:05. | :09:06. | |
for the past 20 years, barriers and fences have been a fact | :09:07. | :09:09. | |
of life for people living on the US-Mexican border. | :09:10. | :09:13. | |
Juan Paullier has been to the border town of Nogales - | :09:14. | :09:16. | |
to see how drug and people traffickers are determined to get | :09:17. | :09:18. | |
I am joining a patrol of the water tunnels that run under the border | :09:19. | :09:34. | |
connecting Mexico and the United States. We don't know who we might | :09:35. | :09:40. | |
run into, so the police go ahead of us. We don't know what to expect. | :09:41. | :09:46. | |
But caution is needed. So what just happened? They used the | :09:47. | :09:52. | |
cover of darkness and wait for the right moment to creep toward the US | :09:53. | :09:58. | |
and of the tunnel. So the policeman just told me that | :09:59. | :10:02. | |
after I turned on the flashlights, they saw someone | :10:03. | :10:05. | |
ran away. Minutes later, we catch a glimpse of him in the distance. | :10:06. | :10:17. | |
He is not moving. And Sergio is pointing at this person with a | :10:18. | :10:26. | |
flashlight. Sergio Belize it is better to back-up and alert the | :10:27. | :10:29. | |
police, so we are heading towards the entrance of the tunnel. | :10:30. | :10:37. | |
The traffickers use not only the subterranean infrastructure, the | :10:38. | :10:44. | |
authorities have found more than 110 tunnels built by Mexican cartels. | :10:45. | :10:53. | |
They called them narco tunnels and they name Nogales paternal capital | :10:54. | :10:57. | |
of the border. In the cemetery, one of them hide in plain sight. | :10:58. | :11:02. | |
This is the entrance of a tunnel which was recently filled in. They | :11:03. | :11:05. | |
used to carry drugs to be at the side of the border and, as you can | :11:06. | :11:09. | |
see, defence is just about from here. | :11:10. | :11:16. | |
People have a way of getting round fences, I find. Trump has nominated | :11:17. | :11:24. | |
his pick for a new Supreme Court Justice. Many hope he will get a | :11:25. | :11:25. | |
second choice as well. The oldest member of the Court is 83 | :11:26. | :11:28. | |
and is pretty frail. Ruth Bader Ginsburg was appointed | :11:29. | :11:31. | |
in 1993 by President Clinton and has traditionally sided with the liberal | :11:32. | :11:33. | |
wing of the court. Last night, she spoke to BBC's | :11:34. | :11:36. | |
Newsnight, while she was attending the final dress rehearsal | :11:37. | :11:38. | |
of Dead Man Walking at the Kennedy Center in Washington, DC - | :11:39. | :11:41. | |
an opera looking at the moral ambiguity of the death | :11:42. | :11:44. | |
penalty in America. She started by talking | :11:45. | :11:45. | |
about the current mood in America. There was a great man once | :11:46. | :11:49. | |
said: "The true symbol of the United States is not the bald | :11:50. | :12:04. | |
eagle, it is the pendulum. And when the pendulum swings too far | :12:05. | :12:10. | |
in one direction, it will go back." Some terrible things have happened | :12:11. | :12:14. | |
in the United States that one can only hope that we learn | :12:15. | :12:24. | |
from those bad things. I would say that we are not | :12:25. | :12:28. | |
experiencing the best of times. But there's hope in seeing how | :12:29. | :12:35. | |
the public is reacting to it. The women's march, I've never seen | :12:36. | :12:42. | |
such a demonstration, both the numbers and the rapport | :12:43. | :12:49. | |
of the people in that crowd. So, yes, we are not | :12:50. | :12:52. | |
experiencing the best of times, but there is reason to hope | :12:53. | :13:05. | |
that we will see a better day. But what is important | :13:06. | :13:12. | |
is that we have a free press, Think of what the press has done | :13:13. | :13:15. | |
in the United States. That story might never have | :13:16. | :13:23. | |
come out if we didn't Do you feel it's something | :13:24. | :13:30. | |
that's maybe forgotten? Well, the importance | :13:31. | :13:36. | |
of that, it's... I read the Washington Post | :13:37. | :13:42. | |
and the New York Times every day, and I think that the reporters | :13:43. | :13:49. | |
are trying to tell the public You're 83, you're the oldest serving | :13:50. | :13:51. | |
member on the Supreme Court. How long do you think | :13:52. | :14:01. | |
you can do this? At my age, you have | :14:02. | :14:06. | |
to take it year by year. I'm hopeful, however, | :14:07. | :14:09. | |
because my most senior colleague, the one who most recently retired, | :14:10. | :14:17. | |
Justice John Paul Stevens, Do you think you should | :14:18. | :14:25. | |
carry on till you're 90? As I said, at this stage of my life, | :14:26. | :14:32. | |
I take it year by year. One of the more Liberal members of | :14:33. | :14:43. | |
the bench. 83. She wants to go on until she is 90 and many Democrats | :14:44. | :14:47. | |
will hope she can do that. Yes, it is quite rare to hear a | :14:48. | :14:52. | |
Supreme Court Justice talking like that, about politics and the state | :14:53. | :14:56. | |
of the country, but she has been one of the more outspoken, rare for a | :14:57. | :14:59. | |
Supreme Court Justice and less so for the 10,000 Conservative | :15:00. | :15:01. | |
activists... Some 10,000 conservative activists | :15:02. | :15:06. | |
have converged on a convention centre a few miles from Washington | :15:07. | :15:08. | |
for the annual Conservative Political Action Conference, | :15:09. | :15:10. | |
known here as CPAC. It's not a gathering that's | :15:11. | :15:12. | |
always loved Donald Trump. One of the other main attractions | :15:13. | :15:15. | |
on the day was Steve Bannon. The President's chief strategist, | :15:16. | :15:23. | |
one of the ideologues within his cabinet, and a former | :15:24. | :15:25. | |
chair of the ring-wing He has just been speaking and first | :15:26. | :15:30. | |
went through Trump's achievements but was not so, entry about the | :15:31. | :15:34. | |
media. That is where you have seen, the | :15:35. | :15:38. | |
Executive orders, the Supreme Court, the way he has been through the | :15:39. | :15:43. | |
Supreme Court and the other 102 judges that we will eventually pick | :15:44. | :15:45. | |
it is methodical and that is what the mainstream media will not | :15:46. | :15:49. | |
report, does like they were dead wrong in the campaign and in the | :15:50. | :15:53. | |
case of the transition. They are absolutely dead wrong about what is | :15:54. | :15:55. | |
going on today because we have a team that is just grinding it | :15:56. | :16:01. | |
through and what President Donald Trump permits the American people. | :16:02. | :16:04. | |
And all of his promises are going to be fermented. | :16:05. | :16:08. | |
Steve Bannon in bullish mood. He had more to say about the | :16:09. | :16:11. | |
administration's policies. If you look at the lines of work, I | :16:12. | :16:16. | |
break it into three verticals. The first is national security and | :16:17. | :16:20. | |
sovereignty, intelligence, the defence Department, Homeland | :16:21. | :16:23. | |
Security. The second is economic nationalism, and that is, as, the | :16:24. | :16:32. | |
Treasury, trade. These people rethinking how we will reconstruct | :16:33. | :16:37. | |
our trade arrangements around the world. The third, broadly, line of | :16:38. | :16:41. | |
work, is what is deconstruction of the administrative state. So I think | :16:42. | :16:48. | |
the three most important thing is, I think one of the most pivotal | :16:49. | :16:52. | |
moments in modern American history was his immediate withdrawal from | :16:53. | :16:59. | |
TPP. Got to set up a trade deal and let our sovereignty compact | :17:00. | :17:02. | |
ourselves, the mainstream media do not get this but we are working in | :17:03. | :17:06. | |
consultation and people are thinking through a raft of amazing and | :17:07. | :17:11. | |
innovative bilateral relationships, bilateral trading relationships with | :17:12. | :17:14. | |
people, that will reposition America in the world, is a fair trading | :17:15. | :17:20. | |
nation and start to bring jobs. High value-added manufacturing jobs that | :17:21. | :17:24. | |
the United States of America. On the national-security part, it was | :17:25. | :17:32. | |
certainly the first... You have seen in fermented under General Kelly | :17:33. | :17:35. | |
that the rule of law is going to exist when you talk about our | :17:36. | :17:40. | |
sovereignty and immigration. General Kelly and Attorney General sessions | :17:41. | :17:45. | |
are adamant that you will start to see with the defence budget we will | :17:46. | :17:48. | |
talk about next week, when we bring the budget out, and also with | :17:49. | :17:53. | |
certain things about the plan on Isis and what general matters and | :17:54. | :17:58. | |
these guys think. But the third, this regulation... Every business | :17:59. | :18:03. | |
leader has said it is not just taxes, it is also the regulation. If | :18:04. | :18:07. | |
you look at these Cabinet appointees, they were selected for a | :18:08. | :18:10. | |
reason, and that is the deconstruction, the way the | :18:11. | :18:14. | |
progressive left runs. If they cannot get it passed, they put in | :18:15. | :18:18. | |
some sort of regulation in an agency, that is going to be | :18:19. | :18:22. | |
deconstructed and that is why this regulatory thing is so important. | :18:23. | :18:23. | |
Steve Bannon speaking. Our correspondent Nick Bryant | :18:24. | :18:25. | |
is at the conference for us. We don't hear Steve Bannon speak | :18:26. | :18:35. | |
very often in public, not their daily on television, but when we do, | :18:36. | :18:39. | |
he makes it very clear he does not like the media and he has a fairly | :18:40. | :18:43. | |
radical approach to government, as we were hearing. But political nerds | :18:44. | :18:47. | |
like me and you, this is like having a Harry Potter book coming out or a | :18:48. | :18:52. | |
new Star Wars film. In the Star Wars analogy works because many people | :18:53. | :18:56. | |
regard him as Darth Vader! He thinks he is a great figure! He has become | :18:57. | :19:00. | |
this mythic figure and we rarely hear him speak. We hear about stuff, | :19:01. | :19:04. | |
but we rarely hear him speak. And here he is with Reince Priebus, the | :19:05. | :19:09. | |
Chief of Staff at the White House, is supposedly his great opponent in | :19:10. | :19:13. | |
the West wing, so many reports about them not getting on because Reince | :19:14. | :19:19. | |
Priebus was the chairman of the Republican National Committee on the | :19:20. | :19:22. | |
face of the Republican establishment and Steve Bannon is Conservative | :19:23. | :19:25. | |
insurgents so fiercely the Republican Party. But they were here | :19:26. | :19:29. | |
talking like a couple on their honeymoon. Finishing each other's | :19:30. | :19:32. | |
sentences, amazing body language with them. Obviously united in their | :19:33. | :19:38. | |
hatred for the media. Steve Bannon repeatedly referring to it as the | :19:39. | :19:43. | |
opposition. Is that a consistent rally for the Conservative base that | :19:44. | :19:47. | |
he is speaking to? It certainly works in the room. Every time he had | :19:48. | :19:51. | |
a go at the media, you sense a ripple of applause amongst the | :19:52. | :19:57. | |
Conservative faithful. At CPAC. An organisation that has not in the | :19:58. | :20:00. | |
past been welcoming to Steve Bannon and they have not invited him | :20:01. | :20:03. | |
before. So really fascinating. Does that cousins -- suggest | :20:04. | :20:08. | |
Conservatives are becoming more Conservative or the administration | :20:09. | :20:10. | |
is tempering itself? Steve Bannon said something Justin, when the | :20:11. | :20:16. | |
Conservative movement joins forces with the Republican Party, they are | :20:17. | :20:19. | |
unstoppable and Donald Trump did that in a way that no other person | :20:20. | :20:21. | |
could. Christian. | :20:22. | :20:27. | |
You say it is one rule for those in the news media, but a lot of people | :20:28. | :20:31. | |
in the UK would be familiar with Steve Bannon, Reince Priebus, | :20:32. | :20:35. | |
Stephen Miller, these characters in his inner circle, I cannot think of | :20:36. | :20:40. | |
a time before when so many members of an administration have been so | :20:41. | :20:43. | |
well known to the public, in so short a time. It is just a fantastic | :20:44. | :20:50. | |
cast of characters. You have not even mentioned Kellyanne Conway, who | :20:51. | :20:53. | |
has been benched for the Paschal but of days and not appearing before the | :20:54. | :20:58. | |
media much. -- for the past couple of days. A dramatic cast of | :20:59. | :21:03. | |
characters, Jared Kushner, Ivanka Trump. It is so interesting because | :21:04. | :21:07. | |
so much of the gossip in Washington is how these people are not getting | :21:08. | :21:11. | |
on with each other, there are these different power hubs within the West | :21:12. | :21:14. | |
wing fighting against each other rather than working together. You | :21:15. | :21:19. | |
had Reince Priebus here and Steve Bannon in this rather dramatic show | :21:20. | :21:22. | |
of unity and it did not seem to be put on, manufactured, prefabricated, | :21:23. | :21:28. | |
they generally seem to get on. Thank you very much. Such is the way, | :21:29. | :21:35. | |
people seem to have rows all the time in palaces! I find that, | :21:36. | :21:37. | |
anyway! Here have been angry scenes | :21:38. | :21:38. | |
across America, as constituents confront their Congressional | :21:39. | :21:40. | |
representatives at local Voters keen to vent their | :21:41. | :21:42. | |
frustration are demanding that the Trump administration | :21:43. | :21:46. | |
is held to account. Our North America correspondent, | :21:47. | :21:48. | |
Rajini Vaidyanathan, has been to Iowa, a state that | :21:49. | :21:50. | |
supported a Trump Presidency, but also has passionate concern | :21:51. | :21:52. | |
about the country's future. A warm welcome on home turf for | :21:53. | :21:58. | |
Republican Senator Chuck Grassley. Most had come to vent | :21:59. | :22:01. | |
their anger over the policies I am a person from a Muslim | :22:02. | :22:17. | |
country and I am a Muslim. I ask him, not you, | :22:18. | :22:24. | |
so shut your hole! The most contentious | :22:25. | :22:29. | |
issue was health care. Don't you dare give me | :22:30. | :22:34. | |
a vague politician answer, with memorised Republican talking | :22:35. | :22:44. | |
points to cloud the truth. If it wasn't for ObamaCare, | :22:45. | :22:46. | |
we wouldn't be able Chris Peterson used a novel way | :22:47. | :22:48. | |
to attract the Senator's attention, I've got a present for | :22:49. | :22:52. | |
you, if you want 'em. You're going to need them | :22:53. | :22:55. | |
in the next few years! We went to meet Chris | :22:56. | :23:01. | |
at his pig farm in rural Iowa. It's not just Trump supporters | :23:02. | :23:04. | |
who are disgruntled Chris voted for Hillary Clinton | :23:05. | :23:06. | |
and hopes town halls will give That's the only thing I can say | :23:07. | :23:10. | |
positively about Trump. I heard somebody say impeachment, | :23:11. | :23:14. | |
so I'm going to write that down. At a later Evans, the pressure was | :23:15. | :23:28. | |
still on. It is time to put | :23:29. | :23:41. | |
country over party. And that demand being heard | :23:42. | :23:44. | |
at the town halls across America. of the Tea Party in the early days | :23:45. | :23:52. | |
of the Obama Administration, where Conservatives packed out | :23:53. | :23:56. | |
the town halls to put pressure on their congressmen and women | :23:57. | :23:58. | |
senators when it came There are a lot of grievances | :23:59. | :24:01. | |
in that Town Hall, how will you take I won't take these back | :24:02. | :24:05. | |
to Trump, I'll take them I don't think you should see it | :24:06. | :24:09. | |
as challenging Trump, I think you should see it | :24:10. | :24:12. | |
as Congress doing its job For Republican politicians | :24:13. | :24:15. | |
like Senator Grassley, the job is challenging, | :24:16. | :24:17. | |
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, | :24:21. | :24:23. | |
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 | :24:42. | :24:43. | |
he's not fronted a town hall event. California, you might remember, | :24:44. | :24:47. | |
is most definitely a Democratic state, so the chance to put some | :24:48. | :24:49. | |
tough questions to a Republican would no doubt be | :24:50. | :24:52. | |
a well-attended event. I am tempted to say he bottled it! | :24:53. | :24:57. | |
Can I just talk about the thing Obama said before he left office? | :24:58. | :25:00. | |
Change only happens, ordinary people, get involved, get engaged, | :25:01. | :25:04. | |
get together to demand change, maybe that is what they are doing. Into | :25:05. | :25:10. | |
this and nine, Republicans were angry at those Town Hall meetings, | :25:11. | :25:16. | |
protesting against ObamaCare -- in 2009. Similar to the meetings today. | :25:17. | :25:20. | |
The Democrats dismissed those people and said it was manufactured anger. | :25:21. | :25:25. | |
Republicans using almost identical language to those Liberals today, | :25:26. | :25:29. | |
they should remember history. OK, lessons in history. | :25:30. | :25:32. | |
You're watching 100 Days, from BBC News. | :25:33. | :25:34. | |
Still to come for viewers on the BBC News Channel and BBC World News... | :25:35. | :25:37. | |
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 | :26:10. | :26:16. | |
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 | :26:22. | :26:27. | |
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 | :26:48. | :26:51. | |
plans and lowlands and Highlands and the gales were way towards the | :26:52. | :26:56. | |
South. As far as the early mid evening is concerned, the last of | :26:57. | :27:00. | |
the gales just about clipping East Anglia, and we had an 81 out hour | :27:01. | :27:06. | |
gust hummable much lighter now. If you are travelling this evening, | :27:07. | :27:11. | |
this is around 9pm with showers and lighter winds. At this stage in many | :27:12. | :27:16. | |
areas, the winds are very light indeed. This is the wind gusts at | :27:17. | :27:21. | |
this stage, around nine p.m.. Talking about 28, 30 mph. Easily | :27:22. | :27:27. | |
double that, more than double that in some areas. And tonight, the | :27:28. | :27:33. | |
winds clear from that far Eastern and south-eastern coastline and we | :27:34. | :27:37. | |
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 | :27:49. | :27:53. | |
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 | :28:11. | :28:15. | |
winds, temperatures throughout the country in double figures, | :28:16. | :28:18. | |
Aberdeenshire and Aberdeen around 11 degrees, 10 degrees in Plymouth. | :28:19. | :28:21. | |
Similar on Sunday, but the rain is confined towards the north-western | :28:22. | :28:24. | |
areas of the UK. The US Secretary of State | :28:25. | :30:05. | |
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 - | :37:01. | :37:02. | |
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 | :42:56. | :42:56. |