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Will Republican nominee Trump now become the most

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Tonight as Ted Cruz and John Kasich throw in the towel, we'll ask

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which way the unpredictable Donald Trump will turn now.

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Can he unify a divided Republican Party?

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Also tonight: Gabriel is still in search of the European dream.

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Here's what Brussels values mean to the Hungarian Prime Minister.

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The car salesman from Delaware who became a do-it-yourself negotiator

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with Isis tells us his story. This didn't happen over

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a two-week period. I worked my way up to that point due

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to the relationships I have and I was very comfortable

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in being the middleman, Donald Trump is now at about a 30%

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chance of being US president, There are no other Republicans

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in the running, the rivals to Trump Who knows, maybe something strange

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could turn up and stop him, but work on the assumption

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he is the Republican candidate. Note, this is yet another shock

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to the professional pundits and pollsters, who didn't see

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it coming last year. It is also no less than a crisis

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for American conservatism, having flirted with the mainstream

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to the neo-cons then to the Tea Party, it has now

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led by a man with erratic tastes. He has not been very conservative

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until recently and has made huge donations

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to the Democrats over the years, Mr Trump has to unite his party

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and beat Hilary in November. Here's Katie Razzall

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with her assessment. They wanted him fired, but instead

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the Apprentice star is hired. I'm Donald Trump and I'm always

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on the lookout for talented people. I'm looking for someone

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who is a natural leader. When it comes to a natural leader

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for America, The Donald He'll be the first presidential

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nominee in 60 years with no Trump now claims he'll unify

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the party, having previously given the impression unity wasn't high

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on his priority list. I see him starting to sweat,

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like I have never seen I've never seen anybody that lied

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as much as Ted Cruz did. He's a war hero because

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he was captured. He failed miserably

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and it was an embarrassment to everybody including

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the Republican Party. It's been clear many Republicans

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wanted anyone but Trump, and in this most divisive

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of contests they didn't His promises are as worthless

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as a degree from Trump University. Donald Trump likes to sue people,

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he should sue whoever He doesn't know the difference

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between truth and lies. He lies practically every word that

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comes out of his mouth. That last comment was only

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yesterday, as Ted Cruz faced Pretty hard to come back

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from, you'd imagine. So can the GOP really unite

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behind their presidential nominee? The full Republican Party is not

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going to unite behind Donald Trump. You have prominent people who said

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outright there is no way I'm ever going to support Donald Trump,

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he's not a Republican, I think closer to the general

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election Donald Trump will pull in some Republicans who might have

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strayed away for a while. He's going to try to be more

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moderate, he's going to lean He's going to try to convince people

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that a lot of his rhetoric before was just for show and that it wasn't

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actually policy that he plans to implement, but I think it's

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going to be hard for him to backtrack, especially

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on his offensive comments. The latest polling pitting Trump

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and Clinton head-to-head shows On the individual issues,

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she beats him comfortably in a host of key areas

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including foreign policy. Education, he said he wants to cut

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or eliminate the Education And health care, he wants

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to repeal Obamacare. Clinton does, however,

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trail Trump on the economy, the issue voters ranked

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most important of all. He's tapped into voters'

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frustrations about the economy with big promises

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to make the country richer. His rhetoric on Muslims and Mexicans

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may have appealed to some of the predominantly white

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Republican primary goers, but analysts suggest he'll need two

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thirds of white voters to pick him in November, a feat reached

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only by Ronald Reagan, I think anyone who is predicting

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that he's going to tone it down does not really know the nature of Donald

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Trump. He is going to say what he wants

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to say, when he wants to say it. He's a completely unpredictable,

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from-the-gut personality. And I think that's how

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he is as a politician. They've been measuring how unpopular

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presidential nominees are at this 20% of people said they felt

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unfavourably towards Ronald Reagan A decade later, only about 12%

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of people disliked Bill Clinton. Other nominees have hovered

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between four and just Hillary Clinton is the most

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unpopular candidate on either side, ever, except, that is,

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for Donald Trump. But if we've learned anything over

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these past few months, it's that Donald Trump should never

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be underestimated, and that in this contest you never quite know

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what will happen next. Joining me now from America

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is Jason Meister, chair of the Trump campaign in New York and Max Boot,

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who worked as a senior to one of Trump's rivals,

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Marco Rubio. Are you going to vote for Donald

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Trump? Pretty much the last thing in the world I never going to do is to

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vote for Donald Trump, no way, know-how, not going to happen. OK!

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You aren't wavering on that, you are quite certain you aren't going to

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vote for him. You will vote for Clinton, presumably? I would vote

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for a Conservative third-party candidate or Hillary Clinton. I

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regard Donald Trump as an ignorant demagogue who is one of the most

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dangerous candidates to run for the presidency and least qualified. He's

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the last person we should put in the Oval Office in charge of the most

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powerful military in the world. He has shown that he doesn't understand

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the basics of policy, he is xenophobic, he is guilty of sexist

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comments, he doesn't have any real policy plans that can be achieved,

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he wants to blow up our oldest alliances, he would be an

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unmitigated disaster and there is no way I would consider voting for him.

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Is there a problem perhaps that it is your friends who are saying this

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about Donald Trump? How is this going to work? It's going to work

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and we are going to get the never Trump people to come around, they

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will do a complete 180. Donald Trump just one beating 17 well-qualified

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Republican candidates -- just won. I think the challenge is behind us. We

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have a general election facing a dynastic, a career politician,

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Hillary Clinton, suffering against a committed socialist from Vermont, a

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74-year-old committed socialist from Vermont. So the alternative I'm

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afraid is Hillary Clinton and Conservatives are going to rally

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around him. I'm sick and tired of hearing whether he will be

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presidential, he isn't Conservative. He knows how to create jobs, he's a

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guy who understands that you need to bring the corporate tax rate down,

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we need get government off our backs. We have come off eight years

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of President Obama, we have 10% real unemployment, we have the lowest

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Labour participation rate in 40 years and the economy is the most

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important issue. The next important issue is to deal with Isis and

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homeland security. I think we need an outsider, a guy who has guts, who

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speaks to the American people, not at the American people and that's

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what Trump does. How big a strand of opinion in the ber publican party

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and the Republican base, how big a strand you think you represent? --

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the Republican party. You say you will not be won over, what's your

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assessment of how many can and cannot be won over? We'll find out,

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in the latest poll by CNN, which showed Hillary ahead of Trump by

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double digits also showed that among those with... He was seen as

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unfavourable by 30% of Conservatives, so there is no

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question that there are many Republicans who will come around in

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the end simply because they fear Hillary Clinton but I certainly

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won't and I think a substantial number of die-hard Republicans won't

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stop your other guest makes it seem that candidate is a normal -- that

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Trump is a normal candidate with a plan to revive the economy. Let's

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not forget that he was to ban all Muslims from the country, he was to

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send the police into American homes to round up undocumented immigrants,

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he wants to destroy my two and pull our troops out of South Korea and

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Japan, he was to make nice with that Amir Putin, who was to start trade

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wars with China and Mexico, two of our longest trading partners -- with

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Vladimir Putin. He would make us it is lot less secure. -- he would make

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us a lot less secure. They are talking point is that we've all

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heard before, it's the media that's been attacking him. He has been

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attacked by both establishments, Republican and Democrat. He has led

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every opinion poll, he has beaten every candidate since he announced

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his presidency and opponents still don't get it because he is speaking

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to the American people and the American people are ready for

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change, sick and tired of career politicians. I know what happens in

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these things, everyone rallies around the candidate, that's the

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normal form. They insult each other in the campaign and then they rally

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around. It feels that the insults have been so vehement over the last

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weeks, Ted Cruz calling him a pathological liar, completely

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amoral, narcissist, Ted Cruz cannot now stand up and look at the

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American people and say that they were just joshing and that people

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should vote for Donald Trump? I think they can and you are going to

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see not just Republicans rallying around Donald Trump, you are going

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to see a tremendous amount of Democrats, people I call Trumpocrats

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rallying around Donald Trump. Hillary Clinton has significant

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weaknesses. We need an outsider to shake things up and Hillary Clinton

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is everything but an outsider, she is a dynastic politician. Her

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husband was a president. In my mind she is the Jeb Bush of the Democrat

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party. We beat him pretty handily very early on. Ted Cruz made it as

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far as he did because he was the most outsider as you get from the

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establishment. A quick one for you, Max. Do you see this as a crisis for

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Conservative? There were many Conservative choices on offer and

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none of them really seems to appeal very substantially? -- conservatism.

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It is a crisis for the Republican party, it's an open question whether

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it will survive Donald Trump. We just don't know because he has

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hijacked the party. He only signed up as a Republican in 2012, he isn't

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the Medley Conservative, he is a populist demagogue -- he isn't

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remotely Conservative. 40% of Republican primary voters supported

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him, 10 million people, but in a general election, 130 million people

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are going to vote. It's funny that the Trump spokesman says we have to

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listen to the polls numbers, he has been number one in the primary

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hulls, but he is behind by double digit amounts in the general

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election polls. He has high unfavourable numbers. Has he brought

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millions of new voters into the party? He may have brought in some

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voters but he is driving others out. We have to leave it there. Thank you

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for joining us. Now, back to Europe,

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and for the second film in our series looking at the EU

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from the perspective If you saw last night,

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you'll know they had a dream of a united Europe

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and Gabriel Gatehouse has been touring the continent,

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assessing how much of that To some extent, those post-war

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visionaries had hoped that our attachment to the idea

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of the nation state might fade, and the free movement of people

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around the continent would help But Europe has changed,

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the EU is much larger than envisaged, and as Gabriel

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finds, the nation state has proved Out of the ruins of war

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there rose a vision. What were the aims of

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the EU's founding Fathers? Last night we examined

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ever closer union. Tonight we are looking

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at freedom of movement. We are asking, what's become

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of the European dream? Apart from a few road signs there's

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nothing here to tell you that I've just walked

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across an international frontier. And not just any old frontier,

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because it's not so very long ago Stretching all the way from

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the Baltic to the Mediterranean. A line of barbed wire dividing

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Europe into binary opposites. And this, right here,

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is the spot where the fence On Hungary's border with Austria,

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thousands gathered to protest. Inside the Soviet bloc,

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the pressure was building. A group of East Germans made

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a dash for the fence. 27 years ago this man stood

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between them and the West. Arpad Bella was in command

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of the Hungarian His orders were to protect this

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crossing by force if necessary. He now faced the most momentous

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decision of his life, one that could help change

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the course of European history. And so they set off

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a chain of events. Three months later the fall

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of the Berlin Wall. The biggest expansion

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of the European project Now they could move freely

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across the continent. Having played his part in tearing

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down the Iron Curtain, Arpad now believes that Europe

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should again be building fences. So what's happened to the dream

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of a Europe without borders? What happened to de facto

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solidarity? In the former Communist states,

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EU accession has meant freedom For Andras Lovas, a doctor

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in the Hungarian town of Szeged, it has meant the freedom to move

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and work throughout the union. For me the European Union is a great

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thing because I am free to move. It was really easy to move

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to the UK when I went It was free to move,

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free to cross the border. But across Eastern Europe,

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millions of people are moving west for work, and unlike Andras,

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many don't come back. Bad for my country because more

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and more of my friends More and more of my friends leave

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the country, not just to the UK, In Szeged a nurse in a care home

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earns one sixth of what they When it comes to prosperity the EU

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has failed to bridge the old gulf The young and the capable are often

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the first to leave. The Hungarian health care

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system is under strain. We have an estimation that since

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Hungary joined the European Union, probably or approximately 5000

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medical doctors already There's a deeper sense

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of unease with Europe, here. An unease that was thrown

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into sharp relief last summer. Europe's failure to forge a common

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response boiled over at the train station in Budapest after Germany

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had unilaterally declared itself And so began the mass movement

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of people across an unwillingness When the Iron Curtain crumbled,

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people thought they'd said But when Brussels talks

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about mandatory quotas for refugees, many see that as the imposition

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of a liberal worldview. Hungary was the first

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to close its borders. Freedom of movement is being trumped

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by concerns over cultural identity. The Hungarian Prime Minister has

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taken these ideas from the fringes For him and his supporters,

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the biggest threat to their European identity is the European Union

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itself. There is a growing dissident

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movement in European politics. One which rejects ever closer union

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in favour of a strong nation state. Viktor Orban calls it

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illiberal democracy. His spokesman thinks liberalism has

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become an oppressive ideology. Liberalism originally was giving

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place and space for open, What we see today, that in the name

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of liberalism, apart from monopolising a couple

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of issues and themes, there's also a restriction

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on what and how shall We believe that in most

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countries around Europe there is maybe a silent

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but growing majority that recognise what's going on at the European

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level is maybe against the very nature of the continent,

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of the culture we are living in. The freedom to travel,

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investment in infrastructure, billions of euros from the common

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European pot, somehow all of this has failed to coalesce

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into a sense of common purpose. And the divisions over Europe's

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borders are opening up Fissures that are ripe

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for exploitation. This is the Paks

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nuclear power plant. Last year Russia agreed to lend

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Hungary billions of euros Viktor Orban, an admirer

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of Vladimir Putin, has simultaneously oppose the EU

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sanctions against Russia. Including Zoltan Illes,

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who was a minister in Orban's government when the secretive

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deal was announced. Russia was definitely buying

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influence in Hungary, and also from a Russian perspective

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in the whole of Europe. Spending 13 or 14 billion euros

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in Hungary developing, building up the nuclear facility,

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power station, for decades Russia will be involved in energy policies

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of this country as well as Europe. On foreign policy, on border

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control, on that de facto solidarity, Europe does not

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speak with one voice. Last night we met one of the EU's

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founding fathers, Georges Berthoin. In so many fields he believes Europe

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has not gone far enough. All governments wanted

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to remain halfway. They wanted a bit of Europe,

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not too much. All right, when you remain halfway,

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you have the worst The fall of the Berlin Wall

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once looked like the The historical inevitability

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of ever closer union. What 1989 did was it

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opened Europe up. It gave the peoples of East and West

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freedom of movement, one of the cornerstones

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of the European dream. What the migration crisis has done

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is it's highlighted another aspect, and that is,

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if you abolish your national borders you also sacrifice part

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of your sovereignty. And it turns out that there's

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huge resistance to that. Not just here in Hungary,

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but across the continent. And so, more than a quarter-century

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after they tore down the Iron Curtain, they are putting

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fences back up again. In Hungary and Poland,

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in Slovakia and Austria, even in Germany and France,

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the political momentum is shifting towards those who reject the dream

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of Europe as common space. There are others for whom that idea

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still exerts an irresistible draw. It is an irony that they are often

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the ones on the other This is perhaps the biggest

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crisis of legitimacy Tomorrow night, the economic

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and political imbalance at the heart Can democratic sovereignty

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survive monetary union? Gabriel Gatehouse, and part three

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of that series will be tomorrow. Free movement in the EU

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is of course, not automatically extended to migrants,

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or non-EU citizens. Among the many on the continent are

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thousands of unaccompanied children. The government has controversially

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resisted taking a share of those children to settle,

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but it did make a u-turn on that today, saying it would take

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an unspecified number. Nick Watt, our political editor

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is with me. What made them do that? They did a

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raw assessment of the numbers and the numbers were not good. When you

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put together labour opposition, Liberal Democrat opposition, SNP

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opposition, at most significantly a significant body of Conservative

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MPs, Prime Minister looked at the numbers and said, we better beat a

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hasty retreat. Otherwise there would have been parliamentary ping-pong

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with the bill going between the two chambers of parliament. And it was

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under the cover of the anti-Semitism row. Did they themselves think,

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we've just lost the argument on this? We lost the case and we should

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withdraw with dignity? The Prime Minister is not going to want to

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make that he lost an argument but there is one area he has abandoned

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the defining feature of his response to this crisis which was that the UK

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would not take refugees from continental Europe, but only from

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camps in the region, because he would not want to encourage people

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to cross the Mediterranean. One area where they say they are wrong firm

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ground, they say they wanted to avoid the mistake Angela Merkel

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made, to say that the borders for Germany were open. They have come up

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with a cut-off which they say should avoid the problems.

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Well, joining me now to discuss this is the MEP Stephen Woolfe,

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Ukip's frontbench spokesperson on migration, and Heidi Allen,

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Conservative MP for South Cambridgeshire who had said

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she was prepared to vote against the government before

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David Cameron's policy u-turn earlier today.

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You have been welcoming all over the place today, the policy. Do you know

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what the policy is, how many are we talking about? It is being firmed up

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as we speak. The clear message from the Immigration Minister James

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Brokenshire I is that as soon as we are out of the local election

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tomorrow he is going to write to the local authorities asking what they

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can take. Last year, we resettled about 3000 children in this country.

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He will be talking in those terms, that's what we did last year, look

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for those numbers this year. Last year they were taken from camps

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around Syria. Some of them. The question is, if we take some from

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continental Europe, are we going to take viewer from the camps? The same

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number in total, but just switching? No, this is just in addition. Are

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you sure, more than last year? If you look at the legislation, the

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amendment we are accepting, we talk about the original 20,000 scheme,

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the 3000 announced a fortnight ago and this is in addition. How many

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are you expecting to be Syrian, and how many from other parts of the

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world? To be honest I don't think the analysis has been done, nor is

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it likely because the government policy is to work with the experts

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on the ground, Save the Children, UNHCR, and take guidance from them.

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Children at risk who are the most honourable. You aren't -- the most

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vulnerable. You would rather the government stuck to the original

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line? Yes, we need to ensure that the people traffickers who are

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making billions out of this, and everyone knows that they are, we

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must ensure that they are not using the children as a weapon in some

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ways. If you have the children in the camps, where they are well

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looked after by the same government agencies that Heidi has talked

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about, you can safely assure that they are looked after, we can make

:31:19.:31:21.

sure that the asylum process are looked after there. It is difficult

:31:22.:31:27.

to make sure when they come into the UK. Yes, there will be 3000 children

:31:28.:31:31.

coming over who are suffering in the camps at the moment, but there are

:31:32.:31:36.

100,000 children in the United Kingdom tonight who will be living

:31:37.:31:41.

in homeless accommodation, bed-and-breakfast, hotels and they

:31:42.:31:43.

will feel that they are being put to the back of the queue. Can I ask you

:31:44.:31:50.

what you would expect to happen to those children who are already in

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Europe, who are if you like and accompanied, lonely here, what would

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you expect to happen to them? Would you expect them all to be taken by

:31:59.:32:03.

France? You say they will go through the procedure but I'm not sure what

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happens at the end. We are not sure, maybe Heidi can tell us what's going

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to happen to the 3000 children currently in the camps and are

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expected to come to the UK. Clearly there is a responsibility to France

:32:17.:32:18.

and Italy and the other countries where these children are to abide by

:32:19.:32:24.

the same rules that we are abiding by, the UN rules on children and

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human rights, it is to make sure they put their hands in their

:32:30.:32:32.

pockets and look after them too. There seems to be a shifting of the

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policy from them that they want to put them in camps and ignore them,

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why are they being ignored when they have facilities to look after them

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in France, Italy and the other countries in Europe? This is a point

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the Prime Minister made. People made the point that it was like the

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candour transport, helping Jewish children before the Second World War

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-- the Kinder transport. But it isn't quite like that. Yes, you

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think it is all Europe, it must be safe. I have visited Calais and

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Lesbos, as many MPs have, and there is anything but safety there.

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Economically they are on their knees, places like Greece, not in a

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state to do this and thousands of people coming every day. It's chaos,

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they can't cope and there is some pretty nasty stuff happening to

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children who aren't safeguarded, no one is protecting them which is why

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I feel we have a responsibility, as every European country has, to work

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through this and identify the children that each of us can take.

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Wouldn't it be selfish for the British to say that we have a

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collective problem, people have arrived here, we should all do our

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bit rather than just say, France, you have to deal with them all, or

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Italy and Greece, it's your problem because they landed on your shores?

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We've never said that we shouldn't be taking any children at all, we

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have said that the 20,000 figure that the Prime Minister had put out

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should be the figure that is kept in place. Those children should be

:34:09.:34:13.

taken from the camps because it sends a strong message. It isn't

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about selfishness either. What we are looking at, even in the

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constituency that Heidi has, there will be 9000 children in East

:34:23.:34:25.

Cambridgeshire who are without a home tonight. We are short of over

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8000 foster carers, 8000 children in the foster system, without homes.

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What we are saying, we are going to take 3000, it is going to cost us

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100 million a year, but we will have problems housing our own. What I

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would like to say to Heidi is, yes, bring in children but are you going

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to have amendments to government policy that says we will double the

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amount of money for councils to look after the existing children who are

:34:57.:34:59.

homeless tonight? Are you going to put the half a billion that would

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match that? But we put that, you have ten seconds, sorry. The great

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British public, offering help, rallying as communities, maybe we

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can learn something and bring our own children into the foster network

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too. Thank you for joining us. Now each week on Newsnight

:35:17.:35:19.

during this referendum campaign we've been trying to help

:35:20.:35:21.

you make your decision on how to vote, by offering a little space

:35:22.:35:24.

to some people who are not involved in the campaigns, to tell us

:35:25.:35:28.

about their decision. Tonight, the Scottish billionaire

:35:29.:35:30.

Tom Hunter gives us his On the one hand I'm

:35:31.:35:32.

worried about sovereignty You know, pretty proud of what we're

:35:33.:35:48.

doing here in Britain. And I wouldn't want to give too much

:35:49.:36:01.

power away to some faceless In terms of my other worry,

:36:02.:36:04.

if we left, I think I would be I'd be worried about London's

:36:05.:36:09.

position as being financial I still think there's a long way

:36:10.:36:20.

to go in this debate. I find it really confusing

:36:21.:36:29.

when people of the same political party are ripping each other

:36:30.:36:32.

to shreds with this argument. And it's hard to get to say

:36:33.:36:35.

where are the facts? I think at this point in the debate

:36:36.:36:43.

it's too close to call. I think always in these

:36:44.:36:46.

debates it's quite boring And I think the Leave campaign have

:36:47.:36:51.

got probably more charismatic speakers like Michael Gove and Boris

:36:52.:37:00.

Johnson. They are quite entertaining

:37:01.:37:02.

but frankly, if I want to be Can you imagine, in a quiet evening,

:37:03.:37:04.

sitting at the computer, browsing social media and getting

:37:05.:37:16.

involved in conversations Well from the US, comes

:37:17.:37:19.

an intriguing story of a car salesman from Delaware,

:37:20.:37:25.

Toby Lopez, who did that. But it got to a very serious point,

:37:26.:37:30.

after meeting people he believed were Isis officials online,

:37:31.:37:33.

he ended up trying to negotiate the release of US

:37:34.:37:37.

hostage Kayla Mueller. In doing so he angered the FBI

:37:38.:37:39.

and was arrested and locked up He's now been told he won't have

:37:40.:37:42.

to stand trial, that all charges against him have been dropped,

:37:43.:37:46.

and he's free to tell his story. I began by asking him how he got

:37:47.:37:49.

involved in negotiating What got me involved in that was a

:37:50.:38:03.

relationship that was developed over months, culminating in mean

:38:04.:38:06.

negotiating for a United States hostage. To all of the people

:38:07.:38:14.

criticising me, yeah, I agree, it's not what most people do. Because of

:38:15.:38:19.

my relationships, the tyres I had within that organisation, they

:38:20.:38:26.

wanted to use me to facilitate her release -- ties. In your opinion,

:38:27.:38:30.

what happened to make them suddenly come out in some number and arrest

:38:31.:38:36.

you, take you away, and effectively lock you up for 14 months? That's

:38:37.:38:42.

what happens when you know as much as the United States government and

:38:43.:38:45.

you have e-mails indicating them in the Kayla Mueller hostage

:38:46.:38:50.

negotiation with me. I told the head of the FBI, the supervising agent I

:38:51.:38:56.

was talking to, I told him that these gentlemen know who I am and

:38:57.:39:00.

I've been dealing with them for six months now. You know who I am and

:39:01.:39:06.

who I'm talking to. They said that they didn't want any B I funny

:39:07.:39:10.

business and they said all I'm going to do by telling me to stand down

:39:11.:39:14.

and negotiate with the same people, you are going to be exposed and you

:39:15.:39:20.

will get her killed in the process -- any FBI funny business. It isn't

:39:21.:39:23.

because of what I did, it's because of what I knew. Do you ever think

:39:24.:39:32.

you got in way too deep for a car salesman from Delaware? I think I

:39:33.:39:39.

was in way over my head and the beginning, but at the end, I knew

:39:40.:39:43.

exactly what I was dealing with and I knew what I was doing. Like I

:39:44.:39:49.

said, I had been involved with the FBI followed across -- for other

:39:50.:39:56.

four 's. They are incarcerated joo and it was unpleasant because it was

:39:57.:40:02.

partially jail and partially medically supervised -- for four 's.

:40:03.:40:08.

-- they incarcerated you. What was in Caceres and like? I was put in

:40:09.:40:14.

isolation -- what was incarceration like. I was in there for nearly six

:40:15.:40:20.

months straight at the beginning and they moved me multiple times to

:40:21.:40:25.

facilities, from Philadelphia to New York, to Oklahoma City. They moved

:40:26.:40:31.

me so many times, and they cut my communications down to nothing and

:40:32.:40:39.

there was no justification from them as to why I was put in isolation,

:40:40.:40:43.

thrown in the hole for as long as I was stopped they tried to say that I

:40:44.:40:52.

was delusional and making it up. That's the way for the United States

:40:53.:40:56.

to discredit people. If I had told myself my own story without any

:40:57.:41:00.

factual evidence to back it up I would say that I was delusional. The

:41:01.:41:05.

United States government had this information but they didn't release

:41:06.:41:09.

it to the government doctors because they wanted the finding that I was

:41:10.:41:13.

delusional, to discredit me. They wanted the fact that, found

:41:14.:41:21.

incompetent to stand trial, the government could hold me

:41:22.:41:24.

indefinitely. We live in the United States, not Russia. Looking back at

:41:25.:41:30.

what you were doing, do you think you are at least obsessed, that you

:41:31.:41:34.

went too far? Can you see it from their point of view? Yeah, maybe. I

:41:35.:41:44.

had a passion. Just like Kayla Mueller was passionate about going

:41:45.:41:49.

over there and helping children in that region, she had a passion to do

:41:50.:41:55.

that. Is she insane? No. Thank you for joining us.

:41:56.:41:59.

Election day across the country tomorrow, Kirsty will be here

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tomorrow evening. Until then, good night.

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Slowly and surely, the nights are getting a bit less cold. A lovely

:42:19.:42:25.

sunny start,

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