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Hello, I'm Ros Atkins, this is Outside Source. | :00:09. | :00:15. | |
If you did not see Donald Trump's press conference, it is worth your | :00:16. | :00:23. | |
time. I inherited a mess. Put it out before the American people, 306 | :00:24. | :00:30. | |
electoral college votes. This administration is running like a | :00:31. | :00:37. | |
fine tuned machine. Passionate opening statement, sliding from | :00:38. | :00:42. | |
topic to topic. Followed by questions, no subject is off-limits. | :00:43. | :00:51. | |
Wait, I know who you are, wait. The story that has dominated this week, | :00:52. | :00:55. | |
the resignation of the President's National Security adviser, so be it. | :00:56. | :01:02. | |
The leagues I absolutely real. The news is fake. A lot of questions | :01:03. | :01:08. | |
were answered, a lot more were raised. We will take as many as we | :01:09. | :01:10. | |
can get across the hour. There is a strong argument we have | :01:11. | :01:34. | |
seen the most remarkable press conference ever given by US | :01:35. | :01:42. | |
President. Lasting well over one hour, it painted a dystopian vision | :01:43. | :01:47. | |
of America, and a world in a mess. That now has a president offering | :01:48. | :01:53. | |
reassurances, taking care of it. The familiar but potent cocktail of | :01:54. | :01:57. | |
attacks on the media, boasting about the election result, promising to | :01:58. | :02:02. | |
heal the country. That last one is looking a long way off. As always, | :02:03. | :02:07. | |
when Trump speaks, a number of statements which were demonstrably | :02:08. | :02:12. | |
untrue. We will look at this onto Dave's Outside Source. Mr Trott | :02:13. | :02:18. | |
takes America, its presidency and its place in the world is new | :02:19. | :02:21. | |
territory, just as he said on the campaign trail. Let's start with the | :02:22. | :02:26. | |
President's staunch defence of his performance so far. To be honest,. | :02:27. | :02:47. | |
Is the leaving out with the least cost that is what I think I'd have | :02:48. | :03:13. | |
thought, engine six electoral college votes. I turned on the TV, | :03:14. | :03:15. | |
and then this administration is running | :03:16. | :03:31. | |
like a fine tuned machine. Keeping me company Anthony live from | :03:32. | :03:38. | |
Washington. We will have time to get into specifics. Your general | :03:39. | :03:44. | |
thoughts after that hour and a half? Like you said, unprecedented press | :03:45. | :03:51. | |
conference. For a sitting president. For Donald Trump, we should not be | :03:52. | :03:55. | |
surprised. It is the Donald Trump we have seen through the campaign. They | :03:56. | :04:00. | |
were common early in the campaign, until his staff started to reel him | :04:01. | :04:03. | |
in during the general election. Donald Trump, they have decided to | :04:04. | :04:08. | |
have him unleashed. That beginning opening statement, airing his | :04:09. | :04:14. | |
grievances, painting a dark picture. That was scripted. He seemed down. | :04:15. | :04:20. | |
Once he got into the give-and-take with reporters committee seemed | :04:21. | :04:24. | |
animated, comfortable. He needed to get up there take the slings and | :04:25. | :04:27. | |
arrows from the media, show he is not afraid of them. The White House | :04:28. | :04:32. | |
had been in a bit of a bunker until now. He mentioned several times he | :04:33. | :04:36. | |
will hold a campaign style rally in Florida on Saturday. They are going | :04:37. | :04:41. | |
back to the script that worked for them. Donald Trump, off-the-cuff | :04:42. | :04:47. | |
comment being few years. He won the presidency that way. It seems they | :04:48. | :04:51. | |
have made a determination to reboot themselves, reboot the campaign. | :04:52. | :04:55. | |
Using that winning formula, we will see whether that works. Thank you. | :04:56. | :04:58. | |
You will be or bust through the hour. Send your questions our way. | :04:59. | :05:05. | |
We heard he returned to a script we heard many times on the campaign | :05:06. | :05:09. | |
trail. He attacked the media for the coverage of him. He did lead. I will | :05:10. | :05:16. | |
play this clip, attacking one particular CNN show. I watch it, I | :05:17. | :05:24. | |
see it, I am amazed by it. I think you would be a lot better off, I | :05:25. | :05:33. | |
honestly think you would. The public start throwing their placards at | :05:34. | :05:37. | |
CNN. I think you would do much better by being different. Take a | :05:38. | :05:41. | |
look at some of your shows in the morning in the evening. If a guest | :05:42. | :05:45. | |
comes out and says something positive about me, it is brutal. | :05:46. | :05:50. | |
They will take this news conference, I'm having a very good time, they | :05:51. | :05:54. | |
will take this conference. That is the way I wanted. I used to give you | :05:55. | :05:58. | |
one every time made a speech, every day. That is how I won with news | :05:59. | :06:05. | |
conferences, and speeches. Certainly not by people listening to you | :06:06. | :06:09. | |
people. I'm having a good time. Tomorrow they will save Donald Trump | :06:10. | :06:14. | |
ranting and raving at the press. I'm telling you you are dishonest | :06:15. | :06:19. | |
people. Dishonest people how he describes those working in CNN. When | :06:20. | :06:25. | |
he says he won the election with press conferences committee did not | :06:26. | :06:28. | |
give one during the campaign. He stopped giving press conferences for | :06:29. | :06:33. | |
a stretch of time. He turned to the big story of the week, the | :06:34. | :06:37. | |
resignation of his national security adviser Michael Flynn. The | :06:38. | :06:41. | |
resignation connected to a conversation general Flynn had with | :06:42. | :06:45. | |
the Russian ambassador to the US before Mr Trump took office. Claims | :06:46. | :06:51. | |
that sanctions against Russia were discussed. Mr Flynn denied it, then | :06:52. | :06:55. | |
said he could not be sure. In the process he gave Vice President Mike | :06:56. | :07:01. | |
pence incomplete information, which was why he had to go. This is Mr | :07:02. | :07:08. | |
Trump's take. I was surprised. Did not sound like he did anything wrong | :07:09. | :07:13. | |
there. He did something wrong with respect to the Vice President. I | :07:14. | :07:17. | |
thought that was not acceptable. As far as the actual making the call, I | :07:18. | :07:24. | |
have watched various programmes, reading various articles where he | :07:25. | :07:32. | |
was just doing his job. Very normal. Donald Trump did not think Michael | :07:33. | :07:36. | |
Flynn had done anything wrong. Here was the response when he asked | :07:37. | :07:39. | |
whether he had directed general Flynn to communicate with Russia | :07:40. | :07:44. | |
Christmas did you direct Michael Flynn to discuss sanctions with the | :07:45. | :07:52. | |
Russians? No, I did not. Excuse me. I fired him because of what he said | :07:53. | :07:59. | |
to Mike pence. He was doing his job, calling countries, his counterparts. | :08:00. | :08:03. | |
It certainly would have been OK with me if he did do it. I would have | :08:04. | :08:07. | |
directed him to do it if I thought he was not doing it. I did not, | :08:08. | :08:11. | |
because I would have done, because it was his job. Allen says the man | :08:12. | :08:19. | |
with the most votes won. He had the most electoral college votes, which | :08:20. | :08:24. | |
is why you up correctly point out he's the president. He did not get | :08:25. | :08:29. | |
the most votes, Hillary Clinton did, but not in the right states. That is | :08:30. | :08:33. | |
why Donald Trump is the president. What did you make of the President's | :08:34. | :08:36. | |
count of Michael Flynn's resignation? Interesting, never | :08:37. | :08:41. | |
really answer the question about why he waited several weeks before he | :08:42. | :08:47. | |
fired or asked him to resign. After he found that he had essentially | :08:48. | :08:55. | |
misled or misrepresented to Mike Pence, hanging the vice president at | :08:56. | :09:04. | |
to dry. He learned he did something wrong, he let the vice president, | :09:05. | :09:07. | |
the sitting vice president go out and say that something he thought | :09:08. | :09:17. | |
was true was not. He stood by Michael Flynn yesterday. He said he | :09:18. | :09:23. | |
was a wonderful man, to he said he had been misrepresented by the | :09:24. | :09:26. | |
media. He said he would have told him to talk with Russians about | :09:27. | :09:30. | |
sanctions committee thought that was worthwhile. That makes you wonder | :09:31. | :09:35. | |
why the administration were so defensive about it. It is mixed | :09:36. | :09:43. | |
signals, contradictory statements from Sean Spicer, the press | :09:44. | :09:46. | |
secretary and Donald Trump to date on the subject. Hard to find out | :09:47. | :09:50. | |
where they're going a game of it. One message posted online from a New | :09:51. | :09:55. | |
York Times reporter, saying the president is consumed by, and acting | :09:56. | :10:01. | |
in response to media coverage. One person saying he wants fighting with | :10:02. | :10:05. | |
the media, they are responding by fighting back. That makes a | :10:06. | :10:09. | |
spectacle more than discussing specific policies and actions. That | :10:10. | :10:13. | |
is exactly right. That is the way I felt watching the press conference. | :10:14. | :10:17. | |
Very early on, Donald Trump talked about the dishonest media, taking | :10:18. | :10:23. | |
swipes at them. He seemed to want to take them on. Media representatives | :10:24. | :10:27. | |
asking about how unfair it was to call them fake news. Donald Trump is | :10:28. | :10:32. | |
more than happy to engage them on that. The general public does not | :10:33. | :10:36. | |
probably care about media grudges, media feelings about being | :10:37. | :10:42. | |
disrespected by the present. They care about policy issues, and other | :10:43. | :10:46. | |
things. The media is focused on that specific angle. Donald Trump enjoys | :10:47. | :10:52. | |
this particular kind of sparring. It does not get that what his | :10:53. | :10:56. | |
ministration is trying to do, it changes the subject and the nature | :10:57. | :11:00. | |
of the scandal, to the nature and coverage of the scandal. One step | :11:01. | :11:03. | |
removed from anything that can get him in trouble. Would any policies | :11:04. | :11:10. | |
on North Korea and the Middle East be published? We got Trump looking | :11:11. | :11:19. | |
for a grand deal in the Middle East beyond Palestinians and Israelis. He | :11:20. | :11:24. | |
said it could be a two state solution, could be 1-macro. The | :11:25. | :11:30. | |
media needs to call him out on his statements. We are doing this entire | :11:31. | :11:37. | |
addition on Outside Source, going through all the areas he covered, | :11:38. | :11:41. | |
plainly the clips, giving you analysis of what he said. We will | :11:42. | :11:45. | |
fact checked some specific claims made by Donald Trump during this | :11:46. | :11:49. | |
extraordinary press conference. Including one which said he won the | :11:50. | :11:53. | |
presidential election by a record margin. | :11:54. | :12:00. | |
Here in the UK, the Business Secretary Greg Clark says he has | :12:01. | :12:04. | |
held constructive talks with General Motors. It emerged the owner of | :12:05. | :12:20. | |
perjury, the PSA group was involved in a possible takeover in Vauxhall's | :12:21. | :12:24. | |
European operation. The general secretary of Unite says he's not | :12:25. | :12:31. | |
prepared to accept job losses. We have made the call, we want the | :12:32. | :12:35. | |
government involved in the issue General Motors. The French | :12:36. | :12:40. | |
government own a stake in Peugeot, they will be arguing and fighting | :12:41. | :12:45. | |
for French jobs. Basically I'll be saying to the government, that is | :12:46. | :12:49. | |
what we need to do. We need to work together, the government needs to | :12:50. | :12:52. | |
make it clear we are not prepared, in the event that Peugeot five | :12:53. | :13:00. | |
-- are buying Vauxhall, we're not prepared to accept a single job loss | :13:01. | :13:03. | |
in Britain. I am Ross Atkins with Outside | :13:04. | :13:14. | |
Source. Our focus in this programme is a last minute press conference | :13:15. | :13:18. | |
organised by President Donald Trump. He covered a range of issues, | :13:19. | :13:23. | |
defending his presidency so far. We will keep going through what the | :13:24. | :13:26. | |
president said as we move through the programme. One of the things | :13:27. | :13:33. | |
driving the issue, the connections, if any, between Mr Trott's team and | :13:34. | :13:39. | |
Russia. Some media, for instance the New York Times, has been publishing | :13:40. | :13:46. | |
leaked material. Mr Trott is serious about these leaks, he has been all | :13:47. | :13:50. | |
week, turning to the issue. When I was called out on Mexico, I was | :13:51. | :13:55. | |
honest, really surprised. It does not make sense. That was not that | :13:56. | :14:02. | |
important the call, I could show it to the world, he could show it to | :14:03. | :14:05. | |
the world. The present is a very fine man, by the way. The same thing | :14:06. | :14:11. | |
with Australia. I said that is terrible, it was leaked. I said to | :14:12. | :14:14. | |
myself, what happens when dealing with the problem with North Korea, | :14:15. | :14:20. | |
the problem of the Middle East. Are you folks going to be reporting that | :14:21. | :14:26. | |
very confidential information from very important? At the highest | :14:27. | :14:32. | |
level. Are you going to be reporting about that, too? I don't want | :14:33. | :14:35. | |
classified information getting out of the public. That was almost the | :14:36. | :14:41. | |
test. I'm dealing with Mexico, dealing with Argentina, we were | :14:42. | :14:45. | |
dealing, in this case, with Mike Flynn. This information gets put | :14:46. | :14:50. | |
into the Washington post, the New York Times. I'm saying, what is | :14:51. | :14:54. | |
going to happen when I'm dealing with the | :14:55. | :15:00. | |
Middle East, important subjects, like North Korea. We have to stop | :15:01. | :15:05. | |
it. That is why it is a criminal penalty. That statement begs one | :15:06. | :15:11. | |
question, is that Mr Trump confirming the information in the | :15:12. | :15:16. | |
leaks are true? What he was talking about where reports he had | :15:17. | :15:19. | |
complained to the Mexican president about Mexico's handling of what he | :15:20. | :15:32. | |
called tough hombres. All the reports he hung up on the Australian | :15:33. | :15:41. | |
Prime Minister, Malcolm Turnbull. This is the leaks real leaks. The | :15:42. | :15:51. | |
news is fake. One thing I felt it was important to do, and I hope we | :15:52. | :15:57. | |
can correct it, nobody I have more respect for than reporters, good | :15:58. | :16:01. | |
reporters. He says leaks are real, the news is fake. Let me bring you | :16:02. | :16:06. | |
in on this, the president is perfectly within his rights to be | :16:07. | :16:12. | |
furious about this. Important confidential information making its | :16:13. | :16:16. | |
way into the public domain? Absolutely. Leaguers have agendas. | :16:17. | :16:22. | |
Putting this information out there, asking their name is not attached to | :16:23. | :16:28. | |
it. Sometimes because they could be in legal trouble. They feel it has | :16:29. | :16:32. | |
to be reported on. Other times they have a grudge, trying to gain power | :16:33. | :16:37. | |
within the bureaucracy therein. Every president has had to do with | :16:38. | :16:41. | |
this at one point to another. Donald Trump is trying to set up an | :16:42. | :16:46. | |
explanation why he is upset about these particular leaks. They are | :16:47. | :16:50. | |
embarrassing. He said they could lead to other leaks that could | :16:51. | :16:53. | |
impact national security. People will have to draw conclusions, valid | :16:54. | :17:00. | |
justification. Something every politician has two deal with. To | :17:01. | :17:06. | |
acknowledge they are truthful, to save the media reports based on them | :17:07. | :17:10. | |
are false, fate. That is cognitive dissonance. He's not acknowledging | :17:11. | :17:18. | |
that right now. How does this President compare with other | :17:19. | :17:21. | |
presidents, in term of keeping his promises, asks Jay? I would answer, | :17:22. | :17:27. | |
he is doing pretty well, doing the things he said he would do. He was | :17:28. | :17:33. | |
boasting about that today. People criticising him for the immigration | :17:34. | :17:36. | |
ban, cracking down on undocumented workers. Those are all things he | :17:37. | :17:42. | |
campaigned on. Very clear about it. They believe is accusing him of | :17:43. | :17:48. | |
trying to pass a hidden agenda. That is not something, of the many things | :17:49. | :17:54. | |
people have accused him of, that he's guilty. Now doing some of the | :17:55. | :17:59. | |
executive orders, making motions to doing things, that is different to | :18:00. | :18:05. | |
getting them accomplished. So far, not a whole lot of legislative | :18:06. | :18:10. | |
success. The appeals in Congress are grinding slowly. The Obama | :18:11. | :18:17. | |
administration had signed a massive infrastructure spending and | :18:18. | :18:21. | |
financial recovery bill. It is compared to past administrations, | :18:22. | :18:25. | |
he's making motions to keeping his promises. Doing things within his | :18:26. | :18:30. | |
particular power to keep those promises. The jury is out on how | :18:31. | :18:34. | |
much you will be able to accomplish. For the moment, thank you very much. | :18:35. | :18:40. | |
I was going to say let's take a brief break from politics, maybe I | :18:41. | :18:45. | |
am, maybe I'm not. The Facebook founder, Mark Zuckerberg, has | :18:46. | :18:50. | |
released a manifesto. Talking about a huge range of issues. The issue of | :18:51. | :18:56. | |
globalisation, he says there are people around the world who feel | :18:57. | :18:59. | |
left behind by it, and the rapid changes that have happened. There | :19:00. | :19:04. | |
are movements, as a result, to withdraw from global connection. He | :19:05. | :19:08. | |
discussed the concept of fake news. Facebook has been caught up in this. | :19:09. | :19:15. | |
He said misinformation is a beginner undermining the common | :19:16. | :19:16. | |
understanding, so does sensationalism, and polarisation. | :19:17. | :19:22. | |
Let's speak to our economics editor. You have been speaking to Mark | :19:23. | :19:27. | |
Zuckerberg. Is he stopping being a businessman, becoming a politician? | :19:28. | :19:33. | |
He insists he's not. We had rumours, would he run in 2020, he said no. He | :19:34. | :19:40. | |
told me in the BBC interview that he did not want to be a politician. Not | :19:41. | :19:45. | |
now, he said. He did not say not ever. He is the leader of the | :19:46. | :19:53. | |
biggest businesses in the world. Frankly, he is as influential as | :19:54. | :19:57. | |
he's going to be as a politician, leaving Facebook. What is | :19:58. | :20:01. | |
interesting about what he told me, what he put out in this 5500 word | :20:02. | :20:08. | |
post on Facebook tonight for me talks about globalisation, fake | :20:09. | :20:14. | |
news, he talks about people not getting upset, but fighting back. A | :20:15. | :20:20. | |
call to action. He said the way to fight back is built connectedness | :20:21. | :20:24. | |
across borders, bring down barriers. What an opposite tone to the tone of | :20:25. | :20:30. | |
President Trump. Very careful with me not to bite, on any of my | :20:31. | :20:34. | |
questions about Donald Trump. He does not agree with you, are you | :20:35. | :20:39. | |
going to meet him? He did not go to the round table that other tech | :20:40. | :20:43. | |
leaders went to. Nevertheless, it gives an alternative view, over | :20:44. | :20:49. | |
thousands of words. Well thought through, whatever you might think | :20:50. | :20:53. | |
about the legitimacy of someone like Mark Zuckerberg talking about this. | :20:54. | :20:59. | |
It was a well fought through from a 5500 word piece of work. In the | :21:00. | :21:04. | |
present fee bra environment, it will be seen as an alternative manifesto | :21:05. | :21:07. | |
to what we're seeing in the White House. This was quite a shift, when | :21:08. | :21:13. | |
the fake news controversy surrounded the election day, he said it was | :21:14. | :21:16. | |
nothing to do with us? He knows he called that wrong. The problem with | :21:17. | :21:23. | |
a lot of these companies, Facebook, Google, they have a philosophy of | :21:24. | :21:28. | |
put out product first, then if it goes wrong, call it iteration, we | :21:29. | :21:32. | |
will change things. Here the technology has run ahead of the | :21:33. | :21:38. | |
editorial skills are Facebook, to control material people are getting | :21:39. | :21:43. | |
in their news feed. Mark Zuckerberg when interviewed by me, and this | :21:44. | :21:45. | |
huge manifesto has said they need to do more to control fake news. What | :21:46. | :21:52. | |
he said was interesting, it is not about banning fake news, it is about | :21:53. | :21:57. | |
making it clear this piece of news is disputed. Very much against | :21:58. | :22:04. | |
taking things down where possible. He's talking about more new ones to | :22:05. | :22:08. | |
make sure good quality journalism gets to the top of people's news | :22:09. | :22:13. | |
feed, rather than any journalism. You said it is a call to action, but | :22:14. | :22:24. | |
what action does he want to call? Sometimes we find this Silicon | :22:25. | :22:28. | |
Valley wording of it or getting connected. He's talking about | :22:29. | :22:35. | |
building communities, he wants people to use Facebook, obviously, | :22:36. | :22:39. | |
he's a businessman in the end. About how Facebook allows church groups, | :22:40. | :22:45. | |
religious groups, civil society groups to work together within | :22:46. | :22:47. | |
countries, across borders. How it can be used to create safe areas, if | :22:48. | :22:55. | |
there is a natural disaster, to report on how people are responding | :22:56. | :23:02. | |
to that. Really about building a digital infrastructure, to take the | :23:03. | :23:07. | |
place of governments, that he says people are losing faith with. That | :23:08. | :23:11. | |
does not mean globalisation has left people behind. If the | :23:12. | :23:17. | |
infrastructures and the ways of working are not used, people will | :23:18. | :23:25. | |
withdraw. He says making a direct connection to people in different | :23:26. | :23:28. | |
countries, the European Union, what is going on in America, pulling up | :23:29. | :23:34. | |
the drawbridge, he says his manifesto is part of that manifesto. | :23:35. | :23:40. | |
Thank you for explaining that. If you want to read the manifesto from | :23:41. | :23:45. | |
Mark Zuckerberg, not hard to find on Facebook. Let's return to that | :23:46. | :23:49. | |
extraordinary press conference from Donald Trump. About three hours ago | :23:50. | :23:57. | |
he gave one that went well over one hour. There was an extended | :23:58. | :24:02. | |
question-and-answer session. We will fact checked some of the statement | :24:03. | :24:07. | |
is the president has made. First of all, how much he has done since | :24:08. | :24:11. | |
taking office. This last month as represented an unprecedented degree | :24:12. | :24:15. | |
of action, on behalf of the great citizens of our country. There has | :24:16. | :24:20. | |
never been a presidency that has done so much in such a little period | :24:21. | :24:26. | |
of time. We have not even start of the big work, that start early next | :24:27. | :24:31. | |
week. Some very big things will be announced next week. The president | :24:32. | :24:35. | |
saying no other has done so much in so little time. A lot of executive | :24:36. | :24:41. | |
orders, we have discussed them on Outside Source. You can see them | :24:42. | :24:45. | |
listed on the White House website. These are not laws. Mr Trump has | :24:46. | :24:52. | |
signed three laws, a waiver to allow James Matthews to sign as Defence | :24:53. | :24:57. | |
Secretary, a rollback and regulations in terms of what oil | :24:58. | :25:00. | |
companies have to disclose to foreign governments. If we making a | :25:01. | :25:04. | |
comparison to President Obama, he has signed three laws, one of them | :25:05. | :25:10. | |
was the American recovery and reinvestment Bill. That was in | :25:11. | :25:13. | |
response to the global financial crisis, many analysts credited with | :25:14. | :25:22. | |
restarting the American economy. Hard to quantify which president has | :25:23. | :25:26. | |
done the most in their first month. Hard to say definitively Donald | :25:27. | :25:31. | |
Trump has done. More fact checking in the second half of Outside | :25:32. | :25:35. | |
Source. Any particular issues you want to pick up on can get in touch | :25:36. | :25:40. | |
by e-mail and social media, if I cannot answer them, Anthony | :25:41. | :25:47. | |
definitely will be able to. I will speak to you in two or three minutes | :25:48. | :25:49. | |
time. Plenty more on the forecast in the | :25:50. | :26:13. | |
UK before the top of the hour. Right now, whether stories from elsewhere | :26:14. | :26:15. | |
around the world. | :26:16. | :26:16. |