16/02/2017 Outside Source

Well-to-do Outside Source. A few hours back Donald Trump gave a press

conference. He was on the attack from the very beginning. I inherited

a mess and got 306 electoral college votes. This administration is

running like a fine tuned machine. It was bothered opening statement

which covered a huge number of topics but then there was an

extended Q and A and there were no subject is off-limits. Wait expect

light! I know who you are, let me tell you about the travel ban. In

terms of the National security of Isa, this was the verdict. The leaks

were real. You saw it. The news was fake. Lots of questions are coming

in and if you use the hashtag they come straight to the BBC screen as

well. We will play you more clips of that almost hour and a half long

press conference. Let's turn to the issue of Mr

Trump's connections with Russia and alleged contacts with Russia of his

campaign team during the election. This came up several times during

the press conference on the president was very clear on the

issue. I can tell you, speaking for myself, I own nothing in Russia, I

have no loans in Russia, I don't have any deals in Russia, President

Putin called me up very nicely to congratulate me on the wind of the

election. He then called me up next grimly nicely -- extremely nicely to

congratulate me on the inauguration, which was terrific. But so did many

other leaders. Almost all the leaders. Russia is fake news. This

is fake news that out by the media. There were so many sound bites in

this press conference, rush of being fake news was another one. He was

pushed again by other journalists at this press conference. When you

aware that anyone in your campaign had contacts with Russia during the

course of this election? General Flynn, but he was dealing as he

should've been. During the election? Nobody that I know. So, you are

aware of anybody during the election? Russia is a ruse. I know

you have do get up and ask a question, but Russia is a ruse. I

haven't made a phone call to Russia in years. Live from Washington, DC,

the president is genuinely exasperated at that point. Guess. He

has been asked about this before. The reason is because his answers

are not definitive. You know it is very clearly that he said that there

were no contacts that he knew of, that is a big escape hatch if need

be. We saw an article in the New York Times just the other day saying

that there were contacts between people in Trump's team during the

campaign and Russia and intelligence operatives also did Trump know about

that or not? We don't know. Whether those contacts amounted to anything

sensitive, we also don't know that. That would be a big area of concern

of either of those things were true. -- substantive. He's going to be

asked about that, as the FBI investigation keeps going on. That

is not going to go anywhere anywhere soon. I want to play everyone now a

question from the BBC's North America editor Jon Sobel. Here is

how John got on with the president. Where are you from? BBC. Here is

another beauty. It is a good line, impartial, free and fair. Just like

CNN. On the travel ban, would you accept that that was a good example

of the smooth running of Government? I do! Weight! Weight! I know who you

are, just wait. Let me tell you about the travel ban. We had a very

smooth roll-out of the travel ban. We had a bad court. We got a bad

decision. We had a court that has been overturned again, I think it is

80% of the time, I maybe wrong. A lot. We had a bad decision. We will

keep going with that decision, we will put in a new executive order

next week sometime. Let's bring in the BBC's Acehnese against. We mind

which way it is, but it does not seem particularly accurate of the

president to say that roll-out is moved. I don't think he can say that

with any kind of justification. He says the court made a bad decision.

That lower court level didn't happen until later in the week. What

happened when he first imposed that travel ban was a lot of confusion on

the part of the implementing agencies that weren't informed about

how to put it into effect, whether to allow green card holders into the

country or not. You saw conflicting messages, people coming to the

country thinking they would be admitted but then being detained for

hours, sometimes even longer. Sometimes put back on planes and

sent back to where they came from. That is not an audibly

implementation of the travel ban. -- orderly. Geoffrey would like to ask,

what is this rally in Florida? What is it and who is paying for it? It

is a rally in an aeroplane hangar near new Melbourne Florida which is

in the upper area of Florida, even with Orlando, he had a campaign

event there that I was actually at earlier this year. Last year in

October. He pulled up in his the aeroplane and gave a speech to

adoring crowds. About 10,000 people there, through popular there. That

is why he's going back there probably. Who is paying for it, that

is interesting. It is the Donald Trump for President 2020. This is a

campaign event for a presidential race that isn't going to happen for

more than three and half years. You serious? That is a fact that I

didn't know. We are already on to talking about whether Donald Trump

will be re-elected. Remember, we are still in February and the president

was inaugurated in January. Anthony was live with this in Washington,

DC. They say it is hard to find in Government diplomacy in DC. ... Mr

Trump would say he's not interested in Washington, he is interested in

the country who have selected him. Michelle has asked other polls,

investigations into grassroots supporters beyond Twitter to gauge

their thoughts Post investigation miss these are approval ratings.

Memory the sixth was when the poll was conducted. Republicans are 87%

in favour. Independents 37%, Democrats 11%. At least 41% -- that

leads to 41% approval rating which would at this point be considered

low. Here he is talking about the media. I never get phone calls from

the media. However they were right a story like that in the Wall Street

Journal without asking me or in the New York Times put it on the front

page? That was likely story they wrote about the women and me,

FrontPage. The massive story. It was nasty. They called and said we never

said that. We like Mr Trump. On that particular issue as to whether

journalists are asking Mr Trump about the stories they are covering,

the moment he stepped back, many, many completely reliable journalists

queued up to say that we do this every time. This is Maggie Hagerman

from the New York Times saying... I can really many, many e-mails from

other journalists saying they have the call records and journalists to

say. Dot-macro I think we can see the president is not sharing with us

the truth. It was an astonishing achievement that the election

result. We talked about the scale of it with Benjamin Netanyahu. It did

so again today. I put it out for the American people. I got 306 electoral

college votes. I wasn't supposed to get 222. They said there was no way

to get you to do. 230 is impossible. 270 is what you need and that is

laughable. We got 306 because people came out and voted like they have

never seen before. That is the way it goes. I guess it was the biggest

electoral college win since Ronald Reagan. That is Ronald -- Donald

Trump Social Democratic and the biggest electoral college win since

Ronald Reagan. Remember that each state gets a certain amount of

electoral college votes. The first one to get the clear majority

becomes president. Unfortunately, the president told you something

there that was completely untrue. As he was in a room full of

journalists, it was unlikely that he was going to get a way with not

being picked up on that. You said that you got the biggest electoral

margins and Ronald marking of 304 and 306. In fact, President Obama

got 365. I'm talking about Republican. Jos Buttler 426 when he

won as president. Why should Americans trust you? I was just

given that we got a big margin. Why should Americans trust you when you

are providing false information? I have seen that information. Thank

you. If you want to watch back some of these clips from the press

conference, you can find them online from BBC News. Probably the most

single most controversial action that Donald Trump is taken as the

travel ban. In a while, I will play you a report about the Somali

American communities get their response to the proposed ban. A deal

reached two weeks ago which promise to help end the country's rail

strike has collapsed raising the prospect of more industrial action.

Leaders of the train driver was Mancunian Asef said... For nearly a

year, nearly -- many users have had strikes and delays. Thanks everybody

for coming. After two weeks of talks hosted by the TUC, it was thought

that the deal had been done. We are pleased to announce that Aslef and

Southern Rail have reached an agreement. Now that deal has

unravelled and for commuters in Brighton are unhappy. I'm not happy.

It is wasting my time. It is terrible. What can we do? It is a

lot of money on Uber, isn't it? Around 900 Aslef drivers voted on

the ballot. There was a turnout of over 72%, nearly 46% voted in favour

of the deal, but over 54% voted against. This is an embarrassment

for Aslef, a deal negotiated by their leadership has been overturned

by rank and file membership. The general secretary of Aslef says we

understand and support the decision arrived at democratically by our

members. The dispute is over how many members of staff should be on

every train. Can there be driver only trains or must they are always

be a second person, a conductor on board? Aslef said they had got a

deal where there would always be to staff on the train with some

exceptions. Southern's parent company Govia said in the statement

that we are disappointed... The RMT has already scheduled

another 24-hour strike on the southern network next Wednesday and

the same distribute about driver operated trains is breading to other

parts of the country. Ballots are being sent out today to staff on a

Riva trains north, there is also the prospect of industrial action on

Merseyrail. We live on the BBC newsroom. Our

lead story confirms Donald Trump's press conference which was arranged

at the last minute. According to multiple sources, at the behest of

the president. He took many questions across an hour or more.

Let's come back to the outsize source screen to talk further about

this conference. The covered a lot of ground. He did not leave out the

economy. He has plenty of to say on business, jobs and fair trade. Their

response abilities will be ending the bleeding of jobs from our

country. And negotiating fair trade deals for our citizens. Fair trade,

not free. Fair. If a country is taking advantage of this, it is not

going to happen any more. Every country takes advantage of this. I

may be able to find a couple that don't, but the most part, that would

be a tough job us to do. Michelle, this message that America needs to

realign itself economically with the world was one of the reasons Mr

Trump got the presidency. It certainly was. It is a claim he said

talking about the bleeding of jobs. On balance, it is very say that is

not quite true. If you go back to the height of the recession, what

happened afterwards, unemployment peaked at 10%. Now we're back down

to 4.8%. We are talking about an unemployment rate in the country

that suggests America is close to full employment. Where Donald Trump

is referring to is specifically the manufacturing sector, there can ever

since 2000, it is fair to say the manufacturing jobs has been falling

in declining at a faster rate. They did not decline between that period

between 1994 and 2000, the reason I mention those dates is because the

North American Free Trade Agreement was introduced then. He has

criticised that in asked to roll it back. If you look at manufacturing

jobs immediately after that came into effect, you don't see much

change until as I mentioned 2000. I would like to play a couple more

clips of the press conference. Here is the president talking about the

car industry. Jobs have already started to surge since my election.

Ford also be will -- Ford say they will invest in Michigan. Ford the

Lima Chrysler say they will invest in Michigan, they were with me a

week ago. General Motors committed to invest millions of dollars in its

American manufacturing operation. Keeping many jobs here that were

going to leave. If I didn't get elected, they would have left. These

jobs and things that I am announcing would never have come here. What is

your assessment of the President's description of his impact? We know

this is a president who likes to talk things up and I think that is

perhaps what is going on here. These investments, if you look at

businesses, they planned years in advance. When you are talking about

a car factory, plant, something that is going to cost them millions if

not billions of dollars. This is not a decision that they just took

overnight. In response to a tweet from the president. Many of these

were carefully planned for months, perhaps as long as years. But

perhaps they did time the announcement or rush it out to carry

favour with the incoming administration, with the new

president and also for Donald Trump committee gets to call it a win. It

is something we have seen again and again from American companies. It is

a win-win for both sides, American companies gets to say they have

created jobs, carry favour with the incoming administration, Donald

Trump gets to claim a victory. Very useful. Next, Mr Trump focused on

two other companies, Intel which makes microchips are very

successfully and the retail giant Walmart, have listened. Intel just

announced that it will move ahead with a new plant in Arizona that

probably was going to not be moved ahead with. That will result in at

least 10,000 American jobs. Walmart announced it will create 10,000 jobs

in the American A E United States -- United States because of our

various plans and initiatives. There will be many, many more. These are a

few that were named. You can talk to me about those big deals. How

involved is the president getting in these corporate decisions? I hate to

sound like a broken record, but I think it is a case of these being a

long-term investment. Companies can't spend that kind of money

overnight. Intel, it is not false or true, it is more complicated. Intel

actually planned on spending $7 billion, that is the announcement

that Trump was referring to. That was a factory in Arizona. That

factory with actually started in 2011, it was announced under

President Obama and the reason it was not completed was that there was

a lack of demand for the product. That isn't and we have not heard

from Donald Trump that economies to Lee E but economists worried about.

Where is the demand coming from? As the Walmart? Again, the company in

its press release did not mention Donald Trump, but did say it was

increasing jobs, go back to 2015, they cut as many jobs as they said

they were going to add when they closed about 154 stores. It is a

mixed picture, many people are excited about Donald Trump's tax

policy, they are excited about what he's doing about regulation and that

is something that you do uniformly hear from the business community.

For the second time and final time, thank you for joining us from New

York. Let's finish the programme by looking at Donald Trump's travel

ban. It is suspended at the moment, but most polls suggest Americans

supported. Or the majority of them. One of the countries it targets is

Somalia and the BBC has visited a Somali American community in

Minneapolis. An event to teach

people their rights You should take a second look

if they ask about your Organisers say it was badly needed

after support groups were inundated with calls

from anxious American Muslims. Those in Minneapolis

mainly have roots in Somalia, one of the country

is the president named in the ban. Donald Trump talked

of Somali Americans as There are tens of thousands

of people of Somali origin in Minneapolis, many came

over as refugees but others were born here and some

of them tell us this is the first time they feel

the For some, that has happened

in face-to-face encounters. This woman is a fashion

designer, make-up artist and She says women like her

who are visibly Muslim because of the hijab

are having a tough time. She herself has had

in cells hurled at her when Things have changed since

the election because people are openly racist,

people are not scared They tell us to go

back to our country, In his music Mohammad talks

of the tough problems people have. He thinks the president

could have made He is not keeping America

safe, he's giving It will make them

harder and anger them because some people do not

want to go to school no more because they feel there is hate

there, at workplace, There have been cases

of young Somali Americans being convicted of trying to go

abroad to join militant groups, but there is an overwhelming feeling

here among that score that the Presidents actions

are counter-productive. You are helping groups

like Isis and Al-Shabab and Passing the message

America does not want you, you do not belong

in the The same message Isis and al-Shabab

used to recruit young men. Around the country, many think

Donald Trump is doing the right things to counter extremism but

people here warn he is only sowing the seeds of more

alienation and hatred. Before I finish the programme, one

more message coming in. Why is the BBC assigning so much time to Donald

Trump? Wood ignoring and not attending his events be an option to

science? We're not interested silencing Donald Trump we are

interested in reporting and analysing and in terms of why we

give so much time to one press conference, by the accounts of many

people who were there and who watched, it was one of the most

extraordinary press conferences and American president has ever given

and also Donald Trump is reshaping the American presidency and

America's role in the world. It is really important we understand that.

Thank you very much for watching. See you next week. Goodbye.

In a moment, I will take you somewhere that is about to get more

rain than it can handle. Some of us have a wet day on Thursday, there

were showers in Scotland. Here is a view of a rainbow looking out over

Perth. Parts of south west Scotland have been