23/01/2017 100 Days

join Kathie Kay and Christian Fraser now for our new BBC programme 100

It is Monday afternoon in Washington - the first working week

Already there are big changes underway.

So what will a Trump administration mean for the United States

With such global upheaval over the past year, we will be

There will be a new way of doing business in Washington.

This morning, the President signed an executive order

withdrawing the United States from the Trans Pacific

A White House press conference is now underway as the war of words

between the new administration and the media about the size

And when it comes to building the wall, can President Trump

We'll hear from both sides of the border.

Could President Trump's warming relations with Moscow

And when it comes to foreign relations, what does

President Trump's foreign policy mean for Europe and its

Our new programme dominated by the first few months

of Donald Trump's presidency, and what kind of changes

There are big things happening in Europe.

Upcoming elections, Brexit, the conflict in Syria.

Over this next 100 days, we will be looking at all of that and how

the America First policy will re-shape relations

In this past half hour, Sean Spicer, President's Trump's

spokesperson, has been speaking to the White House press corp.

Our Washington reporter Anthony Zurcher is with us.

I was listening to the beginning of the press conference. It sounded

like a remarkably normal press conference? It was. This came off

the hills of Saturday where Sean Spicer stood up and be raided the

press further coverage of the inauguration. Today, he said he

would not be as popular as his predecessor, but then he took

questions from the media. The first question he took was on the wall and

the promise to begin building the wall. This was a serious priority of

his throughout the campaign. He is starting to work with Congress on

the appropriations Avenue. He is doing everything he can to commence

with that as soon as possible. I couldn't help notice that your key

missing at the beginning of the press conference. This still feel

quite awkward. Taking on the press the way they did on Saturday is a

0-sum game. It might have worked in the campaign but it doesn't work in

the White House. It is definitely risky. Donald Trump was ranting

about the press in front of a CIA Memorial. To then have Sean Spicer

come out and be even more aggressive to the media, leaving without taking

questions, he became the story through much of the weekend. In most

traditional White House says, the press secretary does not become the

story. The president takes the lead. Thank you. We will keep our eye on

that press conference. Already President Trump has been

busy signing a series of executive orders,

certainly more to come through the week, all built on that

promise to put America on top. In the past couple of hours,

he signed three of those orders - withdrawing the US from

the Trans-Pacific Partnership trade deal, banning American funds

for international groups that perform abortions and finally

he has ordered a freeze It is just the start

of a big agenda. He had promised a slew of executive

actions to advance his agenda and reverse those of President Obama. He

has rolled back the health insurance law known as Obamacare. Today, he

withdrew America from the Trans-Pacific Trade Partnership. He

says it is key to securing American jobs and economic security. In tone

and substance, Donald Trump promises to be a very different president

from his most immediate predecessors. I think he will be

quite revolutionary. I expect him to place more emphasis on the growth of

the economy, higher wages and opportunities for people. I'm not

sure he is going to be trying to seek out compromise. He will try to

get the job done that he sent to the American people he would do. I

believe he will be looking after the people he says have been left

behind. He says his ethos of America first is the scaffolding on which he

will build his entire agenda. Illegal immigration, tax reform, the

destruction of Isis, they are all in his immediate sites. We have to

build a wall, folks. It means making good on his campaign pledge to build

a wall along the 1900 and mile border with Mexico. Here he could

meet his first big hurdle. Will Congress really pay for it? Mist

Trump will need popular support to get these big things done. On

Saturday, I went down to see the women's march in Washington, where

it was clear just how unpopular he is. These people are scared and

angry and determined. Can they stop Donald Trump's agenda? Probably not.

But in a game that is American politics, ratings are like gambling

chips. The Republican politicians who sat stony faced at the

inauguration as mist Trump derided the establishment will give their

new president a lot of what he wants, in return for the power he

has given them. Of the fact he is not an ideological conservative

means the Republican Congress will undoubtedly also run into conflict

with their president. On infrastructure spending, the notion

we would spend $1 trillion that would be paid for I think will be

very difficult for some fiscal conservatives to swallow. For the

time being at least I think most Republicans, if not all, are

willing to give the president the benefit of the doubt. Once you get

out beyond 100 days, when the honeymoon period is over, I think

some of those divisions will become a little more clear. Mist Trump

intends to govern as he campaigns, in full flight mode. But he has set

huge goals for himself and he will need friends and allies to get

things done. Let's talk to Jan Brewer Republican

Governor of Arizona from 2009 until 2015 and prominent

Trump supporter. The Germans and Mexicans have

already said that if America is going to withdraw from Trans-Pacific

Trade Partnership, they will seek alliances themselves with some of

those countries. Is President Trump at risk of alienating just too many

allies in his protectionist stance? I don't think so. On the campaign

trail, she was clear he thought it was an unfair partnership, dealing

with United States and that he was going to resend it. He said he would

do it immediately. He didn't like the way it was drawn. It is a huge

document. Who knows what is truly in it. Rework a long time on it, but I

think we can come back and possibly regroup and continue working, but I

think he has promised the people of the United States he will resend it

and he has. He did it as promised. That's what the American people

wanted. He won overwhelmingly on the electoral real votes in the United

States. You know that words have consequences. President Trump's

inaugural address and his promise of America first and his refusal in

that address to reach out to traditional allies has clearly

rankled the Germans. Today, the Mexican president said, we will not

submit to United States. The bottom line is, we know that Mexico is our

neighbour. I know that Mexico is our neighbour. The coming. We do a lot

of commerce back and forth. With regards to the wall and to Nafta,

that needed to be renegotiated. We needed to determine things exactly.

That all came about in 1990. A lot of things have changed. Donald Trump

wants to bring it up to date, make it current, make it work for

everybody. I want to ask you about the other executive order Donald

Trump signed this morning, banning American federal funds from

financing international organisations that support abortion.

Are we in for four years of fights over women's reproductive rights

issues? Use the protests this weekend. It was a big theme. It was.

It was quite stunning to see so many people out there protesting are

demonstrating or whatever you want to call it, on the day after the

inauguration of the duly elected president. I wish they hadn't done

it, but these are conjugated issues and abortion has always been very

volatile in the United States because we have, I would say the

majority of people, believe they don't support abortion. You know, it

will be a conflict and it always has been. We are hopeful we will get it

resolved Donald Trump says he would work towards this direction and

again delivered on his promise to the people who elected him. Thank

you. We will speak to you later on in the programme. I just picked up

on one of the first thing she said to you in that interview, about this

sense of fairness. She said the trade deals are unfair. That is

something that played very highly with supporters during the campaign.

I think this is a core belief of President Trump's. The idea that

America has been taken for a ride, on trade deals, Nasdaq, China. Also

Nato. America's allies traditionally have not paid enough on their

defence bills. I think this underlines his worldview. America

has done too much since the Second World War to support allies and

friends and in return has had a bad deal. He will now change all of

that. And yet you look at his approval ratings and the are some of

the poorest approval ratings of modern times. He has to get himself

on the front foot. Used from the press conference, Sean Spicer was

laying out all these big business leaders coming to them. Presumably,

behind closed doors, they are really saying this is about job creation.

Yes, that speech he gave on Friday was a speech all about jobs. What

Governor Brewer did not mention is that trade is not the big issue

here. The big issue in American jobs is automation. By some estimates, it

is for 21. Computers have lost jobs -- four to one. The Syria crisis

will be one of the big foreign policy issues for the administration

coming up in these weeks. Right. They will be talking a lot about

Syria in the coming weeks. Talks ongoing today in Kazakhstan.

The Syria crisis will be one of the big foreign policy issues

for the administration these coming weeks.

Yes, although normally - when it comes to Syria -

the Americans would be equal partners in the discussions.

These talks are in the Kazakh capital of Astana, and it's Russia

Our Chief International Correspondent Lyse Doucet has been

looking at the shifting geopolitics of the Syrian war.

This new alliance is reshaping Syria's battlefield.

President Erdogan and President Putin still back opposing

Last week, they conducted their first joint bombing raid

against so-called Islamic State. And last year they work together

to end the decisive battle for Aleppo, and then brokered

a Syria-wide ceasefire between president Assad's

The first game changer, September 2015.

Russia entered the war, rescuing the Syrian army

from collapse on key front lines, transforming Russia into Syria's

most pivotal player in boosting its global stature.

Its military assets in Syria now include an expanded naval facility

on the Mediterranean, and a new airbase.

Last year, Turkey's President Erdogan tilted towards Russia

and away from the West, including the US.

Blaming it for the July coup and the rise of IS,

He still wants President Assad to go, someday, but his main enemy

in Syria now is Kurdish fighters, linked to Turkey's PKK,

Turkey sent its own forces across the border last year,

ostensibly to fight against so-called Islamic State.

But mainly to halt the advance of Kurdish fighters carving

Russia accepted Turkey's sway along its border,

and Turkey pushed rebel groups to pull out of a losing

And persuaded some to accept a ceasefire, at least for now.

He says his priority is to work with President Putin,

to fight IS and other extremists in Syria.

It's unclear if he will continue to support rebels

There are other players with other agendas.

Iran also backs President Assad and is providing an array

of militias, including Lebanese Hezbollah fighters.

Gulf states arm the opposition, but their real enemy is Iran.

Ending this destructive more isn't any easier.

And, in the end, it is Syrians who will have the final say.

Thank you both for joining us. Let's talk about Syria for a second. The

very fact these talks are in a former Soviet republic, rather than

Geneva, says a lot about the New World order? It doesn't say that

what's new. I'm not sure anything much has changed because of the

American election. What it does indicate is how complicated the

Syrian situation is going to be for Trump because on the one hand he

said he would like to be closer to Russia. In Syria, he faces a

coalition of Russia and Iran who are backing a totalitarian dictator. You

will have to make some decisions about which side he is on.

On the issue of Iran, that will be the sticky subject. President Putin

has a close ally in Iran? Yes, and there are close on a number of

issues. Trump changes his rhetoric from day to day, so it's hard to

know what he actually cares about, but in some parts of the campaign,

he indicated he wanted to renegotiate the American nuclear

arrangement with Iran, and that would have a knock-on effect on

Russia as well. Are a popping the champagne corks in Russia over the

inauguration of President Trump? Good evening. The inauguration

speech and address of Donald Trump was watched by many Russians, of

course. I must say that experts believe that the speech was rather

promising. And I would emphasise one thing I find very important. As far

as foreign policy was concerned, Donald Trump said that America would

seek friendship and goodwill with all countries of the world. And they

will do that in understanding that each nation, every nation, has a

right to put its national interests first. This, to me who has watched

the mainstream of several decades politicised, good state and rogue

states, this is promising because it means that Donald Trump at least in

his vision, in his thought and his mind, is departing from this very

Trotskyite like foundation of the idea of foreign policy which

produced the mixture of ideology and Theodore Roosevelt style

intervention. That is very promising. And that sticks to

chapter one of the United Nations Charter. That is the problem.

Treating everybody the same is exactly what is alarming America's

allies. The comparison he made between Angela Merkel and Vladimir

Putin. I think we need to step back and think about what it was that

constituted American power and American influence for so many

decades. The answer to that was America's system of alliances. These

were alliances not based merely on national interests or on

self-interest, but a common sense of security, common and shared values

and shared economic interests. This was the way in which America has

exercised power up until now. A few minutes ago, previous guests on your

programme asked what these alliances brought us, they made America the

predominant country and gave them the right to set rules. In many

cases, it meant that America and its allies were able to preserve the

peace. There has been peace in Europe for many decades. The

question now is really a bit different from how you have just

characterised it. The question is, if America withdraws and as a

Russian colleague has just said, America is not interested in these

ideals or democracy, then what happens to it alliances? The

question is, will the liberal and economic order be maintained? Will

the prosperity that we have known for the last few decades continue?

That is now the question. I don't think it's in anyone's interests for

international trade to break down or for international institutions to

fall apart. I don't think it will be good for anyone. Donald Trump has

made the point that warming relations is a good thing. We have

had reports today that Russian jets have been flying in tandem with

American jets. That has been denied by the American side. I can't think

of a time... That is not true. I haven't heard anything like that.

Russian jets became an information, but only that. Let's take it in

another direction, if that was possible in the fight against

so-called Islamic state, that would be a good thing, wouldn't it? I'm

sorry, I think you've fallen for a piece of Russian disinformation.

It's not true, so why are we talking about it? It has come from the

Russian side. Is it a possibility? Is it something the two countries

could work together on? Russia is not really fighting Islamic State,

it is fighting with Assad against whoever he is fighting. You have to

be careful. We are supporting the Syrian Army. It can be qualified as

the only serious force that can be put against Isis. That is why we are

together. But we would certainly welcome the American I believe it is

not quite impossible with Donald Trump's vision because America

happens to isolate herself from stereo. To overcome this, you have

to participate and then you might influence even Iran. Sorry, but

America has been in Syria for many months. We have do bring it to an

end there. Thank you both very much. I have just strayed into the world

of facts and alternative facts... It does look like that. It is the

question of what America's rule is going to be. We have had 70 years

since Pearl Harbor of America leading the world. Talking about

ideals, talking not necessarily just about America's self-interest. And

Donald Trump on Friday ended that system. In that process, there are

going to be some winners, perhaps Moscow, and some losers, perhaps

Europe. It will be fascinating to watch how this shapes out.

Yes, Theresa May will be in Washington. She will have spoken to

other European leaders and it will be talking about Nato and European

security as well, you would imagine. She has already said she will stand

up to Donald Trump when she feels she needs to.

There is more on that story on our website and smart-phone app -

there's also more from our business team about "Trump-onomics" -

and what we know so far about the president's economic plans.

You're watching 100 Days from BBC News.

Coming up in a few minutes - that wall on the US Mexican border -

And a stormy start for press relations between Donald Trump's

We'll speak to the Washington Bureau Chief of USA Today.

It really has been another day of huge contrast across the UK. Some of

us have enjoyed some lovely sunshine. It felt really nice out

there. For others, the fog lingered all day. Temperatures barely above

freezing. Overnight tonight, fog is the main concern because it is

already thickening up in some places. Go online for the latest

updates. Some fog over East Anglia and Lincolnshire. Apple tends to

clear. Find that, more fog developing. This could be the scene

first thing tomorrow morning. Very patchy, this fog. Temperatures below

freezing, quite widely. There will be some brighter areas. Over

northern England, the fog not so extensive year. Across the border

into Scotland and Northern Ireland, a different setup. Milder, breezy

and patchy rain. The rain never really amounting to much. It will

come and go. The best of the sunshine further south and east.

Mildest definitely out West. In the east, despite any sunshine, it will

be chilly. It should shift. The breeze begins to pick up. Some for

England and Wales. More rain working with intent over the far north-west.

Further south and east, despite any brightness, it will be a chilly day.

The stronger wind is coming off a still freezing continent. In actual

fact, Thursday could be an especially chilly day. Temperatures

in some spots will not get much above freezing. A very cold Thursday

to come. President Donald Trump has

signed an executive order withdrawing the United States

from the Trans Pacific After after a row on "alternative

facts" and the size of the crowd at the inauguration,

we'll speak to a veteran member During the election,

Donald Trump said that on his first day as President work would begin

"on an impenetrable, physical, So what's going to happen

to that bold pledge? In a moment we'll be speaking

with a former Arizona Governor and prominent Trump supporter,

we'll also hear from a Mexican Senator, but first,

a little more detail on the wall Donald Trump's plan to build

a wall is a cornerstone During the campaign,

he said he wanted it to be "an impenetrable,

physical wall" on We need the wall, and

the border patrol... He pledged construction

would begin on day one. We haven't seen the builders in yet,

but some of those close to him say they have an idea of what it

will look like. Donald Trump said the wall

would be 1,000 miles long, 35 to 40 feet high, and would look

as good as a wall is going to look. There's already a barrier,

which runs along nearly a third of the border,

and that was built after We don't know if President Trump

will add to what's already there or knock it down

and start again. Donald Trump said the wall

would cost around $8 billion. Some engineers believe the price tag

would be much higher. And, having promised

Mexico would pay for it, Donald Trump recently announced

that the US would initially fund it and recoup the costs

from Mexico later. Whether its a tax or whether it's

a payment, but it will happen. Building a wall was Donald Trump's

first campaign promise, and with this pledge,

we'll actually be able to see Well within the last hour,

Mexico's president said his country is now obliged to take steps

to defend its interests, given America's new position

on things like the Trans-Pacific Let's talk to Jan Brewer -

she was the Governor of Arizona from 2009 until 2015 -

and from Mexico City, You have been a supporter of this

war but as we have seen in European countries when you build a wall in

one place, migrants seem to find a pesky way of coming into another

entrance, wouldn't that just happen here? We absolutely need to address

the issue of illegal immigration as it is coming into our country and

Arizona has been the gateway for all of the illegal immigration for

immigrants coming in for work but also for the drug cartels and we are

fed up. We had to deal with the president that turned a blind eye to

all of that and wouldn't listen and would protect us and we inherited

all the drug trafficking, the extortion, the kidnappings, the

decimation of our deserts, we gateway so we applaud Donald Trump,

President Trumper in his campaign speeches that he said he would

secure the border and build the wall. Whether he can build the wall

completely, all the way, 1000 miles I don't know but we can secure that

border and that is what we need to do. We need the wall and they need

to come in legally and we need to to come in legally and we need to

know who is leading our country. -- leaving. The other half is that

Mexico would pay for the war. The Mexicans have made it clear they

have no such intentions and there are moves in the Mexican parliament

talking about this and they say they will not pay for the wall so America

won't end up paying billions of dollars for this? I still think we

have a way to go to determine just exactly how this will

how it will be paid for. President how it will be paid for. President

Trump said Mexico would pay for it so as we move to this process in the

next few days or next few weeks, we may come up with a solution but we

certainly aren't going to pay it on our behalf and I'm looking forward

to hearing the solution and maybe something can be negotiated between

the Mexican government and the the Mexican government and the

United States government but we want our border secured. That's it. We

are further, we are tired and we're not going to tolerate it. That was

one of the biggest reasons why Donald Trump won an election

present of the United States. I have present of the United States. I have

been on the battlefield from the very beginning. Doing what the

federal government was charged to do I had to do that, it didn't do their

job, they did not do their job. And it got out of hand. You will know

that a significant number of the immigrants in the United States came

in with a valid visa through the airport and they simply never left,

overstaying their visa. I agree that there is also a multitude of them

who have coming across the border and I will agree that they come and

they want to come to work some of them, but along with all of the

people that are coming in illegally comes the drug cartel and all of the

drugs and the extortion and the drop houses and it's costing Arizona a

fortune. I have to pay for their education, health care and

incarceration. Governor Brewer, one thing we have noticed is that when

the Mexican economy is doing well, the Mexican economy is doing well,

few people cross the border through Arizona, up until 2014 we saw a

decline in the number of Mexicans coming across, when the Mexican

economy is doing badly, the number of people trying to get their rises.

Isn't there here and knock on potentially of President Trump's

policy of closing American factories in Mexico, driving down the Mexican

migrants to come across the border migrants to come across the border

not discourage them. President Trump has listened to the people of the

United States and it is about them. He has been very clear and very

strong, it is about the United States of America and we want to

work with everybody. It has to be working together with third deals.

It has to be handled appropriately. I think that the president believes

as well as many other people in the United States that we have been

taken advantage of over and over again. And it's destroying our

economy. It is absolutely devastated certain areas of our country and we

are tired of it. We're not going to tolerate it any more and that is why

he won overwhelmingly the electoral votes. People want somebody that

will stand up for us for a change. I agree we have to work with our

allies, we have to have the commerce and trade going back and forth, but

I'm anxiously awaiting just to see exactly what they can come up with.

What is the real solution? Thank you so much for joining 100 Days.

We are going to finish Christian - with some discussion on the other

And that is the barrier between the White House

They build up pretty quickly, fair to say the relationship has not

gotten off to the best of starts, the row over the weekend has been

the relationship goes from here the relationship goes from here

because while we have been on air, Sean Spicer of the communications

director has answered the question about his integrity and telling the

truth, let's have a listen to see if he a more cordial. There are times

when we believe something to be true or we get something from an agency

or we act in haste because the information available was in

complete but our desire to communicate with the American people

to make sure you have the complete story at the time so we do it, but

again, when you look, we will do our best every time we can. I will come

and if we make mistakes I will do and if we make mistakes I will do

the best to correct them. As I mentioned the other day, it is a

two-way street, there are many mistakes of the media make all the

time, they misreport something, they don't report something, they get a

factual, that is not to turn around and say you are intentionally lying.

I think we'll try to do our best job and do it with a degree of integrity

in our respective industries. Shaun Spicer there. Joining us now is

Susan Page, a former president of the White House correspondence and

is now Paul Simpson chief for USA Today. Put this in some kind of

historic perspective for us. You have covered campaigns, have you

ever seen anything like this in ever seen anything like this in

terms of the relationship with the press? This is my sixth presidents I

have seen them come and go and all of them at some point or another

have tough relationships with the press. Especially when they get in

trouble, you think about the impeachment of President Clinton for

instance. Or during the war accusations of the misuse of

intelligence information, the bad intelligence that got us into the

war in Iraq said there were times when the White House has had bad

relations which covers them everyday. What is unusual is that

from the start. After a campaign from the start. After a campaign

which has been contentious. What is unusual is the way the president has

questioned the motives of the press. Basically accusing them of wilfully

misrepresenting things, Miss reporting things to make him look

bad, that is unusual. What you think the press needs to do now that

President Trump is an office about the issue of alternative facts,

falsehoods, distortions, lies, whatever you want to name them

because it does seem that this is a campaign that has frequently put out

information that is provably not true. And what's also is that trust

in the mainstream media has declined in this country is faith in other

institutions here has declined. We have to get up every day and do the

best job we can to be as accurate and factual as possible and one of

the main things we do when it comes to holding the government

accountable is pointing out when things are factually inaccurate.

That is going to be a big part. Isn't there a danger that the press

puts itself in a right from the start of being the opposition? Not

the opposition and our obligation to correct inaccuracies goes to both

sides, it goes to Democrats on the hill and people marching in the

women's march on Washington and see people at the inauguration so it is

abroad obligation. But it is especially critical I think in

covering a president especially a president were all kinds of policies

are being set. Thank you. This is going to be an interesting

relationship between the press and the White House because there is a

risk we get into the position where we spend our whole time talking

about things like crowd sizes and the onus will be on the press there

to talk about policy as well and what is happening what is not just

being said. They'll have to pick their way through the facts and

alternative fax. A reminder that you can

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