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The winds of change continue to blow through Washington - | :00:08. | :00:15. | |
key shifts to environmental policy and the car industry are on the way. | :00:16. | :00:19. | |
President Donald Trump continues to unpick Barack Obama's legacy. | :00:20. | :00:21. | |
Today, it's the environment - signing executive orders to speed | :00:22. | :00:25. | |
construction of the Keystone and Dakota Access oil pipelines. | :00:26. | :00:29. | |
The president comes face-to-face with the big car companies - | :00:30. | :00:31. | |
he tells them to build cars for Americans in America. | :00:32. | :00:37. | |
We're bringing manufacturing back to the United States bigly, | :00:38. | :00:40. | |
we're reducing taxes substantially and we're reducing | :00:41. | :00:42. | |
I'll speak to a senior Republican Senator about | :00:43. | :00:48. | |
Also, in London, a ruling from the Supreme Court that | :00:49. | :00:53. | |
goes to the very heart of the British constitution. | :00:54. | :00:55. | |
But will this ruling complicate the timetable for Britain's | :00:56. | :00:57. | |
The other big super power, China, asserting today its "irrefutable" | :00:58. | :01:04. | |
sovereignty over parts of the South China Sea. | :01:05. | :01:07. | |
Day two of week one, President Trump is stepping up | :01:08. | :01:23. | |
The oil and car sectors were both in his sights today. | :01:24. | :01:30. | |
Mr Trump is urging a new strategy for two very prominent | :01:31. | :01:33. | |
The new administration is making big changes to America's stand on both | :01:34. | :01:39. | |
This morning, the president signed two executive orders to move ahead | :01:40. | :01:45. | |
on a pair of controversial oil pipelines, known as the Keystone | :01:46. | :01:48. | |
Both had been stalled by the Obama administration | :01:49. | :01:52. | |
Senator John Barrasso from Wyoming is part of the Republican leadership | :01:53. | :02:01. | |
and he sits on the energy and the environment committees. | :02:02. | :02:04. | |
I spoke to him a brief time ago about these new executive orders | :02:05. | :02:07. | |
and President Trump's busy first couple of days. | :02:08. | :02:19. | |
It looks like these signings this morning on the pipelines, that jobs | :02:20. | :02:31. | |
are going to win. I believe it is not one or the other, I think we can | :02:32. | :02:37. | |
have clean air, clean water, clean land and still a healthy economy. | :02:38. | :02:43. | |
The Obama administration had so many expensive administrations, but I | :02:44. | :02:49. | |
think Donald Trump will strike the right balance. He has done that with | :02:50. | :02:55. | |
the right EPA administrator to join his Cabinet. Would you ever support | :02:56. | :03:00. | |
environmental regulations? I think that the whole purpose of the EPA is | :03:01. | :03:05. | |
important but they have lost their way in terms of the environmental | :03:06. | :03:09. | |
protection and they cause to have the biggest problem is that we have | :03:10. | :03:14. | |
had in the last number of years, so it is time for us to really | :03:15. | :03:21. | |
modernise and improve the EPA so we can protect the land under water and | :03:22. | :03:25. | |
the air, but at the same time make sure that we have as strong, healthy | :03:26. | :03:31. | |
economy, which is what people want. Jobs are such a critical part of | :03:32. | :03:35. | |
building an economy in a country and in terms of general well-being of | :03:36. | :03:39. | |
the people and the quality-of-life. People in this country, it is | :03:40. | :03:43. | |
clearly focused on having a good paying jobs. I also want to ask you | :03:44. | :03:53. | |
about the TPP and the withdrawal of America from that. Other countries | :03:54. | :03:57. | |
around the world said they are going to go ahead and do their own trade | :03:58. | :04:02. | |
deals. We are looking at Mexico, Chile, China, Germany all weighing | :04:03. | :04:06. | |
in on this. Is this really the moment for America to be pulling | :04:07. | :04:09. | |
back from global alliances like this? Donald Trump campaigned on | :04:10. | :04:14. | |
this so it should not be a surprise that he took this action. I am not | :04:15. | :04:20. | |
surprised by this at all. He is a world-class trader, he has a great | :04:21. | :04:25. | |
reputation for being able to get great deals. I am a free trader. For | :04:26. | :04:30. | |
my homestead of Wyoming and it is important that we can export our | :04:31. | :04:34. | |
products, our number one product is beef. When I head to the Pacific rim | :04:35. | :04:41. | |
and visit with the President of Japan, he wants to import liquefied | :04:42. | :04:47. | |
natural gas from the United States. You supported the temp two. Is this | :04:48. | :04:52. | |
guy a position in which conservative doctrine of free trade is going to | :04:53. | :04:56. | |
be thrown out of the window by republicans like yourself in order | :04:57. | :05:00. | |
to satisfy the new president? The president gets to make these | :05:01. | :05:03. | |
decisions as we all want fairer trade, but I think he will be able | :05:04. | :05:09. | |
to put forward trade agreements that are going to be favourable to the | :05:10. | :05:14. | |
United States, that are going to be good with the American taxpayers and | :05:15. | :05:18. | |
he will continue to work on trade. My concern is in terms of China they | :05:19. | :05:22. | |
will try to go into any void that exists. When I have been to that | :05:23. | :05:28. | |
part of the world, what I know about China is that people in the country | :05:29. | :05:35. | |
is related to the TPP want to be friends of the United States, but | :05:36. | :05:38. | |
they don't want to be enemies to China. Would you have preferred it | :05:39. | :05:44. | |
if America had not been withdrawn from the TPP? I think President | :05:45. | :05:50. | |
Obama did not make the case. You had all three presidential candidates, | :05:51. | :05:55. | |
Hillary Clinton, Bernie Saunders and Donald Trump all came out against | :05:56. | :06:00. | |
the TPP so it should be no surprise to anyone that this is where we are | :06:01. | :06:05. | |
now. I continue to be a free trader, believe in free markets and I want | :06:06. | :06:11. | |
to be able to use overseas markets for Wyoming products. Senator John | :06:12. | :06:12. | |
Barrasso, thank you for joining us. You start to get a feel of where the | :06:13. | :06:24. | |
divisions might be between the administration and the republicans | :06:25. | :06:28. | |
in Congress. He is very much in favour of the deregulation of | :06:29. | :06:31. | |
business but not so at ease with the way the administration is going on | :06:32. | :06:35. | |
trade deals. If I can show you a picture. We keep talking about these | :06:36. | :06:40. | |
executive orders. Focus on the people behind. We will see a lot of | :06:41. | :06:45. | |
these people over the next few years. Maybe you could point out one | :06:46. | :06:48. | |
or two of them and wiping RM portent. | :06:49. | :06:54. | |
Get a new team Trump! Behind the president on the left, the man with | :06:55. | :06:59. | |
the dark hair is rinsed pre-bursts. He is the conduit between the White | :07:00. | :07:03. | |
House and the Republican Party. He will be a big liaison figure. Kelly | :07:04. | :07:10. | |
and Conway was the campaign manager for Donald Trump, the first woman to | :07:11. | :07:17. | |
run a presidential campaign. The tall gentleman with a green tie, | :07:18. | :07:23. | |
that is Jarrod Kushner. He is the husband of Ivanka Trump and he is a | :07:24. | :07:27. | |
special adviser to the president. There has been quite a lot of fuss | :07:28. | :07:31. | |
about nepotism and whether it was OK for him to work in the White House. | :07:32. | :07:35. | |
He is very close to the president and will be a key figure | :07:36. | :07:39. | |
particularly on international affairs. The gentleman with a blue | :07:40. | :07:44. | |
shirt and yellow tie, Steve Bannon, maybe the most controversial pose in | :07:45. | :07:51. | |
that photograph, he ran Breitbart news, right Wing News site, very | :07:52. | :07:55. | |
controversial and hard hitting. He is the person who was behind Donald | :07:56. | :08:01. | |
Trump's inaugural address. A strong nationalist, vary in favour of | :08:02. | :08:08. | |
Brexit and close, wanting to develop ties, with Marine Le Pen of the | :08:09. | :08:12. | |
National front. He will be a figure in Europe as well as here in the | :08:13. | :08:16. | |
states. Marine Le Pen was in Trump Tower is | :08:17. | :08:21. | |
just the other week. We were saying in the headlines that he has been | :08:22. | :08:25. | |
meeting the bosses of the car industry. He is very good at this | :08:26. | :08:30. | |
good cop, bad cop relationship. He hits them with these tariffs, that | :08:31. | :08:36. | |
they will have 35% tariffs, then he showers them with love and | :08:37. | :08:41. | |
croissants. Let's have a listen to this conversation. | :08:42. | :08:45. | |
We're going to make process much more simple for the auto companies | :08:46. | :08:48. | |
and everybody else who wants to do business in the United States. | :08:49. | :08:50. | |
You'll find us to be from very inhospitable | :08:51. | :08:52. | |
I think we'll go down as one of the most friendly countried. | :08:53. | :08:58. | |
I think we'll go down as one of the most friendly countries. | :08:59. | :09:01. | |
I have friends who want to build in the United States. | :09:02. | :09:05. | |
They go many many years and then they can't get their environmental | :09:06. | :09:07. | |
permit, over something that nobody ever heard of before. | :09:08. | :09:10. | |
I am to a large extent an environmentalist, | :09:11. | :09:13. | |
I believe in it, but it's out of control and we're | :09:14. | :09:15. | |
And we're going to either give you your permits or we're not | :09:16. | :09:21. | |
going to give you your permits, but you're going to | :09:22. | :09:23. | |
And generally speaking, we're going to be giving you your permits, | :09:24. | :09:27. | |
Not for a lot of environmentalists, they will not agree with him that he | :09:28. | :09:39. | |
is the environmentalist. This is another new thing that people will | :09:40. | :09:43. | |
have bigger Tuesday in America, a different way of presidential | :09:44. | :09:47. | |
intervention directly and American businesses. That wants it | :09:48. | :09:50. | |
particularly well with republicans. It'll be interesting to see how | :09:51. | :09:54. | |
those car executives feel about Donald Trump in a few years. | :09:55. | :10:01. | |
What is this word bigly? The Trump administration says it is | :10:02. | :10:08. | |
not bigly home and they say it is big league, but I am hearing ugly, | :10:09. | :10:13. | |
too. We will have to get used to that as well. | :10:14. | :10:17. | |
If you have these powers of executive order you can do with G1, | :10:18. | :10:19. | |
bigly days. Just before we came on air, | :10:20. | :10:22. | |
the White House Press Secretary, Sean Spicer, held a briefing | :10:23. | :10:24. | |
for the media, his Let's have a listen | :10:25. | :10:27. | |
to what was on the agenda today. Does the president believes that | :10:28. | :10:42. | |
millions voted illegally in this election and what evidence do you | :10:43. | :10:46. | |
have of widespread voter fraud in the selection, if that is the case? | :10:47. | :10:50. | |
The president does believe that. He stated that before. He has stated | :10:51. | :10:54. | |
his concerns over voter fraud people voting illegally in the campaign. He | :10:55. | :10:59. | |
maintains that belief based on studies that people have presented | :11:00. | :11:04. | |
to him. What evidence? Senator Ryan today said there was no evidence. | :11:05. | :11:08. | |
Other groups have said that they don't agree with the assessment by | :11:09. | :11:12. | |
the president. As I said, believe the president has believe that for a | :11:13. | :11:15. | |
while based on studies and information that he has. | :11:16. | :11:19. | |
Our North America editor, Jon Sopel, was listening. | :11:20. | :11:21. | |
Why do this? Why get yourself into a position where you're doing a huge | :11:22. | :11:32. | |
amount of business popular with the American public, then the thing that | :11:33. | :11:35. | |
dominates the press conferences Donald Trump saying something that | :11:36. | :11:40. | |
wasn't true? Because 90% of the time Donald Trump is driving the central | :11:41. | :11:45. | |
message about jobs, what he was elected to do, and there is a bit of | :11:46. | :11:49. | |
Donald Trump, whether it is the size of the crowd at his inauguration or | :11:50. | :11:53. | |
the number of people that voted for him in the popular vote, he gets | :11:54. | :11:57. | |
distracted. He is obsessed by those numbers. In the campaign he used to | :11:58. | :12:00. | |
talk about hollow and many more people went to his rallies than | :12:01. | :12:06. | |
Hillary Clinton's. He is doing it still. He hasn't let go of the fact | :12:07. | :12:10. | |
that he lost the popular vote by nearly 3 million. What was telling | :12:11. | :12:15. | |
about that clip from Sean Spicer was what evidence have you got? Where | :12:16. | :12:20. | |
are these reports? What he went on to say afterwards was well there was | :12:21. | :12:27. | |
a nonpartisan body who had a research paper in 2008. Hang on, | :12:28. | :12:33. | |
thought we were talking about 2016! He seems to be extrapolating from an | :12:34. | :12:37. | |
early report about what potentially could have happened before to | :12:38. | :12:40. | |
explain why he did not win the popular vote in November, but with | :12:41. | :12:47. | |
absolutely no evidence of voter fraud in that election. No one has | :12:48. | :12:52. | |
reported anything like that in terms of what unfolded in November across | :12:53. | :12:57. | |
the 50 states. We should cover the other and use because otherwise this | :12:58. | :13:02. | |
becomes the big distraction, we spent our time talking about this. | :13:03. | :13:07. | |
What are the other headlines? The defence of the Keystone XL pipeline, | :13:08. | :13:13. | |
saying he was a champion of the environment but also that this would | :13:14. | :13:17. | |
create thousands of jobs, the US is there to enable these things. The | :13:18. | :13:21. | |
other things we will be looking out for in days to come and the leading | :13:22. | :13:25. | |
up to who could be the Supreme Court choice for him. | :13:26. | :13:31. | |
I have read through the week a lot of these comment pieces from some of | :13:32. | :13:35. | |
the big writers in the American press who are concerned about the | :13:36. | :13:38. | |
relationship they have at the White House. It seems to me that they will | :13:39. | :13:42. | |
have to start packing up on the facts, calmly and deliberately | :13:43. | :13:46. | |
deconstructing what this administration says. Is that the way | :13:47. | :13:50. | |
they need to go about it rather than reacting in a panicked way? I think | :13:51. | :13:55. | |
it is a really challenging environment. What we need to do is | :13:56. | :13:59. | |
when something is paid and the factually incorrect, we are, in the | :14:00. | :14:05. | |
media, our reputation, and the BBC in particular, and being objective | :14:06. | :14:09. | |
and impartial and telling the truth, so if we see something that is not | :14:10. | :14:13. | |
truthful we should point about. We should not be obsessed by just | :14:14. | :14:18. | |
trying to trip up Donald Trump, looking peevish, looking entitled, | :14:19. | :14:21. | |
like we don't like him or are angry or cross in any of our reporting. We | :14:22. | :14:26. | |
have to be fair and balanced but just say, hang on, that can't be | :14:27. | :14:29. | |
allowed to stand if it is not correct. It is our responsibility to | :14:30. | :14:35. | |
do that and that is what our audience expects of us. Some of the | :14:36. | :14:39. | |
people in the White House could not believe that they weren't being | :14:40. | :14:43. | |
treated with all the dignity that they deserved. Well, I think they | :14:44. | :14:47. | |
need to get over themselves because Donald Trump will do press | :14:48. | :14:50. | |
communication in a very different way and about mean that some of my | :14:51. | :14:54. | |
esteemed colleagues at the White House might have a slightly bruised | :14:55. | :14:58. | |
ego, live with it. Something you would never have, of course. | :14:59. | :15:05. | |
Any more news on the Supreme Court? All of these executive orders will | :15:06. | :15:08. | |
change things temporarily in America. They can be reversed, the | :15:09. | :15:13. | |
Supreme Court not so much. The Supreme Court appointment is going | :15:14. | :15:18. | |
to be probably all things being equal, the most consequential | :15:19. | :15:21. | |
decision that Donald Trump is going to make in his presidency because | :15:22. | :15:26. | |
the person who gets appointed, and it is likely to be somebody quite | :15:27. | :15:33. | |
conservative, someone who believes in toughening the laws on abortion. | :15:34. | :15:39. | |
At the moment the Supreme Court is balanced, for liberals for | :15:40. | :15:44. | |
conservatives. If it becomes five republicans, abortion law can | :15:45. | :15:47. | |
change, which will be a big thing for social policy in this country. | :15:48. | :15:51. | |
Not just for the term of Donald Trump, but for years going forward. | :15:52. | :15:57. | |
Thank you for joining us, Jon Sopel. There are big changes coming up in | :15:58. | :15:58. | |
this administration, Christian. Some of the other key developments | :15:59. | :16:00. | |
in Washington today now. President Trump is planning to keep | :16:01. | :16:03. | |
James Comey as head of the FBI, according to media reports | :16:04. | :16:06. | |
here in the US. Mr Comey was strongly criticised | :16:07. | :16:08. | |
by Democrats in the run up to November's election | :16:09. | :16:11. | |
for re-turning to an investigation The bureau is still investigating | :16:12. | :16:13. | |
potential ties between Russia A former American Defence Secretary | :16:14. | :16:16. | |
says he's concerned the new leadership is giving | :16:17. | :16:22. | |
an impression the US is retreating Robert Gates, who was also a former | :16:23. | :16:25. | |
director of the CIA, told the BBC Mr Trump's policies | :16:26. | :16:30. | |
could well be exploited Mr Gates, who served | :16:31. | :16:33. | |
in the George W Bush and Barack Obama administrations, | :16:34. | :16:37. | |
says China, Iran or Russia, will step into any vacuum | :16:38. | :16:39. | |
that is left by the US. More now on Mr Trump's | :16:40. | :16:50. | |
senior appointments. A Senate committee has | :16:51. | :16:52. | |
approved Ben Carson as the new Housing Secretary, | :16:53. | :16:53. | |
allowing the nomination But there are delays | :16:54. | :16:55. | |
on the confirmation of Jeff Sessions, who Donald Trump | :16:56. | :17:03. | |
wants as his Attorney General. The top Democrat on the Senate | :17:04. | :17:07. | |
Judiciary Committee has Senator Diane Feinstein said | :17:08. | :17:10. | |
the women's march at the weekend The role of the Attorney General | :17:11. | :17:14. | |
she said is to defend equal rights. One thing we want to do in this | :17:15. | :17:22. | |
programme is connect the dots between the new political trends | :17:23. | :17:25. | |
on both sides of the Atlantic. Britain made its decision last year, | :17:26. | :17:28. | |
but supporters of leaving the European Union may well | :17:29. | :17:34. | |
think their populist revolution is moving a lot | :17:35. | :17:36. | |
slower than America's. Who gets to pull the | :17:37. | :17:41. | |
trigger on divorce? Today, the Supreme Court | :17:42. | :17:43. | |
decided the Prime Minister, She will need parliament's approval | :17:44. | :17:45. | |
before handing in the formal notice to quit the European Union, | :17:46. | :17:49. | |
known as Article 50 From the sidelines, | :17:50. | :17:52. | |
I was there to watch. Democracy, said Abraham Lincoln, is | :17:53. | :18:08. | |
the government of the people, by the people, for the people. In his | :18:09. | :18:13. | |
statue outside the Sabine Court today, they were debating that very | :18:14. | :18:18. | |
issue. The ruling, when it came, made clear that the court was not | :18:19. | :18:22. | |
trying to frustrate the vote to leave the European Union. The | :18:23. | :18:25. | |
judgment would only determine whether government could start the | :18:26. | :18:28. | |
Brexit process without Parliamentary consent. Today, via majority of 8-3, | :18:29. | :18:37. | |
the Supreme Court rules that the government cannot trigger article 50 | :18:38. | :18:40. | |
without an act of Parliament authorising it do so. The government | :18:41. | :18:47. | |
then defeated. But the 11 judges also had to decide whether | :18:48. | :18:50. | |
Westminster can take this decision alone or whether the devolved | :18:51. | :18:54. | |
government of Wales, Scotland and Northern Ireland should also have a | :18:55. | :19:00. | |
say. On the devolution issue, the court unanimously rules that UK | :19:01. | :19:05. | |
ministers are not legally compelled to consult the devolved legislatures | :19:06. | :19:09. | |
before triggering article 50. The verdict was welcomed by the former | :19:10. | :19:13. | |
Attorney General Dominic Grieve, he told me that irrespective of how | :19:14. | :19:17. | |
people had voted last June, this was a good day for Parliamentary | :19:18. | :19:21. | |
democracy. I always took the view that the idea that you could trigger | :19:22. | :19:24. | |
article 50 without a vote of Parliament was an extraordinary | :19:25. | :19:28. | |
thing to do because so much primary legislation has enacted. I wasn't | :19:29. | :19:33. | |
apprised of the decision of the High Court and I wasn't surprised by the | :19:34. | :19:38. | |
decision of the Supreme Court, that seems to rub us to stand up for our | :19:39. | :19:42. | |
historic liberties. Having promised to trigger article 50 by the end of | :19:43. | :19:46. | |
March, the ideal solution for the Prime Minister would be to purchase | :19:47. | :19:50. | |
the single line of legislation before the Parliament for peers and | :19:51. | :19:56. | |
MPs to rubber stamp. Short, simple, difficult for opposing MPs to amend, | :19:57. | :19:59. | |
except government lawyers have been advising the Prime Minister that if | :20:00. | :20:03. | |
use can somebody till now, she could be exposing herself to future legal | :20:04. | :20:10. | |
challenges somewhere down the line. The Secretary of State... | :20:11. | :20:12. | |
Nonetheless, the government will take that risk. Confident that night | :20:13. | :20:16. | |
MPs will support the timetable they have set out. This will be a | :20:17. | :20:20. | |
straightforward bill. It is not about whether or not the UK should | :20:21. | :20:25. | |
leave the European Union. That decision has already been made by | :20:26. | :20:31. | |
the people of the United Kingdom. In exchange for their support, the | :20:32. | :20:35. | |
opposition will want guarantees of a meaningful -- meaningful vote at the | :20:36. | :20:39. | |
end of the process. Scottish nationalists don't rule out a second | :20:40. | :20:43. | |
referendum on Scottish independence. The decision is looming for | :20:44. | :20:47. | |
Scotland. Are we prepared to allow her future to be dictated by a | :20:48. | :20:51. | |
Westminster government that is going down a path that I think the | :20:52. | :20:54. | |
majority of people in Scotland don't want to go down, or are we going to | :20:55. | :20:59. | |
take our future into your own hands? The Westminster Parliament is | :21:00. | :21:02. | |
sovereign, says the court, and only Parliament can change the law. | :21:03. | :21:07. | |
Ultimately, they have underscored the very foundation of Britain's | :21:08. | :21:11. | |
unwritten constitution and as Abraham would say, these important | :21:12. | :21:12. | |
principles, are inflexible. Our chief political correspondent | :21:13. | :21:16. | |
Vicki Young is in Westminster. I am always conscious with my former | :21:17. | :21:27. | |
as a Paris and Rome correspondent that we are guilty of a bit of | :21:28. | :21:32. | |
navel-gazing in London. Let's think about the Europeans. Will they be | :21:33. | :21:37. | |
worried that what has happened might affect the Brexit timetable? Well, I | :21:38. | :21:41. | |
don't think it will, is the truth. I think there are many people, many | :21:42. | :21:46. | |
voters in this country who voted for Remain who are looking at this | :21:47. | :21:50. | |
judgment today thinking this is the big moment, this would give | :21:51. | :21:52. | |
Parliament the chance to block except and I think they will be | :21:53. | :21:57. | |
disappointed. I have been speaking to MPs and peers and there just | :21:58. | :22:01. | |
isn't the appetite for a fight. It is quite difficult to explain to | :22:02. | :22:04. | |
people who look think most Labour MPs are ardent Remainers, why | :22:05. | :22:11. | |
wouldn't the -- why wouldn't they take this opportunity? But they | :22:12. | :22:13. | |
don't want to be seen to be standing in the wake of the British people. | :22:14. | :22:18. | |
Equally, in the House of Lords today, we have senior figure | :22:19. | :22:22. | |
standing up to say it would be foolish, unwise and completely wrong | :22:23. | :22:26. | |
for an unelected House of Lords to block a referendum, to block what | :22:27. | :22:31. | |
the government wants and what the House of Commons is going to vote | :22:32. | :22:36. | |
for. So the government is adamant that they will stick to that | :22:37. | :22:40. | |
self-imposed timetable of triggering article 50 by the end of March, so I | :22:41. | :22:47. | |
think that is going to happen. People here have been asking me | :22:48. | :22:52. | |
about this, the state of the union. We heard Nicola Sturgeon they're | :22:53. | :22:57. | |
clearly not happy with this. We know that Donald Trump has supported | :22:58. | :23:00. | |
Brexit and Brexit hazard supporters here, but people are and confused | :23:01. | :23:06. | |
about what will happen to the United Kingdom. Are we looking at a | :23:07. | :23:09. | |
shrunken United Kingdom after this? Nicola Sturgeon predicted that this | :23:10. | :23:15. | |
would bring a second independent referendum for Scotland a step | :23:16. | :23:20. | |
closer. Scotland voted to stay in the United Kingdom, just a year ago | :23:21. | :23:27. | |
or so, she can't call another referendum. It has to come from | :23:28. | :23:31. | |
Westminster. Her argument is that the type of Brexit that Theresa May | :23:32. | :23:36. | |
is aiming for, taking the UK out of the single market for example, that | :23:37. | :23:41. | |
is not what Scotland voted for. She would like Scotland to become | :23:42. | :23:45. | |
independent and be a part of the European Union. The court today | :23:46. | :23:49. | |
ruled that Scotland will not get a say on all of this at this point. Of | :23:50. | :23:54. | |
course, Nicola Sturgeon doesn't want to have a referendum unless she is | :23:55. | :23:58. | |
convinced she will win. At the moment the polls suggest that | :23:59. | :24:01. | |
wouldn't happen. I think she will bide your time. Certainly, she is | :24:02. | :24:06. | |
issuing these warnings regularly. Obviously it was a defeat for the | :24:07. | :24:10. | |
government, but that clarified an awful lot of them, particularly on | :24:11. | :24:14. | |
Scotland and whether they had a veto. But also the issue of Northern | :24:15. | :24:19. | |
Ireland. The Assembly collapsed the recently. That problem also taken | :24:20. | :24:23. | |
out of the picture. Lots of people were very concerned about this, but | :24:24. | :24:28. | |
if the Supreme Court today had ruled that not just Scotland but the Welsh | :24:29. | :24:32. | |
Assembly and also in Northern Ireland, if they were given the say, | :24:33. | :24:36. | |
how would they do that? Northern Ireland is having a general | :24:37. | :24:40. | |
election. Who would feedback the views of the people of Northern | :24:41. | :24:44. | |
Ireland? They were extremely concerned about all of that. The | :24:45. | :24:48. | |
headline is that the government did not get its way today, they were | :24:49. | :24:53. | |
defeated. If you go below that, it could've been a lot worse for the | :24:54. | :24:57. | |
government today and I think they are sighing with relief that they | :24:58. | :25:01. | |
probably can stick to the timetable. Vicki Young in Westminster, there is | :25:02. | :25:06. | |
certainly an awful lot going on on both sides of the Atlantic, which is | :25:07. | :25:09. | |
exactly why we are doing this programme. | :25:10. | :25:10. | |
Just a reminder that every evening after this show we hand | :25:11. | :25:13. | |
One of us will spend 10 or 15 minutes on Facebook Live each night | :25:14. | :25:17. | |
talking about the issues we have covered. | :25:18. | :25:19. | |
If you want to get involved, then, of course, do | :25:20. | :25:21. | |
You are watching 100 Days on BBC News. | :25:22. | :25:33. | |
Coming up: We'll have a report from China looking at barriers that | :25:34. | :25:36. | |
already exists between Beijing and Washington, and new ones that | :25:37. | :25:39. | |
The president meets with the Big Three CEOs | :25:40. | :25:45. | |
from the car industry, telling them it's time to start | :25:46. | :25:47. | |
We'll be live at the New York Stock Exchange with reaction. | :25:48. | :26:09. | |
Some of us had a lovely day today, for others it stayed grey and for a | :26:10. | :26:17. | |
few we have fog all day. That dog will become more widespread again | :26:18. | :26:23. | |
tonight, crossing into the Midlands. Some icy surfaces, too. Further west | :26:24. | :26:27. | |
it will be more wild, they're a bit of light and breezy for Northern | :26:28. | :26:31. | |
Ireland and Scotland. The fog will cause disruption in some places, | :26:32. | :26:34. | |
tomorrow morning in particular. Some of the airports could be affected | :26:35. | :26:40. | |
again. Icy surfaces, too, where you have that fog. For the north and | :26:41. | :26:44. | |
West the fog will be less of a hazard. Some early sunshine and | :26:45. | :26:49. | |
parts of South West England running into East Wales. Across Northern | :26:50. | :26:52. | |
Ireland it should be above freezing in most places by eight o'clock. | :26:53. | :26:56. | |
Northern Ireland and Scotland, much milder here, above freezing. A bit | :26:57. | :27:02. | |
of drizzly rain coming in on the breeze. Still a lot of dry weather, | :27:03. | :27:07. | |
albeit cloudy. Further east, the four bulletin to look cloud. Graham | :27:08. | :27:13. | |
quite chilly in eastern England. Some Southwest and on into Northern | :27:14. | :27:20. | |
counties. Distinctly chilly underneath the clouds in East Anglia | :27:21. | :27:24. | |
and the south-east. That is a sign of things to come. From Wednesday | :27:25. | :27:29. | |
into Thursday we will tap into a reservoir of particularly cold air | :27:30. | :27:32. | |
which has been sitting across the heart of Europe for some time. The | :27:33. | :27:37. | |
breeze will bring that cold air in our direction. Quite a shock to the | :27:38. | :27:41. | |
system on Thursday, I think. A brisk south-easterly wind, the bit of | :27:42. | :27:46. | |
cloud and maybe the odd bit of snow. You will need a few layers, | :27:47. | :27:53. | |
particularly in central Andes to parts of the UK. Some places will | :27:54. | :27:56. | |
struggle to get above freezing, if you had on the wind that will feel | :27:57. | :27:59. | |
even colder. Not quite as cold on Friday, turning a bit milder from | :28:00. | :28:03. | |
the south-west, but that cold the holding on and on the east. Most | :28:04. | :28:08. | |
places dry, but patchy rain beginning to turn up as weather | :28:09. | :28:13. | |
fronts dry to pushing of the Atlantic. How quickly they make | :28:14. | :28:17. | |
inroads is still open to some died, but certainly some weather fronts | :28:18. | :28:20. | |
there or thereabouts. There will be some rain around this weekend. On a | :28:21. | :28:25. | |
positive note will be less cold for some than recently. Still a lot of | :28:26. | :28:29. | |
dry weather, but watch out for areas of fog. | :28:30. | :30:09. | |
Welcome back to 100 Days from BBC News. | :30:10. | :30:12. | |
President Donald Trump has signed executive orders advancing | :30:13. | :30:19. | |
the construction of two controversial oil pipelines - | :30:20. | :30:21. | |
which President Obama had previously blocked. | :30:22. | :30:25. | |
In meetings with car industry leaders the president told them | :30:26. | :30:27. | |
to increase American production and jobs. | :30:28. | :30:30. | |
We'll be live at the New York Stock Exchange with more reaction. | :30:31. | :30:43. | |
China says it has "indisputable sovereignty" over parts | :30:44. | :30:46. | |
The Chinese foreign ministry said today Beijing would "remain firm | :30:47. | :30:51. | |
to defend its rights in the region," that's after the White House said | :30:52. | :30:54. | |
on Monday the US would "make sure it protect it's own interests | :30:55. | :30:57. | |
President Trump has already upset on China over the status of Taiwan. | :30:58. | :31:03. | |
And during his campaign he threatened to impose some pretty | :31:04. | :31:06. | |
punishing tariffs on Chinese imports - which could lead | :31:07. | :31:08. | |
So how might China respond to the new US administration? | :31:09. | :31:14. | |
Here's our Beijing Correspondent John Sudworth. | :31:15. | :31:19. | |
China was once isolated behind its Great Wall | :31:20. | :31:24. | |
but it was here too that its emergence onto | :31:25. | :31:26. | |
In 1972 another competitive and controversial US Republican | :31:27. | :31:34. | |
president stood on this wall and used it as a metaphor. | :31:35. | :31:42. | |
Richard Nixon's speech that day looked to future | :31:43. | :31:44. | |
in which there are no walls between people, laying | :31:45. | :31:46. | |
the foundations of course for one of the most important collateral | :31:47. | :31:50. | |
trading relationships the world has ever seen. | :31:51. | :31:59. | |
The benefits of that relationship has been celebrated | :32:00. | :32:02. | |
America threatens China with 45% import duties | :32:03. | :32:06. | |
The Chinese are not just going to take it, they're | :32:07. | :32:12. | |
going to respond more or less in-kind probably. | :32:13. | :32:14. | |
What are the potential dangers in Donald Trump's strategy? | :32:15. | :32:17. | |
This is very disturbing and the consequences | :32:18. | :32:18. | |
for the international system and for the health of the global | :32:19. | :32:21. | |
But at a briefing by senior Chinese diplomats, I put it to them that | :32:22. | :32:33. | |
Mr Trump is not so much attacking free trade, as unfair trade. | :32:34. | :32:39. | |
Should China not do more to put its money where its mouth is, | :32:40. | :32:42. | |
removing the big subsidies to state-owned enterprises, | :32:43. | :32:45. | |
removing some of the restrictions and denial of market access that | :32:46. | :32:48. | |
still hinders so many foreign companies trying | :32:49. | :32:49. | |
I understand what you mean, but in general the direction | :32:50. | :32:59. | |
is there, the effort is there, and I have very strong belief | :33:00. | :33:06. | |
and confidence in improved environments for foreign companies. | :33:07. | :33:18. | |
These days tourists can gaze into a period in China's history | :33:19. | :33:21. | |
when its reluctant rulers were forced to trade | :33:22. | :33:23. | |
Few US companies that do business in China today would dispute that | :33:24. | :33:34. | |
significant barriers to trade remain. | :33:35. | :33:37. | |
The question though, is whether to cajole or to coerce | :33:38. | :33:41. | |
and Mr Trump it seems may be about to embark | :33:42. | :33:43. | |
on upon his own version of gunboat diplomacy. | :33:44. | :33:50. | |
Over that much traded commodity, tea, I asked about Mr Trump's threat | :33:51. | :33:54. | |
to challenge China's territorial claims unless it makes | :33:55. | :33:56. | |
TRANSLATION: He plays with fire, Mr Trump plays with fire. | :33:57. | :34:07. | |
But China also has fire and it is going to burn him. | :34:08. | :34:15. | |
It is trade of course that has made China a wealthy superpower | :34:16. | :34:18. | |
To talk more about China we are joined by Professor Ann Lee, | :34:19. | :34:32. | |
she is an Independent Economic Advisor to the Chinese Government. | :34:33. | :34:35. | |
And here in London, Diane Wei Liang, she's an author, and she was one | :34:36. | :34:39. | |
of the students involved in the 1989 Tiannamen Square protest. | :34:40. | :34:49. | |
Diane, you are looking back towards China and looking I'm sure at social | :34:50. | :34:56. | |
media, what do people there make of Donald Trump and some of these | :34:57. | :35:01. | |
threats? At the beginning when Donald Trump was campaigning to | :35:02. | :35:05. | |
become president his rhetoric had been very much against China. Some | :35:06. | :35:10. | |
Chinese including people in the government had believed it was just | :35:11. | :35:17. | |
rhetoric, but Donald Trump is a businessman and someone China could | :35:18. | :35:20. | |
do business with. But as the rhetoric becomes more and more | :35:21. | :35:26. | |
severe, now he is taking actions, taking calls from Taiwan and nothing | :35:27. | :35:32. | |
has let up and the Chinese are very cautious and very vigilant and stop | :35:33. | :35:37. | |
if I look at the media response within China, the response is | :35:38. | :35:43. | |
becoming tougher as well. China is bracing itself for a trade war and | :35:44. | :35:51. | |
perhaps even military confrontation with America. And that is it, we | :35:52. | :35:56. | |
heard from one of the people interviewed in that film but he is | :35:57. | :35:59. | |
playing with fire, Donald Trump. If it comes to a trade war Howwood | :36:00. | :36:09. | |
China respond? -- how will China respond? I think they're coming up | :36:10. | :36:16. | |
with a list of ways to respond in terms of boycotts, and slapping | :36:17. | :36:20. | |
tariffs on American goods as well. Neither country is going to come out | :36:21. | :36:26. | |
ahead if this happens. I will say that with China the stakes are not | :36:27. | :36:30. | |
as severe as the years to be because exports used to be 50% of Chinese | :36:31. | :36:41. | |
GDP and today more like 20%. And of that 20% the US makes up just about | :36:42. | :36:47. | |
18% of exports. Solar talk about 4% of the GDP that will be affected if | :36:48. | :36:54. | |
all exports to the US ceased to exist. Of course that will hurt the | :36:55. | :37:00. | |
economy but it is not going to hit kill it. And I think the Chinese | :37:01. | :37:09. | |
prefer to have stability with the US in the whole global economic system, | :37:10. | :37:14. | |
and that was made clear by the Chinese president. And this is | :37:15. | :37:21. | |
election year in China and so it behoves them to try to get along | :37:22. | :37:24. | |
with Donald Trump and try to strike some kind of trade deal. You will | :37:25. | :37:31. | |
hear in America during the course of the election campaign and you know | :37:32. | :37:35. | |
American voters, many of them think that the relationship between | :37:36. | :37:37. | |
America and China has benefited China more than America. They say we | :37:38. | :37:45. | |
did not get a good deal on North Korea, on trade, and they're quite | :37:46. | :37:48. | |
happy to see Donald Trump standing up to Beijing, they do not buy the | :37:49. | :37:52. | |
argument that America could lose out. Certainly there is rhetoric and | :37:53. | :38:02. | |
risk reality. The rhetoric in the US has been largely one-sided, it has | :38:03. | :38:07. | |
largely targeted China as the convenient whipping boy in every | :38:08. | :38:12. | |
presidential election, that China is a currency manipulator, it is unfair | :38:13. | :38:16. | |
in all these areas. Whereas Americans actually have benefited a | :38:17. | :38:21. | |
great deal by working with China. China has provided a lot of very | :38:22. | :38:27. | |
cheap goods to the US so that inflation has remained relatively | :38:28. | :38:33. | |
low for decades now. And this has also delivered record profits to | :38:34. | :38:38. | |
lots of US corporations which has taken the US stock market to record | :38:39. | :38:46. | |
highs. And so a lot of these politicians that like to criticise | :38:47. | :38:50. | |
what a bad deal they have had they fail to acknowledge that all the | :38:51. | :38:53. | |
benefits have also accrued as a result. So again we have got to look | :38:54. | :38:59. | |
at both sides and look at it holistically to understand the | :39:00. | :39:04. | |
relationship. China is such a different country to when you were | :39:05. | :39:08. | |
in Tiananmen Square as part of the protest and it is ironic that we | :39:09. | :39:11. | |
have the country led by the Communist Party which says we can | :39:12. | :39:15. | |
trade freely with the rest of the world. And the country is supposed | :39:16. | :39:19. | |
to be the leader of the free market economy pulling up the drawbridge. | :39:20. | :39:24. | |
China is taking the lead and because China has seen the benefits in the | :39:25. | :39:29. | |
past 40 years, in its own experience, how global trade can | :39:30. | :39:33. | |
bring people out of poverty and improve living standards. Especially | :39:34. | :39:40. | |
with the Asian infrastructure bank in China and China is putting $100 | :39:41. | :39:47. | |
billion into lending, to trade with the world, and this year alone they | :39:48. | :39:56. | |
had gained 25 new members including Ireland and Canada. China is taking | :39:57. | :39:59. | |
up the role of the leader in global trade. In fact if you look at the | :40:00. | :40:07. | |
China US relationship, from the Chinese perspective, China did not | :40:08. | :40:12. | |
have a growing relationship with the Obama administration either. And his | :40:13. | :40:21. | |
two big initiatives, it was very much a military constraining | :40:22. | :40:23. | |
exercise against China and the Pacific trade pact was designed to | :40:24. | :40:31. | |
exclude China, contain its influence in trade in the Pacific region. So | :40:32. | :40:37. | |
China in some ways are looking at the Donald Trump administration and | :40:38. | :40:41. | |
having had conversations with the Trump team and they're looking at | :40:42. | :40:50. | |
possibilities for example, Trump is having a soft view on perhaps | :40:51. | :40:55. | |
joining the Asian infrastructure bank as a member. And so they see | :40:56. | :40:59. | |
opportunities here. And they are also ready if Trump is going to | :41:00. | :41:07. | |
escalate conflict with China. Thank you very much. More of course | :41:08. | :41:15. | |
throughout the Trump administration on this relationship. | :41:16. | :41:16. | |
We saw a littler earlier, the car industry chiefs - | :41:17. | :41:19. | |
the heads of General Motors, Ford and Chrysler - | :41:20. | :41:21. | |
sharing breakfast with President Trump earlier today. | :41:22. | :41:22. | |
And you might have heard him saying that he wants a big push on building | :41:23. | :41:26. | |
Our business correspondent Michelle Fleury is on the floor | :41:27. | :41:30. | |
How did these bosses who run multi-million pound 's | :41:31. | :41:40. | |
organisations, how do they respond to being called in by the President | :41:41. | :41:44. | |
and given a bit of an ear wigging on what they should be doing? Given the | :41:45. | :41:52. | |
tongue lashing some have received in recent weeks and months, I think | :41:53. | :41:57. | |
they're inclined to get there and pay attention. You have heard the | :41:58. | :42:01. | |
kind of repetition from Donald Trump that he wants them to stop producing | :42:02. | :42:04. | |
cars overseas destined for the American market, and to make them | :42:05. | :42:08. | |
here. It was a message that he repeated quite forcefully again | :42:09. | :42:12. | |
today saying he wants them to build plants and create jobs here in | :42:13. | :42:15. | |
America and of course he focused on the US car industry in part because | :42:16. | :42:21. | |
it is seen as a symbol for American manufacturing and of course that is | :42:22. | :42:24. | |
at the heart of one of the key economic planks of Donald Trump, | :42:25. | :42:28. | |
trying to bring back jobs and restore manufacturing. Thank you for | :42:29. | :42:31. | |
that. We will be watching | :42:32. | :42:32. | |
the car industry closely. A key indicator perhaps of how | :42:33. | :42:34. | |
effective Donald Trump Before we go don't forget I'll be | :42:35. | :42:36. | |
on Facebook Live straight after the programme, | :42:37. | :42:43. | |
answering your questions. | :42:44. | :42:45. |