:00:08. > :00:11.The Mexican president cancels a trip to Washington
:00:12. > :00:16.after an ultimatum from Donald Trump.
:00:17. > :00:18.The US President sent a blunt message saying, pay for the wall
:00:19. > :00:26.So, after a diplomatic spat that's played out on Twitter, the meeting
:00:27. > :00:37.Unless Mexico is going to treat the United States fairly, with respect,
:00:38. > :00:43.such a meeting would be fruitless, and I want to go a different route.
:00:44. > :00:46.Later, President Trump is due to meet his first foreign leader,
:00:47. > :00:55.Many millions of Americans rely on Obamacare for health coverage -
:00:56. > :00:58.what happens to them when it's scrapped?
:00:59. > :01:06.I have to have health care in order to survive. If I don't have that
:01:07. > :01:10.health care, if he gets rid of it, I'm dead in the water.
:01:11. > :01:13.The President has signed 12 Executive Orders so far -
:01:14. > :01:17.So how do voters who put Donald Trump in the White House feel
:01:18. > :01:26.And the Presidential candidate who is shaking up French politics -
:01:27. > :01:49.It's a dispute with the neighbours that's spilling out of control -
:01:50. > :01:52.one side wants a dividing wall, the other doesn't.
:01:53. > :01:55.One side wants the other to pay for it, and the other
:01:56. > :01:58.The result - Mexico's President is now cancelling a visit
:01:59. > :02:01.to Washington, after an ultimatum from Donald Trump.
:02:02. > :02:06.The fight between the US and Mexico over that wall
:02:07. > :02:08.took an extraordinary twist on Twitter today.
:02:09. > :02:16.Lets see what Donald Trump wrote. If Mexico is unwilling to pay for the
:02:17. > :02:20.badly needed wall, it would be better to cancel the upcoming
:02:21. > :02:25.meeting. And then this riposte from the Mexican president. This morning
:02:26. > :02:28.we informed the White House that I will not be attending the working
:02:29. > :02:32.meeting planned for Tuesday with POTUS.
:02:33. > :02:34.Well just a short time ago, speaking at a Republicans'
:02:35. > :02:36.retreat in Philadelphia, the so-called city of brotherly
:02:37. > :02:39.love, President Trump wasn't sending much of it south.
:02:40. > :02:45.The president of Mexico and myself have agreed to cancel our planned
:02:46. > :02:50.meeting scheduled for next week. Unless Mexico is going to treat the
:02:51. > :02:57.United States fairly, with respect, such a meeting would be fruitless,
:02:58. > :03:05.and I want to go a different route. We have no choice.
:03:06. > :03:08.For more, let's speak to one of Mr Trump's supporters,
:03:09. > :03:10.the former Republican Congressman, Bob Walker.
:03:11. > :03:18.Thank you for joining us. There are fights that some politicians need to
:03:19. > :03:24.have, and then there are unnecessary ones. Is this one unnecessary? I
:03:25. > :03:27.think it is the Donald Trump. He enunciated during the campaign that
:03:28. > :03:32.he was going to build the wall, and he said Mexico was going to pay for
:03:33. > :03:38.it. The question was, how are they going to pay for it, and that is a
:03:39. > :03:43.matter for negotiation. He said that the negotiation stance is that this
:03:44. > :03:48.is not going to go away, Mexico will have to respond in some meaningful
:03:49. > :03:53.way to the fact that the wall will get built. And you are a veteran of
:03:54. > :03:58.the transmission period when a new administration is taking place. We
:03:59. > :04:03.have had a disagreement over torture, what to replace Obamacare
:04:04. > :04:06.with, differences over what sort of border tax should be imposed. How
:04:07. > :04:12.would you characterise the way it is going? I think so far they have done
:04:13. > :04:18.remarkably well. Let's look at what he is doing in these first few days.
:04:19. > :04:23.He is taking all of the things that he talked about on the campaign
:04:24. > :04:31.trail, and he is moving quickly to either put legislation in place that
:04:32. > :04:34.will play out over the next few months, or he is actually issuing
:04:35. > :04:40.executive orders that are taking effect immediately, so I think he is
:04:41. > :04:45.doing a pretty good job, and it fascinates me that in many cases
:04:46. > :04:52.some of the media that are portraying these first few days have
:04:53. > :04:55.been paying attention to things that are fairly minor compared with the
:04:56. > :05:02.major things that he is really doing. And I'm not sure whether or
:05:03. > :05:04.not his strategy isn't to divert attention away from some of the
:05:05. > :05:09.really big things that he is a cub wishing. Congressman, if I could
:05:10. > :05:12.take you back to that Twitter message from Donald Trump today,
:05:13. > :05:18.some of the reaction on social media is that this is no diplomacy by
:05:19. > :05:23.Twitter. Is it important that the president does this in a more
:05:24. > :05:27.traditional way? I don't think it is, we are in the 21st-century and
:05:28. > :05:31.the fact is that we are in an electronic age in which messages are
:05:32. > :05:38.communicated in business through Twitter. This is not anything that
:05:39. > :05:45.is unusual. I do think that it is going to have to change in that some
:05:46. > :05:49.of the complexities of international diplomacy are going to have to enter
:05:50. > :05:59.into some of the discussions, and you can't do that in 140 characters
:06:00. > :06:03.or less, so as we proceed forward, I think that Twitter will become a way
:06:04. > :06:08.of communicating to the American people what his interests are, but
:06:09. > :06:13.it will not be the substance of the diplomacy. But you will know,
:06:14. > :06:17.congressman, that messages can be misconstrued on Twitter, and won't
:06:18. > :06:21.there be some people in Congress thinking it could be President Pena
:06:22. > :06:25.Nieto of Mexico today, it could be Angela Merkel tomorrow. There will
:06:26. > :06:31.be people that will have those kinds of concerns, but again, I think that
:06:32. > :06:35.everybody has do understand that what he's doing is setting the
:06:36. > :06:41.parameters in which he thinks the negotiations will take place, and
:06:42. > :06:45.Twitter messages sometimes do that. We saw it on the campaign trail, his
:06:46. > :06:49.opponents were frustrated by the fact that his tweets dominated the
:06:50. > :06:55.news media for an entire day, and their messages couldn't get out. My
:06:56. > :07:00.guess is that he intends to continue that pattern as long as it works for
:07:01. > :07:02.him. OK, congressman Bob Walker, grateful to you, thank you very much
:07:03. > :07:08.indeed for being with us. The British Prime Minister will be
:07:09. > :07:11.the first foreign leader to meet Donald Trump since he became
:07:12. > :07:12.President. She will be at the
:07:13. > :07:14.White House tomorrow. Tonight she is in Philadelphia,
:07:15. > :07:17.where she will be telling Republicans that the US
:07:18. > :07:19.and an outward-looking UK In Philadelphia at the Republicans'
:07:20. > :07:22.retreat, Donald Trump today suggested that he would lead
:07:23. > :07:32.on negotiations over trade I'm meeting with the Prime Minister
:07:33. > :07:36.tomorrow, as you know, of Great Britain. So I'm meeting with her
:07:37. > :07:38.tomorrow, I don't have my, as secretary and they want to
:07:39. > :07:41.trade. So I'll have to handle it trade. So I'll have to handle it
:07:42. > :07:51.myself. LAUGHTER
:07:52. > :07:55.Which is OK. Well, the BBC's Laura Trevelyan is in Washington for us.
:07:56. > :07:58.Going back over Prime Minister is and presidents we have known
:07:59. > :08:01.throughout the ages, can you think of two more different in terms of
:08:02. > :08:07.character, personality and all the rest of it than Theresa May and
:08:08. > :08:10.President Trump? It is a little bit difficult to imagine, but then I
:08:11. > :08:15.think perhaps Margaret Thatcher and one of Reagan were not an obvious
:08:16. > :08:19.fit, and Theresa May address this on the plane on the way over in a jokey
:08:20. > :08:26.way, saying that sometimes opposites attract. But yes, she is
:08:27. > :08:31.businesslike, low-key, not given to bombast. Donald Trump is the
:08:32. > :08:36.complete opposite. It would be hard to imagine Theresa May starring in
:08:37. > :08:40.reality and that is how Donald Trump came to national prominence, and he
:08:41. > :08:44.used it to run for the presidency. So they are direct opposites, and it
:08:45. > :08:48.will be fascinated to find out what happens. Wouldn't it be nice to be a
:08:49. > :08:54.fly on the wall when they how Berdix Jeju gifts, and by the way, the
:08:55. > :08:57.Prime Minister is going to give the president of Scottish Cup, a symbol
:08:58. > :09:03.of friendships. Lets go from style to substance. What will be the main
:09:04. > :09:08.issues that they want to get to grips with? The big issue is that
:09:09. > :09:11.Britain is about to start the process of leaving the European
:09:12. > :09:15.Union, and the Prime Minister would like a trade deal with the US. This
:09:16. > :09:18.also suits Donald Trump, because he wants to show that the big
:09:19. > :09:24.multilateral trade deals that he doesn't like like Nafta and the
:09:25. > :09:28.Pacific rim one can be replaced by strong bilateral agreements with
:09:29. > :09:32.allies. The problem of course with that is that Britain has to leave
:09:33. > :09:39.the European Union before it can start officially negotiating a trade
:09:40. > :09:45.deal with the US, so Theresa May has to walk a bit of a fine line, not
:09:46. > :09:47.really annoying those in the EU by seeing too eager to rush into
:09:48. > :09:51.negotiation with the US straightaway. And also it is an
:09:52. > :09:58.opportunity for her to underline Britain's's support for Nato. Trump
:09:59. > :10:01.Tower said Nato is obsolete, he has questioned the value of it, so it is
:10:02. > :10:05.an opportunity for her to show that she can have a relationship with the
:10:06. > :10:09.US wants Britain leaves the EU, but also to stick up for Britain's
:10:10. > :10:11.principles. Thank you very much, Laura.
:10:12. > :10:16.Britain and the United States love to talk about their so-called
:10:17. > :10:21.We've had a dip into the archives to look at some of the most
:10:22. > :10:28.And historic picture of two great leaders determined to extinguish the
:10:29. > :10:32.menace of Hitler. He reminded them that his mother was American. If my
:10:33. > :10:38.father had been American, and my mother British, instead of the other
:10:39. > :10:49.way around, I might have got here on my own!
:10:50. > :10:59.In Britain, you will find a ready response, an ally, valiant, staunch
:11:00. > :11:14.and true. That's exactly right. Thank you. The
:11:15. > :11:17.thing I want to leave people with the impression of is that ours will
:11:18. > :11:21.be a strong and good personal relationship. And an alliance that
:11:22. > :11:30.will stand the test of time. As Laura says the main topic
:11:31. > :11:32.tomorrow will be the trade deal It can't be signed of course until
:11:33. > :11:37.the UK officially leaves the EU. One man who will likely be consulted
:11:38. > :11:43.on the Brexit process, Professor Ted Malloch,
:11:44. > :11:45.is tipped as the next US He is a professor at the Henley
:11:46. > :11:58.Business School here in the UK. Thank you for coming to see us. When
:11:59. > :12:05.is the confirmation call? When will you get the job? After the Secretary
:12:06. > :12:09.of State is confirmed, then the ambassadors will be named, so we
:12:10. > :12:14.last few days that we are no longer last few days that we are no longer
:12:15. > :12:18.at the back of the queue with the rhetoric of President Obama, we are
:12:19. > :12:22.somewhere near the front. I think you are at the very front, and that
:12:23. > :12:26.is proved by the visit that will take place tomorrow. That you have
:12:27. > :12:29.said you think it radio could be done once we are free of the
:12:30. > :12:33.European Union within 90 days? I talk to people on the Trump team,
:12:34. > :12:36.and I have talked to be Berlin but ten as well, and if you get the
:12:37. > :12:43.right people in the right place with the right instructions -- I have
:12:44. > :12:48.talked to people in number ten as well. It is very like an acquisition
:12:49. > :12:51.deal, not suggest anyone is acquiring anyone, but if you get
:12:52. > :12:57.those Forces Together, you can do this quickly, it doesn't have to
:12:58. > :13:01.take seven years. You will not be the ambassador to the UK but the EU,
:13:02. > :13:05.and yesterday you were saying it is possible that the single currency
:13:06. > :13:11.might only have 18 months to live. What are they going to think of you
:13:12. > :13:14.in Europe? I think that Europe will make its own decision. It's not
:13:15. > :13:18.something that America will do or undo. In fact, it doesn't have that
:13:19. > :13:24.much influence over the future of the euro. But I do think that there
:13:25. > :13:29.are problems as we have seen already on the periphery of the European
:13:30. > :13:31.continent around that currency. The Senate Majority Leader Mitch
:13:32. > :13:34.McConnell has been talking today about the special relationship.
:13:35. > :13:41.Let's have a look at what he was saying. One of the things that will
:13:42. > :13:45.be explored here is a new relationship with the United
:13:46. > :13:51.Kingdom. One of our earliest and oldest allies, their changes in the
:13:52. > :13:55.approach to trade opens up the opportunity to discuss with the
:13:56. > :14:00.Prime Minister the possibility of a bilateral trade agreement with the
:14:01. > :14:09.British people. That was Mitch McConnell. I am interested in this.
:14:10. > :14:12.Is it in America's interests that there is a strong, cohesive European
:14:13. > :14:18.Union, or would you rather that the EU was a series of nation states
:14:19. > :14:22.that you dealt with bilaterally? I think that Donald Trump prefers
:14:23. > :14:28.dealing with countries bilaterally. Certainly America it's off would not
:14:29. > :14:33.join a supranational organisation, and now the people of written have
:14:34. > :14:36.made that same determination, it wouldn't surprise me if other people
:14:37. > :14:44.in Europe make a similar determination. Jon and I...
:14:45. > :14:50.Excuse me, let me be clear on what that means. Would you be in favour
:14:51. > :14:55.of the break-up of the EU? I don't think we should favour or disfavour
:14:56. > :15:01.the break-up of any union, it is a European decision. But Britain has
:15:02. > :15:05.left, and so, too, might others. So we should be prepared to deal with
:15:06. > :15:09.those countries bilaterally. I have enjoyed the differences in Europe
:15:10. > :15:12.whether I have travelled there, whether cuisine, language, culture,
:15:13. > :15:18.there is very little common language in Europe. Jon and I look at Donald
:15:19. > :15:23.Trump's tweets quite a lot call as I'm sure so many people do around
:15:24. > :15:27.the world. What I have noticed is he to eat very late at night, perhaps
:15:28. > :15:32.at midnight, I don't know if it is him, it could be one of staff, and
:15:33. > :15:38.then very early in the morning. Is he that kind of guy, is he always up
:15:39. > :15:42.and full of ideas? Donald Trump is, to use his own language, a
:15:43. > :15:46.high-energy human being, what you might not know is he only sleeps
:15:47. > :15:53.four hours a night. So he is a bit like Margaret Thatcher! He is, he
:15:54. > :15:57.has a lot of go, and I'm told that his responsiveness in the tweet
:15:58. > :16:02.world is largely to music out that he reads or hears in the early
:16:03. > :16:07.morning and late at night, so you can probably if you are trying to do
:16:08. > :16:11.an algorithm on those tweets, look at them in those two different time
:16:12. > :16:15.zones. I think you may be busy, he will be calling you in the middle of
:16:16. > :16:22.the night! Just before I let you go, will you base your office in
:16:23. > :16:27.Brussels or here in London? The US ambassador is to the European Union,
:16:28. > :16:31.and that is in Brussels. Best of luck with the job when it finally
:16:32. > :16:39.comes, thank you for coming in to be with us.
:16:40. > :16:52.Back now to the row that has led to the Mexican visit to America being
:16:53. > :16:58.cancelled. Senator Amanda Petter is with us. Did President Pena Nieto
:16:59. > :17:01.make the right decision today? I think he did. A lot of people here
:17:02. > :17:04.in Mexico felt there were no conditions for a good meeting, for a
:17:05. > :17:14.meeting of talking and dialogue. I think the position of President
:17:15. > :17:25.Trump hasn't been the right one. He has said that America will make
:17:26. > :17:29.America pay for the war, and we don't agree with that. I wonder if
:17:30. > :17:33.this is a row which suits both Presidents. President Pena Nieto
:17:34. > :17:37.will look strong at home for standing up to the northern
:17:38. > :17:39.neighbour, and Donald Trump can say, I'm not giving ground, and still
:17:40. > :17:47.saying Mexico has to pay for the war. And you both win. I don't think
:17:48. > :17:53.that will be the final situation. I think that's the condition we have
:17:54. > :17:57.right now, and of course we here in Mexico need to be very united
:17:58. > :18:04.regarding the position that we need to have on this new paradigms, that
:18:05. > :18:13.Donald Trump means for us regarding trade, regarding security, regarding
:18:14. > :18:20.migration, but we share a border of 300,000... 3000 kilometres, so our
:18:21. > :18:23.interaction will continue. So I think it is good to have a pace of
:18:24. > :18:30.time right now, and have things clear. I think Trump has had such a
:18:31. > :18:43.bad speech against Mexico that we need to give a call and...
:18:44. > :18:47.I think we have just lost the Senator, which is a shame, because
:18:48. > :18:50.he was in full flow. We will try to get him back, but for
:18:51. > :18:54.the moment, we will come away from that.
:18:55. > :18:56.At the Republican meeting in Philadelphia where Theresa May
:18:57. > :18:59.will speak later, one of the key policy areas they will discuss
:19:00. > :19:02.is how and when to repeal the Affordable Care Act or Obamacare
:19:03. > :19:04.- which has increased the number of Americans covered
:19:05. > :19:06.by health insurance, though at some cost.
:19:07. > :19:09.While Obamacare is set to be scrapped by Congress -
:19:10. > :19:13.possibly as soon as March or April - no one is clear what will replace
:19:14. > :19:16.it, and this is causing concern for many of the people who rely
:19:17. > :19:29.In New York City, the home of Donald Trump, it is estimated that 1.6
:19:30. > :19:33.million people could lose their health coverage of the affordable
:19:34. > :19:42.care act is repealed. That is one in five of the city's population. Don
:19:43. > :19:46.Leslie suffers from asthma, sleep apnoea and an injured knee. She
:19:47. > :19:47.doesn't know what she would do if she lost her Obamacare coverage.
:19:48. > :19:50.would be a disaster for me. I have would be a disaster for me. I have
:19:51. > :19:56.to have health care in order to survive. If I don't have that health
:19:57. > :20:03.care, if he gets rid of it, I'm dead in the water. No doubt, no doubt.
:20:04. > :20:06.It's not just adults that could lose their coverage, but as many as 4
:20:07. > :20:10.million children, and doctors are also worried about the pact of
:20:11. > :20:15.existing treatments being interrupted. We are talking about
:20:16. > :20:20.millions of people... This doctor says the human consequences of
:20:21. > :20:23.repeal would be dire. We are talking about people dying? We are talking
:20:24. > :20:28.about people dying, people suffering. A patient with high blood
:20:29. > :20:31.pressure who goes without their mitts on for a few months is at
:20:32. > :20:36.higher risk of stroke or heart attack. And a patient with cancer
:20:37. > :20:42.who had started treatment, interruption in care would mean that
:20:43. > :20:44.they are no longer to get the chemotherapy or the radiation
:20:45. > :20:48.therapy or the surgery that they might need. So from that
:20:49. > :20:55.perspective, I am very worried about the real consequences of what is
:20:56. > :21:00.playing out on the national level. Hurling a wrecking ball at Obamacare
:21:01. > :21:04.is in many ways the easy bit. The problem for the Trump administration
:21:05. > :21:10.and Republicans on Capitol Hill is what you replace it with. This is an
:21:11. > :21:14.executive order minimising the economic burden of the affordable
:21:15. > :21:17.care act... Within hours of taking office with a
:21:18. > :21:22.flourish of his pen, Donald Trump started rolling back his
:21:23. > :21:24.predecessor's signature achievement. Without a clear administration plan
:21:25. > :21:29.yet on the table of what to replace it with.
:21:30. > :21:32.But on Capitol Hill, Republicans claim they can draft an alternative
:21:33. > :21:37.that gives more access to more affordable coverage. I don't even
:21:38. > :21:41.like to use the word replace. I like to think of it as repealing the bar
:21:42. > :21:45.that is out there now and fixing what's left over and putting new
:21:46. > :21:48.ideas in place, put some market-driven ideas in place and put
:21:49. > :21:54.things in place that put patients first. For decades, health care has
:21:55. > :21:57.been a polarising fault line issue between progressives and
:21:58. > :22:02.conservatives. Many in the Republican base of been campaigning
:22:03. > :22:04.for years for the end of Obamacare, but abolition carries political
:22:05. > :22:05.risks, especially with poorer working class Americans who helped
:22:06. > :22:18.Donald Trump which Washington. President Trump has been talking
:22:19. > :22:22.about this in the last hour, but really there is nothing wrong with
:22:23. > :22:25.looking at a policy if people's bills are starting to rise. But
:22:26. > :22:31.there are trapdoors here for the president? And from millions of
:22:32. > :22:35.Americans, there is here that they have gone on to Obamacare, their
:22:36. > :22:38.premiums have gone up, their cover has gone down, and the first big you
:22:39. > :22:44.have to pay, the deductible, has gone through the roof. Those people
:22:45. > :22:48.are unhappy and want to see reform, but if you are one of the 20 million
:22:49. > :22:51.people who suddenly got health insurance who didn't before, and you
:22:52. > :22:55.suddenly lose it, what happens to those people? What happens when
:22:56. > :22:58.story starter wouldn't appear in the newspaper that somebody hadn't been
:22:59. > :23:02.able to get their treatment that they were previously able to because
:23:03. > :23:05.they no longer have insurance? That is the danger for the Republicans,
:23:06. > :23:11.and I think they are acutely aware of it. The other issue is, we will
:23:12. > :23:15.make it better for the people, but some of the people on Obamacare are
:23:16. > :23:19.the people who voted for him. Yes, and that is one of the paradoxes. A
:23:20. > :23:23.lot of people in Kentucky and other places who voted for Donald Trump
:23:24. > :23:26.stand to lose a huge amount if they lose their Obamacare, and that is
:23:27. > :23:31.one of the risks that this administration is deeply conscious
:23:32. > :23:33.of. So, Obamacare in the headlines. Let's look at some of the other key
:23:34. > :23:41.stories. The British Government here has
:23:42. > :23:44.paved the way to start the Brexit process.
:23:45. > :23:47.The bill to allow the government to trigger Article 50 -
:23:48. > :23:49.that's the formal process for leaving the EU -
:23:50. > :23:51.was introduced after the Supreme Court ruled that
:23:52. > :23:54.approval was needed by Members of Parliament.
:23:55. > :24:00.The former US Secretary of State Madeleine Albright says
:24:01. > :24:03.she'll register as a Muslim if Donald Trump creates a database
:24:04. > :24:08.She's tweeted "I stand ready to register as Muslim in solidarity".
:24:09. > :24:15.Her comments come in response to rumours about an executive
:24:16. > :24:17.order on extreme vetting, a refugee ban, and a ban on arrivals
:24:18. > :24:23.from seven countries in the Middle East and Africa.
:24:24. > :24:25.Well, even before the American and Mexican presidents went
:24:26. > :24:31.toe to toe on Twitter - a former leader really set the tone
:24:32. > :24:36.And in no uncertain terms, the former Mexican leader
:24:37. > :24:39.Vincent Fox posted this: "Sean Spicer, I've said this
:24:40. > :24:44.to @realDonaldTrump and now I'll tell you: Mexico is not going to pay
:24:45. > :24:56.Is I don't know what that word is, it has been bleeped out. Fabulous
:24:57. > :25:02.wall? Folding walk! You are watching 100 Days from BBC News.
:25:03. > :25:05.Coming up on BBC World News and the BBC News Channel in the UK:
:25:06. > :25:08.the man who threatens to shake up French politics - meet
:25:09. > :25:13.And almost a week in to his presidency,
:25:14. > :25:17.we get the assessment of one Trump fan.
:25:18. > :26:07.Is it only that short? That's all still to come here on 100 Days.
:26:08. > :26:14.Good evening. It's been bitterly cold for many parts of the country,
:26:15. > :26:21.and especially under the cloud. This is West Berkshire earlier today. In
:26:22. > :26:27.East Anglia, the temperature struggled to rise above minus two.
:26:28. > :26:34.We had some lovely sunshine across the north-west of Wales, look at
:26:35. > :26:40.that beautiful, sunny skies. As the sun has gone down, the temperatures
:26:41. > :26:44.are starting to melt away, the wind falling like inland, so a recipe for
:26:45. > :26:48.widespread frost and mist and fog to return, more so than last night.
:26:49. > :26:51.These are towns and city temperatures, but in the countryside
:26:52. > :26:56.lower again, really quite bitter out and about. So, frost on the cars and
:26:57. > :27:00.potentially because we will see a little drizzle around and some
:27:01. > :27:07.snowflakes, just a few, there could well be nice on Friday mine's rush.
:27:08. > :27:11.Some fog, too, particularly on the upper slopes of Wales, across the
:27:12. > :27:16.Peak District and into parts of Yorkshire. Also parts of
:27:17. > :27:20.Pembrokeshire. We have some patchy rain gathering towards the west, and
:27:21. > :27:26.that is the sign of a change taking place during the day, but another
:27:27. > :27:29.cold start. The setup on Friday is that we have this weather front
:27:30. > :27:34.coming in, but the wind coming more from the south-east, so it will be
:27:35. > :27:39.less bitter for most of us, but increasing cloud. It will still feel
:27:40. > :27:44.cold and grey, for most of us it will still be dry, until later when
:27:45. > :27:51.the showers Titus takes shape across parts of western Scotland. With it,
:27:52. > :27:56.the air is mild, up to 10 Celsius by the end of the day. That band of
:27:57. > :28:00.showers crosses its wake eastwards. Brighter weather replaces it, more
:28:01. > :28:04.showers coming in on a south-westerly breeze, not
:28:05. > :28:08.particularly warm, wintry mess over the hills, and this is the question
:28:09. > :28:13.mark about Sunday, how far north this weather system will come. We
:28:14. > :28:17.will see some rain in the south, but it looks on balance as if England
:28:18. > :28:21.and Wales will have some rain and relatively mild air tied in with it.
:28:22. > :28:25.The best of the brighter weather will be further north, and it will
:28:26. > :28:26.be less cold and more breezy, but do stay tuned if you have plans this
:28:27. > :30:07.weekend. Welcome back to 100 Days -
:30:08. > :30:12.I'm Jon Sopel in Washington. And I'm Christian Fraser in London -
:30:13. > :30:15.a reminder of our top story... The Mexican President won't be
:30:16. > :30:18.coming to Washington after Donald Trump's ultimatum -
:30:19. > :30:21."If you won't pay for the wall, And coming up, what do Donald Trump
:30:22. > :30:24.voters think of the President's Well, on Sunday evening,
:30:25. > :30:43.the ruling Socialists of France will choose their candidate to run
:30:44. > :30:45.in place of the deeply The second and final
:30:46. > :30:49.round of the Socialist primaries - the former Prime Minister Manuel
:30:50. > :30:51.Valls will be fighting it out with a candidate
:30:52. > :30:54.from the left wing of the party, But the man who is rising fastest
:30:55. > :30:58.in the polls is a centrist. He has been painting
:30:59. > :31:02.himself as an alternative Lucy Williamson has
:31:03. > :31:21.been finding out. For some, he is there a Emmanuel,
:31:22. > :31:23.there are new political messiah. For others, he is a glossy young banker
:31:24. > :31:27.with ambition these size of France. Either way, Emmanuel Macron is
:31:28. > :31:36.getting rock star attention and audiences to match. His movement is
:31:37. > :31:39.all about a fresh approach to politics, inviting the media into
:31:40. > :31:46.his new campaign headquarters, for example. A bit of silicon valley in
:31:47. > :31:51.Paris, where the average age is well under 30. There are bunk for resting
:31:52. > :31:57.and hand drawn cartoons drawn on the wall. In a few short months, 150,000
:31:58. > :32:02.members have signed up to his liberal pro-Europe agenda, twice as
:32:03. > :32:10.many as the governing Socialist party has. Emmanuel Macron was once
:32:11. > :32:19.a small-town boy who met his future wife at school here. The Midwest is
:32:20. > :32:23.that she his teacher. TRANSLATION: At school he was
:32:24. > :32:27.different, he was practically the equal of the teachers, he had an
:32:28. > :32:31.Olympic level intelligence, faster, everyone knew he would be
:32:32. > :32:36.exceptional. Emmanuel Macron is presenting
:32:37. > :32:39.himself as an outsider, an alternative to the political
:32:40. > :32:45.establishment. But he also graduated from some of France's most
:32:46. > :32:49.prestigious schools and ended up as Economy Minister the President
:32:50. > :32:55.Hollande. Only to quit two years later to launch his own presidential
:32:56. > :32:57.bid. And while some of his former Socialist colleagues are flocking to
:32:58. > :33:06.support him, others have labelled him an arch manipulator. More spin
:33:07. > :33:09.than substance. TRANSLATION: Here we are today, three months from the
:33:10. > :33:12.election and he did not know his position on several important
:33:13. > :33:17.issues. Europe, education, secularism.
:33:18. > :33:21.On these issues it is really up in the air.
:33:22. > :33:24.Still, he is not doing badly for a man fighting his first ever election
:33:25. > :33:29.campaign. He is a young politician and he is
:33:30. > :33:33.not part of the political establishment, like others. He is
:33:34. > :33:42.the only one who speaks about Europe. He is only 40. We expect him
:33:43. > :33:48.to understand our programme, what we want France to become tomorrow.
:33:49. > :33:54.French elections, they say, are always one in the centre, not just
:33:55. > :33:57.by a man from the centre. But with the political landscape you're
:33:58. > :33:59.shifting in the face of growing disappointment, although that could
:34:00. > :34:06.change. Lucy Williamson, BBC News, Paris.
:34:07. > :34:10.If there is one thing that myself and Jon Sopel can speak about, it is
:34:11. > :34:15.Paris. To back former French correspondence. If Benoit Hamon wins
:34:16. > :34:19.the Socialist primary at the weekend, really, the socialist can
:34:20. > :34:23.give up on the centre ground in France, realistically, that must be
:34:24. > :34:28.good news for Emmanuel Macron. The one thing I think is that for all
:34:29. > :34:32.the headlines that he is generating, traditional centres do not do well
:34:33. > :34:35.in France and the other thing, is he related a reformer and is a
:34:36. > :34:41.anti-establishment? I remember reporting on him when I was in
:34:42. > :34:44.Paris, he was part of Francois hall on's government. Yes, I do not know
:34:45. > :34:50.what the collective noun is for so many former Paris correspondent is,
:34:51. > :34:54.perhaps a flood of them! You are correct, the centre was candidate
:34:55. > :35:00.when I covered the 2002 election, it was Marine Le Pen father who got to
:35:01. > :35:03.the second there was a centrist candidate then, he did not do very
:35:04. > :35:07.well. But I think all the old uncertainties, when you look at the
:35:08. > :35:11.politics are unfolding in this country and in the UK with Brexit,
:35:12. > :35:14.who would bet against the centrist candidate who seems to be offering
:35:15. > :35:20.something different. I think all you can say is that there is a huge
:35:21. > :35:26.amount of uncertainty. Yes, of course, all eyes on Marine Le Pen.
:35:27. > :35:29.Yes, absolutely, she is the person that is making love the running and
:35:30. > :35:33.you cannot help thinking that after the victory of Donald Trump, after
:35:34. > :35:39.the Brexit vote, the natural thing would be, well, maybe it does Marine
:35:40. > :35:42.Le Pen. But things are so conjugated in French politics and so
:35:43. > :35:46.unpredictable that to try to make that prediction at the moment is
:35:47. > :35:49.very premature indeed. Crucially important, of course, because it
:35:50. > :35:53.could affect the Brexit negotiations. Let us go back to the
:35:54. > :35:58.visit of Theresa May, she is in Philadelphia tonight and will speak
:35:59. > :36:02.about the future trade deal. Yes, the BBC's Michelle Fleury is on the
:36:03. > :36:05.floor of the New York Stock Exchange. How do business leaders
:36:06. > :36:11.Villa about a bilateral deal with the UK? I think they are very
:36:12. > :36:16.excited about the prospect. Here is the thing. The forces that led to
:36:17. > :36:20.the Brexit vote is similar to the forces that led to the surprise
:36:21. > :36:24.election victory of Donald Trump. Although that means that both sides
:36:25. > :36:28.see an opportunity, certainly on the trade front to deepen the special
:36:29. > :36:31.relationship, the kind and make it more of the commercial relationship.
:36:32. > :36:34.I have a couple of figures are likely sure you, I will show you
:36:35. > :36:42.more in the coming weeks, but let's start with this one. This is the
:36:43. > :36:46.size of trade between the two countries. The US and the UK do on
:36:47. > :36:53.average about $235 billion in trade between each other, that within
:36:54. > :36:57.2015. About 3% of US annual trade is with the UK, making the UK the
:36:58. > :37:03.seventh largest trading partner for the United States. As for the UK,
:37:04. > :37:07.well, America is its second largest trading partner after the European
:37:08. > :37:11.Union. But it is the biggest single country in terms of trading partners
:37:12. > :37:15.if you start breaking down the EU. So the question is, what kind of
:37:16. > :37:20.deal, what might the contours of the deal looked like and, Jon Sopel,
:37:21. > :37:23.some people are saying it might mean more free movement between the two
:37:24. > :37:34.countries for people who might want to work in the US or in the UK.
:37:35. > :37:37.Others talk about perhaps the lowering of Tardis puther, but they
:37:38. > :37:39.are already pretty at all. So would this involves more deregulation. So
:37:40. > :37:41.for the pharmaceutical companies and America they might want more
:37:42. > :37:45.protection, that could be a negative for the NHS in Britain, the Mr Avery
:37:46. > :37:48.has always been a disagreement regarding food safety rules between
:37:49. > :37:52.the two countries, could that be the sort of area? These are thorny
:37:53. > :37:59.questions which will probably not, in this meeting but I think both
:38:00. > :38:02.sides will claim a trade surplus, in other words, both think they sell
:38:03. > :38:04.all -- more goods and services to the other country. That might expect
:38:05. > :38:10.why Theresa May and Donald Trump believe this is a win win situation
:38:11. > :38:14.for both side. Thank you for that, Michelle Fleury
:38:15. > :38:16.on the floor of the New York Stock Exchange.
:38:17. > :38:18.It's been nearly a week since his inauguration as President,
:38:19. > :38:20.and Donald Trump has set quite a pace.
:38:21. > :38:23.Twelve executive orders signed, and a raft of new policies set
:38:24. > :38:26.in train, not to mention a few spats with the media and
:38:27. > :38:32.What do people who voted for President Trump make
:38:33. > :38:34.of his first few days in office, are they finally
:38:35. > :38:38.Let's speak to Denise Galvez from the group Latinas For Trump.
:38:39. > :38:45.Great to have you with us. And to look back at a pretty hurried few
:38:46. > :38:52.days. How do you think he has got on? To be honest, I am actually very
:38:53. > :38:55.happy with the executive orders, a lot of the ones that he has put in
:38:56. > :39:00.place merely establish offices to look at things and further establish
:39:01. > :39:04.investigations into things before putting anything into motion. I have
:39:05. > :39:08.no problem with that, it is what I would have expected of him, knowing
:39:09. > :39:11.his background and his experience and that he listens to many
:39:12. > :39:14.different opinions before making a decision. Going through with the
:39:15. > :39:19.wall, we knew that would happen but that does not mean it will be built
:39:20. > :39:23.tomorrow. I know that he has been in meetings with agencies and
:39:24. > :39:26.departments responsible for providing accurate information about
:39:27. > :39:33.how many miles we need, how long it'll take to build, where the
:39:34. > :39:36.issues are. He is this information before anything takes place. He will
:39:37. > :39:39.need to find the funding and that is something we want to happen
:39:40. > :39:42.immediately in the first few days. I was reading an article in which you
:39:43. > :39:46.were quoted and someone from the Latino community said that he is
:39:47. > :39:50.very Latino with the idea that he does things on the spot, like them,
:39:51. > :39:55.they do not think about it, just get on with it. Well, we are people of
:39:56. > :40:00.action, I'd ignore the words and rhetoric and just look at he does
:40:01. > :40:05.and what effect it has on us as a country. I think as of now, he has
:40:06. > :40:09.done a really good job of putting things into action. I am concerned
:40:10. > :40:15.with his delivery sometimes. I do not think he is perfect by any
:40:16. > :40:18.means, I think he lacks polish and hopefully, he will learn that along
:40:19. > :40:22.the way before he does any damage! But I do agree with him taking
:40:23. > :40:26.action on a lot of things and putting things in place, to start
:40:27. > :40:31.changing the way that the world has been going and America has been kind
:40:32. > :40:36.of abandoned. I believe in America first, I would agree with that. And
:40:37. > :40:40.so looking at the criminal illegals, establishing an office to look into
:40:41. > :40:43.that, how many do they have? How does this affect us? There is so
:40:44. > :40:47.much misinformation from both sides out there. He had decided to
:40:48. > :40:51.establish an office to look into that and that gives me the
:40:52. > :40:55.conclusions and findings that should be unbiased, they should be based on
:40:56. > :40:59.fact. There is so much of that fact being thrown around and alternative
:41:00. > :41:03.facts and those lovely words are being thrown around in the media.
:41:04. > :41:06.The truth is that it is based on perception and context, and really,
:41:07. > :41:11.he does not have a lot of that, he does not have the experience and he
:41:12. > :41:16.is now putting in place the offices and mechanisms that are needed to
:41:17. > :41:19.make those decisions and to make important decisions. That, I am
:41:20. > :41:23.happy about. Briefly, Denise, if you might, do you think he is picking
:41:24. > :41:29.some unnecessary fights along the way? Yes, I always think that he has
:41:30. > :41:32.to focus more on listening to what happens, let me put this in place,
:41:33. > :41:36.then you can go ahead and criticise me. He loves to pick fights with
:41:37. > :41:40.people who criticise him. He definitely needs to do that and I
:41:41. > :41:47.come from the background of being a publicist, I think he needs like a
:41:48. > :41:50.24-hour hold before reacting to any of the criticism he has. I agree
:41:51. > :41:53.with waiting perhaps 24 hours before reacting via Twitter to some of the
:41:54. > :41:57.things because I think it really distracts from the positive things
:41:58. > :42:03.that he's putting in place. Thank you very much indeed.
:42:04. > :42:08.A little bit of breaking news, the Vice President Mike Pence has said
:42:09. > :42:10.that it will be a strict constructionist who will be
:42:11. > :42:14.appointed to the Supreme Court when Donald Trump makes his announcement
:42:15. > :42:18.next Thursday. Two translations of that, the first one is that it will
:42:19. > :42:22.be someone who strictly follows the constitution. The second translation
:42:23. > :42:27.of that is broadly speaking, you can interpret that to mean that it will
:42:28. > :42:33.be a conservative and someone who is very pro-life and anti-abortion,
:42:34. > :42:37.which, of course, set a whole argument about social policy for the
:42:38. > :42:40.future of the United States, ones that Supreme Court appointee is
:42:41. > :42:50.confirmed. That is it from 100 Days. We are
:42:51. > :42:54.back next week on Monday. We are back at the same time, same place.
:42:55. > :43:02.Thank you Jon Sopel for your company. Great pleasure for being
:43:03. > :43:15.here, sorry for speaking overdue! -- overdue. -- over you.