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The White House goes to court to try to enforce its immigration ban.

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Donald Trump attacks what he calls the "so-called judge"

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This stage is now set for a constitutional clash between

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The President is addressing servicemen and women

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in Florida now - we'll have the latest.

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"You think our country's so innocent?" says Trump

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when asked about Putin's alleged crimes.

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Are the US and Russia's actions morally equivalent?

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I would not wish to issue an invitation to President Trump to

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speak in the Royal Gallery. The Speaker of the House of Commons

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has hosted the Chinese President and the Emir of Kuwait,

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but he doesn't want the US President addressing

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Parliament on a state visit. And how is President Trump

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going to breathe new life I'm Katty Kay in Washington,

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Christian Fraser is in London. President Trump in the last hour has

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been speaking to members of the US Armed Forces in Tampa, Florida. This

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is his first addressed to troops as their Commander-in-Chief and he has

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been speaking in particular about Nato.

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We have your back, every hour of every day, now and always. That also

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means getting our allies to pay their fair share, they are very

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unfair to us. They strongly support Nato. We only ask that all of the

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Nato members make their full and proper financial contributions to

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the Nato alliance, which many of them have not been doing.

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Our North America Correspondent, Nick Bryant, is here.

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You were sitting with me in the studio, there is President Trump

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making what seems like a recommitment to Nato, having once

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said not so long ago that nature was obsolete. One of the ringing phrase

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from the election campaign. And the fact that he regards a lot of Nato

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members do not pay their way and members are supposed to pay 2% of

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GDP to finance the defence. And the Secretary General of Nato saying

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they should do exactly that. Yes, he is clearly saying America is not

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prepared to underwrite your defence any more, unless you stump up the

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cash yourself. He has also been talking about the threat of

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terrorism and of Islamic State, it is very symbolic he is at CentCom,

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the place that has run the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan and some of the

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activities against Isis. And he said that terrorism has got so out of

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control, it has led to the point where the press does not even report

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on some of it. He said about the very, very dishonest media, don't

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even report on some terror attacks. He has recommitted America to the

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fight against Islamic State. He has also spoken about this controversial

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executive order at the centre of this legal battle and he said he

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wants to allow people into the country who love America but do not

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seek to destroy it. So given everything that has happened over

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the weekend, and we will get onto the legality of this executive order

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in a moment, but how much of the political problem is this for the

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White House at the moment, this immigration ban? It is a huge

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political problem at the moment because it has seemed to be rushed

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through, been worded imprecisely and it has been seen to open up the

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administration to this kind of legal challenge. At the moment, the judges

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in the west coast particularly are holding, they are actually agreeing

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with the opponents of the order in saying that it should be stopped at

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the moment so that people from these mainly Muslim countries can enter

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the country. So it has created a problem on that level, but there are

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many people, Donald Trump supporters, who are strongly behind

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this executive order and polls show the nation is divided but some of

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the polls suggest there is majority support for this executive order,

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for what they see as Donald Trump doing what he promised to do during

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the campaign, to stop people from mainly Muslim countries coming into

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the country. How did we can's events look to use in London? I was picking

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up on the papers over the week and I just want to show viewers what the

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papers have been looking at, the New York Times. The headline speaks for

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itself. Maybe you and Nick could give us a view on this. Because the

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perception is from the papers I have read, this very small team around

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the President, in the view of the media, the perception is nine tenths

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of the law, they are getting it wrong. Well, all administration have

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turf battles when they first come into office. All the West Wing staff

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are trying to get the influence of the Oval Office. It is different in

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this instance because these battles are being fought very angrily and

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very publicly on the front pages of some of the nation's most

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influential papers, like the Washington Post and the New York

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Times. One person in particular is attracting a lot of attention, the

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chief strategist at the White House, Steve Bannon, very controversial

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figure, seeing as a very right-wing figure who has the ear of the

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President. He was seen to be one of the key authors of the executive

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order, who wanted to rush things through. He has spoken about doing

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very big things very quickly. But over the weekend, there was an

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indication that Donald Trump is trying to slow down this

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policy-making machinery hand to give more control to the person in the

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West Wing who ordinarily is the kind of chief enforcer for the President,

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the chief of staff, Reince Priebus. It also seems President Trump wants

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to have more of an influence earlier on in the executive order drafting

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himself. It seems in this instance he was presented with a document

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that he signed with a flourish of his pen and have not given it the

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attention that perhaps he would have wanted. So make you are a historian

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who has studied American history and political history and you know more

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about this than I do, but it seems to me that we are at a moment where

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something new is being tested, and that is the ability of these

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populist movements together. If we see this as the beginning of that

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process, and the question about this White House is, you have Steve

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Bannon, who is by nature a disrupter, an insurgent, can you

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marry that with more traditional governing processes? We have

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somebody like Reince Priebus, who is trying to put in position systems to

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make sure executive orders are vetted before they leave the White

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House, does that take some of the disruption out of it? This is the

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power struggle that at the moment is playing out within the West Wing.

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Steve Bannon has made no apologies, he is coming to Washington to

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figuratively blow this place up, that is what he believes that Donald

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Trump's mandate is from the voters, do not act like a normal politician

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or a normal President, to defy those conventions. And Donald Trump has

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been doing that with the hurtling pace of the administration so far.

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But you get the sense that the President himself want to put the

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brakes on a little and to give more authority to somebody who is more of

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an establishment figure. Reince Priebus was the head of the GOP, a

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Washington insider, and the tension between those two people, Bannon on

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the one side and Priebus on the other, will be interesting to watch

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and it will be interesting particularly because it might define

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the nature of the Trump administration and the nature of

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governance in this new era. Nick Bryant, thank you very much. We are

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watching all this play out in real-time on the front papers --

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front pages. Let's get more about where we are on this trouble ban. --

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travel. With us is now is Doni Gerwitzmann

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from New York Law School - he's an expert in

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constitutional law and theory. Where does the President stand, and

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the White House stand, on the legality of this right now? So, the

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President has defended the ban by pointing at something by the plenary

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power doctrine, it is a law that this agreement court has set up

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giving the US Government wide discretion and authority to

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determine who can enter the country. In addition, the President is

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relying on the provision of the immigration and nationality act,

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where Congress delegated power to the President to deny that any alien

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or class of aliens the ability to enter the country if the President

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believes they are detrimental to the national interest. So, in about four

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hours' time, the Justice Department has to go back to the appeals court,

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making its case for this suspension of the ban to be lifted. How can the

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Justice Department argued against the appeals court, which is saying,

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and the judge in Seattle saying that actually, if we reinstate the ban it

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will cause chaos? The Justice Department I think will argue among

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other things that non-residents located out of the United States do

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not really have rights under the Constitution. They will argue for a

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very strong vision of executive power and a very strong vision of

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the power of the United States Government in the area of

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immigration. They will argue that the immigration law is different in

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that the US Government can do things to non-residents located outside the

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US, that it cannot do to American citizens. When you have one party

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that controls the White House and one that controls the Senate and the

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idea of those who favoured the Constitution was that the court

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would be there to provide checks and balances and it seems that in

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attacking the judge, the President is undermining the hostage usual

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system. Without question. -- the constitutional system. There are a

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number of emergency brakes that framers put into the system to

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prevent the Executive becoming a tyrant, doing whatever he wants. One

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major emergency brake is Congress, which can always operate to check

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the President. In a situation where Congress and the President come from

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the same political party, it might be that we will need to rely on the

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courts to play a much more aggressive role in telling the

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President Noel. I do not think President Trump did himself any

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favours by personally going after the judge in Washington over this

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decision. If anything, I think it may have cost the judiciary to be

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more aggressive in checking him. So you know judges, you spend all your

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time with them, I will assume that if President Trump calls a member of

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the judiciary eight so-called judge, that is then going to lead other

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judges and potentially even Supreme Court justices to side with the

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judiciary, do you think? Judges are professionals and they will issue

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decisions based on the law. I do think the personal attacks Trump has

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made members of the judiciary sort of change the atmospherics

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surrounded the executive order. The issue of judicial independence and

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the ability of the judiciary to act as a check on the President really

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moves front and centre won the President goes directly after a

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federal judge. -- when the President. This is complicated, so

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thank you for unpacking all of that! And one other update -

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Apple, Facebook and Microsoft are among 97 American tech

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companies to challenge The group has filed a legal

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document stating the ban affects operations

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and, in their words, "inflicts significant harm"

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on business. The document was filed

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in Washington on Sunday. We have also been taking a look at

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the President's tweets. He's been tweeting again,

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early morning, his time, about what he perceives

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as fake news. But it is begging questions, this,

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about his temperament, because we are getting used to him firing from

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the hip, and some of them, we can ignore but some of them seem a

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little bit petty. Some of these attacks against the

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fake news is entirely political and you wonder whether it is not

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symbiotic as well because Donald Trump is calling journalists from

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what he calls those fake news organisations on a very regular

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basis. He speaks to the main White House reporter from the New York

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Times and the Washington Post and even speaks to CNN, which he also

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calls fake news once or twice a week! And by the way, fantastic for

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their ratings, the New York Times's subscription doc-mac the failing New

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York Times are doing particularly well!

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I think the question here that is a more serious question is, what

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happens if Donald Trump is attacked by somebody more powerful than a

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news organisation, somebody for example with access to military

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weapons or even, God forbid, nuclear weapons?

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If he says something on Twitter, other countries will say, that is

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his view and we need to react. If it is China or North Korea, how

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will he respond? It is a thing that worries countries

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away from the US, let me tell you. There are other leaders watching

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these tweets very closely. Here in the UK, the Speaker

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in the House of Commons, John Bercow, has said he would not

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wish President Trump The Speaker told the Commons

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the President's views on immigrants It looks like he has overstepped his

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mark. I would not wish to issue an

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invitation to President Trump to speak in the Royal Gallery. I

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conclude by saying to the honourable gentleman this. We value our

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relationship with the United States. If a state visit takes place, that

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is way beyond and above the pay grade of the Speaker! However, as

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far as this place is concerned, I feel very strongly that our

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opposition to racism and sexism, and our support for a quality for the

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law, and an independent judiciary, are hugely important considerations

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in the House of Commons. APPLAUSE

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. Let's go live now

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to Westminster in London and speak to our political

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correspondent, Eleanor Garnier. You had better start for our

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international viewers, just setting out who John Bercow is. The Prime

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Minister has made it clear she wants the state visit to go ahead so, does

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he have it within his power to stop him addressing Parliament? Everyone

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has been taken by surprise, even politicians who are in the House of

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Commons as the Speaker stood up. The Speaker of the House of Commons is

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basically like a referee in the House of Commons. They are in charge

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of MPs when they are in the House of Commons and therefore, they are in a

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neutral position. That is why this is so unprecedented and it really is

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a sort of dramatic snub, if you like. He attacks the President has

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effectively being racist and sexist and for having a lack of respect for

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judges. There were even Cheers, as we heard, when he made the comments

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in the House of Commons. We know there has been this growing

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opposition to the planned state visit later this year, more than 1.8

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million people have signed a petition outside Parliament, so

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there will be MPs in the House and also people among the public who

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will be pleased that John Bercow, the Speaker, has been so outspoken,

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but his critics will say he has overstepped the mark and gone too

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far. We were talking last week about some of the pools surrounding the

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state visit and plenty of people here in Britain are keen for it to

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go ahead and they might also make the point that if you look at the

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list of people who have come here, that he has hosted in the

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Parliament, they include the President of China, the Emir of Q8,

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they are hardly paragons of virtue and some of them. And I think that

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is why this has been such a surprise to everyone, and so unprecedented.

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And we have had the likes of Mandela, that is why people have

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been taken by surprise but the key thing is, John Bercow is one of

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three people who have the keys to handing out the invitations to the

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great and good to come and speak here in Parliament, and because he

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has said he does not want President Trump to come, he has basically

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vetoed any chance for President Trump to come and speak here. So

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that means that if something cannot really go ahead, because the Prime

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Minister, and wouldn't you like to be a fly on the wall in Downing

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Street tonight, she does not have the power over the Speaker's

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decision-making on this issue. So it is not up to the Prime Minister and

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we can imagine that people in Downing Street this evening will not

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be happy that John Bercow has been so outspoken after all that

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extremely public wooing that we have seen, that huge presidential, the

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huge visit Theresa May just a couple of weeks ago, where she has publicly

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tried to, you know, work hard on that new special relationship. So

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Downing Street will not be pleased at all. What a tightrope she has to

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walk. It was Super Bowl weekend

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here and the Patriots' stunning, last-minute victory isn't the only

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thing people are talking about. To mark the occasion,

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President Trump gave an interview to Bill O'Reilly of Fox News,

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which was broadcast as part And in it, he sparked some

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controversy by defending He was also asked how well

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he thought the travel restrictions and the vetting of refugees entering

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the US had been implemented, I think it was very smooth, you had

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109 people out of hundreds of thousands of travellers and all we

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did was vet those people very, very carefully. You would not do anything

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differently? A lot of people didn't really know what the order was. But

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is not what General Kelly says. He said he totally new, he was aware of

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it, and there were 109 people. Putin is a killer. We have got a lot of

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killers. You think our country is so innocent? I do not know of any

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government leaders who are killers. Take a look at what we have done,

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made a lot of mistakes, I was against the war in Iraq. Our

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mistakes are different. But a lot of people were killed, a lot of killers

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around. Since that interview aired,

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Mr Trump has been criticised Now the Kremlin has weighed in,

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calling for Fox News to apologise for calling

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the Russian President a "killer". Putin's spokesman,

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Dmitry Peskov, told journalists: With me is Brigadier-General

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Mark Kimmitt, who served as Deputy Assistant Secretary

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of Defense for Middle East Policy under Defense Secretaries

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Donald Rumsfeld and Robert Gates. Thank you for coming in. Let's start

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with Russia. And the spat that arose because of the interview that

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President Trump gave the Fox News. Is there anyway that the White

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House, that the President can suggest that America and Russia are

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the same level when it comes to this issue? No well, let us be clear,

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there has not been a President since the end of the Cold War that has not

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started the administration by saying, let's do a reset. George

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Bush famously said, I looked into his eyes. So it is another President

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who has clearly said, let's try to re-establish the relationship with

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Russia and move forward. But to put a moral equivalence between

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President Putin and the United States, are you comfortable with

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that? Not really, do not think anyone wants to point a finger at

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the country. Factually, there are some situations where Donald Trump

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may have a point, but I think emotionally, no country wants to

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have their fingers pointed in their eyes. How can you account for the

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President's reluctance to criticise Vladimir Putin? I cannot. But at the

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same time I think he would have a reluctance to criticise the Chinese

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Premier. A number of world leaders that he would be... He has been more

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critical of China than he has of Russia. Not to the extent that he

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has were some of us would believe that China is a far greater threat

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than Russia at this point. We could debate this all day. I think it

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really goes to the point that he is trying to reset the relationship

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with Russia and move forward. I was hoping you might put your former

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State Department hat on and talk to us about Iran because the British

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Prime Minister is hosting the Israeli Prime Minister today and by

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all accounts, she is saying, the Iran deal is not perfect but it is

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the best option we have on the table at the moment. Would you agree? I

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think so, Andy, administration has been very clear, at this point they

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are not looking at tossing of the agreement. -- and the

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administration. There have been situations in the past few months

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where the Iranians have flagrantly violated the terms of the agreement

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and what the top administration is saying is, we will draw a red line

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on this, and if the Iranians are unwilling to adhere to it, we will

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look into it. But there is an election coming up in Iran and the

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concern is in Europe that the President might be undermining the

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more moderate forces. Well, I think they are doing a pretty good job

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themselves of undermining the moderate forces by launching a

:23:39.:23:43.

ballistic missile into the Persian Gulf and off the coast of Yemen. OK,

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I want to ask you about some the President has just said at CentCom,

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that seemed to be a reinforcement of Nato. He said, I strongly support

:23:53.:23:56.

Nader, I just want European countries to say more. -- Nato. I

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imagine that something you are relieved to hear. I am, and the

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burden sharing has been going on since 1947. It is one that every

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President has made. So at least he has moved from the position of that

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it is an outdated institution, to one that does have a value, but

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people need to come to the table and pay their 2% of GDP. Thank you very

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much for joining us. Well, back here in Washington,

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we look set for a close vote coming in the Senate tomorrow,

:24:30.:24:32.

with members still divided on whether to approve

:24:33.:24:34.

Mr Trump's controversial pick The billionaire and GOP donor

:24:35.:24:36.

Betsy DeVos is facing criticism from the labour unions

:24:37.:24:40.

and the teaching organisations. Two Republicans say they will side

:24:41.:24:41.

with Democrats in the vote - if there's one more defector,

:24:42.:24:44.

Mrs DeVos would not Supreme Court nominee, Neil Gorsuch,

:24:45.:24:47.

heads to Capitol Hill later to try and win over the Democrats

:24:48.:24:54.

who will be involved in his Mr Gorsuch is due to meet

:24:55.:24:56.

with Senator Diane Feinstein. She's the highest-ranking Democrat

:24:57.:25:01.

on the Judiciary Committee and will lead the party

:25:02.:25:03.

during confirmation hearings. By the way, the Democrats, I was

:25:04.:25:20.

speaking to a senior Democrat, and she was saying this is something the

:25:21.:25:22.

Democrats are really going to fight but they do feel that Neil Gorsuch

:25:23.:25:26.

is very Conservative and they have decided to make this a battle they

:25:27.:25:30.

are going to have. He is doing to be doing a lot of

:25:31.:25:32.

work in the next few months. You're watching

:25:33.:25:35.

100 Days from BBC News. Still to come for viewers on the BBC

:25:36.:25:36.

News Channel and BBC World News... A big part of Donald Trump's

:25:37.:25:40.

pitch to American voters was the pledge to create jobs,

:25:41.:25:42.

a message which resonated Now he is President,

:25:43.:25:45.

how will he deliver on the promise The weather is pretty horrible in

:25:46.:26:09.

some parts of the country. We have got heavy rain and strong winds.

:26:10.:26:17.

Blowing a gale in Scotland and Northern Ireland. Gusts of wind

:26:18.:26:22.

approaching 70 miles an hour that a 70 mph, although to this massive

:26:23.:26:25.

area of low pressure. The centre is out in the North Atlantic. This is

:26:26.:26:31.

the front that is extending across us and look at the weather we have

:26:32.:26:35.

across northern parts of the UK. Some of those upper-level routes

:26:36.:26:37.

getting a covering through this evening. This is just a selection of

:26:38.:26:43.

some of the gusts of wind we will experience through the course of

:26:44.:26:48.

this evening. Further South, not so bad but it is soggy and it will get

:26:49.:26:51.

wetter and wetter particularly across eastern areas. We have a

:26:52.:26:55.

heavier rain in the West early on and now that front is pushing East.

:26:56.:26:59.

There will be some ice around as well particularly across the more

:27:00.:27:02.

northern areas, especially around Scotland later on tonight. Let's

:27:03.:27:08.

have a look at tomorrow morning. There is a chance of a little bit

:27:09.:27:13.

more rain in south-western areas, especially in the afternoon, but

:27:14.:27:16.

even in the morning, you can see the rain here, some of these showers

:27:17.:27:19.

will be quite heavy eventually. But for the most part, I think the

:27:20.:27:23.

morning of across the bulk of England and Wales is looking dry.

:27:24.:27:27.

Dry also in Northern Ireland, but these Eastern counties remain cloudy

:27:28.:27:31.

and wet, it will still be windy there in the North East of Scotland.

:27:32.:27:36.

So that is the morning, let's see what happens in the afternoon. Not

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an awful lot with this weather front, it just sticks around and

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grinds to a halt, it literally stops in this position here, and it is not

:27:45.:27:48.

planning to move any further East. It will just sort of rain itself

:27:49.:27:53.

out. The rest of the UK, some sunshine and again, these showers

:27:54.:27:59.

could be hail or thunder. So a mix of weather on Tuesday in some

:28:00.:28:03.

south-western areas. Wednesday, the weather calms down. This high

:28:04.:28:08.

pressure from Scandinavia sends easterly winds on our direction.

:28:09.:28:12.

These blobs of blue, still that same front dying away but it should rain

:28:13.:28:16.

itself out by Wednesday. Then a fair bit of cloud and the temperatures

:28:17.:28:19.

are dropping stock towards the end of the week, a cold easterly wind

:28:20.:28:22.

and the chance of snow flurries. Welcome back to 100 Days

:28:23.:30:07.

with Katty Kay in Washington, President Trump gives his first

:30:08.:30:09.

direct address to the US Armed Forces since becoming

:30:10.:30:14.

their Commander-in-Chief, saying he strongly supports Nato

:30:15.:30:19.

but wants all Nato members He promised to breathe new life

:30:20.:30:21.

into US labour markets but how We'll speak to a key

:30:22.:30:30.

economic advisor to Egypt is the most

:30:31.:30:34.

populous Arab country - and a long time ally

:30:35.:30:43.

for the United States. Some in the region reacted angrily

:30:44.:30:47.

to the travel restrictions that currently bar Muslims

:30:48.:30:52.

from travelling to the US - but you won't hear much condemnation

:30:53.:30:54.

from the Egyptian government. The authoritarian President,

:30:55.:30:57.

Abdel Fattah al-Sisi, was one of the first Arab leaders

:30:58.:30:58.

to congratulate Mr Trump President Trump said his Egyptian

:30:59.:31:01.

counterpart was "a fantastic guy". Orla Guerin reports from Cairo

:31:02.:31:07.

on a peculiar alliance. A first meeting and apparently the

:31:08.:31:13.

beginning of a beautiful friendship. Egypt's strongman leader

:31:14.:31:18.

Abdel Fattah Al Sisi sat with Donald Trump

:31:19.:31:20.

when he was still They had good chemistry,

:31:21.:31:23.

Mr Trump said. Hardly surprising when you

:31:24.:31:29.

spot the similarities. The red ties, the hand gestures,

:31:30.:31:33.

and the hard-line stance. So the regime in Cairo expects fresh

:31:34.:31:39.

momentum in relations with the US. Though other Arab states

:31:40.:31:44.

are facing new roadblocks. Elsewhere in the region

:31:45.:31:49.

there are serious concerns But for president Sisi and his

:31:50.:31:51.

supporters he is a welcome change. The two leaders speak the same

:31:52.:31:58.

language about defeating Islamic extremism and there is common ground

:31:59.:32:01.

in another area, neither has much to say about the need

:32:02.:32:06.

to safeguard human rights. Critics fear President Trump

:32:07.:32:12.

will push the region And play into the hands

:32:13.:32:14.

of extremists. This liberal activist

:32:15.:32:20.

says his travel ban, He is antagonising the majority,

:32:21.:32:22.

nearly all Muslims worldwide. And that is exactly what Daesh

:32:23.:32:31.

and other extremists and terrorists groups want to do,

:32:32.:32:34.

push towards a confrontation and send the message

:32:35.:32:37.

that the two religions, the two civilisations,

:32:38.:32:39.

cannot coexist. President Obama, centre stage

:32:40.:32:45.

in 2009 with a seminal speech I come here to Cairo

:32:46.:32:55.

to seek a new beginning between the United States

:32:56.:33:06.

and Muslims around the world. One based on mutual interests

:33:07.:33:09.

and mutual respect. In the great Hall of

:33:10.:33:15.

Cairo University which echoed to the soaring rhetoric,

:33:16.:33:17.

we sat down with two of those They said President Obama did not

:33:18.:33:20.

deliver what he promised and his successor is off

:33:21.:33:27.

to a bad start. There is concern here in the region

:33:28.:33:32.

particularly from Muslims from the seven Muslim majority

:33:33.:33:36.

countries that were banned and also other countries that might be

:33:37.:33:39.

included in the ban as well. I think we are all just

:33:40.:33:43.

trying to brace ourselves And we will all just

:33:44.:33:46.

watch carefully. Look at the US Constitution

:33:47.:33:57.

and stick to the American values of freedom and democracy

:33:58.:34:03.

because what you're doing is very dangerous not only

:34:04.:34:05.

to the United States If he came to speak in this hall

:34:06.:34:07.

would you want to listen, The Egyptian leader on the other

:34:08.:34:20.

hand is eagerly awaiting the red-carpet treatment

:34:21.:34:24.

at the White House, something But he and President Trump

:34:25.:34:26.

are marching in step, whatever the cost to democratic

:34:27.:34:33.

values in the region. You are having a trip down memory

:34:34.:34:54.

lane because in 2009 when President Obama gave that speech in Cairo you

:34:55.:35:00.

were our correspondent in Egypt. If we think the Obama administration

:35:01.:35:05.

might, what will President Trump do? might, what will President Trump do?

:35:06.:35:13.

I was there and it was one of his first big foreign policy speeches

:35:14.:35:17.

and did a lot in terms of healing after the Iraq War. He spoke about

:35:18.:35:22.

freedom and democracy and of course two years later he embraced the Arab

:35:23.:35:28.

Spring. Against the wishes of secretary of state Hillary Clinton

:35:29.:35:31.

who was much more circumspect about it. She could see when President

:35:32.:35:36.

Mubarak was gone but was only the Muslim brotherhood and Mohammed

:35:37.:35:40.

Morsi. Morsi was then deposed and then in came this new strongman,

:35:41.:35:45.

President Sisi. America learnt a lesson from that but it Egypt is to

:35:46.:35:53.

peace and security in the East. You cannot apply shock therapy to

:35:54.:35:55.

country like Egypt without the more country like Egypt without the more

:35:56.:35:59.

considered plan so many people will be hopping when Donald Trump looks

:36:00.:36:01.

towards Egypt he goes back to what they were doing at the end of the

:36:02.:36:07.

Mubarak era, exchanging money and aid for Democratic and political

:36:08.:36:08.

reform. A big part of Donald Trump's

:36:09.:36:15.

pitch to American voters was the pledge to create jobs -

:36:16.:36:18.

a message which resonated Mr Trump said that if

:36:19.:36:27.

he became President, Our business correspondent

:36:28.:36:32.

Michelle Fleury is at He is going to shift from service to

:36:33.:36:48.

manufacturing jobs? That has been his message, trying to bring back

:36:49.:36:52.

those manufacturing jobs. I was going to the numbers to try to

:36:53.:36:58.

figure out whether it is possible to bring back 25 million jobs in the

:36:59.:37:02.

next decade. It seems the tall order. Looking back I could not find

:37:03.:37:05.

a period in recent US history when there had been a 10-year street when

:37:06.:37:11.

that many jobs have been created. Perhaps the closest was in the

:37:12.:37:17.

Clinton era in the late 1990s. Another way to look at it is that

:37:18.:37:20.

the American companies would have to add about 208,000 jobs every month

:37:21.:37:27.

for the next ten years to try to achieve that goal. Worth pointing

:37:28.:37:32.

out what exactly is the Labour picture about Donald Trump is

:37:33.:37:40.

inheriting. Take a look at this. In January we had the employment report

:37:41.:37:44.

released last Friday, with some good news for Donald Trump showing that

:37:45.:37:48.

the unemployment rate was 4.8%. That is close to full employment. The

:37:49.:37:55.

number of people actually employed rose by 227,000 per month, putting

:37:56.:38:02.

the figure ahead of that 208,000 per month goal already. The question is,

:38:03.:38:07.

Donald Trump has questioned the reliability of the unemployment

:38:08.:38:10.

figures and so there is another figure I want to show you which

:38:11.:38:15.

perhaps he could like. It supports the theory that there is plenty of

:38:16.:38:18.

room for improvement in the economy and that is the labour participation

:38:19.:38:24.

rate for men aged between 25 and 54. People who are either working or

:38:25.:38:29.

actively seeking work. As we can see it is falling, and has been for more

:38:30.:38:36.

six of these men are either six of these men are either

:38:37.:38:39.

unemployed or out of the workforce altogether. The total is about 10

:38:40.:38:44.

million men and so the challenge is how to get these people back to

:38:45.:38:50.

work. These forgotten men. It is a problem that previous presidents

:38:51.:38:53.

have failed to address. The question is with Hill 's policies on

:38:54.:38:57.

deregulation, taxation, immigration, how will that help the economy.

:38:58.:39:02.

Diana Furchgott-Roth was economic adviser to the Trump Transition team

:39:03.:39:04.

she is also a senior fellow at the Manhattan Institute.

:39:05.:39:07.

What are the chances do you think that Donald Trump can do what he

:39:08.:39:21.

says especially in the manufacturing sector and bring back jobs to the US

:39:22.:39:26.

given what we saw in the jobs report last week, that many jobs are coming

:39:27.:39:32.

back but in the service sector? Was he manages to lower the corporate

:39:33.:39:39.

tax rate to 15% or 20% as Congress has proposed, and move the tax

:39:40.:39:42.

system to a territorial tax system rather than tax on companies on the

:39:43.:39:48.

worldwide income, then the discrepancy in the tax regimes will

:39:49.:39:53.

disappear and more companies will come back. Right now the American

:39:54.:40:00.

corporate tax is up 39%, way above the UK tax rate of 20% and the OECD

:40:01.:40:09.

average of 25%. That is one of the factors and the other is

:40:10.:40:12.

executive order on that. But he has executive order on that. But he has

:40:13.:40:18.

not finished, he has only signed executive order is on one relatively

:40:19.:40:24.

small regulation, there is a lot more the individual agencies can do

:40:25.:40:29.

as soon as the Cabinet secretaries are confirmed. And the markets and

:40:30.:40:34.

businesses are happy about deregulation and about revising the

:40:35.:40:39.

corporate tax rate. Less happy about the possibility of protectionism in

:40:40.:40:43.

the US. How do we waive these two sides up? It is not clear that

:40:44.:40:49.

there's going to be protectionism because Donald Trump has taken a

:40:50.:40:55.

strong stand against the theft of intellectual property that some of

:40:56.:40:59.

our competitors are doing. And when that has gone away I do not think

:41:00.:41:04.

there is going to be a need for protectionism. He wants fair trade,

:41:05.:41:08.

not the theft of intellectual property. And I think we can have

:41:09.:41:12.

more trade and fair trade that will be a benefit to American companies.

:41:13.:41:17.

For example... They do not like the idea of terrorist that those

:41:18.:41:23.

concerned they do not like the idea of tariffs, foreign countries do not

:41:24.:41:27.

like the idea of terror is either and they could stop some

:41:28.:41:32.

intellectual property thefts such as falls Apple stores in Beijing that

:41:33.:41:36.

are so realistic even the employees think there working for Apple. No

:41:37.:41:42.

one has tried to stop that before President Trump. He is going to try

:41:43.:41:47.

to stop that now. Talking about reducing corporate tax rates,

:41:48.:41:52.

Congress set a debt ceiling which almost doubled to $20 trillion under

:41:53.:41:59.

President Obama. If he starts to cut taxes and build more infrastructure,

:42:00.:42:03.

the debt ceiling is going to go up even higher? That is not necessarily

:42:04.:42:09.

true because a lower corporate tax rate can result in an influx of cash

:42:10.:42:15.

back to the United States. Multinational companies are holding

:42:16.:42:19.

over $2 trillion in earnings overseas. That would be a tremendous

:42:20.:42:25.

stimulus if even 25% of that came back and was invested in the United

:42:26.:42:31.

States in enterprises that then create tax revenue. And there are

:42:32.:42:34.

many opportunities for growth that would then achieve tax revenue.

:42:35.:42:43.

Thank you very much. That is going to be a very interesting story. Much

:42:44.:42:49.

of his popularity is going to depend on getting those jobs back.

:42:50.:42:51.

That's 100 Days for today - I'll be on Facebook live

:42:52.:42:54.

with Rajini Vaidyanathan straight after the show.

:42:55.:42:56.

And we'll be back at the same time tomorrow, be good

:42:57.:42:59.

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