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The White House goes to court to try to enforce its immigration ban. | :00:00. | :00:08. | |
Donald Trump attacks what he calls the "so-called judge" | :00:09. | :00:11. | |
This stage is now set for a constitutional clash between | :00:12. | :00:17. | |
The President is addressing servicemen and women | :00:18. | :00:23. | |
in Florida now - we'll have the latest. | :00:24. | :00:27. | |
"You think our country's so innocent?" says Trump | :00:28. | :00:29. | |
when asked about Putin's alleged crimes. | :00:30. | :00:32. | |
Are the US and Russia's actions morally equivalent? | :00:33. | :00:36. | |
I would not wish to issue an invitation to President Trump to | :00:37. | :00:48. | |
speak in the Royal Gallery. The Speaker of the House of Commons | :00:49. | :00:50. | |
has hosted the Chinese President and the Emir of Kuwait, | :00:51. | :00:53. | |
but he doesn't want the US President addressing | :00:54. | :00:55. | |
Parliament on a state visit. And how is President Trump | :00:56. | :00:58. | |
going to breathe new life I'm Katty Kay in Washington, | :00:59. | :01:01. | |
Christian Fraser is in London. President Trump in the last hour has | :01:02. | :01:29. | |
been speaking to members of the US Armed Forces in Tampa, Florida. This | :01:30. | :01:35. | |
is his first addressed to troops as their Commander-in-Chief and he has | :01:36. | :01:37. | |
been speaking in particular about Nato. | :01:38. | :01:44. | |
We have your back, every hour of every day, now and always. That also | :01:45. | :01:50. | |
means getting our allies to pay their fair share, they are very | :01:51. | :01:58. | |
unfair to us. They strongly support Nato. We only ask that all of the | :01:59. | :02:04. | |
Nato members make their full and proper financial contributions to | :02:05. | :02:06. | |
the Nato alliance, which many of them have not been doing. | :02:07. | :02:09. | |
Our North America Correspondent, Nick Bryant, is here. | :02:10. | :02:12. | |
You were sitting with me in the studio, there is President Trump | :02:13. | :02:17. | |
making what seems like a recommitment to Nato, having once | :02:18. | :02:22. | |
said not so long ago that nature was obsolete. One of the ringing phrase | :02:23. | :02:27. | |
from the election campaign. And the fact that he regards a lot of Nato | :02:28. | :02:31. | |
members do not pay their way and members are supposed to pay 2% of | :02:32. | :02:37. | |
GDP to finance the defence. And the Secretary General of Nato saying | :02:38. | :02:42. | |
they should do exactly that. Yes, he is clearly saying America is not | :02:43. | :02:46. | |
prepared to underwrite your defence any more, unless you stump up the | :02:47. | :02:51. | |
cash yourself. He has also been talking about the threat of | :02:52. | :02:54. | |
terrorism and of Islamic State, it is very symbolic he is at CentCom, | :02:55. | :03:01. | |
the place that has run the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan and some of the | :03:02. | :03:08. | |
activities against Isis. And he said that terrorism has got so out of | :03:09. | :03:12. | |
control, it has led to the point where the press does not even report | :03:13. | :03:17. | |
on some of it. He said about the very, very dishonest media, don't | :03:18. | :03:24. | |
even report on some terror attacks. He has recommitted America to the | :03:25. | :03:28. | |
fight against Islamic State. He has also spoken about this controversial | :03:29. | :03:31. | |
executive order at the centre of this legal battle and he said he | :03:32. | :03:35. | |
wants to allow people into the country who love America but do not | :03:36. | :03:39. | |
seek to destroy it. So given everything that has happened over | :03:40. | :03:44. | |
the weekend, and we will get onto the legality of this executive order | :03:45. | :03:47. | |
in a moment, but how much of the political problem is this for the | :03:48. | :03:51. | |
White House at the moment, this immigration ban? It is a huge | :03:52. | :03:56. | |
political problem at the moment because it has seemed to be rushed | :03:57. | :04:00. | |
through, been worded imprecisely and it has been seen to open up the | :04:01. | :04:03. | |
administration to this kind of legal challenge. At the moment, the judges | :04:04. | :04:10. | |
in the west coast particularly are holding, they are actually agreeing | :04:11. | :04:14. | |
with the opponents of the order in saying that it should be stopped at | :04:15. | :04:17. | |
the moment so that people from these mainly Muslim countries can enter | :04:18. | :04:22. | |
the country. So it has created a problem on that level, but there are | :04:23. | :04:26. | |
many people, Donald Trump supporters, who are strongly behind | :04:27. | :04:30. | |
this executive order and polls show the nation is divided but some of | :04:31. | :04:33. | |
the polls suggest there is majority support for this executive order, | :04:34. | :04:36. | |
for what they see as Donald Trump doing what he promised to do during | :04:37. | :04:41. | |
the campaign, to stop people from mainly Muslim countries coming into | :04:42. | :04:45. | |
the country. How did we can's events look to use in London? I was picking | :04:46. | :04:50. | |
up on the papers over the week and I just want to show viewers what the | :04:51. | :04:55. | |
papers have been looking at, the New York Times. The headline speaks for | :04:56. | :05:01. | |
itself. Maybe you and Nick could give us a view on this. Because the | :05:02. | :05:06. | |
perception is from the papers I have read, this very small team around | :05:07. | :05:10. | |
the President, in the view of the media, the perception is nine tenths | :05:11. | :05:13. | |
of the law, they are getting it wrong. Well, all administration have | :05:14. | :05:19. | |
turf battles when they first come into office. All the West Wing staff | :05:20. | :05:25. | |
are trying to get the influence of the Oval Office. It is different in | :05:26. | :05:29. | |
this instance because these battles are being fought very angrily and | :05:30. | :05:33. | |
very publicly on the front pages of some of the nation's most | :05:34. | :05:37. | |
influential papers, like the Washington Post and the New York | :05:38. | :05:40. | |
Times. One person in particular is attracting a lot of attention, the | :05:41. | :05:44. | |
chief strategist at the White House, Steve Bannon, very controversial | :05:45. | :05:48. | |
figure, seeing as a very right-wing figure who has the ear of the | :05:49. | :05:51. | |
President. He was seen to be one of the key authors of the executive | :05:52. | :05:54. | |
order, who wanted to rush things through. He has spoken about doing | :05:55. | :05:58. | |
very big things very quickly. But over the weekend, there was an | :05:59. | :06:01. | |
indication that Donald Trump is trying to slow down this | :06:02. | :06:05. | |
policy-making machinery hand to give more control to the person in the | :06:06. | :06:09. | |
West Wing who ordinarily is the kind of chief enforcer for the President, | :06:10. | :06:15. | |
the chief of staff, Reince Priebus. It also seems President Trump wants | :06:16. | :06:19. | |
to have more of an influence earlier on in the executive order drafting | :06:20. | :06:23. | |
himself. It seems in this instance he was presented with a document | :06:24. | :06:26. | |
that he signed with a flourish of his pen and have not given it the | :06:27. | :06:30. | |
attention that perhaps he would have wanted. So make you are a historian | :06:31. | :06:36. | |
who has studied American history and political history and you know more | :06:37. | :06:38. | |
about this than I do, but it seems to me that we are at a moment where | :06:39. | :06:44. | |
something new is being tested, and that is the ability of these | :06:45. | :06:47. | |
populist movements together. If we see this as the beginning of that | :06:48. | :06:51. | |
process, and the question about this White House is, you have Steve | :06:52. | :06:56. | |
Bannon, who is by nature a disrupter, an insurgent, can you | :06:57. | :06:59. | |
marry that with more traditional governing processes? We have | :07:00. | :07:04. | |
somebody like Reince Priebus, who is trying to put in position systems to | :07:05. | :07:07. | |
make sure executive orders are vetted before they leave the White | :07:08. | :07:11. | |
House, does that take some of the disruption out of it? This is the | :07:12. | :07:16. | |
power struggle that at the moment is playing out within the West Wing. | :07:17. | :07:20. | |
Steve Bannon has made no apologies, he is coming to Washington to | :07:21. | :07:24. | |
figuratively blow this place up, that is what he believes that Donald | :07:25. | :07:29. | |
Trump's mandate is from the voters, do not act like a normal politician | :07:30. | :07:34. | |
or a normal President, to defy those conventions. And Donald Trump has | :07:35. | :07:37. | |
been doing that with the hurtling pace of the administration so far. | :07:38. | :07:41. | |
But you get the sense that the President himself want to put the | :07:42. | :07:45. | |
brakes on a little and to give more authority to somebody who is more of | :07:46. | :07:48. | |
an establishment figure. Reince Priebus was the head of the GOP, a | :07:49. | :07:56. | |
Washington insider, and the tension between those two people, Bannon on | :07:57. | :07:59. | |
the one side and Priebus on the other, will be interesting to watch | :08:00. | :08:03. | |
and it will be interesting particularly because it might define | :08:04. | :08:06. | |
the nature of the Trump administration and the nature of | :08:07. | :08:11. | |
governance in this new era. Nick Bryant, thank you very much. We are | :08:12. | :08:15. | |
watching all this play out in real-time on the front papers -- | :08:16. | :08:23. | |
front pages. Let's get more about where we are on this trouble ban. -- | :08:24. | :08:26. | |
travel. With us is now is Doni Gerwitzmann | :08:27. | :08:27. | |
from New York Law School - he's an expert in | :08:28. | :08:30. | |
constitutional law and theory. Where does the President stand, and | :08:31. | :08:38. | |
the White House stand, on the legality of this right now? So, the | :08:39. | :08:44. | |
President has defended the ban by pointing at something by the plenary | :08:45. | :08:48. | |
power doctrine, it is a law that this agreement court has set up | :08:49. | :08:53. | |
giving the US Government wide discretion and authority to | :08:54. | :08:55. | |
determine who can enter the country. In addition, the President is | :08:56. | :09:00. | |
relying on the provision of the immigration and nationality act, | :09:01. | :09:03. | |
where Congress delegated power to the President to deny that any alien | :09:04. | :09:09. | |
or class of aliens the ability to enter the country if the President | :09:10. | :09:15. | |
believes they are detrimental to the national interest. So, in about four | :09:16. | :09:18. | |
hours' time, the Justice Department has to go back to the appeals court, | :09:19. | :09:23. | |
making its case for this suspension of the ban to be lifted. How can the | :09:24. | :09:29. | |
Justice Department argued against the appeals court, which is saying, | :09:30. | :09:35. | |
and the judge in Seattle saying that actually, if we reinstate the ban it | :09:36. | :09:40. | |
will cause chaos? The Justice Department I think will argue among | :09:41. | :09:44. | |
other things that non-residents located out of the United States do | :09:45. | :09:48. | |
not really have rights under the Constitution. They will argue for a | :09:49. | :09:52. | |
very strong vision of executive power and a very strong vision of | :09:53. | :09:58. | |
the power of the United States Government in the area of | :09:59. | :10:01. | |
immigration. They will argue that the immigration law is different in | :10:02. | :10:05. | |
that the US Government can do things to non-residents located outside the | :10:06. | :10:10. | |
US, that it cannot do to American citizens. When you have one party | :10:11. | :10:14. | |
that controls the White House and one that controls the Senate and the | :10:15. | :10:21. | |
idea of those who favoured the Constitution was that the court | :10:22. | :10:23. | |
would be there to provide checks and balances and it seems that in | :10:24. | :10:26. | |
attacking the judge, the President is undermining the hostage usual | :10:27. | :10:33. | |
system. Without question. -- the constitutional system. There are a | :10:34. | :10:36. | |
number of emergency brakes that framers put into the system to | :10:37. | :10:40. | |
prevent the Executive becoming a tyrant, doing whatever he wants. One | :10:41. | :10:45. | |
major emergency brake is Congress, which can always operate to check | :10:46. | :10:49. | |
the President. In a situation where Congress and the President come from | :10:50. | :10:52. | |
the same political party, it might be that we will need to rely on the | :10:53. | :10:56. | |
courts to play a much more aggressive role in telling the | :10:57. | :11:00. | |
President Noel. I do not think President Trump did himself any | :11:01. | :11:03. | |
favours by personally going after the judge in Washington over this | :11:04. | :11:07. | |
decision. If anything, I think it may have cost the judiciary to be | :11:08. | :11:12. | |
more aggressive in checking him. So you know judges, you spend all your | :11:13. | :11:15. | |
time with them, I will assume that if President Trump calls a member of | :11:16. | :11:21. | |
the judiciary eight so-called judge, that is then going to lead other | :11:22. | :11:24. | |
judges and potentially even Supreme Court justices to side with the | :11:25. | :11:32. | |
judiciary, do you think? Judges are professionals and they will issue | :11:33. | :11:35. | |
decisions based on the law. I do think the personal attacks Trump has | :11:36. | :11:39. | |
made members of the judiciary sort of change the atmospherics | :11:40. | :11:45. | |
surrounded the executive order. The issue of judicial independence and | :11:46. | :11:48. | |
the ability of the judiciary to act as a check on the President really | :11:49. | :11:52. | |
moves front and centre won the President goes directly after a | :11:53. | :11:56. | |
federal judge. -- when the President. This is complicated, so | :11:57. | :12:00. | |
thank you for unpacking all of that! And one other update - | :12:01. | :12:02. | |
Apple, Facebook and Microsoft are among 97 American tech | :12:03. | :12:04. | |
companies to challenge The group has filed a legal | :12:05. | :12:06. | |
document stating the ban affects operations | :12:07. | :12:12. | |
and, in their words, "inflicts significant harm" | :12:13. | :12:14. | |
on business. The document was filed | :12:15. | :12:18. | |
in Washington on Sunday. We have also been taking a look at | :12:19. | :12:25. | |
the President's tweets. He's been tweeting again, | :12:26. | :12:32. | |
early morning, his time, about what he perceives | :12:33. | :12:34. | |
as fake news. But it is begging questions, this, | :12:35. | :13:12. | |
about his temperament, because we are getting used to him firing from | :13:13. | :13:16. | |
the hip, and some of them, we can ignore but some of them seem a | :13:17. | :13:20. | |
little bit petty. Some of these attacks against the | :13:21. | :13:23. | |
fake news is entirely political and you wonder whether it is not | :13:24. | :13:28. | |
symbiotic as well because Donald Trump is calling journalists from | :13:29. | :13:30. | |
what he calls those fake news organisations on a very regular | :13:31. | :13:34. | |
basis. He speaks to the main White House reporter from the New York | :13:35. | :13:37. | |
Times and the Washington Post and even speaks to CNN, which he also | :13:38. | :13:41. | |
calls fake news once or twice a week! And by the way, fantastic for | :13:42. | :13:46. | |
their ratings, the New York Times's subscription doc-mac the failing New | :13:47. | :13:51. | |
York Times are doing particularly well! | :13:52. | :13:55. | |
I think the question here that is a more serious question is, what | :13:56. | :13:59. | |
happens if Donald Trump is attacked by somebody more powerful than a | :14:00. | :14:05. | |
news organisation, somebody for example with access to military | :14:06. | :14:09. | |
weapons or even, God forbid, nuclear weapons? | :14:10. | :14:17. | |
If he says something on Twitter, other countries will say, that is | :14:18. | :14:23. | |
his view and we need to react. If it is China or North Korea, how | :14:24. | :14:26. | |
will he respond? It is a thing that worries countries | :14:27. | :14:32. | |
away from the US, let me tell you. There are other leaders watching | :14:33. | :14:34. | |
these tweets very closely. Here in the UK, the Speaker | :14:35. | :14:38. | |
in the House of Commons, John Bercow, has said he would not | :14:39. | :14:40. | |
wish President Trump The Speaker told the Commons | :14:41. | :14:43. | |
the President's views on immigrants It looks like he has overstepped his | :14:44. | :14:54. | |
mark. I would not wish to issue an | :14:55. | :15:05. | |
invitation to President Trump to speak in the Royal Gallery. I | :15:06. | :15:11. | |
conclude by saying to the honourable gentleman this. We value our | :15:12. | :15:18. | |
relationship with the United States. If a state visit takes place, that | :15:19. | :15:24. | |
is way beyond and above the pay grade of the Speaker! However, as | :15:25. | :15:30. | |
far as this place is concerned, I feel very strongly that our | :15:31. | :15:39. | |
opposition to racism and sexism, and our support for a quality for the | :15:40. | :15:48. | |
law, and an independent judiciary, are hugely important considerations | :15:49. | :15:50. | |
in the House of Commons. APPLAUSE | :15:51. | :15:50. | |
. Let's go live now | :15:51. | :15:52. | |
to Westminster in London and speak to our political | :15:53. | :15:54. | |
correspondent, Eleanor Garnier. You had better start for our | :15:55. | :16:03. | |
international viewers, just setting out who John Bercow is. The Prime | :16:04. | :16:08. | |
Minister has made it clear she wants the state visit to go ahead so, does | :16:09. | :16:12. | |
he have it within his power to stop him addressing Parliament? Everyone | :16:13. | :16:18. | |
has been taken by surprise, even politicians who are in the House of | :16:19. | :16:24. | |
Commons as the Speaker stood up. The Speaker of the House of Commons is | :16:25. | :16:27. | |
basically like a referee in the House of Commons. They are in charge | :16:28. | :16:30. | |
of MPs when they are in the House of Commons and therefore, they are in a | :16:31. | :16:37. | |
neutral position. That is why this is so unprecedented and it really is | :16:38. | :16:40. | |
a sort of dramatic snub, if you like. He attacks the President has | :16:41. | :16:45. | |
effectively being racist and sexist and for having a lack of respect for | :16:46. | :16:50. | |
judges. There were even Cheers, as we heard, when he made the comments | :16:51. | :16:54. | |
in the House of Commons. We know there has been this growing | :16:55. | :16:57. | |
opposition to the planned state visit later this year, more than 1.8 | :16:58. | :17:03. | |
million people have signed a petition outside Parliament, so | :17:04. | :17:07. | |
there will be MPs in the House and also people among the public who | :17:08. | :17:11. | |
will be pleased that John Bercow, the Speaker, has been so outspoken, | :17:12. | :17:15. | |
but his critics will say he has overstepped the mark and gone too | :17:16. | :17:19. | |
far. We were talking last week about some of the pools surrounding the | :17:20. | :17:23. | |
state visit and plenty of people here in Britain are keen for it to | :17:24. | :17:25. | |
go ahead and they might also make the point that if you look at the | :17:26. | :17:30. | |
list of people who have come here, that he has hosted in the | :17:31. | :17:34. | |
Parliament, they include the President of China, the Emir of Q8, | :17:35. | :17:37. | |
they are hardly paragons of virtue and some of them. And I think that | :17:38. | :17:42. | |
is why this has been such a surprise to everyone, and so unprecedented. | :17:43. | :17:52. | |
And we have had the likes of Mandela, that is why people have | :17:53. | :17:56. | |
been taken by surprise but the key thing is, John Bercow is one of | :17:57. | :18:00. | |
three people who have the keys to handing out the invitations to the | :18:01. | :18:04. | |
great and good to come and speak here in Parliament, and because he | :18:05. | :18:09. | |
has said he does not want President Trump to come, he has basically | :18:10. | :18:12. | |
vetoed any chance for President Trump to come and speak here. So | :18:13. | :18:16. | |
that means that if something cannot really go ahead, because the Prime | :18:17. | :18:21. | |
Minister, and wouldn't you like to be a fly on the wall in Downing | :18:22. | :18:24. | |
Street tonight, she does not have the power over the Speaker's | :18:25. | :18:27. | |
decision-making on this issue. So it is not up to the Prime Minister and | :18:28. | :18:30. | |
we can imagine that people in Downing Street this evening will not | :18:31. | :18:35. | |
be happy that John Bercow has been so outspoken after all that | :18:36. | :18:39. | |
extremely public wooing that we have seen, that huge presidential, the | :18:40. | :18:44. | |
huge visit Theresa May just a couple of weeks ago, where she has publicly | :18:45. | :18:49. | |
tried to, you know, work hard on that new special relationship. So | :18:50. | :18:52. | |
Downing Street will not be pleased at all. What a tightrope she has to | :18:53. | :18:55. | |
walk. It was Super Bowl weekend | :18:56. | :19:09. | |
here and the Patriots' stunning, last-minute victory isn't the only | :19:10. | :19:12. | |
thing people are talking about. To mark the occasion, | :19:13. | :19:14. | |
President Trump gave an interview to Bill O'Reilly of Fox News, | :19:15. | :19:16. | |
which was broadcast as part And in it, he sparked some | :19:17. | :19:19. | |
controversy by defending He was also asked how well | :19:20. | :19:22. | |
he thought the travel restrictions and the vetting of refugees entering | :19:23. | :19:26. | |
the US had been implemented, I think it was very smooth, you had | :19:27. | :19:32. | |
109 people out of hundreds of thousands of travellers and all we | :19:33. | :19:35. | |
did was vet those people very, very carefully. You would not do anything | :19:36. | :19:41. | |
differently? A lot of people didn't really know what the order was. But | :19:42. | :19:45. | |
is not what General Kelly says. He said he totally new, he was aware of | :19:46. | :19:52. | |
it, and there were 109 people. Putin is a killer. We have got a lot of | :19:53. | :19:56. | |
killers. You think our country is so innocent? I do not know of any | :19:57. | :20:03. | |
government leaders who are killers. Take a look at what we have done, | :20:04. | :20:07. | |
made a lot of mistakes, I was against the war in Iraq. Our | :20:08. | :20:12. | |
mistakes are different. But a lot of people were killed, a lot of killers | :20:13. | :20:14. | |
around. Since that interview aired, | :20:15. | :20:14. | |
Mr Trump has been criticised Now the Kremlin has weighed in, | :20:15. | :20:17. | |
calling for Fox News to apologise for calling | :20:18. | :20:20. | |
the Russian President a "killer". Putin's spokesman, | :20:21. | :20:23. | |
Dmitry Peskov, told journalists: With me is Brigadier-General | :20:24. | :20:42. | |
Mark Kimmitt, who served as Deputy Assistant Secretary | :20:43. | :20:44. | |
of Defense for Middle East Policy under Defense Secretaries | :20:45. | :20:46. | |
Donald Rumsfeld and Robert Gates. Thank you for coming in. Let's start | :20:47. | :21:01. | |
with Russia. And the spat that arose because of the interview that | :21:02. | :21:05. | |
President Trump gave the Fox News. Is there anyway that the White | :21:06. | :21:12. | |
House, that the President can suggest that America and Russia are | :21:13. | :21:15. | |
the same level when it comes to this issue? No well, let us be clear, | :21:16. | :21:20. | |
there has not been a President since the end of the Cold War that has not | :21:21. | :21:24. | |
started the administration by saying, let's do a reset. George | :21:25. | :21:31. | |
Bush famously said, I looked into his eyes. So it is another President | :21:32. | :21:36. | |
who has clearly said, let's try to re-establish the relationship with | :21:37. | :21:41. | |
Russia and move forward. But to put a moral equivalence between | :21:42. | :21:45. | |
President Putin and the United States, are you comfortable with | :21:46. | :21:48. | |
that? Not really, do not think anyone wants to point a finger at | :21:49. | :21:52. | |
the country. Factually, there are some situations where Donald Trump | :21:53. | :21:58. | |
may have a point, but I think emotionally, no country wants to | :21:59. | :22:02. | |
have their fingers pointed in their eyes. How can you account for the | :22:03. | :22:08. | |
President's reluctance to criticise Vladimir Putin? I cannot. But at the | :22:09. | :22:14. | |
same time I think he would have a reluctance to criticise the Chinese | :22:15. | :22:19. | |
Premier. A number of world leaders that he would be... He has been more | :22:20. | :22:24. | |
critical of China than he has of Russia. Not to the extent that he | :22:25. | :22:29. | |
has were some of us would believe that China is a far greater threat | :22:30. | :22:32. | |
than Russia at this point. We could debate this all day. I think it | :22:33. | :22:36. | |
really goes to the point that he is trying to reset the relationship | :22:37. | :22:43. | |
with Russia and move forward. I was hoping you might put your former | :22:44. | :22:46. | |
State Department hat on and talk to us about Iran because the British | :22:47. | :22:49. | |
Prime Minister is hosting the Israeli Prime Minister today and by | :22:50. | :22:52. | |
all accounts, she is saying, the Iran deal is not perfect but it is | :22:53. | :22:56. | |
the best option we have on the table at the moment. Would you agree? I | :22:57. | :23:01. | |
think so, Andy, administration has been very clear, at this point they | :23:02. | :23:05. | |
are not looking at tossing of the agreement. -- and the | :23:06. | :23:09. | |
administration. There have been situations in the past few months | :23:10. | :23:12. | |
where the Iranians have flagrantly violated the terms of the agreement | :23:13. | :23:16. | |
and what the top administration is saying is, we will draw a red line | :23:17. | :23:21. | |
on this, and if the Iranians are unwilling to adhere to it, we will | :23:22. | :23:26. | |
look into it. But there is an election coming up in Iran and the | :23:27. | :23:31. | |
concern is in Europe that the President might be undermining the | :23:32. | :23:35. | |
more moderate forces. Well, I think they are doing a pretty good job | :23:36. | :23:38. | |
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, | :23:44. | :23:48. | |
I want to ask you about some the President has just said at CentCom, | :23:49. | :23:52. | |
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 | :23:57. | :24:04. | |
imagine that something you are relieved to hear. I am, and the | :24:05. | :24:08. | |
burden sharing has been going on since 1947. It is one that every | :24:09. | :24:15. | |
President has made. So at least he has moved from the position of that | :24:16. | :24:19. | |
it is an outdated institution, to one that does have a value, but | :24:20. | :24:23. | |
people need to come to the table and pay their 2% of GDP. Thank you very | :24:24. | :24:26. | |
much for joining us. Well, back here in Washington, | :24:27. | :24:29. | |
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 | :27:37. | :27:40. | |
an awful lot with this weather front, it just sticks around and | :27:41. | :27:44. | |
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. |