:00:07. > :00:11.In the next hour, MPs are expected to approve
:00:12. > :00:13.legislation that would give the British Prime Minister formal
:00:14. > :00:20.power to withdraw the UK from the European Union.
:00:21. > :00:23.We'll be live in the House of Commons as MPs
:00:24. > :00:34.Democratic Senator Elizabeth Warren is stopped from speaking
:00:35. > :00:37.for critcising the conduct of the President's pick
:00:38. > :00:50.Mr Sessions has used the power of his office...
:00:51. > :00:53.But she goes on to Facebook to read a letter criticising
:00:54. > :00:55.the controversial past of Jeff Sessions.
:00:56. > :00:57.The President accuses the Democrats of obstruction but is even more
:00:58. > :01:01.incensed that the courts continue to block his travel ban.
:01:02. > :01:05.I don't ever want to call a court biased so I won't call it biased,
:01:06. > :01:16.and we haven't had a decision yet, but courts seem to be so political.
:01:17. > :01:18.Being a Trump supporter on a liberal campus.
:01:19. > :01:34.I'm Katty Kay in Washington, Christian Fraser's in London.
:01:35. > :01:38.Britain is about to take another decisive step towards Brexit.
:01:39. > :01:41.Yes, in the next hour, MPs will be voting on a bill that
:01:42. > :01:44.will give the Prime Minister the power to trigger Article 50 -
:01:45. > :01:47.the formal notice to quit the European Union.
:01:48. > :01:54.This is the scene in the lower House of Commons at the moment.
:01:55. > :01:59.I think the PM will be pretty pleased with the way it has gone.
:02:00. > :02:02.Theresa May has seen off a rebellion from her own MPs,
:02:03. > :02:05.who were threatening to support an opposition amendment.
:02:06. > :02:09.So, when it comes to the final vote this evening, the vote to send it
:02:10. > :02:12.on its way to the Lords, we expect the bill to go
:02:13. > :02:15.I have been speaking to the Conservative Member
:02:16. > :02:17.of Parliament Anna Soubry, who campaigned for the UK
:02:18. > :02:32.48% of people in the UK voted to remain and so did a large number of
:02:33. > :02:36.MPs and people watching, particularly those outside the
:02:37. > :02:41.country, might be surprised you caved in so easily. Nobody has caved
:02:42. > :02:46.in. I have voted in effect in everything I believed in but I made
:02:47. > :02:50.a solid promise to the people in my constituency and the country at
:02:51. > :02:54.large because I was very much involved in the pro-EU Remain
:02:55. > :03:01.campaign that I would take the decision, the result of the
:03:02. > :03:04.referendum, and I would even though I don't agree with it, is the it
:03:05. > :03:08.will not be good for my country, I made that promise and I have to be
:03:09. > :03:13.true to it. If you voted for the referendum, you have got to see it
:03:14. > :03:17.through, even if you do not like the result and you cannot go against the
:03:18. > :03:22.promise you gave to the people, even if you do not like the result. They
:03:23. > :03:27.have decided and therefore we have to execute the decision they made.
:03:28. > :03:35.It would seem the Prime Minister 's home and dry in delivering Brexit.
:03:36. > :03:40.She has got the support of MPs of both sides of the divide so Members
:03:41. > :03:45.of Parliament for the Labour Party and the Conservative Party have very
:03:46. > :03:47.much come together to honour the result in accordance with the
:03:48. > :03:53.promise they gave people. What is happening in the rest of Britain is
:03:54. > :03:59.that many people who voted Remain say, we just want to get on with
:04:00. > :04:03.this now, and that is happening. There has not been the drift away
:04:04. > :04:07.from the decision that was made back in June, so for me, we have just got
:04:08. > :04:12.to bite the bullet, get on with it and get the very best we can as we
:04:13. > :04:16.lead the European Union. A lot of the amendment to boating on the
:04:17. > :04:21.night is whether to give or ensure the rights of European citizens here
:04:22. > :04:25.in the UK on the might of the referendum. The Prime Minister
:04:26. > :04:30.sympathetic to that but it all seems to be pointing to that amendment
:04:31. > :04:34.being defeated. It is actually an amendment that should not be to this
:04:35. > :04:38.bill. This bill as a vehicle that delivers the EU referendum to 's
:04:39. > :04:42.result. The Prime Minister has made it clear that this will be her
:04:43. > :04:48.priority, to make sure we do the right thing by EU citizens, and I
:04:49. > :04:52.trust her on that. It will be her priority, I am confident she will
:04:53. > :04:55.get a deal, and if she doesn't, there is nothing to stop her from
:04:56. > :05:01.saying, we will do the right thing, even if our colleagues in the EU
:05:02. > :05:05.feel they cannot reciprocate those arrangements, and I absolutely trust
:05:06. > :05:08.and taken the whole word. It is more than just sympathy, she believes in
:05:09. > :05:18.it and knows it is the right thing to do. There was one concession made
:05:19. > :05:23.by the negotiation, but if you vote against it, then what? The Prime
:05:24. > :05:29.Minister has always said, if we get a deal or when we get a deal, I am a
:05:30. > :05:34.bit more cautious because I understand the realities of the task
:05:35. > :05:41.ahead, but the's assume we get a deal, but will vote on that deal,
:05:42. > :05:46.she said last night the Article 50 bit, there will be one of the road,
:05:47. > :05:50.and the new arrangement and new deal, there will be another vote,
:05:51. > :05:54.and it will take place at the same time as the European Parliament. I
:05:55. > :05:58.do not think it is a great concession because what happens if
:05:59. > :06:01.we do not get any deal? This place must then determine what happens and
:06:02. > :06:10.that must be on the basis of all options and I will continue to make
:06:11. > :06:14.that case. I will ask you for a primer on Parliamentary procedure
:06:15. > :06:18.because I'm a bit confused. Smarter people than me are also a bit
:06:19. > :06:24.confused. We had that vote last week, it will then went through all
:06:25. > :06:26.those committees, so tonight, we are putting an amendment is not
:06:27. > :06:37.necessarily in numerical order, and then vote on the bill again? Yeah...
:06:38. > :06:41.When the bill goes to Parliament, it gets three readings in each house.
:06:42. > :06:48.Last week, we got the full reading, and then these MPs got a debate on
:06:49. > :06:52.it, and then you get a second reading followed by a vote, and at
:06:53. > :06:56.that point, they could've killed stone dead. Last week, we told you
:06:57. > :07:01.it was an important though, and it was. After that, we have had hours
:07:02. > :07:05.of debate in committees and the house this week, and lots of
:07:06. > :07:08.amendment had been put forward, and tonight they will vote on nine of
:07:09. > :07:13.those amendments. When that is all done and dusted, we will have the
:07:14. > :07:19.third reading and a boat which will send it on to the House of Lords.
:07:20. > :07:23.Then it goes to the Lords and sales through? It should sell through but
:07:24. > :07:29.the Lords at an unelected body and it would be something, in fact it
:07:30. > :07:32.would cause a constitutional crisis, if the Lords were in some way to
:07:33. > :07:37.defy the will of the people, so I would expect it to go through but
:07:38. > :07:41.will they tried amendments on it? The government does not have a
:07:42. > :07:44.majority in the House of Lords and there are a lot of Liberal Democrats
:07:45. > :07:49.peers in the Lords. Even if they do, it is likely to come back and it
:07:50. > :07:55.will be defeated so to my's vote will send this bill a long way
:07:56. > :07:56.towards becoming law. I knew I should not have asked that second
:07:57. > :07:57.question! 30 years ago, the US Attorney
:07:58. > :08:00.for Alabama, Jeff Sessions, appeared before a Senate Committee,
:08:01. > :08:02.nominated to serve During that hearing,
:08:03. > :08:04.a string of allegations were brought forward that almost
:08:05. > :08:07.destroyed his career. Before the committee,
:08:08. > :08:09.Sessions testified he couldn't remember labelling a white lawyer
:08:10. > :08:13.in his home state a disgrace for representing black clients
:08:14. > :08:17.though, according to the record, he didn't contest
:08:18. > :08:20.the allegation either. Amid the accusations of racism,
:08:21. > :08:26.his nomination was rejected. Now, 30 years on, Jeff Sessions
:08:27. > :08:28.is Donald Trump's pick for the highest legal office
:08:29. > :08:32.in the land, US Attorney General. The Democrats are trying
:08:33. > :08:35.to block it and, last night, the Senator for Massachusetts,
:08:36. > :08:38.Elizabeth Warren, went to the floor to read a letter
:08:39. > :08:41.from Martin Luther King's widow, Corretta - a letter sent in 1986
:08:42. > :08:44.to the Judiciary Committee opposing Mr Sessions sought to punish older
:08:45. > :08:53.black civil rights activists, advisers and colleagues
:08:54. > :08:58.of my husband who had been key figures in the civil rights
:08:59. > :09:06.movement in the 1960s. Senators appear in the motives
:09:07. > :09:13.and conduct of our colleague Senator Warren said,
:09:14. > :09:18.Senator Sessions has used the awesome power of his office
:09:19. > :09:22.to chill the free exercise I call the Senator order under
:09:23. > :09:33.the provision to rule. The Senate Majority Leader,
:09:34. > :09:35.Mitch McConnell, had stepped in with an objection
:09:36. > :09:37.and a little-known rule that forbids Senators from tarnishing
:09:38. > :09:41.the reputation of their colleagues. Not to be defeated, Senator Warren
:09:42. > :09:43.left the chamber to read the letter to 2 million people
:09:44. > :09:49.on Facebook Live. I do not believe Jefferson Sessions
:09:50. > :09:54.possesses the requisite judgment, competence and sensitivity
:09:55. > :09:59.to the rights guaranteed by the federal civil rights laws
:10:00. > :10:03.to qualify for appointment Based on his record,
:10:04. > :10:09.I believe his confirmation would have a devastating effect,
:10:10. > :10:14.not only on the judicial system in Alabama, but also on the progress
:10:15. > :10:20.we have made everywhere towards fulfilling my husband's
:10:21. > :10:24.dream that he envisioned We talked yesterday, Katty,
:10:25. > :10:33.about the controversial pick, Betsy DeVos, who was confirmed
:10:34. > :10:39.as Secretary for Education, but only after the intervention
:10:40. > :10:41.of the Vice President, More trouble this time
:10:42. > :10:56.with Jeff Sessions. The question is starting to be the
:10:57. > :11:00.Democrats, do they overplay their hand? Is there a point at which the
:11:01. > :11:07.public will say, will you hold up one of these nominations? They do
:11:08. > :11:14.not have the votes to stop Jeff Sessions getting through, and can
:11:15. > :11:18.they carry on like this before the public gets slightly annoyed with
:11:19. > :11:24.the process? Americans want things to get done and they think Donald
:11:25. > :11:33.Trump is right that this has been a slow process. But she got 2 million
:11:34. > :11:39.viewers on Facebook, I ... So has it backfired? Probably in terms of
:11:40. > :11:44.Elizabeth Warren's popularity. I would love to see her fund-raising
:11:45. > :11:50.figures today. You think it has backfired on her? No, what I am
:11:51. > :11:54.saying it has been helpful to her because I suspect she has raised a
:11:55. > :11:56.whole lot of money out of this. There may be a broader sense in the
:11:57. > :12:02.country that people want things done and they want this Cabinet appointed
:12:03. > :12:10.but I suspect Elizabeth Warren, a liberal, who has lots of liberal
:12:11. > :12:13.supporters and donors. Might have backfired for Mitch McConnell? Let's
:12:14. > :12:16.asks a Republican strategist. With me now is Republican political
:12:17. > :12:18.strategist and former advisor to George W Bush,
:12:19. > :12:29.Ron Christie. I think this might have backfired
:12:30. > :12:32.for Elizabeth Warren. She said the 46% of people in Massachusetts want
:12:33. > :12:38.someone is to represent them in the Senate other than her so I think she
:12:39. > :12:42.did this as a ploy to get attention, to get money and try to get her
:12:43. > :12:49.campaign in the Senate back contract but ultimately, trying to impugn
:12:50. > :13:01.that a senator is a racist was a bad move for her. Let's take the case of
:13:02. > :13:05.Jeff Sessions. He has this contentious history, he was not 30
:13:06. > :13:10.years ago deemed fit to be appointed as a federal judge because of that
:13:11. > :13:14.history and allegations of racism. Yes, but these were only
:13:15. > :13:19.allegations. There was never concrete proof that he was defeated
:13:20. > :13:23.by the committee never made it to the vote. Jeff Sessions supporters
:13:24. > :13:28.will say this is all about politics, what is the worst things you can say
:13:29. > :13:33.to a southern white politician? They are racist. At that time, it is why
:13:34. > :13:38.he was defeated. You think there was nothing there about what he has said
:13:39. > :13:43.about the KKK, in who he has defended? I have known him for
:13:44. > :13:48.several years. I just do not believe these allegations to be true. Do I
:13:49. > :13:55.believe the comment can be taken out of context? Absolutely. But do I
:13:56. > :14:00.believe he is racist? Know, and I think Democrats need to be very
:14:01. > :14:04.careful that they are obstructing everything Trump is trying to do. It
:14:05. > :14:09.is interesting to say that because we have tweaked here from Martin
:14:10. > :14:13.Luther King's daughter and she does not feel the same way that you do.
:14:14. > :14:19.She has been saying on Twitter today that Miss Warren kept the spirit of
:14:20. > :14:25.the Senate alive and that she raised important issues to black people in
:14:26. > :14:29.the deep South. I would say to that she is entitled to her own opinion
:14:30. > :14:35.but here in the United States Senate we have rules and laws said you
:14:36. > :14:39.cannot insult, put down or make a bad reference to a fellow United
:14:40. > :14:44.States Senator. Did he say these things or did he do racist things?
:14:45. > :14:47.That is very much in dispute I think. Senators have criticised and
:14:48. > :14:49.impugned each other in the past. CIA boss Mike Pompeo is due
:14:50. > :14:51.to visit Turkey on Thursday. It's his first overseas
:14:52. > :14:53.visit as director of It follows a phone call
:14:54. > :14:57.between Mr Trump and Turkey's President Trump reiterated US
:14:58. > :15:03.support with Turkey, saying Ankara The two leaders agreed to work
:15:04. > :15:08.together to fight the so-called One of Russia's most prominent
:15:09. > :15:14.opposition leaders, Alexei Navalny, has been found of guilty
:15:15. > :15:17.of embezzlement in a retrial. In delivering his verdict,
:15:18. > :15:22.the judge said Mr Navalny had organised the theft
:15:23. > :15:27.of other people's property. The conviction bars him
:15:28. > :15:29.from running in next year's Mexicans are warming
:15:30. > :15:33.to their president's tough stance on Mr Trump and the country's
:15:34. > :15:38.refusal to pay for a border wall. As the President welcomed
:15:39. > :15:40.back Mexicans who'd been deported from the US,
:15:41. > :15:46.one survey showed 64% of voters approved of Enrique Pena Nieto's
:15:47. > :15:48.decision not to meet However, the Mexican president's
:15:49. > :15:52.overall popularity has sunk to a four-year low,
:15:53. > :15:58.according to the same poll. It's been a tough old week
:15:59. > :16:01.for French Presidential The main centre-right candidate
:16:02. > :16:06.is facing further allegations about payments to his wife,
:16:07. > :16:13.Penelope. One newspaper alleges her husband
:16:14. > :16:15.paid her nearly $48,000 of taxpayers' money in redundancy
:16:16. > :16:21.payments - not once but twice. Mr Fillon's dismissed
:16:22. > :16:27.the reports as lies. Following the dramatic events
:16:28. > :16:29.in the Senate on Tuesday, during which the Vice President had
:16:30. > :16:33.to step in to vote on Betsy DeVos as Education Secretary,
:16:34. > :16:36.Donald Trump has taken to Twitter again to voice his frustration
:16:37. > :16:41.The President said, "It is a disgrace that my full
:16:42. > :16:45.Cabinet is still not in place, the longest such delay
:16:46. > :16:52.in the history of our country. So how hard is it going to be
:16:53. > :16:56.for the new administration BBC Newsnight's diplomatic editor,
:16:57. > :17:06.Mark Urban, has been taking a look. You can come here, promising
:17:07. > :17:08.to drain the swamp or dethrone the establishment, but this city has
:17:09. > :17:13.a way of protecting its interests, slowing down those
:17:14. > :17:18.who challenge its ways. So the Trump administration's
:17:19. > :17:21.process of nominating a Cabinet This level of obstruction at
:17:22. > :17:28.the beginning of an administration is really record-setting
:17:29. > :17:37.in a very unfortunate way. While the Senate have blamed
:17:38. > :17:40.the Democrats for the go slow, they don't have the numbers to wreck
:17:41. > :17:44.Trump's agenda. Rather, it's doubts among
:17:45. > :17:47.Republicans that could pose the most Keen to impress the people who voted
:17:48. > :17:55.for him, President Trump has signed some highly significant
:17:56. > :18:00.and emotive executive orders. But you can't run the country
:18:01. > :18:03.by those alone, particularly when it comes to spending money
:18:04. > :18:09.or changing existing laws. For that, you need to go up
:18:10. > :18:24.the hill and get people Thousands of people work on the Hill
:18:25. > :18:30.in office is so widely spread the place has its own subway. Things
:18:31. > :18:37.here travel at the speed legislators can work at. Many legislators have
:18:38. > :18:42.discovered this. John Thierry has been a hill inside the best part of
:18:43. > :18:47.30 years for the Republican majority just two in the Senate, he sees
:18:48. > :18:54.risks for the White House. The numbers of the Senate especially,
:18:55. > :18:58.they have tremendous power, and you will see that especially for some
:18:59. > :19:03.Republicans who do not like Donald Trump will trust him, they will step
:19:04. > :19:07.up and say what they feel. So there is no obedience with this Congress,
:19:08. > :19:14.there never has been, especially with this President, there never
:19:15. > :19:18.will be. The combination of Democrats is keen port Trump voting
:19:19. > :19:24.with the small number of dissident republicans can pose or number
:19:25. > :19:28.problems for the President. To avoid them, he must stick to policies were
:19:29. > :19:34.he in congressional Republicans are on the same page. I believe on the
:19:35. > :19:38.need for bilateral agreements with the UK or Japan, there will be
:19:39. > :19:44.partnerships we can work with him on tax reform. We believe our tax code
:19:45. > :19:50.is overly complex, there are over 70,000 pages on our tax code, people
:19:51. > :20:00.want a simpler, fairer and flatter tax code. That is something we
:20:01. > :20:04.should be focused on. Among those on powerful Senate committees, already
:20:05. > :20:10.key figures will challenge Trump an issues such as the handling of his
:20:11. > :20:15.immigrant ban or his professed admiration for Vladimir Putin. You
:20:16. > :20:21.worried by what the President has been saying? There have been a lot
:20:22. > :20:30.of things said that I would not say but I think that, as time moves on,
:20:31. > :20:36.there will be a much more coming together on those issues. The
:20:37. > :20:40.administration is just getting going my senses that, in the very near
:20:41. > :20:50.future, things will be in the middle-of-the-road. Nominations,
:20:51. > :20:53.health care or Russian sanctions, Trump's campaign pledges are already
:20:54. > :20:57.being modified by people on the hill. As the President starts to
:20:58. > :21:13.spend money, that will intensify. You and I were talking about this
:21:14. > :21:17.before and it is still the unknown question about this presidency. Will
:21:18. > :21:22.this end up being a normal presidency or will it be a train
:21:23. > :21:29.wreck? I would not call it a train wreck... I do not think we will see
:21:30. > :21:36.business as usual with this White House. Donald Trump views himself as
:21:37. > :21:40.a businessman, he expects results, and he will continue to shake the
:21:41. > :21:44.debt until he gets what he wants. The question is, how will he work
:21:45. > :21:49.with Congress? Cani work with lawmakers within his party but also
:21:50. > :21:54.with Democrats to find a way to get legislation to his desk. What is
:21:55. > :22:01.your hunch so far? I think he will. We heard congressmen talk about tax
:22:02. > :22:04.reform and secondly I think we will get a criminal justice reform
:22:05. > :22:09.package. Congressmen think the sentencing of people for certain
:22:10. > :22:15.crimes is out of whack and we need to fix it. I guess when people talk
:22:16. > :22:18.about the idea that could go off the rails, something could go wrong,
:22:19. > :22:24.what they're talking about is whether this is an administration
:22:25. > :22:29.that can handle the erratic nature of the principal, the President
:22:30. > :22:34.himself. However much the staff tries to normalise things, Donald
:22:35. > :22:37.Trump almost gets on his own way. When I worked for President Bush, we
:22:38. > :22:44.did not have Twitter back then. There is no way President Bush would
:22:45. > :22:48.have used that! UC has started trying to take Twitter away in the
:22:49. > :22:54.more they remove it from him, the more he sensed twits out. The
:22:55. > :22:59.challenges, how do his stuff closest advisers rein him in and get focused
:23:00. > :23:05.on important issues? There is a story going around today that want
:23:06. > :23:13.to replace the communication of Sean Spicer. He might have a strategy for
:23:14. > :23:18.the week, which is completely untied by a tweet that the President has
:23:19. > :23:23.sent out. He can never really get on the front foot. He can't. The press
:23:24. > :23:28.secretary has a tough enough job just dealing with the national and
:23:29. > :23:32.international press in the briefing room and around Washington, DC. The
:23:33. > :23:37.White House communication directors are looking at what will happen next
:23:38. > :23:41.week, next month, in six months' time. And if you cannot have someone
:23:42. > :23:45.who is dedicated to that job, the White House would just roll from
:23:46. > :23:49.crisis to crisis. They need to replace Sean Spicer with a dedicated
:23:50. > :23:54.communications director who has a better sense of what the messages.
:23:55. > :23:58.What do you make of these newspaper headlines, that there is chaos
:23:59. > :24:04.within the administration? There are all sorts of leaks coming out at the
:24:05. > :24:08.moment. When I worked in the White House, any time we saw a leak, it
:24:09. > :24:12.either meant someone had an axe to grind or someone was upset with the
:24:13. > :24:15.way things were going. If you want to say something, put your name
:24:16. > :24:20.behind it, I think the White House is in a very difficult time, I was
:24:21. > :24:25.there one day one with President George W Bush. It takes several
:24:26. > :24:29.weeks to figure out your bearings, how to work with Congress, so from
:24:30. > :24:30.my perspective, the Trump administration is starting out
:24:31. > :24:41.fairly well. Just before we move on,
:24:42. > :24:44.I want to show you some pictures that came in just before we went
:24:45. > :25:00.on air of Donald Trump meeting There is Mr Trump 's sitting
:25:01. > :25:04.slightly awkwardly behind the desk and the CEO of Intel standing really
:25:05. > :25:10.awkwardly right behind him. What he's trying to do, talking about
:25:11. > :25:19.jobs moving to Arizona, $7 billion investment, 33,000 jobs, I think,
:25:20. > :25:23.once again... This image. They look a little nervous. You can see them
:25:24. > :25:25.shifting a little nervously. You think?
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:25:45. > :25:46.We hear from young Republicans about how they're getting
:25:47. > :26:10.That's still to come on 100 Days from BBC News.
:26:11. > :26:17.Sunshine at a premium for the remainder of this week, cloud looks
:26:18. > :26:21.likely to dominate right across the country, filtering from the east. It
:26:22. > :26:26.will make you feel increasingly cold with easterly wind and the showers
:26:27. > :26:29.we see. The fall as sleet and snow. Because of this area of high
:26:30. > :26:35.pressure across Scandinavia and the winds coming round from the East, it
:26:36. > :26:39.comes across the cold North Sea, that will make it feel
:26:40. > :26:43.disappointing, particularly on exposed East coasts. Eventually,
:26:44. > :26:49.that cold air pushes further westwards. The potential for showers
:26:50. > :26:53.as well through the night to across eastern Scotland, eastern England,
:26:54. > :26:58.down the coastline. Showers of rain further inland, a bit of sleet and
:26:59. > :27:03.wet snow mixed in there. Is he stretches to watch out for.
:27:04. > :27:09.Elsewhere, a cold start the many and quite a lot of cloud around as well.
:27:10. > :27:12.And easterly wind driving the cloud across the country, maybe Western
:27:13. > :27:18.fringes hanging on a bit of sunshine. But not the glorious
:27:19. > :27:22.sunshine do you have seen today. Always the risk of some showers
:27:23. > :27:28.running in of the North Sea coast. Those showers again will be
:27:29. > :27:32.primarily of rain and sleet. Further inland, we will see sleet and snow
:27:33. > :27:38.falling from time to time. Look at the temperatures, 2-3d at the very
:27:39. > :27:43.best. A cold, disappointing, grey day even without the showers, a lot
:27:44. > :27:51.of low cloud, struggling temperatures, the best we can offer
:27:52. > :27:55.is six or seven, but generally, more uniform at 2-4d. As we move out of
:27:56. > :27:59.Thursday night into Friday morning, some of those showers push further
:28:00. > :28:03.inland and there will be accumulation of sleet and snow to
:28:04. > :28:08.the course of the night and into Friday morning, particularly across
:28:09. > :28:10.the higher ground of Scotland and North East England. Friday the cold
:28:11. > :28:17.of the day when you factor in the wind and the cloud around, 2-3d more
:28:18. > :28:22.widely across the country. Subtle we move into the weekend, high pressure
:28:23. > :28:26.seeks its way further south, that means a subtle change in wind
:28:27. > :28:27.direction. Nothing too drastic but less cold, best best of the
:28:28. > :30:06.brightness in the West. In the next hour MP's
:30:07. > :30:16.are expected to approve legislation that would give
:30:17. > :30:18.the British Prime Minister formal power to withdraw the UK
:30:19. > :30:24.from the European Union. I been un-friended by probably half
:30:25. > :30:36.the girls in my sorrow to. what's life like under a Trump
:30:37. > :30:45.presidency? We're going to take
:30:46. > :30:47.you straight back to the floor They have been going through the
:30:48. > :30:58.lobby for various amendments. Nine votes this evening
:30:59. > :31:08.on various amendments put Most of them being defeated. Asking
:31:09. > :31:13.the government to take the Good Friday agreement into account was
:31:14. > :31:18.defeated by a majority of 39. It does cause problems, this bill, for
:31:19. > :31:22.devolved parliaments. But the government is going to negotiate on
:31:23. > :31:28.behalf of the entire UK. There will be a third reading of the bill.
:31:29. > :31:30.And then the big vote of the evening.
:31:31. > :31:35.At which point MP's must decide whether to send it on to the Lords.
:31:36. > :31:40.Earlier, the Conservative MP Peter Bone, who campaigned to Leave,
:31:41. > :31:51.Many people I talked to on the doorstep say why haven't you
:31:52. > :31:56.triggered Article 50? That's what the vote on the 23rd of June was
:31:57. > :31:59.about. I think Mrs May's approach was right, now is the time to get it
:32:00. > :32:03.through Parliament and hopefully early next month she can fire
:32:04. > :32:08.Article 50, sent the letter across and then we will never have any
:32:09. > :32:11.chance of being in the EU. That's the question you keep asking me
:32:12. > :32:13.every week, when are you going to get on with it? What's all this
:32:14. > :32:15.Parliamentary process. Let's bring in our colleague, Ben
:32:16. > :32:24.Brown who's in Westminster for us. In the cold on the green, suffering
:32:25. > :32:30.for us tonight. How many more votes to go? Three more amendments to go,
:32:31. > :32:33.essentially changes to this bill, this European Union notification of
:32:34. > :32:42.withdrawal bill, that's its full title. So, it's about 15 minutes per
:32:43. > :32:49.amendment, a bit less, maybe. So we are in a substantive vote on the
:32:50. > :32:52.bill in a roundabout half an hour's time. We are expecting that again
:32:53. > :32:57.really to be a pretty comfortable majority for the government. All of
:32:58. > :33:03.these amendments have been pretty safely batted away by the government
:33:04. > :33:06.by majorities of around 50. For example one proposed by the Liberal
:33:07. > :33:11.Democrat party and their leader Tim Farren saying there should be a
:33:12. > :33:15.second referendum on whatever deal the British Prime Minister
:33:16. > :33:19.negotiates, again, that one pretty easily treated. We think there will
:33:20. > :33:23.be a comfortable majority on the big vote in half an hour's time. One of
:33:24. > :33:27.the big questions is of the opposition Labour Party who have
:33:28. > :33:32.decided to vote for this bill because they believe that the
:33:33. > :33:36.democratic will, the democratic mandate of the people. But a number
:33:37. > :33:39.of Labour MPs are going to oppose the bill, oppose their party
:33:40. > :33:45.leadership. We'll be looking to see how many Labour MPs disobeyed their
:33:46. > :33:49.party leader Jeremy Corbyn. It's interesting, this evening it looks
:33:50. > :33:54.again, yet again we have an example of a Parliamentary system Pavin
:33:55. > :33:57.presidential system and in the US a presidential system behaving like a
:33:58. > :34:02.Parliamentary system. The Democrats seem to be determined to say no to
:34:03. > :34:09.everything when they are supposed to, mice, and in the UK with these
:34:10. > :34:13.votes we have people who opposed leaving voting with the government.
:34:14. > :34:18.It's pretty conjugated, isn't it? There are a lot of members of the
:34:19. > :34:23.British Parliament who are in constituencies which voted to remain
:34:24. > :34:27.and some of them feel obliged because their constituency voted to
:34:28. > :34:32.remain to vote against beginning this formal process to leave. But
:34:33. > :34:37.others think, well, the democratic will of the entire United Kingdom
:34:38. > :34:40.expressed in the referendum was to leave, 17.4 million people voted to
:34:41. > :34:44.leave and therefore they should go with the will of the majority. Also
:34:45. > :34:48.you are talking about the government, the parliament, don't
:34:49. > :34:51.forget the reason that members of the British Parliament are voting at
:34:52. > :34:57.all is because the Supreme Court, the highest court in the land just
:34:58. > :35:01.over the road here at Westminster, they ruled that it had to be a vote
:35:02. > :35:06.in the British Parliament that would trigger Article 50 to begin the
:35:07. > :35:14.whole process of leaving the EU. OK then, thank you very much. Back with
:35:15. > :35:17.you later. Interesting that the EU used to divide the Conservative
:35:18. > :35:20.Party, now it divides the opposition, how times have changed.
:35:21. > :35:23.Katty, when the referendum on EU membership took place last year -
:35:24. > :35:25.it created a real divide in this country - families -
:35:26. > :35:27.mine included were divided, friendships were put
:35:28. > :35:30.Never discuss politics at the dinner table they say,
:35:31. > :35:33.but for many it was the only topic of discussion for weeks.
:35:34. > :35:37.Right, and there's something similar happening here as well Christian -
:35:38. > :35:40.between those who call themselves Republican and those who don't.
:35:41. > :35:42.So we've been speaking to some Conservative university students
:35:43. > :35:54.about how they're coping in their liberal surroundings.
:35:55. > :36:05.People would look at me like I had a million heads when I talk about
:36:06. > :36:11.these extremely conservative positions. People outside my dorm
:36:12. > :36:19.come up to me and say, your Diego, right? You're a Republican, why?
:36:20. > :36:24.I've been un-friended and un-liked by probably about half of the girls.
:36:25. > :36:30.People in my freshman class won't look at me any more. I get asked a
:36:31. > :36:33.lot, how can you be Jewish and Republican, Hispanic and Republican,
:36:34. > :36:38.is that being a traitor to your race, religion and gender? In the
:36:39. > :36:44.liberal point of view, if you are not in favour of their beliefs you
:36:45. > :36:52.are racist, homophobic, sexist, etc. I don't really feel like calling
:36:53. > :36:58.myself a conservative any time soon with Trump in office. I'm called a
:36:59. > :37:00.racist by people I don't even know. Anybody who has remotely
:37:01. > :37:06.conservative opinion is off the rails, is not normal. There's this
:37:07. > :37:10.feeling of censorship, almost, on the college campus. Diego, you are
:37:11. > :37:14.Mexican, how can you do this to your people? I did attend the
:37:15. > :37:18.inauguration and I attended with pride in my heart for my country
:37:19. > :37:22.that I love. Going back on campus I was immediately stared at, boys were
:37:23. > :37:27.pointing at me, people were laughing at me. It gets lonely when people
:37:28. > :37:31.can't understand and it's just easier to withdraw myself than to
:37:32. > :37:37.try to explain. I have kind of even up in the social sphere. It's
:37:38. > :37:42.painful. I think this nation is in crisis of sorts. Feel hopeless
:37:43. > :37:56.sometimes. People are very quick to yell.
:37:57. > :38:01.You can see just how hard it is to be a conservative amongst students
:38:02. > :38:03.at the moment. Here's a question -
:38:04. > :38:05.what do US courts and Nordstrom Well today they are both
:38:06. > :38:12.in the sights of Mr Trump. We'll tell you about
:38:13. > :38:14.the fashion retailer in a moment but let's return first
:38:15. > :38:17.to his ongoing battle with the courts - specifically
:38:18. > :38:19.the San Francisco appeals court, which is still considering
:38:20. > :38:22.whether or not to reinstate a travel ban on people from seven
:38:23. > :38:25.Muslim-majority countries. Here's what Mr Trump told
:38:26. > :38:37.a gathering of US police chiefs I don't ever want to call a core to
:38:38. > :38:45.biased so I won't call it biased. And we haven't had a decision yet.
:38:46. > :38:52.But courts seem to be so political and it would be so great for our
:38:53. > :38:58.justice system if they would be able to read the statement and do what's
:38:59. > :39:03.right and that has to do with the security of our country which is so
:39:04. > :39:09.important. Right now we are at risk because of what happened. General
:39:10. > :39:17.Kelly is an extremely talented man and a very good man, now secretary
:39:18. > :39:25.Kelly, homeland security. We are doing our job, he's a great man. We
:39:26. > :39:29.are doing our job and one of the reasons you probably heard that we
:39:30. > :39:33.did it so quickly in fact I said let's give a one-month notice and
:39:34. > :39:37.then law enforcement and General Kelly was so great because he said
:39:38. > :39:42.we totally knew about it, we knew about everything. We do things well,
:39:43. > :39:44.we do things right. But the law enforcement people said to me you
:39:45. > :39:49.can't give notice because if you give notice that you're to be really
:39:50. > :39:52.tough in one month from now or one week from now I suggested one month
:39:53. > :39:56.and said what about a week, they said no, you can't do that because
:39:57. > :40:02.then people are going to pour in before the toughness comes. Do you
:40:03. > :40:06.people agree? You know more about law than anybody, law enforcement.
:40:07. > :40:11.So I wanted to give, like, a month. I said what about a week? They said,
:40:12. > :40:15.then you're going to have a whole pile of people, perhaps, perhaps,
:40:16. > :40:20.with very evil intentions coming in before the restrictions. So there it
:40:21. > :40:26.is, folks. It's as plain as you can have it. I didn't and I was a good
:40:27. > :40:30.student, I understand things, I comprehend very well, OK? Better
:40:31. > :40:39.than I think almost anybody. What worries me about what he's
:40:40. > :40:42.saying there, and I'm trying to take this impartially, but he's talking
:40:43. > :40:47.about conversations within the inner sanctum of the White House, so he's
:40:48. > :40:51.telling people about what a judge from Boston told him or another
:40:52. > :40:54.judge from the other side of the country. Surely if people are coming
:40:55. > :40:58.in to share their private thoughts, strategic thoughts with him, they
:40:59. > :41:02.are going to think twice? Well, Donald Trump talks through Twitter
:41:03. > :41:06.and through the press in direct conversation so much that I think a
:41:07. > :41:10.lot of what is happening in the White House in private is getting
:41:11. > :41:14.out into the public. It's not that unusual, Barack Obama did it, for
:41:15. > :41:18.presidents to disagree with what the courts have done. What is unusual is
:41:19. > :41:22.what he did just there which is to suggest, and he pulled himself back
:41:23. > :41:28.slightly, that courts are not politically unbiased, that they have
:41:29. > :41:31.their biases. And he did that when he said the so-called judge, or to
:41:32. > :41:36.impugn the professionalism of the courts. That we haven't heard before
:41:37. > :41:43.and I think that is worrying. What you make of these tweets on
:41:44. > :41:53.Nordstom? This is the tweet. Give us the background and why this
:41:54. > :41:56.is important. In a way it is this temperament issue, should he be
:41:57. > :41:59.weighing in on this when the president has said he's meant to be
:42:00. > :42:12.separating his business from his government? Ivanka Trump has this
:42:13. > :42:16.brand and she has now been dropped from several places. And there is
:42:17. > :42:19.the president weighing in in support of his daughter. The trouble is,
:42:20. > :42:25.he's the president and just after he sent out the tweet, Nordstom's share
:42:26. > :42:29.price dipped, so what the president tweets has an impact on the markets,
:42:30. > :42:32.and that is something people are going to watch. Nancy Pelosi, leader
:42:33. > :42:34.of the Democrats in the house has already said it was inappropriate.
:42:35. > :42:36.We have to leave it there. That is 100 Days from BBC News -
:42:37. > :42:39.do jump onto our Facebook page where my colleague Laura Trevelyan
:42:40. > :42:42.will be taking your questions with our North America
:42:43. > :42:44.reporter, Anthony Zurcher. We'd love to hear comments
:42:45. > :42:46.and share your thoughts - so do take a look -
:42:47. > :42:49.for now though, from me Christian Fraser in London
:42:50. > :42:52.and Katty Kay in Washington,