:00:07. > :00:11.Members of Donald Trump's campaign team are accused of frequent
:00:12. > :00:20.President Trump calls the claims conspiracy theories and nonsense.
:00:21. > :00:22.He attacks the intelligence agencies for leaking information,
:00:23. > :00:30.Michael Flynn, General Flynn, is a wonderful man.
:00:31. > :00:32.I think he's been treated very, very unfairly by the media.
:00:33. > :00:38.As I call it, the fake media, in many cases.
:00:39. > :00:41.After the chaotic downfall of the National Security Adviser,
:00:42. > :00:45.critics in Congress want to know who is in charge at the White House.
:00:46. > :00:47.Also tonight: A new administration, a new relationship and yet another
:00:48. > :00:49.attempt to find peace between the Israeli's
:00:50. > :01:09.encourage a peace and really a great peace deal, we will be working on it
:01:10. > :01:11.very, very diligently. Nationalist,
:01:12. > :01:12.anti-immigrant, in power. Why Poland's controversial
:01:13. > :01:13.government provokes protest I'm Katty Kay in Washington,
:01:14. > :01:30.Christian Fraser's in London. Nonsense is how President Trump
:01:31. > :01:33.describes news reports that his campaign team
:01:34. > :01:35.were in regular contact with Russian officials
:01:36. > :01:41.during the election campaign. He followed up with this tweet:
:01:42. > :01:45."Information is being illegally given to the failing @nytimes
:01:46. > :01:46.and @washingtonpost by the intelligence
:01:47. > :01:48.community - NSA and FBI? He was on a bit of a twitter
:01:49. > :02:04.storm this morning - At a press conference
:02:05. > :02:06.in the past couple of hours, Michael Flynn, General Flynn
:02:07. > :02:13.is a wonderful man. I think he's been treated very,
:02:14. > :02:16.very unfairly by the media. As I call it, the fake
:02:17. > :02:23.media, in many cases. I think it's really a sad thing
:02:24. > :02:26.that he was treated so badly. I think, in addition
:02:27. > :02:29.to that, from intelligence, papers are being leaked,
:02:30. > :02:33.things are being leaked. It's criminal action,
:02:34. > :02:35.criminal act, and it's been going on for a long
:02:36. > :02:39.time, before me. People are trying to cover
:02:40. > :02:44.up for a terrible loss that the Democrats had under Hillary
:02:45. > :02:50.Clinton. I think it's very, very unfair
:02:51. > :02:53.what happened to General Flynn, the way he was treated
:02:54. > :02:55.and the documents and papers that were illegally,
:02:56. > :03:12.I stress that, illegally leaked. He only took two marker questions in
:03:13. > :03:14.that press conference, not from the mainstream media. We will get into
:03:15. > :03:15.that in a second. The reports that Mr Trump's campaign
:03:16. > :03:18.staff had repeated contact with Russian intelligence officials
:03:19. > :03:20.came from the New York Times. Matt Apuzzo is one of
:03:21. > :03:30.the journalists working the story. I am not sure if he is there at the
:03:31. > :03:34.moment? No, he is not. We will come back to him. He will tell us all
:03:35. > :03:38.about the investigation they have been holding. Before we do that, I
:03:39. > :03:43.want to talk to you about what he said. The interesting thing about
:03:44. > :03:46.what he had to say about Mike Flynn is that it completely differs to
:03:47. > :03:50.what we heard yesterday from Sean Spicer, who said he had lost the
:03:51. > :03:54.trust of the Vice President and had to go. Today, the President comes
:03:55. > :04:00.out and says he is a wonderful guy. Staggering, isn't it? We have Donald
:04:01. > :04:08.Trump rewriting the story on Mike Flynn. This administration is
:04:09. > :04:14.turning all of us into armchair psychologists. You wonder if Donald
:04:15. > :04:18.Trump has the gene that allows them to back down, or if he has been on
:04:19. > :04:21.offence always in his business life. The idea of saying my administration
:04:22. > :04:26.made a mistake in hiring somebody that lost our trust, that is just
:04:27. > :04:30.too difficult for him. As you said, yesterday Sean Spicer said he had
:04:31. > :04:34.lost trust and had to go. There is the President saying he is a great
:04:35. > :04:41.guy. Which is it? Is he a great guy? In which case, why did he have to
:04:42. > :04:46.go? Or is this the President out of step with his spokesperson? Then he
:04:47. > :04:51.blamed the fake media, the New York Times included in that. Let's speak
:04:52. > :04:52.to Matt, one of the journalists working the story. Thanks for being
:04:53. > :05:00.with us this morning. Let's talk about the contacts. The
:05:01. > :05:04.one thing you would have to say, the people on the campaign team, if your
:05:05. > :05:07.story is right, that were talking to the Russians, the one thing the
:05:08. > :05:11.Russians and the campaign team had in common is that they want to
:05:12. > :05:15.Donald Trump to win. What were they talking about through those months
:05:16. > :05:21.of the campaign? Well, that is exactly right. The very nature of
:05:22. > :05:26.the question tells you why American intelligence was so worked up about
:05:27. > :05:32.this in the last several months of the campaign. We don't know, as I
:05:33. > :05:36.sit here right now, I don't know what they were talking about. There
:05:37. > :05:43.is no evidence of collusion right now between the tramp campaign and
:05:44. > :05:46.the Russian intelligence agencies. -- Trump campaign. What there is is
:05:47. > :05:52.a great deal of concern in the United States that you had a
:05:53. > :06:01.candidate for President that was making very favourable comments to
:06:02. > :06:07.Russia, people in his inner circle making extensive contacts to senior
:06:08. > :06:11.Russian intelligence officials and the hack, all happening at the same
:06:12. > :06:14.time. It's not proof of anything, but it explains why the US
:06:15. > :06:23.intelligence agencies were so spun up. Context is important. That
:06:24. > :06:26.context is important. Eight months ago, the details of this hack were
:06:27. > :06:29.coming to light. While the hacking is going on and they were
:06:30. > :06:33.investigating at, the campaign team were talking to the Russians? That
:06:34. > :06:36.is exactly right. This is all happening... None of these things
:06:37. > :06:42.are happening in a vacuum, they are all happening at the same time. You
:06:43. > :06:47.can see, timing wise, we are just journalists, we are not intelligence
:06:48. > :06:52.agencies. We are setting here and saying, boy, that is awfully
:06:53. > :06:56.interesting. If you are the CIA, the NSA, the FBI, you see the attacks
:06:57. > :07:00.happening at the same time you are seeing this outreach and contact
:07:01. > :07:05.that high levels in Russian intelligence, of course that is
:07:06. > :07:10.going to get you concern. That's a big part of why we have been
:07:11. > :07:16.interested in this. Just to be clear, do we know who it was in
:07:17. > :07:22.tramp's circle that was speaking to Russian intelligence officials? --
:07:23. > :07:26.Trump's circle. We have identified the campaign chairman at one point.
:07:27. > :07:32.He had done some work with pro-Russian government in the
:07:33. > :07:36.Ukraine, as one of the people talking to the intelligence agents.
:07:37. > :07:42.He told is definitely there was no intentional contact. He correctly
:07:43. > :07:48.said that it is not like these guys are wearing badges that say Russian
:07:49. > :08:02.intelligence. They don't have hi, my name is Sergei and I am from the
:08:03. > :08:06.FSB. You could see how somebody who was doing business in the Ukraine,
:08:07. > :08:13.eastern Russia, might inadvertently make contact with Russian
:08:14. > :08:15.intelligence agents. You can see how Russian intelligence agencies might
:08:16. > :08:19.see people like that as a valuable target for intelligence gathering on
:08:20. > :08:25.a clandestinely at all. They might not even know. But it was the volume
:08:26. > :08:33.of the contacts that really gave the federal government here pause. OK, I
:08:34. > :08:36.have to say, both the New York Times and Washington Post have done really
:08:37. > :08:39.good reporting on all of this. It raises further questions, which is
:08:40. > :08:42.why people are talking about more investigations. There are at least
:08:43. > :08:47.four different US investigations into Russia's actions going on,
:08:48. > :08:50.involving the FBI and various intelligence committees. Yesterday
:08:51. > :08:55.we heard from a Republican that things it is a mistake to launch
:08:56. > :08:58.another big investigation. I've been speaking to a Democrat who thinks
:08:59. > :08:59.the opposite. Congressman Castro, you sit
:09:00. > :09:01.on the house intelligence committee. I imagine you're a bit
:09:02. > :09:05.busy at the moment? We are, in fact, very busy
:09:06. > :09:11.with everything that's going on. There are several investigations
:09:12. > :09:13.underway between the House, the Senate and the FBI,
:09:14. > :09:15.into the Trump team's various Does America really need
:09:16. > :09:18.another one, do you think? Well, you're right, there's
:09:19. > :09:20.investigations going on in both chambers to try to get to the bottom
:09:21. > :09:24.of what happened in the 2016 More information continues to come
:09:25. > :09:35.out, at least in media reports. We've not been briefed as part
:09:36. > :09:37.of the intelligence committee on all of this information,
:09:38. > :09:43.so I can't necessarily confirm it. But what has come out has
:09:44. > :09:46.been very disturbing, particularly the allegations
:09:47. > :09:47.about Trump advisers actively talking to Russian intelligence
:09:48. > :09:54.agents during the campaign. Most of all, because I have said
:09:55. > :09:57.this, we need the answer to one question, whether any Americans
:09:58. > :09:59.conspired with the Russians, I said that if, in fact,
:10:00. > :10:08.Americans did cooperate, they must be prosecuted to the full
:10:09. > :10:11.extent of the law, no matter how OK, so the chairman
:10:12. > :10:16.of the intelligence committee you sit on said he is not
:10:17. > :10:18.going to investigate Michael Flynn and his phone calls
:10:19. > :10:21.to the Russian ambassador. But he is going to investigate
:10:22. > :10:24.the leaks from the FBI to journalists that led
:10:25. > :10:26.to the breaking of this story. I think the biggest question
:10:27. > :10:33.that we have to answer is whether anybody over there,
:10:34. > :10:36.whether it was General Flynn or anybody else,
:10:37. > :10:38.was working with the Russians. I understand that the FBI
:10:39. > :10:40.and the intelligence agencies want to make sure that people aren't
:10:41. > :10:42.leaking classified information. But the nation, most of all,
:10:43. > :10:49.is concerned with any kind of nefarious relationship
:10:50. > :10:50.between the Russians You worked closely with
:10:51. > :10:55.the intelligence services. The President, just
:10:56. > :10:57.in the press conference with Prime Minister Netanyahu,
:10:58. > :10:59.said earlier that these It is fairly unprecedented
:11:00. > :11:06.for an administration to have this Why do you think that
:11:07. > :11:11.the intelligence services are leaking so much news
:11:12. > :11:13.about what's happening I can't say definitively
:11:14. > :11:20.who is doing the leaking. But I will say that we've never seen
:11:21. > :11:23.a President who has had a rockier, more hostile relationship
:11:24. > :11:25.with the intelligence services of the United States
:11:26. > :11:33.than we see in Donald Trump. Congressman, who do you think
:11:34. > :11:36.is in charge of national security Well, you know, of course they have
:11:37. > :11:45.a National Security Adviser who is now the acting
:11:46. > :11:47.National Security Adviser. Well, Donald Trump, I think
:11:48. > :11:53.the President is always the commander-in-chief
:11:54. > :11:54.and ultimately in charge of decisions that are made
:11:55. > :11:56.with respect to national security. But there does seem to be
:11:57. > :11:59.rather a lot of confusion I think, quite frankly,
:12:00. > :12:11.he has appointed people who, unfortunately, based
:12:12. > :12:12.on their background and their lack of expertise,
:12:13. > :12:14.are in over their heads. The other problem they have is that,
:12:15. > :12:17.aside from the Cabinet appointments, of course some of them
:12:18. > :12:20.are in the Senate still, aside from that, the ones that don't
:12:21. > :12:23.have to go through any kind of confirmation process,
:12:24. > :12:25.they've not hired up the staff that they need to fully staff even
:12:26. > :12:28.the NSC and the intelligence part I don't know why they are
:12:29. > :12:33.dragging their feet on that. Whenever you talk about national
:12:34. > :12:35.security, making decisions on tough issues, the President has a final
:12:36. > :12:38.say, but it really is a team effort and you need a full
:12:39. > :12:43.team out on the field. OK, Congressman Joaquin Castro,
:12:44. > :12:57.thank you for joining That need for a team is exactly what
:12:58. > :12:59.we were talking about yesterday. The phrase in over their heads, I am
:13:00. > :13:00.hearing it a lot in Washington. In the last hour the President has
:13:01. > :13:03.held a news conference Fair to say Benjamin Netenyahu never
:13:04. > :13:07.really got on with President Obama. In fact you may call recall that
:13:08. > :13:10.under President Obama's instructions the United States abstained
:13:11. > :13:12.recently, on a UN resolution demanding an end to the building
:13:13. > :13:17.of Israeli settlements. The resolution was passed,
:13:18. > :13:19.the Israelis were furious. So where does Donald Trump stand
:13:20. > :13:24.on the peace process? As far as settlements,
:13:25. > :13:26.I'd like to see you hold back We'll work something out,
:13:27. > :13:33.I'd like to see a deal being made. Two state, one state,
:13:34. > :13:35.and I like the one that I'm very happy with the one
:13:36. > :13:40.that both parties like, And I believe that the great
:13:41. > :13:52.opportunity for peace comes from a regional approach,
:13:53. > :13:54.from involving our new-found Arab And we have been discussing
:13:55. > :14:00.that and it is something that is very different,
:14:01. > :14:02.hasn't been discussed before, And it's actually a much bigger
:14:03. > :14:05.deal, much more important It would take in many,
:14:06. > :14:11.many different countries and would cover a very
:14:12. > :14:15.large territory, so... I didn't know that you were
:14:16. > :14:17.going to mention that, but now that you did,
:14:18. > :14:30.I think that it's a terrific thing. Let's talk to Dennis Ross,
:14:31. > :14:39.a former US-Middle East Envoy - I was wondering if you could clarify
:14:40. > :14:44.something for me, it seems as though the President was rather casually
:14:45. > :14:51.checking out decades of American policy on the two-state solution,
:14:52. > :14:54.one state, two states, I don't really mind? Yes, it sounds like
:14:55. > :15:00.that. I wonder whether it is really a function of not really having
:15:01. > :15:03.formed a policy yet. In effect, he said the two-state outcome would be
:15:04. > :15:09.easier, but it is really up to the parties. It made a different way of
:15:10. > :15:12.saying what is to be the American position, basically, we can accept
:15:13. > :15:16.whatever the parties can accept. It is hard to imagine an outcome were
:15:17. > :15:20.the Palestinians would accept something less than a state. It's
:15:21. > :15:25.hard to imagine an outcome, if you are also talking about bringing in
:15:26. > :15:29.the Arab states to play a role, perhaps to provide a cover for the
:15:30. > :15:33.Palestinians because, given Palestinian weakness and division,
:15:34. > :15:38.their capacity to negotiate right now is pretty difficult, to say the
:15:39. > :15:42.least. Maybe they need an Arab cover. It is hard to believe that
:15:43. > :15:45.Arab states will provide a cover and say, yes, we can accept an outcome
:15:46. > :15:51.where there is no Palestinian state. I think it is the fact that there
:15:52. > :15:54.was a kind of posture of saying, whatever the two sides can agree to
:15:55. > :16:01.is fine with me, that might be less chucking away the position of the
:16:02. > :16:06.United States, which has been a position, actually, since George
:16:07. > :16:19.Dubya Bush. It was the notion of a Palestinian state. -- George W Bush.
:16:20. > :16:24.As one of the authors of the Clinton Parameters, we were offering up not
:16:25. > :16:25.as American policy but as a bridging proposal to overcome differences
:16:26. > :16:48.between two sides. It was clear that Benjamin Netanyahu
:16:49. > :16:52.feels he has a new-found friend in President Trump. He also praised his
:16:53. > :16:56.son-in-law. On the critical issue of Iran, do you think the Israelis
:16:57. > :17:00.might be disappointed? The Trump administration has made clear since
:17:01. > :17:05.the election that they are not going to rip up the nuclear deal with
:17:06. > :17:15.Iran? I don't believe that there will be disappointment on that.
:17:16. > :17:17.Prime Minister Netanyahu has never liked the agreement, the
:17:18. > :17:23.comprehensive plan of action. He also realises it bides time. What he
:17:24. > :17:32.is concerned about is, at the end of 15 years, under the terms of the
:17:33. > :17:35.JCPOA, Iran is allowed a large nuclear infrastructure with no
:17:36. > :17:39.limitations on size or quality. He worries that is another way of
:17:40. > :17:43.legitimising what will be Iran having a nuclear weapon down the
:17:44. > :17:50.road. I think what he is probably saying to the President in private
:17:51. > :17:58.is, find a way to extend the timeline. I'm not concerned about
:17:59. > :18:05.the deal, I'm more concerned about them becoming a nuclear state later
:18:06. > :18:13.on. Find a date with that, and we will be imperfect sink. I wonder if
:18:14. > :18:18.there is a backdrop for peace? We still have continuing rocket fire
:18:19. > :18:22.into Israel, settlement building going on. Then you look at the
:18:23. > :18:24.politics of it in Israel, and whether Mr Netanyahu really have the
:18:25. > :18:30.power to force through the peace process. His coalition partners are
:18:31. > :18:36.Zionist and well to the right, they don't like the idea of a two-state
:18:37. > :18:42.solution at all? I think one of the reasons that the Prime Minister was
:18:43. > :18:47.reluctant, as he put it, to use the label. He said he didn't want to use
:18:48. > :18:52.the label. He described the conditions he laid out in his speech
:18:53. > :18:58.in 2009, the spring of 2009, where he accepted a Palestinian state,
:18:59. > :19:01.that he had a series of conditions related to it which he thought made
:19:02. > :19:07.it possible for Israel to live with it. He repeated those conditions
:19:08. > :19:12.without using the label. Why did he not use the label? Because the head
:19:13. > :19:16.of the Jewish Home Party in the coalition is dead set against a
:19:17. > :19:18.two-state outcome. He was putting enormous pressure on the Prime
:19:19. > :19:24.Minister to come out and drop the commitment to a two-state outcome.
:19:25. > :19:29.There is no doubt there is pressure from within the Israeli government
:19:30. > :19:34.not to accept the two state outcome. Think through what you heard from
:19:35. > :19:37.President Trump. He made it clear he wants to pursue a deal, he made it
:19:38. > :19:41.clear he wants to pursue peace. He made it clear that is important to
:19:42. > :19:45.him. It doesn't matter what the label is, the end of the day. I
:19:46. > :19:51.don't see any Palestinian ever accepting anything less than a
:19:52. > :19:55.state, and I don't see the Arab states, even if you get that
:19:56. > :19:59.approach, accepting an outcome that does not produce a Palestinian
:20:00. > :20:02.state. Regardless of the terminology right now, if you are going to be
:20:03. > :20:06.serious about pursuing peace, you are going to come back to the
:20:07. > :20:11.outcome that yields what would be two states for two peoples. We might
:20:12. > :20:13.not be able to produce that any time soon, particularly given the
:20:14. > :20:21.weakness on the Palestinian side and the fact that Hamas controls Gaza,
:20:22. > :20:25.given what is going on in Israel, it is all daunting. The real challenge
:20:26. > :20:28.if you are engaged in peacemaking is not just bringing Arab states into
:20:29. > :20:34.the process, the real challenge is how do you believe to restore a
:20:35. > :20:38.sense of possibility when there is disbelief more than possibility?
:20:39. > :20:46.Fascinating. Thank you very much for being with us. He is a transactional
:20:47. > :20:49.President, we wonder whether his patience will last on the peace
:20:50. > :20:50.process. Others have tried and failed.
:20:51. > :20:53.Well as the Israeli Prime Minister and the US President met today
:20:54. > :20:56.it was overshadowed by the turmoil which is rattling the White
:20:57. > :20:59.Yes, events in recent days have really put them
:21:00. > :21:06.on the defensive and this story continues to unfold.
:21:07. > :21:14.Good morning, America. White housing crisis. Aids to President Trump
:21:15. > :21:18.repeated contact with Russian intelligence... America woke up to
:21:19. > :21:21.speculation that the White House is already in turmoil. A day after the
:21:22. > :21:25.National Security Adviser was forced to resign because he discussed US
:21:26. > :21:29.sanctions with Russia before Mr Trump took office, and then lied
:21:30. > :21:32.about it, top Republicans have joined calls for a wide
:21:33. > :21:37.investigation into Michael Flynn's links with Moscow. It is all causing
:21:38. > :21:42.confusion and chaos in the administration. Obviously, there is
:21:43. > :21:47.an administration that is in significant disarray as far as
:21:48. > :21:54.national security is concerned. As is so often the case, it is now a
:21:55. > :21:59.question of who knew what and when. On December 29, 2016, President
:22:00. > :22:03.Obama announces sanctions, expelling 35 Russian diplomats over Moscow's
:22:04. > :22:06.interference in the US presidential election. On the same day, Michael
:22:07. > :22:14.Flynn holds a series of phone calls with the Russian ambassador. On the
:22:15. > :22:17.13th of January, Mr Trump's spokesman, Sean Spicer, said
:22:18. > :22:21.sanctions were never discussed on the calls. Two days later, Vice
:22:22. > :22:26.President-Elect Mike Pence goes on national television and confirms
:22:27. > :22:30.that account. What I can confirm, having spoken to him, is that those
:22:31. > :22:37.conversations that happened to occur around the time that the United
:22:38. > :22:42.States took action to expel diplomats had nothing whatsoever to
:22:43. > :22:46.do with those sanctions. On the 26th of January, the acting Attorney
:22:47. > :22:50.General Sally Yates warns the White House it might have been misled by
:22:51. > :22:54.General Flynn's account of the calls and the National Security Adviser is
:22:55. > :22:58.now open to blackmail by Russia. It is a full two weeks later, on the
:22:59. > :23:02.9th of February, that the Vice President is made aware of those
:23:03. > :23:05.warnings. On the same day that the Washington Post reports that Mike
:23:06. > :23:11.Flynn had discussed sanctions with the Russian ambassador. Today's news
:23:12. > :23:15.reports of more extensive communications between members of
:23:16. > :23:20.Trump's senior team and Russia have clearly angered the President. If it
:23:21. > :23:25.turns out any deals were made, this would be not only unprecedented, it
:23:26. > :23:28.would be shocking and would be something that you would have to
:23:29. > :23:33.take active steps to ensure never happens again. It would leave a
:23:34. > :23:38.permanent stain on this administration. There are two big
:23:39. > :23:42.stories here, Russia and the West Wing dysfunction. It's simply not
:23:43. > :23:47.clear who is running national security right now. General Flynn is
:23:48. > :23:54.out. Senior policy adviser Kellyanne Conway is losing respect among the
:23:55. > :23:58.press. That leaves Stephen Bannon, senior policy adviser Stephen Mellor
:23:59. > :24:07.and son-in-law Jarod Krishna as the people closest to the President. The
:24:08. > :24:11.people shaping this presidency. I am fascinated by the split you are
:24:12. > :24:22.outlining. You have the three people there, Steve Baron, Steve Miller,
:24:23. > :24:26.then from the other side you have the Vice President, Mike Pence.
:24:27. > :24:33.There is a question of how the Vice President comes out of this.
:24:34. > :24:36.According to the adies for the President, they talk every day, and
:24:37. > :24:42.yet for two weeks they don't bring up the issue of Mike Flynn? We are a
:24:43. > :24:46.month into the administration, we have had a major breach between the
:24:47. > :24:53.President and his Vice President. I'm not saying this relationship is
:24:54. > :24:57.irreparable, but we need a marriage guidance counsellor fast. There
:24:58. > :25:05.cannot be a perception that you have the President and his advisers, and
:25:06. > :25:07.the Vice President left in the dark, particularly because conservatives
:25:08. > :25:11.in this country like Mike Pence. That is important to the President
:25:12. > :25:15.as well. He is a real conservative, they can trust him on economic and
:25:16. > :25:19.social issues where they might feel that Donald Trump is wobbly, they
:25:20. > :25:31.know Mike Pence is the real deal and they don't want and squeezed out of
:25:32. > :25:33.a perception he has clout. I just want to share this quote from Tony
:25:34. > :25:44.Thomas. He is not the kind of guy that would
:25:45. > :25:52.come out with a quote like that for effect. He is a four star general.
:25:53. > :25:55.What did we hear from the congressmen earlier? Effectively,
:25:56. > :25:57.this is not a competent administration and that is a concern
:25:58. > :25:59.for national security. You're watching 100
:26:00. > :26:16.Days from BBC News. Temperatures continued the upward
:26:17. > :26:20.creep and felt pleasant if you had some sunshine. This was Cornwall,
:26:21. > :26:23.but they were not so lucky in Staffordshire. The weather system
:26:24. > :26:26.brought wet weather into the Midlands. It is stretching all the
:26:27. > :26:35.way to western parts of Scotland as well. Some heavy bursts, clearing
:26:36. > :26:39.from eastern parts of England. Showers in western parts of England
:26:40. > :26:46.and Wales. Midnight, a lot of dry weather to come, although there will
:26:47. > :26:50.be rain feeding into Scotland. In Argyll, strong and gale force wind
:26:51. > :26:53.with that. Lighter wind across southern parts, so there could be
:26:54. > :26:56.some fog patches, slow to clear on Thursday morning. Low pressure is
:26:57. > :27:00.close to Scotland on Thursday. It will be a windy start to the day.
:27:01. > :27:04.Continue across northern and western parts, we will see outbreaks of
:27:05. > :27:10.rain. That will ease along with the wind. You have some shelter in
:27:11. > :27:13.western Scotland. A lot of dry weather in Northern Ireland to begin
:27:14. > :27:18.with, and across the bulk of England and Wales, the odd shower dotted
:27:19. > :27:22.around. Lighter wind across southern parts, feeling cold, especially in
:27:23. > :27:24.the countryside. Some fog patches around as well. Where you are
:27:25. > :27:30.starting the day that way, with mist and fog, it could be slow to clear.
:27:31. > :27:34.Once it is gone, variable cloud and sunny spells. England and Wales
:27:35. > :27:38.mainly dry, bar the odd shower. Turning weather later in the day in
:27:39. > :27:43.Northern Ireland and the rain and wind easing in Scotland. As for the
:27:44. > :27:48.temperatures, many places getting into double figures, get a bit of
:27:49. > :27:52.afternoon sunshine and it will feel pleasant. Light wind for some of us
:27:53. > :27:56.on Thursday night coming to Friday morning. Further fog patches
:27:57. > :28:00.forming. Not widespread, but could slow you down before they clear. It
:28:01. > :28:01.tends to brighten up on Friday before another weather system comes
:28:02. > :28:07.into western parts, bringing outbreaks of rain. It is mild. The
:28:08. > :28:10.average temperature is about eight or 9 degrees. Look at that, easily
:28:11. > :28:15.beating that over the next few days, and at the end of the weekend, into
:28:16. > :28:20.the start of next week, it could be very mild in a few spots. Staying
:28:21. > :28:23.mild this weekend. A bit of sunshine? If you are lucky. The risk
:28:24. > :28:24.of catching some rain. More especially across northern parts of
:28:25. > :30:05.the UK. Goodbye. Members of Donald Trump's campaign
:30:06. > :30:10.team are accused of frequent President Trump calls
:30:11. > :30:16.the claims "conspiracy But Democrat Congressman
:30:17. > :30:24.Joaquin Castro told us he wants We need the answer to one question -
:30:25. > :30:28.whether any Americans conspired with the Russians who hacked
:30:29. > :30:33.into our 2016 elections. And I've said that if,
:30:34. > :30:36.in fact, Americans did cooperate, that they must be
:30:37. > :30:39.prosecuted to the full extent of the law, no matter how high
:30:40. > :30:43.up the trail it goes. And nationalist,
:30:44. > :30:48.anti-immigrant, in power - why Poland's controversial
:30:49. > :30:50.government provokes protest It's election year in Europe,
:30:51. > :31:04.and right wing, populist parties are challenging the political
:31:05. > :31:07.establishment in Germany, They hope to emulate the success
:31:08. > :31:12.of Poland's anti-immigrant nationalist Law and Justice Party,
:31:13. > :31:15.which swept to victory in 2015. Their first year in power has been
:31:16. > :31:19.marred by controversy. But, as Jenny Hill reports,
:31:20. > :31:35.the party still enjoys Familiar routines, but Magdalena's
:31:36. > :31:39.country is changing. She is a journalist. She says it is getting
:31:40. > :31:49.harder to tell the truth about the Polish government. I remember the
:31:50. > :32:01.communism. And I always wish that it never come back. Every step which is
:32:02. > :32:08.made to destroy our law, to destroy our constitutional courts, to
:32:09. > :32:12.destroy free media, I can't accepted. Turbulent times for
:32:13. > :32:18.Poland. The right-wing law and Justice party, or Peace, has ruled
:32:19. > :32:21.for more than a year. It initially limited media access to Parliament.
:32:22. > :32:27.It has increased its power over public broadcasters and appointed
:32:28. > :32:33.its own judges to the Constitutional Court, defying EU condemnation. But
:32:34. > :32:43.after thousands of Polish women took to the streets, it backed down over
:32:44. > :32:46.plans to all but outlaw abortion. TRANSLATION: What is happening now
:32:47. > :32:50.is no different to what was happening five, ten, 20 years ago.
:32:51. > :32:55.It is not worse than other parties in the past. Nothing has changed.
:32:56. > :32:58.The only difference is that now, only now when Peace came to power,
:32:59. > :33:03.international media started to pay attention to what is happening in
:33:04. > :33:08.Poland. This is Catholic country. The Peace party is close to the
:33:09. > :33:16.church, champions traditional family values, speaks a nationalist
:33:17. > :33:24.language. And away from the capital city, they like what they hear. For
:33:25. > :33:34.me, the value of family and religion is important. I think new
:33:35. > :33:38.governments support young people. The situation with immigrants, I
:33:39. > :33:46.think this is a really big problem, not only for Poland but for Germany
:33:47. > :33:52.and France. Division, populism, nationalism. For Poland, for its
:33:53. > :33:56.neighbours, the political landscape is shifting. The law and Justice
:33:57. > :34:02.party spoke to voters who felt left behind by the liberal political
:34:03. > :34:05.mainstream. And that's why Europe's established political parties are
:34:06. > :34:10.watching closely and with a degree of alarm. Because law and justice is
:34:11. > :34:15.well over a year into its government. And despite the
:34:16. > :34:18.protests, despite the condemnation of its methods, it retains
:34:19. > :34:25.widespread popular support. Jenny Hill reporting.
:34:26. > :34:29.I just want to get some news coming in from the Senate. We talked about
:34:30. > :34:35.chaos in the administration. It looks like another setback for
:34:36. > :34:40.Donald Trump. It looks like his Labour Secretary Paik is in trouble.
:34:41. > :34:46.Republicans have sent a letter to the White House saying they do not
:34:47. > :34:50.have the votes to get him confirmed. He has too many problems with
:34:51. > :34:55.Republicans, it seems, in the committee. This could be another
:34:56. > :34:58.problem for him. He is a fast food millionaire who is opposed to the
:34:59. > :35:04.minimum wage. He has raised questions about overtime payments.
:35:05. > :35:08.Not popular with Labour organisations. It looks like he may
:35:09. > :35:15.actually be out before he is in. And all that on the back of the
:35:16. > :35:20.Betsy DeVos saiga, where the vice president had to pass her
:35:21. > :35:21.appointment with the casting vote. Is the Russian connection nonsense,
:35:22. > :35:25.a fake news media conspiracy theory, as the President calls it -
:35:26. > :35:29.or is there something more to it? Last night, White House
:35:30. > :35:31.communications director Sean Spicer was telling us they had been pretty
:35:32. > :35:33.tough on Russia. Well, not during the campaign -
:35:34. > :35:39.here's a flavour. Wouldn't it be nice if we actually
:35:40. > :35:45.did get along with Russia? Wouldn't it be nice? Rusher, if
:35:46. > :35:48.you're listening, I hope you're able to find the 30,000 e-mails that are
:35:49. > :35:53.missing. I'm going to take a look at is, but
:35:54. > :35:59.the people of Crimea, from what I hear, would rather be with Russia. I
:36:00. > :36:04.don't know Putin. He said nice things about me. If we got along
:36:05. > :36:09.well, that would be good. That is because he would rather have a
:36:10. > :36:13.puppet as president. You at the puppet. I do respect Putin. I
:36:14. > :36:20.respect a lot of people. That doesn't mean I will get along with
:36:21. > :36:23.them. Putin is a killer? You think our country is so innocent?
:36:24. > :36:25.We're joined from Moscow by Sergei Markov, a political
:36:26. > :36:30.analyst and former member of the Russian parliament.
:36:31. > :36:36.I think what a lot of people find difficult to understand in the
:36:37. > :36:40.United States is that Donald Trump is so tough on his own intelligence
:36:41. > :36:49.agencies, he calls them Nazis, and yet he put such a premium on his
:36:50. > :36:54.loyalty to President Putin? I think loyalty about President
:36:55. > :36:59.Putin, it's natural for me, for example, as part of his team, and
:37:00. > :37:13.for the Russian intelligence service. But not for Donald Trump.
:37:14. > :37:18.We believe that a new administration will start a war against Russia,
:37:19. > :37:21.which -- will stop a war against Russia started by the Obama
:37:22. > :37:26.Administration. We hope that Washington will start to fight
:37:27. > :37:36.against al-Nusra and stop terrorists. And we're hoping that
:37:37. > :37:42.Donald Trump will stop the supporting of neo-Nazis in Kiev,
:37:43. > :37:51.where a terrorist junta created Civil War. We are not sure if this
:37:52. > :37:55.will happen or not. You want to build this new relationship with the
:37:56. > :38:01.White House. Yet in the last few days we get lots of news of Russian
:38:02. > :38:05.jets flying over American warships in the Black Sea. We get reports
:38:06. > :38:09.that Russia is moving cruise missiles in Russia. And we get a
:38:10. > :38:13.report there is a spy ship off the coast of Delaware. That doesn't
:38:14. > :38:21.sound like you are trying to build bridges with Washington? We still
:38:22. > :38:24.hope that we will be more able to build bridges and good relationships
:38:25. > :38:56.with the new administration. We think Mike Flynn is a victim. We
:38:57. > :38:59.very much are afraid that the CIA, military intelligence, have some
:39:00. > :39:06.cooperation with terrorists in Syria and in the Ukraine. But
:39:07. > :39:18.nevertheless, Donald Trump's that Macdonald Trump -- for Donald Trump,
:39:19. > :39:26.the priority would be domestic politics, but not foreign policy. We
:39:27. > :39:35.still didn't see the foreign policy of Donald Trump at all. We see only
:39:36. > :39:41.domestic politics. Anti-immigration, some project to build a wall with
:39:42. > :39:51.Mexico. It is mostly domestic politics. We know that Donald Trump
:39:52. > :39:57.will follow its promises to the people of America, to pay tribute to
:39:58. > :40:03.the domestic policy but not the foreign policy. Forgive me for
:40:04. > :40:07.jumping in. I want to ask you about the mood in the Kremlin today. Do
:40:08. > :40:12.you think there is some concern among Russian officials that you
:40:13. > :40:17.speak to, close to President Putin, that the White House may have to
:40:18. > :40:20.change course on Russia? That they may actually be losing some of their
:40:21. > :40:28.close relationship with Donald Trump because of what is happening here in
:40:29. > :40:42.Washington? I think in Moscow people still look with small positive hopes
:40:43. > :40:46.of the new administration. In the Kremlin there are good specialists
:40:47. > :40:57.on the United States. The specialists are predicting that
:40:58. > :41:00.Donald Trump will not -- will improve the relationship with Russia
:41:01. > :41:04.and change something in domestic politics. We didn't have the
:41:05. > :41:10.solution because we have no illusion. But still have some
:41:11. > :41:18.positive feelings about Donald Trump. We look very positively on
:41:19. > :41:26.you, Donald Trump. We will pass that message the White House if we have a
:41:27. > :41:30.chance! Thank you. This whole relationship is so interesting. We
:41:31. > :41:37.have had all along questions about why Donald Trump is so reluctant,
:41:38. > :41:39.given all the opportunities, to criticise Vladimir Putin. He has
:41:40. > :41:46.never done so. Now these questions about contact. The Russians and the
:41:47. > :41:51.Trump campaign, all they had in common during the campaign, was a
:41:52. > :41:56.desire to get Donald Trump elected. And I have just given Sergey Bubka
:41:57. > :41:58.instances where President would be talking about Russian activity and
:41:59. > :42:05.we have had nothing from the White House. If there are questions, we
:42:06. > :42:11.have just seen a press conference in the last hour where he only took two
:42:12. > :42:16.questions. One was from a Christian broadcast network and the other was
:42:17. > :42:21.from a newspaper called Townhall. Not one of the mainstream media
:42:22. > :42:26.outlets. Is he ducking the issue? Yes, I think he is. There have been
:42:27. > :42:32.three press conferences in a row in which the president has only called
:42:33. > :42:37.on Conservative news outlets. Previous press conferences with
:42:38. > :42:41.heads of state, the president would call on the newswires, independent,
:42:42. > :42:44.nonpolitical news organisations like Reuters and associated press, and
:42:45. > :42:48.they would be the ones who got the question. This is a definite
:42:49. > :42:50.departure. It means the American public is not getting the answers to
:42:51. > :42:55.the kind of tough questions that they would like to ask. That is it.
:42:56. > :42:57.Thank you for joining Christian and I. We will see you back you're
:42:58. > :43:03.tomorrow.