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