:00:00. > :00:12.minutes. Five! I want to find a friendly reporter! We will dip out
:00:13. > :00:16.now it is time 100 days. Hello and welcome to 100 days, President Trump
:00:17. > :00:18.comes out fighting, I inherited a mess, he says. He claims the press
:00:19. > :00:30.is out of control. ...
:00:31. > :00:35.REPORTER: What we are concerned about, what we haven't really heard
:00:36. > :00:38.being addressed is semitism and how the government is planning to take
:00:39. > :00:41.care the government is planning to take
:00:42. > :00:45.care of it. A report is out that 48 bomb threats have been made against
:00:46. > :00:51.Jewish centres across the country in the last couple of weeks. People who
:00:52. > :00:56.are committing - You see he said he was going to ask a very simple
:00:57. > :00:59.question. It's not. It's not. That is not an easy question. Sit down. I
:01:00. > :01:07.understand the rest of your question. Here's the story, folks.
:01:08. > :01:12.Number one, I'm the least anti-Semitic person you have ever
:01:13. > :01:17.seen in your entire life. Number two, racism, the least racist
:01:18. > :01:22.person. In fact, we did very well, relative to other people, running as
:01:23. > :01:28.a Republican - quiet. Quiet. You see he lied. He was going to get up and
:01:29. > :01:33.ask a straight simple question - welcome to the world of the media.
:01:34. > :01:37.Let me tell you that I hate the charge, I find it repulsive. I hate
:01:38. > :01:42.even the question because people that know me, you heard the Prime
:01:43. > :01:48.Minister, you heard Benjamin Netanyahu yesterday, did you hear
:01:49. > :01:57.him? He said, "I've known Donald Trump for a long time" then he said,
:01:58. > :02:01."for get it" you should take that instead of getting up and asking an
:02:02. > :02:06.insulting question. It shows you about the press. That is the way the
:02:07. > :02:12.press is. REPORTER: Our national security and
:02:13. > :02:16.immigration, can you give us more details on the executive order you
:02:17. > :02:19.plan for next week? It's a fair question. In addition on the
:02:20. > :02:23.programme for immigration. What is your plan? Do you plan to continue
:02:24. > :02:28.that programme or to end it We are going to show great heart. It's a
:02:29. > :02:33.very difficult subject for me. I will tell you. It's one of the most
:02:34. > :02:38.difficult subjects I have. You have these incredible kids in many cases,
:02:39. > :02:44.not in all cases. In some of the cases they are are gang members and
:02:45. > :02:48.drug dealers, too. But you have some absolutely incredible kids. I would
:02:49. > :02:53.say mostly. They were brought here in such a way... It's a very, very
:02:54. > :02:58.tough subject. We are going to deal with it with heart. I have to deal
:02:59. > :03:03.with a lot of politicians, don't forget. I have to convince them what
:03:04. > :03:09.I'm saying is right. I appreciate your understanding on that. The Daca
:03:10. > :03:14.situation is a very difficult thing for me because, you know, I love
:03:15. > :03:19.these kids. I love kids. I have kids and grandkids, and I find it very,
:03:20. > :03:23.very hard doing what the law says exactly to do. You know, the law is
:03:24. > :03:27.rough. I'm not talking about new laws. I'm talking about the existing
:03:28. > :03:32.law, it's very rough, it's very, very rough. As far as the new order.
:03:33. > :03:39.The new order will be tailored to what I consider to be a very bad
:03:40. > :03:44.decision, but we can tailor the order to that decision and get
:03:45. > :03:47.everything, sometimes more. We are tailoring it to the decision. Some
:03:48. > :03:52.of the best lawyers in the country are working on it. The new executive
:03:53. > :03:54.order is being tailored to the decision we got down from the court.
:03:55. > :04:14.OK. REPORTER:... She does a lot of great
:04:15. > :04:18.work for the country. There will be a level of interest in your
:04:19. > :04:22.administration. Opening the White House visitors office what does that
:04:23. > :04:28.mean to you? That is what I call a nice question. That is very nice.
:04:29. > :04:38.Who are you with? Good, I will start watching. Thank you very much. We
:04:39. > :04:43.had dinner with Senator rouble Yeo and had discussion about Cuba. We
:04:44. > :04:48.have similar views on Cuba. Cuba was good for me in the Florida election,
:04:49. > :04:53.as you know the Cuban people who are Americans. I think Melania will be
:04:54. > :04:57.outstanding. She opened up the visitor centre, touring the White
:04:58. > :05:03.House. She, like others that she's working with, feel very, very
:05:04. > :05:07.strongly about women's issues, women's difficulties. Very, very
:05:08. > :05:11.strongly and she's a very, very strong advocate. I think she's a
:05:12. > :05:20.great representative for this country. A funny thing happens, she
:05:21. > :05:24.gets so unfairly maligned. I've known her for a long time. Shep's a
:05:25. > :05:27.successful person. She's a successful model. She did really
:05:28. > :05:32.well. She would go home at night and didn't even want to go out with
:05:33. > :05:38.people. She was a very private person. She was always the highest
:05:39. > :05:42.quality that you'll ever find, and the things they say - I've known her
:05:43. > :05:48.for a long time - the things they say is so unfair. She's been
:05:49. > :05:52.apologised to, as you know, they said things that were lies. She will
:05:53. > :05:55.be a fantastic First Lady. She is going to be a tremendous
:05:56. > :06:01.representative of women and of the people and helping her and working
:06:02. > :06:05.her will be Ivanka, who is a fabulous person and a fabulous,
:06:06. > :06:10.fabulous woman. They're not doing this for money. They are not doing
:06:11. > :06:18.this for pay. They are doing it because they feel it, both of them.
:06:19. > :06:22.Melania goes back-and-forth. After Baron finishes school, it's hard to
:06:23. > :06:25.take him out of school with a few months, she and Baron will be moving
:06:26. > :06:28.over to the White House. Thank you, that's a very nice question.
:06:29. > :06:32.Go-ahead. This will be a bad question. That is OK. I enjoy
:06:33. > :06:35.watching you on television. Go-ahead.
:06:36. > :06:39.REPORTER: Thank you so much. Mr President I need to find out from
:06:40. > :06:43.you, you said something as it relates to inner cities. That was
:06:44. > :06:47.one of your platforms during your campaign. Fix the inner cities.
:06:48. > :06:53.Fixing the inner cities, what will be that fix and your urban agenda
:06:54. > :06:56.well as your HSBCU executive order that is coming out this afternoon.
:06:57. > :07:00.You see, it wasn't bad, was it? That was very professional. I'm very
:07:01. > :07:04.professional. We will announce the order in a little while. I would
:07:05. > :07:06.rather it speak for itself. It will be very good for everybody
:07:07. > :07:11.concerned. We will talk about that after we do the announcement. As far
:07:12. > :07:15.as the inner cities, as you know I was strong on the inner cities
:07:16. > :07:20.during the campaign. I think it it's what got me a higher percentage of
:07:21. > :07:24.the African-American vote than people thought I was going to get.
:07:25. > :07:30.We did higher than people thought I was going to get. I was honoured by
:07:31. > :07:33.it and the Hispanic vote which was higher and the women's vote which
:07:34. > :07:37.was higher than people thought I would get. We are going to be
:07:38. > :07:41.working very hard on the inner cities having to do with education,
:07:42. > :07:46.having to do with crime. We are going to fix as quickly as possible
:07:47. > :07:51.- you know, it takes a long time. It's taken 100 years or more for
:07:52. > :07:55.some of these places to evolve. They evolved many of them very badly. We
:07:56. > :07:59.will work very hard on health and healthcare. Very, very hard on
:08:00. > :08:03.education and also we will be working in a stringent way and a
:08:04. > :08:07.very good way on crime. You go to some of these inner city places and
:08:08. > :08:13.it's so sad when you look at the crime. You have people, I've seen
:08:14. > :08:17.this, I've sort of witnessed it. In fact, in two cases I've actually
:08:18. > :08:21.witnessed it, they lock themselves into apartments petrified to even
:08:22. > :08:24.leave in the middle of the day. They are living in hell. We can't let
:08:25. > :08:29.that happen. We will be very, very strong. It's a great question and
:08:30. > :08:33.it's a very, very difficult situation because it's been many,
:08:34. > :08:39.many years. It's been festering for many, many years. We have places in
:08:40. > :08:44.this country that we have to fix. We have to help African-American people
:08:45. > :08:48.that, for the most part, are stuck there, Hispanic, American people. We
:08:49. > :08:53.have Hispanic, American people, that are in the inner cities and they are
:08:54. > :08:59.living in elhell of you look at the numbers in Chicago. There are two
:09:00. > :09:06.Chicagos, as you know. One Chicago that's credible, Lukes surious and
:09:07. > :09:12.all and safe. There's another Chicago that's worse -- luxurious.
:09:13. > :09:16.Than hi of the places in the Middle East that you talk about every night
:09:17. > :09:19.on the new casts. We will do a lot of work on the inner cities.
:09:20. > :09:24.I have great people lined up to help with the inner cities. Will you
:09:25. > :09:28.include the CBBC in your conversation with the urban agenda,
:09:29. > :09:35.inner city Agenda - Am I going to include. The Congressional Black
:09:36. > :09:41.Caucus - I would. Do you want to set up the meeting? No. Are they friends
:09:42. > :09:45.of yours. Set up the meeting. No... I would love to meet with the
:09:46. > :09:50.Congressional Black Caucus. I think it's great. I thought I had a
:09:51. > :10:01.meeting with Congressman Cummings and he was all excited, and then he
:10:02. > :10:05.said - oh, I can't move. It might be bad for me politically. He was all
:10:06. > :10:09.set. I spoke to him on the phone. Very nice guy. I hear he wanted that
:10:10. > :10:13.meeting with you as well? He wanted it, we called, called, called, I
:10:14. > :10:20.can't make a meeting with him. I said I would like to meet with him.
:10:21. > :10:24.I do want to solve the problem. He he probably was told some
:10:25. > :10:28.lightweight he was probably told he was probably told - don't meet with
:10:29. > :10:30.Trump. It's bad politics. That's part of the problem of this country.
:10:31. > :10:44.OK, one more. Go-ahead. REPORTER: I will follow up on my
:10:45. > :10:49.colleague's question. It's not about your personality or your beliefs. We
:10:50. > :10:52.are talking about a rising in anti-Semitism around the country,
:10:53. > :10:58.some by supporters in your name. What can you do - Can I be honest
:10:59. > :11:02.with you. This is a horrible thing. Some of it written by our opponents.
:11:03. > :11:07.You do know that. Do you understand that? You don't think anybody would
:11:08. > :11:12.do a thing like that. Some of the signs you will see are not put up by
:11:13. > :11:15.the people who love or like Donald Trump, they are put up by the other
:11:16. > :11:19.side. You think it's like playing it straight. No. But you have some of
:11:20. > :11:25.those signs and some of that anger is caused by the other side. They'll
:11:26. > :11:29.do signs and they'll do drawings that are inappropriate. It won't be
:11:30. > :11:40.my people. It will be the people on the other side to anger people like
:11:41. > :11:46.you. OK. Go-ahead. REPORTER: What are you going to do
:11:47. > :11:51.about the tensions that have been discussed? I'm working on it. Will
:11:52. > :11:56.you give a speech? So you understand, we had a totally divided
:11:57. > :11:59.country for eight years and long before that, in all fairness to
:12:00. > :12:03.President Obama. Long before President Obama. We had a very
:12:04. > :12:06.divided - I didn't come along and divide this country. This country
:12:07. > :12:10.was seriously divided before I got here. One of the questions I was
:12:11. > :12:16.asked was about the inner cities. That's part of it. We will work on
:12:17. > :12:20.education. We will work on - we are going to try and stop the crime. We
:12:21. > :12:23.have great law enforcement officials. We are not going to try
:12:24. > :12:26.and stop, we are going to stop crime. It's important to me. This
:12:27. > :12:31.isn't Donald Trump that divided a nation. We went eight years with
:12:32. > :12:37.President Obama and we went many years before President Obama, we
:12:38. > :12:42.lived in a divided nation and I'm going to try. I will do everything
:12:43. > :12:46.within my power to fix that. I want to thank you everybody very much.
:12:47. > :12:52.It's a great honour to be with you. Thank you. Thank you very much.
:12:53. > :13:01.Thanks. Donald Trump wrapping up a press conference that went on for an
:13:02. > :13:08.1.20 minutes at the White House. -- 1 hour and 20 minutes at the White
:13:09. > :13:10.House. We talked about how #4e limited questions to conservative
:13:11. > :13:15.media. This is not the case. He took a lot of questions,
:13:16. > :13:19.including from the BBC's Jon Sopel, we will play that later. He went
:13:20. > :13:23.through everything. The theme of this press conference was - my
:13:24. > :13:26.administration is doing a great job. I'm sticking to my campaign
:13:27. > :13:30.promises. It's working well. If you hear otherwise, it's because the
:13:31. > :13:33.press is lying to you? I think by any margin that was the most
:13:34. > :13:40.extraordinary press conference I think I've ever seen from a
:13:41. > :13:44.President. It was hostile, it was combative, con tempious of large
:13:45. > :13:48.parts of the press. His supporters will say he's done a lot of things
:13:49. > :13:53.in the 28 days he's been in office. He can't get things done if he is
:13:54. > :13:57.running point like this and it's as chaotic as it has been this week. He
:13:58. > :14:02.is in fire fighting mode all the time. People around him are reacting
:14:03. > :14:08.to some, let's face it, some of the most chaotic things that he says.
:14:09. > :14:13.Today, he was pretty casual with the truth at several areas in that press
:14:14. > :14:17.conference. He talked about his electoral college vote, 304, the
:14:18. > :14:21.biggest since Ronald Reagan. Anybody in that press conference with a
:14:22. > :14:28.smartphone would be able to say, quite out of the traps - no, it
:14:29. > :14:39.wasn't. Barack Obama got 332, he got 365 in 2008. Bill Clinton 379 in
:14:40. > :14:43.1996. He say said, I meant the Republicans. He can is caught out on
:14:44. > :14:50.the most simple thing. He is asked how people can trust him? If you
:14:51. > :14:55.can't get that right. How are we supposed to trust you on the rest of
:14:56. > :15:02.it. This is what he said. To be honest, I inherited a mess. It was a
:15:03. > :15:08.mess. At home and abroad. A mess. Jobs are pouring out of the country.
:15:09. > :15:13.You see what is going on with all of the companies leaving our country,
:15:14. > :15:16.going to Mexico and other places. Low pay, low wages, mass instability
:15:17. > :15:23.overseas New York matter where you look. The Middle East, a disaster.
:15:24. > :15:29.North Korea, we'll take care of it, folks. We will take care of it. I
:15:30. > :15:35.turn on the TV and look at the newspapers I see stories of chaos.
:15:36. > :15:37.It's the exact opposite. This administration is running like a
:15:38. > :15:48.fine tuned machine. Then he had this to say
:15:49. > :15:51.about the sacking of the National Security Adviser,
:15:52. > :15:56.Michael Flynn. There was a certain amount
:15:57. > :15:57.of information, given who's with us today,
:15:58. > :16:01.and I was not happy with the way He didn't have to do that
:16:02. > :16:05.because what he did wasn't wrong, what he did, in terms
:16:06. > :16:07.of the information, he saw what was wrong
:16:08. > :16:10.was the way that other people, including yourselves in this room,
:16:11. > :16:12.were given that information because that was classified
:16:13. > :16:25.information, it was given illegally. Yesterday he told us that Michael
:16:26. > :16:27.Flynn was a wonderful man. Today it's a different story. He
:16:28. > :16:47.contradicts things he said before. Six weeks ago, he accepted
:16:48. > :16:49.the FBI reports that "Yes, it probably did
:16:50. > :16:52.happen", he said. And yet today, he sends
:16:53. > :16:54.out this tweet. "The Democrats had to come up
:16:55. > :16:58.with a story as to why they lost the election and so badly -
:16:59. > :17:00.306 - so they made But then his Defence Secretary,
:17:01. > :17:05.General Mattis, who was in Brussels at Nato HQ, is asked
:17:06. > :17:07.whether there was Russian Right now, I would just say there's
:17:08. > :17:12.very little doubt that they have either interfered or they've
:17:13. > :17:26.attempted to interfere in a number General Mattis is in sync with
:17:27. > :17:30.Republican leadership and the US intelligence and Donald Trump is
:17:31. > :17:33.not. If he is rowing back on the accepted idea that Russians hacked
:17:34. > :17:37.the American elections, that puts him out on his own. It's not the
:17:38. > :17:45.first if time of course this week that we've had discrepancies in the
:17:46. > :17:49.administration. The UN Ambassador said he sports the two-state
:17:50. > :17:53.solution. Yesterday the President said, one state, two state, we will
:17:54. > :17:58.do whatever you like. We are seeing a pattern of the President
:17:59. > :18:01.contradicting his advisers and giving a sense of confusion. He said
:18:02. > :18:06.there isn't confusion, there isn't chaos. That is exactly the kind of
:18:07. > :18:09.thing that you pointed out that leads people to think there is
:18:10. > :18:14.confusion. We will get to the list of things he has done in his first
:18:15. > :18:18.28 days unless you think we are glossing over that. We are yet to
:18:19. > :18:22.see a lot of strategy behind the executive orders he signed. I was
:18:23. > :18:29.reading today that he is going to have a big rally on Saturday in
:18:30. > :18:32.Florida. He will be - in fact, his spokesman said he started the
:18:33. > :18:36.campaign for 2020, he will be in campaign mode it seems over the next
:18:37. > :18:40.four years. I got that feeling today, at this press conference, he
:18:41. > :18:43.is not talking to those people he doesn't particularly like in front
:18:44. > :18:47.of him, he is talking beyond them to his base who are impressed by what
:18:48. > :18:50.he's doing? Well, he made that absolutely clear in the press
:18:51. > :18:54.conference that he feels the need to go over the press, which is
:18:55. > :19:00.misrepresenting him and not telling the truth and not putting out the
:19:01. > :19:03.real polls, he needs to go directly to the American people.
:19:04. > :19:09.Our North America editor, Jon Sopel, is here.
:19:10. > :19:17.He is not with us. Let us listen to his question. Donald Trump did take
:19:18. > :19:21.him on. Let's listen to that. REPORTER: Can I ask you, thank you
:19:22. > :19:27.very much, Mr President. Where are you from? BBC. OK. Here's another
:19:28. > :19:34.beauty! It's a good line! Impartial, free and fair. Yeah, sure. Mr
:19:35. > :19:37.President... Just like CNN. On the travel ban, we can banter
:19:38. > :19:42.back-and-forth. On the travel ban, would you accept that was a good
:19:43. > :19:45.example of the smooth running of government? Yeah, I do. Let me tell
:19:46. > :19:50.you. Were there any mistakes in that? I know who you are. Just wait.
:19:51. > :19:55.Let me tell you about the travel ban we had a very smooth roll out of the
:19:56. > :20:00.travel ban. But we had a bad court. We got a bad decision. A court that
:20:01. > :20:04.has been overturned, again, it may be wrong, 80% of the time, a lot. We
:20:05. > :20:09.had a bad decision. We will keep going with that decision. We will
:20:10. > :20:12.put in a new executive order next week. Some time. We had a bad
:20:13. > :20:17.decision. That's the only thing that was wrong with the travel ban. You
:20:18. > :20:24.had Delta with a massive problem with their computer system at the
:20:25. > :20:29.airports. You had some people that were put out from buses at various
:20:30. > :20:33.locations. We had a court that gave us what I considered to be, with
:20:34. > :20:38.great respect, a very bad decision. Very bad for the safety and security
:20:39. > :20:43.of our country. The rollout was perfect. What I wanted to do was do
:20:44. > :20:47.the exact same executive order, but said one thing. I said this to my
:20:48. > :20:53.people - give them a one month period of time. General Kelly, now
:20:54. > :20:58.Secretary Kelly said, if you do that all these people will come in a
:20:59. > :21:01.month. The bad ones. You do agree there are are bad people out there.
:21:02. > :21:06.Not everybody like you. You have bad people out there. So Kelly said, you
:21:07. > :21:10.can't do that. He was right. As soon as he said, wow, I never thought of
:21:11. > :21:14.it. I said how about one week? He said no good. He said if you do it
:21:15. > :21:18.immediately, they don't have time to come in. Nobody ever reports that.
:21:19. > :21:21.But that's why we did it quickly. If I would have done it a month,
:21:22. > :21:26.everything would have been perfect. The problem is we would have wasted
:21:27. > :21:30.a lot of time and maybe a lots of lives because a lot of bad people
:21:31. > :21:33.would have come into my country. In the meantime being, we are vetting
:21:34. > :21:39.very, very strongly. Very, very strongly. But we need help and we
:21:40. > :21:45.need help by getting that executive order passed. If it's so urgent why
:21:46. > :21:49.not introduce... Yes. There you go. Jon Sopel, no apprentice. He can
:21:50. > :21:54.hold his own against anyone. A line on the travel ban. The US just
:21:55. > :22:00.Justice Department says the Appeal Court should not reconsider the
:22:01. > :22:04.temporary suspension of Mr Trump's travel ban before a panel of 11
:22:05. > :22:09.judges. The news cycle has overtaken that. They are not getting a lot of
:22:10. > :22:16.that done they promised they would get down this week. We spoke about
:22:17. > :22:18.the attacks on the media. There were attacks on inelit generals agencies
:22:19. > :22:22.and people leaking information. Well, for more on this,
:22:23. > :22:24.let's speak to Peter Ahearn, an intelligence expert who's spent
:22:25. > :22:27.29 years at the FBI and was a Senior Adviser
:22:28. > :22:29.with the Office of the Director He's also the President and Founder
:22:30. > :22:35.of the Ahearn Consulting Group. Thank you very much for joining us.
:22:36. > :22:41.We heard the President again, there in that press conference. Attacking
:22:42. > :22:45.intelligence agencies for leaking information about his campaign's
:22:46. > :22:50.contacts with Russia. Do you think it is intelligence agents that are
:22:51. > :22:55.doing the leaking? You can only speculate. I think though, in
:22:56. > :22:57.defence of the intelligence chunt community, I think they are much
:22:58. > :23:01.more understanding of what can happen if you are caught doing any
:23:02. > :23:05.leaks of any type of national security information. I think it's
:23:06. > :23:08.something right now the White House is trying to wrap around internally
:23:09. > :23:13.to make sure their own people understand what the rules and
:23:14. > :23:16.regulations of any kind of leaking of any information. So, it's going
:23:17. > :23:20.to be hard to prove that, but if there is going to be some type of
:23:21. > :23:25.discussions about leak investigations it will not just be
:23:26. > :23:30.on the media it will be across the board, not just Congress, the
:23:31. > :23:35.Department of Justice. A slippery slope on the leak investigations and
:23:36. > :23:39.who is responsible. Again, it's damaging, no matter who does it. Put
:23:40. > :23:45.your former hat on as an FBI agent, what would you make, if you had been
:23:46. > :23:49.sitting in the FBI today, of the kinds of attacks the FBI is coming
:23:50. > :23:53.under from the President? The FBI has been under attack by many other
:23:54. > :23:58.Presidents in the past and people. The FBI will continue to do what
:23:59. > :24:02.they need to do based on the constitution and based on the law
:24:03. > :24:08.and based on whatever directives from the standpoint of launching
:24:09. > :24:11.investigations from the standpoint of any predisposition or any
:24:12. > :24:14.complaints being filed. They will do what they have to do. They are not
:24:15. > :24:20.sitting there worried about it. It happens. They continue to do their
:24:21. > :24:23.job, I can tell you that for a fact and let the politics play out.
:24:24. > :24:29.Donald Trump keeps pointing to the legality of it. Maybe you could tell
:24:30. > :24:35.us, as a were foer officer, is it usual for the FBI to bug the
:24:36. > :24:39.conversations of someone who would be becoming the National Security
:24:40. > :24:45.Adviser? I think you have to look at that from a general standpoint. The
:24:46. > :24:49.big issue when it comes to national security is the issue of protecting
:24:50. > :24:53.information and protecting importantly the sources and the Met
:24:54. > :24:58.olds. You are bugging, let us say, Michael Flynn, for example, I think
:24:59. > :25:05.that really isle stretching what we're really talking about here.
:25:06. > :25:10.It's called "collection", things that are out there and when you look
:25:11. > :25:13.at what intelligence collection is in the United States, you are
:25:14. > :25:17.targeting organisations and countries that are threats or
:25:18. > :25:21.hostile to the United States. It's clear that Russia would probably be
:25:22. > :25:25.a target of anything that's going on with the overall interest in any
:25:26. > :25:29.communication that is going on. People have to realise, you know,
:25:30. > :25:34.that you are taking a risk when you are calling, let us say, the
:25:35. > :25:38.Ambassador of Russia and having discussions that will not be picked
:25:39. > :25:43.up somewhere and somehow around the world. Let's keep it simply put,
:25:44. > :25:48.around the world. I wish we could speak a lot more. We are squeezed
:25:49. > :25:52.for time. Mr Trump has run over. For today, thank you very much for your
:25:53. > :25:55.comments. Plenty more to get through. We will talk about lots
:25:56. > :25:57.that was in that press conference. You are watching 100 Days on BBC
:25:58. > :26:02.News. Mikhail Kasyanov is a former
:26:03. > :26:10.Prime Minister of Russia, he now leads the opposition,
:26:11. > :26:16.People's Democratic Union party. Good to to have you with us this
:26:17. > :26:21.evening. Are you surprised by reports that not only with a was the
:26:22. > :26:24.Trump team in touch with Russia through the election campaign the
:26:25. > :26:29.claim is there was constant communication with Russian
:26:30. > :26:35.Intelligence Officers? I don't know what the government relation is in
:26:36. > :26:38.the US, I think, just for Russian ambassador, for any ambassador, it's
:26:39. > :26:43.normal to talk to different politicians. I don't know what the
:26:44. > :26:47.regulation is and limitations exist, but to have contact, I think it's
:26:48. > :26:50.OK. The problem is just reporting accurately. I think that is the
:26:51. > :26:54.issue. If there was hacking during the election of the DNC and the
:26:55. > :26:58.Americans seem clear there was, would President Putin have known
:26:59. > :27:07.about it? How high would such an operation need to be sanctioned? I
:27:08. > :27:15.think just that's absolutely was in Russian interest and Putin's regime
:27:16. > :27:20.to understand how the President would behave and pus position
:27:21. > :27:25.resanctions against Putin's regime. That's the crucial point for Mr
:27:26. > :27:30.Putin. He's dreaming to find a solution, how to leave those
:27:31. > :27:36.sanctions because in reality those sanctions affect Russian economy
:27:37. > :27:40.very badly. You understand President Putin, if you were to put us inside
:27:41. > :27:44.the mind of the Russian President, what do you think he wants from
:27:45. > :27:47.Donald Trump? What does he think he can get from this administration
:27:48. > :27:57.that he didn't get from the Obama administration? I think just the
:27:58. > :28:04.main purpose of Mr Putin just to somehow ensure and to create an
:28:05. > :28:10.understanding of Mr Trump's administration that Putin's regime
:28:11. > :28:13.is a decent one, normal. That you should stop teaching him democracy,
:28:14. > :28:24.as Mr Putin describes and just start dealing with him as a normal regime,
:28:25. > :28:26.despite the fact that - western politicians Mr Putin believes
:28:27. > :28:30.everything in this world is tradeable. He is looking for a
:28:31. > :28:39.transaction, a deal. I don't know what he's ready to sell to Mr Trump,
:28:40. > :28:45.but he expects US administration to lift sanctions and just to make
:28:46. > :28:49.transatlantic unity a little weaker so that he could deal with
:28:50. > :28:53.individual European states and make them weaker. When you describe him
:28:54. > :28:57.as wanting a deal, somebody who wants a transaction, you could have
:28:58. > :29:02.been describing Donald Trump there. That is his approach, too. In some
:29:03. > :29:06.way, we have seen this with Donald Trump's press conference just today,
:29:07. > :29:13.is Donald Trump the best tool for President Putin? He's prettier
:29:14. > :29:17.rattic? -- pretty ??SPACer rattic? That's not the case any more.
:29:18. > :29:26.Putin's team already understood they made a mistake. Today there is a
:29:27. > :29:30.rumour they had given instruction to propaganda media to stop, please, Mr
:29:31. > :29:39.Trump and stop talking about Mr Trump. Huge coverage with Russia
:29:40. > :29:43.media just now because of understanding, understanding Mr
:29:44. > :29:47.Trump is devoted to internal American interests rather than
:29:48. > :29:55.lifting sanctions from Mr Putin. He could be even stronger with Mr Obama
:29:56. > :29:58.with his approach to Crimea, Ukraine, Syriaened a the Middle East
:29:59. > :30:03.in general terms. I think that is why they already started to
:30:04. > :30:07.understand. It's my believe, my prediction is, in one month's time
:30:08. > :30:17.Mr Trump will become an enemy for Mr Putin. That's inevitable. Unless,
:30:18. > :30:22.they have something on Mr Trump. We know about the allegations. You
:30:23. > :30:28.yourself have been a victim, you were videoed in a hotel room. The
:30:29. > :30:36.Russians say they have no interested in tailing and bugging Mr Trump when
:30:37. > :30:41.he came to Russia in 2013. Do you believe that? I have no information.
:30:42. > :30:46.I would say some kind of following was in place. I don't know what
:30:47. > :30:51.compromise that could produce. In many cases some people in Russia and
:30:52. > :30:58.abroad here in Europe they think that some how soft position of Mr
:30:59. > :31:02.Trump on evidence and things with respect to Mr Putin's regime could
:31:03. > :31:08.be read as any connection. I don't know. I have are no confirmation.
:31:09. > :31:10.There is such a feeling. We are really grateful for you coming on
:31:11. > :31:14.the programme this evening. Very good to talk to you. Thank you.
:31:15. > :31:18.Thank you. That was fascinating. I'm glad you kept it in the realm of
:31:19. > :31:28.family viewing there. I thought what he said about Donald
:31:29. > :31:32.Trump becoming an enemy within a month was interesting and Russian
:31:33. > :31:35.news media are all ready writing stories less complimentary of Donald
:31:36. > :31:49.Trump. That will be fascinating. I do not know about you, Christian,
:31:50. > :31:52.but the pace is exhausting. I am struggling to keep up, hard to
:31:53. > :31:58.believe it is 28 days and so much has happened. The BBC have pulled
:31:59. > :32:06.together these key moments. Have a look. The first month, starts with
:32:07. > :32:16.the inauguration crowds, too big, too small. Then the executive action
:32:17. > :32:20.train pulls out of the station. Withdraw from the transpacific
:32:21. > :32:26.partnership, the keystone pipeline is back on, targeting Obama car, the
:32:27. > :32:31.wall, but the big executive order. Stopping refugees and citizens of
:32:32. > :32:36.majority Muslim countries coming to the US. Extreme vetting. We only
:32:37. > :32:43.want to admit those who will support our country. Then, soon the acting
:32:44. > :32:47.Attorney General was fired for refusing to defend the immigration
:32:48. > :32:54.ban. Plus a judge in Washington blocked the ban from going forward.
:32:55. > :33:03.Trump called for an investigation into unproven claims of voter fraud.
:33:04. > :33:17.He nominated the nominee for the Supreme Court. Trump was not happy.
:33:18. > :33:20.More bad news. Do you have full confidence in the president? His
:33:21. > :33:25.national-security adviser resigned over communications with Russia and
:33:26. > :33:31.possible lying to the vice president. At the same time, Trump
:33:32. > :33:34.broke with decades of support for an Israeli-Palestinian two state
:33:35. > :33:40.solution. I am looking at two state, one state. So far, that's it. Wasn't
:33:41. > :33:50.the news supposed to quieten down after the election? Only 28 days, it
:33:51. > :33:54.feels like 280. For more on this I spoke to Dan Boltz.
:33:55. > :33:56.You've covered, I think I'm right in saying,
:33:57. > :33:57.seven American administrations, how does this one compare,
:33:58. > :34:08.Every new administration has problems in the start-up phase,
:34:09. > :34:13.without exception, every President has run into problems.
:34:14. > :34:16.We remember the Bay of Pigs under Kennedy.
:34:17. > :34:19.Bill Clinton had real start-up problems.
:34:20. > :34:21.Yet, what we're watching in the Trump administration,
:34:22. > :34:24.it seems to be of a different order of magnitude.
:34:25. > :34:29.There is a White House structure that seems to lack real structure,
:34:30. > :34:36.They have made a hash of a number of the primary things
:34:37. > :34:39.they have tried to do, and they have created,
:34:40. > :34:43.in a sense, a lack of trust about the way they're operating.
:34:44. > :34:47.So I think that in a variety of ways you have to say that this
:34:48. > :34:50.administration is off to one of the worst starts we've ever seen.
:34:51. > :34:53.It's not irrepairable, we're only in week four,
:34:54. > :34:56.but the start has not been encouraging, in terms
:34:57. > :35:00.of kind of the management of this new operation.
:35:01. > :35:02.President Trump of course would say this is the press's
:35:03. > :35:05.perspective and the press, as he said in his press
:35:06. > :35:09.conference today, is out of control and telling lies.
:35:10. > :35:14.Is there more seriously a sense in which the press never really
:35:15. > :35:19.believed that President Trump was up to the job, and is - gunning is not
:35:20. > :35:21.quite the right word - wants to write the story
:35:22. > :35:28.I think the reality for President Trump
:35:29. > :35:32.is that he and his administration have continued to provide evidence
:35:33. > :35:34.of the fact that they were not fully prepared to take
:35:35. > :35:40.We've seen that in a variety of ways.
:35:41. > :35:43.I mean, to ask for the resignation of your national security adviser,
:35:44. > :35:45.weeks into the administration, is something we've
:35:46. > :35:53.For the roll out of the most important executive order,
:35:54. > :35:57.the travel ban, to have been put together in the way it was, not
:35:58. > :36:00.vetted fully through the agencies, not carefully drafted,
:36:01. > :36:05.rolled out on a Friday afternoon with very little instruction.
:36:06. > :36:09.Again, it's a failure on the part of the administration to carry it out.
:36:10. > :36:13.He's only a month in, right, presumably you would believe
:36:14. > :36:19.I mean, they have four years left, at least, of this administration?
:36:20. > :36:25.I think that the question is whether Donald Trump's
:36:26. > :36:27.management style, I mean, he has had no experience
:36:28. > :36:30.in government, nor, frankly, have most of the people
:36:31. > :36:34.who are in senior positions in the White House had real
:36:35. > :36:36.experience in government, particularly in the executive
:36:37. > :36:39.branch, so there is a very steep learning curve but the question
:36:40. > :36:41.is whether the management style that Donald Trump believed
:36:42. > :36:44.served him very effectively in the private-sector is adaptable
:36:45. > :36:50.So far, you would have to say, that the learning curve
:36:51. > :36:57.As I said earlier, there are ways to correct this and I think
:36:58. > :37:00.they have begun to try to take some steps to do that.
:37:01. > :37:04.To some extent have you to settle things down a bit and this's kind
:37:05. > :37:07.of contrary to the way Donald Trump has operated as long as we've
:37:08. > :37:14.He likes to have things, kind of, in motion and a lot
:37:15. > :37:17.of balls in the air and, yet, in the early stage
:37:18. > :37:19.of his administration that has not served him
:37:20. > :37:23.OK, thank you very much for joining me.
:37:24. > :37:37.Interesting thoughts. The travel ban has received unlikely support from
:37:38. > :37:42.the Syrian president. In an interview, Bashar al-Assad said it
:37:43. > :37:47.targets terrorists and not the Syrian people. In Washington and
:37:48. > :37:53.other cities several restaurants and cafes are closed as part of the day
:37:54. > :37:57.without immigrants protest rally against the immigration policies
:37:58. > :38:01.which many Americans still support. Somalia is one of the seven
:38:02. > :38:04.countries listed as part of the travel ban and we want to give you a
:38:05. > :38:14.flavour of how Somali Americans are reacting. Federal agents, FBI... An
:38:15. > :38:21.event to teach people their rights in the Trump era. You should take a
:38:22. > :38:24.second look if they ask about your religion. Organisers say it was
:38:25. > :38:30.badly needed after support groups were inundated with calls from
:38:31. > :38:33.anxious American Muslims. Those in Minneapolis mainly have roots in
:38:34. > :38:39.Somalia, one of the country is the president named in the ban. Donald
:38:40. > :38:46.Trump talked of Somali Americans as potential terrorists. There are tens
:38:47. > :38:49.of thousands of people of Somali origin in Minneapolis, many came
:38:50. > :38:56.over as refugees but others were born here and some of them tell us
:38:57. > :39:01.this is the first time they feel the American identity is questioned. For
:39:02. > :39:07.some, that has happened in face-to-face encounters. I love
:39:08. > :39:12.bridal dresses. Not only Muslim women... This woman is a fashion
:39:13. > :39:16.designer, make-up artist and something of a social media star.
:39:17. > :39:22.She says women like her who are visibly Muslim because of the hijab
:39:23. > :39:27.are having a tough time. She herself has had in cells hurled at her when
:39:28. > :39:30.shopping driving. Things have changed since the election because
:39:31. > :39:36.people are openly racist, people are not scared to speak their mind. They
:39:37. > :39:43.tell us to go back to our country, take our scarves off. Where do I go?
:39:44. > :39:52.This is the only home I know. I was born in California. This is my home.
:39:53. > :39:59.It is music Mohammad talks of the tough problems people have. He
:40:00. > :40:05.thinks the president could have made things worse. He is not keeping
:40:06. > :40:10.America safe company is giving America a reason to be scared. What
:40:11. > :40:14.is the effect on young Muslims? It will make them harder and anger them
:40:15. > :40:22.because some people do not want to go to school no more because they
:40:23. > :40:26.feel there is hate at workplaces people are confused. There have been
:40:27. > :40:31.cases of young Somali Americans being convicted of trying to go
:40:32. > :40:35.abroad to join militant groups but there is an overwhelming feeling
:40:36. > :40:38.here among that school that the Presidents actions are
:40:39. > :40:45.counter-productive. You are helping groups like Isis and Al-Shabab and
:40:46. > :40:49.other terrorist organisations. Passing the message America does not
:40:50. > :40:55.want you, you do not belong in the west. The same message Isis and
:40:56. > :40:58.al-Shabab used to recruit young men. Around the country, many think
:40:59. > :41:02.Donald Trump is doing the right things to counter extremism but
:41:03. > :41:04.people here warn he is only sowing the seeds of more alienation and
:41:05. > :41:12.hatred. It is worth reinforcing again there
:41:13. > :41:18.are plenty of people in the country who do like the travel ban and art
:41:19. > :41:22.behind the president. Today has been dominated by the leaks, is obsessed
:41:23. > :41:27.the leaks should not be coming out and they are illegal and he talks
:41:28. > :41:32.about a review of how intelligence agencies work. He was not so
:41:33. > :41:37.obsessed about this during the campaign. Interesting, he was angry
:41:38. > :41:41.about the leaks in the press conference and will go after the
:41:42. > :41:44.intelligence service leakers. Let's listen to what he said about
:41:45. > :41:50.WikiLeaks when he ran for president. These WikiLeaks, e-mails confirm
:41:51. > :41:58.what those of us here today have known all along, I was not sure if
:41:59. > :42:07.Hillary would be here tonight. Because I guess you did not send her
:42:08. > :42:13.invitation by e-mail! Or maybe you did and she just found out about it
:42:14. > :42:17.through the wonder of WikiLeaks. The wonder of WikiLeaks. That goes to
:42:18. > :42:22.show whether you think a league is dangerous or patriotic depends on
:42:23. > :42:28.what your position is and Donald Trump's position has changed. Not in
:42:29. > :42:33.my backyard, right? You felt he had to speak to the press today to reset
:42:34. > :42:39.the agenda and get the administration on an even keel. Has
:42:40. > :42:42.done that? I think he set the record better with the press at the
:42:43. > :42:46.beginning of the press conference was hostile, I noticed by the end he
:42:47. > :42:55.was being more chatty with them and I think you did something there with
:42:56. > :42:59.reporters. For this week, we are back on Monday. Goodbye for now.