Browse content similar to 16/02/2017. Check below for episodes and series from the same categories and more!
Line | From | To | |
---|---|---|---|
minutes. Five! I want to find a friendly reporter! We will dip out | :00:00. | :00:12. | |
now it is time 100 days. Hello and welcome to 100 days, President Trump | :00:13. | :00:16. | |
comes out fighting, I inherited a mess, he says. He claims the press | :00:17. | :00:18. | |
is out of control. ... | :00:19. | :00:30. | |
REPORTER: What we are concerned about, what we haven't really heard | :00:31. | :00:35. | |
being addressed is semitism and how the government is planning to take | :00:36. | :00:38. | |
care the government is planning to take | :00:39. | :00:41. | |
care of it. A report is out that 48 bomb threats have been made against | :00:42. | :00:45. | |
Jewish centres across the country in the last couple of weeks. People who | :00:46. | :00:51. | |
are committing - You see he said he was going to ask a very simple | :00:52. | :00:56. | |
question. It's not. It's not. That is not an easy question. Sit down. I | :00:57. | :00:59. | |
understand the rest of your question. Here's the story, folks. | :01:00. | :01:07. | |
Number one, I'm the least anti-Semitic person you have ever | :01:08. | :01:12. | |
seen in your entire life. Number two, racism, the least racist | :01:13. | :01:17. | |
person. In fact, we did very well, relative to other people, running as | :01:18. | :01:22. | |
a Republican - quiet. Quiet. You see he lied. He was going to get up and | :01:23. | :01:28. | |
ask a straight simple question - welcome to the world of the media. | :01:29. | :01:33. | |
Let me tell you that I hate the charge, I find it repulsive. I hate | :01:34. | :01:37. | |
even the question because people that know me, you heard the Prime | :01:38. | :01:42. | |
Minister, you heard Benjamin Netanyahu yesterday, did you hear | :01:43. | :01:48. | |
him? He said, "I've known Donald Trump for a long time" then he said, | :01:49. | :01:57. | |
"for get it" you should take that instead of getting up and asking an | :01:58. | :02:01. | |
insulting question. It shows you about the press. That is the way the | :02:02. | :02:06. | |
press is. REPORTER: Our national security and | :02:07. | :02:12. | |
immigration, can you give us more details on the executive order you | :02:13. | :02:16. | |
plan for next week? It's a fair question. In addition on the | :02:17. | :02:19. | |
programme for immigration. What is your plan? Do you plan to continue | :02:20. | :02:23. | |
that programme or to end it We are going to show great heart. It's a | :02:24. | :02:28. | |
very difficult subject for me. I will tell you. It's one of the most | :02:29. | :02:33. | |
difficult subjects I have. You have these incredible kids in many cases, | :02:34. | :02:38. | |
not in all cases. In some of the cases they are are gang members and | :02:39. | :02:44. | |
drug dealers, too. But you have some absolutely incredible kids. I would | :02:45. | :02:48. | |
say mostly. They were brought here in such a way... It's a very, very | :02:49. | :02:53. | |
tough subject. We are going to deal with it with heart. I have to deal | :02:54. | :02:58. | |
with a lot of politicians, don't forget. I have to convince them what | :02:59. | :03:03. | |
I'm saying is right. I appreciate your understanding on that. The Daca | :03:04. | :03:09. | |
situation is a very difficult thing for me because, you know, I love | :03:10. | :03:14. | |
these kids. I love kids. I have kids and grandkids, and I find it very, | :03:15. | :03:19. | |
very hard doing what the law says exactly to do. You know, the law is | :03:20. | :03:23. | |
rough. I'm not talking about new laws. I'm talking about the existing | :03:24. | :03:27. | |
law, it's very rough, it's very, very rough. As far as the new order. | :03:28. | :03:32. | |
The new order will be tailored to what I consider to be a very bad | :03:33. | :03:39. | |
decision, but we can tailor the order to that decision and get | :03:40. | :03:44. | |
everything, sometimes more. We are tailoring it to the decision. Some | :03:45. | :03:47. | |
of the best lawyers in the country are working on it. The new executive | :03:48. | :03:52. | |
order is being tailored to the decision we got down from the court. | :03:53. | :03:54. | |
OK. REPORTER:... She does a lot of great | :03:55. | :04:14. | |
work for the country. There will be a level of interest in your | :04:15. | :04:18. | |
administration. Opening the White House visitors office what does that | :04:19. | :04:22. | |
mean to you? That is what I call a nice question. That is very nice. | :04:23. | :04:28. | |
Who are you with? Good, I will start watching. Thank you very much. We | :04:29. | :04:38. | |
had dinner with Senator rouble Yeo and had discussion about Cuba. We | :04:39. | :04:43. | |
have similar views on Cuba. Cuba was good for me in the Florida election, | :04:44. | :04:48. | |
as you know the Cuban people who are Americans. I think Melania will be | :04:49. | :04:53. | |
outstanding. She opened up the visitor centre, touring the White | :04:54. | :04:57. | |
House. She, like others that she's working with, feel very, very | :04:58. | :05:03. | |
strongly about women's issues, women's difficulties. Very, very | :05:04. | :05:07. | |
strongly and she's a very, very strong advocate. I think she's a | :05:08. | :05:11. | |
great representative for this country. A funny thing happens, she | :05:12. | :05:20. | |
gets so unfairly maligned. I've known her for a long time. Shep's a | :05:21. | :05:24. | |
successful person. She's a successful model. She did really | :05:25. | :05:27. | |
well. She would go home at night and didn't even want to go out with | :05:28. | :05:32. | |
people. She was a very private person. She was always the highest | :05:33. | :05:38. | |
quality that you'll ever find, and the things they say - I've known her | :05:39. | :05:42. | |
for a long time - the things they say is so unfair. She's been | :05:43. | :05:48. | |
apologised to, as you know, they said things that were lies. She will | :05:49. | :05:52. | |
be a fantastic First Lady. She is going to be a tremendous | :05:53. | :05:55. | |
representative of women and of the people and helping her and working | :05:56. | :06:01. | |
her will be Ivanka, who is a fabulous person and a fabulous, | :06:02. | :06:05. | |
fabulous woman. They're not doing this for money. They are not doing | :06:06. | :06:10. | |
this for pay. They are doing it because they feel it, both of them. | :06:11. | :06:18. | |
Melania goes back-and-forth. After Baron finishes school, it's hard to | :06:19. | :06:22. | |
take him out of school with a few months, she and Baron will be moving | :06:23. | :06:25. | |
over to the White House. Thank you, that's a very nice question. | :06:26. | :06:28. | |
Go-ahead. This will be a bad question. That is OK. I enjoy | :06:29. | :06:32. | |
watching you on television. Go-ahead. | :06:33. | :06:35. | |
REPORTER: Thank you so much. Mr President I need to find out from | :06:36. | :06:39. | |
you, you said something as it relates to inner cities. That was | :06:40. | :06:43. | |
one of your platforms during your campaign. Fix the inner cities. | :06:44. | :06:47. | |
Fixing the inner cities, what will be that fix and your urban agenda | :06:48. | :06:53. | |
well as your HSBCU executive order that is coming out this afternoon. | :06:54. | :06:56. | |
You see, it wasn't bad, was it? That was very professional. I'm very | :06:57. | :07:00. | |
professional. We will announce the order in a little while. I would | :07:01. | :07:04. | |
rather it speak for itself. It will be very good for everybody | :07:05. | :07:06. | |
concerned. We will talk about that after we do the announcement. As far | :07:07. | :07:11. | |
as the inner cities, as you know I was strong on the inner cities | :07:12. | :07:15. | |
during the campaign. I think it it's what got me a higher percentage of | :07:16. | :07:20. | |
the African-American vote than people thought I was going to get. | :07:21. | :07:24. | |
We did higher than people thought I was going to get. I was honoured by | :07:25. | :07:30. | |
it and the Hispanic vote which was higher and the women's vote which | :07:31. | :07:33. | |
was higher than people thought I would get. We are going to be | :07:34. | :07:37. | |
working very hard on the inner cities having to do with education, | :07:38. | :07:41. | |
having to do with crime. We are going to fix as quickly as possible | :07:42. | :07:46. | |
- you know, it takes a long time. It's taken 100 years or more for | :07:47. | :07:51. | |
some of these places to evolve. They evolved many of them very badly. We | :07:52. | :07:55. | |
will work very hard on health and healthcare. Very, very hard on | :07:56. | :07:59. | |
education and also we will be working in a stringent way and a | :08:00. | :08:03. | |
very good way on crime. You go to some of these inner city places and | :08:04. | :08:07. | |
it's so sad when you look at the crime. You have people, I've seen | :08:08. | :08:13. | |
this, I've sort of witnessed it. In fact, in two cases I've actually | :08:14. | :08:17. | |
witnessed it, they lock themselves into apartments petrified to even | :08:18. | :08:21. | |
leave in the middle of the day. They are living in hell. We can't let | :08:22. | :08:24. | |
that happen. We will be very, very strong. It's a great question and | :08:25. | :08:29. | |
it's a very, very difficult situation because it's been many, | :08:30. | :08:33. | |
many years. It's been festering for many, many years. We have places in | :08:34. | :08:39. | |
this country that we have to fix. We have to help African-American people | :08:40. | :08:44. | |
that, for the most part, are stuck there, Hispanic, American people. We | :08:45. | :08:48. | |
have Hispanic, American people, that are in the inner cities and they are | :08:49. | :08:53. | |
living in elhell of you look at the numbers in Chicago. There are two | :08:54. | :08:59. | |
Chicagos, as you know. One Chicago that's credible, Lukes surious and | :09:00. | :09:06. | |
all and safe. There's another Chicago that's worse -- luxurious. | :09:07. | :09:12. | |
Than hi of the places in the Middle East that you talk about every night | :09:13. | :09:16. | |
on the new casts. We will do a lot of work on the inner cities. | :09:17. | :09:19. | |
I have great people lined up to help with the inner cities. Will you | :09:20. | :09:24. | |
include the CBBC in your conversation with the urban agenda, | :09:25. | :09:28. | |
inner city Agenda - Am I going to include. The Congressional Black | :09:29. | :09:35. | |
Caucus - I would. Do you want to set up the meeting? No. Are they friends | :09:36. | :09:41. | |
of yours. Set up the meeting. No... I would love to meet with the | :09:42. | :09:45. | |
Congressional Black Caucus. I think it's great. I thought I had a | :09:46. | :09:50. | |
meeting with Congressman Cummings and he was all excited, and then he | :09:51. | :10:01. | |
said - oh, I can't move. It might be bad for me politically. He was all | :10:02. | :10:05. | |
set. I spoke to him on the phone. Very nice guy. I hear he wanted that | :10:06. | :10:09. | |
meeting with you as well? He wanted it, we called, called, called, I | :10:10. | :10:13. | |
can't make a meeting with him. I said I would like to meet with him. | :10:14. | :10:20. | |
I do want to solve the problem. He he probably was told some | :10:21. | :10:24. | |
lightweight he was probably told he was probably told - don't meet with | :10:25. | :10:28. | |
Trump. It's bad politics. That's part of the problem of this country. | :10:29. | :10:30. | |
OK, one more. Go-ahead. REPORTER: I will follow up on my | :10:31. | :10:44. | |
colleague's question. It's not about your personality or your beliefs. We | :10:45. | :10:49. | |
are talking about a rising in anti-Semitism around the country, | :10:50. | :10:52. | |
some by supporters in your name. What can you do - Can I be honest | :10:53. | :10:58. | |
with you. This is a horrible thing. Some of it written by our opponents. | :10:59. | :11:02. | |
You do know that. Do you understand that? You don't think anybody would | :11:03. | :11:07. | |
do a thing like that. Some of the signs you will see are not put up by | :11:08. | :11:12. | |
the people who love or like Donald Trump, they are put up by the other | :11:13. | :11:15. | |
side. You think it's like playing it straight. No. But you have some of | :11:16. | :11:19. | |
those signs and some of that anger is caused by the other side. They'll | :11:20. | :11:25. | |
do signs and they'll do drawings that are inappropriate. It won't be | :11:26. | :11:29. | |
my people. It will be the people on the other side to anger people like | :11:30. | :11:40. | |
you. OK. Go-ahead. REPORTER: What are you going to do | :11:41. | :11:46. | |
about the tensions that have been discussed? I'm working on it. Will | :11:47. | :11:51. | |
you give a speech? So you understand, we had a totally divided | :11:52. | :11:56. | |
country for eight years and long before that, in all fairness to | :11:57. | :11:59. | |
President Obama. Long before President Obama. We had a very | :12:00. | :12:03. | |
divided - I didn't come along and divide this country. This country | :12:04. | :12:06. | |
was seriously divided before I got here. One of the questions I was | :12:07. | :12:10. | |
asked was about the inner cities. That's part of it. We will work on | :12:11. | :12:16. | |
education. We will work on - we are going to try and stop the crime. We | :12:17. | :12:20. | |
have great law enforcement officials. We are not going to try | :12:21. | :12:23. | |
and stop, we are going to stop crime. It's important to me. This | :12:24. | :12:26. | |
isn't Donald Trump that divided a nation. We went eight years with | :12:27. | :12:31. | |
President Obama and we went many years before President Obama, we | :12:32. | :12:37. | |
lived in a divided nation and I'm going to try. I will do everything | :12:38. | :12:42. | |
within my power to fix that. I want to thank you everybody very much. | :12:43. | :12:46. | |
It's a great honour to be with you. Thank you. Thank you very much. | :12:47. | :12:52. | |
Thanks. Donald Trump wrapping up a press conference that went on for an | :12:53. | :13:01. | |
1.20 minutes at the White House. -- 1 hour and 20 minutes at the White | :13:02. | :13:08. | |
House. We talked about how #4e limited questions to conservative | :13:09. | :13:10. | |
media. This is not the case. He took a lot of questions, | :13:11. | :13:15. | |
including from the BBC's Jon Sopel, we will play that later. He went | :13:16. | :13:19. | |
through everything. The theme of this press conference was - my | :13:20. | :13:23. | |
administration is doing a great job. I'm sticking to my campaign | :13:24. | :13:26. | |
promises. It's working well. If you hear otherwise, it's because the | :13:27. | :13:30. | |
press is lying to you? I think by any margin that was the most | :13:31. | :13:33. | |
extraordinary press conference I think I've ever seen from a | :13:34. | :13:40. | |
President. It was hostile, it was combative, con tempious of large | :13:41. | :13:44. | |
parts of the press. His supporters will say he's done a lot of things | :13:45. | :13:48. | |
in the 28 days he's been in office. He can't get things done if he is | :13:49. | :13:53. | |
running point like this and it's as chaotic as it has been this week. He | :13:54. | :13:57. | |
is in fire fighting mode all the time. People around him are reacting | :13:58. | :14:02. | |
to some, let's face it, some of the most chaotic things that he says. | :14:03. | :14:08. | |
Today, he was pretty casual with the truth at several areas in that press | :14:09. | :14:13. | |
conference. He talked about his electoral college vote, 304, the | :14:14. | :14:17. | |
biggest since Ronald Reagan. Anybody in that press conference with a | :14:18. | :14:21. | |
smartphone would be able to say, quite out of the traps - no, it | :14:22. | :14:28. | |
wasn't. Barack Obama got 332, he got 365 in 2008. Bill Clinton 379 in | :14:29. | :14:39. | |
1996. He say said, I meant the Republicans. He can is caught out on | :14:40. | :14:43. | |
the most simple thing. He is asked how people can trust him? If you | :14:44. | :14:50. | |
can't get that right. How are we supposed to trust you on the rest of | :14:51. | :14:55. | |
it. This is what he said. To be honest, I inherited a mess. It was a | :14:56. | :15:02. | |
mess. At home and abroad. A mess. Jobs are pouring out of the country. | :15:03. | :15:08. | |
You see what is going on with all of the companies leaving our country, | :15:09. | :15:13. | |
going to Mexico and other places. Low pay, low wages, mass instability | :15:14. | :15:16. | |
overseas New York matter where you look. The Middle East, a disaster. | :15:17. | :15:23. | |
North Korea, we'll take care of it, folks. We will take care of it. I | :15:24. | :15:29. | |
turn on the TV and look at the newspapers I see stories of chaos. | :15:30. | :15:35. | |
It's the exact opposite. This administration is running like a | :15:36. | :15:37. | |
fine tuned machine. Then he had this to say | :15:38. | :15:48. | |
about the sacking of the National Security Adviser, | :15:49. | :15:51. | |
Michael Flynn. There was a certain amount | :15:52. | :15:56. | |
of information, given who's with us today, | :15:57. | :15:57. | |
and I was not happy with the way He didn't have to do that | :15:58. | :16:01. | |
because what he did wasn't wrong, what he did, in terms | :16:02. | :16:05. | |
of the information, he saw what was wrong | :16:06. | :16:07. | |
was the way that other people, including yourselves in this room, | :16:08. | :16:10. | |
were given that information because that was classified | :16:11. | :16:12. | |
information, it was given illegally. Yesterday he told us that Michael | :16:13. | :16:25. | |
Flynn was a wonderful man. Today it's a different story. He | :16:26. | :16:27. | |
contradicts things he said before. Six weeks ago, he accepted | :16:28. | :16:47. | |
the FBI reports that "Yes, it probably did | :16:48. | :16:49. | |
happen", he said. And yet today, he sends | :16:50. | :16:52. | |
out this tweet. "The Democrats had to come up | :16:53. | :16:54. | |
with a story as to why they lost the election and so badly - | :16:55. | :16:58. | |
306 - so they made But then his Defence Secretary, | :16:59. | :17:00. | |
General Mattis, who was in Brussels at Nato HQ, is asked | :17:01. | :17:05. | |
whether there was Russian Right now, I would just say there's | :17:06. | :17:07. | |
very little doubt that they have either interfered or they've | :17:08. | :17:12. | |
attempted to interfere in a number General Mattis is in sync with | :17:13. | :17:26. | |
Republican leadership and the US intelligence and Donald Trump is | :17:27. | :17:30. | |
not. If he is rowing back on the accepted idea that Russians hacked | :17:31. | :17:33. | |
the American elections, that puts him out on his own. It's not the | :17:34. | :17:37. | |
first if time of course this week that we've had discrepancies in the | :17:38. | :17:45. | |
administration. The UN Ambassador said he sports the two-state | :17:46. | :17:49. | |
solution. Yesterday the President said, one state, two state, we will | :17:50. | :17:53. | |
do whatever you like. We are seeing a pattern of the President | :17:54. | :17:58. | |
contradicting his advisers and giving a sense of confusion. He said | :17:59. | :18:01. | |
there isn't confusion, there isn't chaos. That is exactly the kind of | :18:02. | :18:06. | |
thing that you pointed out that leads people to think there is | :18:07. | :18:09. | |
confusion. We will get to the list of things he has done in his first | :18:10. | :18:14. | |
28 days unless you think we are glossing over that. We are yet to | :18:15. | :18:18. | |
see a lot of strategy behind the executive orders he signed. I was | :18:19. | :18:22. | |
reading today that he is going to have a big rally on Saturday in | :18:23. | :18:29. | |
Florida. He will be - in fact, his spokesman said he started the | :18:30. | :18:32. | |
campaign for 2020, he will be in campaign mode it seems over the next | :18:33. | :18:36. | |
four years. I got that feeling today, at this press conference, he | :18:37. | :18:40. | |
is not talking to those people he doesn't particularly like in front | :18:41. | :18:43. | |
of him, he is talking beyond them to his base who are impressed by what | :18:44. | :18:47. | |
he's doing? Well, he made that absolutely clear in the press | :18:48. | :18:50. | |
conference that he feels the need to go over the press, which is | :18:51. | :18:54. | |
misrepresenting him and not telling the truth and not putting out the | :18:55. | :19:00. | |
real polls, he needs to go directly to the American people. | :19:01. | :19:03. | |
Our North America editor, Jon Sopel, is here. | :19:04. | :19:09. | |
He is not with us. Let us listen to his question. Donald Trump did take | :19:10. | :19:17. | |
him on. Let's listen to that. REPORTER: Can I ask you, thank you | :19:18. | :19:21. | |
very much, Mr President. Where are you from? BBC. OK. Here's another | :19:22. | :19:27. | |
beauty! It's a good line! Impartial, free and fair. Yeah, sure. Mr | :19:28. | :19:34. | |
President... Just like CNN. On the travel ban, we can banter | :19:35. | :19:37. | |
back-and-forth. On the travel ban, would you accept that was a good | :19:38. | :19:42. | |
example of the smooth running of government? Yeah, I do. Let me tell | :19:43. | :19:45. | |
you. Were there any mistakes in that? I know who you are. Just wait. | :19:46. | :19:50. | |
Let me tell you about the travel ban we had a very smooth roll out of the | :19:51. | :19:55. | |
travel ban. But we had a bad court. We got a bad decision. A court that | :19:56. | :20:00. | |
has been overturned, again, it may be wrong, 80% of the time, a lot. We | :20:01. | :20:04. | |
had a bad decision. We will keep going with that decision. We will | :20:05. | :20:09. | |
put in a new executive order next week. Some time. We had a bad | :20:10. | :20:12. | |
decision. That's the only thing that was wrong with the travel ban. You | :20:13. | :20:17. | |
had Delta with a massive problem with their computer system at the | :20:18. | :20:24. | |
airports. You had some people that were put out from buses at various | :20:25. | :20:29. | |
locations. We had a court that gave us what I considered to be, with | :20:30. | :20:33. | |
great respect, a very bad decision. Very bad for the safety and security | :20:34. | :20:38. | |
of our country. The rollout was perfect. What I wanted to do was do | :20:39. | :20:43. | |
the exact same executive order, but said one thing. I said this to my | :20:44. | :20:47. | |
people - give them a one month period of time. General Kelly, now | :20:48. | :20:53. | |
Secretary Kelly said, if you do that all these people will come in a | :20:54. | :20:58. | |
month. The bad ones. You do agree there are are bad people out there. | :20:59. | :21:01. | |
Not everybody like you. You have bad people out there. So Kelly said, you | :21:02. | :21:06. | |
can't do that. He was right. As soon as he said, wow, I never thought of | :21:07. | :21:10. | |
it. I said how about one week? He said no good. He said if you do it | :21:11. | :21:14. | |
immediately, they don't have time to come in. Nobody ever reports that. | :21:15. | :21:18. | |
But that's why we did it quickly. If I would have done it a month, | :21:19. | :21:21. | |
everything would have been perfect. The problem is we would have wasted | :21:22. | :21:26. | |
a lot of time and maybe a lots of lives because a lot of bad people | :21:27. | :21:30. | |
would have come into my country. In the meantime being, we are vetting | :21:31. | :21:33. | |
very, very strongly. Very, very strongly. But we need help and we | :21:34. | :21:39. | |
need help by getting that executive order passed. If it's so urgent why | :21:40. | :21:45. | |
not introduce... Yes. There you go. Jon Sopel, no apprentice. He can | :21:46. | :21:49. | |
hold his own against anyone. A line on the travel ban. The US just | :21:50. | :21:54. | |
Justice Department says the Appeal Court should not reconsider the | :21:55. | :22:00. | |
temporary suspension of Mr Trump's travel ban before a panel of 11 | :22:01. | :22:04. | |
judges. The news cycle has overtaken that. They are not getting a lot of | :22:05. | :22:09. | |
that done they promised they would get down this week. We spoke about | :22:10. | :22:16. | |
the attacks on the media. There were attacks on inelit generals agencies | :22:17. | :22:18. | |
and people leaking information. Well, for more on this, | :22:19. | :22:22. | |
let's speak to Peter Ahearn, an intelligence expert who's spent | :22:23. | :22:24. | |
29 years at the FBI and was a Senior Adviser | :22:25. | :22:27. | |
with the Office of the Director He's also the President and Founder | :22:28. | :22:29. | |
of the Ahearn Consulting Group. Thank you very much for joining us. | :22:30. | :22:35. | |
We heard the President again, there in that press conference. Attacking | :22:36. | :22:41. | |
intelligence agencies for leaking information about his campaign's | :22:42. | :22:45. | |
contacts with Russia. Do you think it is intelligence agents that are | :22:46. | :22:50. | |
doing the leaking? You can only speculate. I think though, in | :22:51. | :22:55. | |
defence of the intelligence chunt community, I think they are much | :22:56. | :22:57. | |
more understanding of what can happen if you are caught doing any | :22:58. | :23:01. | |
leaks of any type of national security information. I think it's | :23:02. | :23:05. | |
something right now the White House is trying to wrap around internally | :23:06. | :23:08. | |
to make sure their own people understand what the rules and | :23:09. | :23:13. | |
regulations of any kind of leaking of any information. So, it's going | :23:14. | :23:16. | |
to be hard to prove that, but if there is going to be some type of | :23:17. | :23:20. | |
discussions about leak investigations it will not just be | :23:21. | :23:25. | |
on the media it will be across the board, not just Congress, the | :23:26. | :23:30. | |
Department of Justice. A slippery slope on the leak investigations and | :23:31. | :23:35. | |
who is responsible. Again, it's damaging, no matter who does it. Put | :23:36. | :23:39. | |
your former hat on as an FBI agent, what would you make, if you had been | :23:40. | :23:45. | |
sitting in the FBI today, of the kinds of attacks the FBI is coming | :23:46. | :23:49. | |
under from the President? The FBI has been under attack by many other | :23:50. | :23:53. | |
Presidents in the past and people. The FBI will continue to do what | :23:54. | :23:58. | |
they need to do based on the constitution and based on the law | :23:59. | :24:02. | |
and based on whatever directives from the standpoint of launching | :24:03. | :24:08. | |
investigations from the standpoint of any predisposition or any | :24:09. | :24:11. | |
complaints being filed. They will do what they have to do. They are not | :24:12. | :24:14. | |
sitting there worried about it. It happens. They continue to do their | :24:15. | :24:20. | |
job, I can tell you that for a fact and let the politics play out. | :24:21. | :24:23. | |
Donald Trump keeps pointing to the legality of it. Maybe you could tell | :24:24. | :24:29. | |
us, as a were foer officer, is it usual for the FBI to bug the | :24:30. | :24:35. | |
conversations of someone who would be becoming the National Security | :24:36. | :24:39. | |
Adviser? I think you have to look at that from a general standpoint. The | :24:40. | :24:45. | |
big issue when it comes to national security is the issue of protecting | :24:46. | :24:49. | |
information and protecting importantly the sources and the Met | :24:50. | :24:53. | |
olds. You are bugging, let us say, Michael Flynn, for example, I think | :24:54. | :24:58. | |
that really isle stretching what we're really talking about here. | :24:59. | :25:05. | |
It's called "collection", things that are out there and when you look | :25:06. | :25:10. | |
at what intelligence collection is in the United States, you are | :25:11. | :25:13. | |
targeting organisations and countries that are threats or | :25:14. | :25:17. | |
hostile to the United States. It's clear that Russia would probably be | :25:18. | :25:21. | |
a target of anything that's going on with the overall interest in any | :25:22. | :25:25. | |
communication that is going on. People have to realise, you know, | :25:26. | :25:29. | |
that you are taking a risk when you are calling, let us say, the | :25:30. | :25:34. | |
Ambassador of Russia and having discussions that will not be picked | :25:35. | :25:38. | |
up somewhere and somehow around the world. Let's keep it simply put, | :25:39. | :25:43. | |
around the world. I wish we could speak a lot more. We are squeezed | :25:44. | :25:48. | |
for time. Mr Trump has run over. For today, thank you very much for your | :25:49. | :25:52. | |
comments. Plenty more to get through. We will talk about lots | :25:53. | :25:55. | |
that was in that press conference. You are watching 100 Days on BBC | :25:56. | :25:57. | |
News. Mikhail Kasyanov is a former | :25:58. | :26:02. | |
Prime Minister of Russia, he now leads the opposition, | :26:03. | :26:10. | |
People's Democratic Union party. Good to to have you with us this | :26:11. | :26:16. | |
evening. Are you surprised by reports that not only with a was the | :26:17. | :26:21. | |
Trump team in touch with Russia through the election campaign the | :26:22. | :26:24. | |
claim is there was constant communication with Russian | :26:25. | :26:29. | |
Intelligence Officers? I don't know what the government relation is in | :26:30. | :26:35. | |
the US, I think, just for Russian ambassador, for any ambassador, it's | :26:36. | :26:38. | |
normal to talk to different politicians. I don't know what the | :26:39. | :26:43. | |
regulation is and limitations exist, but to have contact, I think it's | :26:44. | :26:47. | |
OK. The problem is just reporting accurately. I think that is the | :26:48. | :26:50. | |
issue. If there was hacking during the election of the DNC and the | :26:51. | :26:54. | |
Americans seem clear there was, would President Putin have known | :26:55. | :26:58. | |
about it? How high would such an operation need to be sanctioned? I | :26:59. | :27:07. | |
think just that's absolutely was in Russian interest and Putin's regime | :27:08. | :27:15. | |
to understand how the President would behave and pus position | :27:16. | :27:20. | |
resanctions against Putin's regime. That's the crucial point for Mr | :27:21. | :27:25. | |
Putin. He's dreaming to find a solution, how to leave those | :27:26. | :27:30. | |
sanctions because in reality those sanctions affect Russian economy | :27:31. | :27:36. | |
very badly. You understand President Putin, if you were to put us inside | :27:37. | :27:40. | |
the mind of the Russian President, what do you think he wants from | :27:41. | :27:44. | |
Donald Trump? What does he think he can get from this administration | :27:45. | :27:47. | |
that he didn't get from the Obama administration? I think just the | :27:48. | :27:57. | |
main purpose of Mr Putin just to somehow ensure and to create an | :27:58. | :28:04. | |
understanding of Mr Trump's administration that Putin's regime | :28:05. | :28:10. | |
is a decent one, normal. That you should stop teaching him democracy, | :28:11. | :28:13. | |
as Mr Putin describes and just start dealing with him as a normal regime, | :28:14. | :28:24. | |
despite the fact that - western politicians Mr Putin believes | :28:25. | :28:26. | |
everything in this world is tradeable. He is looking for a | :28:27. | :28:30. | |
transaction, a deal. I don't know what he's ready to sell to Mr Trump, | :28:31. | :28:39. | |
but he expects US administration to lift sanctions and just to make | :28:40. | :28:45. | |
transatlantic unity a little weaker so that he could deal with | :28:46. | :28:49. | |
individual European states and make them weaker. When you describe him | :28:50. | :28:53. | |
as wanting a deal, somebody who wants a transaction, you could have | :28:54. | :28:57. | |
been describing Donald Trump there. That is his approach, too. In some | :28:58. | :29:02. | |
way, we have seen this with Donald Trump's press conference just today, | :29:03. | :29:06. | |
is Donald Trump the best tool for President Putin? He's prettier | :29:07. | :29:13. | |
rattic? -- pretty ??SPACer rattic? That's not the case any more. | :29:14. | :29:17. | |
Putin's team already understood they made a mistake. Today there is a | :29:18. | :29:26. | |
rumour they had given instruction to propaganda media to stop, please, Mr | :29:27. | :29:30. | |
Trump and stop talking about Mr Trump. Huge coverage with Russia | :29:31. | :29:39. | |
media just now because of understanding, understanding Mr | :29:40. | :29:43. | |
Trump is devoted to internal American interests rather than | :29:44. | :29:47. | |
lifting sanctions from Mr Putin. He could be even stronger with Mr Obama | :29:48. | :29:55. | |
with his approach to Crimea, Ukraine, Syriaened a the Middle East | :29:56. | :29:58. | |
in general terms. I think that is why they already started to | :29:59. | :30:03. | |
understand. It's my believe, my prediction is, in one month's time | :30:04. | :30:07. | |
Mr Trump will become an enemy for Mr Putin. That's inevitable. Unless, | :30:08. | :30:17. | |
they have something on Mr Trump. We know about the allegations. You | :30:18. | :30:22. | |
yourself have been a victim, you were videoed in a hotel room. The | :30:23. | :30:28. | |
Russians say they have no interested in tailing and bugging Mr Trump when | :30:29. | :30:36. | |
he came to Russia in 2013. Do you believe that? I have no information. | :30:37. | :30:41. | |
I would say some kind of following was in place. I don't know what | :30:42. | :30:46. | |
compromise that could produce. In many cases some people in Russia and | :30:47. | :30:51. | |
abroad here in Europe they think that some how soft position of Mr | :30:52. | :30:58. | |
Trump on evidence and things with respect to Mr Putin's regime could | :30:59. | :31:02. | |
be read as any connection. I don't know. I have are no confirmation. | :31:03. | :31:08. | |
There is such a feeling. We are really grateful for you coming on | :31:09. | :31:10. | |
the programme this evening. Very good to talk to you. Thank you. | :31:11. | :31:14. | |
Thank you. That was fascinating. I'm glad you kept it in the realm of | :31:15. | :31:18. | |
family viewing there. I thought what he said about Donald | :31:19. | :31:28. | |
Trump becoming an enemy within a month was interesting and Russian | :31:29. | :31:32. | |
news media are all ready writing stories less complimentary of Donald | :31:33. | :31:35. | |
Trump. That will be fascinating. I do not know about you, Christian, | :31:36. | :31:49. | |
but the pace is exhausting. I am struggling to keep up, hard to | :31:50. | :31:52. | |
believe it is 28 days and so much has happened. The BBC have pulled | :31:53. | :31:58. | |
together these key moments. Have a look. The first month, starts with | :31:59. | :32:06. | |
the inauguration crowds, too big, too small. Then the executive action | :32:07. | :32:16. | |
train pulls out of the station. Withdraw from the transpacific | :32:17. | :32:20. | |
partnership, the keystone pipeline is back on, targeting Obama car, the | :32:21. | :32:26. | |
wall, but the big executive order. Stopping refugees and citizens of | :32:27. | :32:31. | |
majority Muslim countries coming to the US. Extreme vetting. We only | :32:32. | :32:36. | |
want to admit those who will support our country. Then, soon the acting | :32:37. | :32:43. | |
Attorney General was fired for refusing to defend the immigration | :32:44. | :32:47. | |
ban. Plus a judge in Washington blocked the ban from going forward. | :32:48. | :32:54. | |
Trump called for an investigation into unproven claims of voter fraud. | :32:55. | :33:03. | |
He nominated the nominee for the Supreme Court. Trump was not happy. | :33:04. | :33:17. | |
More bad news. Do you have full confidence in the president? His | :33:18. | :33:20. | |
national-security adviser resigned over communications with Russia and | :33:21. | :33:25. | |
possible lying to the vice president. At the same time, Trump | :33:26. | :33:31. | |
broke with decades of support for an Israeli-Palestinian two state | :33:32. | :33:34. | |
solution. I am looking at two state, one state. So far, that's it. Wasn't | :33:35. | :33:40. | |
the news supposed to quieten down after the election? Only 28 days, it | :33:41. | :33:50. | |
feels like 280. For more on this I spoke to Dan Boltz. | :33:51. | :33:54. | |
You've covered, I think I'm right in saying, | :33:55. | :33:56. | |
seven American administrations, how does this one compare, | :33:57. | :33:57. | |
Every new administration has problems in the start-up phase, | :33:58. | :34:08. | |
without exception, every President has run into problems. | :34:09. | :34:13. | |
We remember the Bay of Pigs under Kennedy. | :34:14. | :34:16. | |
Bill Clinton had real start-up problems. | :34:17. | :34:19. | |
Yet, what we're watching in the Trump administration, | :34:20. | :34:21. | |
it seems to be of a different order of magnitude. | :34:22. | :34:24. | |
There is a White House structure that seems to lack real structure, | :34:25. | :34:29. | |
They have made a hash of a number of the primary things | :34:30. | :34:36. | |
they have tried to do, and they have created, | :34:37. | :34:39. | |
in a sense, a lack of trust about the way they're operating. | :34:40. | :34:43. | |
So I think that in a variety of ways you have to say that this | :34:44. | :34:47. | |
administration is off to one of the worst starts we've ever seen. | :34:48. | :34:50. | |
It's not irrepairable, we're only in week four, | :34:51. | :34:53. | |
but the start has not been encouraging, in terms | :34:54. | :34:56. | |
of kind of the management of this new operation. | :34:57. | :35:00. | |
President Trump of course would say this is the press's | :35:01. | :35:02. | |
perspective and the press, as he said in his press | :35:03. | :35:05. | |
conference today, is out of control and telling lies. | :35:06. | :35:09. | |
Is there more seriously a sense in which the press never really | :35:10. | :35:14. | |
believed that President Trump was up to the job, and is - gunning is not | :35:15. | :35:19. | |
quite the right word - wants to write the story | :35:20. | :35:21. | |
I think the reality for President Trump | :35:22. | :35:28. | |
is that he and his administration have continued to provide evidence | :35:29. | :35:32. | |
of the fact that they were not fully prepared to take | :35:33. | :35:34. | |
We've seen that in a variety of ways. | :35:35. | :35:40. | |
I mean, to ask for the resignation of your national security adviser, | :35:41. | :35:43. | |
weeks into the administration, is something we've | :35:44. | :35:45. | |
For the roll out of the most important executive order, | :35:46. | :35:53. | |
the travel ban, to have been put together in the way it was, not | :35:54. | :35:57. | |
vetted fully through the agencies, not carefully drafted, | :35:58. | :36:00. | |
rolled out on a Friday afternoon with very little instruction. | :36:01. | :36:05. | |
Again, it's a failure on the part of the administration to carry it out. | :36:06. | :36:09. | |
He's only a month in, right, presumably you would believe | :36:10. | :36:13. | |
I mean, they have four years left, at least, of this administration? | :36:14. | :36:19. | |
I think that the question is whether Donald Trump's | :36:20. | :36:25. | |
management style, I mean, he has had no experience | :36:26. | :36:27. | |
in government, nor, frankly, have most of the people | :36:28. | :36:30. | |
who are in senior positions in the White House had real | :36:31. | :36:34. | |
experience in government, particularly in the executive | :36:35. | :36:36. | |
branch, so there is a very steep learning curve but the question | :36:37. | :36:39. | |
is whether the management style that Donald Trump believed | :36:40. | :36:41. | |
served him very effectively in the private-sector is adaptable | :36:42. | :36:44. | |
So far, you would have to say, that the learning curve | :36:45. | :36:50. | |
As I said earlier, there are ways to correct this and I think | :36:51. | :36:57. | |
they have begun to try to take some steps to do that. | :36:58. | :37:00. | |
To some extent have you to settle things down a bit and this's kind | :37:01. | :37:04. | |
of contrary to the way Donald Trump has operated as long as we've | :37:05. | :37:07. | |
He likes to have things, kind of, in motion and a lot | :37:08. | :37:14. | |
of balls in the air and, yet, in the early stage | :37:15. | :37:17. | |
of his administration that has not served him | :37:18. | :37:19. | |
OK, thank you very much for joining me. | :37:20. | :37:23. | |
Interesting thoughts. The travel ban has received unlikely support from | :37:24. | :37:37. | |
the Syrian president. In an interview, Bashar al-Assad said it | :37:38. | :37:42. | |
targets terrorists and not the Syrian people. In Washington and | :37:43. | :37:47. | |
other cities several restaurants and cafes are closed as part of the day | :37:48. | :37:53. | |
without immigrants protest rally against the immigration policies | :37:54. | :37:57. | |
which many Americans still support. Somalia is one of the seven | :37:58. | :38:01. | |
countries listed as part of the travel ban and we want to give you a | :38:02. | :38:04. | |
flavour of how Somali Americans are reacting. Federal agents, FBI... An | :38:05. | :38:14. | |
event to teach people their rights in the Trump era. You should take a | :38:15. | :38:21. | |
second look if they ask about your religion. Organisers say it was | :38:22. | :38:24. | |
badly needed after support groups were inundated with calls from | :38:25. | :38:30. | |
anxious American Muslims. Those in Minneapolis mainly have roots in | :38:31. | :38:33. | |
Somalia, one of the country is the president named in the ban. Donald | :38:34. | :38:39. | |
Trump talked of Somali Americans as potential terrorists. There are tens | :38:40. | :38:46. | |
of thousands of people of Somali origin in Minneapolis, many came | :38:47. | :38:49. | |
over as refugees but others were born here and some of them tell us | :38:50. | :38:56. | |
this is the first time they feel the American identity is questioned. For | :38:57. | :39:01. | |
some, that has happened in face-to-face encounters. I love | :39:02. | :39:07. | |
bridal dresses. Not only Muslim women... This woman is a fashion | :39:08. | :39:12. | |
designer, make-up artist and something of a social media star. | :39:13. | :39:16. | |
She says women like her who are visibly Muslim because of the hijab | :39:17. | :39:22. | |
are having a tough time. She herself has had in cells hurled at her when | :39:23. | :39:27. | |
shopping driving. Things have changed since the election because | :39:28. | :39:30. | |
people are openly racist, people are not scared to speak their mind. They | :39:31. | :39:36. | |
tell us to go back to our country, take our scarves off. Where do I go? | :39:37. | :39:43. | |
This is the only home I know. I was born in California. This is my home. | :39:44. | :39:52. | |
It is music Mohammad talks of the tough problems people have. He | :39:53. | :39:59. | |
thinks the president could have made things worse. He is not keeping | :40:00. | :40:05. | |
America safe company is giving America a reason to be scared. What | :40:06. | :40:10. | |
is the effect on young Muslims? It will make them harder and anger them | :40:11. | :40:14. | |
because some people do not want to go to school no more because they | :40:15. | :40:22. | |
feel there is hate at workplaces people are confused. There have been | :40:23. | :40:26. | |
cases of young Somali Americans being convicted of trying to go | :40:27. | :40:31. | |
abroad to join militant groups but there is an overwhelming feeling | :40:32. | :40:35. | |
here among that school that the Presidents actions are | :40:36. | :40:38. | |
counter-productive. You are helping groups like Isis and Al-Shabab and | :40:39. | :40:45. | |
other terrorist organisations. Passing the message America does not | :40:46. | :40:49. | |
want you, you do not belong in the west. The same message Isis and | :40:50. | :40:55. | |
al-Shabab used to recruit young men. Around the country, many think | :40:56. | :40:58. | |
Donald Trump is doing the right things to counter extremism but | :40:59. | :41:02. | |
people here warn he is only sowing the seeds of more alienation and | :41:03. | :41:04. | |
hatred. It is worth reinforcing again there | :41:05. | :41:12. | |
are plenty of people in the country who do like the travel ban and art | :41:13. | :41:18. | |
behind the president. Today has been dominated by the leaks, is obsessed | :41:19. | :41:22. | |
the leaks should not be coming out and they are illegal and he talks | :41:23. | :41:27. | |
about a review of how intelligence agencies work. He was not so | :41:28. | :41:32. | |
obsessed about this during the campaign. Interesting, he was angry | :41:33. | :41:37. | |
about the leaks in the press conference and will go after the | :41:38. | :41:41. | |
intelligence service leakers. Let's listen to what he said about | :41:42. | :41:44. | |
WikiLeaks when he ran for president. These WikiLeaks, e-mails confirm | :41:45. | :41:50. | |
what those of us here today have known all along, I was not sure if | :41:51. | :41:58. | |
Hillary would be here tonight. Because I guess you did not send her | :41:59. | :42:07. | |
invitation by e-mail! Or maybe you did and she just found out about it | :42:08. | :42:13. | |
through the wonder of WikiLeaks. The wonder of WikiLeaks. That goes to | :42:14. | :42:17. | |
show whether you think a league is dangerous or patriotic depends on | :42:18. | :42:22. | |
what your position is and Donald Trump's position has changed. Not in | :42:23. | :42:28. | |
my backyard, right? You felt he had to speak to the press today to reset | :42:29. | :42:33. | |
the agenda and get the administration on an even keel. Has | :42:34. | :42:39. | |
done that? I think he set the record better with the press at the | :42:40. | :42:42. | |
beginning of the press conference was hostile, I noticed by the end he | :42:43. | :42:46. | |
was being more chatty with them and I think you did something there with | :42:47. | :42:55. | |
reporters. For this week, we are back on Monday. Goodbye for now. | :42:56. | :42:59. |