:00:17. > :00:19.Dangerous US policies are causing worry and irritation,
:00:20. > :00:24.His comments come as Donald Trump sends his most senior diplomat
:00:25. > :00:32.Immigration raids - which Mr Trump says will mean
:00:33. > :00:35.hundreds of thousands of people being deported to Mexico -
:00:36. > :00:38.are a matter of concern for Mexico, but pride for the US President.
:00:39. > :00:40.We're getting gang members out, we're getting drug lords out,
:00:41. > :00:43.we're getting really bad dudes out of this country, and at a rate that
:00:44. > :00:47.Meanwhile, beneath the ground, we take a tour of the so-called
:00:48. > :00:49.narco tunnels, used by Mexican smuggling gangs.
:00:50. > :00:52.We also have the verdict on the early days of
:00:53. > :00:54.the Trump Presidency from a Supreme Court Justice.
:00:55. > :00:57.Ruth Bader Ginsburg has spent a quarter of a century making laws
:00:58. > :01:05.She tells us why she is increasingly concerned for her country.
:01:06. > :01:11.Well, I would say that we are not experiencing the best of times.
:01:12. > :01:13.Angela Merkel will be bidding for a fourth term
:01:14. > :01:15.as German Chancellor later this year.
:01:16. > :01:23.Is Martin Schulz the man to stop her?
:01:24. > :01:29.The US Secretary of State, Rex Tillerson,
:01:30. > :01:33.and the Homeland Security Secretary, John Kelly, have begun a day
:01:34. > :01:35.of meetings with their Mexican counterparts.
:01:36. > :01:37.Their mission is to improve the badly damaged relations
:01:38. > :01:41.The trip comes after repeated public criticism of Mexico by
:01:42. > :01:43.President Trump and a controversial plan that could mean the deportation
:01:44. > :01:45.of hundreds of thousands of undocumented immigrants
:01:46. > :01:50.to Mexico, regardless of where they came from.
:01:51. > :01:57.This is what the President said about the visit this morning.
:01:58. > :02:03.That is going to be a tough trip because we have to be treated fairly
:02:04. > :02:07.by Mexico, that is going to be a tough trip. But he is over there
:02:08. > :02:11.with General Kellie who has been unbelievable at the border, you see
:02:12. > :02:15.what is happening at the border, for the first time, we are getting gang
:02:16. > :02:19.members and drug lords out, really bad dudes out of this country. And
:02:20. > :02:25.at a rate that nobody has ever seen before. And they are the bad ones,
:02:26. > :02:29.and it is a military operation because what has been allowed to
:02:30. > :02:32.come into our country, when you see going filers that you have read
:02:33. > :02:36.about like never before, much of that is people who are here
:02:37. > :02:41.illegally. And they are and they are tough, but they are not tough like
:02:42. > :02:42.our people. Bad dudes, the inimitable Donald Trump.
:02:43. > :02:44.After meeting with the US Secretary of State,
:02:45. > :02:46.the Mexican Foreign Minister had this to say.
:02:47. > :02:57.I would like to focus on my country. We have expressed by the secretaries
:02:58. > :03:03.Taylor and Kelly. First of all, our concern to respect the rights of
:03:04. > :03:05.Mexicans living in the United States. And more specifically, the
:03:06. > :03:07.And more specifically, the human rights.
:03:08. > :03:10.And this what the Secretary of State said.
:03:11. > :03:17.In our meetings, we acknowledged that in a relationship filled with
:03:18. > :03:21.vibrant colours, two Strong sovereign countries from time to
:03:22. > :03:27.time will have differences. We listened closely and carefully to
:03:28. > :03:31.each other, as we respectfully and patiently raised our respective
:03:32. > :03:37.concerns. Our conversations covered the full range of bilateral issues.
:03:38. > :03:41.We reaffirmed our close corporation and economic and commercial issues
:03:42. > :03:47.such as energy, legal migration, security, educational exchanges, and
:03:48. > :03:53.people to people ties. We agreed that our two countries should seize
:03:54. > :03:57.the opportunity to modernise and strengthen our trade and energy
:03:58. > :04:02.relationship. We also reiterated our joint commitment to maintaining law
:04:03. > :04:05.and order, along our shared border, by stopping potential terrorists and
:04:06. > :04:11.dismantling the transnational criminal networks moving drugs and
:04:12. > :04:17.people into the United States. Similarly, we underscored the
:04:18. > :04:20.importance of stopping the illegal firearms and money originating in
:04:21. > :04:24.the United States and flowing into Mexico. There is no mistaking that
:04:25. > :04:25.the rule of law matters along both sides of our border.
:04:26. > :04:34.That was wrecked Helen -- that was Rex Tillerson.
:04:35. > :04:36.John Negroponte served as the Director of National
:04:37. > :04:41.He has also served as a US Ambassador in a host of countries,
:04:42. > :04:46.When you hear Donald Trump talking about the need for a military
:04:47. > :04:50.operation to get rid of what he called bad dudes and send them back
:04:51. > :04:55.South of the border, how much does that reflect the reality of the
:04:56. > :04:58.immigration situation as it is today? Well, anything first of all,
:04:59. > :05:02.Mr Trump sometimes is trying to speak to multiple audiences and in
:05:03. > :05:06.this case, I think speed a bit to his base and reiterating some of the
:05:07. > :05:11.things he said during his campaign. In actual fact, there are more
:05:12. > :05:15.Mexicans leaving the United States than arriving here at the moment, as
:05:16. > :05:19.far as the flow of migration is concerned, the largest flow of
:05:20. > :05:23.migrants to our country, undocumented migrants, has been from
:05:24. > :05:27.Central America. And Mexico has played a role in trying to restrain
:05:28. > :05:35.that flow and I noticed that was one of the things Rex Tillerson referred
:05:36. > :05:40.to. Send to Kelly saying there would be no mass deportations in Mexico
:05:41. > :05:45.City. If immigration from Mexico is not such a big issue, is there not a
:05:46. > :05:49.risk to the American government of creating this rift with Mexico which
:05:50. > :05:53.is after all an important trading partner and partner when it comes to
:05:54. > :06:00.intelligence sharing ground stroke issues, is it in America's issue --
:06:01. > :06:06.interests to have this be a bad relationship? This is an extremely
:06:07. > :06:09.important relationship, our third-largest trading partner, we
:06:10. > :06:12.have more movement across our common border with Mexico than any other
:06:13. > :06:18.country in the world, more than half a billion people crossing throughout
:06:19. > :06:23.the year. It is just a massive relationship, not to mention the
:06:24. > :06:29.people to people ties and that roughly 10% of the United States
:06:30. > :06:35.population are Mexican descent. Christian it is this a much more
:06:36. > :06:41.aggressive policy Donald Trump is pursuing. These are the key points
:06:42. > :06:43.from the directive. In theory, it makes 11 million undocumented
:06:44. > :06:48.migrants a target. And not just those who have come across in the
:06:49. > :06:52.last couple of weeks, but those who might have come into the country up
:06:53. > :06:56.to two years ago, they might be deep waters without due process. And
:06:57. > :07:00.those returned might not be from Mexico, they might be from other
:07:01. > :07:10.Central American States. The point I am making is that even if Enrique
:07:11. > :07:14.Pena Nieto wanted to oblige Trump, political, this is so difficult for
:07:15. > :07:20.him. 2.0 would first come at you used the word, in theory. Some of
:07:21. > :07:25.this is rhetorical, if you don't mind me saying. And we do live in a
:07:26. > :07:30.country of checks and balances and deportations usually occur with some
:07:31. > :07:35.due process. Look at the initial Executive orders of President Trump
:07:36. > :07:38.with regard to this issue. That is not the last word on it and in the
:07:39. > :07:42.end, these things well balanced themselves out. The importance of
:07:43. > :07:47.the US-Mexico relationship will ultimately outweigh some of these
:07:48. > :07:51.other considerations and some good equilibria is ultimately going to be
:07:52. > :07:57.reached. Not to say there will not be bruised feelings along the way.
:07:58. > :08:01.Does it put Mr Pena Nieto in a difficult position?
:08:02. > :08:05.I would certainly agree that it does put Mr Pena Nieto in a difficult
:08:06. > :08:09.position, in part because he has been going through a rough patch
:08:10. > :08:13.politically back home so he is being watched very carefully by his
:08:14. > :08:16.critics. And he probably has less room for me never than if his
:08:17. > :08:21.popularity ratings were higher. If you look at the statistics,
:08:22. > :08:25.Mexico is deporting more central Americans from its country right now
:08:26. > :08:32.than the United States. The Americans are paying for that, but
:08:33. > :08:37.if he does anger Mr Pena Nieto, things could get a lot worse on the
:08:38. > :08:43.US border. I think that is a risk. And I think the point you just made
:08:44. > :08:47.which is that the objective situation is much better than it is
:08:48. > :08:51.sometimes being portrayed in Washington, is a very important one
:08:52. > :08:56.indeed. No one mentions the fact that there are many sectors of our
:08:57. > :08:58.economy very dependent on exports to Mexico, the agricultural sector to
:08:59. > :09:01.mention one. Thank you very much.
:09:02. > :09:04.The plans to build that wall are getting a lot of bad
:09:05. > :09:06.publicity in Mexico, but the reality is that
:09:07. > :09:09.for the past 20 years, barriers and fences have been a fact
:09:10. > :09:13.of life for people living on the US-Mexican border.
:09:14. > :09:16.Juan Paullier has been to the border town of Nogales -
:09:17. > :09:18.to see how drug and people traffickers are determined to get
:09:19. > :09:34.I am joining a patrol of the water tunnels that run under the border
:09:35. > :09:40.connecting Mexico and the United States. We don't know who we might
:09:41. > :09:46.run into, so the police go ahead of us. We don't know what to expect.
:09:47. > :09:52.But caution is needed. So what just happened? They used the
:09:53. > :09:58.cover of darkness and wait for the right moment to creep toward the US
:09:59. > :10:02.and of the tunnel. So the policeman just told me that
:10:03. > :10:05.after I turned on the flashlights, they saw someone
:10:06. > :10:17.ran away. Minutes later, we catch a glimpse of him in the distance.
:10:18. > :10:26.He is not moving. And Sergio is pointing at this person with a
:10:27. > :10:29.flashlight. Sergio Belize it is better to back-up and alert the
:10:30. > :10:37.police, so we are heading towards the entrance of the tunnel.
:10:38. > :10:44.The traffickers use not only the subterranean infrastructure, the
:10:45. > :10:53.authorities have found more than 110 tunnels built by Mexican cartels.
:10:54. > :10:57.They called them narco tunnels and they name Nogales paternal capital
:10:58. > :11:02.of the border. In the cemetery, one of them hide in plain sight.
:11:03. > :11:05.This is the entrance of a tunnel which was recently filled in. They
:11:06. > :11:09.used to carry drugs to be at the side of the border and, as you can
:11:10. > :11:16.see, defence is just about from here.
:11:17. > :11:24.People have a way of getting round fences, I find. Trump has nominated
:11:25. > :11:25.his pick for a new Supreme Court Justice. Many hope he will get a
:11:26. > :11:28.second choice as well. The oldest member of the Court is 83
:11:29. > :11:31.and is pretty frail. Ruth Bader Ginsburg was appointed
:11:32. > :11:33.in 1993 by President Clinton and has traditionally sided with the liberal
:11:34. > :11:36.wing of the court. Last night, she spoke to BBC's
:11:37. > :11:38.Newsnight, while she was attending the final dress rehearsal
:11:39. > :11:41.of Dead Man Walking at the Kennedy Center in Washington, DC -
:11:42. > :11:44.an opera looking at the moral ambiguity of the death
:11:45. > :11:45.penalty in America. She started by talking
:11:46. > :11:49.about the current mood in America. There was a great man once
:11:50. > :12:04.said: "The true symbol of the United States is not the bald
:12:05. > :12:10.eagle, it is the pendulum. And when the pendulum swings too far
:12:11. > :12:14.in one direction, it will go back." Some terrible things have happened
:12:15. > :12:24.in the United States that one can only hope that we learn
:12:25. > :12:28.from those bad things. I would say that we are not
:12:29. > :12:35.experiencing the best of times. But there's hope in seeing how
:12:36. > :12:42.the public is reacting to it. The women's march, I've never seen
:12:43. > :12:49.such a demonstration, both the numbers and the rapport
:12:50. > :12:52.of the people in that crowd. So, yes, we are not
:12:53. > :13:05.experiencing the best of times, but there is reason to hope
:13:06. > :13:12.that we will see a better day. But what is important
:13:13. > :13:15.is that we have a free press, Think of what the press has done
:13:16. > :13:23.in the United States. That story might never have
:13:24. > :13:30.come out if we didn't Do you feel it's something
:13:31. > :13:36.that's maybe forgotten? Well, the importance
:13:37. > :13:42.of that, it's... I read the Washington Post
:13:43. > :13:49.and the New York Times every day, and I think that the reporters
:13:50. > :13:51.are trying to tell the public You're 83, you're the oldest serving
:13:52. > :14:01.member on the Supreme Court. How long do you think
:14:02. > :14:06.you can do this? At my age, you have
:14:07. > :14:09.to take it year by year. I'm hopeful, however,
:14:10. > :14:17.because my most senior colleague, the one who most recently retired,
:14:18. > :14:25.Justice John Paul Stevens, Do you think you should
:14:26. > :14:32.carry on till you're 90? As I said, at this stage of my life,
:14:33. > :14:43.I take it year by year. One of the more Liberal members of
:14:44. > :14:47.the bench. 83. She wants to go on until she is 90 and many Democrats
:14:48. > :14:52.will hope she can do that. Yes, it is quite rare to hear a
:14:53. > :14:56.Supreme Court Justice talking like that, about politics and the state
:14:57. > :14:59.of the country, but she has been one of the more outspoken, rare for a
:15:00. > :15:01.Supreme Court Justice and less so for the 10,000 Conservative
:15:02. > :15:06.activists... Some 10,000 conservative activists
:15:07. > :15:08.have converged on a convention centre a few miles from Washington
:15:09. > :15:10.for the annual Conservative Political Action Conference,
:15:11. > :15:12.known here as CPAC. It's not a gathering that's
:15:13. > :15:15.always loved Donald Trump. One of the other main attractions
:15:16. > :15:23.on the day was Steve Bannon. The President's chief strategist,
:15:24. > :15:25.one of the ideologues within his cabinet, and a former
:15:26. > :15:30.chair of the ring-wing He has just been speaking and first
:15:31. > :15:34.went through Trump's achievements but was not so, entry about the
:15:35. > :15:38.media. That is where you have seen, the
:15:39. > :15:43.Executive orders, the Supreme Court, the way he has been through the
:15:44. > :15:45.Supreme Court and the other 102 judges that we will eventually pick
:15:46. > :15:49.it is methodical and that is what the mainstream media will not
:15:50. > :15:53.report, does like they were dead wrong in the campaign and in the
:15:54. > :15:55.case of the transition. They are absolutely dead wrong about what is
:15:56. > :16:01.going on today because we have a team that is just grinding it
:16:02. > :16:04.through and what President Donald Trump permits the American people.
:16:05. > :16:08.And all of his promises are going to be fermented.
:16:09. > :16:11.Steve Bannon in bullish mood. He had more to say about the
:16:12. > :16:16.administration's policies. If you look at the lines of work, I
:16:17. > :16:20.break it into three verticals. The first is national security and
:16:21. > :16:23.sovereignty, intelligence, the defence Department, Homeland
:16:24. > :16:32.Security. The second is economic nationalism, and that is, as, the
:16:33. > :16:37.Treasury, trade. These people rethinking how we will reconstruct
:16:38. > :16:41.our trade arrangements around the world. The third, broadly, line of
:16:42. > :16:48.work, is what is deconstruction of the administrative state. So I think
:16:49. > :16:52.the three most important thing is, I think one of the most pivotal
:16:53. > :16:59.moments in modern American history was his immediate withdrawal from
:17:00. > :17:02.TPP. Got to set up a trade deal and let our sovereignty compact
:17:03. > :17:06.ourselves, the mainstream media do not get this but we are working in
:17:07. > :17:11.consultation and people are thinking through a raft of amazing and
:17:12. > :17:14.innovative bilateral relationships, bilateral trading relationships with
:17:15. > :17:20.people, that will reposition America in the world, is a fair trading
:17:21. > :17:24.nation and start to bring jobs. High value-added manufacturing jobs that
:17:25. > :17:32.the United States of America. On the national-security part, it was
:17:33. > :17:35.certainly the first... You have seen in fermented under General Kelly
:17:36. > :17:40.that the rule of law is going to exist when you talk about our
:17:41. > :17:45.sovereignty and immigration. General Kelly and Attorney General sessions
:17:46. > :17:48.are adamant that you will start to see with the defence budget we will
:17:49. > :17:53.talk about next week, when we bring the budget out, and also with
:17:54. > :17:58.certain things about the plan on Isis and what general matters and
:17:59. > :18:03.these guys think. But the third, this regulation... Every business
:18:04. > :18:07.leader has said it is not just taxes, it is also the regulation. If
:18:08. > :18:10.you look at these Cabinet appointees, they were selected for a
:18:11. > :18:14.reason, and that is the deconstruction, the way the
:18:15. > :18:18.progressive left runs. If they cannot get it passed, they put in
:18:19. > :18:22.some sort of regulation in an agency, that is going to be
:18:23. > :18:23.deconstructed and that is why this regulatory thing is so important.
:18:24. > :18:25.Steve Bannon speaking. Our correspondent Nick Bryant
:18:26. > :18:35.is at the conference for us. We don't hear Steve Bannon speak
:18:36. > :18:39.very often in public, not their daily on television, but when we do,
:18:40. > :18:43.he makes it very clear he does not like the media and he has a fairly
:18:44. > :18:47.radical approach to government, as we were hearing. But political nerds
:18:48. > :18:52.like me and you, this is like having a Harry Potter book coming out or a
:18:53. > :18:56.new Star Wars film. In the Star Wars analogy works because many people
:18:57. > :19:00.regard him as Darth Vader! He thinks he is a great figure! He has become
:19:01. > :19:04.this mythic figure and we rarely hear him speak. We hear about stuff,
:19:05. > :19:09.but we rarely hear him speak. And here he is with Reince Priebus, the
:19:10. > :19:13.Chief of Staff at the White House, is supposedly his great opponent in
:19:14. > :19:19.the West wing, so many reports about them not getting on because Reince
:19:20. > :19:22.Priebus was the chairman of the Republican National Committee on the
:19:23. > :19:25.face of the Republican establishment and Steve Bannon is Conservative
:19:26. > :19:29.insurgents so fiercely the Republican Party. But they were here
:19:30. > :19:32.talking like a couple on their honeymoon. Finishing each other's
:19:33. > :19:38.sentences, amazing body language with them. Obviously united in their
:19:39. > :19:43.hatred for the media. Steve Bannon repeatedly referring to it as the
:19:44. > :19:47.opposition. Is that a consistent rally for the Conservative base that
:19:48. > :19:51.he is speaking to? It certainly works in the room. Every time he had
:19:52. > :19:57.a go at the media, you sense a ripple of applause amongst the
:19:58. > :20:00.Conservative faithful. At CPAC. An organisation that has not in the
:20:01. > :20:03.past been welcoming to Steve Bannon and they have not invited him
:20:04. > :20:08.before. So really fascinating. Does that cousins -- suggest
:20:09. > :20:10.Conservatives are becoming more Conservative or the administration
:20:11. > :20:16.is tempering itself? Steve Bannon said something Justin, when the
:20:17. > :20:19.Conservative movement joins forces with the Republican Party, they are
:20:20. > :20:21.unstoppable and Donald Trump did that in a way that no other person
:20:22. > :20:27.could. Christian.
:20:28. > :20:31.You say it is one rule for those in the news media, but a lot of people
:20:32. > :20:35.in the UK would be familiar with Steve Bannon, Reince Priebus,
:20:36. > :20:40.Stephen Miller, these characters in his inner circle, I cannot think of
:20:41. > :20:43.a time before when so many members of an administration have been so
:20:44. > :20:50.well known to the public, in so short a time. It is just a fantastic
:20:51. > :20:53.cast of characters. You have not even mentioned Kellyanne Conway, who
:20:54. > :20:58.has been benched for the Paschal but of days and not appearing before the
:20:59. > :21:03.media much. -- for the past couple of days. A dramatic cast of
:21:04. > :21:07.characters, Jared Kushner, Ivanka Trump. It is so interesting because
:21:08. > :21:11.so much of the gossip in Washington is how these people are not getting
:21:12. > :21:14.on with each other, there are these different power hubs within the West
:21:15. > :21:19.wing fighting against each other rather than working together. You
:21:20. > :21:22.had Reince Priebus here and Steve Bannon in this rather dramatic show
:21:23. > :21:28.of unity and it did not seem to be put on, manufactured, prefabricated,
:21:29. > :21:35.they generally seem to get on. Thank you very much. Such is the way,
:21:36. > :21:37.people seem to have rows all the time in palaces! I find that,
:21:38. > :21:38.anyway! Here have been angry scenes
:21:39. > :21:40.across America, as constituents confront their Congressional
:21:41. > :21:42.representatives at local Voters keen to vent their
:21:43. > :21:46.frustration are demanding that the Trump administration
:21:47. > :21:48.is held to account. Our North America correspondent,
:21:49. > :21:50.Rajini Vaidyanathan, has been to Iowa, a state that
:21:51. > :21:52.supported a Trump Presidency, but also has passionate concern
:21:53. > :21:58.about the country's future. A warm welcome on home turf for
:21:59. > :22:01.Republican Senator Chuck Grassley. Most had come to vent
:22:02. > :22:17.their anger over the policies I am a person from a Muslim
:22:18. > :22:24.country and I am a Muslim. I ask him, not you,
:22:25. > :22:29.so shut your hole! The most contentious
:22:30. > :22:34.issue was health care. Don't you dare give me
:22:35. > :22:44.a vague politician answer, with memorised Republican talking
:22:45. > :22:46.points to cloud the truth. If it wasn't for ObamaCare,
:22:47. > :22:48.we wouldn't be able Chris Peterson used a novel way
:22:49. > :22:52.to attract the Senator's attention, I've got a present for
:22:53. > :22:55.you, if you want 'em. You're going to need them
:22:56. > :23:01.in the next few years! We went to meet Chris
:23:02. > :23:04.at his pig farm in rural Iowa. It's not just Trump supporters
:23:05. > :23:06.who are disgruntled Chris voted for Hillary Clinton
:23:07. > :23:10.and hopes town halls will give That's the only thing I can say
:23:11. > :23:14.positively about Trump. I heard somebody say impeachment,
:23:15. > :23:28.so I'm going to write that down. At a later Evans, the pressure was
:23:29. > :23:41.still on. It is time to put
:23:42. > :23:44.country over party. And that demand being heard
:23:45. > :23:52.at the town halls across America. of the Tea Party in the early days
:23:53. > :23:56.of the Obama Administration, where Conservatives packed out
:23:57. > :23:58.the town halls to put pressure on their congressmen and women
:23:59. > :24:01.senators when it came There are a lot of grievances
:24:02. > :24:05.in that Town Hall, how will you take I won't take these back
:24:06. > :24:09.to Trump, I'll take them I don't think you should see it
:24:10. > :24:12.as challenging Trump, I think you should see it
:24:13. > :24:15.as Congress doing its job For Republican politicians
:24:16. > :24:17.like Senator Grassley, the job is challenging,
:24:18. > :24:20.it's about balancing the agenda of President Trump with the voters
:24:21. > :24:23.who keep him in office. So, no doubt, Christian,
:24:24. > :24:26.that members of Congress are facing a tough time as they go back
:24:27. > :24:29.to their states, but some have And in one California district,
:24:30. > :24:32.one group has decided to launch this campaign
:24:33. > :24:41.to find their representative. Yes, those are milk bottles,
:24:42. > :24:43.bearing the face of Republican His constituents are wondering why
:24:44. > :24:47.he's not fronted a town hall event. California, you might remember,
:24:48. > :24:49.is most definitely a Democratic state, so the chance to put some
:24:50. > :24:52.tough questions to a Republican would no doubt be
:24:53. > :24:57.a well-attended event. I am tempted to say he bottled it!
:24:58. > :25:00.Can I just talk about the thing Obama said before he left office?
:25:01. > :25:04.Change only happens, ordinary people, get involved, get engaged,
:25:05. > :25:10.get together to demand change, maybe that is what they are doing. Into
:25:11. > :25:16.this and nine, Republicans were angry at those Town Hall meetings,
:25:17. > :25:20.protesting against ObamaCare -- in 2009. Similar to the meetings today.
:25:21. > :25:25.The Democrats dismissed those people and said it was manufactured anger.
:25:26. > :25:29.Republicans using almost identical language to those Liberals today,
:25:30. > :25:32.they should remember history. OK, lessons in history.
:25:33. > :25:34.You're watching 100 Days, from BBC News.
:25:35. > :25:37.Still to come for viewers on the BBC News Channel and BBC World News...
:25:38. > :25:41.Challenging the Chancellor - we report from Western Germany,
:25:42. > :25:45.to get more on the man who would be the country's next leader.
:25:46. > :25:48.And we speak to a gay man who voted for Donald Trump.
:25:49. > :25:50.What does he make of the President's push to roll back some
:25:51. > :26:09.That's still to come on 100 Days, from BBC News.
:26:10. > :26:16.We really have had quite a battering today, we mostly done with the
:26:17. > :26:21.storm, it is blowing itself out and it is heading towards the low
:26:22. > :26:27.countries here. Let's have a look at some of the gusts. 70 mph of the
:26:28. > :26:31.North West coast of England and look at that in London, 62 miles an hour.
:26:32. > :26:35.We do not often get those winds inland and that is why the storm was
:26:36. > :26:43.so disruptive and damaging, because of the severe gales inland. And
:26:44. > :26:47.aspects of the storm, snow across Scotland, Winter wonderland here.
:26:48. > :26:51.But only confined to Scotland. You can see a white across the Southern
:26:52. > :26:56.plans and lowlands and Highlands and the gales were way towards the
:26:57. > :27:00.South. As far as the early mid evening is concerned, the last of
:27:01. > :27:06.the gales just about clipping East Anglia, and we had an 81 out hour
:27:07. > :27:11.gust hummable much lighter now. If you are travelling this evening,
:27:12. > :27:16.this is around 9pm with showers and lighter winds. At this stage in many
:27:17. > :27:21.areas, the winds are very light indeed. This is the wind gusts at
:27:22. > :27:27.this stage, around nine p.m.. Talking about 28, 30 mph. Easily
:27:28. > :27:33.double that, more than double that in some areas. And tonight, the
:27:34. > :27:37.winds clear from that far Eastern and south-eastern coastline and we
:27:38. > :27:40.will have clear skies. The other hazard is icy patches and
:27:41. > :27:48.temperatures will dip to freezing in one or two spots. Friday morning
:27:49. > :27:53.begins chilly with light winds and sunshine, a crisp sunny start. The
:27:54. > :27:57.rain moves in the Belfast, whilst -- Western Scotland and Dublin and
:27:58. > :28:04.areas will get snow, but nice and quiet across most of England, I am
:28:05. > :28:10.pleased to say, and East Wales. Saturday, another big blow comes in,
:28:11. > :28:15.not a storm, regular cloud, wind and rain from the south-west. Mild
:28:16. > :28:18.winds, temperatures throughout the country in double figures,
:28:19. > :28:21.Aberdeenshire and Aberdeen around 11 degrees, 10 degrees in Plymouth.
:28:22. > :28:24.Similar on Sunday, but the rain is confined towards the north-western
:28:25. > :30:05.areas of the UK. The US Secretary of State
:30:06. > :30:11.is in Mexico for talks about President Trump's border wall
:30:12. > :30:13.and immigration plans - Mexico's Foreign Minister says
:30:14. > :30:16.current US policy is causing And also ahead - as Donald Trump
:30:17. > :30:26.revokes the government protections for transgender students,
:30:27. > :30:28.we'll find out what the leader of the "Gays for Trump" group thinks
:30:29. > :30:30.of the President's He's the man who might be
:30:31. > :30:49.Germany's next chancellor. A month after he announced his
:30:50. > :30:51.candidacy, Martin Schulz - the former president
:30:52. > :30:53.of the European Parliament - Indeed his social democrats
:30:54. > :30:57.are neck and neck with Mrs Merkel's conservatives -
:30:58. > :31:00.and one poll published today has even put them ahead,
:31:01. > :31:03.for the first time since 2006. Our Berlin correspondent Jenny Hill
:31:04. > :31:07.has been to his home town Time perhaps for something
:31:08. > :31:21.completely different. There is a new prince in town
:31:22. > :31:24.and he might just take TRANSLATION: I think
:31:25. > :31:30.he is good for his party. I like him but he still has
:31:31. > :31:38.to prove he can lead Germany TRANSLATION: Angela would be
:31:39. > :31:42.the better Chancellor. I would be happy if Martin Schulz
:31:43. > :31:46.went into a coalition with her and the two of them
:31:47. > :31:49.could bring Europe forword. Critics say Martin Schulz is more
:31:50. > :31:53.Brussels than Berlin, but questions over his EU expenses
:31:54. > :31:56.and conduct don't seem to have damaged his shot
:31:57. > :32:02.at Germany's top job. TRANSLATION: In his hometown
:32:03. > :32:06.he is known as a man of the people. He left school without
:32:07. > :32:09.qualifications, had a football career cut short by injury and beat
:32:10. > :32:14.alcohol addiction to TRANSLATION: As a football player
:32:15. > :32:20.he was not the best technician and he has lots of characteristics
:32:21. > :32:28.which make a good politician. He was a team player, his willpower
:32:29. > :32:31.and drove us to success, Germany, says some,
:32:32. > :32:36.is tiring of Angela Merkel. The new arrival has yet
:32:37. > :32:45.to unveil his manifesto but he has already promised generous
:32:46. > :32:48.and controversial welfare reforms. TRANSLATION: With Martin
:32:49. > :32:49.Schulz, the political We have missed that
:32:50. > :32:52.in the past few years. We have a re-politicised society,
:32:53. > :32:55.a process that he is driving, that will help make
:32:56. > :32:57.the parties more distinct. Germany's political
:32:58. > :32:58.story is changing. A ruling coalition of all left
:32:59. > :33:01.wing parties no longer Martin Schulz, polls suggest,
:33:02. > :33:08.is the most popular I am a bit surprised it is still
:33:09. > :33:18.going on and this impact he has, but I think it is still a long time
:33:19. > :33:22.until the elections in September and so I think it will be hard
:33:23. > :33:25.for the Social Democrats A month ago you could predict
:33:26. > :33:29.with some certainty Angela Merkel will win the September election,
:33:30. > :33:34.albeit having taken a hammering Now, almost overnight,
:33:35. > :33:42.she faces significant opposition for the first time in years
:33:43. > :33:44.from a different Germany, like much of Europe,
:33:45. > :33:48.was edging towards the political right, now it is just as likely
:33:49. > :33:53.to instead turn to the left. And after a year of global political
:33:54. > :34:18.surprise, there is sense here that In a Christian, you interviewed
:34:19. > :34:24.Martin Schulz before the American election and I was wondering what
:34:25. > :34:29.Jenny was talking about, is this a question of any big -- anybody but
:34:30. > :34:35.Angela Merkel due to her policies on immigration. We have reported AFD is
:34:36. > :34:41.doing well on the right and also Martin Schulz doing well, too. There
:34:42. > :34:45.is one thing to say about Angela Merkel, she has been a constant
:34:46. > :34:53.throughout the Eurozone crisis. When she came to power Jacques Chirac was
:34:54. > :34:58.still in power in 2005. There is still a long way to go and maybe
:34:59. > :35:02.with the Donald Trump effect and Brexit kicking and people will look
:35:03. > :35:09.again and see we need a steady hand and we need Angela Merkel. It is not
:35:10. > :35:14.a beauty pageant, the German system, it is not about personality, it is
:35:15. > :35:21.about grand coalitions. So there are three parties on Angela Merkel's
:35:22. > :35:25.site and see would have to pull in the Green party and the Communist
:35:26. > :35:31.leaning party which would drag him to the left. When interviewed him
:35:32. > :35:38.just after Brexit I asked him about Donald Trump and have a listen to
:35:39. > :35:44.what he said. He said -- you said he was a nightmare for Europe. Do you
:35:45. > :35:51.believe that? Yes. Normally I see what I think and believe I think it
:35:52. > :35:56.is a nightmare. Is he encouraging the populist movements? For sure.
:35:57. > :36:05.Look to your fellow countryman, Nigel Farage. This is a similar
:36:06. > :36:10.thing to what you can expect. If he became the next chance that he might
:36:11. > :36:17.have some work to do to convince the Donald Trump. A diplomatic mission
:36:18. > :36:21.to Washington. Nigel Farage, incidentally, is at that conference
:36:22. > :36:25.today, close friends with Donald Trump. Just look at the crowds
:36:26. > :36:29.there. Very popular with the Conservative activists.
:36:30. > :36:31.Iraqi forces are consolidating their positions inside Mosul airport.
:36:32. > :36:34.It's a strategic win for the allies in their battle to drive so-called
:36:35. > :36:36.Islamic State fighters out of the city.
:36:37. > :36:39.The troops took the airfield in a matter of hours with the help
:36:40. > :36:45.They've also fought their way into a large IS-held
:36:46. > :36:52.A woman has been killed by falling debris in Wolverhampton, England,
:36:53. > :36:55.as high winds of more than 150 kilometres an hour
:36:56. > :37:00.Storm Doris is causing disruption across much of Britain.
:37:01. > :37:02.The strong winds have led to flight cancellations -
:37:03. > :37:18.Over three thousand homes across the UK are without power.
:37:19. > :37:22.At the end of each week here on 100 Days we like to talk to someone
:37:23. > :37:25.who voted for Donald Trump to get their assessment of how he's
:37:26. > :37:29.A lot of his voters were Christian evangelicals, a lot of the posts
:37:30. > :37:32.in the administration have been filled by people who are
:37:33. > :37:34.So let me introduce you to Peter Boykin,
:37:35. > :37:37.he is the President of Gays for Trump and he joins us
:37:38. > :37:46.Thank you for being with us. I mention that there are so many
:37:47. > :37:51.socially conservative people but then the administration that some
:37:52. > :37:57.people might not think it is a natural fit. Is it Donald Trump in
:37:58. > :38:05.particular that persuaded you? I believe Donald Trump is a very
:38:06. > :38:09.great individual and has not just one person persuading me to become a
:38:10. > :38:15.Republican but a lot that had to do with the actions of the far a
:38:16. > :38:18.liberal Democratic party and their decisions.
:38:19. > :38:26.There has been an interesting decision taken about the use of
:38:27. > :38:31.bathrooms in schools for transgender children and the White House says it
:38:32. > :38:37.is a matter for the schools and states and rolled back and Obama
:38:38. > :38:41.policy. Part of it is Jeff Sessions, the Attorney General, who will look
:38:42. > :38:49.at a lot of these issues in that way. Does that worry you? No, it
:38:50. > :38:58.does not. I met with Jeff Sessions and he is very much welcome to LGBT
:38:59. > :39:04.concerns and we have to understand this is just a withdrawal pending
:39:05. > :39:10.consideration and it is more of Donald Trump having said multiple
:39:11. > :39:15.times this is the issue of states' rights and not the best dealt with
:39:16. > :39:21.at a federal level. There is a supreme court case of a transgender
:39:22. > :39:27.boy which will be argued on March 20 of this year. What is that in
:39:28. > :39:32.particular you like about Donald Trump since his inauguration? What
:39:33. > :39:37.has he done you most admire and respect?
:39:38. > :39:42.He has spent the first 30 days honouring every single thing he has
:39:43. > :39:52.said he was going to do. He only has had issues with the opposite force
:39:53. > :39:57.against him. He has brought jobs, tried to improve trade, protect our
:39:58. > :40:07.borders, trying to limit immigration. Would you like to have
:40:08. > :40:16.-- would you like them to have moved faster on some issues such as
:40:17. > :40:20.repealing and replacing Obama carer. That is something both sides have
:40:21. > :40:25.worked on multiple ways and that is something that cannot be changed
:40:26. > :40:31.that quickly. We do not want to rush important things and make mistakes.
:40:32. > :40:36.We rushed when Nancy Pelosi said a vote for it so we can open it up and
:40:37. > :40:40.then we can make it law, that was rushing things and you see what we
:40:41. > :40:44.got from that. Donald Trump is taking it one step at the time the
:40:45. > :40:54.things that do not need to be rushed. Thank you very much.
:40:55. > :41:00.I was going to pick up with one of the issues, we have talked about
:41:01. > :41:04.this conference today, the ball of Donald Trump there tomorrow when he
:41:05. > :41:08.appears they are tomorrow morning but they will like them all the
:41:09. > :41:14.more, talking about socially conservative issues, because of the
:41:15. > :41:18.things he has done already. One of the anomalies of the primary
:41:19. > :41:23.campaign last year is why were Christian conservatives voting for
:41:24. > :41:27.him who has been married three times, did not come across as
:41:28. > :41:31.various points being very pro-choice various points being very pro-choice
:41:32. > :41:43.on abortion rights and I think there was some confusion and it did not
:41:44. > :41:46.seem to make sense. If you look at what he has done since coming into
:41:47. > :41:48.office he has nominated the most conservative Cabinet in half a
:41:49. > :41:51.century. More conservative than Ronald Reagan's Cabinet. Put in
:41:52. > :41:54.place people in education, environmental, legal issues who are
:41:55. > :42:00.very hard right Conservative figures. This is a country taking a
:42:01. > :42:06.hard right turn so when he goes to the conference tomorrow they will be
:42:07. > :42:09.very pleased and they may have been sceptical about whether he was a
:42:10. > :42:17.real conservative but he certainly is governing as a real conservative.
:42:18. > :42:21.One thing I have seen are talking about is they were saying they were
:42:22. > :42:26.bottom up rather than top-down which is a problem the Democrats had,
:42:27. > :42:31.filling the imposed Hillary Clinton on the electorate. They have to
:42:32. > :42:37.build a structure to help the candidates. Joe Biden right now is
:42:38. > :42:41.campaigning in Delaware for a lowly state Senator and this is what you
:42:42. > :42:46.talk about, they have realised they have got to build themselves in the
:42:47. > :42:49.bottom up. They have been decimated across the country and will have to
:42:50. > :42:55.do a better job. That it's it for this week. Join us
:42:56. > :42:56.again on Monday. Goodbye for