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A good day for the US defence industry, but not | :00:08. | :00:11. | |
Cuts to the defence Department will have to pay for the expansion of | :00:12. | :00:24. | |
America's military. As well as the funding increase, | :00:25. | :00:26. | |
plans to defeat so-called Islamic State will be presented | :00:27. | :00:28. | |
by the US Defence The 43rd President | :00:29. | :00:30. | |
criticises the 45th. George W Bush says we all need | :00:31. | :00:37. | |
answers about the Trump team Power can be very addictive, | :00:38. | :00:40. | |
and it can be corrosive, and it's important for the media | :00:41. | :00:48. | |
to call to account people Mistakes do happen though - | :00:49. | :00:51. | |
we'll look at some For the NHS and welfare state | :00:52. | :01:10. | |
if Britain leaves the EU That's the opinion of the former | :01:11. | :01:23. | |
Prime Minister Sir John Major. And the Greek economic crisis - | :01:24. | :01:26. | |
it goes from bad to worse, we'll speak to the former | :01:27. | :01:29. | |
Greek Finance Minister I'm Katty Kay in Washington - | :01:30. | :01:31. | |
Christian Fraser's in London. Big increases in defence spending | :01:32. | :01:45. | |
offset by cuts to domestic agencies and the state department - | :01:46. | :01:48. | |
that's what President Trump wants He's promised one of the "greatest | :01:49. | :01:51. | |
military build ups in American history", and briefings | :01:52. | :01:56. | |
by the White House suggest Also today, the Defence | :01:57. | :01:58. | |
Secretary Jim Mattis is due to deliver his plan for defeating | :01:59. | :02:04. | |
the self-styled Islamic State group. This is what Donald Trump had to say | :02:05. | :02:09. | |
earlier about the military. We must ensure that our courageous | :02:10. | :02:14. | |
servicemen and women have the tools they need to deter war, | :02:15. | :02:19. | |
and when called upon to fight When I was young in high school, | :02:20. | :02:21. | |
in college, everybody used to say Some of you were right | :02:22. | :02:33. | |
there with me, and you remember. We never lost a war, | :02:34. | :02:41. | |
America never lost. So we've either got to win | :02:42. | :02:44. | |
or don't fight it at all. A few minutes ago, Mick Mulvaney, | :02:45. | :02:54. | |
the new White House budget director, gave some more details about how | :02:55. | :02:57. | |
the increase in military The top line number is $603 billion, | :02:58. | :03:12. | |
a $54 billion increase. One of the largest increases in history. It's | :03:13. | :03:16. | |
also the number that allows the president to keep his promise to | :03:17. | :03:19. | |
undo the military sequester. The topline non-defense number will be | :03:20. | :03:26. | |
$462 billion, a $54 billion savings. If the largest proposed reduction | :03:27. | :03:29. | |
since the early years of the Reagan administration. The reductions in | :03:30. | :03:32. | |
non-defense spending follow the same model as the president keeping his | :03:33. | :03:35. | |
promises in doing exactly what he said he was going to do. It could | :03:36. | :03:41. | |
use we give to other nations, eliminate programmes that simply | :03:42. | :03:45. | |
don't work. That it reduces the amount. | :03:46. | :03:45. | |
Our North America Correspondent Nick Bryant is here. | :03:46. | :03:50. | |
Budgets have to go through Congress, it's the final word. To the extent | :03:51. | :03:57. | |
that we can read them as a transcript or blueprint of | :03:58. | :04:00. | |
presidential priorities, what does Donald Trump want his first budget? | :04:01. | :04:06. | |
Well, it's clear he wants us of what he has called an historic rise in | :04:07. | :04:11. | |
defence spending. 9%, an absolutely massive amount. He wants along with | :04:12. | :04:17. | |
that splurge on military spending to have this binge on infrastructure as | :04:18. | :04:21. | |
well, one of his key campaign promises was to rebuild America's | :04:22. | :04:30. | |
roads, creaking bridges, its rundown airports. He has also said he can | :04:31. | :04:37. | |
make these savings by cutting things like spending on the Environmental | :04:38. | :04:41. | |
Protection Agency and also the state department, the foreign aid budget | :04:42. | :04:45. | |
for instance. Too many people, these sums just won't add up, because he | :04:46. | :04:51. | |
says he wants to have tax cuts and all this big spending, big-ticket | :04:52. | :04:56. | |
items like the wall at the drop. But one thing they have signalled they | :04:57. | :05:00. | |
are not prepared to touch is so-called entitlement spending, | :05:01. | :05:04. | |
which accounts for about 80% of the federal budget, on things like | :05:05. | :05:08. | |
Social Security, medical care, paying down the federal debt. It's | :05:09. | :05:15. | |
what we call autopilots spending, it is spent already as it were. So the | :05:16. | :05:20. | |
sums just don't seem to have been this budget. I'm young enough to | :05:21. | :05:26. | |
remember, as are you, the days when Republic sends word deficit hawks, | :05:27. | :05:29. | |
what they wanted to do above anything else, it was almost an | :05:30. | :05:35. | |
issue of values and patriotism, was balanced the budget, cut the deficit | :05:36. | :05:39. | |
down from its existing $20 trillion. It doesn't sound like President | :05:40. | :05:44. | |
Trump is remotely concerned about deficit spending. You have a host of | :05:45. | :05:50. | |
brick dust and historical problem. The national debt is 77% of gross | :05:51. | :05:55. | |
domestic product -- you have a historical problem. It is | :05:56. | :05:58. | |
unmanageable. Although this huge increase on defence spending might | :05:59. | :06:02. | |
sound like music to the ears of the kind of a foreign-policy hawks on | :06:03. | :06:06. | |
Capitol Hill, the people with the louder voices in recent years, | :06:07. | :06:09. | |
especially in the Republican party, have not been the defence hawks, but | :06:10. | :06:14. | |
the deficit hawks. You can see here a problem, a political problem, for | :06:15. | :06:18. | |
the White House. Up until now, the congressional leadership, Paul Ryan | :06:19. | :06:24. | |
in the house, the House Speaker, they have gone along with what the | :06:25. | :06:28. | |
White House is done. They have been very acquiescent. But here, there | :06:29. | :06:32. | |
might not. It's setting up this sort of battle somewhere down the road | :06:33. | :06:37. | |
between the White House and figures like Paul Ryan on Capitol Hill, who | :06:38. | :06:41. | |
for years have been saying, "We've got to take control of the national | :06:42. | :06:45. | |
debt and that means tackling entitlement like Social Security". | :06:46. | :06:51. | |
With that in mind, would they have to blow the spending cap put in | :06:52. | :06:55. | |
place in 2011? It looks like it at the moment. As I said, the sums just | :06:56. | :07:01. | |
don't seem to add up. If Trump get is when put this budget: get this | :07:02. | :07:08. | |
budget Congress. To give you an example, if you zero down in foreign | :07:09. | :07:14. | |
aid, it is just 1% of the budget. It puts a small dent in bringing down | :07:15. | :07:19. | |
what is a ballooning national debt. At the moment, there is a | :07:20. | :07:22. | |
discrepancy of $600 billion each year between the amount of money the | :07:23. | :07:25. | |
federal government spends and the amount of money it raises through | :07:26. | :07:29. | |
taxation, and that figure is going to balloon out over the next few | :07:30. | :07:33. | |
years because of the increased costs of social Security and medical care. | :07:34. | :07:39. | |
This just seems like fuzzy maths and voodoo economics, to use a phrase | :07:40. | :07:42. | |
from the past to stop sign the president will put this to a joint | :07:43. | :07:45. | |
session of Congress tomorrow, we will see what they make of it. | :07:46. | :07:48. | |
Building up the military and defeating IS were, of course, | :07:49. | :07:51. | |
both key campaign promises for Donald Trump. | :07:52. | :07:53. | |
So what is his strategy likely to be and what chance | :07:54. | :07:55. | |
Joining us now from New York is Dr Richard Haass, | :07:56. | :07:59. | |
President of the Council on Foreign Relations and author | :08:00. | :08:01. | |
Thank you for joining us. America is in a process of winding down wars in | :08:02. | :08:12. | |
Afghanistan and Iraq. Why go now for a 9% increase in the defence budget? | :08:13. | :08:18. | |
Well, for a couple of reasons, without defending every dollar of | :08:19. | :08:22. | |
that increase. This effort against terrorism is not going to end, it's | :08:23. | :08:27. | |
going to continue in Iraq and Syria, it will probably continue in two or | :08:28. | :08:31. | |
three other dozen countries of the Middle East and Africa. This is an | :08:32. | :08:36. | |
open-ended struggle. The United States has to prepare for more | :08:37. | :08:39. | |
conventional conflicts, possibly something with North Korea, possibly | :08:40. | :08:43. | |
with something in Europe involving Russia. Possibly with something Iran | :08:44. | :08:47. | |
in the Middle East. We have to prepare the American military for | :08:48. | :08:52. | |
the full spectrum of possible conflicts from the sort of thing we | :08:53. | :08:55. | |
have seen in the Middle East in recent years, but not as large | :08:56. | :08:57. | |
scale, to all sorts of more traditional battles. Plus there is | :08:58. | :09:04. | |
cider and personnel issues, to keep people in and attract people. You | :09:05. | :09:08. | |
add all this up, it probably does make the case for a several percent | :09:09. | :09:13. | |
increase in defence spending. It sounds like you're not opposed to | :09:14. | :09:17. | |
the increase in military budget. You worked in the State Department. | :09:18. | :09:20. | |
Would you think it's a good idea to pay for it, as this budget suggests, | :09:21. | :09:26. | |
by a 30% cut in the State Department? The short answer is no, | :09:27. | :09:29. | |
and it is not just that spending which will be eliminated. Where we | :09:30. | :09:35. | |
get tremendous payoff, Bob Gates made a very powerful defence of what | :09:36. | :09:38. | |
the State Department was doing in terms of aid and diplomacy. Domestic | :09:39. | :09:46. | |
spending, things like the Centre for disease control, education. There | :09:47. | :09:49. | |
are important parts of American society we need to invest in, this | :09:50. | :09:54. | |
is our future, this is what makes us a competitor. There is a guns versus | :09:55. | :09:58. | |
butter dichotomy which I feel we are setting up. I would argue for a 3% | :09:59. | :10:03. | |
or 4% increase in defence and a much smaller reductions, if any, on | :10:04. | :10:07. | |
domestic. The big issue you've got is the lack of cutting of | :10:08. | :10:14. | |
entitlements. We have a deal with Social Security, Medicare, Medicaid, | :10:15. | :10:16. | |
disability. This is the fastest parting -- fastest-growing part of | :10:17. | :10:20. | |
the government, we can't drown that out. As you know, we have one other | :10:21. | :10:26. | |
problem. The rising costs of financing American debt. Interest | :10:27. | :10:29. | |
rates are only heading in one direction, which is up. That'll make | :10:30. | :10:34. | |
the cost of paying for American debt that much more expensive. Again, if | :10:35. | :10:39. | |
we're cavil, will have a budget consisting of defence and paying | :10:40. | :10:42. | |
interest on the debt and entitlements, and there'll be | :10:43. | :10:46. | |
nothing left for American society. Some of this money the president | :10:47. | :10:49. | |
wants to go towards shipbuilding is that they can have a more robust | :10:50. | :10:54. | |
presence in, you know, key international waterways, the likes | :10:55. | :10:59. | |
of the South China Sea. That is a strange strategy for a man who has | :11:00. | :11:04. | |
talked about America first and looking internally, putting a much | :11:05. | :11:06. | |
bigger footprint on the foreign stage. I welcome that I think you're | :11:07. | :11:14. | |
talking about a rebalanced to Asia which the last administration began, | :11:15. | :11:18. | |
you need a greater area of naval presence in the Pacific, in the | :11:19. | :11:23. | |
Indian Ocean near the Persian Gulf. At some point quality doesn't | :11:24. | :11:27. | |
substitute for quantity, so there is a case for increased defence | :11:28. | :11:31. | |
spending. It often matters as much or more on what you spend, how you | :11:32. | :11:37. | |
spend it. One big problem is Congress getting involved in wanting | :11:38. | :11:41. | |
to make sure that every aeroplane shows up, getting built in 45 | :11:42. | :11:46. | |
states, it might not be the most economical way to build an | :11:47. | :11:49. | |
aeroplane, but it is the best way to protect the programme. | :11:50. | :11:54. | |
The feud between Mr Trump and the media keeps growing. | :11:55. | :11:56. | |
On Friday several news organisations, including | :11:57. | :11:58. | |
the BBC, were excluded from a White House press briefing. | :11:59. | :12:00. | |
Then on Saturday the President announced he wouldn't be attending | :12:01. | :12:02. | |
the White House Correspondents Association Dinner. | :12:03. | :12:04. | |
Hitting back, a New York Times op-ed today branded Trump | :12:05. | :12:09. | |
The media received support from an unlikely source today, | :12:10. | :12:11. | |
from the former President George W Bush. | :12:12. | :12:13. | |
Not only did he say that "we all need answers'' on the extent | :12:14. | :12:16. | |
of contact between Donald Trump's team and the Russian government, | :12:17. | :12:19. | |
he also had this warning for the President over his | :12:20. | :12:21. | |
I consider the media to be indispensable to democracy. | :12:22. | :12:27. | |
We need an independent media to hold people like me to account. | :12:28. | :12:31. | |
I mean, power can be very addictive, and it can be corrosive. | :12:32. | :12:35. | |
And it's important for the media to call to account people | :12:36. | :12:39. | |
One of the things I spend a lot of time doing was trying to convince | :12:40. | :12:48. | |
a person like Vladimir Putin for example to accept the notion | :12:49. | :12:50. | |
It's kind of hard, you know, to tell others to have an independent free | :12:51. | :12:59. | |
press when we're not willing to have one ourselves. | :13:00. | :13:09. | |
Some people here are suggesting that George Bush has been more critical | :13:10. | :13:13. | |
of Donald Trump in one interview so far than he was of Barack Obama over | :13:14. | :13:15. | |
the course of eight years. Here to discuss is Frank Sesno - | :13:16. | :13:17. | |
who spent more than two decades at CNN, where he served | :13:18. | :13:20. | |
as White House correspondent, He's now the director of the School | :13:21. | :13:22. | |
of Media and Public Affairs Why is the president ratcheting up | :13:23. | :13:33. | |
of this war of words and actions, indeed, with the American press now. | :13:34. | :13:39. | |
And will it work? Well, why is the ratcheting it up? It plays to his | :13:40. | :13:43. | |
base. There is a tremendous traction for blaming the media in this | :13:44. | :13:47. | |
country among conservatives and others who really do believe that | :13:48. | :13:50. | |
there is a very liberal press that is hostile to this president and | :13:51. | :13:55. | |
conservative values generally. Secondly, it deflect attention from | :13:56. | :13:59. | |
some of the stories that would otherwise be gaining traction about | :14:00. | :14:02. | |
the disarray and disorganisation in his White House, despite the fact | :14:03. | :14:14. | |
that they say it's running like a well oiled machine. It is not, and | :14:15. | :14:17. | |
people who have been through transitions in the White House | :14:18. | :14:19. | |
before will freely say so. Republicans and Democrats alike. | :14:20. | :14:21. | |
Finally, it is a message that allows, I think the president to try | :14:22. | :14:24. | |
to inoculate himself from setbacks and criticism to come. The more you | :14:25. | :14:26. | |
demonise or marginalise the media, the less in this way of thinking, | :14:27. | :14:32. | |
the media may factor in down the line. That being said, huge | :14:33. | :14:36. | |
criticism is proper for the media. That is out there. It's the way he's | :14:37. | :14:41. | |
going about it, the personal vindictiveness and going as the | :14:42. | :14:45. | |
former president said, in an institutional way against a | :14:46. | :14:48. | |
fundamental pillar of the democracy. As we were suggesting earlier, the | :14:49. | :14:54. | |
American press's reputation is not particularly strong. You have | :14:55. | :14:57. | |
alluded to it. I did see one poll that showed that actually the media | :14:58. | :15:02. | |
is more popular at the moment than president Trump. That's quite a feat | :15:03. | :15:05. | |
for the president Trump to have achieved that. Is there a sense this | :15:06. | :15:09. | |
might be producing a bit of a backlash? Yeah. I mean, it is | :15:10. | :15:15. | |
phenomenal. Donald Trump is the ultimate media irony. He is a media | :15:16. | :15:19. | |
creation who ran against the media to be elected. He has been railing | :15:20. | :15:23. | |
against the media since it's been elected, and other media are showing | :15:24. | :15:29. | |
signs of remission. It was a poll that you cited, and more Americans | :15:30. | :15:33. | |
said that they trusted for credibility the media than the | :15:34. | :15:36. | |
president of the United States. He is playing a dangerous game. I was | :15:37. | :15:43. | |
just going to say, there's obviously a lot of concern within the White | :15:44. | :15:46. | |
House not just with the president about the leaks to the press that | :15:47. | :15:49. | |
was particularly taken by one quoted in the New York Times from the | :15:50. | :15:54. | |
communications director, who says if this fight against leaks is leaked, | :15:55. | :15:58. | |
they'll be big trouble. And of course, it was leaked. They clearly | :15:59. | :16:03. | |
have big problems with leaks. Does that say something about how the | :16:04. | :16:06. | |
administration is being run? Yes. Having covered other White Houses, | :16:07. | :16:11. | |
the more competition in the White House, the more power centres, the | :16:12. | :16:14. | |
more leaks there. I think that is what they are experiencing now. They | :16:15. | :16:19. | |
also read against anonymous sources. And yet the budget briefing that the | :16:20. | :16:24. | |
of management and budgeted today, there's insisted on being anonymous, | :16:25. | :16:28. | |
their names were not attached. Welcome to Washington. Washington is | :16:29. | :16:33. | |
a town that leaks, there is a lot of people here who know a lot of | :16:34. | :16:36. | |
people, it is easy to league without getting caught. We have | :16:37. | :16:39. | |
whistle-blowing protection in this country that protects people leaking | :16:40. | :16:44. | |
information about wrongdoing. They will have to get used to it. One | :16:45. | :16:50. | |
British toy today is Amber Rudd using the term fake news to describe | :16:51. | :16:54. | |
criticism she doesn't like. How corrosive to think that term is -- | :16:55. | :17:00. | |
British story. Very corrosive. This is one of my biggest concerns as a | :17:01. | :17:06. | |
journalist, former journalist and an educator now, because we're | :17:07. | :17:13. | |
confusing the public with this. Fake news is deliberately, maliciously, | :17:14. | :17:17. | |
completely fictitious creation of information to mislead and | :17:18. | :17:21. | |
misdirect. News you don't like, including unfair or sensational | :17:22. | :17:25. | |
reporting, may be irresponsible ruse. But it's not fake news. Fake | :17:26. | :17:30. | |
news is exploding around the world -- responsible news. People need to | :17:31. | :17:34. | |
be informed about it. People in public life should be joining with | :17:35. | :17:37. | |
news organisations to figure out what they can use is and how public | :17:38. | :17:44. | |
needs to distinguish from it. We should be allowing the public that | :17:45. | :17:48. | |
is informed with real facts. Thank you for joining us. I want to get a | :17:49. | :17:57. | |
Brexit in the second, but does this phenomenon of the antipathy we have | :17:58. | :18:00. | |
seen develop between President Trump and the media, I using that develop | :18:01. | :18:04. | |
in Europe as well, or is it uniquely American? I have seen it here. In | :18:05. | :18:08. | |
Britain. I just mentioned Amber Rudd, getting criticism over child | :18:09. | :18:12. | |
refugees and used that term fake news. And it became a story today | :18:13. | :18:16. | |
that suddenly is crossing the Atlantic and politicians and Jeremy | :18:17. | :18:21. | |
Corbyn has also talked in interviews on the BBC about fake news and | :18:22. | :18:26. | |
alternative facts. Those mannerisms and those sort of catchphrases that | :18:27. | :18:29. | |
we have Donald Trump are in some part ridiculed over here, the bowels | :18:30. | :18:32. | |
are being used as well by politicians. I think Frank is right. | :18:33. | :18:35. | |
That's rhetoric they are being used. Former British Prime Minister John | :18:36. | :18:40. | |
Major has broken months A staunch "Remainer" himself, | :18:41. | :18:42. | |
Mr Major warned before the referendum that a vote to leave | :18:43. | :18:45. | |
would poison Europe Here's what he's been saying | :18:46. | :18:47. | |
in London in the past hour. I've watched with growing concern | :18:48. | :18:55. | |
as the British people have been led to expect a future that seems to be | :18:56. | :19:03. | |
unreal and overoptimistic. Obstacles are brushed aside | :19:04. | :19:06. | |
as if of no consequence, whilst opportunities are inflated | :19:07. | :19:08. | |
beyond any reasonable I have absolutely no wish | :19:09. | :19:10. | |
to re-enter it in any capacity. I do not seek publicity more often | :19:11. | :19:22. | |
than not I shy away from it. But I can't ignore what I | :19:23. | :19:26. | |
learned in government. Nor can I forget the people | :19:27. | :19:31. | |
who voted to leave Europe in the belief that it might | :19:32. | :19:33. | |
improve their lives. If events go badly, | :19:34. | :19:37. | |
their expectations will not be met. And whole communities | :19:38. | :19:42. | |
will be worse off. John Major joining the former Prime | :19:43. | :19:55. | |
Minister Tony Blair as well, who criticised the Brexit process. Does | :19:56. | :19:58. | |
this make any difference? He's being very tough on Brexit, he is a remain | :19:59. | :20:02. | |
a macro, will people listen, will it make any difference? I don't think | :20:03. | :20:08. | |
it is altogether different from what we heard from another former Prime | :20:09. | :20:11. | |
Minister, Tony Blair a couple of weeks ago. He does say in this | :20:12. | :20:15. | |
speech, and I have read it throughout, that if there was a hard | :20:16. | :20:19. | |
Brexit, there will be cuts to the NHS and welfare State. And there | :20:20. | :20:23. | |
will be some sympathy on some parts of the Brexit side for that, | :20:24. | :20:26. | |
particularly those who don't want to see how Brexit. He also has some | :20:27. | :20:31. | |
experience of what it's like negotiating in Europe, so he does | :20:32. | :20:34. | |
concede at least that the Prime Minister needs to be given some | :20:35. | :20:39. | |
slack. You might remember back in 1997, when he was negotiating on the | :20:40. | :20:43. | |
single currency, that famous quote when he said whether you agree with | :20:44. | :20:48. | |
me or disagree with me, like me or loathe me, don't bind my hands when | :20:49. | :20:51. | |
I'm negotiating on behalf of the British nation. I'm sure Theresa May | :20:52. | :20:56. | |
would certainly have sympathy with that amid a negotiation she's going | :20:57. | :21:00. | |
into. One last thing, he says that there needs to be more charm in the | :21:01. | :21:07. | |
debate. Then he goes on, in my view, to associate Brexit with some of the | :21:08. | :21:10. | |
worst characteristics of populism. He says Brexit is giving rise to a | :21:11. | :21:14. | |
mixture of bigotry, prejudice and intolerance. I know, speaking to a | :21:15. | :21:19. | |
lot of people who voted for Brexit, that that metropolitan view of | :21:20. | :21:25. | |
Brexit is frowned on. And I don't think it will win him many friends. | :21:26. | :21:29. | |
So not as charming as it might be? It won't win many friends on the | :21:30. | :21:33. | |
Brexit side, and papers will pick up on that tomorrow. | :21:34. | :21:37. | |
We're always looking out for the stand out 'moments' | :21:38. | :21:39. | |
in awards ceremonies, and last night's oscars proved to be | :21:40. | :21:41. | |
more memorable than most - when the best picture award, | :21:42. | :21:44. | |
and biggest prize of the night, was handed to the wrong film. | :21:45. | :21:52. | |
Accountancy firm PricewaterhouseCoopers have | :21:53. | :21:53. | |
since apologised for the mix up which put Warren Beatty | :21:54. | :21:55. | |
Will provide the love, the compassion and the humanity that | :21:56. | :22:22. | |
will narrate the story of our lives tomorrow. | :22:23. | :22:29. | |
Moonlight, You guys won Best Picture. | :22:30. | :22:37. | |
I'm afraid they read the wrong thing. | :22:38. | :22:42. | |
This is not a joke, Moonlight has won Best Picture. | :22:43. | :22:44. | |
I still can't watch it. It is excruciating. The media have had | :22:45. | :23:03. | |
great fun with this today. People in glass houses. What we've done is | :23:04. | :23:06. | |
pulled out a couple of things where the media got it spectacularly wrong | :23:07. | :23:14. | |
as well. This is a headline in the Chicago daily Tribune in November 19 | :23:15. | :23:19. | |
48. The polls and pundits, no room for doubt, Thomas Dewey would defeat | :23:20. | :23:26. | |
Harry Truman, except he didn't. That paper might have been pulped and | :23:27. | :23:29. | |
everybody might have forgotten it worked for the fact that Mr Truman | :23:30. | :23:34. | |
on his way to Washington came a train to St Louis and someone handed | :23:35. | :23:39. | |
him a copy of that front page. The Chicago Tribune didn't like him and | :23:40. | :23:43. | |
he'd like them. Sadly, you don't even have to go that far back, | :23:44. | :23:48. | |
because there was an incident in 2016, just on the eve of the last | :23:49. | :23:53. | |
election, that have a look at this picture. This is Hillary Clinton's | :23:54. | :23:58. | |
hand signing a copy of Newsweek cover with the title, you can see a | :23:59. | :24:04. | |
guy, Madam President. They had run two covers, there she is on the 7th | :24:05. | :24:10. | |
of November in Pittsburgh and she signs the copy. That was as close as | :24:11. | :24:16. | |
she came to having herself be declared president. They had to | :24:17. | :24:19. | |
recall 125,000 copies and pulp them. I here you can buy them on eBay. I | :24:20. | :24:28. | |
found one of, this one goes back to June 2000 15. I've been digging | :24:29. | :24:31. | |
around in the archives all day. This was the day Donald Trump declared he | :24:32. | :24:35. | |
was running for presidency, have a look. Thanks. I wonder why people | :24:36. | :24:41. | |
with very little chance of actually getting into the oval office run for | :24:42. | :24:45. | |
the presidency. He says that he's the most successful of all the | :24:46. | :24:49. | |
Republican candidates, that's what he told a newspaper in Iowa | :24:50. | :24:53. | |
recently, pointing to his business record in saying that he's the guy | :24:54. | :24:57. | |
that can fix America. At one point during that rather rambling stream | :24:58. | :25:00. | |
of consciousness announcement speech, he even said that we need to | :25:01. | :25:03. | |
fix the immigration problem and it needs to start with a walk, and by | :25:04. | :25:08. | |
the way underwear best person in America to build walls. So I guess | :25:09. | :25:13. | |
that is ushered by the way, I'm the best person in America. I'm | :25:14. | :25:20. | |
sceptical. That President Trump to you! I did point you in the | :25:21. | :25:26. | |
direction of that clip. Even the best get it wrong! You're watching | :25:27. | :25:31. | |
100 Days from BBC News. Still to come for viewers on the BBC | :25:32. | :25:35. | |
News Channel and BBC World News. The shooting of an Indian immigrant | :25:36. | :25:45. | |
in Kansas a hate crime? Will hear from his family and friends? We will | :25:46. | :25:49. | |
take a closer look at Donald Trump's approval ratings. They are at a | :25:50. | :25:53. | |
record low for this stage in a presidential term. That is still to | :25:54. | :25:55. | |
come for viewers. Everything except the kitchen sink | :25:56. | :26:16. | |
today. Rain, hail, snow, sunshine as well. Weather watchers have been | :26:17. | :26:20. | |
doing as proud. This shot taken in the Highlands earlier on. A covering | :26:21. | :26:26. | |
of snow. We have variety over the next few days. A real mottled look | :26:27. | :26:31. | |
to things. Cons of cloud producing heavy showers, but gaps in between, | :26:32. | :26:37. | |
nailing down exactly where the gaps will arrive is not easy. Showers | :26:38. | :26:44. | |
likely overnight. Ice is a more widespread hazard up and down the | :26:45. | :26:48. | |
UK, freezing fog patches mixed in. Weather winds full light, because it | :26:49. | :26:52. | |
will be called on. Temperatures close to or below freezing in many | :26:53. | :26:56. | |
places out of town in particular. By morning, a clump of rain, pushing | :26:57. | :27:03. | |
across the West of Scotland. Snow mostly on higher ground. It had | :27:04. | :27:06. | |
south-eastward through the morning. Ahead of that, a lot of sunshine. | :27:07. | :27:10. | |
The bright and sunny start for many. I wouldn't call up the odd shower | :27:11. | :27:15. | |
from the word go, even some eastern counties of England. -- wouldn't | :27:16. | :27:18. | |
rule out. You will need a few layers, because they'll be a notable | :27:19. | :27:24. | |
breeze. Judges will fall when the showers coming. These continue to | :27:25. | :27:28. | |
track way south-eastwards. Redbrick temperatures will fall. Barring | :27:29. | :27:35. | |
that, it brightens up -- behind that. Dry weather here. Not exactly | :27:36. | :27:41. | |
warm, temperatures held in single figures nationwide. When showers, | :27:42. | :27:45. | |
Ron, they fall by a few degrees. We say goodbye to this chap. As we head | :27:46. | :27:49. | |
into Tuesday, we look to the south-west from the next feature | :27:50. | :27:53. | |
coming off the Atlantic. Ahead of that, cold and frosty for many | :27:54. | :27:56. | |
places on Wednesday, the best of the sun shone across central and | :27:57. | :27:59. | |
northern areas. This front of entry will bring some rain into the | :28:00. | :28:04. | |
south-west, a question about how far north that extends. Another chilly | :28:05. | :28:08. | |
there, particularly in northern areas. A strong jet stream propels | :28:09. | :28:13. | |
bands of rain in our direction again, and the behaviour of the jet | :28:14. | :28:17. | |
stream, the King will determine how far north areas of rain extent later | :28:18. | :28:21. | |
on in the week with some snow mixed in as a doctor in the kink. Rain and | :28:22. | :28:28. | |
shine, and the ongoing risk of some snow. | :28:29. | :30:09. | |
Welcome back to 100 Days with Katty Kay in London, | :30:10. | :30:11. | |
A huge boost for the US military spending power, | :30:12. | :30:20. | |
as Donald Trump says he wants to boost the defence budget | :30:21. | :30:23. | |
And a vigil for the Indian-born victim of a shooting in Kansas, | :30:24. | :30:30. | |
we'll hear from some of his family and friends. | :30:31. | :30:36. | |
No country has suffered as much through the Eurozone | :30:37. | :30:38. | |
And yet, after seven years of austerity there are signs | :30:39. | :30:44. | |
the country could be slipping into recession again. | :30:45. | :30:49. | |
The Deputy Foreign Minister has told the BBC that | :30:50. | :30:52. | |
in the current political climate, Europe's politicians should be | :30:53. | :30:54. | |
wary about the demands they put on his country. | :30:55. | :30:58. | |
Greece needs 7 billion euros to pay its debts in July. | :30:59. | :31:02. | |
In return for more money the creditors - | :31:03. | :31:04. | |
who return to Greece tomorrow - want more reform. | :31:05. | :31:07. | |
In a courtroom on outskirts of Athens, frustration with deficit and | :31:08. | :31:23. | |
debt and deadlines from banks boils over. The man in the striped shirt | :31:24. | :31:31. | |
is a lawyer, coming to process a repossession order on a building | :31:32. | :31:33. | |
whose owners couldn't pay their mortgage. The activists have come to | :31:34. | :31:41. | |
stop him. He can't get the case heard because he can't make himself | :31:42. | :31:45. | |
heard and it's abandoned for the day. A victory in the fightback | :31:46. | :31:51. | |
against austerity, the protesters. 50% of Greek people are poor, the | :31:52. | :31:58. | |
limits of indignity and we are here to protect those people who cannot | :31:59. | :32:02. | |
protect themselves because the state does not protect these people. After | :32:03. | :32:11. | |
years of cuts, many Greeks feel the IMF and the Eurozone leaders are | :32:12. | :32:18. | |
preparing to demand more. Traders in the Athens fish market say that | :32:19. | :32:22. | |
business has fallen by 70% since the debt crisis begun to bite seven | :32:23. | :32:27. | |
years ago. They warned that they and their customers can't take any more. | :32:28. | :32:34. | |
TRANSLATION: We don't believe them, they always want more cuts. Always | :32:35. | :32:40. | |
new cuts and there are never new jobs. If the IMF and Eurozone impose | :32:41. | :32:45. | |
more austerity, nothing will change. Investment will make things better | :32:46. | :32:52. | |
but austerity won't stop Brake problems with debt have an agent | :32:53. | :33:00. | |
feel. -- Greek problems with debt. The Greek government say that the | :33:01. | :33:03. | |
changes are part of a wave of populism around the world that are | :33:04. | :33:08. | |
going to help it to resist demands from its creditors for new cuts. All | :33:09. | :33:16. | |
the people of Europe, especially Greece because we have been hit by | :33:17. | :33:21. | |
austerity. We must work harder than the rest of Europe. This is the real | :33:22. | :33:26. | |
question, how to reverse austerity. I think there is hope of that | :33:27. | :33:31. | |
because the elite cannot govern as they have in the past. Plenty of | :33:32. | :33:38. | |
Greeks want their government to push back hard against any calls for more | :33:39. | :33:41. | |
austerity. These protesters are coming is. Not likely to be part of | :33:42. | :33:48. | |
any government but certainly part of a drumbeat of discontent against any | :33:49. | :33:53. | |
deal with international creditors that would mean further hardship | :33:54. | :33:58. | |
here -- these protesters are communists. They have talked about | :33:59. | :34:03. | |
light and the end of the tunnel on Greek debt but the meeting from | :34:04. | :34:07. | |
meetings like this is that it's a tunnel that keeps getting longer and | :34:08. | :34:11. | |
a light that never seems to get any brighter. | :34:12. | :34:15. | |
Yanis Varoufakis is the former Finance Minister of Greece. | :34:16. | :34:17. | |
320 billion euros of debt in Greece, can the country ever recover with | :34:18. | :34:33. | |
substantial debt relief? The simple answer is no. I stood for election | :34:34. | :34:40. | |
and became finance minister, I wanted to restructure the debt and | :34:41. | :34:44. | |
have a decent fiscal policy and make the reforms necessary to bring about | :34:45. | :34:48. | |
recovery. That will never happen because the biggest creditor, | :34:49. | :34:51. | |
Germany, is going into an election, they wouldn't countenance debt | :34:52. | :34:54. | |
relief and they say it wouldn't set the right example for countries like | :34:55. | :35:05. | |
Spain that have report. The question is, is it going to be restructured | :35:06. | :35:10. | |
upfront, giving an opportunity for the economy to recover. -- Spain | :35:11. | :35:21. | |
that have reformed. Or is the cow going to die and there will be no | :35:22. | :35:25. | |
milk? Some would say that this cycle has gone on for seven years, it is | :35:26. | :35:30. | |
never-ending, why not cut the ties with the Eurozone and do what all | :35:31. | :35:35. | |
countries do when they are in this mess, devalue the currency, default | :35:36. | :35:40. | |
on the debt and structure reform? Even we were in a situation like | :35:41. | :35:43. | |
Britain in the early 90s with the exchange rate mechanism, when you | :35:44. | :35:48. | |
have the unsustainable fixed exchange rate and it changed as it | :35:49. | :35:54. | |
did under Norman Le Mans, my good friend, of course you do it -- | :35:55. | :36:02. | |
Norman Lamb on. We didn't have a currency that was stuck to the Euro, | :36:03. | :36:08. | |
we had the euro. You're saying you can't do it, if you go back to the | :36:09. | :36:12. | |
drachma? Anything is possible but the costs are immense. To do what | :36:13. | :36:17. | |
you suggested, you need to announce a devaluation 12 months before it | :36:18. | :36:20. | |
happens because that's how long it takes to create a new currency | :36:21. | :36:25. | |
before you devalue it. Imagine if Harold Wilson had to announce 12 | :36:26. | :36:31. | |
months in advance the devaluation in the 60s. Some would say that if you | :36:32. | :36:36. | |
take the Eurozone to the cliff edge and say you are going to just | :36:37. | :36:42. | |
default on this, the alternative is that they may consider debt release. | :36:43. | :36:48. | |
That is what I did but my Prime Minister did not back me at the last | :36:49. | :36:53. | |
moment. He betrayed you. I would knew such emotive language, I think | :36:54. | :36:56. | |
he undermined himself and now he has to sign on the dotted line of | :36:57. | :37:00. | |
agreements which he knows are designed to fail. He might say that | :37:01. | :37:06. | |
you found out to your cost that it isn't as easy finding a solution | :37:07. | :37:08. | |
when you are in the job. I was always telling him, I was warning | :37:09. | :37:15. | |
him it was going to be difficult. For three years before we get into | :37:16. | :37:18. | |
government together, I was telling him that the first thing that would | :37:19. | :37:24. | |
happen the ECB, the central bank is going to pick up the phone and | :37:25. | :37:30. | |
threaten us with bank closures. My reason for taking over the finance | :37:31. | :37:36. | |
ministry was the time -- was designed so that Mario Draghi would | :37:37. | :37:41. | |
come to the table with a decent agreement with some compromise. | :37:42. | :37:44. | |
Something has changed and that is Brexit. We were told at one point | :37:45. | :37:50. | |
that it was thought that Greece should be allowed to go. Not just at | :37:51. | :37:53. | |
one point, for many years. Perhaps more ready to countenance that now. | :37:54. | :38:04. | |
He was gung ho about Brexit. He has a very clear plan for the Eurozone, | :38:05. | :38:11. | |
which involve things like Grexit, he has a very clear plan, but the | :38:12. | :38:19. | |
Chancellor only wants to expand the crisis. Greece's collateral damage | :38:20. | :38:27. | |
is a war between two politicians, Angela Merkel and the IMF. | :38:28. | :38:32. | |
Some interesting thoughts, something has to give and the creditors are | :38:33. | :38:35. | |
starting their work tomorrow in Athens. We'll bring you more news on | :38:36. | :38:40. | |
that when they get to some kind of resolution. | :38:41. | :38:42. | |
An American man accused of murdering an Indian immigrant, | :38:43. | :38:47. | |
after reportedly shouting "get out of my country," is appearing | :38:48. | :38:49. | |
Police are investigating whether the shooting was a hate crime. | :38:50. | :38:53. | |
Rajini Vaidyanathan has travelled to Kansas to meet family | :38:54. | :38:55. | |
and friends of the victim, Srinivas Kuchibhotla. | :38:56. | :39:03. | |
The message and this vigil, stand by everyone. -- at this vigil. People | :39:04. | :39:12. | |
from all faiths and communities came here to mourn a man who lived and | :39:13. | :39:18. | |
worked in the City. 32-year-old Srinivas Kuchibhotla was an engineer | :39:19. | :39:22. | |
who moved to Kansas from India. After work last week he went for a | :39:23. | :39:25. | |
drink with his best friend when a man approached their table. He | :39:26. | :39:31. | |
randomly comes up and start pointing fingers. We knew something was | :39:32. | :39:37. | |
wrong. What did he say? He came towards me and said, which country | :39:38. | :39:40. | |
are you from? Are you here illegally? The man was escorted out | :39:41. | :39:46. | |
of the bar as eyewitnesses heard him shout, get out of my country, but he | :39:47. | :39:51. | |
later returned. You are drinking beer, you're with your friend, next | :39:52. | :40:00. | |
he is back with a gun. And I heard a pop. Next thing I know, I was on the | :40:01. | :40:05. | |
ground. Two down, gunshot wound to the chest. We have a third with a | :40:06. | :40:13. | |
hip wound. Srinivas was killed in the attack which left a local | :40:14. | :40:17. | |
injured. I was more than happy to risk my attacks to help others. This | :40:18. | :40:23. | |
man chased the gunmen, was also shot and is recovering in hospital. | :40:24. | :40:27. | |
51-year-old Adam Purinton has been charged with murder and attempted | :40:28. | :40:31. | |
murder and the FBI is investigating whether this was a hate crime. | :40:32. | :40:36. | |
Srinivas and his wife had built a life together in America but in | :40:37. | :40:39. | |
recent months he had become concerned about living here. When | :40:40. | :40:44. | |
the recent elections happened, he was watching it so closely. I was | :40:45. | :40:49. | |
talking to Srinivas and I was like, Will we be saved in this country? I | :40:50. | :40:58. | |
was so worried. I think that the hate crime will be more open now. | :40:59. | :41:04. | |
Will it be safe for us to go to the maul, will it be safe for us to go | :41:05. | :41:09. | |
to the office? He hugged me like this and he said don't worry, we | :41:10. | :41:18. | |
should be OK. Just days after the attack, Austins Bar and Grill has | :41:19. | :41:21. | |
whether the two men were targeted whether the two men were targeted | :41:22. | :41:26. | |
because of their race. For now, people here want to stress that this | :41:27. | :41:31. | |
is a community that welcomes people from all backgrounds. | :41:32. | :41:36. | |
So sad, what an awful story. Hillary Clinton in the last hour has tweeted | :41:37. | :41:41. | |
about this is, saying that with about this is, saying that with | :41:42. | :41:46. | |
threats and hate crimes on the rise, we shouldn't have to tell the | :41:47. | :41:49. | |
president to do his job, he must speak up. That's from Hillary | :41:50. | :41:50. | |
Clinton. A poll out over the weekend gave | :41:51. | :41:51. | |
President Trump record low approval ratings for a new president so soon | :41:52. | :41:57. | |
after being elected. The poll, for NBC news | :41:58. | :41:59. | |
and the Wall Street Journal, revealed just 44% of people approve | :42:00. | :42:02. | |
of him, rating compared He has an opportunity tomorrow, he's | :42:03. | :42:16. | |
speaking to the joint session of Congress, it's an opportunity to | :42:17. | :42:21. | |
reset, would you say, after 40 fairly turbulent days? He'll have to | :42:22. | :42:26. | |
fill in some more details of his agenda, he'll have to talk about tax | :42:27. | :42:29. | |
reform and the infrastructure bill that we haven't seen anything from. | :42:30. | :42:32. | |
More about Obamacare. One thing More about Obamacare. One thing | :42:33. | :42:37. | |
about that opinion poll and I think it will influence what he says to | :42:38. | :42:42. | |
Congress, he has overwhelming support from Republicans, 85% of | :42:43. | :42:44. | |
them still support what the president is doing. Losing some | :42:45. | :42:51. | |
ought -- support amongst them across and independence but his base happy | :42:52. | :42:53. | |
with what they are saying. That's it for One Hundred Days - | :42:54. | :42:54. | |
we'll be back at the same time | :42:55. | :42:58. |