:00:08. > :00:09.Hello and welcome to One Hundred Days.
:00:10. > :00:11.President Trump prepares for a primetime address
:00:12. > :00:17.After his images of carnage, "An optimistic vision"
:00:18. > :00:26.Scrapping Obamacare, building up the military
:00:27. > :00:29.and a new tax system are priorities for a President who gives himself
:00:30. > :00:32.an A for achievement, but only a C for communication.
:00:33. > :00:34.Donald Trump accuses his predecessor of being behind national
:00:35. > :00:39.security leaks and some of the protests against Republicans.
:00:40. > :00:42.I think President Obama is behind it, because his people
:00:43. > :00:46.are cerainly behind it, and some of the leaks, possibly,
:00:47. > :01:01.At the inquests into the murder of 30 British holiday-makers
:01:02. > :01:03.in Tunisia, the coroner says local police were "at best shambolic...
:01:04. > :01:06.A pension deal for former British Home Stores workers.
:01:07. > :01:09.The billionaire businessman Sir Philip Green will contribute
:01:10. > :01:15.?363 million to help meet the shortfall.
:01:16. > :01:17.And sofa psychology - what do these pictures
:01:18. > :01:20.of Presidential adviser KellyAnne Conway show us
:01:21. > :01:39.Hello and welcome to One Hundred Days, I'm Katty Kay in Washington,
:01:40. > :01:43.A primetime speech to a joint session of Congress
:01:44. > :01:45.is a perfect opportunity - 40 days into this Presidency -
:01:46. > :01:50.for Donald Trump to explain what he wants to do with the office.
:01:51. > :01:52.His speech in a few hours' time will focus on three
:01:53. > :01:55.initiatives: the rebuilding of the US military,
:01:56. > :01:57.the repeal and replacement of the Affordable Care Act
:01:58. > :02:02.or Obamacare, as it's known, and reform of the tax code.
:02:03. > :02:04.Ahead of his speech the President gave
:02:05. > :02:14.to pay for a $58 billion increase in the defence Budget.
:02:15. > :02:23.Where is the money coming from? If you put all the money, that's about
:02:24. > :02:28.50 billion. The money will come from a revved up economy. If you look at
:02:29. > :02:33.the numbers we are doing, we will probably have a GDP of little more
:02:34. > :02:35.than 1% and if I can get that up to three, or maybe even more, we have a
:02:36. > :02:36.whole different ball game. The financial markets certainly
:02:37. > :02:40.like the things they are hearing On Monday, the Dow Jones industrial
:02:41. > :02:43.average hit a record high If only the White House
:02:44. > :02:47.was not being undermined The leaks have been a serious
:02:48. > :02:52.problem for this President. And in this Fox interview
:02:53. > :03:05.he names the whistle-blower I think President Obama is behind
:03:06. > :03:10.it, because his people certainly are. And some of the leaks possibly,
:03:11. > :03:14.from that group, some of them, which are really very serious leaks,
:03:15. > :03:17.because they are bad in terms of national security. But I also
:03:18. > :03:21.understand that his politics and in terms of him being behind things,
:03:22. > :03:22.that is politics. It will probably continue.
:03:23. > :03:24.Tonight's presidential address isn't a full-blown State of the Union,
:03:25. > :03:28.but it WILL give us a good idea of what President Trump wants to do
:03:29. > :03:31.What can the White House and Congress work together
:03:32. > :03:33.on and which issues will divide them?
:03:34. > :03:35.I've been taking a look back at past speeches
:03:36. > :03:49.It is the centrepiece of America's political calendar, enshrined in the
:03:50. > :03:53.Constitution. Since George Washington delivered the first
:03:54. > :03:57.annual message to Congress in 1790, what has come to be known as the
:03:58. > :04:02.state of the union has evolved from a simple statement on the health of
:04:03. > :04:08.the nation, into a political call to arms, a presidential rallying cry.
:04:09. > :04:11.From 1801 for a century after, the political they will simply delivered
:04:12. > :04:16.in brightening from the White House to the capital. It was Woodrow
:04:17. > :04:20.Wilson who in 1930 unit took to the fore, transforming it into a
:04:21. > :04:24.blueprint for the President's legislative agenda. His successors
:04:25. > :04:28.have used the opportunity to showcase leadership, frame a new
:04:29. > :04:33.direction or just lift the spirit of the nation during difficult times.
:04:34. > :04:39.May I assert my firm belief the only thing we have to fear is fear
:04:40. > :04:46.itself. That the watershed moments. In 1823, president James Monro used
:04:47. > :04:48.the address to articulate a new foreign policy doctrine, war and
:04:49. > :04:55.European powers not to meddle in the Western Hemisphere. During his State
:04:56. > :04:59.of the union in 1964, Lyndon Johnson first proposed legislation that
:05:00. > :05:02.would come to be known as the war on poverty, paving the way for a range
:05:03. > :05:10.of welfare programmes. This administration today, here and now
:05:11. > :05:20.declares unconditional war on poverty in America. Mr Speaker, the
:05:21. > :05:23.president of the United States. One of the most memorable phrases ever
:05:24. > :05:29.uttered in the state of the union came in President George W Bush's
:05:30. > :05:33.2002 address, which warned Iran, Iraq and North Korea threatened the
:05:34. > :05:37.peace of the world. It marks the birth of the controversial war on
:05:38. > :05:42.terror. States such as these and their terrorist allies, they
:05:43. > :05:49.constitute an axis of evil, arming to threaten the peace of the world.
:05:50. > :05:53.Tonight's speech, a statement of purpose is likely to echo Mr Trump's
:05:54. > :05:57.defiant and uncompromising inaugural address, a promise to put America
:05:58. > :05:59.first and to transfer power back to the people watching.
:06:00. > :06:02.With me now is Matt Schlapp, who was George W Bush's political
:06:03. > :06:04.director, he is now chairman of the American Conservative Union,
:06:05. > :06:10.the oldest conservative lobbying organization in the country.
:06:11. > :06:16.Matt, you are just saying you were there in that first term when
:06:17. > :06:20.President Bush gave that speech to Congress. What are you expecting
:06:21. > :06:24.from President Trump tonight? I would hope to hear a little more
:06:25. > :06:30.detail about what he wants to do in these key areas of tax reform,
:06:31. > :06:34.getting the economy growing and repealing and replacing Obamacare.
:06:35. > :06:37.But I also think it is a moment when the first address to Congress is
:06:38. > :06:40.often just called an address to Congress, not the state of the unit,
:06:41. > :06:44.because he hasn't even had a full year to be able to say how his
:06:45. > :06:48.policies are working. But this is a moment where he remind everybody
:06:49. > :06:52.that he is the entire nation's president and at the most important
:06:53. > :06:58.thing when you offer this tough job is that you be commander in chief.
:06:59. > :07:01.Would you expect the tone to be more consulates, perhaps, than the
:07:02. > :07:05.president has been up until now, reaching out to those who did not
:07:06. > :07:10.vote for him or may not agree with him? Yes, this will be smart and
:07:11. > :07:14.appropriate. One question on Conservatives on what they are
:07:15. > :07:18.feeling. How do you feel -- makes sense as a Conservative of the extra
:07:19. > :07:24.spending the president is proposing on defence, on infrastructure, on
:07:25. > :07:31.the wall with Mexico, but not cutting entitlements and welfare
:07:32. > :07:36.programmes? As a conservative, does that add up? I would like to see him
:07:37. > :07:42.focus on entitlements. These are big programmes that are on autopilot and
:07:43. > :07:46.they are set to go bankrupt anchored upset our financial house if they
:07:47. > :07:50.are not taking care. He will have to look at that at some point in his
:07:51. > :07:53.presidency. As far as military spending is concerned, we are
:07:54. > :07:57.spending the lowest percentage of our GDP than we ever have in modern
:07:58. > :08:03.times. That needs to turn around. This is a dangerous world. The state
:08:04. > :08:07.of the union addresses have become quite... I remember a Republican
:08:08. > :08:13.sitting there with President Obama when he was articulating his Budget
:08:14. > :08:21.and was no clapping or a bipartisan camaraderie. What do you expect from
:08:22. > :08:25.the tonight? -- the Democrats tonight. They are focused on the
:08:26. > :08:30.liberal base of their party. They just elected a new chair, so I
:08:31. > :08:34.expect some to be quite negative with what they hear from President
:08:35. > :08:38.Trump no matter what he says. I would urge them, I'm a Republican
:08:39. > :08:42.and they probably won't listen to me, but I would urge them to be
:08:43. > :08:46.respectful, because you can overplay your hand in politics, both
:08:47. > :08:49.Republicans and Democrats, and some would say Republicans overplayed
:08:50. > :08:55.their partisan and with President Obama at times and Democrat should
:08:56. > :08:59.be careful not to do the same. The last time we saw you, you were on
:09:00. > :09:03.the stage at the event last week in Washington, this becoming together
:09:04. > :09:08.of the Conservative grassroots. On the stage, you had the White House
:09:09. > :09:12.strategist Steve Bannon and his chief of staff. Letters quickly have
:09:13. > :09:18.a look at you on stage with them. We have a team and grinding it through
:09:19. > :09:20.and when Donald Trump promised the American people, you'd better
:09:21. > :09:30.understand those promises are going to be implemented. That is awesome.
:09:31. > :09:38.Steve, you are a really likeable guy, you should do this more often!
:09:39. > :09:51.What are 30 days of action? He's not so nice to us, you know. Those two
:09:52. > :09:54.characters, they are not two people you would automatically puts
:09:55. > :09:58.together, because Steve Bannon is the destructor, he is from the grass
:09:59. > :10:02.roots and the other is more establishment. Going forward, passed
:10:03. > :10:06.this speech tonight, the success of the Trump presidency depends on
:10:07. > :10:11.those two branches of the Republican movement working together. That is
:10:12. > :10:16.one of the reasons why we decided to have them on stage together, because
:10:17. > :10:19.when you are putting together a coalition, politically, you've got
:10:20. > :10:23.to get to 50% of democracy and one of the ways to do that is to bring
:10:24. > :10:27.in all types of new voters which Donald Trump appears to, he
:10:28. > :10:31.working-class voters that the Republican party has a fitful
:10:32. > :10:35.relationship with. They must be on board, but also, you've got your
:10:36. > :10:39.main light, mainstream Republicans who sometimes get a little worried
:10:40. > :10:43.about what they see from the Trump White House. It's important they
:10:44. > :10:48.stay on the team as well. If we can't meet this coalition together,
:10:49. > :10:51.it won't be successful. Can I ask about health care, because your body
:10:52. > :10:55.got Conservatives saying we are not going to agree to any form of
:10:56. > :11:00.replacement of Obamacare that does not include repealing those tax
:11:01. > :11:03.hikes. How eager to keep Conservatives on board with the
:11:04. > :11:09.Republican plans and the White House's plans to replace it? The
:11:10. > :11:14.real thing is there's a movement to say why didn't we just fix Obamacare
:11:15. > :11:18.and I think that's where Conservatives get particularly
:11:19. > :11:22.feisty. They want to see it thrown away, be repealed, but they do wants
:11:23. > :11:26.to replace it with a more free market of health care. Here is the
:11:27. > :11:31.big difference. Obama's measuring stick was how many people are
:11:32. > :11:35.covered with health insurance, the Conservative measuring stick is
:11:36. > :11:38.those prices affordable and is it a high quality of health care? We
:11:39. > :11:42.don't want to sacrifice that just to make sure people are covered by
:11:43. > :11:52.health insurance. OK, thank you very much.
:11:53. > :11:59.One of the things Trump campaigned Donna was repealing and replacing
:12:00. > :12:04.Obamacare. He said he was going to do it on day one, because it was
:12:05. > :12:08.such a mess. But now come you have a situation where Democrats, having
:12:09. > :12:11.run away from the Affordable Care Act for so long are now embracing it
:12:12. > :12:15.and opinion polls suggesting that perhaps in its dying days, it is
:12:16. > :12:18.more popular than ever. So Republicans will have to tread
:12:19. > :12:23.carefully and that is what the White House is hearing from amongst others
:12:24. > :12:26.who are saying, hold on the second, we don't want to go back to our
:12:27. > :12:29.people and say sorry guys, you're going to lose coverage. Some say the
:12:30. > :12:32.president is a little to the left on this, because he wants as many
:12:33. > :12:34.people cover by whatever replaces the fans are this, because he wants
:12:35. > :12:40.as many people cover by whatever replaces another, by Obamacare. He
:12:41. > :12:41.is a question for you, back in 2030, the Republican-controlled house of
:12:42. > :12:47.Representatives blocked a Budget, and Obama Budget and it caused a
:12:48. > :12:50.federal Government shutdown. What power did the Democrats have? They
:12:51. > :12:53.are now the minority in both houses. Do they have any power at all to
:12:54. > :12:58.stop some of these spending commitments? It may be tempting for
:12:59. > :13:03.people watching American politics at the moment to write the Democrats
:13:04. > :13:08.off. They have not got the contrasts, or the Supreme Court or
:13:09. > :13:12.the White House. But when it comes particularly to Budget issues, they
:13:13. > :13:16.still have power. The president needs 60 votes to get any form of
:13:17. > :13:22.the drug -- federal Budget spending through. He only has 52 Republicans
:13:23. > :13:25.in the Senate. He must then find another eight people, eight
:13:26. > :13:28.Democrats potentially, in order to pass military spending hikes, in
:13:29. > :13:33.order to pass any type of tax issues. The wall, whatever he wants
:13:34. > :13:38.to spend money on. He must get the Democrats. They will go along with
:13:39. > :13:41.him. This Budget proposal is just the opening salvo. They will go on
:13:42. > :13:44.for months I will probably end up with numbers quite a lot smaller
:13:45. > :13:50.than the ones we are looking at. The damage that clear? Yes, you did.
:13:51. > :13:56.Your prime on American budgets for free!
:13:57. > :13:57.Five executives from the South Korean manufacturing
:13:58. > :13:59.giant Samsung have been charged with corruption.
:14:00. > :14:01.Among them is Lee Jae-Yong, the man who effectively
:14:02. > :14:05.The indictments follow an investigation into payments made
:14:06. > :14:09.She is facing impeachment, which would strip her
:14:10. > :14:15.Singapore's Prime Minister has told the BBC he wouldn't rule
:14:16. > :14:17.out signing a version of the Trans Pacific Partnership
:14:18. > :14:19.which DIDN'T involve the United States.
:14:20. > :14:22.One of President Trump's first acts in office was to pull America
:14:23. > :14:25.But now, some of the signatories have indicated they might press
:14:26. > :14:30.Speaking on the BBC's Hardtalk programme, Singapore's Prime
:14:31. > :14:31.Minister Lee Hsien Loong gave the suggestion his
:14:32. > :14:50.If there work on the senses and 11 countries say go ahead and sign the
:14:51. > :14:55.thing, just minus the US, Singapore would sign. Weather that happens, I
:14:56. > :14:57.am not sure because the Japanese in particular made very painful
:14:58. > :15:02.concessions in exchange for an American concessions. So, I would
:15:03. > :15:03.not rule it out. But I think it is not so easy.
:15:04. > :15:05.Meanwhile, the trade deal which Britain has to negotiate
:15:06. > :15:08.during Brexit could become the biggest single act
:15:09. > :15:10.of protectionism in UK History according to the former
:15:11. > :15:16.Mr Osborne, who supported the Remain campaign,
:15:17. > :15:19.and was sacked after the referendum, has warned that future trade deals
:15:20. > :15:22.will not adequately replace the single European market.
:15:23. > :15:25.Failure to reach an agreement with the EU he said will prove
:15:26. > :15:38.The billionaire businessman Sir Philip Green has paid
:15:39. > :15:43.fund of British Home Stores, the UK retail chain.
:15:44. > :15:45.BHS went in to administration after Sir Philip sold
:15:46. > :15:50.He's been criticised for having made profits and dividends of more
:15:51. > :15:55.than half a billion pounds while leaving the pension fund
:15:56. > :16:04.Our Business Editor Simon Jack is here with me.
:16:05. > :16:08.Recap if you would for all international viewers why this went
:16:09. > :16:16.so badly wrong and why Sir Philip Green has been shamed? I'm using
:16:17. > :16:21.that word, shamed into paying up. This excited imagination for many
:16:22. > :16:25.reasons. Green is a buccaneering businessman, he is very rich and he
:16:26. > :16:31.has a very bruising relationship with politicians. He does not like
:16:32. > :16:36.to play the game. He sold this business for ?1 to a twice bankrupt
:16:37. > :16:42.novice retailer. It went bust a year later which led to 12,000 job losses
:16:43. > :16:47.and leaving 20,000 pensioners in the lurch one going to get their
:16:48. > :16:50.entitlement. He said he was going to soar this pension out and everyone
:16:51. > :16:58.was very sceptical and today, you delivered. ?363 million, five of his
:16:59. > :17:04.own money into fixing this as though he deserves a little bit of credit
:17:05. > :17:09.for that. He became a mascot, if you like, for corporate greed in the UK.
:17:10. > :17:16.Yes because he was sitting offshore on his lot -- yacht... Yes, and
:17:17. > :17:19.meanwhile, people were saying they were going to get their paltry
:17:20. > :17:25.pension reduced because he was putting money in. This is a
:17:26. > :17:29.voluntary contribution, in a way. He was being pursued by regulators, but
:17:30. > :17:34.he put his hand in his own pocket, so deserves some credit for that.
:17:35. > :17:39.Some will be better off, but some of his senior old staff will be a lot
:17:40. > :17:44.better off, because the rescue fund that failed pension funds going to
:17:45. > :17:48.cap any pay-out at around 30 2000. That won't apply, so some of his
:17:49. > :17:52.senior lieutenants will do better out of this deal. Many said he
:17:53. > :17:55.should lose his knighthood because it gave despicably, and he made a
:17:56. > :18:03.promise, and those closed to him said he does something when he says
:18:04. > :18:08.he will. So he has sorted it, in his own words, but there's many
:18:09. > :18:11.questions about the light it sheds on corporate Britain. There were
:18:12. > :18:15.accountants and lawyers and advisers, some of the bluest of blue
:18:16. > :18:18.chip firms who signed off on something that everyone apart from
:18:19. > :18:24.those involved seemed to realise what a terrible deal at the time.
:18:25. > :18:29.One headline said this is precisely the problem of our time, the
:18:30. > :18:35.unacceptable face of capitalism. That is what motivated so many
:18:36. > :18:40.people in America to vote for Bernie Sanders. He took hundreds of
:18:41. > :18:43.millions of pounds of dividends out of his company. But this retailer
:18:44. > :18:48.had not kept up with the times and bad companies that are not well
:18:49. > :18:53.looked after fail all the time. Pension funds do as well. This was a
:18:54. > :18:57.real test case to see if they could pursue a rich, former owner for some
:18:58. > :19:02.money to basically make the pensioners hole.
:19:03. > :19:11.This establishes an interesting precedent for the pensions
:19:12. > :19:16.regulator, they have their manner. They will see that as an important
:19:17. > :19:20.precedent. They managed to establish almost a moral obligation on a
:19:21. > :19:27.previous owner to be money in. I speak the same quite regularly, and
:19:28. > :19:30.there's no public speech from him today. Privately, you says he wants
:19:31. > :19:35.to return to being a private businessman. In reality, you never
:19:36. > :19:39.was that. Lots of money, like to show it off, friends with heads of
:19:40. > :19:42.state and movie stars. If he kept a low profile in those years, he
:19:43. > :19:46.probably would not have the front and centre over the past few years.
:19:47. > :19:55.He's hoping that will now go away. Thank you. What is interesting there
:19:56. > :19:59.is exactly what you have been talking about. Ever since the 2008
:20:00. > :20:02.crash, there does seem to be a sense of impunity for some of the top
:20:03. > :20:11.businessmen and bankers in the world and you wonder if Mr Green is a
:20:12. > :20:18.symbol that things are changing. He still has his knighthood. With this
:20:19. > :20:25.settlement, I think he will keep it. And we will call him Sir Philip for
:20:26. > :20:29.some time to come. Had eaten enough to pay out? Know, the short-changed
:20:30. > :20:33.ones will do slightly better, though not the original amount they were
:20:34. > :20:35.promised by Glenn. They've done better than the rescue fund are not
:20:36. > :20:39.the full lot they were promised. There's a photo that's
:20:40. > :20:41.been doing the rounds It shows one of Donald Trump's key
:20:42. > :21:00.advisers, Kellyanne Conway, The suggestion has been that what is
:21:01. > :21:05.somebody doing in such a casual position. This looks slightly more
:21:06. > :21:08.club lounge than the oval Office respectability, particularly as she
:21:09. > :21:14.is surrounded by dignitaries from the African-American Education
:21:15. > :21:18.community. The beforehand, she was taking a photo of them all, so she
:21:19. > :21:22.is engaged. It is just an unfortunate snapshot. Maybe I've
:21:23. > :21:26.been here too long, but it looks a little too casual for the Oval
:21:27. > :21:32.Office. I'm less interested to the damage to the upholstery in the Oval
:21:33. > :21:37.Office than I am about what it says about her position in the Oval
:21:38. > :21:42.Office, because she looks very at ease there. She is very comfortable,
:21:43. > :21:46.isn't she? A lot of people have made this point on Twitter, and I will
:21:47. > :21:52.show some voters, plenty of people but their feet on furniture in the
:21:53. > :22:00.Oval Office. Here is one. Look at that! This is the resolute desk he
:22:01. > :22:07.had his feet on. It is an antique! He was given to them by Queen
:22:08. > :22:11.Victoria back in the 1880s. I got the second! This caused a lot of
:22:12. > :22:16.fuss and it got a lot of objections from conservatives. But it is a
:22:17. > :22:19.bipartisan position. There are photos Presidents Carter, Ford and
:22:20. > :22:24.Bush doing exactly the same. I'm sure you would do it too. Let us
:22:25. > :22:27.take a look at the state of the union address. It is usual for the
:22:28. > :22:30.opposition to give a response and tonight, the Democrats are putting
:22:31. > :22:37.forward the former Kentucky Governor Steve Beshear. Is never easy to
:22:38. > :22:44.respond, because you do know what will be in it. Steve Beshear and
:22:45. > :22:48.Kentucky have a good story to tell when it comes to Obamacare. Under
:22:49. > :22:54.the affordable care right between 2013 and 2015, the number of
:22:55. > :23:00.uninsured people fell from 20% to 6%. That adds up to a total of
:23:01. > :23:05.420,000 more people insured through the scheme, roughly half of whom
:23:06. > :23:09.were in work. During that time frame, the number of uninsured
:23:10. > :23:16.people working in restaurants fell from 58% to 23%. What the Democrats
:23:17. > :23:17.plan to do to counter Mr Trump as he spells out his agenda including on
:23:18. > :23:21.health care? Joining us now from Capitol Hill
:23:22. > :23:35.is Congresswoman Karen For years, Democrats run away from
:23:36. > :23:38.the affordable care racks. Now it seems that they are all rushing to
:23:39. > :23:45.embrace it just as it seems to be under threat. Actually, I do not
:23:46. > :23:49.recall that. You may be referring to many years ago, but I certainly know
:23:50. > :23:54.that in my state, California, we have been leading the way around the
:23:55. > :24:00.Affordable Care Act. Any time you pass a masterpiece of legislation
:24:01. > :24:03.like that, it takes years to work out all the kinks. And
:24:04. > :24:08.unfortunately, because by Republican colleagues had a policy of repeal,
:24:09. > :24:11.they never want to fix the normal things that you would do after
:24:12. > :24:18.passing a piece of legislation like that. They will be interesting now
:24:19. > :24:22.Trump as realised health care is a very complicated issue. Yesterday,
:24:23. > :24:28.he said it as if he discovered it was difficult. I think everybody had
:24:29. > :24:33.been trying to explain that before. Is there a curious sense in which
:24:34. > :24:35.Democrats are relishing their position in the opposition?
:24:36. > :24:40.Obviously, you would love to have the White House and Congress, but
:24:41. > :24:46.all you enjoyed the process of being able to oppose things that Mr Trump
:24:47. > :24:54.is putting forward? No, I don't think anybody is relishing this. My
:24:55. > :24:58.constituents, and I had 1300 people attend town halls when I was back,
:24:59. > :25:03.and people are fearful around the country. There is nothing to relish.
:25:04. > :25:08.Having said that, what I am excited about is the tremendous response,
:25:09. > :25:12.the protest, the level of involvement. Any time you have
:25:13. > :25:22.engagement, that certainly spells good news for the future. Thank you.
:25:23. > :25:24.You're watching One Hundred Days from BBC News.
:25:25. > :25:28.Still to come for viewers on the BBC News Channel and BBC World News:
:25:29. > :25:31.The Tunisian police come in for criticism from a British
:25:32. > :25:34.official over their response to the deadly attack by armed
:25:35. > :25:39.militants on a beach hotel at Sousse.
:25:40. > :25:43.And how will President's Trump state-of-the-nation speech go down
:25:44. > :25:51.We'll be live in Pennsylvania. That's still to come
:25:52. > :26:22.It does not take much to turn the rain to snow in the last few days. A
:26:23. > :26:26.little bit of snow mixed in with the rain as it clears from the far
:26:27. > :26:30.south-east and wintry showers across the north of Scotland overnight.
:26:31. > :26:36.Slippery surfaces and there are warnings in force. Some showers,
:26:37. > :26:39.particularly towards the coast. Watch out for the ice and
:26:40. > :26:47.temperatures are quite widely close to freezing. A crisp start and some
:26:48. > :26:51.welcome sunshine across the South. Showers continuing to feeding of the
:26:52. > :26:56.Irish seem to parts of northern England and the north of Scotland
:26:57. > :26:59.continues with wintry showers. This is mid-afternoon. Away from the far
:27:00. > :27:04.north, much of Scotland having a fine afternoon and it will feel
:27:05. > :27:09.quite pleasant. Similarly for Northern Ireland. Showers in
:27:10. > :27:14.northern England. The Midlands and East Anglia holding onto brightness,
:27:15. > :27:20.but through the south, not that nice. Damp and dry and chilly. The
:27:21. > :27:23.rain is persistent. As we head into the night, things get lively. Gales
:27:24. > :27:29.may develop around southern and western coasts. Bits of heavy rain
:27:30. > :27:32.will turn to snow across central areas up into North Wales and maybe
:27:33. > :27:39.the North of England and Ireland as well. It will not be easy at this
:27:40. > :27:42.range, but through tomorrow night, strong winds, rain, and the
:27:43. > :27:48.possibility of hill snow and the possibility of disruption. Things
:27:49. > :27:53.quieten down during Thursday. Still blustery. Brightness in the south
:27:54. > :27:59.and brightness in the north. Centrally, more cloud. The threat of
:28:00. > :28:03.rain out west. Wintry showers across the far north-west Scotland.
:28:04. > :28:06.Temperatures on the low side. Milder in southern areas up into double
:28:07. > :28:11.figures. The sunshine should feel quite nice. But it will last. The
:28:12. > :28:16.next area of low pressure comes in from the South West and that means
:28:17. > :28:23.another spot of wet weather, initially across southern areas. The
:28:24. > :28:26.much of Northern Ireland and Scotland should have the better day
:28:27. > :30:09.with some sunshine. Chilly here, milder briefly for the South.
:30:10. > :30:11.Welcome back to 100 Days - I'm Katty Kay in Washington,
:30:12. > :30:18.President Trump prepares to address Congress
:30:19. > :30:28."An optimistic vision" for America has been promised
:30:29. > :30:30.And we'll reveal just why this speech by France's President
:30:31. > :30:48.Tunisia's response to a terror attack that left 38 people dead two
:30:49. > :30:53.years ago was "at best shambolic and at worst cowardly".
:30:54. > :30:56.That's the finding of the British coroner at the inquests into the 30
:30:57. > :31:01.Britons who among those shot dead on a beach.
:31:02. > :31:04.The Judge ruled they were unlawfully killed as some of those who survived
:31:05. > :31:18.We were trying to seek refuge and did not know where to go. No one was
:31:19. > :31:23.directing us anywhere, it was a free for all, chaotic. Once we have found
:31:24. > :31:29.somewhere to hide we thought we would be relatively safe until as
:31:30. > :31:34.you say, people would come to help. People who had the responsibilities,
:31:35. > :31:39.the National Guard, the police. But they did not come. And unfortunately
:31:40. > :31:41.several minutes went by from the start of it to the point where John
:31:42. > :31:44.was killed. Our correspondent Orla Guerin
:31:45. > :31:46.has been to Sousse, where the attack happened,
:31:47. > :31:50.to see how security's been improved. A new vigilance that was utterly
:31:51. > :31:57.lacking on the day of the attack. Now, permanent checkpoints
:31:58. > :32:01.and patrols by the police The message is clear,
:32:02. > :32:10.you are safe, it's a new Tunisia. Ministers are looking to brighter
:32:11. > :32:12.days, after tourism was gravely And we think that tourism
:32:13. > :32:24.will be coming back We have good indications for summer
:32:25. > :32:30.2017, and we'd be very happy to see again the British coming
:32:31. > :32:36.back to Tunisia. Do you think it's 100%
:32:37. > :32:39.safe, can you say that? Metal detectors are now standard
:32:40. > :32:49.when you enter hotels, He co-owns the now-closed hotel
:32:50. > :32:55.where the British holiday-makers He admits security in Tunisia should
:32:56. > :33:03.have been tightened that March, after an attack on tourists
:33:04. > :33:09.in the Bardo Museum. It should have been stricter
:33:10. > :33:13.and stronger after the Bardo attack. To be honest with you,
:33:14. > :33:16.it should have been. But there is a before 26th June
:33:17. > :33:21.2015, and there is an after. This is not the same
:33:22. > :33:25.country any more. This was the picture
:33:26. > :33:29.when terror came to the beach. Locals say the lone gunman
:33:30. > :33:35.was on the loose for 40 minutes. Today at the inquest in London,
:33:36. > :33:39.condemnation of the glaring absence When tourists were being slaughtered
:33:40. > :33:47.here on the sands, police could and should have made
:33:48. > :33:50.an effective response He said police could have arrived
:33:51. > :33:56.here in minutes with everything Instead, they deliberately
:33:57. > :34:03.delayed their arrival. The first officer on the scene
:34:04. > :34:06.stayed outside the main gate, This man knows only too
:34:07. > :34:15.well that the police When the shooting started,
:34:16. > :34:21.he was on the beach Here he is chasing the killer,
:34:22. > :34:31.armed only with two ashtrays, TRANSLATION: No one came, apart
:34:32. > :34:41.from the two guards who did nothing. Then, when we ran along
:34:42. > :34:44.the beach over there, there were three National Guard
:34:45. > :34:46.boats in the sea. They didn't come until afterwards,
:34:47. > :34:53.when he was killed. At the Riu Imperial Hotel where
:34:54. > :34:56.the gunman claimed so many lives, they are getting ready to reopen
:34:57. > :34:59.in May, hoping tourists will return Sunbathers now have company
:35:00. > :35:09.on the beach, protection that came too late for 30 Britons,
:35:10. > :35:12.robbed of life on this shore. Let's speak to BBC
:35:13. > :35:30.Arabic's Murad Shishani. It is difficult for Tunisia and they
:35:31. > :35:35.had criticism today but they're wedged between Algeria and Libya and
:35:36. > :35:42.many fighters will be coming back from Syria very soon. Do they have
:35:43. > :35:47.the resources to cope? I think they need international support. I was
:35:48. > :35:51.there in ten days ago and I have seen people in the South where these
:35:52. > :35:59.resorts have been closed and are now shut people have lost their jobs. I
:36:00. > :36:04.also went to the of Tunis where these areas have been turned into
:36:05. > :36:12.poverty hotbeds and were half of the Tunisians who led -- or left to join
:36:13. > :36:21.jihadist groups, they come from there. They talk about heroes of
:36:22. > :36:25.Iraq and Syria and that needs to be addressed. This is also part of the
:36:26. > :36:30.problem, the size of the problem is huge, the biggest number according
:36:31. > :36:36.to some statistics, of Tunisians joining Islamic State. 500
:36:37. > :36:44.kilometres of border with Libya that people rely on day-to-day, with
:36:45. > :36:51.smuggled goods, smuggled oil. But also people coming and going and
:36:52. > :36:55.coming back to Tunisia from Iraq or Syria. The Sousse attacker was one
:36:56. > :37:02.who went to Libya and trained and came back. Of course the attack had
:37:03. > :37:06.devastating impact on the tourism industry in Tunisia but that will
:37:07. > :37:12.mean there are fewer people employed in that particular sector, higher
:37:13. > :37:18.unemployment. Is that more Tunisians into the arms of extremists? I think
:37:19. > :37:26.this is interesting but it is not that simple. They will be going this
:37:27. > :37:33.way as a reaction. But let's say, walking down on a beach to the
:37:34. > :37:37.south, a very beautiful scene, but unfortunately all business has been
:37:38. > :37:44.lost and people, even taxis are just asking people. But poverty is one of
:37:45. > :37:48.the main reasons driving people to such extreme ideologies in places
:37:49. > :37:55.like North Africa. Because many people I have spoken to, in their
:37:56. > :38:02.popular songs, I'm talking about poor areas and young people are
:38:03. > :38:08.singing songs praising migration into Europe but these days praising
:38:09. > :38:11.Islamic State ideology because an alternative has been presented to
:38:12. > :38:17.them and this is where the danger is coming from. It is a major issue but
:38:18. > :38:20.also we have strong propaganda ideology pouring into these
:38:21. > :38:25.youngsters in Tunisia and other North African states. Thank you for
:38:26. > :38:28.joining us. Donald Trump goes into tonight's
:38:29. > :38:31.speech with a record low approval But one place he found surprising
:38:32. > :38:35.support during the election was the county of Easton,
:38:36. > :38:38.Pennsylvania. Yes, they all told us Pennsylvania
:38:39. > :38:58.was a banker for Clinton. You have spoken to some of the
:38:59. > :39:01.people there? Yes here in Northampton County this was a key
:39:02. > :39:04.county that swung for President Trump and people here are still
:39:05. > :39:10.standing by their candidate. The voted for him for a number of
:39:11. > :39:13.reasons, economic issues, it was a democratic stronghold because of
:39:14. > :39:18.support from the labour unions but the industry here has largely
:39:19. > :39:22.disappeared and there has also been social conservative issues that had
:39:23. > :39:27.people backing President Trump. Kathleen is one of the voters I
:39:28. > :39:33.spoke to and she said despite the controversy for the last 40 days of
:39:34. > :39:37.the presidency, you are still very much in support of President Trump.
:39:38. > :39:40.Still very much in support and excited about what he can do for us.
:39:41. > :39:46.Just because of all the promises he has made, they all make promises but
:39:47. > :39:51.the things we really believe in, the things he will bring back,
:39:52. > :39:55.manufacturing will support the military and armed forces. The way
:39:56. > :40:00.he wants to renew the trade deals and get back the deficit. All the
:40:01. > :40:04.things he has been talking about, I agree with. When he addresses the
:40:05. > :40:09.joint session of Congress today, what you want to hear him address? I
:40:10. > :40:13.just want to hear him encourage the people. Encouraged his supporters as
:40:14. > :40:15.well as encourage the non-supporters, the people who
:40:16. > :40:20.really do not know what they support, to give America the hope
:40:21. > :40:23.that he cares about the families, about their children, about the
:40:24. > :40:28.safety of their neighbourhoods and the economic growth. He cares about
:40:29. > :40:31.all the things Americans care about and he is going to be positive and
:40:32. > :40:36.we do not care what happened in the past. That is the past. I wanted to
:40:37. > :40:42.talk about what he wants to do in the future. To be positive and
:40:43. > :40:45.encourage people, even those who do not believe. You told me a lot of
:40:46. > :40:49.people feel energised tear, that there has been a revolution. But
:40:50. > :40:53.what he does not deliver on some key promises to bring back jobs? The
:40:54. > :40:59.coal industry has largely been decimated in this area. I believe
:41:00. > :41:03.some of them cannot be restored but I do believe that people still have
:41:04. > :41:07.hope, that they want all that to be restored. You look around and it
:41:08. > :41:10.might not be the coal industry but it could be something different.
:41:11. > :41:15.They could start a whole new business that they could create and
:41:16. > :41:18.make great. Well as you heard that people here are very much still in
:41:19. > :41:21.support of President Trump and I have to say a lot of people have
:41:22. > :41:25.said he should be given the chance to Bush 's agenda through and see
:41:26. > :41:29.what comes of it. They have been critical of the negative attention
:41:30. > :41:34.and protest that have broken up in other parts of the country. Just a
:41:35. > :41:41.few hear from one county that voted for President Trump. And President
:41:42. > :41:45.Trump has been signing more executive orders today, one about
:41:46. > :41:51.the waters of the United States, finalised by the environmental
:41:52. > :41:55.protection agency back in 2015. To clarify which bodies of water
:41:56. > :41:59.covered by the clean water act. It is just rolling back more of those
:42:00. > :42:04.projections for environmental spaces the United States. We have seen
:42:05. > :42:08.several of those. More of that during the week.
:42:09. > :42:11.And now - an example of extreme calm from France's President Hollande -
:42:12. > :42:14.after a suprising interruption during a speech.
:42:15. > :42:36.It came when a police marksman slipped and accidentally
:42:37. > :42:43.The bullet went into a nearby marquee, giving two
:42:44. > :42:52.President Hollande, as you can see, simply said that he hoped the bang
:42:53. > :42:53.was nothing serious, and carried on.
:42:54. > :42:56.He later went to visit the two injured men -
:42:57. > :42:58.as you'd expect, an investigation is under way.
:42:59. > :43:06.Katty will be on Facebook Live with Anthony Zurcher in a few minutes -
:43:07. > :43:10.We'll be back at the same time tomorrow.