:00:11. > :00:21.Hello, and welcome to 100 Days,: A second attempt a travel ban. People
:00:22. > :00:26.from six mainly Muslim countries will be stopped, but Iraq is taken
:00:27. > :00:27.off the list. The ban comes into effect in ten days and is likely to
:00:28. > :00:31.face a new court challenge. This executive order,
:00:32. > :00:34.just as the first executive order, is a lawful and proper exercise
:00:35. > :00:42.of presidential The president stands by his
:00:43. > :00:45.extraordinary claim that Barack Obama tapped his phones. We will
:00:46. > :00:46.speak to a close friend of Donald Trump.
:00:47. > :00:48.He was sort of angry that he was targeted,
:00:49. > :00:58.and he was very confident about the information he had.
:00:59. > :01:05.Approval ratings suggest that support for the president remains
:01:06. > :01:13.strong among Republican voters. We will hear views from Arkansas.
:01:14. > :01:16.In France, Fillon slips in the polls but refuses to stand aside. His
:01:17. > :01:22.party seems to be stuck with him now that Alain Juppe has ruled himself
:01:23. > :01:26.out. And Peugeot buys the failing arm of
:01:27. > :01:39.GM motors. What happens to jobs in the UK?
:01:40. > :01:45.It has taken the White House above to produce its new revised travel
:01:46. > :01:50.order. This one will come into play in ten days and wouldn't wean a
:01:51. > :01:54.temporary freeze on visas from people travelling from these six
:01:55. > :01:59.predominantly Muslim countries. It also places a 120 day freeze on
:02:00. > :02:05.refugee arrivals. Iraq has been removed from the list. Syrian
:02:06. > :02:13.refugees, Green card holders and visa holders are exempt. On the
:02:14. > :02:15.decision to exempt Iraq, here is Rex Tillerson.
:02:16. > :02:17.Iraq is an important ally in the fight to defeat Isis,
:02:18. > :02:25.with their brave soldiers fighting in close
:02:26. > :02:27.co-ordination with America's men and women in uniform.
:02:28. > :02:28.This intense review over the past month
:02:29. > :02:30.identified multiple security measures that the State Department
:02:31. > :02:33.and the government of Iraq will be implementing to achieve our shared
:02:34. > :02:36.objective of preventing those with criminal
:02:37. > :02:38.or terrorist intent from
:02:39. > :02:50.The previous executive order was struck down by the courts, but Jeff
:02:51. > :02:52.Sessions said that both that version and today's revised order are legal.
:02:53. > :02:54.The Department of Justice believes that this
:02:55. > :02:55.executive order, just as
:02:56. > :02:58.the first executive order, is a lawful and proper exercise of
:02:59. > :03:05.This Department of Justice will defend
:03:06. > :03:07.and enforce lawful orders of the president consistent
:03:08. > :03:10.with the core principles of our Constitution.
:03:11. > :03:16.The executive is empowered, under the
:03:17. > :03:20.Constitution, and by Congress, to make national security judgments and
:03:21. > :03:23.to enforce our immigration policies in order to safeguard the American
:03:24. > :03:38.Jeff Sessions, speaking there. Nick Bryant is with us. The first version
:03:39. > :03:45.of this order cause bedlam at American airports and in American
:03:46. > :03:48.courts - will this do the same? It feels like presidential deja vu,
:03:49. > :03:54.doesn't it? So many key differences here. They have taken their time
:03:55. > :03:57.with this order, being meticulous in their planning, seemingly, where
:03:58. > :04:03.last time, they were haphazard and rather slovenly about the wording of
:04:04. > :04:07.the order. The reason is that they want this to withstand legal
:04:08. > :04:12.challenge. The last order was fairly easy for opponents like the American
:04:13. > :04:17.Civil Liberties Union to overturn, to persuade a federal court that it
:04:18. > :04:22.was unconstitutional. That is one aim of this revised ban. Another aim
:04:23. > :04:30.is, it makes it more politically palatable to take Iraq off the list.
:04:31. > :04:35.John McCain said, how can you include our ally in fighting Islamic
:04:36. > :04:39.State? Take Iraq off the list. And they have done that. Republicans
:04:40. > :04:44.have been critical of the first order and have said that they are
:04:45. > :04:50.happy with this one. The Washington State Attorney General said the
:04:51. > :04:54.Trump Administration has capitulated on numerous policies. It looks like
:04:55. > :04:58.they have more legal backing, but we have the ACLU saying they are not
:04:59. > :05:01.happy, and an Attorney General in Massachusetts saying he is not
:05:02. > :05:08.happy. Will this face another court challenge? You would have thought
:05:09. > :05:16.so. There are areas where the ACLU, the American Civil Liberties Union,
:05:17. > :05:21.will focus. You can be discriminated on grounds of race, sex,
:05:22. > :05:30.nationality, place of birth or place of residence. The supreme court has
:05:31. > :05:32.argued that protects -- some protections don't apply to some
:05:33. > :05:40.people. It doesn't include dual citizens. We will see there is a
:05:41. > :05:45.challenge whether the courts go with it. There is one interesting line
:05:46. > :05:49.from Jeff Sessions, who said that 300 refugees that had come into the
:05:50. > :05:53.country are now under investigation by the FBI. There will be plenty
:05:54. > :05:57.people in Europe will look at that, who felt that refugees coming to
:05:58. > :06:00.Europe weren't properly screened and vetted who will say, yes, we have
:06:01. > :06:05.sympathy with where the Americans are coming from on this. And that is
:06:06. > :06:09.why so many people in America support this ban, and supported the
:06:10. > :06:14.initial one. There are people who think this is an American, that it
:06:15. > :06:21.violates that welcoming tradition -- that that is not American. Against
:06:22. > :06:27.that are these people who think, no, we have to protect their homeland
:06:28. > :06:29.and do what it takes. What liberal and progressive opponents of the ban
:06:30. > :06:35.would say is that if you were serious about the national security
:06:36. > :06:42.aspects, why is Saudi Arabia of the list? Pakistan, Afghanistan? There
:06:43. > :06:45.is no evidence that people from any of the countries listed have
:06:46. > :06:49.actually carried out attacks on American soil, which is an argument
:06:50. > :06:54.you might hear in court. Christian, we will talk a lot about law today,
:06:55. > :06:58.and national security, but that revised travel order is supposed to
:06:59. > :07:01.put the White House on the front foot, and yet the headlines this
:07:02. > :07:17.morning in America were dominated by the administration 's allegedly next
:07:18. > :07:20.to Russia. President Trump alleged that President Obama had ordered a
:07:21. > :07:26.wiretap on his phone, calling it McCarthyism. He then went on to say
:07:27. > :07:30.that President Obama's action was not legal, and he described it as a
:07:31. > :07:36.new low. How low as President Obama gone? That is what he wrote in
:07:37. > :07:44.another. This is Nixon/ Watergate. And then, President Obama is a bad
:07:45. > :07:46.or sick guy. It is extraordinary to hear a sitting president speak about
:07:47. > :07:55.a former president like that. Mr Trump spent a weekend at his Mara
:07:56. > :08:00.Largo Florida golf club. We spoke to a friend who joined him there.
:08:01. > :08:02.Chris Ruddy, you spoke to President Trump
:08:03. > :08:03.over the weekend - how would
:08:04. > :08:14.I would say he is not a happy camper.
:08:15. > :08:21.I spoke to him after he had done the tweet that morning, where he
:08:22. > :08:23.alleged that there were wiretaps made against him
:08:24. > :08:24.and his campaign at the
:08:25. > :08:26.order of President Obama, and he was sort of angry
:08:27. > :08:29.that he was targeted, and he was very confident about the
:08:30. > :08:33.information he had, so I don't think, and I don't think we've seen
:08:34. > :08:36.any walkback from the White House since he made those comments, and he
:08:37. > :08:39.told me later that night, as the story was developing, I asked him,
:08:40. > :08:42.based on all the denials that had come out during the day, and he
:08:43. > :08:45.said, look, and I have this on my blog, he
:08:46. > :08:46.said, look, you know, if
:08:47. > :08:47.they investigate, they will find out,
:08:48. > :08:49.I will be proven right, and
:08:50. > :09:02.So, just to be clear, you spoke to the president twice.
:09:03. > :09:05.You spoke to him on the phone, I understand, or did you
:09:06. > :09:10.I saw him at the lunch hour and at the dinner hour.
:09:11. > :09:12.And you've known Mr Trump for 20 years,
:09:13. > :09:15.but I think you've reported that you've never seen him this angry.
:09:16. > :09:16.I don't recall, certainly during this
:09:17. > :09:19.He wasn't screaming or yelling, but he
:09:20. > :09:22.had a certain look and demeanour that indicated that he was not
:09:23. > :09:25.It wasn't about the media that he wasn't happy.
:09:26. > :09:28.He was unhappy that the former president, he
:09:29. > :09:31.believed, had targeted his campaign, and he described it to me as a
:09:32. > :09:35.He described it as McCarthyism, and he was also
:09:36. > :09:42.He asked me if the press was covering it.
:09:43. > :09:46.Remember, he had just come off the links, and I said, no, it is all
:09:47. > :09:50.We had it as the lead on NewsMax, and he was glad to hear
:09:51. > :09:53.So, it was the allegations, as he put
:09:54. > :09:56.it, that President Obama had wiretapped Trump Tower that were
:09:57. > :10:01.I don't know if Trump Tower is really key, or that
:10:02. > :10:07.I think, and if you look through all the denials that
:10:08. > :10:10.came through this weekend, nobody, and one of the Trump administration
:10:11. > :10:14.officials told me late last night, everybody's mincing their words.
:10:15. > :10:16.They're not really saying that the Trump campaign
:10:17. > :10:23.They are saying that President Obama never issued an order.
:10:24. > :10:25.Legally, he is not empowered to issue an order,
:10:26. > :10:29.so the question is, did he know about it or not?
:10:30. > :10:32.The FBI has given a very narrow, not an official denial,
:10:33. > :10:35.a narrow denial through an anonymous source in the New York Times.
:10:36. > :10:39.You wonder why they haven't come out and
:10:40. > :10:50.officially just denied it altogether.
:10:51. > :10:52.I can tell you that, having been knowledgeable about the
:10:53. > :10:55.Trump campaign and the election period, that there is basically a
:10:56. > :10:57.100% consensus among Trump campaign people that they were surveilled
:10:58. > :11:02.Just to be clear, President Trump didn't just
:11:03. > :11:05.say it once, he said it in four separate tweets that it was
:11:06. > :11:12.He said it in different ways but in four separate tweets.
:11:13. > :11:14.What evidence did he give you in the conversations
:11:15. > :11:16.that you had with him over the course of
:11:17. > :11:18.the weekend to back that
:11:19. > :11:21.up, to back up that claim that President Obama had wiretapped or
:11:22. > :11:32.He didn't offer me any evidence, but he
:11:33. > :11:33.spoke with great confidence on the matter.
:11:34. > :11:36.It would strain credulity if the president did not know about
:11:37. > :11:39.this, even if he officially didn't give an order,
:11:40. > :11:40.and knowing how the
:11:41. > :11:53.The IRS targeted Conservative organisations,
:11:54. > :11:56.I believe illegally, and the head of that IRS was over
:11:57. > :11:58.at the White House 24 times meeting with Obama's top
:11:59. > :12:04.There was never an investigation, never a special prosecutor, and for
:12:05. > :12:07.them to say that the president didn't know about the IRS issue, it
:12:08. > :12:10.is again another thing where if somebody looks into this,
:12:11. > :12:12.they might find that there is a lot more there.
:12:13. > :12:15.We're getting to 50 days in the Trump presidency - do you believe
:12:16. > :12:18.that President Trump, your friend of 20 years,
:12:19. > :12:21.is being well served by
:12:22. > :12:25.By his own admission, they got a C+ on
:12:26. > :12:37.Several weeks ago, I gave him an A for shaking things up in
:12:38. > :12:41.Washington, and I have given him a C as well on messaging on one of my
:12:42. > :12:44.And I think that he realises there needs
:12:45. > :12:48.Reince Priebus, for instance, whom I've been
:12:49. > :12:52.critical of in the past, I think you have seen him really pick up his
:12:53. > :12:56.The speech that was given to the joint session of Congress was
:12:57. > :12:59.tremendous, and what we saw is that the press didn't like the narrative
:13:00. > :13:01.coming out of that speech and they started talking
:13:02. > :13:05.The head of Obama's intelligence agencies was just on
:13:06. > :13:08.Meet The Press yesterday, and he said they found no evidence of
:13:09. > :13:15.collusion between the Trump campaign and the Russians, nothing.
:13:16. > :13:23.So, why is the press continuing saying there is
:13:24. > :13:26.a huge story here if they are saying there is nothing after a massive
:13:27. > :13:30.Mr Ruddy, it's Christian Slater here in London.
:13:31. > :13:33.I just want to take you back to the warrant.
:13:34. > :13:36.If a warrant was issued, you will know that the court that
:13:37. > :13:38.oversees the foreign intelligence surveillance act has federal judges
:13:39. > :13:42.There are also lawyers, judicial branch lawyers, who are experts on
:13:43. > :13:44.national security, who sit and scrutinise any demands that are
:13:45. > :13:46.made, so the idea that President Obama
:13:47. > :13:49.could rubber-stamp such an
:13:50. > :13:57.Under the law, the President's not allowed
:13:58. > :14:09.I should tell you that in the past, presidents have wiretapped political
:14:10. > :14:12.We know in 1968, Lyndon Johnson wiretapped the Nixon
:14:13. > :14:18.We know it happened because Hoover's assistant wrote a
:14:19. > :14:20.book about the illegal operation, so these things happen.
:14:21. > :14:22.I think the American public realises this type
:14:23. > :14:29.That's why the FISA act was brought in in 1978 - to stop
:14:30. > :14:36.I'm not a big fan of FISA, because I think a lot of
:14:37. > :14:39.There are reports which you are aware of
:14:40. > :14:42.that when they first went to FISA over the Trump campaign, the judge
:14:43. > :14:46.There are other types of warrant that could be in play
:14:47. > :14:49.There is a title three warrant, which is a criminal probe,
:14:50. > :14:52.and that would not necessarily involve the FBI, I'm told, so some
:14:53. > :14:55.of these things could be happening, and I think it's up to Congress.
:14:56. > :14:58.Trump said, let's investigate it, and he seemed confident that he
:14:59. > :15:08.I think he has a low threshold to prove here, because
:15:09. > :15:11.there's been a consensus in the Trump campaign that they were
:15:12. > :15:12.surveilled, or their associates were surveilled,
:15:13. > :15:17.Mr Ruddy, looking back over the course
:15:18. > :15:20.of the past 48 hours, and you
:15:21. > :15:24.spoke about the address to Congress that the president gave last week,
:15:25. > :15:28.you spoke about the need to improve the President's messaging - would
:15:29. > :15:31.you describe this as a good weekend for President Trump?
:15:32. > :15:46.I wouldn't say it was a great weekend.
:15:47. > :15:48.I personally think we'd have been better off
:15:49. > :15:51.having these disclosures not come out in a tweet but in some other
:15:52. > :15:54.method, certainly being raised by Congress, but this president is
:15:55. > :15:57.He is the first non-politician ever to be a
:15:58. > :15:59.president, and his view basically is that he
:16:00. > :16:00.wants to go directly to the
:16:01. > :16:13.And off he ran to another meeting! It is worth remembering that Chris
:16:14. > :16:17.Ruddy is quite close to Donald Trump, and he would know his state
:16:18. > :16:20.of mind at the weekend. We have not heard from Donald Trump since
:16:21. > :16:24.Friday, so to get that sort of perspective, that the president did
:16:25. > :16:29.go off the deep end on Saturday when he looked at what had happened on
:16:30. > :16:32.Thursday and Friday, and again, this frustration over the leaks and his
:16:33. > :16:36.administration being continually undermined.
:16:37. > :16:42.Yes, as Chris Ruddy were suggesting, there seems to be relief in the
:16:43. > :16:46.Trump campaign that they were subject to surveillance. There is a
:16:47. > :16:49.picture of Chris Ruddy with Donald Trump in the Oval Office, proof that
:16:50. > :16:52.they are close. One of the things that struck me listening to that
:16:53. > :16:57.interview was Chris Ruddy saying, when I asked for evidence, what
:16:58. > :17:01.evidence Donald Trump had given him that Barack Obama had ordered the
:17:02. > :17:06.tapping of his foes, he said coming he didn't offer me any evidence but
:17:07. > :17:13.he sounded confident on the matter. -- the tapping of his phones.
:17:14. > :17:19.And he was quite coy about how he had gone. He gave the president a C+
:17:20. > :17:23.for messaging and communication. Today, it has been low-key. All the
:17:24. > :17:27.President's meetings have been off-camera, and it was a low-key
:17:28. > :17:31.roll-out of the travel order. This is the last few minutes in the White
:17:32. > :17:36.House press room. Sean Spicer is giving a briefing, and you can see
:17:37. > :17:40.how many people are there for the questions, but again, this is
:17:41. > :17:49.off-camera today. I am just reading the latest from
:17:50. > :17:54.what is called a gaggle, and Donald Trump has apparently not spoken to
:17:55. > :17:59.the FBI about this. He does want Congress to expand its investigation
:18:00. > :18:02.to include this business of surveillance, and Sean Spicer, on
:18:03. > :18:08.this issue of the surveillance and where it might have been ordered
:18:09. > :18:11.from, said it could have been various sources. We will need to
:18:12. > :18:15.wait to see if there is further evidence. To put it in perspective,
:18:16. > :18:19.it is extraordinary what Donald Trump did this weekend. He
:18:20. > :18:22.effectively accused the previous president of committing a crime. The
:18:23. > :18:29.onus is on the White House to find the evidence for that, whether it is
:18:30. > :18:32.through a FISA court, as you were asking Chris Ruddy, by other means.
:18:33. > :18:39.Let's look at the legality of this. Have Chris Ruddy referred to an
:18:40. > :18:45.interview that the head of National intelligence gave yesterday.
:18:46. > :18:47.There was a denial of any wiretapping going on before the
:18:48. > :18:49.election. There was no such wiretap activity
:18:50. > :18:51.mounted against the president elect at the time as a candidate
:18:52. > :18:54.or against his campaign. If there was a Fisa court order
:18:55. > :18:58.about something like this? And at this point, you can't confirm
:18:59. > :19:12.or deny whether that exists? A short while ago, I spoke to
:19:13. > :19:13.Matthew Miller, who served as spokesperson at the Justice
:19:14. > :19:16.Department until 2011. Matt Miller, you heard Chris Ruddy
:19:17. > :19:19.there saying that President Trump and his team are very confident that
:19:20. > :19:22.during the course of the campaign, they were under surveillance
:19:23. > :19:24.by the US government. President Trump was very confident
:19:25. > :19:30.for a long time that Barack Obama We've heard the director
:19:31. > :19:38.of National Intelligence and say that the president
:19:39. > :19:43.And apparently Jim Comey believes the same thing and has asked
:19:44. > :19:46.the Department of Justice to make a public statement,
:19:47. > :19:48.so the fact that the president has these paranoid conspiracy theories
:19:49. > :19:50.doesn't mean they're based in reality.
:19:51. > :19:51.You worked at the US Justice Department
:19:52. > :19:57.Do you think it is possible that there was some kind
:19:58. > :19:59.of surveillance of the Trump campaign and, if so,
:20:00. > :20:03.would President Obama have known about it?
:20:04. > :20:05.You know, I take Director Clapper at his word
:20:06. > :20:07.when he said there wasn't any surveillance.
:20:08. > :20:09.That said, it is possible that the government was
:20:10. > :20:12.listening to Russian government officials or Russian intelligence
:20:13. > :20:16.operatives, something they do in the normal course of business
:20:17. > :20:18.and in the course of that surveillance came across
:20:19. > :20:20.Trump campaign officials or Trump associates,
:20:21. > :20:21.former campaign officials, having conversations
:20:22. > :20:26.And if so, that is the type of information that would have been
:20:27. > :20:29.briefed throughout the intelligence community, would have been shared
:20:30. > :20:33.the director of National Intelligence and probably
:20:34. > :20:38.but that's a very different thing to the president
:20:39. > :20:43.ordering a wiretap of Trump or his campaign.
:20:44. > :20:46.And is that the only circumstance under which you can
:20:47. > :20:48.imagine President Trump's team being wiretapped
:20:49. > :20:55.Before Director Clapper came out and said
:20:56. > :20:58.what he said yesterday, I think a lot of people thought
:20:59. > :21:00.it was possible that the Fisa court has approved a warrant
:21:01. > :21:05.And there have been reports that approaches were made
:21:06. > :21:10.But what is so odd about President Trump surfacing that
:21:11. > :21:13.allegation, for that to be true, it would have meant a federal judge
:21:14. > :21:16.found credible evidence that either Trump or members of his campaign
:21:17. > :21:19.were acting as agents of a foreign power.
:21:20. > :21:22.If you're the president, that's not the type of story
:21:23. > :21:27.you want to encourage people to pay attention to!
:21:28. > :21:30.But if you do take Director Clapper at his word,
:21:31. > :21:34.So just to be crystal clear, under American law,
:21:35. > :21:36.there is no way that President Obama
:21:37. > :21:38.could have ordered the wiretapping of Donald Trump
:21:39. > :21:45.It would have been absolutely illegal.
:21:46. > :21:49.Since Christopher Ruddy talks about something that
:21:50. > :21:54.we passed a law after that specifically because that happened
:21:55. > :21:56.to prevent future presidents from doing it.
:21:57. > :22:01.And there's no way for the president to do that now.
:22:02. > :22:04.Could he have come up with a nod and a wink, commissioned his
:22:05. > :22:06.Justice Department to order the surveillance of President Trump?
:22:07. > :22:11.That is the type of thing that would be such a violation
:22:12. > :22:13.of the Department of Justice's traditional independence
:22:14. > :22:16.that I think people in the chain of command would have
:22:17. > :22:17.resigned en masse because, you have to remember,
:22:18. > :22:19.it's not just Loretta Lynch the Attorney General
:22:20. > :22:22.who would have been involved, it is career people,
:22:23. > :22:25.civil servants who work in the Department of Justice under
:22:26. > :22:27.administrations of both parties who would have been charged
:22:28. > :22:30.I believe they never would have done that.
:22:31. > :22:32.Matt Miller, thanks very much for coming in.
:22:33. > :22:38.The former French Prime Minister, Alain Juppe has criticised his
:22:39. > :22:40.party's presidential candidate, Francois Fillon, saying he has
:22:41. > :22:45.Members of the Republican party, who've been holding
:22:46. > :22:47.crisis talks today, had hoped Mr Juppe might replace
:22:48. > :22:50.the scandal-hit candidate, but this morning Juppe said
:22:51. > :22:53.he had decided "once and for all" not to stand
:22:54. > :23:03.TRANSLATION: I have no intention to engage in partisan negotiations,
:23:04. > :23:12.I confirm once and for all that I won't be a candidate
:23:13. > :23:15.This is what I will say to Nicolas Sarkozy
:23:16. > :23:24.and Francois Fillon if they wish to meet me.
:23:25. > :23:30.Alain Juppe, pulling himself out of the running. This leaves Francois
:23:31. > :23:33.Fillon as the kind that for the Republican party. What has he been
:23:34. > :23:37.saying? Years given a statement the night,
:23:38. > :23:41.saying the party needs to get behind him and pull his socks up and start
:23:42. > :23:48.supporting him. A lot of people will point to, dare I say, the arrogance
:23:49. > :23:51.of Francois Fillon, because he is facing prosecution and will face
:23:52. > :23:55.magistrates again on the 15th of March. He goes into the running, and
:23:56. > :24:00.there are seven weeks until the first round in the two are -- on the
:24:01. > :24:07.23rd of April, in pretty poor shape. He has lost another poll to night,
:24:08. > :24:15.rooted at 19%, compared to 25.5% for Emmanuel Macron. Nicolas Sarkozy,
:24:16. > :24:19.and a former Prime Minister, have both say that you have to put the
:24:20. > :24:23.party first, think about whether you can win this. The polls suggest that
:24:24. > :24:28.at this moment in time he cannot. Here is a question: In a normal
:24:29. > :24:32.election somewhere else, I would imagine that if a candidate was in
:24:33. > :24:36.this much trouble this close to polling day, there would be a queue
:24:37. > :24:41.of other people from their party wanting to jump into the race, but
:24:42. > :24:44.why are there not a tonne of Republican candidate saying, hold
:24:45. > :24:56.on, I will give this a shot? What have they got to lose? Ffion Briton
:24:57. > :25:10.-- Fillon... There are not great alternatives.
:25:11. > :25:16.Alain Juppe would have had quite a good chance. As soon as he ruled
:25:17. > :25:18.himself out this morning, the party have come together tonight for a
:25:19. > :25:26.meeting to look at it, they said, what else do we have? He has the 500
:25:27. > :25:28.signatures, Fillon. His candidacy is officially registered, and there are
:25:29. > :25:35.just seven weeks. Not great for them. You're watching
:25:36. > :25:40.100 Days from BBC News. Still to come for viewers on the BBC
:25:41. > :25:45.News Channel and BBC world News: The Clinton who voted Republican. We
:25:46. > :25:48.report from Arkansas and the town of Clinton that threw its support
:25:49. > :25:54.behind Donald Trump or stop what they make of his presidency so far?
:25:55. > :25:56.And the French company jiving at -- buying out General Motors' European
:25:57. > :26:16.business. Still to come on 100 Days. You may have got a passing shower
:26:17. > :26:19.today, but most of us will have seen sunshine today. A fair amount of
:26:20. > :26:23.that in evidence in Shropshire today. It could have been such a
:26:24. > :26:27.different story. This low-pressure gave a glancing blow to south-west
:26:28. > :26:33.England, making for a wet start to the day in the Channel Islands. Look
:26:34. > :26:37.how stormy it got. In north-west France, gusting winds of up to
:26:38. > :26:44.almost 120 mph. We dodged something there! We will have fairly light
:26:45. > :26:47.winds overnight. A bit of rain clipping the North Sea tip of
:26:48. > :26:52.Aberdeenshire, some outbreaks of rain for the Northern Isles. Showers
:26:53. > :26:57.feed through northern Scotland, north-west England and into the
:26:58. > :27:01.Midlands. Elsewhere, variable cloud and clear spells. Lower temperatures
:27:02. > :27:05.in the countryside, so some frost first thing. A fine stop many of us.
:27:06. > :27:11.Only in north-west Scotland will fade. Early rain being confined to
:27:12. > :27:17.Shetland. This weather systems comes in but won't make too much progress
:27:18. > :27:21.into Scotland until the evening. It will, with rain and hill snow for a
:27:22. > :27:26.time. It will cross Northern Ireland. A large part of England
:27:27. > :27:30.continues to be dry well on through the afternoon. The rain heads into
:27:31. > :27:35.Cornwall, into Devon, at this stage, into South and West Wales,
:27:36. > :27:41.accompanied by a freshening wind. 10 Celsius in London, but most parts
:27:42. > :27:47.seeing 7-9dC. We take that rain east across the rest of the UK on Tuesday
:27:48. > :27:50.evening. Some snow on the tops of their hills in North Wales in
:27:51. > :27:56.north-west England, but especially in Scotland. It is gone by Wednesday
:27:57. > :28:00.morning. The rain should clear away, sunny spells developing. A blustery
:28:01. > :28:03.day, especially in northern Scotland, with gales and showers
:28:04. > :28:10.here. On Thursday, a fine start for most, but this weather front pushes
:28:11. > :28:15.cloud and outbreaks of rain through in the cause of the day. From the
:28:16. > :28:20.South, Thursday into Friday, we bring in milder air. Temperatures
:28:21. > :28:26.will be into the mid-teens. Quite a lot of cloud around. It is an
:28:27. > :28:27.unsettled week, wet at times. Dry in brighter moments too. And it will
:28:28. > :30:08.turn milder. Welcome back to 100 Days with me
:30:09. > :30:11.Katty Kay in Washington Our top story - a second
:30:12. > :30:15.attempt at a travel ban - Donald Trump signs a new executive
:30:16. > :30:19.order. Meanwhile the President stands
:30:20. > :30:21.by his extraordinary claim that Barack Obama tapped his phone,
:30:22. > :30:37.we've been hearing from a close He was angry at being targeted and
:30:38. > :30:38.very confident about the information he had.
:30:39. > :30:41.And approval ratings suggest that support for the President remains
:30:42. > :30:57.The French car company PSA - who own Peugeot and Citroen -
:30:58. > :31:08.has agreed a deal to buy Vauxhall in Britain and Opel in Germany
:31:09. > :31:10.from the US company General Motors for ?1.9 billion -
:31:11. > :31:15.There are concerns about big job losses as a result of the deal.
:31:16. > :31:18.Four and a half thousand people work at Vauxhall plants in the UK -
:31:19. > :31:22.Unions say the fight begins now to try safeguard jobs.
:31:23. > :31:25.Here's our industry correspondent John Moylan.
:31:26. > :31:27.Vauxhall's vast vehicle plant at Luton, for decades a cornerstone
:31:28. > :31:35.But soon what happens here will be decided in France.
:31:36. > :31:39.Creating uncertainty for thousands of workers.
:31:40. > :31:43.We're all going to be worried because we've all got families.
:31:44. > :31:45.I myself have been here nearly 30 years.
:31:46. > :31:48.Disbelief because no-one really knows what's going on.
:31:49. > :31:55.I don't see the reason to shut it down.
:31:56. > :31:57.Earlier in Paris, Peugeot's boss, Carlos Tavares,
:31:58. > :32:00.alongside his counterpart from General Motors confirmed plans
:32:01. > :32:06.to create a European auto giant, second only to Volkswagen.
:32:07. > :32:09.Huge cost savings are planned, and we asked him what that will mean
:32:10. > :32:17.I trust my Vauxhall employees in the UK, I trust them.
:32:18. > :32:24.I know that they are dedicated and I know they are committed
:32:25. > :32:27.and I trust that they will be in a very good position by working
:32:28. > :32:30.in a constructive and open manner, as long as we
:32:31. > :32:32.improve the performance and we become the best,
:32:33. > :32:37.The deal redraws the map of the European car industry.
:32:38. > :32:40.Across Europe, the PSA group has 14 production sites
:32:41. > :32:50.Its buying GM Europe, known as Opel, with its eight plants
:32:51. > :32:56.The deal includes Vauxhall's plants in Luton and Ellesmere Port
:32:57. > :33:03.Here at Ellesmere Port, the Vauxhall Astra has been rolling
:33:04. > :33:08.off the production line since the 1980s.
:33:09. > :33:11.To secure the future of the site, unions know the new French owners
:33:12. > :33:17.must commit to a new vehicle for the plant in the coming year.
:33:18. > :33:19.A message to PSA, or indeed, General Motors before it.
:33:20. > :33:23.If they want to sell cars in the United Kingdom,
:33:24. > :33:25.they're going to have to build cars in the United Kingdom.
:33:26. > :33:28.That's Unite's position and we will fight tooth and nail
:33:29. > :33:31.The conversations that I and the Prime Minister have had,
:33:32. > :33:35.both with GM and PSA, tell me that they
:33:36. > :33:38.intend to safeguard the plants, honour their commitments
:33:39. > :33:44.and look to increase the performance and the sales of cars.
:33:45. > :33:47.So, we want to hold them to those commitments.
:33:48. > :33:49.UK plants are known to be amongst the most productive
:33:50. > :33:53.But it's what goes into the vehicles,
:33:54. > :33:57.which are built in our plants, which could be the big problem.
:33:58. > :34:00.60% of the components that go into the Vivaro van which is built
:34:01. > :34:06.For the Astra built up at Ellesmere Port, it is 75%.
:34:07. > :34:09.The former boss of GM's European operations warns that this crucial
:34:10. > :34:13.issue puts the UK's plants at a disadvantage.
:34:14. > :34:15.They just don't have enough components purchased here,
:34:16. > :34:20.because they have to import so many components.
:34:21. > :34:29.the UK is in a weaker position than other operations.
:34:30. > :34:31.The UK's Brexit deal will play into this, too.
:34:32. > :34:34.Trade tariffs could increase the cost of those components,
:34:35. > :34:39.Britain's auto sector has been a huge success story.
:34:40. > :34:41.But the creation of this new European car giant
:34:42. > :34:49.Let's get more on this with our Business Correspondent,
:34:50. > :35:03.GM Europe has not made a profit since 1999. So something I suppose
:35:04. > :35:08.had to give. You look at the chief executive of General Motors, she has
:35:09. > :35:14.been under pressure for a while to do more to keep shareholders happy
:35:15. > :35:18.and inside that is why you're seeing the deal today. There has been a
:35:19. > :35:21.sense that it has not been profitable, it was almost profitable
:35:22. > :35:26.at one stage but Brexit and the impact on the pound actually knocked
:35:27. > :35:32.that back. And the company has decided instead to sell the European
:35:33. > :35:36.region off and focus on North America and China, very profitable
:35:37. > :35:41.market for the company. And to reinvest any future money as in new
:35:42. > :35:47.technologies. That is the argument they have given and part of the
:35:48. > :35:50.promised to shareholders is to return more money to them. This was
:35:51. > :35:56.part of delivering on that. Think PSA would look to use a double to
:35:57. > :36:00.make a push into the United States but of course they have got to deal
:36:01. > :36:05.with Donald Trump who already has threatened German manufacturers with
:36:06. > :36:09.a 35% import tax. I think if you are in the car industry you're looking
:36:10. > :36:13.long term so at the moment yes there is concern about selling cars in the
:36:14. > :36:18.United States from overseas but specifically we are seeing Donald
:36:19. > :36:20.Trump critical of car-makers, American car-makers actually,
:36:21. > :36:25.producing cars in Mexico and bring them across the border into the US.
:36:26. > :36:29.Long-term though it remains to be seen. How big a market there is for
:36:30. > :36:34.Opel cars in the US. But certainly it leaves the door open for the
:36:35. > :36:38.company to grow. What is interesting if you look at General Motors, for a
:36:39. > :36:42.long time it was known as a huge global player, with a footprint
:36:43. > :36:45.around the world. Now suddenly it is leaving one region behind the
:36:46. > :36:53.century although it can still sell Cadillacs into the European market.
:36:54. > :36:56.It is focusing instead on more profitable regions. But it is
:36:57. > :37:01.changing the shape of the car industry as we know it, BW and
:37:02. > :37:05.Toyota can fight it out for the title of the world's biggest
:37:06. > :37:08.car-makers, General Motors is shrinking and you have PSA with the
:37:09. > :37:11.chance now to grow and become the number two player in Europe and who
:37:12. > :37:17.ambitions beyond that and into the ambitions beyond that and into the
:37:18. > :37:21.United States. An interesting vote of confidence in the Chinese market
:37:22. > :37:27.and Chinese consumer markets. But talk to me about this investment in
:37:28. > :37:31.future technologies, is this the GM of saying that the Futurist
:37:32. > :37:37.driverless cars and that is what we will spend some of these games on?
:37:38. > :37:43.Right now you have the Geneva motor show going on, and when I've been to
:37:44. > :37:48.the Detroit motor show in the past, the right hand man to the boss of GM
:37:49. > :37:52.has talked a lot about right sharing, a change in the way we go
:37:53. > :37:56.about transport that in future car ownership in big cities will not
:37:57. > :38:02.play as big a part. And that right sharing will be something to invest
:38:03. > :38:06.in. They have a partnership with the company. Lift, they're called and we
:38:07. > :38:11.could see an expansion of that. In Europe that is the area that they
:38:12. > :38:15.want to continue to focus on, this right sharing, not to mention of
:38:16. > :38:18.course electric cars. We are hearing about less about that and then of
:38:19. > :38:21.course is driverless cars which GM compared to some of its rivals have
:38:22. > :38:27.been less involved with. Perhaps this will free up some cash for them
:38:28. > :38:29.to put more towards that technology. Thank you.
:38:30. > :38:36.While President Trump faces questions in Washington,
:38:37. > :38:38.it's worth noting he still has 85% support among
:38:39. > :38:42.approval rating - at 45% - represents a bit of an uptick.
:38:43. > :38:44.It was Middle America - among voters he described
:38:45. > :38:48.as ignored and forgotten - that put him in the White House,
:38:49. > :38:50.people like Dan and Peggy Eoff - ranchers from Clinton -
:38:51. > :39:11.We've become so politically correct that
:39:12. > :39:13.you can't say poop if you stepped in it.
:39:14. > :39:19.Friends, neighbours, Jesus Christ - they are all welcome.
:39:20. > :39:27.That just kind of starts everything right.
:39:28. > :39:29.I'm Peggy, this is my husband, Dan, and we host the
:39:30. > :39:32.National Championship Chuck Wagon Races at our
:39:33. > :39:52.We started out with eight wagons, and last year
:39:53. > :39:57.It's the largest horse event that we know
:39:58. > :40:06.I thought maybe a bull rider, but God didn't
:40:07. > :40:09.want me to be a bull rider or a bronco rider,
:40:10. > :40:21.I tell people I'm married to him, but my
:40:22. > :40:27.He says what he's going to do and does what he says he's going to do.
:40:28. > :40:32.And that's why we like him, because Dan's the same way.
:40:33. > :40:34.I think the government's out of control.
:40:35. > :40:37.You know, they need to have more people
:40:38. > :40:41.running the government that's had hands-on
:40:42. > :40:44.experience, that's made their land and lived on the river.
:40:45. > :40:50.If we're terminating the river, I'm going to stop it, because my
:40:51. > :40:53.grandmother and my grandchildren sank the water down below here,
:40:54. > :40:55.and if we're terminating, I'm going to stop it.
:40:56. > :40:57.We don't have to have Washington to stop that.
:40:58. > :41:01.It used to be I felt they were, you know.
:41:02. > :41:03.Most of our furniture, wooden furniture,
:41:04. > :41:08.If we were to buy it from an American producer at this
:41:09. > :41:16.Our wholesale cost would be what we retail this table for.
:41:17. > :41:18.But now, we do support our president, and if
:41:19. > :41:20.he says there's going to be a border tax,
:41:21. > :41:22.we're going to pay it, because
:41:23. > :41:29.we feel like it will benefit us all in the long run.
:41:30. > :41:35.Could you not dream of having a ranch and being the rodeo star I
:41:36. > :41:40.I'm a chuck wagon race producer, I guess, but that's OK.
:41:41. > :41:43.You know, it's to do with people, horses, cattle, and
:41:44. > :42:01.I like the look of Clinton, Arkansas. I could see you there. I
:42:02. > :42:08.could do radio there. An important reminder, we gets obsessed by the
:42:09. > :42:12.nuances of stories within the so-called beltway Washington, how
:42:13. > :42:17.much does it really matter to Donald Trump and his base in places like
:42:18. > :42:20.Arkansas and Wisconsin, Montana. That base when you look at the
:42:21. > :42:27.polling today that has come out, is rock-solid. They still very much
:42:28. > :42:29.like what President Trump and particularly these executive orders
:42:30. > :42:35.and travel bans, has been doing since he came into the White House.
:42:36. > :42:39.It isn't to Dan and Peggy Eoff and you start to think that Washington
:42:40. > :42:43.is all Twitter to use a phrase about what the president tweeted this
:42:44. > :42:49.weekend. Once I picked my jaw off the floor I was also amazed. But for
:42:50. > :42:51.Dan and Peggy Eoff I suspect all the story about Russia is perhaps not as
:42:52. > :42:53.important as people here in Washington think it is.
:42:54. > :42:56.That is 100 Days for this Monday - I'll be
:42:57. > :42:57.taking your questions LIVE on our Facebook page
:42:58. > :42:59.shortly, with my colleague Rajini Vaidyanathan.
:43:00. > :43:02.So do send us your thoughts, for now though from Katty Kay
:43:03. > :43:04.in Washington and me, Christian Fraser