06/03/2017 100 Days

Hello, and welcome to 100 Days,: A second attempt a travel ban. People

from six mainly Muslim countries will be stopped, but Iraq is taken

off the list. The ban comes into effect in ten days and is likely to

face a new court challenge. This executive order,

just as the first executive order, is a lawful and proper exercise

of presidential The president stands by his

extraordinary claim that Barack Obama tapped his phones. We will

speak to a close friend of Donald Trump.

He was sort of angry that he was targeted,

and he was very confident about the information he had.

Approval ratings suggest that support for the president remains

strong among Republican voters. We will hear views from Arkansas.

In France, Fillon slips in the polls but refuses to stand aside. His

party seems to be stuck with him now that Alain Juppe has ruled himself

out. And Peugeot buys the failing arm of

GM motors. What happens to jobs in the UK?

It has taken the White House above to produce its new revised travel

order. This one will come into play in ten days and wouldn't wean a

temporary freeze on visas from people travelling from these six

predominantly Muslim countries. It also places a 120 day freeze on

refugee arrivals. Iraq has been removed from the list. Syrian

refugees, Green card holders and visa holders are exempt. On the

decision to exempt Iraq, here is Rex Tillerson.

Iraq is an important ally in the fight to defeat Isis,

with their brave soldiers fighting in close

co-ordination with America's men and women in uniform.

This intense review over the past month

identified multiple security measures that the State Department

and the government of Iraq will be implementing to achieve our shared

objective of preventing those with criminal

or terrorist intent from

The previous executive order was struck down by the courts, but Jeff

Sessions said that both that version and today's revised order are legal.

The Department of Justice believes that this

executive order, just as

the first executive order, is a lawful and proper exercise of

This Department of Justice will defend

and enforce lawful orders of the president consistent

with the core principles of our Constitution.

The executive is empowered, under the

Constitution, and by Congress, to make national security judgments and

to enforce our immigration policies in order to safeguard the American

Jeff Sessions, speaking there. Nick Bryant is with us. The first version

of this order cause bedlam at American airports and in American

courts - will this do the same? It feels like presidential deja vu,

doesn't it? So many key differences here. They have taken their time

with this order, being meticulous in their planning, seemingly, where

last time, they were haphazard and rather slovenly about the wording of

the order. The reason is that they want this to withstand legal

challenge. The last order was fairly easy for opponents like the American

Civil Liberties Union to overturn, to persuade a federal court that it

was unconstitutional. That is one aim of this revised ban. Another aim

is, it makes it more politically palatable to take Iraq off the list.

John McCain said, how can you include our ally in fighting Islamic

State? Take Iraq off the list. And they have done that. Republicans

have been critical of the first order and have said that they are

happy with this one. The Washington State Attorney General said the

Trump Administration has capitulated on numerous policies. It looks like

they have more legal backing, but we have the ACLU saying they are not

happy, and an Attorney General in Massachusetts saying he is not

happy. Will this face another court challenge? You would have thought

so. There are areas where the ACLU, the American Civil Liberties Union,

will focus. You can be discriminated on grounds of race, sex,

nationality, place of birth or place of residence. The supreme court has

argued that protects -- some protections don't apply to some

people. It doesn't include dual citizens. We will see there is a

challenge whether the courts go with it. There is one interesting line

from Jeff Sessions, who said that 300 refugees that had come into the

country are now under investigation by the FBI. There will be plenty

people in Europe will look at that, who felt that refugees coming to

Europe weren't properly screened and vetted who will say, yes, we have

sympathy with where the Americans are coming from on this. And that is

why so many people in America support this ban, and supported the

initial one. There are people who think this is an American, that it

violates that welcoming tradition -- that that is not American. Against

that are these people who think, no, we have to protect their homeland

and do what it takes. What liberal and progressive opponents of the ban

would say is that if you were serious about the national security

aspects, why is Saudi Arabia of the list? Pakistan, Afghanistan? There

is no evidence that people from any of the countries listed have

actually carried out attacks on American soil, which is an argument

you might hear in court. Christian, we will talk a lot about law today,

and national security, but that revised travel order is supposed to

put the White House on the front foot, and yet the headlines this

morning in America were dominated by the administration 's allegedly next

to Russia. President Trump alleged that President Obama had ordered a

wiretap on his phone, calling it McCarthyism. He then went on to say

that President Obama's action was not legal, and he described it as a

new low. How low as President Obama gone? That is what he wrote in

another. This is Nixon/ Watergate. And then, President Obama is a bad

or sick guy. It is extraordinary to hear a sitting president speak about

a former president like that. Mr Trump spent a weekend at his Mara

Largo Florida golf club. We spoke to a friend who joined him there.

Chris Ruddy, you spoke to President Trump

over the weekend - how would

I would say he is not a happy camper.

I spoke to him after he had done the tweet that morning, where he

alleged that there were wiretaps made against him

and his campaign at the

order of President Obama, and he was sort of angry

that he was targeted, and he was very confident about the

information he had, so I don't think, and I don't think we've seen

any walkback from the White House since he made those comments, and he

told me later that night, as the story was developing, I asked him,

based on all the denials that had come out during the day, and he

said, look, and I have this on my blog, he

said, look, you know, if

they investigate, they will find out,

I will be proven right, and

So, just to be clear, you spoke to the president twice.

You spoke to him on the phone, I understand, or did you

I saw him at the lunch hour and at the dinner hour.

And you've known Mr Trump for 20 years,

but I think you've reported that you've never seen him this angry.

I don't recall, certainly during this

He wasn't screaming or yelling, but he

had a certain look and demeanour that indicated that he was not

It wasn't about the media that he wasn't happy.

He was unhappy that the former president, he

believed, had targeted his campaign, and he described it to me as a

He described it as McCarthyism, and he was also

He asked me if the press was covering it.

Remember, he had just come off the links, and I said, no, it is all

We had it as the lead on NewsMax, and he was glad to hear

So, it was the allegations, as he put

it, that President Obama had wiretapped Trump Tower that were

I don't know if Trump Tower is really key, or that

I think, and if you look through all the denials that

came through this weekend, nobody, and one of the Trump administration

officials told me late last night, everybody's mincing their words.

They're not really saying that the Trump campaign

They are saying that President Obama never issued an order.

Legally, he is not empowered to issue an order,

so the question is, did he know about it or not?

The FBI has given a very narrow, not an official denial,

a narrow denial through an anonymous source in the New York Times.

You wonder why they haven't come out and

officially just denied it altogether.

I can tell you that, having been knowledgeable about the

Trump campaign and the election period, that there is basically a

100% consensus among Trump campaign people that they were surveilled

Just to be clear, President Trump didn't just

say it once, he said it in four separate tweets that it was

He said it in different ways but in four separate tweets.

What evidence did he give you in the conversations

that you had with him over the course of

the weekend to back that

up, to back up that claim that President Obama had wiretapped or

He didn't offer me any evidence, but he

spoke with great confidence on the matter.

It would strain credulity if the president did not know about

this, even if he officially didn't give an order,

and knowing how the

The IRS targeted Conservative organisations,

I believe illegally, and the head of that IRS was over

at the White House 24 times meeting with Obama's top

There was never an investigation, never a special prosecutor, and for

them to say that the president didn't know about the IRS issue, it

is again another thing where if somebody looks into this,

they might find that there is a lot more there.

We're getting to 50 days in the Trump presidency - do you believe

that President Trump, your friend of 20 years,

is being well served by

By his own admission, they got a C+ on

Several weeks ago, I gave him an A for shaking things up in

Washington, and I have given him a C as well on messaging on one of my

And I think that he realises there needs

Reince Priebus, for instance, whom I've been

critical of in the past, I think you have seen him really pick up his

The speech that was given to the joint session of Congress was

tremendous, and what we saw is that the press didn't like the narrative

coming out of that speech and they started talking

The head of Obama's intelligence agencies was just on

Meet The Press yesterday, and he said they found no evidence of

collusion between the Trump campaign and the Russians, nothing.

So, why is the press continuing saying there is

a huge story here if they are saying there is nothing after a massive

Mr Ruddy, it's Christian Slater here in London.

I just want to take you back to the warrant.

If a warrant was issued, you will know that the court that

oversees the foreign intelligence surveillance act has federal judges

There are also lawyers, judicial branch lawyers, who are experts on

national security, who sit and scrutinise any demands that are

made, so the idea that President Obama

could rubber-stamp such an

Under the law, the President's not allowed

I should tell you that in the past, presidents have wiretapped political

We know in 1968, Lyndon Johnson wiretapped the Nixon

We know it happened because Hoover's assistant wrote a

book about the illegal operation, so these things happen.

I think the American public realises this type

That's why the FISA act was brought in in 1978 - to stop

I'm not a big fan of FISA, because I think a lot of

There are reports which you are aware of

that when they first went to FISA over the Trump campaign, the judge

There are other types of warrant that could be in play

There is a title three warrant, which is a criminal probe,

and that would not necessarily involve the FBI, I'm told, so some

of these things could be happening, and I think it's up to Congress.

Trump said, let's investigate it, and he seemed confident that he

I think he has a low threshold to prove here, because

there's been a consensus in the Trump campaign that they were

surveilled, or their associates were surveilled,

Mr Ruddy, looking back over the course

of the past 48 hours, and you

spoke about the address to Congress that the president gave last week,

you spoke about the need to improve the President's messaging - would

you describe this as a good weekend for President Trump?

I wouldn't say it was a great weekend.

I personally think we'd have been better off

having these disclosures not come out in a tweet but in some other

method, certainly being raised by Congress, but this president is

He is the first non-politician ever to be a

president, and his view basically is that he

wants to go directly to the

And off he ran to another meeting! It is worth remembering that Chris

Ruddy is quite close to Donald Trump, and he would know his state

of mind at the weekend. We have not heard from Donald Trump since

Friday, so to get that sort of perspective, that the president did

go off the deep end on Saturday when he looked at what had happened on

Thursday and Friday, and again, this frustration over the leaks and his

administration being continually undermined.

Yes, as Chris Ruddy were suggesting, there seems to be relief in the

Trump campaign that they were subject to surveillance. There is a

picture of Chris Ruddy with Donald Trump in the Oval Office, proof that

they are close. One of the things that struck me listening to that

interview was Chris Ruddy saying, when I asked for evidence, what

evidence Donald Trump had given him that Barack Obama had ordered the

tapping of his foes, he said coming he didn't offer me any evidence but

he sounded confident on the matter. -- the tapping of his phones.

And he was quite coy about how he had gone. He gave the president a C+

for messaging and communication. Today, it has been low-key. All the

President's meetings have been off-camera, and it was a low-key

roll-out of the travel order. This is the last few minutes in the White

House press room. Sean Spicer is giving a briefing, and you can see

how many people are there for the questions, but again, this is

off-camera today. I am just reading the latest from

what is called a gaggle, and Donald Trump has apparently not spoken to

the FBI about this. He does want Congress to expand its investigation

to include this business of surveillance, and Sean Spicer, on

this issue of the surveillance and where it might have been ordered

from, said it could have been various sources. We will need to

wait to see if there is further evidence. To put it in perspective,

it is extraordinary what Donald Trump did this weekend. He

effectively accused the previous president of committing a crime. The

onus is on the White House to find the evidence for that, whether it is

through a FISA court, as you were asking Chris Ruddy, by other means.

Let's look at the legality of this. Have Chris Ruddy referred to an

interview that the head of National intelligence gave yesterday.

There was a denial of any wiretapping going on before the

election. There was no such wiretap activity

mounted against the president elect at the time as a candidate

or against his campaign. If there was a Fisa court order

about something like this? And at this point, you can't confirm

or deny whether that exists? A short while ago, I spoke to

Matthew Miller, who served as spokesperson at the Justice

Department until 2011. Matt Miller, you heard Chris Ruddy

there saying that President Trump and his team are very confident that

during the course of the campaign, they were under surveillance

by the US government. President Trump was very confident

for a long time that Barack Obama We've heard the director

of National Intelligence and say that the president

And apparently Jim Comey believes the same thing and has asked

the Department of Justice to make a public statement,

so the fact that the president has these paranoid conspiracy theories

doesn't mean they're based in reality.

You worked at the US Justice Department

Do you think it is possible that there was some kind

of surveillance of the Trump campaign and, if so,

would President Obama have known about it?

You know, I take Director Clapper at his word

when he said there wasn't any surveillance.

That said, it is possible that the government was

listening to Russian government officials or Russian intelligence

operatives, something they do in the normal course of business

and in the course of that surveillance came across

Trump campaign officials or Trump associates,

former campaign officials, having conversations

And if so, that is the type of information that would have been

briefed throughout the intelligence community, would have been shared

the director of National Intelligence and probably

but that's a very different thing to the president

ordering a wiretap of Trump or his campaign.

And is that the only circumstance under which you can

imagine President Trump's team being wiretapped

Before Director Clapper came out and said

what he said yesterday, I think a lot of people thought

it was possible that the Fisa court has approved a warrant

And there have been reports that approaches were made

But what is so odd about President Trump surfacing that

allegation, for that to be true, it would have meant a federal judge

found credible evidence that either Trump or members of his campaign

were acting as agents of a foreign power.

If you're the president, that's not the type of story

you want to encourage people to pay attention to!

But if you do take Director Clapper at his word,

So just to be crystal clear, under American law,

there is no way that President Obama

could have ordered the wiretapping of Donald Trump

It would have been absolutely illegal.

Since Christopher Ruddy talks about something that

we passed a law after that specifically because that happened

to prevent future presidents from doing it.

And there's no way for the president to do that now.

Could he have come up with a nod and a wink, commissioned his

Justice Department to order the surveillance of President Trump?

That is the type of thing that would be such a violation

of the Department of Justice's traditional independence

that I think people in the chain of command would have

resigned en masse because, you have to remember,

it's not just Loretta Lynch the Attorney General

who would have been involved, it is career people,

civil servants who work in the Department of Justice under

administrations of both parties who would have been charged

I believe they never would have done that.

Matt Miller, thanks very much for coming in.

The former French Prime Minister, Alain Juppe has criticised his

party's presidential candidate, Francois Fillon, saying he has

Members of the Republican party, who've been holding

crisis talks today, had hoped Mr Juppe might replace

the scandal-hit candidate, but this morning Juppe said

he had decided "once and for all" not to stand

TRANSLATION: I have no intention to engage in partisan negotiations,

I confirm once and for all that I won't be a candidate

This is what I will say to Nicolas Sarkozy

and Francois Fillon if they wish to meet me.

Alain Juppe, pulling himself out of the running. This leaves Francois

Fillon as the kind that for the Republican party. What has he been

saying? Years given a statement the night,

saying the party needs to get behind him and pull his socks up and start

supporting him. A lot of people will point to, dare I say, the arrogance

of Francois Fillon, because he is facing prosecution and will face

magistrates again on the 15th of March. He goes into the running, and

there are seven weeks until the first round in the two are -- on the

23rd of April, in pretty poor shape. He has lost another poll to night,

rooted at 19%, compared to 25.5% for Emmanuel Macron. Nicolas Sarkozy,

and a former Prime Minister, have both say that you have to put the

party first, think about whether you can win this. The polls suggest that

at this moment in time he cannot. Here is a question: In a normal

election somewhere else, I would imagine that if a candidate was in

this much trouble this close to polling day, there would be a queue

of other people from their party wanting to jump into the race, but

why are there not a tonne of Republican candidate saying, hold

on, I will give this a shot? What have they got to lose? Ffion Briton

-- Fillon... There are not great alternatives.

Alain Juppe would have had quite a good chance. As soon as he ruled

himself out this morning, the party have come together tonight for a

meeting to look at it, they said, what else do we have? He has the 500

signatures, Fillon. His candidacy is officially registered, and there are

just seven weeks. Not great for them. You're watching

100 Days from BBC News. Still to come for viewers on the BBC

News Channel and BBC world News: The Clinton who voted Republican. We

report from Arkansas and the town of Clinton that threw its support

behind Donald Trump or stop what they make of his presidency so far?

And the French company jiving at -- buying out General Motors' European

business. Still to come on 100 Days. You may have got a passing shower

today, but most of us will have seen sunshine today. A fair amount of

that in evidence in Shropshire today. It could have been such a

different story. This low-pressure gave a glancing blow to south-west

England, making for a wet start to the day in the Channel Islands. Look

how stormy it got. In north-west France, gusting winds of up to

almost 120 mph. We dodged something there! We will have fairly light

winds overnight. A bit of rain clipping the North Sea tip of

Aberdeenshire, some outbreaks of rain for the Northern Isles. Showers

feed through northern Scotland, north-west England and into the

Midlands. Elsewhere, variable cloud and clear spells. Lower temperatures

in the countryside, so some frost first thing. A fine stop many of us.

Only in north-west Scotland will fade. Early rain being confined to

Shetland. This weather systems comes in but won't make too much progress

into Scotland until the evening. It will, with rain and hill snow for a

time. It will cross Northern Ireland. A large part of England

continues to be dry well on through the afternoon. The rain heads into

Cornwall, into Devon, at this stage, into South and West Wales,

accompanied by a freshening wind. 10 Celsius in London, but most parts

seeing 7-9dC. We take that rain east across the rest of the UK on Tuesday

evening. Some snow on the tops of their hills in North Wales in

north-west England, but especially in Scotland. It is gone by Wednesday

morning. The rain should clear away, sunny spells developing. A blustery

day, especially in northern Scotland, with gales and showers

here. On Thursday, a fine start for most, but this weather front pushes

cloud and outbreaks of rain through in the cause of the day. From the

South, Thursday into Friday, we bring in milder air. Temperatures

will be into the mid-teens. Quite a lot of cloud around. It is an

unsettled week, wet at times. Dry in brighter moments too. And it will

turn milder. Welcome back to 100 Days with me

Katty Kay in Washington Our top story - a second

attempt at a travel ban - Donald Trump signs a new executive

order. Meanwhile the President stands

by his extraordinary claim that Barack Obama tapped his phone,

we've been hearing from a close He was angry at being targeted and

very confident about the information he had.

And approval ratings suggest that support for the President remains

The French car company PSA - who own Peugeot and Citroen -

has agreed a deal to buy Vauxhall in Britain and Opel in Germany

from the US company General Motors for ?1.9 billion -

There are concerns about big job losses as a result of the deal.

Four and a half thousand people work at Vauxhall plants in the UK -

Unions say the fight begins now to try safeguard jobs.

Here's our industry correspondent John Moylan.

Vauxhall's vast vehicle plant at Luton, for decades a cornerstone

But soon what happens here will be decided in France.

Creating uncertainty for thousands of workers.

We're all going to be worried because we've all got families.

I myself have been here nearly 30 years.

Disbelief because no-one really knows what's going on.

I don't see the reason to shut it down.

Earlier in Paris, Peugeot's boss, Carlos Tavares,

alongside his counterpart from General Motors confirmed plans

to create a European auto giant, second only to Volkswagen.

Huge cost savings are planned, and we asked him what that will mean

I trust my Vauxhall employees in the UK, I trust them.

I know that they are dedicated and I know they are committed

and I trust that they will be in a very good position by working

in a constructive and open manner, as long as we

improve the performance and we become the best,

The deal redraws the map of the European car industry.

Across Europe, the PSA group has 14 production sites

Its buying GM Europe, known as Opel, with its eight plants

The deal includes Vauxhall's plants in Luton and Ellesmere Port

Here at Ellesmere Port, the Vauxhall Astra has been rolling

off the production line since the 1980s.

To secure the future of the site, unions know the new French owners

must commit to a new vehicle for the plant in the coming year.

A message to PSA, or indeed, General Motors before it.

If they want to sell cars in the United Kingdom,

they're going to have to build cars in the United Kingdom.

That's Unite's position and we will fight tooth and nail

The conversations that I and the Prime Minister have had,

both with GM and PSA, tell me that they

intend to safeguard the plants, honour their commitments

and look to increase the performance and the sales of cars.

So, we want to hold them to those commitments.

UK plants are known to be amongst the most productive

But it's what goes into the vehicles,

which are built in our plants, which could be the big problem.

60% of the components that go into the Vivaro van which is built

For the Astra built up at Ellesmere Port, it is 75%.

The former boss of GM's European operations warns that this crucial

issue puts the UK's plants at a disadvantage.

They just don't have enough components purchased here,

because they have to import so many components.

the UK is in a weaker position than other operations.

The UK's Brexit deal will play into this, too.

Trade tariffs could increase the cost of those components,

Britain's auto sector has been a huge success story.

But the creation of this new European car giant

Let's get more on this with our Business Correspondent,

GM Europe has not made a profit since 1999. So something I suppose

had to give. You look at the chief executive of General Motors, she has

been under pressure for a while to do more to keep shareholders happy

and inside that is why you're seeing the deal today. There has been a

sense that it has not been profitable, it was almost profitable

at one stage but Brexit and the impact on the pound actually knocked

that back. And the company has decided instead to sell the European

region off and focus on North America and China, very profitable

market for the company. And to reinvest any future money as in new

technologies. That is the argument they have given and part of the

promised to shareholders is to return more money to them. This was

part of delivering on that. Think PSA would look to use a double to

make a push into the United States but of course they have got to deal

with Donald Trump who already has threatened German manufacturers with

a 35% import tax. I think if you are in the car industry you're looking

long term so at the moment yes there is concern about selling cars in the

United States from overseas but specifically we are seeing Donald

Trump critical of car-makers, American car-makers actually,

producing cars in Mexico and bring them across the border into the US.

Long-term though it remains to be seen. How big a market there is for

Opel cars in the US. But certainly it leaves the door open for the

company to grow. What is interesting if you look at General Motors, for a

long time it was known as a huge global player, with a footprint

around the world. Now suddenly it is leaving one region behind the

century although it can still sell Cadillacs into the European market.

It is focusing instead on more profitable regions. But it is

changing the shape of the car industry as we know it, BW and

Toyota can fight it out for the title of the world's biggest

car-makers, General Motors is shrinking and you have PSA with the

chance now to grow and become the number two player in Europe and who

ambitions beyond that and into the ambitions beyond that and into the

United States. An interesting vote of confidence in the Chinese market

and Chinese consumer markets. But talk to me about this investment in

future technologies, is this the GM of saying that the Futurist

driverless cars and that is what we will spend some of these games on?

Right now you have the Geneva motor show going on, and when I've been to

the Detroit motor show in the past, the right hand man to the boss of GM

has talked a lot about right sharing, a change in the way we go

about transport that in future car ownership in big cities will not

play as big a part. And that right sharing will be something to invest

in. They have a partnership with the company. Lift, they're called and we

could see an expansion of that. In Europe that is the area that they

want to continue to focus on, this right sharing, not to mention of

course electric cars. We are hearing about less about that and then of

course is driverless cars which GM compared to some of its rivals have

been less involved with. Perhaps this will free up some cash for them

to put more towards that technology. Thank you.

While President Trump faces questions in Washington,

it's worth noting he still has 85% support among

approval rating - at 45% - represents a bit of an uptick.

It was Middle America - among voters he described

as ignored and forgotten - that put him in the White House,

people like Dan and Peggy Eoff - ranchers from Clinton -

We've become so politically correct that

you can't say poop if you stepped in it.

Friends, neighbours, Jesus Christ - they are all welcome.

That just kind of starts everything right.

I'm Peggy, this is my husband, Dan, and we host the

National Championship Chuck Wagon Races at our

We started out with eight wagons, and last year

It's the largest horse event that we know

I thought maybe a bull rider, but God didn't

want me to be a bull rider or a bronco rider,

I tell people I'm married to him, but my

He says what he's going to do and does what he says he's going to do.

And that's why we like him, because Dan's the same way.

I think the government's out of control.

You know, they need to have more people

running the government that's had hands-on

experience, that's made their land and lived on the river.

If we're terminating the river, I'm going to stop it, because my

grandmother and my grandchildren sank the water down below here,

and if we're terminating, I'm going to stop it.

We don't have to have Washington to stop that.

It used to be I felt they were, you know.

Most of our furniture, wooden furniture,

If we were to buy it from an American producer at this

Our wholesale cost would be what we retail this table for.

But now, we do support our president, and if

he says there's going to be a border tax,

we're going to pay it, because

we feel like it will benefit us all in the long run.

Could you not dream of having a ranch and being the rodeo star I

I'm a chuck wagon race producer, I guess, but that's OK.

You know, it's to do with people, horses, cattle, and

I like the look of Clinton, Arkansas. I could see you there. I

could do radio there. An important reminder, we gets obsessed by the

nuances of stories within the so-called beltway Washington, how

much does it really matter to Donald Trump and his base in places like

Arkansas and Wisconsin, Montana. That base when you look at the

polling today that has come out, is rock-solid. They still very much

like what President Trump and particularly these executive orders

and travel bans, has been doing since he came into the White House.

It isn't to Dan and Peggy Eoff and you start to think that Washington

is all Twitter to use a phrase about what the president tweeted this

weekend. Once I picked my jaw off the floor I was also amazed. But for

Dan and Peggy Eoff I suspect all the story about Russia is perhaps not as

important as people here in Washington think it is.

That is 100 Days for this Monday - I'll be

taking your questions LIVE on our Facebook page

shortly, with my colleague Rajini Vaidyanathan.

So do send us your thoughts, for now though from Katty Kay

in Washington and me, Christian Fraser