:00:09. > :00:16.Welcome to 100 Days. The US sends hundreds of troops into Syria.
:00:17. > :00:22.Marines have been deployed to help to capture the ISG hold of Raqqa.
:00:23. > :00:31.Candidate Donald Trump said he had a plan to defeat so-called Islamic
:00:32. > :00:42.State, is this? -- is this it. -- IS stronghold.
:00:43. > :00:50.We are probably the to most vilified people in the West over the course
:00:51. > :00:55.of the last couple of years. Also, happy families, Senator Ted Cruz and
:00:56. > :01:00.his family enjoy dinner at the White House, as the charm offensive over
:01:01. > :01:04.replacing Obamacare begins, but relations were not always so warm.
:01:05. > :01:11.You mess with my wife, you mess with my kids, that will do it every time.
:01:12. > :01:15.Donald, you are a snivelling coward, leave Heidi the hell alone. Prime
:01:16. > :01:17.Minister Theresa May attends her last summit of EU leaders before
:01:18. > :01:19.Brexit talks. Will Britain really be landed with a 60 billion euro
:01:20. > :01:21.divorce bill? We'll hear from Berlin. We'll speak to Donald
:01:22. > :01:24.Trump's preferred choice for UK ambassador to Washington, Nigel
:01:25. > :01:27.Farage - about his friendship with the President. And we're in Arkansas
:01:28. > :01:28.to hear from the voters the President calls the "forgotten men
:01:29. > :01:38.and women" of America. I'm Katty Kay in Washington,
:01:39. > :01:40.Christian Fraser's in London. Are we seeing the return of American
:01:41. > :01:43.hard power in the Middle East? The United States has just sent some
:01:44. > :01:47.400 troops to Syria to fight The deployment is made up
:01:48. > :01:50.of Marines and Army Rangers who are there to help capture
:01:51. > :01:52.the IS stronghold of Raqqa. They reportedly arrived in the past
:01:53. > :01:55.few days to establish an outpost from which they will be
:01:56. > :01:58.able to fire artillery at IS The White House Press Secretary Sean
:01:59. > :02:07.Spicer has just taken Not exactly trying to disguise their
:02:08. > :02:11.identity. Sean Spicer, now. Today, hundreds of US Marines were deployed
:02:12. > :02:18.to Syria, so I'm wondering, how involved was the president in that
:02:19. > :02:22.decision-making process? The president was obviously made aware
:02:23. > :02:25.of that, this has been done in consultation, he understands the
:02:26. > :02:28.regional issues that need to be addressed there. I would refer you
:02:29. > :02:37.back to the Department of defence. With us to discuss this more is
:02:38. > :02:39.Andrew Exum, who was one of President Obama's top advisors on
:02:40. > :02:43.Middle East affairs. During the campaign, President Trump kept
:02:44. > :02:47.saying, I have a plan, I will keep it secret, we will defeat Islamic
:02:48. > :02:51.State fast, is this part of the plan? Yes and no, this does not
:02:52. > :02:57.diverge significantly from a plan that was in place, working with
:02:58. > :03:00.local partners, but this perhaps addresses one of the fundamental
:03:01. > :03:05.problems that the United States and its coalition partners have in
:03:06. > :03:08.Syria, Syria and Iraq, in Iraq, the Iraqi army, heavy equipment, in
:03:09. > :03:14.Syria, the Kurdish do not have every equipment. You have two options, you
:03:15. > :03:17.can give them it, train them on it, train them on the types of things
:03:18. > :03:25.they need to breach defences around Raqqa. That will anger the Turks,
:03:26. > :03:31.Nato ally, or, deploy US forces to breach out. -- the Kurdish do not
:03:32. > :03:35.have heavy equipment. For Trump took office, they were looking at those
:03:36. > :03:39.options, ways to help the Kurdish and Arabic partners get into Raqqa,
:03:40. > :03:42.I think that is what this is. Every time Barack Obama talked about the
:03:43. > :03:47.possibility of putting US troops into Syria he was accused of mission
:03:48. > :03:53.creep, where would this end, what are the risks for American forces
:03:54. > :03:57.going into Syria? Two, first off, it is true Barack Obama was fine
:03:58. > :04:01.sending in special Ops, people that would work by with and through local
:04:02. > :04:06.partners but they did not want us to own the fight, for a very good
:04:07. > :04:09.reason, in Iraq, 2003-2010 we owned the fight and as a result, vocal
:04:10. > :04:13.partners on the ground were not invested in the victory. The whole
:04:14. > :04:17.idea of working by with and through is to get local partners involved,
:04:18. > :04:21.the problem here, we own the fight, we begin to own more of what takes
:04:22. > :04:26.place after the defeat of Isis, and the real issue is, how long will you
:04:27. > :04:30.leave US forces there to referee what are going to continue to be
:04:31. > :04:36.some pretty tense dynamics in northern Syria? If you are there as
:04:37. > :04:41.a referee, it is a pretty complex battlefield, I have the list here,
:04:42. > :04:45.so you have... Turkish backed Syrian rebels, US backed Kurdish fighters,
:04:46. > :04:49.you have Iran, Hezbollah, not to mention the Syrians and the
:04:50. > :04:53.Russians... And Turkey want a role as well! How will they pick their
:04:54. > :04:59.way through all of that? LAUGHTER. Exactly right, you have seen US
:05:00. > :05:02.armoured personnel carriers driving around northern Syrian cities almost
:05:03. > :05:06.as if they are referees on the battlefield! Try to keep the Turkish
:05:07. > :05:10.backed forces and the rest back largely Kurdish forces away from one
:05:11. > :05:15.another, on the battlefield, look, even after the defeat of Daesh, and
:05:16. > :05:21.Islamic State falls, that's dynamic will still be there, how you avoid
:05:22. > :05:24.conflict between what is going to be an empowered Kurdish group in
:05:25. > :05:28.north-eastern Syria and the Turkish state not quite happy about that,
:05:29. > :05:34.fighting the PKK and its allies for decades... That will be a real trick
:05:35. > :05:38.for any administration to face. Unfortunately, US troops are going
:05:39. > :05:42.to have to play a role playing referee, exceptionally large, the
:05:43. > :05:45.good news, we have some very experienced officers and operators
:05:46. > :05:48.on the ground. Of which you used to be one. Bank you very much for
:05:49. > :05:55.joining us. Donald Trump is spending $54 billion
:05:56. > :05:59.extra on the military, he wants to look like the strong
:06:00. > :06:02.commander-in-chief, dumping new not being. A number of battle zones now,
:06:03. > :06:07.where the Americans could get sucked in. -- something new cues Barack
:06:08. > :06:13.Obama of not being. Now, they are saying that they are sending more
:06:14. > :06:17.troops into Afghanistan to train the Afghans, he has a lot on his plate?
:06:18. > :06:21.The conundrum of the presidency, throughout the campaign, he
:06:22. > :06:26.criticised America's was in the Middle East and said they should
:06:27. > :06:31.never have got involved in them. He was very critical of the US military
:06:32. > :06:35.and the generals and Barack Obama. Now he is in the position of owning
:06:36. > :06:39.the fight, of owning what happens there, what is he doing? One of the
:06:40. > :06:43.first things he is doing more within the first month of presidency,
:06:44. > :06:46.putting more troops into the Middle East, every time Barack Obama added
:06:47. > :06:54.troops, he faced criticism for upping America's stake in the fight.
:06:55. > :06:56.It will be interesting to see what is the reaction from Republicans and
:06:57. > :06:58.what Donald Trump wants from American leadership in that part of
:06:59. > :07:06.the world. Moving on. The 28 leaders of the
:07:07. > :07:09.European Union are meeting in Brussels. By the end of this month
:07:10. > :07:11.28 will become 27 as Britain pulls away. Those Brexit negotiations
:07:12. > :07:14.could begin at the end of next week. Though there's still a bit of work
:07:15. > :07:17.to do in the UK parliament on Brexit bill before the Prime Minister can
:07:18. > :07:19.formally trigger Article 50. I keep promising Cathy that they will
:07:20. > :07:22.start(!) One of the chief architects of Brexit is of course Nigel Farage
:07:23. > :07:24.of the UK independence party, and as many of you will know a man who
:07:25. > :07:27.sometimes dines with the US President. And we were speaking to
:07:28. > :07:32.him a little earlier. And by the way, I do still believe you(!)
:07:33. > :07:41.good evening. Good evening. We are about to hear an interview with Dr
:07:42. > :07:45.Fuchs Germany, close ally of Angela Merkel, I asked him a question about
:07:46. > :07:51.the alimony, the severance payment, for the UK to pull away from the EU,
:07:52. > :07:55.estimated to be around 60 billion euros, I asked him if that was
:07:56. > :07:59.negotiable, he said, no, not really... Well, the truth is, we are
:08:00. > :08:05.paying the alimony already, it is now nine months since we voted to
:08:06. > :08:08.leave the European Union, assuming Article 50 gets triggered by the end
:08:09. > :08:16.of the month, and we go through a further two years, we will net, not
:08:17. > :08:20.gross, but net, we will have paid almost ?30 billion into the European
:08:21. > :08:25.Union cough is between voting to leave and leaving, and do you know
:08:26. > :08:28.what, I think that is plenty. The issue is that it is already a big
:08:29. > :08:35.stumbling block before we even get to the nitty-gritty. As I say, a net
:08:36. > :08:38.30 billion anyway, the idea that we will pay another 50, 60, it is not
:08:39. > :08:45.going to happen, they can whistle for it. In Britain today, after the
:08:46. > :08:47.budget yesterday, the row is a tax rise on the self-employed, this
:08:48. > :08:51.morning the Chancellor of the Exchequer has been doing the rounds
:08:52. > :08:54.in the UK, he has been forced to break an election promise, that is
:08:55. > :09:01.the way it is portrayed. He appears to be blaming "Brexit", is this a
:09:02. > :09:05.sign of things to come? No, they are very good at blaming "Brexit",
:09:06. > :09:09.promised us the sky would fall in, actually, nearly all the economic
:09:10. > :09:13.data coming out of the UK is very good, much better than it is in the
:09:14. > :09:17.Eurozone. I think it was a badly judged budget. The people that voted
:09:18. > :09:20.for "Brexit" were the small and medium-sized businesses, sick to
:09:21. > :09:24.death of too much regulation coming from Brussels, believing that a
:09:25. > :09:30."Brexit" vote would see a UK Government on their side, and to put
:09:31. > :09:37.up taxes on sole traders, and the self-employed, was, I think, a big
:09:38. > :09:40.political mistake. I wanted to ask you about your relationship with the
:09:41. > :09:47.United States at the moment, it seems congratulations are in order,
:09:48. > :09:52.you have become Britain's man in Trumpland so what is that like? I
:09:53. > :09:56.supported him in the campaign, shared a platform in Mississippi,
:09:57. > :10:00.took part in discussions and everything, and I will say this to
:10:01. > :10:06.you, I saw him a couple of weeks ago, had dinner with him, and one
:10:07. > :10:09.thing really struck me, this guy believes that he has a contract with
:10:10. > :10:14.the American people, elected on a ticket, on a manifesto, and come
:10:15. > :10:18.Hell or High Water, he is going to deliver that manifesto. In
:10:19. > :10:22.democratic terms, that is refreshing. In terms of the man
:10:23. > :10:27.himself, I have to say, I really believe this man has got very strong
:10:28. > :10:32.moral courage, he wants to see this through. So that is your political
:10:33. > :10:35.relationship, and you have a sense of conviction you share with him, we
:10:36. > :10:39.have seen the photographs of the two of you together, seems to go beyond
:10:40. > :10:43.that, seems to be a personal chemistry, when you had dinner with
:10:44. > :10:47.him at Trump Tower, why do you think it is that you and he get on so
:10:48. > :10:51.well? The one thing we have in common, we are probably the two most
:10:52. > :10:56.vilified people in the West over the course of the last couple of years!
:10:57. > :11:01.LAUGHTER Everybody, everybody has thrown just
:11:02. > :11:05.shed loads of abuse at us, so... We have been through the same baptism
:11:06. > :11:12.of fire, with the media, and with other political commentators. I
:11:13. > :11:15.think that what Donald Trump, and not just him but the people around
:11:16. > :11:19.him, what they see is that I was a pretty lonely warrior, battling for
:11:20. > :11:25."Brexit" for over two decades, we finally got there, and I think team
:11:26. > :11:30.Trump believe that they would not have won had it not been for the
:11:31. > :11:33.dynamism and the optimism that "Brexit" gave people who do not
:11:34. > :11:37.normally bother to vote. I think they are very pleased. I'll be
:11:38. > :11:41.honest with you, I have known some of the people around Donald Trump
:11:42. > :11:48.for many years. They are what I would regard as friends. How often
:11:49. > :11:52.do you talk? Often? You are asking me questions that you know that I'm
:11:53. > :11:57.not going to answer... Worth a try. Of course, that is your job. I'm not
:11:58. > :12:02.going to betray any personal confidences or discuss specifically
:12:03. > :12:06.anything that we talk about. I have a good relationship with Donald
:12:07. > :12:11.Trump and his team in the White House, and if I can be of any help
:12:12. > :12:16.to them or any help in forging a new relationship between my country and
:12:17. > :12:21.there is, I am happy to do so. One of the issues, which we talk about
:12:22. > :12:24.over here, is whether you serve as a sort of unofficial ambassador for
:12:25. > :12:30.the UK, perhaps the UK governments don't want that, but we also read
:12:31. > :12:34.the Ukip has set up the de facto embassy in Georgetown, this building
:12:35. > :12:39.that serves as a place to meet people... Is that true? Are you
:12:40. > :12:43.using it as an embassy to meet people? From the administration?
:12:44. > :12:47.Point number one, whatever I do is in an unofficial capacity. Number
:12:48. > :12:52.ten do not want me in any way at all, fine, up to them, I think it is
:12:53. > :12:56.short-sighted and silly, I think there is a constructive role I can
:12:57. > :13:01.play with them. Everything I do is unofficial, as for the embassy, I
:13:02. > :13:05.understand Arron Banks has taken a five year lease on a house in
:13:06. > :13:11.Georgetown, which he says, incidentally, will have a very good
:13:12. > :13:15.dining room and wine cellar, beyond that, I don't... It sounds like fun
:13:16. > :13:20.but beyond that... It is my neighbourhood, I will be round the
:13:21. > :13:23.corner. Please, come and visit. I have do ask you about a photograph
:13:24. > :13:28.which you are aware is doing the rounds on social media, you coming
:13:29. > :13:32.out of the Ecuadorian Embassy, I think your radio producer is in
:13:33. > :13:35.total, so I perhaps know why you were there, it has been said on
:13:36. > :13:40.Twitter that you have been there to interview Julian Assange and there
:13:41. > :13:45.is also the talk that you are serving as a back channel to Julian
:13:46. > :13:49.Assange for the Trump team. All I can tell you is that I was in the
:13:50. > :13:56.building today, as you know, the Ecuadorian and the Colombian
:13:57. > :14:00.assembly, assemblies, embassies are in that building, I am not going to
:14:01. > :14:03.confirm or deny what I did at all, you will have to wait and see. We
:14:04. > :14:07.will have to listen to your programme at the weekend.
:14:08. > :14:11.Interesting timing, given the Julian Assange had been speaking today
:14:12. > :14:16.about the big dump of CIA documents, and there is Nigel Farage, coming
:14:17. > :14:17.out of the Ecuador embassy. What you make about this relationship that he
:14:18. > :14:24.has with Donald Trump? There is something
:14:25. > :14:28.they're beyond Bolasie, the degree to which Nigel Farage has been
:14:29. > :14:32.embraced by the Trump Circle and Donald Trump himself is interesting,
:14:33. > :14:37.and the degree to which the Trump administration is now starting to
:14:38. > :14:40.talk about elections in France and Germany and looking at this populist
:14:41. > :14:44.movement. You wonder whether Nigel Farage is not nudging them in that
:14:45. > :14:49.direction as well, I cannot help but wonder. Talking of wrecks it, once
:14:50. > :14:57.it is under way, then the real work will begin.
:14:58. > :14:59.And among many thorny issues the two sides must resolve,
:15:00. > :15:02.is the severance payment the EU will expect Britain to pay.
:15:03. > :15:04.Another is the issue of financial passporting,
:15:05. > :15:06.currently British banks can trade anywhere in Europe without needing
:15:07. > :15:08.further authorization in each of the 27 countries.
:15:09. > :15:12.Well those are some of the questions I put to Dr Michael Fuchs,
:15:13. > :15:15.he is extremely close to the German Chancellor Angela Merkel
:15:16. > :15:17.and is deeply involved in Germany's response to Brexit.
:15:18. > :15:24.We were told by Donald Tusk yesterday that within 48 hours, of
:15:25. > :15:29.Britain triggering Article 50, the would have its opening gambit, its
:15:30. > :15:34.first negotiation to put to the British side, why don't you give us
:15:35. > :15:37.insight into that? Will it deal solely with the divorce, the
:15:38. > :15:43.separation? Will it deal in tandem with both the divorce and the future
:15:44. > :15:50.relationship? First of all, I have to say that of course, we are not
:15:51. > :15:55.happy that the UK is going to step out, to make a "Brexit", we are not
:15:56. > :16:00.happy with it at all. It is very clear for us that at the end of the
:16:01. > :16:06.day, in his in and out is out, if somebody wants to step out, they
:16:07. > :16:10.have to see there is some risks, being a member of the year is not
:16:11. > :16:16.for free. We want to have a four freedoms: capital, goods, labour
:16:17. > :16:21.movement, and, of course, assistance. You cannot... We want to
:16:22. > :16:25.have it but of course you cannot cherry pick, something you do not
:16:26. > :16:32.like, so we have defined clear solution, either in or out. Let me
:16:33. > :16:36.push you again on the opening negotiation, are you dealing solely
:16:37. > :16:39.with the divorce, the separation, or are you dealing in tandem with the
:16:40. > :16:45.divorce and the future relationship, which is what the British government
:16:46. > :16:51.wants to do? We want to have a future relationship and we need the
:16:52. > :16:57.UK, not only as a partner in Europe but also in Nato, and things like
:16:58. > :17:01.that, so it is definitely a necessity to negate she ate things
:17:02. > :17:04.like that. On the other hand, you have to see, as far as the four
:17:05. > :17:08.freedoms is concerned, there is no big room to negotiate, because it is
:17:09. > :17:17.very clear, some points are very clear. Look at the banking passport,
:17:18. > :17:22.that is something that is not negotiable, if somebody is not a
:17:23. > :17:27.member of the, a bank needs to step into the UConn into whatever country
:17:28. > :17:33.it could be governing, Frankfurt, the Lane, Paris, but they have to
:17:34. > :17:38.step into one of these countries, because otherwise they cannot do
:17:39. > :17:42.banking in the normal proper way, so they need to be in one of the
:17:43. > :17:50.countries, that is something that is not negotiable. What about the 60
:17:51. > :17:53.billion euro bill to separate, the alimony, if you will, the separation
:17:54. > :17:59.payment, the British government says it is too much and will not pay such
:18:00. > :18:04.a huge amount, is that negotiable? I don't think so, first of all, the UK
:18:05. > :18:10.needs to know what they want, do they want to have, status, like for
:18:11. > :18:14.instance, Norway, if they want status like that, then they have to
:18:15. > :18:17.pay more than they pay actually, because you have to see that the
:18:18. > :18:25.Norwegian pro capita are paying more than the UK is paying right now. So
:18:26. > :18:32.there is some big part to manoeuvre around and we have to find out if it
:18:33. > :18:35.is going to be for free. Issues at home, two months ago, the opposition
:18:36. > :18:39.in Germany, the SPD, now headed by Martin Shields, who we know from the
:18:40. > :18:46.European Parliament, they were 11 points behind the ruling party, and
:18:47. > :18:50.now according to the polls, you are neck and neck, so the one constant
:18:51. > :18:53.that we have all been familiar with, through recent history, Angela
:18:54. > :18:56.Merkel, there are now looks to be a real threats to her position as
:18:57. > :19:05.Chancellor. -- Martin Schulz. It looks like this but we are still six
:19:06. > :19:10.months to go to the election, and polls are polls, but look at the
:19:11. > :19:14.polls in the United States is, nobly could believe that Donald Trump is
:19:15. > :19:18.going to make it, and look at "Brexit", every poll showed there
:19:19. > :19:23.would be no "Brexit" but all of a sudden we have a "Brexit". I do not
:19:24. > :19:28.trust polls too much anymore. On the other hand, we have to see the
:19:29. > :19:33.situation. It is closer, this fight...
:19:34. > :19:40.We do not know who Britain will be negotiating with, because that
:19:41. > :19:45.election is getting very close. We will show you the second part in a
:19:46. > :19:49.short while, at the moment, there is an extraordinary row underway
:19:50. > :19:58.between Turkey and Germany. Breaking news from Washington, John Huntsman,
:19:59. > :20:02.the next US ambassador to Moscow. Enormous attribute, former
:20:03. > :20:08.ambassador to Beijing, but this is a tough job because Russia is such a
:20:09. > :20:12.toxic issue for this administration. There he is, he ran as presidential
:20:13. > :20:17.candidate, looks the part, doesn't he, film star looks, that is the
:20:18. > :20:19.kind of thing that Donald Trump likes, he likes his representatives
:20:20. > :20:25.to look like American representatives. He is a hawk on
:20:26. > :20:32.president Vladimir Putin, and press reports in Moscow are not happy,
:20:33. > :20:36.they have been critical. It was also president Obama's ambassador to
:20:37. > :20:39.China, somebody who whilst he is a Republican is a fairly centrist
:20:40. > :20:42.Republican, somebody who during the course of the campaign was not
:20:43. > :20:46.common entry about Donald Trump, after the access Hollywood tape came
:20:47. > :20:50.out he called for him to drop out of the race and said the American
:20:51. > :20:54.campaign had become a race to the bottom. Very interesting selection,
:20:55. > :20:58.if this is going to be confirmed by the White House, doesn't like
:20:59. > :21:01.Vladimir Putin, and has not always been on the same side as Donald
:21:02. > :21:06.Trump, none of which is what you would have expected from the White
:21:07. > :21:17.House pick for ambassador... And he is a Mormon, from Utah. Yes, yes he
:21:18. > :21:18.is. We will watch that Bosley. -- we will watch
:21:19. > :21:28.President Trump says he has removed himself from the day to day
:21:29. > :21:33.His critics say he still stands to gain, they might point
:21:34. > :21:36.to his Mar e Lago resort in Florida where his fees have doubled.
:21:37. > :21:38.In Indonesia, Mr Trump has signed a deal to build
:21:39. > :21:41.two resorts with a billionaire - worth about a billion
:21:42. > :21:44.The BBC's Karishma Vaswani went to Indonesia to ask Trump's business
:21:45. > :21:53.Do you know who Donald Trump is? I do not, I am from Indonesia.
:21:54. > :22:02.He is the president of America. Made Indonesia's Donald Trump, one of
:22:03. > :22:06.Indonesia's richest men. In 2015 he signed a billion-dollar deal to
:22:07. > :22:14.build a Trump Tower in West Java, and the first Trump resort in Bali.
:22:15. > :22:15.I met with Donald Trump, Donald junior, then we signed the
:22:16. > :22:27.agreement. Just a few months after the deal was
:22:28. > :22:32.signed, Donald Trump announced he would be running for president of
:22:33. > :22:35.the United States. Normal business-related ship, I have to
:22:36. > :22:43.underline this. Today is also a business relationship will stop the
:22:44. > :22:47.fact that he's the of America, he is not involved in the business. So I
:22:48. > :22:51.deal with it, I deal with the children. But they were given VIP
:22:52. > :22:59.treatment at the US President's inaugural parade, they
:23:00. > :23:03.attendedattended Donald Trump's wearing in and posted pictures on
:23:04. > :23:07.their social media of time with him. Ie Concerned about the perception of
:23:08. > :23:15.a conflict of interest? There is no conflict of interest, conflict of
:23:16. > :23:22.interest, me, if the project is... He's the president. This all
:23:23. > :23:27.happened before he even decided to run from president. As president,
:23:28. > :23:32.Donald Trump has made some controversial decisions, in January,
:23:33. > :23:36.he signed a travel ban on people from seven Muslim majority nations,
:23:37. > :23:40.revising that to six, this week. Indonesia is not on the list but it
:23:41. > :23:45.is the world's most populous Muslim nation. Why would you want to work
:23:46. > :23:51.with someone who appears to have anti-Islamic views? Donald Trump is
:23:52. > :23:55.not banning the Muslims, needs banning the country, the people of
:23:56. > :24:04.those seven countries, we have to be very clear on that. He has set up
:24:05. > :24:09.his own political party, and has already run for office once. And he
:24:10. > :24:24.has not ruled out being president of Indonesia one day.
:24:25. > :24:27.STUDIO: You might recall the race to the presidency started out
:24:28. > :24:30.Texas senator Ted Cruz was one of them.
:24:31. > :24:33.And his relationship with his then competitor Donald Trump was,
:24:34. > :24:35.how shall we put it Christian, frosty, strained...
:24:36. > :24:41.Katty, "Lying Ted" was one of Trump's catchphrases,
:24:42. > :24:44.but this photo took the rivalry to a whole new level.
:24:45. > :24:47.On the left is Heidi Cruz, Ted's wife and on the right
:24:48. > :24:49.is the now First Lady, Melania Trump.
:24:50. > :24:51.It was posted almost 12 months ago by Mr Trump,
:24:52. > :24:54.the implication being that his wife is prettier than Ted's.
:24:55. > :24:56.And then, the tit-for-tat took a turn when the Texas
:24:57. > :25:07.I don't get angry often, but you mess with my wife, you mess with my
:25:08. > :25:11.kids, that will do it every time. Donald, you are a snivelling coward,
:25:12. > :25:15.leave Heidi the hell alone. Will you support him as the nominee? I'm
:25:16. > :25:19.going to beat him for the nomination. That is not answering
:25:20. > :25:24.the question. Donald Trump will not be the nominee. OK(!) you think it
:25:25. > :25:30.could never go right, but look at this picture, this is Ted Cruz's
:25:31. > :25:38.daughters, at the White House, last night, with Donald Trump at a make
:25:39. > :25:42.up dinner. There it is... Children with a giraffe. You are watching 100
:25:43. > :25:52.days, from BBC News. Still to come for viewers on the BBC
:25:53. > :25:54.News Channel and BBC World News - do you think Donald Trump should tone
:25:55. > :26:01.down his tweeting? We'll ask a former presidential adviser for this
:26:02. > :26:04.thoughts. And, they're looking to the new President to change America
:26:05. > :26:06.- so do these supporters think Mr Trump is making any difference so
:26:07. > :26:12.far? That's still to come on 100 Days, from BBC News.
:26:13. > :26:17.It has been a beautiful day across many parts of the country today,
:26:18. > :26:20.beautiful spring sunshine, here was the scene sent in by one of our
:26:21. > :26:25.weather watchers, not everywhere has been clear, we have had more cloud
:26:26. > :26:28.going into south-west England, and moving through the rest of the
:26:29. > :26:33.evening, quite cloudy for western parts of the UK, drizzle for
:26:34. > :26:37.Northern Ireland, central parts, staying clear and dry, and here we
:26:38. > :26:42.will see temperatures dipping down, a touch of frost for north-eastern
:26:43. > :26:47.part, further west, turning milder and also cloudier and murkier, first
:26:48. > :26:51.being Friday. Eight o'clock, Friday morning, clear skies, improved
:26:52. > :26:55.morning, for the West of Scotland, cloudy, drizzly, a few spots of
:26:56. > :26:59.drizzly rain also affecting Northern Ireland, into the north of Wales but
:27:00. > :27:04.for north-east England, right down to East Anglia and the south-east, a
:27:05. > :27:10.bit of a fresh start. Sunshine to get off the morning. Further west,
:27:11. > :27:13.cloud, some of it low over the hills, mist and murk across the
:27:14. > :27:18.south-west of England. West east to the weather, eastern parts of
:27:19. > :27:21.Scotland staying with the sunshine, cloud in the West creeping ever so
:27:22. > :27:26.further east as we head through the day. Spots of drizzle towards the
:27:27. > :27:30.North West, where the cloud breaks, it will feel reasonably present,
:27:31. > :27:36.temperatures 13 degrees. -- reasonably pleasant. Rugby six
:27:37. > :27:40.Nations, looking cloudy as we head into Friday evening, 10 degrees or
:27:41. > :27:47.so, mild, things should stay largely dry. Through the weekend, Atlantique
:27:48. > :27:51.weather front moving west to east, introducing slightly cooler air,
:27:52. > :27:55.particularly later on. For Saturday, decent looking day, for Northern
:27:56. > :28:01.Ireland and Scotland, sunshine on offer, bit of rain for parts of
:28:02. > :28:06.Wales and Northern England but it will break quickly, 17 degrees or
:28:07. > :28:11.so, not dry everywhere. Into Sunday, we will see frontal systems moving
:28:12. > :28:15.west to east across the country. Return to sunshine and showers later
:28:16. > :28:20.on in the day, temperatures between nine and 13 degrees. For Saturday,
:28:21. > :28:23.largely dry, for much of the UK, pleasant sunshine around as well, by
:28:24. > :28:26.the time we get to Sunday, bit of rain should clear a way to the east,
:28:27. > :30:07.temperatures looking a bit cooler. Goodbye for now.
:30:08. > :30:11.I'm Katty Kay in Washington, Christian Fraser's in London.
:30:12. > :30:13.The US sends hundreds of troops into Syria.
:30:14. > :30:15.The Marines have been deployed to help capture
:30:16. > :30:23.And coming up: We're in Arkansas to hear from the voters
:30:24. > :30:37.the President calls the "forgotten men and women" of America.
:30:38. > :30:39.Members of the US House of Representatives stayed up
:30:40. > :30:41.all night last night to debate the Republicans'
:30:42. > :30:45.The President is facing quite a bit of turbulence
:30:46. > :30:48.from within his own party as lawmakers get to grips
:30:49. > :30:53.A short time ago, the Speaker of the House tried to ease
:30:54. > :30:59.some of those concerns with a PowerPoint presentation.
:31:00. > :31:04.Sleeves rolled up. I have to tell you, this has now become immune all
:31:05. > :31:09.over the internet! -- become a meme. Joining me now is Ron Christie -
:31:10. > :31:16.Republican strategist and former You have to feel for Paul Ryan, he
:31:17. > :31:21.is selling something with all his heart and doing a great job at that
:31:22. > :31:26.PowerPoint presentation. But so many Conservatives don't like it. They
:31:27. > :31:30.are saying, this is Obamacare like. Why are you still having a tax but
:31:31. > :31:36.on people for their health care quiz night why are you still allowing
:31:37. > :31:40.Medicaid to be expanded, why Republicans doing this? We are at
:31:41. > :31:45.the greatest juncture since 1929 of being in power, and we are
:31:46. > :31:49.essentially not feeling and not replacing the Presidentsignature
:31:50. > :31:53.accomplishment. In the end, don't you think the White House will get
:31:54. > :31:57.this through? They are doing a massive charm offensive. We have
:31:58. > :32:09.still got the picture of Ted Cruz, the arch enemy during the campaign,
:32:10. > :32:15.Lyin' Ted goes to the White House, guns are down, no more duels. Family
:32:16. > :32:18.dinner instead. One of his daughters even brought her classroom giraffe
:32:19. > :32:22.along with her. That is the kind of charm offensive that Donald Trump is
:32:23. > :32:26.putting on Republicans that don't like this plan. He is going to win
:32:27. > :32:32.because of this? I think ultimately he will. He is using the charm
:32:33. > :32:36.offensive to have pizza and beer at the presidential bowling alley
:32:37. > :32:40.across the street. It will be tough. What you need, the Republicans can
:32:41. > :32:43.only lose two votes in the United States Senate. There are a number of
:32:44. > :32:47.Conservative Republicans who say they will not vote for this. It will
:32:48. > :32:52.be a test of presidential leadership for President Trump to get this over
:32:53. > :32:57.the finish line. Goodness, that bowling and Pete is a party, if that
:32:58. > :32:59.doesn't work, nothing will! It is characterised stick. Surely the
:33:00. > :33:03.biggest stick of all from where I was sitting is that this is what he
:33:04. > :33:08.campaigned for, this is what the base once, the repeal of Obamacare?
:33:09. > :33:12.No question about that, Christian. You look at people like Senator Rand
:33:13. > :33:16.Paul, the Senator from Kentucky, where the president is going this
:33:17. > :33:26.weekend. They are saying first we should repeal the spill, then we
:33:27. > :33:28.should replace it. President Trump when he ran said, I'm going to
:33:29. > :33:32.replace this. I said to Katya moment ago, it is a critical test of his
:33:33. > :33:34.leadership. Now that he is in there and he is president, he has cobbled
:33:35. > :33:40.together the majority to govern and find a way with the Conservatives
:33:41. > :33:44.and moderates to say, this is what the country needs. It will be
:33:45. > :33:48.critical to see how the president will use his leadership to get it
:33:49. > :33:52.over the finish line. You have moved in political circles for a long time
:33:53. > :33:59.and you have always been diplomatic when I asked you about these tweets!
:34:00. > :34:04.I have found a poll, 59% of 1000 people said, Mr Trump should stop
:34:05. > :34:09.tweeting so much. Let's talk about these polls and tweets! I was joking
:34:10. > :34:13.with my wife the other day, his first tweet of the date was at
:34:14. > :34:18.Forrer of Ore. And his last tweet from the night before was that 11pm.
:34:19. > :34:21.I'm thinking, when are you sleeping?! In all honesty, the
:34:22. > :34:25.President of the United States should not be on Twitter as often as
:34:26. > :34:33.he is. He should have a staff that should have the discipline and
:34:34. > :34:36.respect to look at him and say, that is not presidential, Mr President,
:34:37. > :34:39.put down the social media. Put down the putter, go cold turkey! The rest
:34:40. > :34:49.of us will have to go cold turkey as well, but it is off we all watching!
:34:50. > :34:51.We are all mesmerised! I reckon the other people who like him tweeting
:34:52. > :34:54.all journalists like as! Thank you. The last few days have seen
:34:55. > :34:56.a stand-off between the Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan
:34:57. > :34:58.and the German Chancellor Erdogan accused Germany of "Nazi
:34:59. > :35:02.practices" after rallies in support When I talked with Dr Michael Fuchs
:35:03. > :35:06.earlier, I asked him about that row, but also about a suggesiton that's
:35:07. > :35:09.been made by President Trump, that Angela Merkel's handling
:35:10. > :35:25.of the migrant crisis in Europe has No, I do not accept this kind of
:35:26. > :35:29.statement. I mean, that is by far too harsh. I have to say one thing,
:35:30. > :35:34.it was a very, very difficult situation. So many people in Europe,
:35:35. > :35:37.they have been already in Europe, not only in Hungary but also in
:35:38. > :35:42.Austria and other countries, even Italy. We need to help, yes. But the
:35:43. > :35:46.situation has calmed down a lot, since we have negotiated with the
:35:47. > :35:50.Turks. It is very interesting that you referred to the deal with
:35:51. > :35:55.Turkey. I wanted to ask you about that. The row that you are having
:35:56. > :36:00.currently with Turkey seems to be escalating. To remind our viewers,
:36:01. > :36:04.Mr Erdogan, the Turkish president, said that the practice of stopping
:36:05. > :36:08.these rallies in Germany at the weekend were not the practices. Mrs
:36:09. > :36:13.Merkel has hit back in some very strong terms today -- were not the
:36:14. > :36:17.practices. She was very clear and she told him, this is not the way to
:36:18. > :36:21.talk to each other. It was not only Mrs Merkel, it was also the Foreign
:36:22. > :36:25.Minister, Gabriel. He told the Turkish Foreign Minister that we
:36:26. > :36:31.cannot deal with each other in this language, I would say. On the other
:36:32. > :36:38.hand, I think Turkey knows that they need the EU as well. I mean, we are
:36:39. > :36:41.paying a lot of money to the Turks, and we have a lot of Turks in
:36:42. > :36:47.Germany. I think at the end of the day, we will be at least, that is
:36:48. > :36:53.normal but he does fulfil his commitments he has made as far as
:36:54. > :36:56.the refugees is concerned. It is good of you to come onto raw
:36:57. > :37:02.programme. Do come and talk to us further when we get into the Brexit
:37:03. > :37:06.negotiations. The power behind the throne, very close to the German
:37:07. > :37:10.Chancellor. He has been doing a lot of work on Brexit, as much as the UK
:37:11. > :37:12.Government, it will be interesting to see what happens in the next few
:37:13. > :37:14.weeks. The WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange
:37:15. > :37:17.is accusing the CIA of "devastating incompetence" for keeping hacking
:37:18. > :37:19.secrets in one place. During an online news conference,
:37:20. > :37:22.Mr Assange said he would work with tech giants to help defend them
:37:23. > :37:24.against the CIA's hacking tools, which were apparently revealed
:37:25. > :37:26.in a massive leak The new head of the US
:37:27. > :37:31.Environmental Protection Agency, Scott Pruitt, is describing
:37:32. > :37:33.the Paris Climate Agreement, which seeks to reduce
:37:34. > :37:34.greenhouse gas emissions, Speaking to the news channel CNBC,
:37:35. > :37:40.Mr Pruitt also said that he doesn't agree that carbon dioxide
:37:41. > :37:55.is a primary contributor Christian, the relationship Mr
:37:56. > :37:58.Pruitt has with environmental protection has always been
:37:59. > :38:02.interesting. He has sued this agency several times and is now trying to
:38:03. > :38:05.run it. The bigger question is what happens to climate change agreement
:38:06. > :38:11.under the Trump administration. If you look at this White House, it is
:38:12. > :38:13.fairly clear that there are climate change deniers in this
:38:14. > :38:17.administration, and many who would really like to get America out of
:38:18. > :38:24.that Paris agreement. But Trump himself has been kind of ambivalent
:38:25. > :38:27.on this. And he listens to his daughter, Ivanka, who would like
:38:28. > :38:31.America to be at the forefront of climate change deals. It is going to
:38:32. > :38:36.be quite an interesting power balance, Pruitt versus Ivanka. My
:38:37. > :38:37.money is on Ivanka! We should have something coming up on emissions
:38:38. > :38:39.fairly soon as well. Aaron and Danielle both work two
:38:40. > :38:42.full-time jobs to make ends meet for their young family in rural
:38:43. > :38:44.Arkansas. He salvages plane wrecks
:38:45. > :38:46.and scraps them for parts. But their real love is running
:38:47. > :38:50.a goat farm as a family. As part of a BBC series looking
:38:51. > :38:53.at what's been dubbed "forgotten America",
:38:54. > :38:55.we travelled to the tiny town of Clinton, Arkansas,
:38:56. > :38:56.an area that strongly supported Donald Trump, to meet
:38:57. > :39:07.the people behind the vote. They think they are my pets,
:39:08. > :39:28.which they are, I love my babies. Each time we get a phone call,
:39:29. > :39:35.the adventure starts. We'll head out and we take
:39:36. > :39:50.the aeroplane apart. All of these aeroplanes that are out
:39:51. > :39:54.here, we drill parts off of them A lot of people in the
:39:55. > :40:03.South are like that. If I don't like you,
:40:04. > :40:06.I'm going to tell you to your face, I won't go behind your back
:40:07. > :40:08.and tell you that. As the way it was,
:40:09. > :40:10.we were sinking deeper He's already proved that he can do
:40:11. > :40:20.something with his income. Why would he not be
:40:21. > :40:23.able to pull the US up? Even if he only pulls
:40:24. > :40:26.it up a small amount, When you grow up in a small town,
:40:27. > :40:31.there's not a whole lot of options. I agree with not having
:40:32. > :40:35.all the illegals over here. They are taking away
:40:36. > :40:37.from the American people's jobs. They are paying them half
:40:38. > :40:39.the price of something It can be a hard life, you know,
:40:40. > :40:47.working a full-time job and then having to come home and work
:40:48. > :40:49.another full-time job. I love working this with my
:40:50. > :41:21.wife and my children. Hopefully that'll burn. Put it a bit
:41:22. > :41:26.deeper, right there at. We nonstop work together. It is a time to rhyme
:41:27. > :41:31.down and be thankful for what you have and look up and see what the
:41:32. > :41:39.good Lord has made, and just be thankful for having each other. The
:41:40. > :41:45.view from Clinton, Arkansas. It is amazing, I love it when we can get
:41:46. > :41:49.this programme out to talk to people who voted Trump around the country.
:41:50. > :41:52.And to see whether they are still with the president. They are the
:41:53. > :41:57.people who will benefit all lose out because of Trump's policies and what
:41:58. > :42:01.he does. It will be interesting to see what their barometer for success
:42:02. > :42:06.is. Is health care critical to them? Do they need him to have a success
:42:07. > :42:08.on that, or do they want to hang onto some of the provisions that
:42:09. > :42:13.they got under President Obama's health care reform. One of the most
:42:14. > :42:17.interesting things that we can carry on doing is listening to what people
:42:18. > :42:21.are saying. That is the second family we have heard from from
:42:22. > :42:25.Clinton. We showed you at the weekend a family of ranchers. Both
:42:26. > :42:29.of them have said, he talks like us. He is a straight talker who tells it
:42:30. > :42:34.as it is. They like that about him. They also like small government. One
:42:35. > :42:39.of the Rogers was saying, why do I need, he was talking about the EPA
:42:40. > :42:43.and Scott Pruitt, why do I need regulations on my river, this is my
:42:44. > :42:45.river, I will look after it myself. That is the American way.
:42:46. > :42:49.In a moment, my colleagues Rajini Vaidyanathan
:42:50. > :42:51.and Anthony Zucher will be taking your questions live
:42:52. > :42:53.on our Facebook page. So do get in touch.
:42:54. > :42:55.We'll be back on Monday at the same time.
:42:56. > :42:58.For now though, from Katty Kay in Washington and me,
:42:59. > :43:02.Christian Fraser, in London, goodbye.