09/03/2017 100 Days

Welcome to 100 Days. The US sends hundreds of troops into Syria.

Marines have been deployed to help to capture the ISG hold of Raqqa.

Candidate Donald Trump said he had a plan to defeat so-called Islamic

State, is this? -- is this it. -- IS stronghold.

We are probably the to most vilified people in the West over the course

of the last couple of years. Also, happy families, Senator Ted Cruz and

his family enjoy dinner at the White House, as the charm offensive over

replacing Obamacare begins, but relations were not always so warm.

You mess with my wife, you mess with my kids, that will do it every time.

Donald, you are a snivelling coward, leave Heidi the hell alone. Prime

Minister Theresa May attends her last summit of EU leaders before

Brexit talks. Will Britain really be landed with a 60 billion euro

divorce bill? We'll hear from Berlin. We'll speak to Donald

Trump's preferred choice for UK ambassador to Washington, Nigel

Farage - about his friendship with the President. And we're in Arkansas

to hear from the voters the President calls the "forgotten men

and women" of America. I'm Katty Kay in Washington,

Christian Fraser's in London. Are we seeing the return of American

hard power in the Middle East? The United States has just sent some

400 troops to Syria to fight The deployment is made up

of Marines and Army Rangers who are there to help capture

the IS stronghold of Raqqa. They reportedly arrived in the past

few days to establish an outpost from which they will be

able to fire artillery at IS The White House Press Secretary Sean

Spicer has just taken Not exactly trying to disguise their

identity. Sean Spicer, now. Today, hundreds of US Marines were deployed

to Syria, so I'm wondering, how involved was the president in that

decision-making process? The president was obviously made aware

of that, this has been done in consultation, he understands the

regional issues that need to be addressed there. I would refer you

back to the Department of defence. With us to discuss this more is

Andrew Exum, who was one of President Obama's top advisors on

Middle East affairs. During the campaign, President Trump kept

saying, I have a plan, I will keep it secret, we will defeat Islamic

State fast, is this part of the plan? Yes and no, this does not

diverge significantly from a plan that was in place, working with

local partners, but this perhaps addresses one of the fundamental

problems that the United States and its coalition partners have in

Syria, Syria and Iraq, in Iraq, the Iraqi army, heavy equipment, in

Syria, the Kurdish do not have every equipment. You have two options, you

can give them it, train them on it, train them on the types of things

they need to breach defences around Raqqa. That will anger the Turks,

Nato ally, or, deploy US forces to breach out. -- the Kurdish do not

have heavy equipment. For Trump took office, they were looking at those

options, ways to help the Kurdish and Arabic partners get into Raqqa,

I think that is what this is. Every time Barack Obama talked about the

possibility of putting US troops into Syria he was accused of mission

creep, where would this end, what are the risks for American forces

going into Syria? Two, first off, it is true Barack Obama was fine

sending in special Ops, people that would work by with and through local

partners but they did not want us to own the fight, for a very good

reason, in Iraq, 2003-2010 we owned the fight and as a result, vocal

partners on the ground were not invested in the victory. The whole

idea of working by with and through is to get local partners involved,

the problem here, we own the fight, we begin to own more of what takes

place after the defeat of Isis, and the real issue is, how long will you

leave US forces there to referee what are going to continue to be

some pretty tense dynamics in northern Syria? If you are there as

a referee, it is a pretty complex battlefield, I have the list here,

so you have... Turkish backed Syrian rebels, US backed Kurdish fighters,

you have Iran, Hezbollah, not to mention the Syrians and the

Russians... And Turkey want a role as well! How will they pick their

way through all of that? LAUGHTER. Exactly right, you have seen US

armoured personnel carriers driving around northern Syrian cities almost

as if they are referees on the battlefield! Try to keep the Turkish

backed forces and the rest back largely Kurdish forces away from one

another, on the battlefield, look, even after the defeat of Daesh, and

Islamic State falls, that's dynamic will still be there, how you avoid

conflict between what is going to be an empowered Kurdish group in

north-eastern Syria and the Turkish state not quite happy about that,

fighting the PKK and its allies for decades... That will be a real trick

for any administration to face. Unfortunately, US troops are going

to have to play a role playing referee, exceptionally large, the

good news, we have some very experienced officers and operators

on the ground. Of which you used to be one. Bank you very much for

joining us. Donald Trump is spending $54 billion

extra on the military, he wants to look like the strong

commander-in-chief, dumping new not being. A number of battle zones now,

where the Americans could get sucked in. -- something new cues Barack

Obama of not being. Now, they are saying that they are sending more

troops into Afghanistan to train the Afghans, he has a lot on his plate?

The conundrum of the presidency, throughout the campaign, he

criticised America's was in the Middle East and said they should

never have got involved in them. He was very critical of the US military

and the generals and Barack Obama. Now he is in the position of owning

the fight, of owning what happens there, what is he doing? One of the

first things he is doing more within the first month of presidency,

putting more troops into the Middle East, every time Barack Obama added

troops, he faced criticism for upping America's stake in the fight.

It will be interesting to see what is the reaction from Republicans and

what Donald Trump wants from American leadership in that part of

the world. Moving on. The 28 leaders of the

European Union are meeting in Brussels. By the end of this month

28 will become 27 as Britain pulls away. Those Brexit negotiations

could begin at the end of next week. Though there's still a bit of work

to do in the UK parliament on Brexit bill before the Prime Minister can

formally trigger Article 50. I keep promising Cathy that they will

start(!) One of the chief architects of Brexit is of course Nigel Farage

of the UK independence party, and as many of you will know a man who

sometimes dines with the US President. And we were speaking to

him a little earlier. And by the way, I do still believe you(!)

good evening. Good evening. We are about to hear an interview with Dr

Fuchs Germany, close ally of Angela Merkel, I asked him a question about

the alimony, the severance payment, for the UK to pull away from the EU,

estimated to be around 60 billion euros, I asked him if that was

negotiable, he said, no, not really... Well, the truth is, we are

paying the alimony already, it is now nine months since we voted to

leave the European Union, assuming Article 50 gets triggered by the end

of the month, and we go through a further two years, we will net, not

gross, but net, we will have paid almost ?30 billion into the European

Union cough is between voting to leave and leaving, and do you know

what, I think that is plenty. The issue is that it is already a big

stumbling block before we even get to the nitty-gritty. As I say, a net

30 billion anyway, the idea that we will pay another 50, 60, it is not

going to happen, they can whistle for it. In Britain today, after the

budget yesterday, the row is a tax rise on the self-employed, this

morning the Chancellor of the Exchequer has been doing the rounds

in the UK, he has been forced to break an election promise, that is

the way it is portrayed. He appears to be blaming "Brexit", is this a

sign of things to come? No, they are very good at blaming "Brexit",

promised us the sky would fall in, actually, nearly all the economic

data coming out of the UK is very good, much better than it is in the

Eurozone. I think it was a badly judged budget. The people that voted

for "Brexit" were the small and medium-sized businesses, sick to

death of too much regulation coming from Brussels, believing that a

"Brexit" vote would see a UK Government on their side, and to put

up taxes on sole traders, and the self-employed, was, I think, a big

political mistake. I wanted to ask you about your relationship with the

United States at the moment, it seems congratulations are in order,

you have become Britain's man in Trumpland so what is that like? I

supported him in the campaign, shared a platform in Mississippi,

took part in discussions and everything, and I will say this to

you, I saw him a couple of weeks ago, had dinner with him, and one

thing really struck me, this guy believes that he has a contract with

the American people, elected on a ticket, on a manifesto, and come

Hell or High Water, he is going to deliver that manifesto. In

democratic terms, that is refreshing. In terms of the man

himself, I have to say, I really believe this man has got very strong

moral courage, he wants to see this through. So that is your political

relationship, and you have a sense of conviction you share with him, we

have seen the photographs of the two of you together, seems to go beyond

that, seems to be a personal chemistry, when you had dinner with

him at Trump Tower, why do you think it is that you and he get on so

well? The one thing we have in common, we are probably the two most

vilified people in the West over the course of the last couple of years!

LAUGHTER Everybody, everybody has thrown just

shed loads of abuse at us, so... We have been through the same baptism

of fire, with the media, and with other political commentators. I

think that what Donald Trump, and not just him but the people around

him, what they see is that I was a pretty lonely warrior, battling for

"Brexit" for over two decades, we finally got there, and I think team

Trump believe that they would not have won had it not been for the

dynamism and the optimism that "Brexit" gave people who do not

normally bother to vote. I think they are very pleased. I'll be

honest with you, I have known some of the people around Donald Trump

for many years. They are what I would regard as friends. How often

do you talk? Often? You are asking me questions that you know that I'm

not going to answer... Worth a try. Of course, that is your job. I'm not

going to betray any personal confidences or discuss specifically

anything that we talk about. I have a good relationship with Donald

Trump and his team in the White House, and if I can be of any help

to them or any help in forging a new relationship between my country and

there is, I am happy to do so. One of the issues, which we talk about

over here, is whether you serve as a sort of unofficial ambassador for

the UK, perhaps the UK governments don't want that, but we also read

the Ukip has set up the de facto embassy in Georgetown, this building

that serves as a place to meet people... Is that true? Are you

using it as an embassy to meet people? From the administration?

Point number one, whatever I do is in an unofficial capacity. Number

ten do not want me in any way at all, fine, up to them, I think it is

short-sighted and silly, I think there is a constructive role I can

play with them. Everything I do is unofficial, as for the embassy, I

understand Arron Banks has taken a five year lease on a house in

Georgetown, which he says, incidentally, will have a very good

dining room and wine cellar, beyond that, I don't... It sounds like fun

but beyond that... It is my neighbourhood, I will be round the

corner. Please, come and visit. I have do ask you about a photograph

which you are aware is doing the rounds on social media, you coming

out of the Ecuadorian Embassy, I think your radio producer is in

total, so I perhaps know why you were there, it has been said on

Twitter that you have been there to interview Julian Assange and there

is also the talk that you are serving as a back channel to Julian

Assange for the Trump team. All I can tell you is that I was in the

building today, as you know, the Ecuadorian and the Colombian

assembly, assemblies, embassies are in that building, I am not going to

confirm or deny what I did at all, you will have to wait and see. We

will have to listen to your programme at the weekend.

Interesting timing, given the Julian Assange had been speaking today

about the big dump of CIA documents, and there is Nigel Farage, coming

out of the Ecuador embassy. What you make about this relationship that he

has with Donald Trump? There is something

they're beyond Bolasie, the degree to which Nigel Farage has been

embraced by the Trump Circle and Donald Trump himself is interesting,

and the degree to which the Trump administration is now starting to

talk about elections in France and Germany and looking at this populist

movement. You wonder whether Nigel Farage is not nudging them in that

direction as well, I cannot help but wonder. Talking of wrecks it, once

it is under way, then the real work will begin.

And among many thorny issues the two sides must resolve,

is the severance payment the EU will expect Britain to pay.

Another is the issue of financial passporting,

currently British banks can trade anywhere in Europe without needing

further authorization in each of the 27 countries.

Well those are some of the questions I put to Dr Michael Fuchs,

he is extremely close to the German Chancellor Angela Merkel

and is deeply involved in Germany's response to Brexit.

We were told by Donald Tusk yesterday that within 48 hours, of

Britain triggering Article 50, the would have its opening gambit, its

first negotiation to put to the British side, why don't you give us

insight into that? Will it deal solely with the divorce, the

separation? Will it deal in tandem with both the divorce and the future

relationship? First of all, I have to say that of course, we are not

happy that the UK is going to step out, to make a "Brexit", we are not

happy with it at all. It is very clear for us that at the end of the

day, in his in and out is out, if somebody wants to step out, they

have to see there is some risks, being a member of the year is not

for free. We want to have a four freedoms: capital, goods, labour

movement, and, of course, assistance. You cannot... We want to

have it but of course you cannot cherry pick, something you do not

like, so we have defined clear solution, either in or out. Let me

push you again on the opening negotiation, are you dealing solely

with the divorce, the separation, or are you dealing in tandem with the

divorce and the future relationship, which is what the British government

wants to do? We want to have a future relationship and we need the

UK, not only as a partner in Europe but also in Nato, and things like

that, so it is definitely a necessity to negate she ate things

like that. On the other hand, you have to see, as far as the four

freedoms is concerned, there is no big room to negotiate, because it is

very clear, some points are very clear. Look at the banking passport,

that is something that is not negotiable, if somebody is not a

member of the, a bank needs to step into the UConn into whatever country

it could be governing, Frankfurt, the Lane, Paris, but they have to

step into one of these countries, because otherwise they cannot do

banking in the normal proper way, so they need to be in one of the

countries, that is something that is not negotiable. What about the 60

billion euro bill to separate, the alimony, if you will, the separation

payment, the British government says it is too much and will not pay such

a huge amount, is that negotiable? I don't think so, first of all, the UK

needs to know what they want, do they want to have, status, like for

instance, Norway, if they want status like that, then they have to

pay more than they pay actually, because you have to see that the

Norwegian pro capita are paying more than the UK is paying right now. So

there is some big part to manoeuvre around and we have to find out if it

is going to be for free. Issues at home, two months ago, the opposition

in Germany, the SPD, now headed by Martin Shields, who we know from the

European Parliament, they were 11 points behind the ruling party, and

now according to the polls, you are neck and neck, so the one constant

that we have all been familiar with, through recent history, Angela

Merkel, there are now looks to be a real threats to her position as

Chancellor. -- Martin Schulz. It looks like this but we are still six

months to go to the election, and polls are polls, but look at the

polls in the United States is, nobly could believe that Donald Trump is

going to make it, and look at "Brexit", every poll showed there

would be no "Brexit" but all of a sudden we have a "Brexit". I do not

trust polls too much anymore. On the other hand, we have to see the

situation. It is closer, this fight...

We do not know who Britain will be negotiating with, because that

election is getting very close. We will show you the second part in a

short while, at the moment, there is an extraordinary row underway

between Turkey and Germany. Breaking news from Washington, John Huntsman,

the next US ambassador to Moscow. Enormous attribute, former

ambassador to Beijing, but this is a tough job because Russia is such a

toxic issue for this administration. There he is, he ran as presidential

candidate, looks the part, doesn't he, film star looks, that is the

kind of thing that Donald Trump likes, he likes his representatives

to look like American representatives. He is a hawk on

president Vladimir Putin, and press reports in Moscow are not happy,

they have been critical. It was also president Obama's ambassador to

China, somebody who whilst he is a Republican is a fairly centrist

Republican, somebody who during the course of the campaign was not

common entry about Donald Trump, after the access Hollywood tape came

out he called for him to drop out of the race and said the American

campaign had become a race to the bottom. Very interesting selection,

if this is going to be confirmed by the White House, doesn't like

Vladimir Putin, and has not always been on the same side as Donald

Trump, none of which is what you would have expected from the White

House pick for ambassador... And he is a Mormon, from Utah. Yes, yes he

is. We will watch that Bosley. -- we will watch

President Trump says he has removed himself from the day to day

His critics say he still stands to gain, they might point

to his Mar e Lago resort in Florida where his fees have doubled.

In Indonesia, Mr Trump has signed a deal to build

two resorts with a billionaire - worth about a billion

The BBC's Karishma Vaswani went to Indonesia to ask Trump's business

Do you know who Donald Trump is? I do not, I am from Indonesia.

He is the president of America. Made Indonesia's Donald Trump, one of

Indonesia's richest men. In 2015 he signed a billion-dollar deal to

build a Trump Tower in West Java, and the first Trump resort in Bali.

I met with Donald Trump, Donald junior, then we signed the

agreement. Just a few months after the deal was

signed, Donald Trump announced he would be running for president of

the United States. Normal business-related ship, I have to

underline this. Today is also a business relationship will stop the

fact that he's the of America, he is not involved in the business. So I

deal with it, I deal with the children. But they were given VIP

treatment at the US President's inaugural parade, they

attendedattended Donald Trump's wearing in and posted pictures on

their social media of time with him. Ie Concerned about the perception of

a conflict of interest? There is no conflict of interest, conflict of

interest, me, if the project is... He's the president. This all

happened before he even decided to run from president. As president,

Donald Trump has made some controversial decisions, in January,

he signed a travel ban on people from seven Muslim majority nations,

revising that to six, this week. Indonesia is not on the list but it

is the world's most populous Muslim nation. Why would you want to work

with someone who appears to have anti-Islamic views? Donald Trump is

not banning the Muslims, needs banning the country, the people of

those seven countries, we have to be very clear on that. He has set up

his own political party, and has already run for office once. And he

has not ruled out being president of Indonesia one day.

STUDIO: You might recall the race to the presidency started out

Texas senator Ted Cruz was one of them.

And his relationship with his then competitor Donald Trump was,

how shall we put it Christian, frosty, strained...

Katty, "Lying Ted" was one of Trump's catchphrases,

but this photo took the rivalry to a whole new level.

On the left is Heidi Cruz, Ted's wife and on the right

is the now First Lady, Melania Trump.

It was posted almost 12 months ago by Mr Trump,

the implication being that his wife is prettier than Ted's.

And then, the tit-for-tat took a turn when the Texas

I don't get angry often, but you mess with my wife, you mess with my

kids, that will do it every time. Donald, you are a snivelling coward,

leave Heidi the hell alone. Will you support him as the nominee? I'm

going to beat him for the nomination. That is not answering

the question. Donald Trump will not be the nominee. OK(!) you think it

could never go right, but look at this picture, this is Ted Cruz's

daughters, at the White House, last night, with Donald Trump at a make

up dinner. There it is... Children with a giraffe. You are watching 100

days, from BBC News. Still to come for viewers on the BBC

News Channel and BBC World News - do you think Donald Trump should tone

down his tweeting? We'll ask a former presidential adviser for this

thoughts. And, they're looking to the new President to change America

- so do these supporters think Mr Trump is making any difference so

far? That's still to come on 100 Days, from BBC News.

It has been a beautiful day across many parts of the country today,

beautiful spring sunshine, here was the scene sent in by one of our

weather watchers, not everywhere has been clear, we have had more cloud

going into south-west England, and moving through the rest of the

evening, quite cloudy for western parts of the UK, drizzle for

Northern Ireland, central parts, staying clear and dry, and here we

will see temperatures dipping down, a touch of frost for north-eastern

part, further west, turning milder and also cloudier and murkier, first

being Friday. Eight o'clock, Friday morning, clear skies, improved

morning, for the West of Scotland, cloudy, drizzly, a few spots of

drizzly rain also affecting Northern Ireland, into the north of Wales but

for north-east England, right down to East Anglia and the south-east, a

bit of a fresh start. Sunshine to get off the morning. Further west,

cloud, some of it low over the hills, mist and murk across the

south-west of England. West east to the weather, eastern parts of

Scotland staying with the sunshine, cloud in the West creeping ever so

further east as we head through the day. Spots of drizzle towards the

North West, where the cloud breaks, it will feel reasonably present,

temperatures 13 degrees. -- reasonably pleasant. Rugby six

Nations, looking cloudy as we head into Friday evening, 10 degrees or

so, mild, things should stay largely dry. Through the weekend, Atlantique

weather front moving west to east, introducing slightly cooler air,

particularly later on. For Saturday, decent looking day, for Northern

Ireland and Scotland, sunshine on offer, bit of rain for parts of

Wales and Northern England but it will break quickly, 17 degrees or

so, not dry everywhere. Into Sunday, we will see frontal systems moving

west to east across the country. Return to sunshine and showers later

on in the day, temperatures between nine and 13 degrees. For Saturday,

largely dry, for much of the UK, pleasant sunshine around as well, by

the time we get to Sunday, bit of rain should clear a way to the east,

temperatures looking a bit cooler. Goodbye for now.

I'm Katty Kay in Washington, Christian Fraser's in London.

The US sends hundreds of troops into Syria.

The Marines have been deployed to help capture

And coming up: We're in Arkansas to hear from the voters

the President calls the "forgotten men and women" of America.

Members of the US House of Representatives stayed up

all night last night to debate the Republicans'

The President is facing quite a bit of turbulence

from within his own party as lawmakers get to grips

A short time ago, the Speaker of the House tried to ease

some of those concerns with a PowerPoint presentation.

Sleeves rolled up. I have to tell you, this has now become immune all

over the internet! -- become a meme. Joining me now is Ron Christie -

Republican strategist and former You have to feel for Paul Ryan, he

is selling something with all his heart and doing a great job at that

PowerPoint presentation. But so many Conservatives don't like it. They

are saying, this is Obamacare like. Why are you still having a tax but

on people for their health care quiz night why are you still allowing

Medicaid to be expanded, why Republicans doing this? We are at

the greatest juncture since 1929 of being in power, and we are

essentially not feeling and not replacing the Presidentsignature

accomplishment. In the end, don't you think the White House will get

this through? They are doing a massive charm offensive. We have

still got the picture of Ted Cruz, the arch enemy during the campaign,

Lyin' Ted goes to the White House, guns are down, no more duels. Family

dinner instead. One of his daughters even brought her classroom giraffe

along with her. That is the kind of charm offensive that Donald Trump is

putting on Republicans that don't like this plan. He is going to win

because of this? I think ultimately he will. He is using the charm

offensive to have pizza and beer at the presidential bowling alley

across the street. It will be tough. What you need, the Republicans can

only lose two votes in the United States Senate. There are a number of

Conservative Republicans who say they will not vote for this. It will

be a test of presidential leadership for President Trump to get this over

the finish line. Goodness, that bowling and Pete is a party, if that

doesn't work, nothing will! It is characterised stick. Surely the

biggest stick of all from where I was sitting is that this is what he

campaigned for, this is what the base once, the repeal of Obamacare?

No question about that, Christian. You look at people like Senator Rand

Paul, the Senator from Kentucky, where the president is going this

weekend. They are saying first we should repeal the spill, then we

should replace it. President Trump when he ran said, I'm going to

replace this. I said to Katya moment ago, it is a critical test of his

leadership. Now that he is in there and he is president, he has cobbled

together the majority to govern and find a way with the Conservatives

and moderates to say, this is what the country needs. It will be

critical to see how the president will use his leadership to get it

over the finish line. You have moved in political circles for a long time

and you have always been diplomatic when I asked you about these tweets!

I have found a poll, 59% of 1000 people said, Mr Trump should stop

tweeting so much. Let's talk about these polls and tweets! I was joking

with my wife the other day, his first tweet of the date was at

Forrer of Ore. And his last tweet from the night before was that 11pm.

I'm thinking, when are you sleeping?! In all honesty, the

President of the United States should not be on Twitter as often as

he is. He should have a staff that should have the discipline and

respect to look at him and say, that is not presidential, Mr President,

put down the social media. Put down the putter, go cold turkey! The rest

of us will have to go cold turkey as well, but it is off we all watching!

We are all mesmerised! I reckon the other people who like him tweeting

all journalists like as! Thank you. The last few days have seen

a stand-off between the Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan

and the German Chancellor Erdogan accused Germany of "Nazi

practices" after rallies in support When I talked with Dr Michael Fuchs

earlier, I asked him about that row, but also about a suggesiton that's

been made by President Trump, that Angela Merkel's handling

of the migrant crisis in Europe has No, I do not accept this kind of

statement. I mean, that is by far too harsh. I have to say one thing,

it was a very, very difficult situation. So many people in Europe,

they have been already in Europe, not only in Hungary but also in

Austria and other countries, even Italy. We need to help, yes. But the

situation has calmed down a lot, since we have negotiated with the

Turks. It is very interesting that you referred to the deal with

Turkey. I wanted to ask you about that. The row that you are having

currently with Turkey seems to be escalating. To remind our viewers,

Mr Erdogan, the Turkish president, said that the practice of stopping

these rallies in Germany at the weekend were not the practices. Mrs

Merkel has hit back in some very strong terms today -- were not the

practices. She was very clear and she told him, this is not the way to

talk to each other. It was not only Mrs Merkel, it was also the Foreign

Minister, Gabriel. He told the Turkish Foreign Minister that we

cannot deal with each other in this language, I would say. On the other

hand, I think Turkey knows that they need the EU as well. I mean, we are

paying a lot of money to the Turks, and we have a lot of Turks in

Germany. I think at the end of the day, we will be at least, that is

normal but he does fulfil his commitments he has made as far as

the refugees is concerned. It is good of you to come onto raw

programme. Do come and talk to us further when we get into the Brexit

negotiations. The power behind the throne, very close to the German

Chancellor. He has been doing a lot of work on Brexit, as much as the UK

Government, it will be interesting to see what happens in the next few

weeks. The WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange

is accusing the CIA of "devastating incompetence" for keeping hacking

secrets in one place. During an online news conference,

Mr Assange said he would work with tech giants to help defend them

against the CIA's hacking tools, which were apparently revealed

in a massive leak The new head of the US

Environmental Protection Agency, Scott Pruitt, is describing

the Paris Climate Agreement, which seeks to reduce

greenhouse gas emissions, Speaking to the news channel CNBC,

Mr Pruitt also said that he doesn't agree that carbon dioxide

is a primary contributor Christian, the relationship Mr

Pruitt has with environmental protection has always been

interesting. He has sued this agency several times and is now trying to

run it. The bigger question is what happens to climate change agreement

under the Trump administration. If you look at this White House, it is

fairly clear that there are climate change deniers in this

administration, and many who would really like to get America out of

that Paris agreement. But Trump himself has been kind of ambivalent

on this. And he listens to his daughter, Ivanka, who would like

America to be at the forefront of climate change deals. It is going to

be quite an interesting power balance, Pruitt versus Ivanka. My

money is on Ivanka! We should have something coming up on emissions

fairly soon as well. Aaron and Danielle both work two

full-time jobs to make ends meet for their young family in rural

Arkansas. He salvages plane wrecks

and scraps them for parts. But their real love is running

a goat farm as a family. As part of a BBC series looking

at what's been dubbed "forgotten America",

we travelled to the tiny town of Clinton, Arkansas,

an area that strongly supported Donald Trump, to meet

the people behind the vote. They think they are my pets,

which they are, I love my babies. Each time we get a phone call,

the adventure starts. We'll head out and we take

the aeroplane apart. All of these aeroplanes that are out

here, we drill parts off of them A lot of people in the

South are like that. If I don't like you,

I'm going to tell you to your face, I won't go behind your back

and tell you that. As the way it was,

we were sinking deeper He's already proved that he can do

something with his income. Why would he not be

able to pull the US up? Even if he only pulls

it up a small amount, When you grow up in a small town,

there's not a whole lot of options. I agree with not having

all the illegals over here. They are taking away

from the American people's jobs. They are paying them half

the price of something It can be a hard life, you know,

working a full-time job and then having to come home and work

another full-time job. I love working this with my

wife and my children. Hopefully that'll burn. Put it a bit

deeper, right there at. We nonstop work together. It is a time to rhyme

down and be thankful for what you have and look up and see what the

good Lord has made, and just be thankful for having each other. The

view from Clinton, Arkansas. It is amazing, I love it when we can get

this programme out to talk to people who voted Trump around the country.

And to see whether they are still with the president. They are the

people who will benefit all lose out because of Trump's policies and what

he does. It will be interesting to see what their barometer for success

is. Is health care critical to them? Do they need him to have a success

on that, or do they want to hang onto some of the provisions that

they got under President Obama's health care reform. One of the most

interesting things that we can carry on doing is listening to what people

are saying. That is the second family we have heard from from

Clinton. We showed you at the weekend a family of ranchers. Both

of them have said, he talks like us. He is a straight talker who tells it

as it is. They like that about him. They also like small government. One

of the Rogers was saying, why do I need, he was talking about the EPA

and Scott Pruitt, why do I need regulations on my river, this is my

river, I will look after it myself. That is the American way.

In a moment, my colleagues Rajini Vaidyanathan

and Anthony Zucher will be taking your questions live

on our Facebook page. So do get in touch.

We'll be back on Monday at the same time.

For now though, from Katty Kay in Washington and me,

Christian Fraser, in London, goodbye.