:00:08. > :00:11.The head of the FBI says he is investigating links
:00:12. > :00:14.and possible collusion between Donald Trump's campaign team
:00:15. > :00:17.During an extraordinary hearing in Congress,
:00:18. > :00:19.James Comey revealed that the ongoing investigation
:00:20. > :00:25.The FBI, as part of our counter-intelligence mission,
:00:26. > :00:28.is investigating the Russian government's efforts to interfere
:00:29. > :00:36.And that includes investigating the nature of any links
:00:37. > :00:39.between individuals associated with the Trump campaign
:00:40. > :00:45.Mr Comey said he had seen nothing to suggest the former
:00:46. > :00:51.President Barack Obama had ordered a wiretap on Trump Tower.
:00:52. > :00:54.With respect to the President's tweets about alleged wire tapping
:00:55. > :00:56.directed at him by the prior administration, I have no
:00:57. > :00:58.information that supports those tweets and we have looked
:00:59. > :01:06.At the same hearing, the head of the National Security Agency said
:01:07. > :01:09.they had not asked Britain's GCHQ intelligence agency to spy
:01:10. > :01:12.on Mr Trump, another claim that had been highlighted by
:01:13. > :01:20.The President's Press Secretary says that Donald Trump will not
:01:21. > :01:22.withdraw his wiretapping claims and is confident the FBI
:01:23. > :01:31.investigation into Russian links will find nothing.
:01:32. > :01:34.an investigation it must mean it's an investigation it must mean it's
:01:35. > :01:35.about something. The British Prime Minister says
:01:36. > :01:39.she will formally notify Brussels that Britain is leaving
:01:40. > :01:51.the European Union on 29th March. Hello, I'm Katty Kay in Washington,
:01:52. > :01:55.Christian Fraser is in London. FBI director James Comey has
:01:56. > :01:58.confirmed for the first time the FBI is investigating alleged Russian
:01:59. > :02:04.interference in the 2016 election. They are also investigating
:02:05. > :02:06.whether there was any collusion between the Trump campaign
:02:07. > :02:09.and the Russian government. The FBI said it had no information
:02:10. > :02:12.to support President Trump's claims that Barack Obama wiretapped phones
:02:13. > :02:15.in Trump Tower during Nor is there any evidence he said
:02:16. > :02:20.that British intelligence GCHQ The head of the FBI
:02:21. > :02:26.was blunt in his assessment. Mr Trump claimed the Democrats had
:02:27. > :02:31.pushed this story to cover up But the FBI confirmed today that it
:02:32. > :02:37.had been independently investigating Russian inteference since July,
:02:38. > :02:48.four months before the election. Let's listen to a few
:02:49. > :02:53.of the exchanges. I have been authorised
:02:54. > :02:55.by the Department of Justice to confirm that the FBI, as part
:02:56. > :02:57.of our counter-intelligence mission, is investigating the Russian
:02:58. > :03:01.government's efforts to interfere And that includes investigating
:03:02. > :03:08.the nature of any links between individuals associated
:03:09. > :03:11.with the Trump campaign and the Russian government
:03:12. > :03:15.and whether there was any coordination between the campaign
:03:16. > :03:20.and Russia's efforts. As with any counter-intelligence
:03:21. > :03:23.investigation, this will also include an assessment of whether any
:03:24. > :03:32.crimes were committed. With respect to the President's
:03:33. > :03:35.tweets about alleged wire tapping directed at him by the prior
:03:36. > :03:38.administration, I have no information that supports those
:03:39. > :03:41.tweets and we have looked The Department of Justice
:03:42. > :03:46.has asked me to share with you that the answer is the same
:03:47. > :03:50.for the Department of Justice The Department has no information
:03:51. > :03:57.that supports those tweets. The President accused Mr Obama,
:03:58. > :04:00.and presumably the FBI, As you understand the term
:04:01. > :04:06.McCarthyism, do you think President Obama or the FBI
:04:07. > :04:11.was engaged in such conduct? I'm not going to try
:04:12. > :04:14.and characterise the tweets themselves, all I can
:04:15. > :04:16.tell you is we have no Were you engaged in
:04:17. > :04:21.McCarthyism, Mr Comey? I try very hard not to engage
:04:22. > :04:43.in any 'isms' of any kind, Did you request your counterparts in
:04:44. > :04:47.GCHQ should wiretap Mr Trump on behalf of Obama? No, that would be
:04:48. > :04:50.against the construct of the Five Eyes Agreement that has been in
:04:51. > :04:54.place for decades. The Five Eyes Agreement are some of our closest
:04:55. > :05:00.intelligence partners and Britain is one of them. Yes, sir. Does do
:05:01. > :05:04.damage to our relationship with one of our closest intelligence partners
:05:05. > :05:09.to make a baseless claim that the British participated in a conspiracy
:05:10. > :05:11.against him? It clearly frustrates icky -- key ally of hours.
:05:12. > :05:14.The White House Press Secretary Sean Spicer has just been speaking
:05:15. > :05:17.and he is refusing to back off Mr Trump's wiretap claims.
:05:18. > :05:26.He said there is no information to support the allegations
:05:27. > :05:28.that the President made against President Obama.
:05:29. > :05:31.So is the President prepared to withdraw that accusation
:05:32. > :05:35.No, we started a hearing, it's still ongoing and then,
:05:36. > :05:38.as Chairman Nunes mentioned, this is one in a series of hearings
:05:39. > :05:50.Sean Spicer said he was confident new evidence of collusion would be
:05:51. > :06:09.found. Despite the narrative that gets
:06:10. > :06:13.played over and over again with respect to what the investigation
:06:14. > :06:16.might mean in terms of collusion, every person, Republican and
:06:17. > :06:19.Democrat that has been briefed on it has come to the same conclusion that
:06:20. > :06:22.there is no collusion and that that's over.
:06:23. > :06:28.Our North America Editor Jon Sopel is here.
:06:29. > :06:34.It is still going on. Have we learned during the course of this
:06:35. > :06:41.long hearing exactly what the FBI is investigating and what it has so far
:06:42. > :06:45.found? Just before that, this is a pinch yourself moment. We are
:06:46. > :06:54.hearing the FBI is investigating whether there was collusion between
:06:55. > :06:58.the Kremlin and Donald Trump's campaign. The fact the investigation
:06:59. > :07:03.is taking place, I know we have heard the drip, drip, drip that is
:07:04. > :07:08.worth marking out in itself. The hour looking at the extent to which
:07:09. > :07:12.Russian cyber hackers intervened in the election. Was there collusion
:07:13. > :07:17.with individuals from the Trump campaign as part of that? How far
:07:18. > :07:21.did that go? We know that the investigation has been going on
:07:22. > :07:25.since months before the election. That it's taking place at all is
:07:26. > :07:31.remarkable, what else unfolded in the course of that hearing was even
:07:32. > :07:36.more remarkable still. There was a moment and James Comey can't say too
:07:37. > :07:39.much because a lot of this is still classified, but he was actually
:07:40. > :07:44.asked if the president under investigation just two months into
:07:45. > :07:48.his presidency and he said, I can't comment on that. Looking at the
:07:49. > :07:51.wider thing today and how the Democrats and the Republicans on the
:07:52. > :07:58.committee reacted, it seems the Democrats are going so hard after
:07:59. > :08:02.the rush at that, who was connected to the Russian business dealings,
:08:03. > :08:06.and then you have this extraordinary thing where the Republicans are just
:08:07. > :08:13.focusing on the leaks. How will that play? I think the attention is going
:08:14. > :08:18.to be honoured, I am pretty convinced, all the mainstream news
:08:19. > :08:22.outlets tonight in America, around the world, will be that an FBI
:08:23. > :08:29.investigation and you know when Donald Trump said that Barack Obama
:08:30. > :08:34.has been wiretapping my phones, the NSA and the FBI see no evidence, at
:08:35. > :08:40.all, to prove any of it, no British involvement. When I was seeing a
:08:41. > :08:44.moment ago, what is extraordinary is you have the head of the FBI
:08:45. > :08:49.standing in the public before a committee, saying, actually what the
:08:50. > :08:54.President is saying is nonsense. That seems to be the effect of what
:08:55. > :08:57.we have learnt today. Yes, you are right, Democrats want this to be all
:08:58. > :09:02.about the Russians, how big was the influence, did they shape the
:09:03. > :09:06.election, what really up to? On the Republican side, you've got a very
:09:07. > :09:11.different emphasis. He was at who unveiled this? What you're doing
:09:12. > :09:15.about stopping the leaks within the FBI? Which seems a bit like shooting
:09:16. > :09:19.the messenger rather than dealing with the message. I am with John
:09:20. > :09:22.here. The headlines tonight will be about the Russians, we will not be
:09:23. > :09:24.about the leaks. Thanks for coming and John.
:09:25. > :09:27.Let's speak now to Michael Mukasey, he's a former federal judge
:09:28. > :09:29.who served as US Attorney General under President George W Bush.
:09:30. > :09:37.You have said in the past you think it is possible that Donald Trump was
:09:38. > :09:38.under surveillance during the course and his campaign was under
:09:39. > :09:42.surveillance during the course of surveillance during the course of
:09:43. > :09:47.the campaign, having heard the FBI and the NSA's testimony this morning
:09:48. > :09:50.you still believe that? What I said was it's possible there was
:09:51. > :09:55.surveillance that pick them up. I still think that's possible. It's
:09:56. > :09:58.obvious it was incidental to whatever else was going on. If you
:09:59. > :10:02.talking about surveillance directed at them, we are certainly know any
:10:03. > :10:07.place where we can see that didn't happen. It would have been
:10:08. > :10:11.surveillance of other entities in the course of Russian banks, for
:10:12. > :10:14.example, might have picked up conversations with the Trump
:10:15. > :10:18.campaign. Is that what you're suggesting? Yes, correct. And then
:10:19. > :10:26.the question is whether somebody the question is whether somebody
:10:27. > :10:29.colluded with the Russians and my own view is that doesn't make a
:10:30. > :10:32.whole lot of sense, not from the standpoint of the Trump people, from
:10:33. > :10:36.the standpoint of the Russians. Remember what was going on at the
:10:37. > :10:44.time, at the time the Russians were hacking into the Democratic National
:10:45. > :10:46.committee and one of Hillary Clinton's principal functionaries,
:10:47. > :10:50.everybody was saying Hillary Clinton was going to win, so the notion that
:10:51. > :10:56.looked like a loser seems to me a looked like a loser seems to me a
:10:57. > :11:00.little bit far-fetched. As Mr Cooney said this morning, they did hate
:11:01. > :11:03.Hillary Clinton, Vladimir Putin did hate Hillary Clinton. The question
:11:04. > :11:08.then becomes what was he trying to achieve by hacking into the Democrat
:11:09. > :11:12.National committee? Is -- it's possible what he was trying to do
:11:13. > :11:18.was letting her know any not very subtle way that they had access to
:11:19. > :11:20.her e-mails, which were mentioned in some of the e-mails that they did
:11:21. > :11:26.pick up. So that if in fact they did pick up. So that if in fact they did
:11:27. > :11:31.hack into her e-mails, this was a mentor is to hack that Planas and if
:11:32. > :11:35.she got elected, she ought to be very careful when it came to dealing
:11:36. > :11:40.with the Russians. As a former Attorney General, maybe you could
:11:41. > :11:44.just clarify one thing. Shauna Spicer has said today with regards
:11:45. > :11:47.to the wiretapping claims, we are only a chapter one and the
:11:48. > :11:52.investigation goes on, but as an Attorney General Wendy Riddick, you
:11:53. > :11:54.would've had the power to declassified documents, to get the
:11:55. > :11:58.bottom of it. The president surely has the power to do that, so why
:11:59. > :12:02.only carrying on this whole charade when all these agencies are saying
:12:03. > :12:09.there's nothing there are? You will have to talk to them about that. It
:12:10. > :12:13.does appear there isn't anything there as far as purposeful
:12:14. > :12:15.wiretapping of Mr Trump, but as far as them being picked up
:12:16. > :12:22.incidentally, that's a whole different thing. It doesn't seem to
:12:23. > :12:25.need to age to a whole lot. On the other hand, the question of leaks is
:12:26. > :12:32.an interesting one because the president to mix he left office
:12:33. > :12:37.changed the executive order, allowing intelligence to be pushed
:12:38. > :12:40.out to far more people than those who had it before. So the
:12:41. > :12:46.possibility of leaks is enhanced and the population have attentional
:12:47. > :12:52.leakers is increased with the difficulty of detecting leaks,
:12:53. > :12:56.correspondingly decreased. The purpose of what Mr Trump is tweeting
:12:57. > :13:00.though is to try and in some way suggest something illegal had gone
:13:01. > :13:03.on. Surely it is the FBI's job with the thought there was any collusion
:13:04. > :13:11.to pick up whatever they can. That's their job, isn't it? Of course it
:13:12. > :13:19.is. Was nothing illegal. Correct. So they say. So it appears at this
:13:20. > :13:23.time. I don't know of anything to suggest there is anything illegal.
:13:24. > :13:25.Very interesting to get your thoughts, thank you for coming on.
:13:26. > :13:28.Thanks for having me. You know we are living in unusual
:13:29. > :13:31.times when the first day of hearings for America's newest member
:13:32. > :13:34.of the Supreme Court gets upstaged by hearings into Russian spying,
:13:35. > :13:38.even though that Judge will likely be there long after James Comey
:13:39. > :13:40.and Donald Trump have both left Mr Trump's choice for the Supreme
:13:41. > :13:53.Court, Judge Neil Gorsuch, is trying to convince
:13:54. > :13:55.Democrats on the panel that he is the right man
:13:56. > :13:57.for the job. He's from Colorado
:13:58. > :13:59.and he's 49 years old. If confirmed, he would become
:14:00. > :14:02.the youngest member on the bench, and could influence the court's
:14:03. > :14:04.decisions for many years to come. Academically, Judge Gorsuch
:14:05. > :14:07.would fit right in with the other He has degrees from Columbia,
:14:08. > :14:20.Harvard and Oxford. Donald Trump picked him
:14:21. > :14:22.for his conservative outlook and with the stated aim
:14:23. > :14:25.of restoring the conservative Just like the late Antonin Scalia,
:14:26. > :14:30.Judge Gorsuch believes the law should be applied just as it is,
:14:31. > :14:35.without taking into account the legislators' intent
:14:36. > :14:37.or the social context. He's also known as a good writer
:14:38. > :14:40.and is said to be rather fond We'll see if he drops in any
:14:41. > :14:44.Churchill references over Laura Trevelyan is on
:14:45. > :14:53.Capitol Hill for us now. We have just heard from Neil
:14:54. > :14:56.Gorsuch. One of the things the Democrats were seeing if he was
:14:57. > :14:59.independent, he would have criticised the President's statement
:15:00. > :15:03.on judgment -- judges. In his on judgment -- judges. In his
:15:04. > :15:08.opening comments, what he has talked about is that there has been
:15:09. > :15:13.judicial overreach and some of these judges should not be secret
:15:14. > :15:17.legislators. That's right, Neil Gorsuch has just been speaking and
:15:18. > :15:22.he started off by emphasising his love of family, of his wife, but he
:15:23. > :15:26.has very quickly moved to reassure Democrats who are sceptical of him.
:15:27. > :15:31.Democrats want to paint him as a friend of the rich and the powerful,
:15:32. > :15:35.against the little person. Judge Neil Gorsuch has just said in his
:15:36. > :15:42.ten years on the Colorado circuit he has pointed out he has ruled on
:15:43. > :15:45.cases involving the disabled, prisoners, undocumented immigrants,
:15:46. > :15:49.he says that he treats the rich and the board equally. He is really
:15:50. > :15:56.trying to plug the criticism that he knows is coming from the Democrats.
:15:57. > :16:01.He also said that 97% of the 2700 cases that he decided when he was in
:16:02. > :16:04.Colorado that 97% of those cases were decided unanimously. He is
:16:05. > :16:07.trying to present himself as a consensual figure, not as a fire
:16:08. > :16:09.breathing conservative, which is breathing conservative, which is
:16:10. > :16:16.what the Democrats are trying to say he is. Barring some kind of massive
:16:17. > :16:21.bombshell during the course of those hearings, he is going to be the next
:16:22. > :16:25.Supreme Court Justice, isn't he? Yes, most certainly. The question
:16:26. > :16:29.for Democrats is how hard they try and oppose him. Because although
:16:30. > :16:35.technically it's just a simple majority in the Senate to confirm
:16:36. > :16:38.him, 51 votes, the Democrats can use the filibuster and try and top down
:16:39. > :16:41.his nomination which requires 60 votes in the Senate to overturn the
:16:42. > :16:46.filibuster. Remember, Republicans filibuster. Remember, Republicans
:16:47. > :16:50.have 52 senators, Democrats have 48. Republicans can have an equally
:16:51. > :16:54.nuclear option. The cannibal to blow up the filibuster, so Democrats must
:16:55. > :16:58.decide is Neil Gorsuch this charming conservative really the one they
:16:59. > :17:02.need to go for? All the happens if he's replacing Antonin Scalia.
:17:03. > :17:07.Record goes to being with one swing voter. It is the next justice. There
:17:08. > :17:11.are several elderly justices who could retire in the next few years.
:17:12. > :17:15.It is the next one that tipped the balance towards a conservative
:17:16. > :17:20.court. Do it Democrats hold their fire and really go over the next
:17:21. > :17:21.vacancy, or because the fury and that President Obama's
:17:22. > :17:25.wasn't given the benefit of the wasn't given the benefit of the
:17:26. > :17:33.hearing, decide to blow up the whole thing now? For the moment, we will
:17:34. > :17:39.keep our eye on that. Quite a long day. There was one thing that did
:17:40. > :17:42.strike me today. He told Congress he had been investigating these Russian
:17:43. > :17:49.links since July and then I thought, hang on, in October, on October the
:17:50. > :17:52.27th, two weeks before the election, he wrote a letter saying he was
:17:53. > :17:57.investigating Hillary Clinton and yet he didn't make any mention of
:17:58. > :18:01.the fact that he was investigating these Russian links and possible
:18:02. > :18:02.collusion between the Russian Government and the Trump campaign.
:18:03. > :18:07.When some people look at James Comey When some people look at James Comey
:18:08. > :18:13.and think, should you have told us about that? What are you suggesting,
:18:14. > :18:16.at James Comey is not playing fair? It is one of the things... That is
:18:17. > :18:21.because he came out and influence because he came out and influence
:18:22. > :18:24.the election, jeopardised Hillary Clinton's chances and he should have
:18:25. > :18:26.been revealing the fact that the Trump campaign was also under
:18:27. > :18:33.investigation for possible links with Russia. This wasn't -- was what
:18:34. > :18:37.was being suggested this morning. It's been extraordinary morning here
:18:38. > :18:40.in the US. The big picture about the wiretapping, about the allegations
:18:41. > :18:44.that might have been some collusion with the Russians, those have not
:18:45. > :18:49.been confirmed of course, is the question of credibility. At one
:18:50. > :18:50.point in the hearings, James Comey was asked point blank, you are in a
:18:51. > :18:53.former prosecutor, if you have a former prosecutor, if you have a
:18:54. > :18:57.witness list and lied about one thing, how we going to trust the
:18:58. > :19:01.rest of what they say? Can the Americans and the rest of the world
:19:02. > :19:06.trust Donald Trump when he has set a that is plainly, maybe FBI says, not
:19:07. > :19:10.true? I think that is the big question about all of this. It
:19:11. > :19:14.creates a credibility gap at the White House and you sort Shon spies
:19:15. > :19:19.are dancing around like some sort of linguistic contortions, I felt sorry
:19:20. > :19:23.for him. He is saying desperately there is still something there,
:19:24. > :19:34.you've had it from the FBI, the DOJ, Donald Trump was wrong.
:19:35. > :19:37.Fair to say, Katty, the Brexit process is full of unknowns -
:19:38. > :19:39.but today, one certainty: a date, finally.
:19:40. > :19:43.Next Wednesday will be the day the British Prime Minister
:19:44. > :19:46.officially notifies the EU that the UK is leaving the union.
:19:47. > :19:52.When people voted in the referendum last year, it wasn't just
:19:53. > :19:56.about leaving the EU, I think they did vote for change,
:19:57. > :19:59.they voted for a change in the way the country works,
:20:00. > :20:01.to make sure that it works for everyone not
:20:02. > :20:08.And as part of that, we want to build, we have a plan
:20:09. > :20:10.for Britain and p,art of that is about building
:20:11. > :20:20.I think I owe you an apology because I have maligned due for the last few
:20:21. > :20:25.weeks saying that this is never going to get there, it's dragging on
:20:26. > :20:29.for ever and ever. A miracle, we finally have the date. Two years
:20:30. > :20:36.from the 29th of March Britain will leave the European Union.
:20:37. > :20:41.Guaranteed. Yes, she will send the letter on the 29th. He is the UK's
:20:42. > :20:46.ambassador to the EU. It comes four days after the all meet in Italy for
:20:47. > :20:50.the 60th anniversary for the signing of the Treaty of Rome. You would
:20:51. > :20:55.expect this would overshadow it. Will she be the protest at the
:20:56. > :20:59.party? She's not going. Brexit will be the elephant in the room. They
:21:00. > :21:02.will be celebrating the principles of the European Union and one of the
:21:03. > :21:06.biggest members isn't there. If you thought it was difficult to get to
:21:07. > :21:10.this point, we're not even at base camp one. The journey to the summit.
:21:11. > :21:15.It could end so quickly because we've heard today in the newspapers
:21:16. > :21:19.that Jean-Claude Juncker, is saying, if we don't get an agreement on the
:21:20. > :21:23.divorce proceedings, whether or not we get the alimony, the money for
:21:24. > :21:29.Britain to lead at the talking between 20 and 60 billion euros,
:21:30. > :21:32.then there is no discussion. We are quite prepared for Britain to walk
:21:33. > :21:38.away from the table. There is some fairly sizeable things to overcome,
:21:39. > :21:39.even before the negotiating gets under on we start talking about
:21:40. > :21:40.future relationships. Those things future relationships. Those
:21:41. > :21:44.are going to have to be talked are going to have to be talked
:21:45. > :21:49.about, probably starting in June. It will come thick and fast in the
:21:50. > :21:54.summer. More expensive than most divorces that I know about. I did
:21:55. > :21:58.ask about that earlier and we are going to play that on later on in
:21:59. > :22:01.the programme. Her response to what Jean-Claude Juncker was seeing in
:22:02. > :22:04.the press. Let's move on to treat now.
:22:05. > :22:15.Donald Trump has called North American Free Trade agreement
:22:16. > :22:18.Donald Trump is pulled America out of the Pacific countries.
:22:19. > :22:21.Donald Trump has called North American Free Trade agreement
:22:22. > :22:24.He wants to get a better one for America.
:22:25. > :22:26.And that may be bad news for Texas Cattle ranchers.
:22:27. > :22:28.NAFTA eliminates trade barriers between the US, Canada and Mexico.
:22:29. > :22:31.And since it's introduction in 1994, exports of US beef have soared.
:22:32. > :22:35.Michelle Fleury went to Texas to find out.
:22:36. > :22:37.This is a fifth generation Texas cattle rancher.
:22:38. > :22:38.My family's been doing this since 1915.
:22:39. > :22:44.His fortunes are tied to international trade.
:22:45. > :22:48.A significant number of his cattle end up being sold abroad,
:22:49. > :22:52.including just south of the border in Mexico.
:22:53. > :22:55.We've been dealing in international trade since 1933 when we first
:22:56. > :23:01.So the export market is important to you?
:23:02. > :23:05.The export market is very important to our organisation.
:23:06. > :23:09.Some years, I have seen our international sales be
:23:10. > :23:15.85% of all the business that we did that year.
:23:16. > :23:17.And the North American Free Trade Agreement is really
:23:18. > :23:22.It allows his beef to enter Mexico duty-free.
:23:23. > :23:27.So any changes could hurt him and other American cattle ranchers.
:23:28. > :23:31.Donald Trump enjoyed strong support in rural communities, like this one,
:23:32. > :23:37.Now, the challenge is can he come up with a trade policy that can help
:23:38. > :23:45.In the state capital, Austin, the Texas Agriculture
:23:46. > :23:52.Sid Miller was part of the Trump campaign's advisory council.
:23:53. > :23:56.Like the President, he believes changing NAFTA is a good thing,e ven
:23:57. > :24:07.I said, "When this President takes office, it's going to be a rocky
:24:08. > :24:12.start, cos he's going to upset people, he's going
:24:13. > :24:16.We're going to re-negotitate deals that people had the sweet deal,
:24:17. > :24:18.the sweet end of it, they're not going to
:24:19. > :24:21.The honeymoon with the cattle industry isn't over yet,
:24:22. > :24:24.According to cattle dealer, Jenning Steen, Trump's decision
:24:25. > :24:27.to walk away from a Trans-Pacific partnership, a trade pact with Asia,
:24:28. > :24:31.We can quanitfy TPP today, so what could be going to those
:24:32. > :24:37.countries today is about $400,000 worth of beef that would be
:24:38. > :24:46.Ranchers fear they may end up a casualty of
:24:47. > :24:50.They're hoping his tough stance on NAFTA is just
:24:51. > :25:12.One very important piece of news. I don't know how happy you are today
:25:13. > :25:17.and I'm concerned because you are not living in the world's happiest
:25:18. > :25:21.country. If you were in Norway, that would make you very happy indeed.
:25:22. > :25:26.I'm not sure why the UN is spending their money on this but they have
:25:27. > :25:32.came up with... There you go! You would be like that gentleman.
:25:33. > :25:38.Weirdos America feature? America features number 14. Sad, right? You
:25:39. > :25:44.will be a lot happier when you go on holiday next week.
:25:45. > :25:46.You're watching One Hundred Days from BBC News.
:25:47. > :25:48.Still to come for viewers on the BBC News Channel and BBC
:25:49. > :25:51.World News: We talk to the EU's Foreign Affairs Representative,
:25:52. > :25:55.as Britain names the day it will confirm it's leaving Europe.
:25:56. > :26:00.We will look at the methods used by the Russians to spy on that
:26:01. > :26:02.election. That's still to come on 100
:26:03. > :26:13.Days, from BBC News. Things will improve later in the
:26:14. > :26:17.week but it hasn't been a very promising start to the week and
:26:18. > :26:21.we've got much colder air coming in from the north-west, bringing lots
:26:22. > :26:26.of showers. Choosing this band of cloud that brought the rain. Really,
:26:27. > :26:31.through the rest of the night, it is clear skies and showers, most of the
:26:32. > :26:35.showers in the north and west and as the air gets colder and colder,
:26:36. > :26:38.those showers will turn more wintry, more snow falling in Scotland and
:26:39. > :26:42.Northern Ireland. This is the main focus of the wintry weather and with
:26:43. > :26:47.those temperatures, we will not despite snow but ice as well. They
:26:48. > :26:52.are that in mind overnight and tomorrow, Russia if you are
:26:53. > :26:55.travelling in Scotland and Ireland, tricky travelling conditions not
:26:56. > :26:59.just on the high-level routes. Some of the snow at lower levels will
:27:00. > :27:03.melt but the snow will be going over the higher ground. Not much of that
:27:04. > :27:07.getting to Easter in Scotland here. It should be dry overnight and first
:27:08. > :27:11.thing in the morning. Sunshine to come. Sunshine across England and
:27:12. > :27:15.Wales, a scattering of showers out west, feeding through the Bristol
:27:16. > :27:20.Channel. For many central and eastern parts of England, you will
:27:21. > :27:25.notice a chill in the air, despite the sunshine. As the wind picks up,
:27:26. > :27:29.more servers. Showers from late morning onwards, more frequent out
:27:30. > :27:34.towards the west. The showers could be heavy and hail and thunder as
:27:35. > :27:36.looking at these sort of looking at these sort of
:27:37. > :27:41.temperatures, disappointing for this type of year. Temperatures will drop
:27:42. > :27:46.quickly when the ship was come along with gusty winds. There is a band of
:27:47. > :27:50.more organised wet weather developing the south-west of wheels,
:27:51. > :27:53.that moves northwards into the very cold air in Scotland, that could
:27:54. > :27:56.lead to more snow in southern Scotland and the far north of
:27:57. > :28:01.England overnight and first thing on Wednesday. Lifting onto the hills,
:28:02. > :28:05.keep wet weather going down the eastern side of the country, another
:28:06. > :28:10.chilly day. The chance of some rain in the south-east on Thursday but
:28:11. > :28:13.it's starting to dry off from Thursday onwards. High pressure
:28:14. > :28:17.building and across the UK. Things will improve as the week goes on.
:28:18. > :28:22.Losing all those wintry showers, starting to dry up by the time we
:28:23. > :28:26.get to the weekend. Some very pleasant sunshine around, but with
:28:27. > :30:11.clear skies overnight, still on the chilly side.
:30:12. > :30:17.The head of the FBI has confirmed that his agency is conducting
:30:18. > :30:19.an investigation into alleged links between President Trump's
:30:20. > :30:21.campaign team and Russia during last year's election.
:30:22. > :30:22.After Friday's difficult summit with Angela Merkel,
:30:23. > :30:25.we'll speak to the EU's High Representative for Foreign Affairs
:30:26. > :30:38.about President Trump's relations with Europe.
:30:39. > :30:41.As well as confirming that there is an investigation
:30:42. > :30:43.into possible collusion between individuals
:30:44. > :30:47.in the Trump campaign team and the Russian government,
:30:48. > :30:50.today's hearing with the heads of the FBI and NSA also gave some
:30:51. > :30:52.fascinating insights into why the agencies believe
:30:53. > :30:54.the Russians intervened, and how they may have done so.
:30:55. > :30:57.Here they are answering a question about how Russian activity
:30:58. > :31:03.in this election differed from previous campaigns.
:31:04. > :31:05.I'd say the biggest difference from my perspective
:31:06. > :31:07.was both the use of cyber - the hacking as a vehicle
:31:08. > :31:10.to physically gain access to information, to extract that
:31:11. > :31:12.information, and then to make it widely publicly available
:31:13. > :31:20.The only thing that I'd add is that they were unusually loud
:31:21. > :31:30.It's almost as if they didn't care that we knew what they were doing,
:31:31. > :31:33.or that they wanted us to see what they were doing.
:31:34. > :31:44.It was very noisy, their intrusions in different institutions.
:31:45. > :31:48.Let's talk now to Newsnight's diplomatic editor, Mark Urban.
:31:49. > :31:52.What do you make of that last point he was making, that they were
:31:53. > :31:59.unusually loud and it was like they didn't care or wanted us to
:32:00. > :32:03.know? I think that refer to certain types of cyber attacks, certain
:32:04. > :32:06.groups being used, not making much effort to disguise it, which plays
:32:07. > :32:16.into the sense that we also heard from him today, director Comey, that
:32:17. > :32:21.Vladimir Putin had a real grudge against Hillary Clinton, used the
:32:22. > :32:25.word hated her, that he wanted to assist her opponent in the election,
:32:26. > :32:28.coming quite close to seeing what this whole investigation is
:32:29. > :32:33.supposedly about, whether there was some meaningful connection between
:32:34. > :32:38.Russia and the Trump campaign, an issue on which of course he was not
:32:39. > :32:42.going to comment directly today. Used some technical language along
:32:43. > :32:49.the way, fleeing Russia had used some kind of cutout with WikiLeaks
:32:50. > :32:53.when disseminating information? -- used some technical language along
:32:54. > :32:58.the way, saying that Russia. Performing a hacking, extracting the
:32:59. > :33:03.files, if you like, the servers, and they then pass them to the people,
:33:04. > :33:11.who are people who if you like where well-known Kremlin fronts, and the
:33:12. > :33:15.intelligence community contends, WikiLeaks. But the intermediary is
:33:16. > :33:20.the cutout... Meaning you cannot trace who it was? Exactly, so there
:33:21. > :33:25.was no direct connection. Let's face it, that is a pretty serious
:33:26. > :33:28.military intelligence operation well-known in Western espionage, and
:33:29. > :33:34.WikiLeaks. They had to be a middle person and that is what he was
:33:35. > :33:37.contending. The other thing James Comey said with absolute certainty
:33:38. > :33:42.is that the Russians will be back. He mentioned the 2020 election. What
:33:43. > :33:47.are Western intelligence agencies able to do to try to prevent
:33:48. > :33:51.Russians, if they are inclined to keep coming back and hacking into
:33:52. > :33:58.elections, from doing so? I think if you were to get the briefing from
:33:59. > :34:03.them, Katty, they would start off with all the basic security things,
:34:04. > :34:06.don't make your password of the word password, something we have heard in
:34:07. > :34:10.the context of John Podesta, then go through all the other things you can
:34:11. > :34:14.do to strengthen your security systems, then the more covert stuff,
:34:15. > :34:19.the steps they can take to try to thwart them by cyber methods, but
:34:20. > :34:22.the last time we were talking it was about that WikiLeaks leak of the CIA
:34:23. > :34:29.hacking tools, and of course one aspect of that was the CIA used all
:34:30. > :34:32.kinds of methods designed to disguise the true identity of who
:34:33. > :34:37.was doing the hacking, ie including Russian tools, so the waters are
:34:38. > :34:41.very muddy here in terms of actual attributing, and if this happens in
:34:42. > :34:44.the French or German elections, those officials may make warnings
:34:45. > :34:48.about this, but how will it be definitively kneeled down? One thing
:34:49. > :34:54.I should mention the both of you is that the US intelligence report
:34:55. > :34:58.office which came out in January gave a pretty clear hence they were
:34:59. > :35:01.not lying just on cyber clues and interception but that they had
:35:02. > :35:05.agents in these Russian organisations who said, you know, we
:35:06. > :35:08.did it, and this is how. Fascinating. For the moment, Mark,
:35:09. > :35:11.thank you very much. President Trump's relationship
:35:12. > :35:13.with the EU is complicated During his election
:35:14. > :35:16.campaign, and even once he'd won the presidency,
:35:17. > :35:18.he was openly critical. He's called the EU 'bureaucratic',
:35:19. > :35:20.a 'disaster' - he's even suggested that the EU's could
:35:21. > :35:22.one day 'break up.' So it might have been
:35:23. > :35:24.with some trepidation that the EU's High Representative
:35:25. > :35:27.for Foreign Affairs and Security Earlier today, I sat down
:35:28. > :35:32.with Federica Mogherini. Federica Mogherini, we are now 60
:35:33. > :35:35.days into the new administration What do you make of Mr
:35:36. > :35:45.Trump and his policies? I see it is still
:35:46. > :35:47.a work in progress. This is also why I'm
:35:48. > :35:49.here now for the second time in a month or so,
:35:50. > :35:53.and we have intense meetings with the administration
:35:54. > :35:54.at all levels. I'll be seeing
:35:55. > :35:57.Vice President Pence for the second time, here in Washington,
:35:58. > :35:59.after he paid a visit to the EU And with all my interlocutors,
:36:00. > :36:07.I stress the European Union priorities, I find them
:36:08. > :36:09.in a listening mode, and there are for sure common
:36:10. > :36:12.grounds to be covered, especially our work on Syria
:36:13. > :36:14.and other things. You've actually been very critical
:36:15. > :36:17.on a range of issues - on the Mexican wall,
:36:18. > :36:20.on refugees, on the embassy Is this going to be a difficult
:36:21. > :36:25.relationship between the EU We have on some issues
:36:26. > :36:36.different opinions. On other things -
:36:37. > :36:38.you mentioned the embassy move. Well, it hasn't happened so far,
:36:39. > :36:41.so I guess we share the same views. On the Iran deal, also,
:36:42. > :36:44.I got reassurances of the fact that what is important for the US
:36:45. > :36:48.administration is a complete and strict implementation
:36:49. > :36:50.of the deal which is also the case for us, and we will enter
:36:51. > :36:53.into a more pragmatic But he has called
:36:54. > :37:00.the EU a disaster... And he sent his vice president
:37:01. > :37:02.to an official visit to the European Union institutions,
:37:03. > :37:05.saying that they're looking forward to increase and deepen
:37:06. > :37:07.the relationship with the EU. So who do you believe,
:37:08. > :37:14.Mr Trump or Mr Pence? I always believe what is said
:37:15. > :37:16.in the official meetings. Your boss, Jean-Claude Juncker,
:37:17. > :37:20.this morning, in an interview over the weekend, in a German newspaper,
:37:21. > :37:23.has said that the UK will need to prepare itself to be
:37:24. > :37:26.treated as a third country. Well, that's what the Prime Minister
:37:27. > :37:36.of the UK has decided to do, and the British people have
:37:37. > :37:38.decided to do. Once the UK will be out
:37:39. > :37:42.of the Union, which is not the case for now, it will be a third country
:37:43. > :37:44.because it will not There is no alternative to being
:37:45. > :37:59.a member state or a third country. You can be best friends,
:38:00. > :38:03.and we have many best friends in the world,
:38:04. > :38:06.but if not a member you're out. But he also said that the terms
:38:07. > :38:11.of the Brexit deal are going to be so odorous on the United Kingdom
:38:12. > :38:13.that the other members of the European Union
:38:14. > :38:16.are going to suddenly fall back Well, that has started
:38:17. > :38:18.already I think. Not because of the terms
:38:19. > :38:21.or the conditions of the Brexit, but simply by the fact that exactly
:38:22. > :38:24.nine months after the referendum the UK Government has not even asked
:38:25. > :38:27.to start formal negotiations, so this shows that
:38:28. > :38:38.democracy is complicated. There are internal discussions
:38:39. > :38:40.in the United Kingdom going on. We know now that Article 51
:38:41. > :38:43.will be invoked next week. It is exactly nine months afterward,
:38:44. > :38:46.so I see the UK Government has taken its time, which means
:38:47. > :38:48.that they have some Mr Juncker also said that talks
:38:49. > :38:52.cannot begin until the UK agrees I mean, if you're going to set that
:38:53. > :38:56.kind of condition before the negotiations even start it
:38:57. > :38:59.doesn't bode very well, does that, I can tell you in my field,
:39:00. > :39:03.foreign and security policy, we have decided unanimously,
:39:04. > :39:06.at 28 - because we are still 28 and we will be 28 for the next
:39:07. > :39:09.couple of years, at least - that we set up a joint military
:39:10. > :39:12.command for all the European Union We decided that unanimously, at 28,
:39:13. > :39:16.with the United Kingdom just a couple of weeks ago,
:39:17. > :39:18.so negotiations have This is because the UK needed
:39:19. > :39:42.more time to prepare. Thank you. While we were off era,
:39:43. > :39:47.the G20 finance directors met and they all signed up to this
:39:48. > :39:50.communiqu , which as usual, but the Americans really resisted the idea
:39:51. > :39:57.of putting in there that all trade should be free. Obviously there is
:39:58. > :40:14.this American first policy the White House is pushing. Not very keen to
:40:15. > :40:24.put in that it should be free trade, Steve Minish? -- yes, he comes from
:40:25. > :40:30.Goldman Sachs, and usually is taking a big effort on this language, which
:40:31. > :40:35.is really pro forma. It has never been a big deal before, but making
:40:36. > :40:40.sure it was sending a clear signal. It was interesting listening to
:40:41. > :40:43.Federica Mogherini there, because there she was preaching
:40:44. > :40:46.globalisation and free trade, preaching alliances, and here you
:40:47. > :40:50.have a White House again this weekend making it very clear that
:40:51. > :40:54.that is not the path they are wanting to take. Let's get a little
:40:55. > :40:56.bit of other news now from around the world...
:40:57. > :40:58.A short while ago at the White House, Donald Trump
:40:59. > :41:01.had his first meeting with the Iraqi prime minister, Haider al-Abadi.
:41:02. > :41:03.It comes as Mr Trump continues to consider his options
:41:04. > :41:05.for defeating the so-called Islamic State.
:41:06. > :41:08.He campaign on a promise to dramatically ramp up the fight
:41:09. > :41:10.against the IS and has vowed to eradicate what he called
:41:11. > :41:22.The five top candidates in the French presidential election
:41:23. > :41:30.are about to face off in the first of several televised debates.
:41:31. > :41:33.Centrist frontrunner Emmanuel Macron and far-right leader
:41:34. > :41:35.Marine Le Pen are expected to come under attack -
:41:36. > :41:36.particularly from conservative nominee, Francois Fillon.
:41:37. > :41:39.Once a frontrunner, he has slipped in the polls since becoming
:41:40. > :41:45.embroiled in a damaging expenses scandal.
:41:46. > :41:50.Sean Spicer was talking just an hour ago. I often watch when he comes out
:41:51. > :41:55.to the podium, and think, how is he going to defend this one? Sometimes
:41:56. > :41:58.he gets himself into these verbal contortions trying to defend the
:41:59. > :42:02.president. Why do you think he is not just honest about some of these
:42:03. > :42:07.things and says, look, this one, we're not too keen on, but can we
:42:08. > :42:10.focus on some of the business of government? I had a very interesting
:42:11. > :42:21.story this weekend that might explain
:42:22. > :42:24.some of that. Like you, I almost felt sorry for Sean Spicer, coming
:42:25. > :42:27.out today after such conclusive testimony from FBI director Comey,
:42:28. > :42:30.but it is that this is a president who does not want to back down and
:42:31. > :42:33.does not want his staff to back down on his behalf. For example, over the
:42:34. > :42:37.GCHQ thing, he didn't like the idea that there had been any apology. He
:42:38. > :42:42.didn't want his staff to apologise to the Brits over the GCHQ
:42:43. > :42:46.allegation. He wasn't furious about the GCHQ allegation being made,
:42:47. > :42:50.Christian, he was furious about the idea someone had apologised for it,
:42:51. > :42:53.and I think that gives an indication of the kind of pressure Sean Spicer
:42:54. > :42:58.is under every single day when he goes out there to make sure he
:42:59. > :43:04.defends his boss. That is it, Christian, from jaw-mac for this
:43:05. > :43:05.week. Join us at the same time tomorrow. Thank you for watching.