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The head of the FBI says he is investigating links | :00:08. | :00:11. | |
and possible collusion between Donald Trump's campaign team | :00:12. | :00:14. | |
During an extraordinary hearing in Congress, | :00:15. | :00:17. | |
James Comey revealed that the ongoing investigation | :00:18. | :00:19. | |
The FBI, as part of our counter-intelligence mission, | :00:20. | :00:25. | |
is investigating the Russian government's efforts to interfere | :00:26. | :00:28. | |
And that includes investigating the nature of any links | :00:29. | :00:36. | |
between individuals associated with the Trump campaign | :00:37. | :00:39. | |
Mr Comey said he had seen nothing to suggest the former | :00:40. | :00:45. | |
President Barack Obama had ordered a wiretap on Trump Tower. | :00:46. | :00:51. | |
With respect to the President's tweets about alleged wire tapping | :00:52. | :00:54. | |
directed at him by the prior administration, I have no | :00:55. | :00:56. | |
information that supports those tweets and we have looked | :00:57. | :00:58. | |
At the same hearing, the head of the National Security Agency said | :00:59. | :01:06. | |
they had not asked Britain's GCHQ intelligence agency to spy | :01:07. | :01:09. | |
on Mr Trump, another claim that had been highlighted by | :01:10. | :01:12. | |
The President's Press Secretary says that Donald Trump will not | :01:13. | :01:20. | |
withdraw his wiretapping claims and is confident the FBI | :01:21. | :01:22. | |
investigation into Russian links will find nothing. | :01:23. | :01:31. | |
an investigation it must mean it's an investigation it must mean it's | :01:32. | :01:34. | |
about something. The British Prime Minister says | :01:35. | :01:35. | |
she will formally notify Brussels that Britain is leaving | :01:36. | :01:39. | |
the European Union on 29th March. Hello, I'm Katty Kay in Washington, | :01:40. | :01:51. | |
Christian Fraser is in London. FBI director James Comey has | :01:52. | :01:55. | |
confirmed for the first time the FBI is investigating alleged Russian | :01:56. | :01:58. | |
interference in the 2016 election. They are also investigating | :01:59. | :02:04. | |
whether there was any collusion between the Trump campaign | :02:05. | :02:06. | |
and the Russian government. The FBI said it had no information | :02:07. | :02:09. | |
to support President Trump's claims that Barack Obama wiretapped phones | :02:10. | :02:12. | |
in Trump Tower during Nor is there any evidence he said | :02:13. | :02:15. | |
that British intelligence GCHQ The head of the FBI | :02:16. | :02:20. | |
was blunt in his assessment. Mr Trump claimed the Democrats had | :02:21. | :02:26. | |
pushed this story to cover up But the FBI confirmed today that it | :02:27. | :02:31. | |
had been independently investigating Russian inteference since July, | :02:32. | :02:37. | |
four months before the election. Let's listen to a few | :02:38. | :02:48. | |
of the exchanges. I have been authorised | :02:49. | :02:53. | |
by the Department of Justice to confirm that the FBI, as part | :02:54. | :02:55. | |
of our counter-intelligence mission, is investigating the Russian | :02:56. | :02:57. | |
government's efforts to interfere And that includes investigating | :02:58. | :03:01. | |
the nature of any links between individuals associated | :03:02. | :03:08. | |
with the Trump campaign and the Russian government | :03:09. | :03:11. | |
and whether there was any coordination between the campaign | :03:12. | :03:15. | |
and Russia's efforts. As with any counter-intelligence | :03:16. | :03:20. | |
investigation, this will also include an assessment of whether any | :03:21. | :03:23. | |
crimes were committed. With respect to the President's | :03:24. | :03:32. | |
tweets about alleged wire tapping directed at him by the prior | :03:33. | :03:35. | |
administration, I have no information that supports those | :03:36. | :03:38. | |
tweets and we have looked The Department of Justice | :03:39. | :03:41. | |
has asked me to share with you that the answer is the same | :03:42. | :03:46. | |
for the Department of Justice The Department has no information | :03:47. | :03:50. | |
that supports those tweets. The President accused Mr Obama, | :03:51. | :03:57. | |
and presumably the FBI, As you understand the term | :03:58. | :04:00. | |
McCarthyism, do you think President Obama or the FBI | :04:01. | :04:06. | |
was engaged in such conduct? I'm not going to try | :04:07. | :04:11. | |
and characterise the tweets themselves, all I can | :04:12. | :04:14. | |
tell you is we have no Were you engaged in | :04:15. | :04:16. | |
McCarthyism, Mr Comey? I try very hard not to engage | :04:17. | :04:21. | |
in any 'isms' of any kind, Did you request your counterparts in | :04:22. | :04:43. | |
GCHQ should wiretap Mr Trump on behalf of Obama? No, that would be | :04:44. | :04:47. | |
against the construct of the Five Eyes Agreement that has been in | :04:48. | :04:50. | |
place for decades. The Five Eyes Agreement are some of our closest | :04:51. | :04:54. | |
intelligence partners and Britain is one of them. Yes, sir. Does do | :04:55. | :05:00. | |
damage to our relationship with one of our closest intelligence partners | :05:01. | :05:04. | |
to make a baseless claim that the British participated in a conspiracy | :05:05. | :05:09. | |
against him? It clearly frustrates icky -- key ally of hours. | :05:10. | :05:11. | |
The White House Press Secretary Sean Spicer has just been speaking | :05:12. | :05:14. | |
and he is refusing to back off Mr Trump's wiretap claims. | :05:15. | :05:17. | |
He said there is no information to support the allegations | :05:18. | :05:26. | |
that the President made against President Obama. | :05:27. | :05:28. | |
So is the President prepared to withdraw that accusation | :05:29. | :05:31. | |
No, we started a hearing, it's still ongoing and then, | :05:32. | :05:35. | |
as Chairman Nunes mentioned, this is one in a series of hearings | :05:36. | :05:38. | |
Sean Spicer said he was confident new evidence of collusion would be | :05:39. | :05:50. | |
found. Despite the narrative that gets | :05:51. | :06:09. | |
played over and over again with respect to what the investigation | :06:10. | :06:13. | |
might mean in terms of collusion, every person, Republican and | :06:14. | :06:16. | |
Democrat that has been briefed on it has come to the same conclusion that | :06:17. | :06:19. | |
there is no collusion and that that's over. | :06:20. | :06:22. | |
Our North America Editor Jon Sopel is here. | :06:23. | :06:28. | |
It is still going on. Have we learned during the course of this | :06:29. | :06:34. | |
long hearing exactly what the FBI is investigating and what it has so far | :06:35. | :06:41. | |
found? Just before that, this is a pinch yourself moment. We are | :06:42. | :06:45. | |
hearing the FBI is investigating whether there was collusion between | :06:46. | :06:54. | |
the Kremlin and Donald Trump's campaign. The fact the investigation | :06:55. | :06:58. | |
is taking place, I know we have heard the drip, drip, drip that is | :06:59. | :07:03. | |
worth marking out in itself. The hour looking at the extent to which | :07:04. | :07:08. | |
Russian cyber hackers intervened in the election. Was there collusion | :07:09. | :07:12. | |
with individuals from the Trump campaign as part of that? How far | :07:13. | :07:17. | |
did that go? We know that the investigation has been going on | :07:18. | :07:21. | |
since months before the election. That it's taking place at all is | :07:22. | :07:25. | |
remarkable, what else unfolded in the course of that hearing was even | :07:26. | :07:31. | |
more remarkable still. There was a moment and James Comey can't say too | :07:32. | :07:36. | |
much because a lot of this is still classified, but he was actually | :07:37. | :07:39. | |
asked if the president under investigation just two months into | :07:40. | :07:44. | |
his presidency and he said, I can't comment on that. Looking at the | :07:45. | :07:48. | |
wider thing today and how the Democrats and the Republicans on the | :07:49. | :07:51. | |
committee reacted, it seems the Democrats are going so hard after | :07:52. | :07:58. | |
the rush at that, who was connected to the Russian business dealings, | :07:59. | :08:02. | |
and then you have this extraordinary thing where the Republicans are just | :08:03. | :08:06. | |
focusing on the leaks. How will that play? I think the attention is going | :08:07. | :08:13. | |
to be honoured, I am pretty convinced, all the mainstream news | :08:14. | :08:18. | |
outlets tonight in America, around the world, will be that an FBI | :08:19. | :08:22. | |
investigation and you know when Donald Trump said that Barack Obama | :08:23. | :08:29. | |
has been wiretapping my phones, the NSA and the FBI see no evidence, at | :08:30. | :08:34. | |
all, to prove any of it, no British involvement. When I was seeing a | :08:35. | :08:40. | |
moment ago, what is extraordinary is you have the head of the FBI | :08:41. | :08:44. | |
standing in the public before a committee, saying, actually what the | :08:45. | :08:49. | |
President is saying is nonsense. That seems to be the effect of what | :08:50. | :08:54. | |
we have learnt today. Yes, you are right, Democrats want this to be all | :08:55. | :08:57. | |
about the Russians, how big was the influence, did they shape the | :08:58. | :09:02. | |
election, what really up to? On the Republican side, you've got a very | :09:03. | :09:06. | |
different emphasis. He was at who unveiled this? What you're doing | :09:07. | :09:11. | |
about stopping the leaks within the FBI? Which seems a bit like shooting | :09:12. | :09:15. | |
the messenger rather than dealing with the message. I am with John | :09:16. | :09:19. | |
here. The headlines tonight will be about the Russians, we will not be | :09:20. | :09:22. | |
about the leaks. Thanks for coming and John. | :09:23. | :09:24. | |
Let's speak now to Michael Mukasey, he's a former federal judge | :09:25. | :09:27. | |
who served as US Attorney General under President George W Bush. | :09:28. | :09:29. | |
You have said in the past you think it is possible that Donald Trump was | :09:30. | :09:37. | |
under surveillance during the course and his campaign was under | :09:38. | :09:38. | |
surveillance during the course of surveillance during the course of | :09:39. | :09:42. | |
the campaign, having heard the FBI and the NSA's testimony this morning | :09:43. | :09:47. | |
you still believe that? What I said was it's possible there was | :09:48. | :09:50. | |
surveillance that pick them up. I still think that's possible. It's | :09:51. | :09:55. | |
obvious it was incidental to whatever else was going on. If you | :09:56. | :09:58. | |
talking about surveillance directed at them, we are certainly know any | :09:59. | :10:02. | |
place where we can see that didn't happen. It would have been | :10:03. | :10:07. | |
surveillance of other entities in the course of Russian banks, for | :10:08. | :10:11. | |
example, might have picked up conversations with the Trump | :10:12. | :10:14. | |
campaign. Is that what you're suggesting? Yes, correct. And then | :10:15. | :10:18. | |
the question is whether somebody the question is whether somebody | :10:19. | :10:26. | |
colluded with the Russians and my own view is that doesn't make a | :10:27. | :10:29. | |
whole lot of sense, not from the standpoint of the Trump people, from | :10:30. | :10:32. | |
the standpoint of the Russians. Remember what was going on at the | :10:33. | :10:36. | |
time, at the time the Russians were hacking into the Democratic National | :10:37. | :10:44. | |
committee and one of Hillary Clinton's principal functionaries, | :10:45. | :10:46. | |
everybody was saying Hillary Clinton was going to win, so the notion that | :10:47. | :10:50. | |
looked like a loser seems to me a looked like a loser seems to me a | :10:51. | :10:56. | |
little bit far-fetched. As Mr Cooney said this morning, they did hate | :10:57. | :11:00. | |
Hillary Clinton, Vladimir Putin did hate Hillary Clinton. The question | :11:01. | :11:03. | |
then becomes what was he trying to achieve by hacking into the Democrat | :11:04. | :11:08. | |
National committee? Is -- it's possible what he was trying to do | :11:09. | :11:12. | |
was letting her know any not very subtle way that they had access to | :11:13. | :11:18. | |
her e-mails, which were mentioned in some of the e-mails that they did | :11:19. | :11:20. | |
pick up. So that if in fact they did pick up. So that if in fact they did | :11:21. | :11:26. | |
hack into her e-mails, this was a mentor is to hack that Planas and if | :11:27. | :11:31. | |
she got elected, she ought to be very careful when it came to dealing | :11:32. | :11:35. | |
with the Russians. As a former Attorney General, maybe you could | :11:36. | :11:40. | |
just clarify one thing. Shauna Spicer has said today with regards | :11:41. | :11:44. | |
to the wiretapping claims, we are only a chapter one and the | :11:45. | :11:47. | |
investigation goes on, but as an Attorney General Wendy Riddick, you | :11:48. | :11:52. | |
would've had the power to declassified documents, to get the | :11:53. | :11:54. | |
bottom of it. The president surely has the power to do that, so why | :11:55. | :11:58. | |
only carrying on this whole charade when all these agencies are saying | :11:59. | :12:02. | |
there's nothing there are? You will have to talk to them about that. It | :12:03. | :12:09. | |
does appear there isn't anything there as far as purposeful | :12:10. | :12:13. | |
wiretapping of Mr Trump, but as far as them being picked up | :12:14. | :12:15. | |
incidentally, that's a whole different thing. It doesn't seem to | :12:16. | :12:22. | |
need to age to a whole lot. On the other hand, the question of leaks is | :12:23. | :12:25. | |
an interesting one because the president to mix he left office | :12:26. | :12:32. | |
changed the executive order, allowing intelligence to be pushed | :12:33. | :12:37. | |
out to far more people than those who had it before. So the | :12:38. | :12:40. | |
possibility of leaks is enhanced and the population have attentional | :12:41. | :12:46. | |
leakers is increased with the difficulty of detecting leaks, | :12:47. | :12:52. | |
correspondingly decreased. The purpose of what Mr Trump is tweeting | :12:53. | :12:56. | |
though is to try and in some way suggest something illegal had gone | :12:57. | :13:00. | |
on. Surely it is the FBI's job with the thought there was any collusion | :13:01. | :13:03. | |
to pick up whatever they can. That's their job, isn't it? Of course it | :13:04. | :13:11. | |
is. Was nothing illegal. Correct. So they say. So it appears at this | :13:12. | :13:19. | |
time. I don't know of anything to suggest there is anything illegal. | :13:20. | :13:23. | |
Very interesting to get your thoughts, thank you for coming on. | :13:24. | :13:25. | |
Thanks for having me. You know we are living in unusual | :13:26. | :13:28. | |
times when the first day of hearings for America's newest member | :13:29. | :13:31. | |
of the Supreme Court gets upstaged by hearings into Russian spying, | :13:32. | :13:34. | |
even though that Judge will likely be there long after James Comey | :13:35. | :13:38. | |
and Donald Trump have both left Mr Trump's choice for the Supreme | :13:39. | :13:40. | |
Court, Judge Neil Gorsuch, is trying to convince | :13:41. | :13:53. | |
Democrats on the panel that he is the right man | :13:54. | :13:55. | |
for the job. He's from Colorado | :13:56. | :13:57. | |
and he's 49 years old. If confirmed, he would become | :13:58. | :13:59. | |
the youngest member on the bench, and could influence the court's | :14:00. | :14:02. | |
decisions for many years to come. Academically, Judge Gorsuch | :14:03. | :14:04. | |
would fit right in with the other He has degrees from Columbia, | :14:05. | :14:07. | |
Harvard and Oxford. Donald Trump picked him | :14:08. | :14:20. | |
for his conservative outlook and with the stated aim | :14:21. | :14:22. | |
of restoring the conservative Just like the late Antonin Scalia, | :14:23. | :14:25. | |
Judge Gorsuch believes the law should be applied just as it is, | :14:26. | :14:30. | |
without taking into account the legislators' intent | :14:31. | :14:35. | |
or the social context. He's also known as a good writer | :14:36. | :14:37. | |
and is said to be rather fond We'll see if he drops in any | :14:38. | :14:40. | |
Churchill references over Laura Trevelyan is on | :14:41. | :14:44. | |
Capitol Hill for us now. We have just heard from Neil | :14:45. | :14:53. | |
Gorsuch. One of the things the Democrats were seeing if he was | :14:54. | :14:56. | |
independent, he would have criticised the President's statement | :14:57. | :14:59. | |
on judgment -- judges. In his on judgment -- judges. In his | :15:00. | :15:03. | |
opening comments, what he has talked about is that there has been | :15:04. | :15:08. | |
judicial overreach and some of these judges should not be secret | :15:09. | :15:13. | |
legislators. That's right, Neil Gorsuch has just been speaking and | :15:14. | :15:17. | |
he started off by emphasising his love of family, of his wife, but he | :15:18. | :15:22. | |
has very quickly moved to reassure Democrats who are sceptical of him. | :15:23. | :15:26. | |
Democrats want to paint him as a friend of the rich and the powerful, | :15:27. | :15:31. | |
against the little person. Judge Neil Gorsuch has just said in his | :15:32. | :15:35. | |
ten years on the Colorado circuit he has pointed out he has ruled on | :15:36. | :15:42. | |
cases involving the disabled, prisoners, undocumented immigrants, | :15:43. | :15:45. | |
he says that he treats the rich and the board equally. He is really | :15:46. | :15:49. | |
trying to plug the criticism that he knows is coming from the Democrats. | :15:50. | :15:56. | |
He also said that 97% of the 2700 cases that he decided when he was in | :15:57. | :16:01. | |
Colorado that 97% of those cases were decided unanimously. He is | :16:02. | :16:04. | |
trying to present himself as a consensual figure, not as a fire | :16:05. | :16:07. | |
breathing conservative, which is breathing conservative, which is | :16:08. | :16:09. | |
what the Democrats are trying to say he is. Barring some kind of massive | :16:10. | :16:16. | |
bombshell during the course of those hearings, he is going to be the next | :16:17. | :16:21. | |
Supreme Court Justice, isn't he? Yes, most certainly. The question | :16:22. | :16:25. | |
for Democrats is how hard they try and oppose him. Because although | :16:26. | :16:29. | |
technically it's just a simple majority in the Senate to confirm | :16:30. | :16:35. | |
him, 51 votes, the Democrats can use the filibuster and try and top down | :16:36. | :16:38. | |
his nomination which requires 60 votes in the Senate to overturn the | :16:39. | :16:41. | |
filibuster. Remember, Republicans filibuster. Remember, Republicans | :16:42. | :16:46. | |
have 52 senators, Democrats have 48. Republicans can have an equally | :16:47. | :16:50. | |
nuclear option. The cannibal to blow up the filibuster, so Democrats must | :16:51. | :16:54. | |
decide is Neil Gorsuch this charming conservative really the one they | :16:55. | :16:58. | |
need to go for? All the happens if he's replacing Antonin Scalia. | :16:59. | :17:02. | |
Record goes to being with one swing voter. It is the next justice. There | :17:03. | :17:07. | |
are several elderly justices who could retire in the next few years. | :17:08. | :17:11. | |
It is the next one that tipped the balance towards a conservative | :17:12. | :17:15. | |
court. Do it Democrats hold their fire and really go over the next | :17:16. | :17:20. | |
vacancy, or because the fury and that President Obama's | :17:21. | :17:21. | |
wasn't given the benefit of the wasn't given the benefit of the | :17:22. | :17:25. | |
hearing, decide to blow up the whole thing now? For the moment, we will | :17:26. | :17:33. | |
keep our eye on that. Quite a long day. There was one thing that did | :17:34. | :17:39. | |
strike me today. He told Congress he had been investigating these Russian | :17:40. | :17:42. | |
links since July and then I thought, hang on, in October, on October the | :17:43. | :17:49. | |
27th, two weeks before the election, he wrote a letter saying he was | :17:50. | :17:52. | |
investigating Hillary Clinton and yet he didn't make any mention of | :17:53. | :17:57. | |
the fact that he was investigating these Russian links and possible | :17:58. | :18:01. | |
collusion between the Russian Government and the Trump campaign. | :18:02. | :18:02. | |
When some people look at James Comey When some people look at James Comey | :18:03. | :18:07. | |
and think, should you have told us about that? What are you suggesting, | :18:08. | :18:13. | |
at James Comey is not playing fair? It is one of the things... That is | :18:14. | :18:16. | |
because he came out and influence because he came out and influence | :18:17. | :18:21. | |
the election, jeopardised Hillary Clinton's chances and he should have | :18:22. | :18:24. | |
been revealing the fact that the Trump campaign was also under | :18:25. | :18:26. | |
investigation for possible links with Russia. This wasn't -- was what | :18:27. | :18:33. | |
was being suggested this morning. It's been extraordinary morning here | :18:34. | :18:37. | |
in the US. The big picture about the wiretapping, about the allegations | :18:38. | :18:40. | |
that might have been some collusion with the Russians, those have not | :18:41. | :18:44. | |
been confirmed of course, is the question of credibility. At one | :18:45. | :18:49. | |
point in the hearings, James Comey was asked point blank, you are in a | :18:50. | :18:50. | |
former prosecutor, if you have a former prosecutor, if you have a | :18:51. | :18:53. | |
witness list and lied about one thing, how we going to trust the | :18:54. | :18:57. | |
rest of what they say? Can the Americans and the rest of the world | :18:58. | :19:01. | |
trust Donald Trump when he has set a that is plainly, maybe FBI says, not | :19:02. | :19:06. | |
true? I think that is the big question about all of this. It | :19:07. | :19:10. | |
creates a credibility gap at the White House and you sort Shon spies | :19:11. | :19:14. | |
are dancing around like some sort of linguistic contortions, I felt sorry | :19:15. | :19:19. | |
for him. He is saying desperately there is still something there, | :19:20. | :19:23. | |
you've had it from the FBI, the DOJ, Donald Trump was wrong. | :19:24. | :19:34. | |
Fair to say, Katty, the Brexit process is full of unknowns - | :19:35. | :19:37. | |
but today, one certainty: a date, finally. | :19:38. | :19:39. | |
Next Wednesday will be the day the British Prime Minister | :19:40. | :19:43. | |
officially notifies the EU that the UK is leaving the union. | :19:44. | :19:46. | |
When people voted in the referendum last year, it wasn't just | :19:47. | :19:52. | |
about leaving the EU, I think they did vote for change, | :19:53. | :19:56. | |
they voted for a change in the way the country works, | :19:57. | :19:59. | |
to make sure that it works for everyone not | :20:00. | :20:01. | |
And as part of that, we want to build, we have a plan | :20:02. | :20:08. | |
for Britain and p,art of that is about building | :20:09. | :20:10. | |
I think I owe you an apology because I have maligned due for the last few | :20:11. | :20:20. | |
weeks saying that this is never going to get there, it's dragging on | :20:21. | :20:25. | |
for ever and ever. A miracle, we finally have the date. Two years | :20:26. | :20:29. | |
from the 29th of March Britain will leave the European Union. | :20:30. | :20:36. | |
Guaranteed. Yes, she will send the letter on the 29th. He is the UK's | :20:37. | :20:41. | |
ambassador to the EU. It comes four days after the all meet in Italy for | :20:42. | :20:46. | |
the 60th anniversary for the signing of the Treaty of Rome. You would | :20:47. | :20:50. | |
expect this would overshadow it. Will she be the protest at the | :20:51. | :20:55. | |
party? She's not going. Brexit will be the elephant in the room. They | :20:56. | :20:59. | |
will be celebrating the principles of the European Union and one of the | :21:00. | :21:02. | |
biggest members isn't there. If you thought it was difficult to get to | :21:03. | :21:06. | |
this point, we're not even at base camp one. The journey to the summit. | :21:07. | :21:10. | |
It could end so quickly because we've heard today in the newspapers | :21:11. | :21:15. | |
that Jean-Claude Juncker, is saying, if we don't get an agreement on the | :21:16. | :21:19. | |
divorce proceedings, whether or not we get the alimony, the money for | :21:20. | :21:23. | |
Britain to lead at the talking between 20 and 60 billion euros, | :21:24. | :21:29. | |
then there is no discussion. We are quite prepared for Britain to walk | :21:30. | :21:32. | |
away from the table. There is some fairly sizeable things to overcome, | :21:33. | :21:38. | |
even before the negotiating gets under on we start talking about | :21:39. | :21:39. | |
future relationships. Those things future relationships. Those | :21:40. | :21:40. | |
are going to have to be talked are going to have to be talked | :21:41. | :21:44. | |
about, probably starting in June. It will come thick and fast in the | :21:45. | :21:49. | |
summer. More expensive than most divorces that I know about. I did | :21:50. | :21:54. | |
ask about that earlier and we are going to play that on later on in | :21:55. | :21:58. | |
the programme. Her response to what Jean-Claude Juncker was seeing in | :21:59. | :22:01. | |
the press. Let's move on to treat now. | :22:02. | :22:04. | |
Donald Trump has called North American Free Trade agreement | :22:05. | :22:15. | |
Donald Trump is pulled America out of the Pacific countries. | :22:16. | :22:18. | |
Donald Trump has called North American Free Trade agreement | :22:19. | :22:21. | |
He wants to get a better one for America. | :22:22. | :22:24. | |
And that may be bad news for Texas Cattle ranchers. | :22:25. | :22:26. | |
NAFTA eliminates trade barriers between the US, Canada and Mexico. | :22:27. | :22:28. | |
And since it's introduction in 1994, exports of US beef have soared. | :22:29. | :22:31. | |
Michelle Fleury went to Texas to find out. | :22:32. | :22:35. | |
This is a fifth generation Texas cattle rancher. | :22:36. | :22:37. | |
My family's been doing this since 1915. | :22:38. | :22:38. | |
His fortunes are tied to international trade. | :22:39. | :22:44. | |
A significant number of his cattle end up being sold abroad, | :22:45. | :22:48. | |
including just south of the border in Mexico. | :22:49. | :22:52. | |
We've been dealing in international trade since 1933 when we first | :22:53. | :22:55. | |
So the export market is important to you? | :22:56. | :23:01. | |
The export market is very important to our organisation. | :23:02. | :23:05. | |
Some years, I have seen our international sales be | :23:06. | :23:09. | |
85% of all the business that we did that year. | :23:10. | :23:15. | |
And the North American Free Trade Agreement is really | :23:16. | :23:17. | |
It allows his beef to enter Mexico duty-free. | :23:18. | :23:22. | |
So any changes could hurt him and other American cattle ranchers. | :23:23. | :23:27. | |
Donald Trump enjoyed strong support in rural communities, like this one, | :23:28. | :23:31. | |
Now, the challenge is can he come up with a trade policy that can help | :23:32. | :23:37. | |
In the state capital, Austin, the Texas Agriculture | :23:38. | :23:45. | |
Sid Miller was part of the Trump campaign's advisory council. | :23:46. | :23:52. | |
Like the President, he believes changing NAFTA is a good thing,e ven | :23:53. | :23:56. | |
I said, "When this President takes office, it's going to be a rocky | :23:57. | :24:07. | |
start, cos he's going to upset people, he's going | :24:08. | :24:12. | |
We're going to re-negotitate deals that people had the sweet deal, | :24:13. | :24:16. | |
the sweet end of it, they're not going to | :24:17. | :24:18. | |
The honeymoon with the cattle industry isn't over yet, | :24:19. | :24:21. | |
According to cattle dealer, Jenning Steen, Trump's decision | :24:22. | :24:24. | |
to walk away from a Trans-Pacific partnership, a trade pact with Asia, | :24:25. | :24:27. | |
We can quanitfy TPP today, so what could be going to those | :24:28. | :24:31. | |
countries today is about $400,000 worth of beef that would be | :24:32. | :24:37. | |
Ranchers fear they may end up a casualty of | :24:38. | :24:46. | |
They're hoping his tough stance on NAFTA is just | :24:47. | :24:50. | |
One very important piece of news. I don't know how happy you are today | :24:51. | :25:12. | |
and I'm concerned because you are not living in the world's happiest | :25:13. | :25:17. | |
country. If you were in Norway, that would make you very happy indeed. | :25:18. | :25:21. | |
I'm not sure why the UN is spending their money on this but they have | :25:22. | :25:26. | |
came up with... There you go! You would be like that gentleman. | :25:27. | :25:32. | |
Weirdos America feature? America features number 14. Sad, right? You | :25:33. | :25:38. | |
will be a lot happier when you go on holiday next week. | :25:39. | :25:44. | |
You're watching One Hundred Days from BBC News. | :25:45. | :25:46. | |
Still to come for viewers on the BBC News Channel and BBC | :25:47. | :25:48. | |
World News: We talk to the EU's Foreign Affairs Representative, | :25:49. | :25:51. | |
as Britain names the day it will confirm it's leaving Europe. | :25:52. | :25:55. | |
We will look at the methods used by the Russians to spy on that | :25:56. | :26:00. | |
election. That's still to come on 100 | :26:01. | :26:02. | |
Days, from BBC News. Things will improve later in the | :26:03. | :26:13. | |
week but it hasn't been a very promising start to the week and | :26:14. | :26:17. | |
we've got much colder air coming in from the north-west, bringing lots | :26:18. | :26:21. | |
of showers. Choosing this band of cloud that brought the rain. Really, | :26:22. | :26:26. | |
through the rest of the night, it is clear skies and showers, most of the | :26:27. | :26:31. | |
showers in the north and west and as the air gets colder and colder, | :26:32. | :26:35. | |
those showers will turn more wintry, more snow falling in Scotland and | :26:36. | :26:38. | |
Northern Ireland. This is the main focus of the wintry weather and with | :26:39. | :26:42. | |
those temperatures, we will not despite snow but ice as well. They | :26:43. | :26:47. | |
are that in mind overnight and tomorrow, Russia if you are | :26:48. | :26:52. | |
travelling in Scotland and Ireland, tricky travelling conditions not | :26:53. | :26:55. | |
just on the high-level routes. Some of the snow at lower levels will | :26:56. | :26:59. | |
melt but the snow will be going over the higher ground. Not much of that | :27:00. | :27:03. | |
getting to Easter in Scotland here. It should be dry overnight and first | :27:04. | :27:07. | |
thing in the morning. Sunshine to come. Sunshine across England and | :27:08. | :27:11. | |
Wales, a scattering of showers out west, feeding through the Bristol | :27:12. | :27:15. | |
Channel. For many central and eastern parts of England, you will | :27:16. | :27:20. | |
notice a chill in the air, despite the sunshine. As the wind picks up, | :27:21. | :27:25. | |
more servers. Showers from late morning onwards, more frequent out | :27:26. | :27:29. | |
towards the west. The showers could be heavy and hail and thunder as | :27:30. | :27:34. | |
looking at these sort of looking at these sort of | :27:35. | :27:36. | |
temperatures, disappointing for this type of year. Temperatures will drop | :27:37. | :27:41. | |
quickly when the ship was come along with gusty winds. There is a band of | :27:42. | :27:46. | |
more organised wet weather developing the south-west of wheels, | :27:47. | :27:50. | |
that moves northwards into the very cold air in Scotland, that could | :27:51. | :27:53. | |
lead to more snow in southern Scotland and the far north of | :27:54. | :27:56. | |
England overnight and first thing on Wednesday. Lifting onto the hills, | :27:57. | :28:01. | |
keep wet weather going down the eastern side of the country, another | :28:02. | :28:05. | |
chilly day. The chance of some rain in the south-east on Thursday but | :28:06. | :28:10. | |
it's starting to dry off from Thursday onwards. High pressure | :28:11. | :28:13. | |
building and across the UK. Things will improve as the week goes on. | :28:14. | :28:17. | |
Losing all those wintry showers, starting to dry up by the time we | :28:18. | :28:22. | |
get to the weekend. Some very pleasant sunshine around, but with | :28:23. | :28:26. | |
clear skies overnight, still on the chilly side. | :28:27. | :30:11. | |
The head of the FBI has confirmed that his agency is conducting | :30:12. | :30:17. | |
an investigation into alleged links between President Trump's | :30:18. | :30:19. | |
campaign team and Russia during last year's election. | :30:20. | :30:21. | |
After Friday's difficult summit with Angela Merkel, | :30:22. | :30:22. | |
we'll speak to the EU's High Representative for Foreign Affairs | :30:23. | :30:25. | |
about President Trump's relations with Europe. | :30:26. | :30:38. | |
As well as confirming that there is an investigation | :30:39. | :30:41. | |
into possible collusion between individuals | :30:42. | :30:43. | |
in the Trump campaign team and the Russian government, | :30:44. | :30:47. | |
today's hearing with the heads of the FBI and NSA also gave some | :30:48. | :30:50. | |
fascinating insights into why the agencies believe | :30:51. | :30:52. | |
the Russians intervened, and how they may have done so. | :30:53. | :30:54. | |
Here they are answering a question about how Russian activity | :30:55. | :30:57. | |
in this election differed from previous campaigns. | :30:58. | :31:03. | |
I'd say the biggest difference from my perspective | :31:04. | :31:05. | |
was both the use of cyber - the hacking as a vehicle | :31:06. | :31:07. | |
to physically gain access to information, to extract that | :31:08. | :31:10. | |
information, and then to make it widely publicly available | :31:11. | :31:12. | |
The only thing that I'd add is that they were unusually loud | :31:13. | :31:20. | |
It's almost as if they didn't care that we knew what they were doing, | :31:21. | :31:30. | |
or that they wanted us to see what they were doing. | :31:31. | :31:33. | |
It was very noisy, their intrusions in different institutions. | :31:34. | :31:44. | |
Let's talk now to Newsnight's diplomatic editor, Mark Urban. | :31:45. | :31:48. | |
What do you make of that last point he was making, that they were | :31:49. | :31:52. | |
unusually loud and it was like they didn't care or wanted us to | :31:53. | :31:59. | |
know? I think that refer to certain types of cyber attacks, certain | :32:00. | :32:03. | |
groups being used, not making much effort to disguise it, which plays | :32:04. | :32:06. | |
into the sense that we also heard from him today, director Comey, that | :32:07. | :32:16. | |
Vladimir Putin had a real grudge against Hillary Clinton, used the | :32:17. | :32:21. | |
word hated her, that he wanted to assist her opponent in the election, | :32:22. | :32:25. | |
coming quite close to seeing what this whole investigation is | :32:26. | :32:28. | |
supposedly about, whether there was some meaningful connection between | :32:29. | :32:33. | |
Russia and the Trump campaign, an issue on which of course he was not | :32:34. | :32:38. | |
going to comment directly today. Used some technical language along | :32:39. | :32:42. | |
the way, fleeing Russia had used some kind of cutout with WikiLeaks | :32:43. | :32:49. | |
when disseminating information? -- used some technical language along | :32:50. | :32:53. | |
the way, saying that Russia. Performing a hacking, extracting the | :32:54. | :32:58. | |
files, if you like, the servers, and they then pass them to the people, | :32:59. | :33:03. | |
who are people who if you like where well-known Kremlin fronts, and the | :33:04. | :33:11. | |
intelligence community contends, WikiLeaks. But the intermediary is | :33:12. | :33:15. | |
the cutout... Meaning you cannot trace who it was? Exactly, so there | :33:16. | :33:20. | |
was no direct connection. Let's face it, that is a pretty serious | :33:21. | :33:25. | |
military intelligence operation well-known in Western espionage, and | :33:26. | :33:28. | |
WikiLeaks. They had to be a middle person and that is what he was | :33:29. | :33:34. | |
contending. The other thing James Comey said with absolute certainty | :33:35. | :33:37. | |
is that the Russians will be back. He mentioned the 2020 election. What | :33:38. | :33:42. | |
are Western intelligence agencies able to do to try to prevent | :33:43. | :33:47. | |
Russians, if they are inclined to keep coming back and hacking into | :33:48. | :33:51. | |
elections, from doing so? I think if you were to get the briefing from | :33:52. | :33:58. | |
them, Katty, they would start off with all the basic security things, | :33:59. | :34:03. | |
don't make your password of the word password, something we have heard in | :34:04. | :34:06. | |
the context of John Podesta, then go through all the other things you can | :34:07. | :34:10. | |
do to strengthen your security systems, then the more covert stuff, | :34:11. | :34:14. | |
the steps they can take to try to thwart them by cyber methods, but | :34:15. | :34:19. | |
the last time we were talking it was about that WikiLeaks leak of the CIA | :34:20. | :34:22. | |
hacking tools, and of course one aspect of that was the CIA used all | :34:23. | :34:29. | |
kinds of methods designed to disguise the true identity of who | :34:30. | :34:32. | |
was doing the hacking, ie including Russian tools, so the waters are | :34:33. | :34:37. | |
very muddy here in terms of actual attributing, and if this happens in | :34:38. | :34:41. | |
the French or German elections, those officials may make warnings | :34:42. | :34:44. | |
about this, but how will it be definitively kneeled down? One thing | :34:45. | :34:48. | |
I should mention the both of you is that the US intelligence report | :34:49. | :34:54. | |
office which came out in January gave a pretty clear hence they were | :34:55. | :34:58. | |
not lying just on cyber clues and interception but that they had | :34:59. | :35:01. | |
agents in these Russian organisations who said, you know, we | :35:02. | :35:05. | |
did it, and this is how. Fascinating. For the moment, Mark, | :35:06. | :35:08. | |
thank you very much. President Trump's relationship | :35:09. | :35:11. | |
with the EU is complicated During his election | :35:12. | :35:13. | |
campaign, and even once he'd won the presidency, | :35:14. | :35:16. | |
he was openly critical. He's called the EU 'bureaucratic', | :35:17. | :35:18. | |
a 'disaster' - he's even suggested that the EU's could | :35:19. | :35:20. | |
one day 'break up.' So it might have been | :35:21. | :35:22. | |
with some trepidation that the EU's High Representative | :35:23. | :35:24. | |
for Foreign Affairs and Security Earlier today, I sat down | :35:25. | :35:27. | |
with Federica Mogherini. Federica Mogherini, we are now 60 | :35:28. | :35:32. | |
days into the new administration What do you make of Mr | :35:33. | :35:35. | |
Trump and his policies? I see it is still | :35:36. | :35:45. | |
a work in progress. This is also why I'm | :35:46. | :35:47. | |
here now for the second time in a month or so, | :35:48. | :35:49. | |
and we have intense meetings with the administration | :35:50. | :35:53. | |
at all levels. I'll be seeing | :35:54. | :35:54. | |
Vice President Pence for the second time, here in Washington, | :35:55. | :35:57. | |
after he paid a visit to the EU And with all my interlocutors, | :35:58. | :35:59. | |
I stress the European Union priorities, I find them | :36:00. | :36:07. | |
in a listening mode, and there are for sure common | :36:08. | :36:09. | |
grounds to be covered, especially our work on Syria | :36:10. | :36:12. | |
and other things. You've actually been very critical | :36:13. | :36:14. | |
on a range of issues - on the Mexican wall, | :36:15. | :36:17. | |
on refugees, on the embassy Is this going to be a difficult | :36:18. | :36:20. | |
relationship between the EU We have on some issues | :36:21. | :36:25. | |
different opinions. On other things - | :36:26. | :36:36. | |
you mentioned the embassy move. Well, it hasn't happened so far, | :36:37. | :36:38. | |
so I guess we share the same views. On the Iran deal, also, | :36:39. | :36:41. | |
I got reassurances of the fact that what is important for the US | :36:42. | :36:44. | |
administration is a complete and strict implementation | :36:45. | :36:48. | |
of the deal which is also the case for us, and we will enter | :36:49. | :36:50. | |
into a more pragmatic But he has called | :36:51. | :36:53. | |
the EU a disaster... And he sent his vice president | :36:54. | :37:00. | |
to an official visit to the European Union institutions, | :37:01. | :37:02. | |
saying that they're looking forward to increase and deepen | :37:03. | :37:05. | |
the relationship with the EU. So who do you believe, | :37:06. | :37:07. | |
Mr Trump or Mr Pence? I always believe what is said | :37:08. | :37:14. | |
in the official meetings. Your boss, Jean-Claude Juncker, | :37:15. | :37:16. | |
this morning, in an interview over the weekend, in a German newspaper, | :37:17. | :37:20. | |
has said that the UK will need to prepare itself to be | :37:21. | :37:23. | |
treated as a third country. Well, that's what the Prime Minister | :37:24. | :37:26. | |
of the UK has decided to do, and the British people have | :37:27. | :37:36. | |
decided to do. Once the UK will be out | :37:37. | :37:38. | |
of the Union, which is not the case for now, it will be a third country | :37:39. | :37:42. | |
because it will not There is no alternative to being | :37:43. | :37:44. | |
a member state or a third country. You can be best friends, | :37:45. | :37:59. | |
and we have many best friends in the world, | :38:00. | :38:03. | |
but if not a member you're out. But he also said that the terms | :38:04. | :38:06. | |
of the Brexit deal are going to be so odorous on the United Kingdom | :38:07. | :38:11. | |
that the other members of the European Union | :38:12. | :38:13. | |
are going to suddenly fall back Well, that has started | :38:14. | :38:16. | |
already I think. Not because of the terms | :38:17. | :38:18. | |
or the conditions of the Brexit, but simply by the fact that exactly | :38:19. | :38:21. | |
nine months after the referendum the UK Government has not even asked | :38:22. | :38:24. | |
to start formal negotiations, so this shows that | :38:25. | :38:27. | |
democracy is complicated. There are internal discussions | :38:28. | :38:38. | |
in the United Kingdom going on. We know now that Article 51 | :38:39. | :38:40. | |
will be invoked next week. It is exactly nine months afterward, | :38:41. | :38:43. | |
so I see the UK Government has taken its time, which means | :38:44. | :38:46. | |
that they have some Mr Juncker also said that talks | :38:47. | :38:48. | |
cannot begin until the UK agrees I mean, if you're going to set that | :38:49. | :38:52. | |
kind of condition before the negotiations even start it | :38:53. | :38:56. | |
doesn't bode very well, does that, I can tell you in my field, | :38:57. | :38:59. | |
foreign and security policy, we have decided unanimously, | :39:00. | :39:03. | |
at 28 - because we are still 28 and we will be 28 for the next | :39:04. | :39:06. | |
couple of years, at least - that we set up a joint military | :39:07. | :39:09. | |
command for all the European Union We decided that unanimously, at 28, | :39:10. | :39:12. | |
with the United Kingdom just a couple of weeks ago, | :39:13. | :39:16. | |
so negotiations have This is because the UK needed | :39:17. | :39:18. | |
more time to prepare. Thank you. While we were off era, | :39:19. | :39:42. | |
the G20 finance directors met and they all signed up to this | :39:43. | :39:47. | |
communiqu , which as usual, but the Americans really resisted the idea | :39:48. | :39:50. | |
of putting in there that all trade should be free. Obviously there is | :39:51. | :39:57. | |
this American first policy the White House is pushing. Not very keen to | :39:58. | :40:14. | |
put in that it should be free trade, Steve Minish? -- yes, he comes from | :40:15. | :40:24. | |
Goldman Sachs, and usually is taking a big effort on this language, which | :40:25. | :40:30. | |
is really pro forma. It has never been a big deal before, but making | :40:31. | :40:35. | |
sure it was sending a clear signal. It was interesting listening to | :40:36. | :40:40. | |
Federica Mogherini there, because there she was preaching | :40:41. | :40:43. | |
globalisation and free trade, preaching alliances, and here you | :40:44. | :40:46. | |
have a White House again this weekend making it very clear that | :40:47. | :40:50. | |
that is not the path they are wanting to take. Let's get a little | :40:51. | :40:54. | |
bit of other news now from around the world... | :40:55. | :40:56. | |
A short while ago at the White House, Donald Trump | :40:57. | :40:58. | |
had his first meeting with the Iraqi prime minister, Haider al-Abadi. | :40:59. | :41:01. | |
It comes as Mr Trump continues to consider his options | :41:02. | :41:03. | |
for defeating the so-called Islamic State. | :41:04. | :41:05. | |
He campaign on a promise to dramatically ramp up the fight | :41:06. | :41:08. | |
against the IS and has vowed to eradicate what he called | :41:09. | :41:10. | |
The five top candidates in the French presidential election | :41:11. | :41:22. | |
are about to face off in the first of several televised debates. | :41:23. | :41:30. | |
Centrist frontrunner Emmanuel Macron and far-right leader | :41:31. | :41:33. | |
Marine Le Pen are expected to come under attack - | :41:34. | :41:35. | |
particularly from conservative nominee, Francois Fillon. | :41:36. | :41:36. | |
Once a frontrunner, he has slipped in the polls since becoming | :41:37. | :41:39. | |
embroiled in a damaging expenses scandal. | :41:40. | :41:45. | |
Sean Spicer was talking just an hour ago. I often watch when he comes out | :41:46. | :41:50. | |
to the podium, and think, how is he going to defend this one? Sometimes | :41:51. | :41:55. | |
he gets himself into these verbal contortions trying to defend the | :41:56. | :41:58. | |
president. Why do you think he is not just honest about some of these | :41:59. | :42:02. | |
things and says, look, this one, we're not too keen on, but can we | :42:03. | :42:07. | |
focus on some of the business of government? I had a very interesting | :42:08. | :42:10. | |
story this weekend that might explain | :42:11. | :42:21. | |
some of that. Like you, I almost felt sorry for Sean Spicer, coming | :42:22. | :42:24. | |
out today after such conclusive testimony from FBI director Comey, | :42:25. | :42:27. | |
but it is that this is a president who does not want to back down and | :42:28. | :42:30. | |
does not want his staff to back down on his behalf. For example, over the | :42:31. | :42:33. | |
GCHQ thing, he didn't like the idea that there had been any apology. He | :42:34. | :42:37. | |
didn't want his staff to apologise to the Brits over the GCHQ | :42:38. | :42:42. | |
allegation. He wasn't furious about the GCHQ allegation being made, | :42:43. | :42:46. | |
Christian, he was furious about the idea someone had apologised for it, | :42:47. | :42:50. | |
and I think that gives an indication of the kind of pressure Sean Spicer | :42:51. | :42:53. | |
is under every single day when he goes out there to make sure he | :42:54. | :42:58. | |
defends his boss. That is it, Christian, from jaw-mac for this | :42:59. | :43:04. | |
week. Join us at the same time tomorrow. Thank you for watching. | :43:05. | :43:05. |