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in 100 days throughout the evening here on BBC News on events in | :00:00. | :00:00. | |
Florida. The leaders of the world's two | :00:00. | :00:00. | |
biggest powers meet in Florida. There's not much love lost | :00:00. | :00:10. | |
but they have urgent The President has long cast | :00:11. | :00:12. | |
China as the villain Will Donald Trump and Xi Jinping | :00:13. | :00:17. | |
find middle ground? It could be a challenge given | :00:18. | :00:22. | |
Mr Trump's aggressive anti-China rhetoric which rallied his | :00:23. | :00:25. | |
supporters on the campaign trail. We can't continue to allow China | :00:26. | :00:29. | |
to rape our country! Amidst a cloud of controversy, | :00:30. | :00:37. | |
the Congressman heading an investigation into Russian | :00:38. | :00:39. | |
interference in the US election On this vote, the ayes | :00:40. | :00:41. | |
are 48, the nays are 52. The decision of the chair does not | :00:42. | :00:49. | |
stand as the judgment of the Senate. Republican senators have voted | :00:50. | :00:56. | |
to change the rules so they can confirm President Trump's nominee | :00:57. | :01:01. | |
for the Supreme Court. Also today: One week before Turkey | :01:02. | :01:04. | |
votes on whether to give President Erdogan greater powers, | :01:05. | :01:07. | |
we have a report from his hometown. They call it the | :01:08. | :01:11. | |
Weekend White House. We'll take a look through | :01:12. | :01:14. | |
the keyhole of tthe Presidential Hello, I am Katty Kay in Washington, | :01:15. | :01:17. | |
Christian Fraser is in London. It is day 77 of the Trump presidency | :01:18. | :01:32. | |
and a defining moment A short time ago, Donald Trump left | :01:33. | :01:35. | |
a very rainy Washington to fly down to his Mar-a-Lago resort in Florida | :01:36. | :01:41. | |
for his first meeting with Chinese Mr Trump is already warning that it | :01:42. | :01:45. | |
will be a very difficult meeting. The leaders will dine together this | :01:46. | :01:52. | |
evening before formal President Trump wants a better deal | :01:53. | :01:54. | |
for America on trade and more cooperation from Beijing on North | :01:55. | :01:59. | |
Korea. But after candidate Trump | :02:00. | :02:06. | |
was so harsh on China, what kind of concessions can he get | :02:07. | :02:08. | |
from the other global superpower? After all, remember what he said | :02:09. | :02:11. | |
during last year's campaign? We can't continue to allow China | :02:12. | :02:14. | |
to rape our country! They have taken our money, | :02:15. | :02:16. | |
they have taken our jobs. America has lost 70,000 | :02:17. | :02:20. | |
factories since China entered When you look at China, | :02:21. | :02:30. | |
when you look at every country, every trade deal | :02:31. | :02:35. | |
we have is horrible. It's going to be only America | :02:36. | :02:39. | |
first, America first! Heading to the summit, | :02:40. | :02:50. | |
Mr Trump made it clear today But foreign policy issues | :02:51. | :02:52. | |
are already interrupting Today in Florida, he'll talk | :02:53. | :02:59. | |
about the increasingly urgent Kim Jong-un has fired more rockets | :03:00. | :03:04. | |
this past five years than his father and grandfather combined - | :03:05. | :03:09. | |
the latest on the eve Barbara Plett-Usher is outside | :03:10. | :03:12. | |
Trump's Mar-a-Lago club in Palm Beach, where the talks | :03:13. | :03:18. | |
will be held. How high are expectations that this | :03:19. | :03:32. | |
summit? There is a lot of anticipation for this summit because | :03:33. | :03:36. | |
these are the two leaders of the two most significant global powers in | :03:37. | :03:40. | |
the world. They have not met yet and there has been contention around the | :03:41. | :03:45. | |
relationship because of Donald Trump stirring things up with his | :03:46. | :03:48. | |
anti-China rhetoric and it is important for them to get along. | :03:49. | :03:56. | |
There is anticipation. Is of expectation and how things may come | :03:57. | :04:02. | |
out, not so much. Trade will be raised. Mr Trump is talked about it. | :04:03. | :04:08. | |
They were not settled that in this visit, but perhaps the Chinese | :04:09. | :04:12. | |
president will offer sweeteners to try to ease the tension is a little | :04:13. | :04:18. | |
bit, like investing in jobs and infrastructure in the United States. | :04:19. | :04:22. | |
North Korea is a big issue for the Americans. They feel that North | :04:23. | :04:26. | |
Koreans are poised to get a mess strong enough to buy it nuclear | :04:27. | :04:31. | |
warheads in the next couple of years so it is not business as usual | :04:32. | :04:36. | |
there. They want China to put more pressure on North Korea, which China | :04:37. | :04:40. | |
is open to but not completely because it does not want the regime | :04:41. | :04:45. | |
to collapse. These are very big economic and security issues but the | :04:46. | :04:49. | |
key thing they are hoping for is that the two men develop a working | :04:50. | :04:53. | |
relationship and this informal setting is supposed to help them do | :04:54. | :04:57. | |
that. We have had President Trump rolling back a bit lately, so the | :04:58. | :05:04. | |
environment may be better, the Chinese know he is unpredictable, | :05:05. | :05:08. | |
they arbitrary there may still be some corruption, but President Trump | :05:09. | :05:16. | |
by no means has all the cards in his hands. He has not sorted out his | :05:17. | :05:22. | |
full China policy, he will improvise a bit, and the Chinese do not | :05:23. | :05:26. | |
improvise, they will come very well prepared. You are looking at night | :05:27. | :05:35. | |
pictures of the airport close by and you can see there in the picture, | :05:36. | :05:45. | |
Rex Tillotson. The Chinese president is already on his way to the resort. | :05:46. | :05:50. | |
I do not know if we can show our viewers a picture of the China | :05:51. | :05:54. | |
Airways plane. Palm Beach airport is tiny. It is amazing how many | :05:55. | :05:59. | |
dignitaries this airport is having to get because President Trump... | :06:00. | :06:03. | |
There you go, massive plane, tiny airport! Wrecked was in the shot. I | :06:04. | :06:14. | |
understand that President's son-in-law, who was influenced, the | :06:15. | :06:20. | |
trip to the Chinese through the back channels, and there was talk it had | :06:21. | :06:26. | |
to be in Mar-a-Lago because the Japanese Prime Minister had been | :06:27. | :06:29. | |
there a few weeks ago, so there is strict protocol to these events. | :06:30. | :06:31. | |
People in the US and in China will have their own opinions on how | :06:32. | :06:35. | |
The BBC's Rajini Vaidyanathan and Stephen McDonell have been | :06:36. | :06:38. | |
finding out more in Washington and Beijing. | :06:39. | :06:50. | |
Camaraderie, co-operation, maybe let us off a little bit | :06:51. | :06:53. | |
President Trump likes to talk tough on China. | :06:54. | :07:03. | |
Throughout the election, he promised to bring jobs back | :07:04. | :07:05. | |
On the other hand, China's president, Xi Jinping, | :07:06. | :07:12. | |
says that free trade is the answer and that this is what will bring | :07:13. | :07:16. | |
What do you think President Trump should be saying to his | :07:17. | :07:21. | |
I'm sorry, I apologise, I have been perhaps unfair to you. | :07:22. | :07:28. | |
I'm one of those people that think that we should make more here. | :07:29. | :07:43. | |
They are not a true democracy, that's the worst thing about China. | :07:44. | :07:46. | |
Who do you think gets the most out of it? | :07:47. | :08:08. | |
Whether they like it or not, when Xi Jinping and Donald Trump | :08:09. | :08:14. | |
are sitting across the table from one another, this | :08:15. | :08:17. | |
is probably the world's most important connection. | :08:18. | :08:20. | |
But it's not just money and trade that drives the relationship. | :08:21. | :08:25. | |
When it comes to climate change or getting North Korea | :08:26. | :08:27. | |
to contain its nuclear ambitions, America needs China onside. | :08:28. | :08:42. | |
Gary Locke was US Ambassador to China under President Obama, | :08:43. | :08:45. | |
for whom he also served as Secretary of Commerce. | :08:46. | :08:47. | |
The board Trump's tough talk on China make a working relationship | :08:48. | :09:02. | |
between these two superpowers easier or harder? It makes it harder | :09:03. | :09:10. | |
because the Chinese are very wary of Donald Trump as president. He has | :09:11. | :09:15. | |
walked back a lot of the rhetoric he made during the campaign, he did not | :09:16. | :09:20. | |
impose on day one tariffs on all Chinese goods coming into the US | :09:21. | :09:26. | |
comic he did not declare China currency manipulator, if anything, | :09:27. | :09:28. | |
the Chinese have been propping up the currency when other countries | :09:29. | :09:33. | |
are devaluing the currency. But there are many issues confronting | :09:34. | :09:39. | |
China and the United States and the world is looking for leadership from | :09:40. | :09:44. | |
both countries to sell some of these top issues from terrorism to | :09:45. | :09:47. | |
instability in the Middle East to strife in Africa, North Korea and | :09:48. | :09:56. | |
climate change. The situation in North Korea might account for the | :09:57. | :10:02. | |
fact he has not imposed tariffs and has walked back some of his | :10:03. | :10:07. | |
rhetoric. What more do you think Donald Trump can get out of China | :10:08. | :10:12. | |
when it comes to North Korea and enforcing sanctions? China has | :10:13. | :10:19. | |
actually been working with the United States in supporting many | :10:20. | :10:24. | |
initiatives of the UN and the US in terms of sanctions against North | :10:25. | :10:29. | |
Korea. We've got to tighten the screws even more. China is the for | :10:30. | :10:37. | |
North Korea and China has great influence over North Korea but as | :10:38. | :10:41. | |
North Korea becomes even more reckless and unpredictable with its | :10:42. | :10:47. | |
young leader, who is mass executing even his relatives, China is getting | :10:48. | :10:50. | |
worried about this young leader because this guy could even turn on | :10:51. | :10:55. | |
them and they are very fearful about the collapse of North Korea because | :10:56. | :11:00. | |
they do not want a unified Korea and becoming a democracy. They do not | :11:01. | :11:05. | |
want a democratic career on the doorstep of China. China has every | :11:06. | :11:10. | |
incentive to work with the United States to stop the development of | :11:11. | :11:13. | |
nuclear weapons but they also want to make sure that North Korea stays | :11:14. | :11:19. | |
as a separate communist country and is not invaded by South Korea. If | :11:20. | :11:23. | |
North Korea no longer has nuclear weapons. But at some points, they | :11:24. | :11:29. | |
will have to make a choice because although the very keen to resist | :11:30. | :11:33. | |
this American pressure, could lead to something else, you could have an | :11:34. | :11:38. | |
American military strike, you could have South Korea and Japan | :11:39. | :11:41. | |
developing their own nuclear programmes if these missiles keep | :11:42. | :11:49. | |
being fired. They are making that choice, they are working with the | :11:50. | :11:52. | |
United States and the UN and these talks between both presidents will | :11:53. | :11:59. | |
talk about other strategies the two can deploy to tighten the screws on | :12:00. | :12:05. | |
North Korea because China knows that, if unchecked, or the other | :12:06. | :12:08. | |
options are unacceptable. They do not want South Korea and Japan | :12:09. | :12:14. | |
having nuclear weapons, they do not want South Korea deploying missiles | :12:15. | :12:19. | |
supplied by the states, they do not want to see North Korea collapse, so | :12:20. | :12:24. | |
they have every incentive to really try to convince North Korea not to | :12:25. | :12:29. | |
develop a nuclear weapon and they have concerns about the unproductive | :12:30. | :12:35. | |
of this leader of North Korea. -- unpredictability. This is a big test | :12:36. | :12:42. | |
for Donald Trump because we have shown the rhetoric to the campaign, | :12:43. | :12:46. | |
not particularly measured. He somehow has to soften the tone these | :12:47. | :12:53. | |
next few days while at the same time not selling out. They want him to be | :12:54. | :12:59. | |
tough. This week, we have the Middle Eastern Russia and North Korea and | :13:00. | :13:04. | |
China, the two biggest foreign policy challenges the Donald Trump | :13:05. | :13:08. | |
faces, and China is particularly tricky because of that rhetoric. I | :13:09. | :13:12. | |
cannot tell you how many times when I travelled around the country | :13:13. | :13:17. | |
people would cite China's trade policies. They knew the chapter on | :13:18. | :13:23. | |
dates about when China had stolen American jobs. This is a big deal | :13:24. | :13:27. | |
for American workers and Donald Trump's supporters. If he looks like | :13:28. | :13:32. | |
he is caving in, that will be a problem for him politically, but on | :13:33. | :13:36. | |
the other hand, he needs China when it comes to North Korea, so he has | :13:37. | :13:42. | |
got juggling act to do. It always looks very different from inside the | :13:43. | :13:44. | |
oval Office! Let's start with the story | :13:45. | :13:46. | |
of Devin Nunes, the chair He is temporarily stepping down | :13:47. | :13:50. | |
from the panel that is investigating claims of Russian interference | :13:51. | :13:54. | |
in last year's American election. A few weeks ago, Mr Nunes told | :13:55. | :13:58. | |
reporters he believed Mr Trump or members of the transition team | :13:59. | :14:02. | |
may have been incidentally caught up in foreign surveillance | :14:03. | :14:06. | |
by the American spy agencies. He cited dozens of intelligence | :14:07. | :14:09. | |
reports he described as classified. We later discovered those documents | :14:10. | :14:15. | |
had been provided to him by White House officials, | :14:16. | :14:18. | |
unbeknown to the rest His decision to step | :14:19. | :14:20. | |
aside was made shortly after the House Committee on Ethics | :14:21. | :14:26. | |
announced it was investigating Mr Nunes over allegations he may | :14:27. | :14:30. | |
have made unauthorized disclosures The House Speaker, Paul Ryan, | :14:31. | :14:33. | |
gave this reaction. First of all, Devin Nunes has | :14:34. | :14:39. | |
earned my trust over many years for his integrity and dedication | :14:40. | :14:42. | |
to the critical work that the intelligence community does | :14:43. | :14:44. | |
to keep Americans safe. He is eager to demonstrate | :14:45. | :14:48. | |
to the ethics committee that he has has filed all proper | :14:49. | :14:53. | |
guidelines and laws. In the meantime, it is clear this | :14:54. | :14:57. | |
process would be a distraction to the House intelligence | :14:58. | :15:00. | |
committee's investigation into Russian interference | :15:01. | :15:02. | |
in our election, so Chairman Nunes has offered to step aside | :15:03. | :15:04. | |
as the lead Republican on this particular probe, | :15:05. | :15:06. | |
and I fully support his decision. I've been speaking to | :15:07. | :15:17. | |
the Republican Congressman Scott Congressman Scott Taylor, the news | :15:18. | :15:19. | |
that Devin Nunes is stepping aside from investigations into Russia, | :15:20. | :15:26. | |
does that suggest to you that he is not capable | :15:27. | :15:29. | |
of carrying out an investigation into something as serious as Russian | :15:30. | :15:32. | |
meddling in the US election? No, it doesn't signal | :15:33. | :15:40. | |
that to me at all. Actually, I think it's | :15:41. | :15:42. | |
the responsible and the prudent thing for the chairman to do, | :15:43. | :15:45. | |
and I support his decision to step aside temporarily | :15:46. | :15:47. | |
while there is an ethics I think he's capable of doing it, | :15:48. | :15:49. | |
of course, but, at the same time, you don't want that cloud over | :15:50. | :15:54. | |
the committee while they are trying to conduct a serious investigation | :15:55. | :15:57. | |
with an ethics investigation So I think he's being responsible | :15:58. | :16:00. | |
and they are doing the right thing. But the cloud is that he's | :16:01. | :16:04. | |
effectively too close to the White House to carry | :16:05. | :16:07. | |
this out impartially. What I'm saying is there is a cloud | :16:08. | :16:09. | |
over them while there's an ethics investigation into the chairman | :16:10. | :16:14. | |
himself, so I think it's the responsible thing for him to do, | :16:15. | :16:17. | |
to step aside and allow for someone to step up and carry out | :16:18. | :16:20. | |
serious investigation. Scott Taylor, we are now heading | :16:21. | :16:22. | |
into the first recess, big recess, since you came into office | :16:23. | :16:27. | |
and were elected on the Trump wave back in November, | :16:28. | :16:30. | |
you joined the president. I think there are pluses and | :16:31. | :16:49. | |
minuses. This is a man who is a businessman and not a typical | :16:50. | :16:53. | |
politician, he does not understand the whole thing with Washington, so | :16:54. | :16:56. | |
there is some adjustment there. He has done a lot of good things in | :16:57. | :17:02. | |
terms of things for the economy, our economy is doing really well, there | :17:03. | :17:08. | |
is a President Trump effect on the border that has reduced crossings. | :17:09. | :17:12. | |
At the same time, there have been statements that are not good, of | :17:13. | :17:17. | |
course. As you are aware, health wise, we were not able to get up | :17:18. | :17:24. | |
past. It is fair and legitimate to say there are good and bad things. | :17:25. | :17:29. | |
But do you hear from your voters back home about the president, | :17:30. | :17:32. | |
particularly about this issue of management in the White House and | :17:33. | :17:36. | |
things like the health care act and whether they think the president is | :17:37. | :17:43. | |
up to the job? What I just said to you reflect the voices from back | :17:44. | :17:47. | |
home. The majority of the voices from my district are people who | :17:48. | :17:51. | |
agree with a lot of things he has done, he has taken action on | :17:52. | :17:55. | |
regulations that have been harmful to the economy and creating jobs and | :17:56. | :17:59. | |
they are very happy about that, but at the same time they feel they have | :18:00. | :18:05. | |
been missteps and things he has said and tweaked it, and some management | :18:06. | :18:09. | |
folks in the White House, there have been adjustments and changes, and | :18:10. | :18:14. | |
what rightfully so. What I'm saying to you reflects the majority of my | :18:15. | :18:18. | |
district. You have been in office now as long as the president has, 76 | :18:19. | :18:32. | |
days. What surprised you? I had been asked this question a little bit. I | :18:33. | :18:37. | |
served three years in the Virginia State house. The US Congress is five | :18:38. | :18:43. | |
times bigger, so you still have egos and personalities to navigate, there | :18:44. | :18:46. | |
are just more of them. The most surprising thing to me is the | :18:47. | :18:51. | |
quality and calibre of my class, on both sides. We really have smart | :18:52. | :18:55. | |
folks here who are highly accomplished and capable and want to | :18:56. | :18:58. | |
do the right thing for the country, want to work together and we are | :18:59. | :19:01. | |
optimistic and hopeful we will do that with the American people and | :19:02. | :19:03. | |
the world. Scott Taylor, still looking pretty | :19:04. | :19:17. | |
freshfaced. We now have the chair of the house investigating committee | :19:18. | :19:22. | |
being investigated over his own solo investigation, it is beyond parody! | :19:23. | :19:27. | |
Surely, it is eroding any faith that people have that they can mount an | :19:28. | :19:33. | |
effective bipartisan investigation? It depends on who replaces Devin | :19:34. | :19:38. | |
Nunes. He has been under this cloud by the investigation, it makes | :19:39. | :19:42. | |
unqualified, he has decided to carry this out, but if he is replaced by | :19:43. | :19:46. | |
people who can distance themselves from the White House and actors they | :19:47. | :19:51. | |
should do in the interests of the intelligence committee's | :19:52. | :19:54. | |
investigation, that would restore some of the faith in Congress. It | :19:55. | :19:59. | |
certainly needs its fate restoring because people do not think much of | :20:00. | :20:04. | |
American congressmen that perhaps we should have more people like Scott | :20:05. | :20:09. | |
Taylor, a former Navy SEAL who wants to do the best job you can. I can | :20:10. | :20:11. | |
think of one or two in the gallery! Never has going nuclear sounded | :20:12. | :20:15. | |
quite this anti-climactic. Let's have water. On this boat, the | :20:16. | :20:37. | |
ayes 48, the noes 42. By unanimous consent, a mandatory call has been | :20:38. | :20:40. | |
waived. The question is, is it the sense of the Senate to be an | :20:41. | :20:49. | |
associate justice as the Supreme Court of the United States should be | :20:50. | :20:51. | |
brought for close upon reconsideration? | :20:52. | :20:53. | |
That was the scene on the floor of the US Senate an hour ago | :20:54. | :20:56. | |
as the August body triggered what's called here the nuclear option. | :20:57. | :20:59. | |
Don't worry, there's no mushroom cloud over the capital, | :21:00. | :21:01. | |
but that seemingly benign, ordinary vote has just changed | :21:02. | :21:03. | |
What we just saw was Republicans voting to circumvent | :21:04. | :21:08. | |
Democrats' attempts to derail President Trump's | :21:09. | :21:10. | |
By 52 to 48, Republicans ended the Democrat's | :21:11. | :21:17. | |
Now they can get him confirmed him with a simple majority vote. | :21:18. | :21:23. | |
Yesterday, we had the Democratic Senator Richard Blumenthal | :21:24. | :21:26. | |
on the programme, who said this of the Republican tactics. | :21:27. | :21:34. | |
It could well affect the poor feelings among senators. I hope that | :21:35. | :21:48. | |
its repercussions will be limited but it could be radioactive in terms | :21:49. | :21:53. | |
of moving things forward and other matters, and it will affect future | :21:54. | :21:57. | |
appointments. But I sincerely hope that we will get beyond this. No | :21:58. | :22:02. | |
rust mushroom cloud but it could be radioactive. We talked about this | :22:03. | :22:09. | |
yesterday, about how it could make future Supreme Court picks more | :22:10. | :22:12. | |
extreme because either side would only need 50 votes to confirm them, | :22:13. | :22:20. | |
but what you are getting better and senators on both sides concerned | :22:21. | :22:23. | |
about is that this might make everything more extreme. It might | :22:24. | :22:28. | |
not just apply the Supreme Court picks. We've spoken a lot about | :22:29. | :22:31. | |
partisanship in America and how difficult it is to get things done | :22:32. | :22:35. | |
because the country is so divided. What we just saw happened in the | :22:36. | :22:41. | |
Senate today, it has the risk of making American politics even more | :22:42. | :22:44. | |
divided and the country even more dysfunctional. | :22:45. | :22:45. | |
Some of the other stories we're following today: Donald Trump's | :22:46. | :22:47. | |
administration has said that military action against Syria | :22:48. | :22:49. | |
is not off the table following the suspected chemical | :22:50. | :22:51. | |
Syria's Foreign Minister has denied the government carried out | :22:52. | :22:55. | |
a chemical attack on the rebel-held town on Tuesday. | :22:56. | :22:59. | |
More than 70 people, including many children, | :23:00. | :23:01. | |
are reported to have died in the attack. | :23:02. | :23:03. | |
Turkey says the results of postmortem examinations confirm | :23:04. | :23:05. | |
They have blamed President Assad's forces. | :23:06. | :23:14. | |
Russian police have found explosives at a flat in St Petersburg three | :23:15. | :23:17. | |
days after a terror attack on the city's underground system. | :23:18. | :23:21. | |
Three people were also arrested in the early morning raid. | :23:22. | :23:23. | |
Officials say the explosives found at the property were similar | :23:24. | :23:27. | |
The blast killed 14 people, including the main suspect. | :23:28. | :23:33. | |
British Prime Minister Theresa May has met with the President | :23:34. | :23:35. | |
of the European Council to discuss the start of Brexit negotiations. | :23:36. | :23:39. | |
The meeting in London comes a week after Theresa May officially | :23:40. | :23:42. | |
triggered the process to take Britain out of the European Union. | :23:43. | :23:45. | |
The two leaders agreed to seek lower tensions in the upcoming talks, | :23:46. | :23:49. | |
May also vowed to seek the best deal for the British | :23:50. | :23:55. | |
Now, if there is one man, above all others, | :23:56. | :24:04. | |
who earns his money in Washington, it is surely White House Press | :24:05. | :24:07. | |
Every day, the press corps are spoiling for a fight and, | :24:08. | :24:12. | |
And not only does he have to make sure the President's | :24:13. | :24:17. | |
message is getting across, he has to make everyone feel good. | :24:18. | :24:21. | |
You know you have made it when you are getting | :24:22. | :24:57. | |
That made my night! He is world-famous. | :24:58. | :25:22. | |
You're watching 100 Days from BBC News. | :25:23. | :25:24. | |
Still to come for viewers on the BBC News Channel and BBC World News: | :25:25. | :25:35. | |
economies and they disagree on trade, so how will talks | :25:36. | :25:38. | |
between US President Donald Trump and his Chinese counterpart, | :25:39. | :25:41. | |
We'll ask an economics expert that very question. | :25:42. | :25:44. | |
And we'll take a closer look at the luxury resort | :25:45. | :25:46. | |
where it's all going down - Mar-a-Lago in West Palm Beach. | :25:47. | :25:49. | |
Donald Trump calls it his winter White House. | :25:50. | :26:07. | |
There is warmer weather on the way as we head into the weekend. It felt | :26:08. | :26:15. | |
very pleasant today. Blue skies from earlier on. But it was not sunny | :26:16. | :26:23. | |
everywhere. North Wales had cloudier skies, and we may well hang on to | :26:24. | :26:28. | |
cloud here. So to the Northern Ireland, western Scotland and North | :26:29. | :26:32. | |
West England and patches of cloud pushing further south. But in the | :26:33. | :26:38. | |
countryside in particular, it will be cold across Wales, southern | :26:39. | :26:40. | |
England, eastern England and Scotland. It will warm up quickly in | :26:41. | :26:47. | |
the sunshine and the best of the sunshine on Friday will be for | :26:48. | :26:51. | |
eastern Scotland, north-east England, Wales, the south-west of | :26:52. | :26:57. | |
England. Cloud developing and more cloud for north-west England and | :26:58. | :26:59. | |
Northern Ireland and western Scotland and in the sunshine, | :27:00. | :27:03. | |
temperatures into the mid teens. The sunshine is quite strong as well. | :27:04. | :27:09. | |
The pollen levels are high. Treat pollen particularly high. As we head | :27:10. | :27:16. | |
into the weekend, it starts to warm up further, more sunshine developing | :27:17. | :27:21. | |
more widely, pushing into Scotland and Northern Ireland, so lifting | :27:22. | :27:26. | |
temperatures, 18, possibly 19. A lovely warm day for the Grand | :27:27. | :27:32. | |
National at Aintree, 16 degrees here. No rain in the run-up to the | :27:33. | :27:36. | |
big race itself on Saturday. High pressure is in charge of our weather | :27:37. | :27:42. | |
but it pushes its way towards the near continent. This weather front | :27:43. | :27:45. | |
will encroach on the north-west of the UK but otherwise we draw up a | :27:46. | :27:49. | |
southerly breeze which will draw in sunnier and clearer air. More cloud | :27:50. | :27:58. | |
for Northern Ireland and western Scotland. But eventually, over the | :27:59. | :28:04. | |
Irish Sea. Not warm everywhere. Higher temperatures across more | :28:05. | :28:10. | |
central and eastern parts, 22 or even 23 degrees is quite likely, but | :28:11. | :28:15. | |
only briefly because things check rapidly overnight. That weather | :28:16. | :28:22. | |
front pushes away the warmer air. The wind direction changes to a more | :28:23. | :28:25. | |
northerly and with that, lower temperatures. | :28:26. | :30:05. | |
Welcome back to One Hundred Days - with me Katty Kay in Washington | :30:06. | :30:09. | |
the Chinese leader Xi Jinping has arrived in Florida for talks | :30:10. | :30:19. | |
with President Trump but can the leaders of the two biggest | :30:20. | :30:21. | |
And oh to be a fly on the wall - we'll take a closer look | :30:22. | :30:27. | |
at Mar-a-Lago, Donald Trump's retreat - where he's | :30:28. | :30:29. | |
The US-China trade relationship is one of the world's biggest. | :30:30. | :30:41. | |
In 2016 the US imported 480 billion dollars worth of goods | :30:42. | :30:46. | |
In return, the US exported just 170 billion dollars to China. | :30:47. | :30:53. | |
China accounts for around 60 per cent of the overall | :30:54. | :30:56. | |
"China has been taking out massive amounts | :30:57. | :31:06. | |
of money wealth from the US in totally one-sided trade." | :31:07. | :31:10. | |
During the campaign he floated the idea of a 45 per cent tariff | :31:11. | :31:14. | |
Shortly after, President Xi had this to say | :31:15. | :31:18. | |
"Pursing protectionism is just like locking oneself in a dark room. | :31:19. | :31:25. | |
No-one will emerge as winner in a trade war." | :31:26. | :31:29. | |
but there's little doubt who he was referring to. | :31:30. | :31:35. | |
Professor Ann Lee specialises in economics and finance | :31:36. | :31:37. | |
at New York University - and acts as an independent economic | :31:38. | :31:40. | |
There are a lot of Americans who would agree with Donald Trump that | :31:41. | :31:52. | |
in this trade relationship America has had the raw end of the deal and | :31:53. | :31:57. | |
it's about time somebody changed things. Are they right? They are | :31:58. | :32:03. | |
certainly frustrated that I think that they probably only get one side | :32:04. | :32:10. | |
of the story since it's very easy for policymakers and companies to | :32:11. | :32:14. | |
want to point the finger at someone else so they don't take the blame | :32:15. | :32:18. | |
and get a raft of the American people. -- get the anger. America | :32:19. | :32:28. | |
has benefited greatly from trade with China. Most of the trade is | :32:29. | :32:34. | |
coming from US companies outsourcing their manufacturing capabilities to | :32:35. | :32:38. | |
China and importing those products back to the US at cheaper prices so | :32:39. | :32:43. | |
that the companies can have fatter profits which enable them to | :32:44. | :32:48. | |
reinvest in more products and services and hire people and provide | :32:49. | :32:55. | |
cheaper products to Americans so that inflation has actually been | :32:56. | :33:01. | |
rather moderate. So, it's not quite one-sided that way. But when certain | :33:02. | :33:08. | |
folks lose their jobs they certainly are angry at somebody and it's very | :33:09. | :33:14. | |
easy to point to China as the reason when, in fact, the US was the one | :33:15. | :33:19. | |
that invited China to join the World Trade Organisation and provided a | :33:20. | :33:24. | |
very easy path for US manufacturers to go to China. You are an | :33:25. | :33:31. | |
independent adviser to the Chinese government. On economic issues. Give | :33:32. | :33:38. | |
as the view from Beijing. How concerned are they that Donald Trump | :33:39. | :33:43. | |
will carry through on his threats of a trade war with China or do they | :33:44. | :33:46. | |
think that was just political bluster? Well, certainly they | :33:47. | :33:54. | |
probably think that some of it is maybe a negotiating tactic and | :33:55. | :34:01. | |
political theatre because many other presidents and other political | :34:02. | :34:08. | |
candidates have been China bashing during political campaigns and did | :34:09. | :34:10. | |
not follow through with their promises to do so. So there's some | :34:11. | :34:18. | |
of that that's taken into account. Certainly, they know that Donald | :34:19. | :34:22. | |
Trump was previously a very successful businessman and so he is | :34:23. | :34:29. | |
clearly a good negotiator in order to become such a successful | :34:30. | :34:32. | |
businessman and I'm sure there are aware that Trump will use some of | :34:33. | :34:39. | |
those tactics. They are going to be prepared for tough decisions along | :34:40. | :34:42. | |
trade lines and my suspicion is that they are prepared to offer Donald | :34:43. | :34:52. | |
Trump some enticing deals in order to try to create a very cooperative | :34:53. | :34:59. | |
relationship because that is the Chinese top priority, really. To | :35:00. | :35:04. | |
have a smooth relationship with the US and create an easy win for Trump. | :35:05. | :35:12. | |
Professor Lee, thank you very much for joining us. This is going to be | :35:13. | :35:16. | |
an important relationship through because of this presidency. -- | :35:17. | :35:21. | |
through the course. In just over a week, | :35:22. | :35:24. | |
Turkey will hold a referendum on whether to extend the powers | :35:25. | :35:26. | |
of the president. If President Erdogan wins, | :35:27. | :35:28. | |
he'll become the head of the executive as well as head | :35:29. | :35:30. | |
of state - he says that But his critics say there'll be | :35:31. | :35:33. | |
fewer checks and balances, and that this is a power grab | :35:34. | :35:37. | |
by a divisive President. Mark Lowen has been to Rize | :35:38. | :35:39. | |
the President's birthplace. Through the haze above Turkey's | :35:40. | :35:42. | |
Black Sea coast is Erdogan land. The President's family | :35:43. | :35:44. | |
hails from this It's fertile land for votes | :35:45. | :35:46. | |
before a referendum Rize is the heart | :35:47. | :35:49. | |
of Turkey's tea growers. TRANSLATION: Recep Tayyip | :35:50. | :35:55. | |
Erdogan is one of us. All the past leaders | :35:56. | :36:05. | |
were rich kids or bourgeois, He gets aggressive like we do, | :36:06. | :36:07. | |
and tells the world With that common touch he is | :36:08. | :36:12. | |
the voice of pious Turks, who felt forgotten in a once | :36:13. | :36:21. | |
secular dominated country. His rallies now | :36:22. | :36:24. | |
separate men and women. Every vote counts as | :36:25. | :36:32. | |
he pushes to scrap the Prime Minister, choose | :36:33. | :36:34. | |
the Cabinet and issue decrees. He launches a typical | :36:35. | :36:37. | |
tirade against supposed enemies, denouncing Western leaders | :36:38. | :36:53. | |
for oppressing the Turkish nation. The Black Sea boy has | :36:54. | :36:55. | |
risen to the top, but to become all-powerful | :36:56. | :36:58. | |
he needs to consolidate | :36:59. | :37:00. | |
his support base. For that, the master of oratory | :37:01. | :37:03. | |
sets his voters against his The president | :37:04. | :37:06. | |
is moulding generations in his image, like those | :37:07. | :37:14. | |
at Recep Tayyip Erdogan University. His lifting of the old headscarf | :37:15. | :37:21. | |
ban at universities I'm proud of my president | :37:22. | :37:26. | |
and I'm proud of my That people before Recep | :37:27. | :37:30. | |
Tayyip Erdogan did this. They judged you according | :37:31. | :37:39. | |
to your belief, From the centre of Rize, | :37:40. | :37:41. | |
the villagers lead upstream towards that rare thing, | :37:42. | :37:46. | |
opposition to Erdogan. This man faces three years | :37:47. | :37:50. | |
in prison for anti-government Critics fear if the referendum | :37:51. | :37:53. | |
passes, the president I'm reposting and posting | :37:54. | :37:59. | |
my sharing, it's just All here collectively | :38:00. | :38:05. | |
should be saying, this is enough, this is enough, | :38:06. | :38:10. | |
we can't go further than this. This is just nonsense. | :38:11. | :38:13. | |
We're going to hell. Champion of Muslims, | :38:14. | :38:16. | |
builder of infrastructure, President Erdogan | :38:17. | :38:19. | |
is revered and reviled. Now comes a test of | :38:20. | :38:23. | |
which side of polarised President Donald Trump | :38:24. | :38:25. | |
has come to the defence of Fox News host Bill O'Reilly, | :38:26. | :38:35. | |
who's been accused of sexually Last week the New York Times | :38:36. | :38:38. | |
reported Fox and O'Reilly paid five women a total of $13 million | :38:39. | :38:43. | |
to settle the claims. Advertisers are abandoning | :38:44. | :38:48. | |
his high-rating show - But it appears the President | :38:49. | :38:50. | |
is still a fan. Donald Trump told the | :38:51. | :39:00. | |
New York Times "Personally, | :39:01. | :39:02. | |
I think he shouldn't have settled. Because you should have | :39:03. | :39:04. | |
taken it all the way; I don't think Bill | :39:05. | :39:06. | |
did anything wrong. It's worth | :39:07. | :39:08. | |
noting that the day before he made those comments, | :39:09. | :39:11. | |
President Trump declared April to the one thing that strikes me about | :39:12. | :39:24. | |
this, it was an interview with the New York Times were invited to do | :39:25. | :39:33. | |
and he volunteers this information and pre-empt an investigation into | :39:34. | :39:40. | |
the former NSA Susan Rice who's been investigated for an masking the | :39:41. | :39:45. | |
names in the Russian enquiry. Trampling all over the enquiries. He | :39:46. | :39:51. | |
had advertisers in the room when he was talking about that and I suspect | :39:52. | :39:56. | |
the last thing they wanted to do was weigh-in on Bill O'Reilly and | :39:57. | :40:00. | |
whether he has sexually abused women are not. The much better thing for | :40:01. | :40:03. | |
the president to have said would have been no comment. I need to talk | :40:04. | :40:09. | |
about Syria, infrastructure and North Korea. The things we have been | :40:10. | :40:14. | |
talking about. Not talking about Bill O'Reilly. It has done him no | :40:15. | :40:21. | |
favours. Apparently, they are good friends and go to the game. They | :40:22. | :40:27. | |
drink milkshakes together. Apparently, Bill O'Reilly's ratings | :40:28. | :40:28. | |
have gone up this week. You are most likely to find | :40:29. | :40:38. | |
President Trump at Mar-a-Lago, his Florida retreat. It is also a place | :40:39. | :40:51. | |
to play golf. We've been looking at the estate itself. | :40:52. | :40:54. | |
Donald Trump retreats to every time he can is actually | :40:55. | :40:58. | |
It was built in the 1920s by an ambitious socialite | :40:59. | :41:03. | |
who always wanted it to be a presidential retreat. | :41:04. | :41:05. | |
The 126 room mansion is nestled in some of the most expensive real | :41:06. | :41:08. | |
Michael Jackson had his honeymoon here. | :41:09. | :41:17. | |
Actor Charlie Sheen came for a bar mitzvah and it was the setting | :41:18. | :41:20. | |
for the wedding of Melania and Donald Trump. | :41:21. | :41:22. | |
With a few celebrity guests who used to be friends. | :41:23. | :41:24. | |
This is the great entrance hall to Mar-a-Lago. | :41:25. | :41:26. | |
Mr Trump bought Mar-a-Lago in 1985 for $10 million, as a holiday home. | :41:27. | :41:31. | |
This place doesn't stint on glitz and old-time glamour which appeal | :41:32. | :41:34. | |
He then turned it into a private club to make a bit of money, | :41:35. | :41:38. | |
Membership costs have doubled since the election. | :41:39. | :41:42. | |
Today, access to this elite resort would set you back | :41:43. | :41:44. | |
Mr Trump has stayed at Mar-a-Lago nearly every weekend | :41:45. | :41:50. | |
since his inauguration, despite grumblings about the cost | :41:51. | :41:53. | |
The president is perfectly in his rights to spend his weekends | :41:54. | :42:01. | |
To be honest, between Washington in the rain and Palm Beach | :42:02. | :42:06. | |
Christian, I am firmly here in Washington, DC where it is pouring | :42:07. | :42:22. | |
down with rain. Not in Florida. You showed those picture of him setting | :42:23. | :42:26. | |
off in the pouring rain and he is going to be under a palm tree next. | :42:27. | :42:34. | |
Who is the fool? How about 100 days coming to you from Florida? I'm | :42:35. | :42:40. | |
going to Paris for the elections. How about that? | :42:41. | :42:43. | |
That's all from One Hundred Days - plenty more on that meeting | :42:44. | :42:49. | |
between Presidents Trump and Xi coming up on the BBC | :42:50. | :42:51. | |
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