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in 100 days throughout the evening here on BBC News on events in

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Florida. The leaders of the world's two

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biggest powers meet in Florida. There's not much love lost

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but they have urgent The President has long cast

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China as the villain Will Donald Trump and Xi Jinping

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find middle ground? It could be a challenge given

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Mr Trump's aggressive anti-China rhetoric which rallied his

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supporters on the campaign trail. We can't continue to allow China

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to rape our country! Amidst a cloud of controversy,

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the Congressman heading an investigation into Russian

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interference in the US election On this vote, the ayes

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are 48, the nays are 52. The decision of the chair does not

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stand as the judgment of the Senate. Republican senators have voted

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to change the rules so they can confirm President Trump's nominee

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for the Supreme Court. Also today: One week before Turkey

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votes on whether to give President Erdogan greater powers,

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we have a report from his hometown. They call it the

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Weekend White House. We'll take a look through

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the keyhole of tthe Presidential Hello, I am Katty Kay in Washington,

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Christian Fraser is in London. It is day 77 of the Trump presidency

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and a defining moment A short time ago, Donald Trump left

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a very rainy Washington to fly down to his Mar-a-Lago resort in Florida

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for his first meeting with Chinese Mr Trump is already warning that it

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will be a very difficult meeting. The leaders will dine together this

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evening before formal President Trump wants a better deal

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for America on trade and more cooperation from Beijing on North

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Korea. But after candidate Trump

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was so harsh on China, what kind of concessions can he get

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from the other global superpower? After all, remember what he said

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during last year's campaign? We can't continue to allow China

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to rape our country! They have taken our money,

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they have taken our jobs. America has lost 70,000

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factories since China entered When you look at China,

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when you look at every country, every trade deal

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we have is horrible. It's going to be only America

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first, America first! Heading to the summit,

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Mr Trump made it clear today But foreign policy issues

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are already interrupting Today in Florida, he'll talk

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about the increasingly urgent Kim Jong-un has fired more rockets

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this past five years than his father and grandfather combined -

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the latest on the eve Barbara Plett-Usher is outside

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Trump's Mar-a-Lago club in Palm Beach, where the talks

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will be held. How high are expectations that this

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summit? There is a lot of anticipation for this summit because

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these are the two leaders of the two most significant global powers in

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the world. They have not met yet and there has been contention around the

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relationship because of Donald Trump stirring things up with his

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anti-China rhetoric and it is important for them to get along.

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There is anticipation. Is of expectation and how things may come

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out, not so much. Trade will be raised. Mr Trump is talked about it.

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They were not settled that in this visit, but perhaps the Chinese

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president will offer sweeteners to try to ease the tension is a little

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bit, like investing in jobs and infrastructure in the United States.

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North Korea is a big issue for the Americans. They feel that North

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Koreans are poised to get a mess strong enough to buy it nuclear

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warheads in the next couple of years so it is not business as usual

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there. They want China to put more pressure on North Korea, which China

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is open to but not completely because it does not want the regime

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to collapse. These are very big economic and security issues but the

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key thing they are hoping for is that the two men develop a working

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relationship and this informal setting is supposed to help them do

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that. We have had President Trump rolling back a bit lately, so the

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environment may be better, the Chinese know he is unpredictable,

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they arbitrary there may still be some corruption, but President Trump

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by no means has all the cards in his hands. He has not sorted out his

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full China policy, he will improvise a bit, and the Chinese do not

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improvise, they will come very well prepared. You are looking at night

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pictures of the airport close by and you can see there in the picture,

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Rex Tillotson. The Chinese president is already on his way to the resort.

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I do not know if we can show our viewers a picture of the China

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Airways plane. Palm Beach airport is tiny. It is amazing how many

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dignitaries this airport is having to get because President Trump...

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There you go, massive plane, tiny airport! Wrecked was in the shot. I

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understand that President's son-in-law, who was influenced, the

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trip to the Chinese through the back channels, and there was talk it had

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to be in Mar-a-Lago because the Japanese Prime Minister had been

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there a few weeks ago, so there is strict protocol to these events.

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People in the US and in China will have their own opinions on how

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The BBC's Rajini Vaidyanathan and Stephen McDonell have been

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finding out more in Washington and Beijing.

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Camaraderie, co-operation, maybe let us off a little bit

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President Trump likes to talk tough on China.

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Throughout the election, he promised to bring jobs back

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On the other hand, China's president, Xi Jinping,

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says that free trade is the answer and that this is what will bring

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What do you think President Trump should be saying to his

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I'm sorry, I apologise, I have been perhaps unfair to you.

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I'm one of those people that think that we should make more here.

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They are not a true democracy, that's the worst thing about China.

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Who do you think gets the most out of it?

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Whether they like it or not, when Xi Jinping and Donald Trump

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are sitting across the table from one another, this

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is probably the world's most important connection.

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But it's not just money and trade that drives the relationship.

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When it comes to climate change or getting North Korea

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to contain its nuclear ambitions, America needs China onside.

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Gary Locke was US Ambassador to China under President Obama,

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for whom he also served as Secretary of Commerce.

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The board Trump's tough talk on China make a working relationship

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between these two superpowers easier or harder? It makes it harder

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because the Chinese are very wary of Donald Trump as president. He has

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walked back a lot of the rhetoric he made during the campaign, he did not

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impose on day one tariffs on all Chinese goods coming into the US

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comic he did not declare China currency manipulator, if anything,

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the Chinese have been propping up the currency when other countries

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are devaluing the currency. But there are many issues confronting

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China and the United States and the world is looking for leadership from

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both countries to sell some of these top issues from terrorism to

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instability in the Middle East to strife in Africa, North Korea and

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climate change. The situation in North Korea might account for the

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fact he has not imposed tariffs and has walked back some of his

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rhetoric. What more do you think Donald Trump can get out of China

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when it comes to North Korea and enforcing sanctions? China has

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actually been working with the United States in supporting many

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initiatives of the UN and the US in terms of sanctions against North

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Korea. We've got to tighten the screws even more. China is the for

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North Korea and China has great influence over North Korea but as

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North Korea becomes even more reckless and unpredictable with its

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young leader, who is mass executing even his relatives, China is getting

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worried about this young leader because this guy could even turn on

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them and they are very fearful about the collapse of North Korea because

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they do not want a unified Korea and becoming a democracy. They do not

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want a democratic career on the doorstep of China. China has every

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incentive to work with the United States to stop the development of

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nuclear weapons but they also want to make sure that North Korea stays

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as a separate communist country and is not invaded by South Korea. If

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North Korea no longer has nuclear weapons. But at some points, they

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will have to make a choice because although the very keen to resist

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this American pressure, could lead to something else, you could have an

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American military strike, you could have South Korea and Japan

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developing their own nuclear programmes if these missiles keep

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being fired. They are making that choice, they are working with the

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United States and the UN and these talks between both presidents will

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talk about other strategies the two can deploy to tighten the screws on

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North Korea because China knows that, if unchecked, or the other

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options are unacceptable. They do not want South Korea and Japan

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having nuclear weapons, they do not want South Korea deploying missiles

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supplied by the states, they do not want to see North Korea collapse, so

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they have every incentive to really try to convince North Korea not to

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develop a nuclear weapon and they have concerns about the unproductive

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of this leader of North Korea. -- unpredictability. This is a big test

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for Donald Trump because we have shown the rhetoric to the campaign,

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not particularly measured. He somehow has to soften the tone these

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next few days while at the same time not selling out. They want him to be

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tough. This week, we have the Middle Eastern Russia and North Korea and

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China, the two biggest foreign policy challenges the Donald Trump

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faces, and China is particularly tricky because of that rhetoric. I

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cannot tell you how many times when I travelled around the country

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people would cite China's trade policies. They knew the chapter on

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dates about when China had stolen American jobs. This is a big deal

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for American workers and Donald Trump's supporters. If he looks like

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he is caving in, that will be a problem for him politically, but on

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the other hand, he needs China when it comes to North Korea, so he has

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got juggling act to do. It always looks very different from inside the

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oval Office! Let's start with the story

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of Devin Nunes, the chair He is temporarily stepping down

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from the panel that is investigating claims of Russian interference

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in last year's American election. A few weeks ago, Mr Nunes told

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reporters he believed Mr Trump or members of the transition team

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may have been incidentally caught up in foreign surveillance

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by the American spy agencies. He cited dozens of intelligence

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reports he described as classified. We later discovered those documents

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had been provided to him by White House officials,

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unbeknown to the rest His decision to step

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aside was made shortly after the House Committee on Ethics

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announced it was investigating Mr Nunes over allegations he may

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have made unauthorized disclosures The House Speaker, Paul Ryan,

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gave this reaction. First of all, Devin Nunes has

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earned my trust over many years for his integrity and dedication

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to the critical work that the intelligence community does

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to keep Americans safe. He is eager to demonstrate

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to the ethics committee that he has has filed all proper

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guidelines and laws. In the meantime, it is clear this

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process would be a distraction to the House intelligence

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committee's investigation into Russian interference

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in our election, so Chairman Nunes has offered to step aside

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as the lead Republican on this particular probe,

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and I fully support his decision. I've been speaking to

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the Republican Congressman Scott Congressman Scott Taylor, the news

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that Devin Nunes is stepping aside from investigations into Russia,

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does that suggest to you that he is not capable

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of carrying out an investigation into something as serious as Russian

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meddling in the US election? No, it doesn't signal

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that to me at all. Actually, I think it's

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the responsible and the prudent thing for the chairman to do,

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and I support his decision to step aside temporarily

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while there is an ethics I think he's capable of doing it,

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of course, but, at the same time, you don't want that cloud over

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the committee while they are trying to conduct a serious investigation

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with an ethics investigation So I think he's being responsible

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and they are doing the right thing. But the cloud is that he's

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effectively too close to the White House to carry

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this out impartially. What I'm saying is there is a cloud

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over them while there's an ethics investigation into the chairman

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himself, so I think it's the responsible thing for him to do,

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to step aside and allow for someone to step up and carry out

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serious investigation. Scott Taylor, we are now heading

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into the first recess, big recess, since you came into office

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and were elected on the Trump wave back in November,

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you joined the president. I think there are pluses and

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minuses. This is a man who is a businessman and not a typical

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politician, he does not understand the whole thing with Washington, so

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there is some adjustment there. He has done a lot of good things in

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terms of things for the economy, our economy is doing really well, there

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is a President Trump effect on the border that has reduced crossings.

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At the same time, there have been statements that are not good, of

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course. As you are aware, health wise, we were not able to get up

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past. It is fair and legitimate to say there are good and bad things.

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But do you hear from your voters back home about the president,

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particularly about this issue of management in the White House and

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things like the health care act and whether they think the president is

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up to the job? What I just said to you reflect the voices from back

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home. The majority of the voices from my district are people who

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agree with a lot of things he has done, he has taken action on

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regulations that have been harmful to the economy and creating jobs and

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they are very happy about that, but at the same time they feel they have

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been missteps and things he has said and tweaked it, and some management

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folks in the White House, there have been adjustments and changes, and

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what rightfully so. What I'm saying to you reflects the majority of my

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district. You have been in office now as long as the president has, 76

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days. What surprised you? I had been asked this question a little bit. I

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served three years in the Virginia State house. The US Congress is five

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times bigger, so you still have egos and personalities to navigate, there

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are just more of them. The most surprising thing to me is the

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quality and calibre of my class, on both sides. We really have smart

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folks here who are highly accomplished and capable and want to

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do the right thing for the country, want to work together and we are

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optimistic and hopeful we will do that with the American people and

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the world. Scott Taylor, still looking pretty

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freshfaced. We now have the chair of the house investigating committee

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being investigated over his own solo investigation, it is beyond parody!

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Surely, it is eroding any faith that people have that they can mount an

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effective bipartisan investigation? It depends on who replaces Devin

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Nunes. He has been under this cloud by the investigation, it makes

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unqualified, he has decided to carry this out, but if he is replaced by

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people who can distance themselves from the White House and actors they

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should do in the interests of the intelligence committee's

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investigation, that would restore some of the faith in Congress. It

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certainly needs its fate restoring because people do not think much of

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American congressmen that perhaps we should have more people like Scott

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Taylor, a former Navy SEAL who wants to do the best job you can. I can

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think of one or two in the gallery! Never has going nuclear sounded

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quite this anti-climactic. Let's have water. On this boat, the

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ayes 48, the noes 42. By unanimous consent, a mandatory call has been

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waived. The question is, is it the sense of the Senate to be an

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associate justice as the Supreme Court of the United States should be

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brought for close upon reconsideration?

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That was the scene on the floor of the US Senate an hour ago

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as the August body triggered what's called here the nuclear option.

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Don't worry, there's no mushroom cloud over the capital,

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but that seemingly benign, ordinary vote has just changed

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What we just saw was Republicans voting to circumvent

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Democrats' attempts to derail President Trump's

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By 52 to 48, Republicans ended the Democrat's

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Now they can get him confirmed him with a simple majority vote.

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Yesterday, we had the Democratic Senator Richard Blumenthal

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on the programme, who said this of the Republican tactics.

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It could well affect the poor feelings among senators. I hope that

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its repercussions will be limited but it could be radioactive in terms

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of moving things forward and other matters, and it will affect future

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appointments. But I sincerely hope that we will get beyond this. No

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rust mushroom cloud but it could be radioactive. We talked about this

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yesterday, about how it could make future Supreme Court picks more

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extreme because either side would only need 50 votes to confirm them,

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but what you are getting better and senators on both sides concerned

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about is that this might make everything more extreme. It might

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not just apply the Supreme Court picks. We've spoken a lot about

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partisanship in America and how difficult it is to get things done

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because the country is so divided. What we just saw happened in the

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Senate today, it has the risk of making American politics even more

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divided and the country even more dysfunctional.

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Some of the other stories we're following today: Donald Trump's

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administration has said that military action against Syria

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is not off the table following the suspected chemical

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Syria's Foreign Minister has denied the government carried out

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a chemical attack on the rebel-held town on Tuesday.

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More than 70 people, including many children,

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are reported to have died in the attack.

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Turkey says the results of postmortem examinations confirm

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They have blamed President Assad's forces.

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Russian police have found explosives at a flat in St Petersburg three

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days after a terror attack on the city's underground system.

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Three people were also arrested in the early morning raid.

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Officials say the explosives found at the property were similar

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The blast killed 14 people, including the main suspect.

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British Prime Minister Theresa May has met with the President

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of the European Council to discuss the start of Brexit negotiations.

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The meeting in London comes a week after Theresa May officially

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triggered the process to take Britain out of the European Union.

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The two leaders agreed to seek lower tensions in the upcoming talks,

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May also vowed to seek the best deal for the British

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Now, if there is one man, above all others,

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who earns his money in Washington, it is surely White House Press

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Every day, the press corps are spoiling for a fight and,

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And not only does he have to make sure the President's

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message is getting across, he has to make everyone feel good.

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You know you have made it when you are getting

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That made my night! He is world-famous.

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You're watching 100 Days from BBC News.

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Still to come for viewers on the BBC News Channel and BBC World News:

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economies and they disagree on trade, so how will talks

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between US President Donald Trump and his Chinese counterpart,

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We'll ask an economics expert that very question.

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And we'll take a closer look at the luxury resort

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where it's all going down - Mar-a-Lago in West Palm Beach.

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Donald Trump calls it his winter White House.

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There is warmer weather on the way as we head into the weekend. It felt

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very pleasant today. Blue skies from earlier on. But it was not sunny

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everywhere. North Wales had cloudier skies, and we may well hang on to

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cloud here. So to the Northern Ireland, western Scotland and North

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West England and patches of cloud pushing further south. But in the

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countryside in particular, it will be cold across Wales, southern

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England, eastern England and Scotland. It will warm up quickly in

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the sunshine and the best of the sunshine on Friday will be for

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eastern Scotland, north-east England, Wales, the south-west of

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England. Cloud developing and more cloud for north-west England and

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Northern Ireland and western Scotland and in the sunshine,

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temperatures into the mid teens. The sunshine is quite strong as well.

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The pollen levels are high. Treat pollen particularly high. As we head

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into the weekend, it starts to warm up further, more sunshine developing

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more widely, pushing into Scotland and Northern Ireland, so lifting

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temperatures, 18, possibly 19. A lovely warm day for the Grand

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National at Aintree, 16 degrees here. No rain in the run-up to the

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big race itself on Saturday. High pressure is in charge of our weather

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but it pushes its way towards the near continent. This weather front

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will encroach on the north-west of the UK but otherwise we draw up a

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southerly breeze which will draw in sunnier and clearer air. More cloud

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for Northern Ireland and western Scotland. But eventually, over the

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Irish Sea. Not warm everywhere. Higher temperatures across more

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central and eastern parts, 22 or even 23 degrees is quite likely, but

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only briefly because things check rapidly overnight. That weather

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front pushes away the warmer air. The wind direction changes to a more

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northerly and with that, lower temperatures.

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Welcome back to One Hundred Days - with me Katty Kay in Washington

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the Chinese leader Xi Jinping has arrived in Florida for talks

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with President Trump but can the leaders of the two biggest

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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

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The US-China trade relationship is one of the world's biggest.

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In 2016 the US imported 480 billion dollars worth of goods

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In return, the US exported just 170 billion dollars to China.

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China accounts for around 60 per cent of the overall

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"China has been taking out massive amounts

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of money wealth from the US in totally one-sided trade."

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During the campaign he floated the idea of a 45 per cent tariff

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Shortly after, President Xi had this to say

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"Pursing protectionism is just like locking oneself in a dark room.

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No-one will emerge as winner in a trade war."

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but there's little doubt who he was referring to.

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Professor Ann Lee specialises in economics and finance

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at New York University - and acts as an independent economic

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There are a lot of Americans who would agree with Donald Trump that

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in this trade relationship America has had the raw end of the deal and

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it's about time somebody changed things. Are they right? They are

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certainly frustrated that I think that they probably only get one side

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of the story since it's very easy for policymakers and companies to

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want to point the finger at someone else so they don't take the blame

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and get a raft of the American people. -- get the anger. America

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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

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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

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folks lose their jobs they certainly are angry at somebody and it's very

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easy to point to China as the reason when, in fact, the US was the one

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that invited China to join the World Trade Organisation and provided a

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very easy path for US manufacturers to go to China. You are an

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independent adviser to the Chinese government. On economic issues. Give

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as the view from Beijing. How concerned are they that Donald Trump

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will carry through on his threats of a trade war with China or do they

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think that was just political bluster? Well, certainly they

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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

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candidates have been China bashing during political campaigns and did

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not follow through with their promises to do so. So there's some

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of that that's taken into account. Certainly, they know that Donald

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Trump was previously a very successful businessman and so he is

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clearly a good negotiator in order to become such a successful

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businessman and I'm sure there are aware that Trump will use some of

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those tactics. They are going to be prepared for tough decisions along

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trade lines and my suspicion is that they are prepared to offer Donald

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Trump some enticing deals in order to try to create a very cooperative

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relationship because that is the Chinese top priority, really. To

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have a smooth relationship with the US and create an easy win for Trump.

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Professor Lee, thank you very much for joining us. This is going to be

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an important relationship through because of this presidency. --

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through the course. In just over a week,

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Turkey will hold a referendum on whether to extend the powers

:35:25.:35:26.

of the president. If President Erdogan wins,

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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

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hails from this It's fertile land for votes

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before a referendum Rize is the heart

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of Turkey's tea growers. TRANSLATION: Recep Tayyip

:35:50.:35:55.

Erdogan is one of us. All the past leaders

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were rich kids or bourgeois, He gets aggressive like we do,

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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

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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

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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

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between Presidents Trump and Xi coming up on the BBC

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