:00:09. > :00:13.The Russia probe into the Trump campaign intensifies as the Pentagon
:00:14. > :00:22.The Department of Defence is looking at whether the former national
:00:23. > :00:24.security advisor accepted payments from Moscow illegally.
:00:25. > :00:32.It appears Michael Flynn did not ask for approval when he took thousands
:00:33. > :00:40.As a former military officer, that would be against US law.
:00:41. > :00:43.The US tones down the rhetoric on North Korea after the entire
:00:44. > :00:45.US Senate is summoned to the White House for
:00:46. > :00:49.Another terror alert in the heart of London.
:00:50. > :00:51.A man is arrested carrying knives near Downing Street
:00:52. > :00:57.In France, the two presidential candidates are trawling for votes...
:00:58. > :01:01.We will be live in Nice this evening where Le Pen is setting
:01:02. > :01:06.In this run up to 100 days, we'll get the view of the voters,
:01:07. > :01:08.including Tom and Gretschen - now united in Holy Matrimony,
:01:09. > :01:18.We're not in election mode any more. Now we have a President. Until he's
:01:19. > :01:27.impeached. I think that's coming very soon. But I still love you.
:01:28. > :01:33.Hello, I am Katty Kay in London, Christian Fraser is in London.
:01:34. > :01:47.Here is a picture you may have seen before.
:01:48. > :01:48.Donald Trump's former National Security Adviser,
:01:49. > :01:51.Mike Flynn sitting alongside Vladimir Putin at a gala dinner
:01:52. > :01:55.We have shown it to you many times before and it was widely circulated
:01:56. > :01:58.in the US media before Gen Flynn was appointed to his post.
:01:59. > :02:01.He was paid $45,000 dollars for that appearance by the Kremlin's
:02:02. > :02:02.television station, Russia Today.
:02:03. > :02:05.A payment he's now accused of not disclosing when he joined
:02:06. > :02:07.the White House staff, and that would be illegal.
:02:08. > :02:09.Today, the House Oversight Committee revealed that in 2014,
:02:10. > :02:12.General Flynn was warened by the Pentagon not to take money
:02:13. > :02:15.The committee has been given documents from the Department
:02:16. > :02:19.of Defence which suggest General Flynn had hidden
:02:20. > :02:21.the money he received, which begs the question why,
:02:22. > :02:23.and is the White House hiding something?
:02:24. > :02:26.Here's the senior democrat on that committee, Elijah Cummings.
:02:27. > :02:28.I honestly do not understand why the White House is covering
:02:29. > :02:30.up for Michael Flynn, I don't get it.
:02:31. > :02:32.After the President fired him, for lying.
:02:33. > :02:34.So the President fired him for lying about the communications
:02:35. > :02:37.They should be bending over backwards to help us.
:02:38. > :02:40.It does not make any sense, and it makes the American people
:02:41. > :02:57.think the White House has something to hide.
:02:58. > :03:06.Sean Spicer has been speaking about this at the White House moments ago.
:03:07. > :03:09.If they think there is wrong-doing, the department should look into
:03:10. > :03:13.that. He was issued security clearance under the Obama
:03:14. > :03:17.administration in the spring of 2016 The trip and transactions you
:03:18. > :03:19.referred to occurred in December 2015, from what I understand.
:03:20. > :03:27.Obviously, there is an issue that, as you point out, the Department of
:03:28. > :03:31.Defence and Inspector General is looking into that. We welcome that.
:03:32. > :03:33.That was made during the Obama administration and with knowledge of
:03:34. > :03:38.the trip that he took. Joining us now from Capitol Hill
:03:39. > :03:41.is Democratic Senator Chris Coons, who sits on the Foreign Relations
:03:42. > :03:48.Committee. The national security adviser sits
:03:49. > :03:52.in the West Wing near the President. He advises the President on vital
:03:53. > :03:57.issues of national importance and intelligence. How was Jen Michael
:03:58. > :03:59.Flynn able to get the job of national security adviser to
:04:00. > :04:08.President Trump? That's a great question. That clip I just heard
:04:09. > :04:12.from Sean Spicer was an attempt to make it the Obama's administration
:04:13. > :04:18.fault that General Flynn was seated as the national security adviser to
:04:19. > :04:20.President Trump and a participant in Situation Room discussions about
:04:21. > :04:25.vital national security issues there. Is bipartisan movement in the
:04:26. > :04:29.House to insist on an investigation and that the Pentagon Inspector
:04:30. > :04:33.General was taking this matter up. It suggests that the Trump
:04:34. > :04:38.administration, although they almost certainly knew about Michael
:04:39. > :04:41.Flynn's, General. Flynn's conflict of interest, didn't take them
:04:42. > :04:45.seriously enough, didn't investigate them throughly enough or just didn't
:04:46. > :04:49.care. Senator, what do you think is going on? Is the White House trying
:04:50. > :04:57.to hide something about General Flynn? Well, this is just
:04:58. > :05:03.another billowing column of smoke that suggest there are complicating
:05:04. > :05:05.relationships between Russia's Intelligence Services, Russian
:05:06. > :05:10.representist and the Trump administration and his core team of
:05:11. > :05:14.advisers. I don't know what the administration might be hiding here
:05:15. > :05:19.it seems truly odd after the President fired General Flynn for
:05:20. > :05:24.lying he wouldn't step forward and have his administration co-operate
:05:25. > :05:29.with the investigation into General Flynn's conflict of interests. It's
:05:30. > :05:33.Christian in London, General Flynn's story has changed over time. He
:05:34. > :05:36.originally said he wasn't paid for this. He said it came from his
:05:37. > :05:41.speaking agency in London. That it was paid second hand to him. Is it
:05:42. > :05:45.possible that the White House just didn't know because, after all, he
:05:46. > :05:47.had lied before to them about his meetings with the Russian
:05:48. > :05:51.ambassador, perhaps he said to them - look, I wasn't paid for this and
:05:52. > :05:55.they just didn't know? That's conceivable and the way to put that
:05:56. > :05:58.to rest would be for the White House to fully disclose the records that
:05:59. > :06:02.they've got about the background check and the clearance process for
:06:03. > :06:06.General Flynn. I will remind you, we have a number of cases like this
:06:07. > :06:10.where there isn't full co-operation and where the administration isn't
:06:11. > :06:14.doing everything they can to clear up questions such as the questions
:06:15. > :06:19.about General Flynn's conflicts of interest. Fascinating story. There
:06:20. > :06:22.is probably more to come on it. We have been following what you have
:06:23. > :06:26.been doing in recent weeks. You have been to Uganda to this
:06:27. > :06:31.refugee camp over there. One of the biggest camps in the world, 250,000
:06:32. > :06:35.people in that camp. Yes. I want to ask you about the President's policy
:06:36. > :06:40.on the foreign aid budget. US food and aid to that camp in particular
:06:41. > :06:46.is crucial, what might happen if the budget is cut, as the President has
:06:47. > :06:49.proposed? Well, the President has proposed an outrageous 30% cut to
:06:50. > :06:55.our development and demroim i accounts. Now, at a time when our
:06:56. > :06:59.confrontation with North Korea is at a fever pitch, at a time when we
:07:00. > :07:05.have challenges and adversity to face in Syria as well as in Russia's
:07:06. > :07:11.ongoing aGreggs in the Ukraine and the real humanitarian crisis in
:07:12. > :07:21.South Sudan and Yemen, Somalia and Nigeria it's not a time for a cut in
:07:22. > :07:26.US foreign assistance. It would lead to millions of people starving. The
:07:27. > :07:31.UK gives a higher level of its GDP we need to carry our share of the
:07:32. > :07:34.global humanitarian burden. It contributes to American leadership
:07:35. > :07:37.and our security and it's frankly also just the right thing to do.
:07:38. > :07:45.It's important we consider that in the context of the cuts we've talked
:07:46. > :07:49.about. Thank you for being with us on the programme. General Flynn,
:07:50. > :07:54.there is a feeling among the Democrats that the White House is
:07:55. > :07:58.dragging its feet on this. What is peculiar to some people is why
:07:59. > :08:02.Donald Trump is continuing to show loyalty to General Flynn when,
:08:03. > :08:06.really, he could throw him under the bus? Interesting. We have spoken
:08:07. > :08:12.about that $45,000 he got from Russia today. General Flynn got
:08:13. > :08:16.$500,000 from the Turkish government to lobby directly on Turkey's
:08:17. > :08:21.behalf, that was while he was on the campaign last summer. The last word
:08:22. > :08:25.we've had from the President on this was at that rather rambling press
:08:26. > :08:31.conference a couple of months ago in which he said that General Flynn was
:08:32. > :08:36.aened woerful guy who had been badly mistreated by the press. He was
:08:37. > :08:40.laying the blame firmly with the media not with his former national
:08:41. > :08:45.security adviser. Donald Trump hates to be seen to be disloyal. He feels
:08:46. > :08:49.that General Flynn was one of a few people who supported him.
:08:50. > :08:53.He also feels that perhaps if he admits he made a mistake that would
:08:54. > :08:57.be a reflection on his personnel judgment. That is perhaps the
:08:58. > :09:02.psychology behind this. A quick one to finish on that. I'm saying he
:09:03. > :09:04.could throw him under the bus. If he knows something about this Russia
:09:05. > :09:11.investigation, you don't want him firing back at you from outside the
:09:12. > :09:12.White House? Yes, that's the cynical politician in you, Christian,
:09:13. > :09:16.reemerging! Late yesterday, the White House
:09:17. > :09:19.released a statement on North Korea that made no mention of a military
:09:20. > :09:22.option against the communist state. That's being seen as toning down
:09:23. > :09:24.the heated rhetoric on a crisis which seems to have been
:09:25. > :09:26.getting increasingly tense. The statement came on the heels
:09:27. > :09:30.of a meeting at the White House Republican Senator John Barrasso was
:09:31. > :09:37.at that meeting, he joins us now. Did you learn anything at the
:09:38. > :09:42.meeting at the White House yesterday that you didn't know before you went
:09:43. > :09:47.there? I had just gotten back from being in China meeting with the
:09:48. > :09:52.Premier there in Beijing. So I've been focused on what's happening in
:09:53. > :09:56.Korea. I've been to Japan as well within the last week or so. I was
:09:57. > :10:00.very interested to share with other Senators the fact that the threat is
:10:01. > :10:08.real. The fact that all options are on the table and the goal really is
:10:09. > :10:13.a nonnuclear Korean peninsula. The threat is very real. We see
:10:14. > :10:17.increased ability of North Korea to develop nuclear weapons and to
:10:18. > :10:21.deliver those weapons. We see it with changes in their rockets. It
:10:22. > :10:26.was a valuable briefing to attend I'm happy it was done at the White
:10:27. > :10:33.House including the entire Senator. The statement that the White House
:10:34. > :10:37.put out after all of the Senators left last night excluded mention of
:10:38. > :10:40.a military option. That is seen as toning down the rhetoric. Do you
:10:41. > :10:43.think that's a good idea if the White House now, kind of, tries to
:10:44. > :10:49.calm things down a bit with North Korea? Well, of course, the goal is
:10:50. > :10:53.a peaceful resolution ever the process. That's what we want. We
:10:54. > :10:58.want North Korea without nuclear weapons and this whole thing
:10:59. > :11:01.peacefully resolved. That's the deliberations and discussions with
:11:02. > :11:06.China, so they can get much more involved. After all, 85% of the
:11:07. > :11:11.trading that North Korea does is with China. I think China right now
:11:12. > :11:14.realises their interests are aligned with the United States, with regard
:11:15. > :11:19.to a nuclear armed North Korea because the question is really - can
:11:20. > :11:23.they - or can't they, in terms of delivering a nuclear warhead to
:11:24. > :11:27.where you live as opposed to will they or won't they? That's a change
:11:28. > :11:32.in the position for China. You would have been told in this briefing that
:11:33. > :11:36.Kim Jong-un is prepareded to starve his people. He's prepared to go to
:11:37. > :11:41.the wall to have this nuclear capability. Where is the leverage.
:11:42. > :11:45.China can cut everything out. It doesn't seem to make any difference?
:11:46. > :11:50.China has not cut everything off. They now said they will, in terms of
:11:51. > :11:54.purchases of coal. It's additional leverage. The other thing I think
:11:55. > :11:59.you are seeing as well is, with President Trump and his actions with
:12:00. > :12:04.regard to Syria and with regard to the mother of all bombs in
:12:05. > :12:08.Afghanistan, we have someone in North Korea who watches the world
:12:09. > :12:14.stage and says - this guy is serious. In terms of deterrents, you
:12:15. > :12:17.have to have a capacity to deter, which the United States always had.
:12:18. > :12:22.You have to have a commitment to use that deterrent. People around the
:12:23. > :12:25.world are seeing President Trump showing his commitment to use our
:12:26. > :12:32.capacity. That also sends a strong message to North Korea. Thank you
:12:33. > :12:35.very much for joining us. Back now in the Senator away from the White
:12:36. > :12:39.House. I want to pick up on on one thing about the foreign aid budget.
:12:40. > :12:42.He talked about the cuts, you mentioned the cuts and the American
:12:43. > :12:47.aid budget. Here is an interesting fact. America spends less than 1% of
:12:48. > :12:51.its budget on foreign aid. Many Americans think it's about a quarter
:12:52. > :12:54.of the US budget. That is where the political demand for it to be cut
:12:55. > :12:57.comes from. The Senator is quite right, this is an important part of
:12:58. > :13:02.American diplomacy around the world and cutting it would cause America
:13:03. > :13:04.problems potentially. Soft power. Soft power. Less than 1% of the
:13:05. > :13:08.budget, remember that. Today there was another terror alert
:13:09. > :13:11.just yards away from last month's Armed police have arrested a man
:13:12. > :13:15.under the Terrorism Act and seized It's now clear that the suspect -
:13:16. > :13:20.who has been captured - was under surveillance
:13:21. > :13:21.by Scotland Yard's Joining us now from the scene
:13:22. > :13:28.is the BBC's Dan Johnson. Does it seem to you as though this
:13:29. > :13:34.man had been followed into Westminster, Dan? Indeed, that does
:13:35. > :13:38.seem the case we know he'd been under surveillance and although it
:13:39. > :13:41.was armed officers who stepped in to stop and search him, that wasn't a
:13:42. > :13:46.random act. It appears they were following this man. When he got to
:13:47. > :13:50.the point here, in the middle of the road, cross from parliament and down
:13:51. > :13:54.the street from the gates of Downing Street, that is when armed officers
:13:55. > :13:58.moveded in to stop and search with a was on his person and was in his
:13:59. > :14:03.bag. They found a number of knives. He has been arrested on suspicion of
:14:04. > :14:07.preparing acts of terrorism and suspicion of possession of an
:14:08. > :14:11.offensive weapon. He is 27, he lives in London, although he has a British
:14:12. > :14:14.passport, but is believed to have been born abroad. Police are now
:14:15. > :14:18.searching addresses that are linked to this suspect. We don't know his
:14:19. > :14:23.name, we don't know any more about him. Witnesses who were here
:14:24. > :14:31.described how it was a frightening screen. Ing -- scene. No-one injured
:14:32. > :14:36.in this attack, just one person under arrest, being questioned by
:14:37. > :14:42.police now. Dan, briefly, how much has security been stepped up in that
:14:43. > :14:45.area since the attack? Yes. Obviously, it's been on high alert.
:14:46. > :14:49.We are right in the heart of government here. The police have
:14:50. > :14:53.been taking things very seriously since last month. They were still on
:14:54. > :14:57.high alert today. I think that is why they will have moved in so
:14:58. > :14:59.quickly today. It appears that they have stepped in quickly and
:15:00. > :15:06.effectively to stop something that could have been much more serious.
:15:07. > :15:09.The eyewitnesses saw five knives laid out on the street this guy had
:15:10. > :15:14.been carrying. The police investigating what he might have
:15:15. > :15:17.been planning to do with them. It shows how effective the services are
:15:18. > :15:21.most of the time, doesn't it. Dan, for the moment, thank you very much.
:15:22. > :15:23.There was a report this week that the British Foreign Secretary,
:15:24. > :15:26.Boris Johnson, was being sidelined in the election campaign here in UK.
:15:27. > :15:28.Some suggested he might be despatched to foreign
:15:29. > :15:34.Because today he was out and about, responding to a newspaper article
:15:35. > :15:42.in which he called the leader of the opposition, Jeremy Corbyn,
:15:43. > :15:45.Yes, if who don't know what a mugwump is -
:15:46. > :15:48.Apparently, it is someone who remains aloof or independent.
:15:49. > :15:51.But anyway, mugwumps aside, the Foreign Secretary did have some
:15:52. > :15:55.He was asked what the UK's response would be if the Assad regime
:15:56. > :16:00.Would the UK get involved in Syria alongside the United States?
:16:01. > :16:03.I think it would be very difficult if the United States has a proposal
:16:04. > :16:06.to have some sort of action, in response to a chemical weapons
:16:07. > :16:10.attack, and if they come to us, and ask for our support,
:16:11. > :16:14.whether it's with submarine based cruise missiles in the Med,
:16:15. > :16:17.or whatever it happens to be, as was the case back in 2013.
:16:18. > :16:20.John, in my view, I know this is also the view
:16:21. > :16:22.of the Prime Minister, it would be very difficult
:16:23. > :16:31.Remember, parliament has been dissolved ahead of the election,
:16:32. > :16:34.so MP's would not get a vote on military action if something
:16:35. > :16:38.Nonetheless, the opposition parties have all responded today,
:16:39. > :16:47.I would say, we don't need unilateral action,
:16:48. > :16:51.But, above all, we need to bend ourselves totally to getting
:16:52. > :16:54.Well, unilateral, illegal intervention would be
:16:55. > :16:57.It seems to me, that Boris Johnson is following
:16:58. > :17:01.then they should ask for parliamentary authority,
:17:02. > :17:04.not speculate wildly and will jump to whatever President Trump does
:17:05. > :17:06.and support America regardless and will do it
:17:07. > :17:24.The White House hasn't shown a need to consult the UK, it got on with
:17:25. > :17:28.Syria. It has the biggest military in the world. It doesn't need the
:17:29. > :17:33.help of Britain who don't have an aircraft carrier at the moment. In
:17:34. > :17:36.one sense, it's an important point - would the Parliament consult would
:17:37. > :17:40.the Government consult the Commons if and when help was needed if we
:17:41. > :17:45.were expanding the coalition? The Defence Secretary said, just a few
:17:46. > :17:48.weeks ago, in fact, Sir Michael Fallon, if it came to this they
:17:49. > :17:54.would consult the Commons. Maybe Boris Johnson was talking about the
:17:55. > :17:57.fact that Parliament has been dissolved it reminds me of August
:17:58. > :18:01.2013 when David Cameron went to Parliament to ask for a vote on
:18:02. > :18:05.action in Syria. He didn't get the votes. The Americans were unhappy
:18:06. > :18:09.about that. President Obama then rode back from taking military
:18:10. > :18:12.action here in the United States against Syria and, at the time, the
:18:13. > :18:15.White House was saying - it was because Britain didn't get the vote.
:18:16. > :18:19.Obviously, this is something that America would love to have is
:18:20. > :18:22.Britain alongside it. Particularly, with parliamentary approval. I'm not
:18:23. > :18:27.sure it does Boris Johnson many favours though to be seen to be so
:18:28. > :18:31.cosy with the Trump administration. Look, it didn't do Tony Blair many
:18:32. > :18:36.favours, did it, politically? What they want to do is get the focus of
:18:37. > :18:40.the debate in the election on strong and stable leadership. Did you hear
:18:41. > :18:44.that, it's basically, the strong and stable stable leadership they want
:18:45. > :18:53.to talk about. You will hear a lot about the strong and stable
:18:54. > :18:58.leadership in the coming weeks. You are not a mugwump. This is a double
:18:59. > :19:02.headed programme. I can't be aloft and detached. It's impossible. I can
:19:03. > :19:07.push you to one side in the screen anyway.
:19:08. > :19:10.Now, when it comes to love it's often said opposites attract.
:19:11. > :19:12.That's certainly true for one couple in Pennsylvania whose politics
:19:13. > :19:15.Before the election we met Democrat Gretchen Wisehart
:19:16. > :19:18.and her fiance Tom Ellis, who supported Donald Trump.
:19:19. > :19:23.Since then they have tied the knot, but they still disagree
:19:24. > :19:27.Rajini Vaidyanathan's been catching up with them to see how they've been
:19:28. > :19:39.I voted for Hillary Clinton. I voted for Donald Trump. We just got
:19:40. > :19:43.married! We did have a couple of days after the election where I said
:19:44. > :19:47.- I can't talk to you. For you? It was difficult because I didn't know
:19:48. > :19:52.what to say to her. I met the couple at their home during the election.
:19:53. > :19:57.They were engaged, in a lot of heated political discussions. Don't
:19:58. > :20:01.talk over me yet. I caught up with them again, six weeks into their
:20:02. > :20:08.marriage. This is the room you got married in. 100 days into the Trump
:20:09. > :20:15.presidency. I didn't think I would be living under a Trump presidency.
:20:16. > :20:20.I wonder what happened overnight that I'm not aware of. Our wedding
:20:21. > :20:24.and honeymoon was paid for by the Donald Trump increase in the to
:20:25. > :20:29.being stock market. The travel ban was an ill conceived, racist ban
:20:30. > :20:33.that was never going to pass constitutional muster. It was too
:20:34. > :20:39.quick a roll out. That was the problem. The philosophy was fine.
:20:40. > :20:43.The rollout was poor. The President totally flopped on healthcare
:20:44. > :20:47.reform. It really was amazing that he didn't have a plan in place when
:20:48. > :20:51.he finally got to the White House. No, he tried to roll it out too
:20:52. > :20:55.quickly. It's going on right now. It's an albatross around every
:20:56. > :20:59.President's neck. It takes a long time. I did support the strike in
:21:00. > :21:05.Syria. I think a measured response to the atrocities that occurred in
:21:06. > :21:08.Syria was long overdue. It was well done, well orchestrated strike that
:21:09. > :21:15.I was very proud of the President on. The President promised to come
:21:16. > :21:21.to Washington and drain the swamp. Instead of draining the swamp he
:21:22. > :21:27.dredged it to fill it with nep row 'tissism. I think his staff has been
:21:28. > :21:32.terrific and his staff on national security is one of the best. You
:21:33. > :21:36.might wonder how they make their marriage work with these political
:21:37. > :21:40.differences, but they do? We have had disagreements about this our
:21:41. > :21:44.entire relationship. We can have discussions and argue and disagree
:21:45. > :21:47.without disrespecting even other. We are not in election mode any more.
:21:48. > :21:54.Now we have a President. Until he's impeached. I think that's coming
:21:55. > :21:58.very soon - but I still love you! I just wish they were like the rest of
:21:59. > :22:01.America. I have to say, they are exceptional. This is a country that
:22:02. > :22:05.is so severely divided that you would think that people lived on
:22:06. > :22:10.different planets who supported Donald Trump. There is a new poll
:22:11. > :22:16.out which suggests that Tom is pretty representative of a majority
:22:17. > :22:19.of supporters of Donald Trump who tend to be older, male and white.
:22:20. > :22:25.It's exactly what we saw in the election itself. That's held out
:22:26. > :22:31.during the course of this 100 Days. Tom, doesn't strike me as the kind
:22:32. > :22:35.of average guy! No. I didn't say he was average financially. He was
:22:36. > :22:40.average in terms of the Trump profile. God, you never agree with
:22:41. > :22:44.me on anything! No. They manage to disagree and get along still. We are
:22:45. > :22:50.not in election mode any more, as Tom says! Shall we move on to
:22:51. > :22:53.another election. Let's look at France.
:22:54. > :22:55.In France, Marine Le Pen says she is the presidential candidate
:22:56. > :22:59.In an interview published today, she has dismissed her centrist
:23:00. > :23:01.rival, Emmanuel Macron, as a "young trader who wants
:23:02. > :23:04.We are ten days from the second round vote.
:23:05. > :23:07.Marine Le Pen is a long way behind Mr Macron,
:23:08. > :23:10.Today, she has been aboard a trawler campaigning
:23:11. > :23:14.Tonight she is back on dry land in Nice, scene of that awful
:23:15. > :23:23.James Reynold is at the rally for us.
:23:24. > :23:29.Every day is valuable, is it too early to get any sense of whether
:23:30. > :23:33.marine Le Pen with stunts like that, being on a fishing boat, turning up
:23:34. > :23:39.in a car park yesterday, is managing to chip away at Macron's or support?
:23:40. > :23:44.It probably is. The polls have him 20 points ahead. He has closed by
:23:45. > :23:48.two. She had a good day yesterday that the factory. We showed you
:23:49. > :23:53.where she went to meet the workers and hijacked his visit to the
:23:54. > :23:57.factory. She's doing what she needs to do in her eyes is appeal to
:23:58. > :24:02.French workers and make him the young trader. The guy who wants to
:24:03. > :24:12.sweep away French nationality. That might work in some quarters. She is
:24:13. > :24:19.in Nice, she needs to pick up the voters that went to Fillon. It's the
:24:20. > :24:25.damage she does to Macron in the eyes of the voter when he becomes
:24:26. > :24:28.President. Is he really one of them? If if he doesn't hit the ground
:24:29. > :24:48.running within a few months he will be in the same positioland. As the
:24:49. > :24:55.current president. When she talks about him being a trader, how much
:24:56. > :24:58.does that resonate, perhaps not so much with Macron supporters or
:24:59. > :25:06.Fillon supporters, but with people on the left of the spectrum? More so
:25:07. > :25:15.than this would do on this country. They talk about the Anglo-Saxon
:25:16. > :25:18.capitalism. . There are a lot of Le Pen supporters, 15-20% that went to
:25:19. > :25:20.the far left, they will come back. She will have a struggle on her
:25:21. > :25:26.hands to get the rest of them. You're watching 100
:25:27. > :25:28.Days from BBC News. Still to come for viewers on the BBC
:25:29. > :25:32.News Channel and BBC World News, we report from a state that helped
:25:33. > :25:35.Donald Trump win the White House, but are voters there
:25:36. > :25:37.still giving him the thumbs up? And America's Department
:25:38. > :25:40.of Homeland Security sets up a new 'alien' hotline -
:25:41. > :25:42.are you confused? That's still to come
:25:43. > :26:12.on 100 Days from BBC News. The weather today a little bit like
:26:13. > :26:15.a pick and mix sweet shop, everything in there to suit all
:26:16. > :26:21.tastes. There has been some sunshine around. In actual fact temperatures
:26:22. > :26:25.close to Edinburgh have been just over 14 degrees. Today there has
:26:26. > :26:29.been showers though as well with cloud and in came bridge the showers
:26:30. > :26:32.were on and off throughout the day. Because of a series of weather
:26:33. > :26:36.fronts that have been sweeping southwards. There has been some
:26:37. > :26:41.cloud, some sun and some showers as well. Not as cold as in recent days.
:26:42. > :26:45.The cloud and the showers will sink south and west overnight. They will
:26:46. > :26:48.prevent a frost from forming, which is welcome news. Perhaps the
:26:49. > :26:55.chillest of the temperatures up into the far north and east, not as cold
:26:56. > :26:59.as the night just passed. Friday morning will start off on a quiet
:27:00. > :27:03.note. There will be clouds and showers from this weather front that
:27:04. > :27:08.has to continue to sink south and west. All in all, we will see a
:27:09. > :27:12.quiet story for Friday before more rain threatens for the weekend. Yes,
:27:13. > :27:16.cloudy with a few showers into the south and the west. The best of the
:27:17. > :27:19.sunshine first thing in the morning in sheltered eastern areas. The
:27:20. > :27:23.cloud will build up into the afternoon. We will see a scattering
:27:24. > :27:28.of showers likely anywhere across the country. The driest of the
:27:29. > :27:33.weather in the south-east. Highs of 8-13 degrees. As we move towards the
:27:34. > :27:36.Bank Holiday weekend it will be breezy, but milder than of late.
:27:37. > :27:40.However, there is some rain in the forecast. Trying to pinpoint the
:27:41. > :27:44.details for that is tricky at the moment. Here goes. Saturday looks
:27:45. > :27:51.likely to be the best day of the weekend. Enjoy it. The wind will
:27:52. > :27:54.increase as a weather front threatens by the end of Saturday
:27:55. > :28:00.into the south-west. It will bring heavy and welcome rain. Ahead of it
:28:01. > :28:05.on Saturday a promising day, decent, dry, sunny spells. Highs of 15
:28:06. > :28:10.degrees. The winds will strengthen to the south-west, the cloud and
:28:11. > :28:17.rain will arrive. On Sunday it will be a wet affair into Cornwall,
:28:18. > :28:23.Somerset, are Dorset and into Wales. The rain will move eastwards through
:28:24. > :28:28.England and moved across Scotland. It will clear on bank holiday
:28:29. > :28:30.Monday. Showers to the east. Not a washout, any means. That's it, take
:28:31. > :30:08.care. Welcome back to 100 Days,
:30:09. > :30:12.I'm Katty Kay in Washington, Christian Fraser is in London.
:30:13. > :30:15.Our top story - It's a drip feed on former
:30:16. > :30:18.Trump national security adviser Michael Flynn -
:30:19. > :30:21.this time it looks like he didn't ask for permission when he took
:30:22. > :30:24.thousands from Russia Today - against the law for
:30:25. > :30:27.a former military officer. And coming up - day 100 is fast
:30:28. > :30:30.approaching for the US President - is he really putting "America
:30:31. > :30:34.First"? I'm Laura Trevelyan live
:30:35. > :30:38.in the state of Pennsylvania - voters here helped catapult
:30:39. > :30:41.Donald Trump into the White House - but what do voters make
:30:42. > :30:53.of his first 100 days? Donald Trump's "America First"
:30:54. > :30:56.rhetoric, alarmed many The heavyweights in foreign policy
:30:57. > :31:02.circles warned that if the President withdrew America from the world
:31:03. > :31:05.stage the Russians and Chinese In fact, the Trump administration
:31:06. > :31:12.is now a lot closer to conventional foreign policy than perhaps
:31:13. > :31:15.many of his supporters In the last several weeks -
:31:16. > :31:21.Tomahawk missiles have been fired at a Syrian airbase,
:31:22. > :31:24.they dropped the biggest 'conventional' bomb
:31:25. > :31:27.on IS in Afghanistan, and North Korea -
:31:28. > :31:30.as we have discussed - Joining us now to discuss
:31:31. > :31:36.the President's foreign policy thus far is former State Department
:31:37. > :31:39.official Richard Haass, author of A World in Disarray,
:31:40. > :31:51.he is now President of the Council The communications director at the
:31:52. > :31:55.White House has said there is no foreign policy doctorate for the
:31:56. > :32:05.Trump administration, does that matter, does there need to be one?
:32:06. > :32:09.On one hand, you want to have some principles. So much is coming into
:32:10. > :32:13.your inbox, you don't want to react to everything in isolation. You
:32:14. > :32:18.don't want to have to make it up every day. But it is way too early
:32:19. > :32:25.to be thinking about a doctorate, 100 days is just that. It would need
:32:26. > :32:28.to be big and consistent and endure. We may get thereafter a couple of
:32:29. > :32:34.years but in some ways, we shouldn't have one yet. One ideal perhaps of
:32:35. > :32:38.this White House is not to staff itself properly when it comes to the
:32:39. > :32:41.foreign policy side and the President has said this is a
:32:42. > :32:45.deliberate decision he has made, not to fill some of those posts. How
:32:46. > :32:49.does he compared to previous presidents and how much does it hurt
:32:50. > :32:55.America on the world stage not to be staffed properly? It is going much
:32:56. > :32:59.more slowly and even if it were to start up this afternoon or tomorrow,
:33:00. > :33:03.it would still take months to happen given the congressional process. The
:33:04. > :33:09.fact it is deliberate is anything but reassuring. This means you are
:33:10. > :33:13.denied all the extra historical knowledge, advice of people and it
:33:14. > :33:17.also means when it comes to executing or implementing policy,
:33:18. > :33:21.you are much weaker. I don't understand why the President would
:33:22. > :33:25.do this and also I don't understand why the Secretary of State or the
:33:26. > :33:31.secretary of defence would put up with it. They can't do their job
:33:32. > :33:38.without hundreds of professionals. That's the point. You could make an
:33:39. > :33:40.argument for some of the staffing at the state department being culled
:33:41. > :33:45.but not to have an ambassador in South Korea or maybe in the UK for
:33:46. > :33:52.instance, one of your closest partners, it's bizarre. Again, you
:33:53. > :33:58.are denied all sorts of expertise. I wouldn't make a case for cutting at
:33:59. > :34:02.the State Department. Look at the inbox Donald Trump inherited, from
:34:03. > :34:05.North Korea to China, to all the Russian challenges in Europe and
:34:06. > :34:10.what is going on with the EU. The Middle East, itself would be enough
:34:11. > :34:18.to staff the State Department so I don't understand why you would want
:34:19. > :34:22.to avail yourself. To make it worse, hundred Republican figures in the
:34:23. > :34:26.foreign policy will have experience working save for George W. Bush and
:34:27. > :34:28.virtually all of them are being denied the opportunity to work here
:34:29. > :34:34.because they oppose the candidate Donald Trump. I am hoping that at
:34:35. > :34:40.some point, this President and those around him get over that. We are at
:34:41. > :34:46.day 98, I think it is, is President Trump putting America first? I'm not
:34:47. > :34:49.quite sure what it means to the extent it means we will calculate
:34:50. > :34:54.the very narrow way, what is good for us, than I fear to some extent
:34:55. > :34:58.he is. One of the messages of the foreign policy is not just that it
:34:59. > :35:03.is unpredictable to our adversary 's, which can be a times useful, but
:35:04. > :35:08.to be unpredictable to your friends, most recently it has been Canada and
:35:09. > :35:14.Mexico, it was Australia, it's been in Germany, South Korea and Japan.
:35:15. > :35:19.That is very dangerous because friendly relationships depend upon
:35:20. > :35:23.predictability. Reliability. These countries are placing their security
:35:24. > :35:27.in our hands. If they sense our hands are not predictable and save,
:35:28. > :35:31.they will take their security elsewhere. Either they will bow to a
:35:32. > :35:35.powerful neighbour or they will simply start taking matters into
:35:36. > :35:40.their own hands, either way, to use my favourite word, that is a world
:35:41. > :35:47.of much greater disarray, a world of much diminished American influence.
:35:48. > :35:55.The book is A World Of Disarray. You got the plug in! There is a concern
:35:56. > :36:00.that after 70 years, you had a world order based on certain norms and
:36:01. > :36:02.laws and alliances, whether trade or security alliances. Donald Trump
:36:03. > :36:08.Osman position on that is very different. He once a much more
:36:09. > :36:14.transactional relationship with countries that doesn't necessarily
:36:15. > :36:18.stick to those alliances and I think that's why you hear someone like
:36:19. > :36:20.Richard Haass who is part of the American foreign policy
:36:21. > :36:23.establishment, expressing concern is not just about the staffing but
:36:24. > :36:29.about what this President wants to do with American leadership. Are we
:36:30. > :36:34.likely to get an ambassador? I think the UK might get one before... Names
:36:35. > :36:38.have been floated around another good start at least. Some of the
:36:39. > :36:42.other countries where perhaps relations are more contentious,
:36:43. > :36:46.which might as you have suggested, South Korea several times, that's
:36:47. > :36:47.where you really need the ambassadors and I haven't even heard
:36:48. > :36:53.names for countries like that. This Saturday Donald Trump travels
:36:54. > :36:55.to Pennsylvania to mark the 100th day in office
:36:56. > :36:58.with a night-time rally. At the elections it was a state
:36:59. > :37:01.he flipped from the Democrats So what are people there
:37:02. > :37:06.saying as he finishes The BBC's Laura Trevelyan
:37:07. > :37:17.is in Philadelphia and joins us now. We have heard from people in rural
:37:18. > :37:22.areas who voted for Donald Trump but a lot of where we see division and
:37:23. > :37:24.people who could flip either way are in suburbs are places like
:37:25. > :37:33.Philadelphia, what are you hearing from them? Views on Donald Trump
:37:34. > :37:39.still extremely divided. Very few people seem to have changed their
:37:40. > :37:43.opinion of him. Nearly 100 days in. The won the state of Pennsylvania
:37:44. > :37:47.extremely narrowly by less than a percent but not that less than 0.5%
:37:48. > :37:52.because that would have triggered a recount which didn't happen. He won
:37:53. > :37:59.by flipping three counties from Obama's column, three counties in
:38:00. > :38:04.former manufacturing areas where his message clearly resonated very
:38:05. > :38:08.strongly. What are people in Philly making of the Trump presidency on
:38:09. > :38:11.day 98? I've been speaking to people to find out.
:38:12. > :38:17.We are moving in the right direction, B plus so far with
:38:18. > :38:24.improvement come but off to a great start. Impeach him, he's horrible
:38:25. > :38:27.and he hasn't stuck to any of his promises. He has had a changing
:38:28. > :38:32.effect on the country, I'm hesitant to say it's a good one but certainly
:38:33. > :38:37.a change. I think he's done a good job, I think he has tried to fulfil
:38:38. > :38:47.a lot of his campaign promises, I think he has done to some of them,.
:38:48. > :38:51.I didn't vote for Trump so of course I'm going to say I don't think he's
:38:52. > :38:52.doing a good job but I also believe we have to give people an
:38:53. > :39:03.opportunity. Here in the UK, people say if you
:39:04. > :39:11.are in the Brexit column you don't shift and if you are in the EU
:39:12. > :39:17.column you don't shift. The polling suggests this. One poll said only 2%
:39:18. > :39:21.of people who supported Donald Trump in the election now have buyers
:39:22. > :39:26.remorse. It was interesting talking to people and those that did not
:39:27. > :39:30.vote for him now say they loathe him even more than when they didn't vote
:39:31. > :39:33.for him. They feel he has horrified them even more they thought he
:39:34. > :39:41.would. Amongst those people that did vote frame, it's interesting to note
:39:42. > :39:42.what is bringing it in. It's all about this question of family and
:39:43. > :39:53.the prominence of the Trump family. These are the issues that seem to be
:39:54. > :39:59.coming through even with people that supported with him. Is it really the
:40:00. > :40:07.big event this week? I thought the draft was on for the NFL? The draft
:40:08. > :40:13.is absolutely huge here. My kids asked if I was going to Philly for
:40:14. > :40:25.the draft and I had to ask what it was! The worst teams get to choose
:40:26. > :40:26.the best players first. Laura Trevelyan, just became our sports
:40:27. > :40:30.correspondent! Thank you. Flying saucers, UFOs -
:40:31. > :40:34.these are not terms the White House want you to associate with the word
:40:35. > :40:37.'alien' - why are we telling you this?
:40:38. > :40:40.Well, the Department of Homeland Security has just opened
:40:41. > :40:43.a new office called Voice. And the point of Voice is to "serve
:40:44. > :40:46.the needs of crime victims and their families who have been
:40:47. > :40:50.impacted by crimes committed But according to one Twitter user,
:40:51. > :40:59."...they introduced the alien hotline on Alien day.
:41:00. > :41:03.I hope Sigourney Weaver called". And since the switchboard operators
:41:04. > :41:21.have been plagued by reports I'm speechless! I am as well. I have
:41:22. > :41:24.not tried to call the hotline but apparently it is taking a long time
:41:25. > :41:28.to get through because so many people who are opposed to Donald
:41:29. > :41:32.Trump's immigration policies are calling up pretending they have had
:41:33. > :41:36.crimes committed by little green men. One person called to say his
:41:37. > :41:42.tractor was stolen. I have a tractor, I hope it hasn't been
:41:43. > :41:46.stolen. Mulder and Scully are out there. Maybe they are just waiting
:41:47. > :41:47.for a hotline like this. Maybe there are lots of little green men running
:41:48. > :41:52.around! That is 100 Days -
:41:53. > :41:55.a reminder that we have a special show tomorrow -
:41:56. > :42:09.day 99 of the Trump administration - We will have lots of good guests. We
:42:10. > :42:17.will and we will talk about how the President is doing. We have spoken
:42:18. > :42:21.about how this was a concept that came about with FDR but presidents
:42:22. > :42:25.are measured on their first 100 days in office and after that, you lose
:42:26. > :42:31.the honeymoon period and things are harder to accomplish.
:42:32. > :42:40.The programme will also carry on beyond the 100th day,
:42:41. > :42:52.We are launching with One Hundred Days plus. Plus what? I'll get the
:42:53. > :42:53.hang of it. Can you just say goodbye? If you want to get in
:42:54. > :42:56.touch... If you want to get in touch with us,
:42:57. > :43:00.you can do so using the hashtag, BBC-one-hundred-days.
:43:01. > :43:03.For now from Katty Kay in Washington and me
:43:04. > :43:14.Christian Fraser in London, goodbye.