27/04/2017 100 Days

The Russia probe into the Trump campaign intensifies as the Pentagon

The Department of Defence is looking at whether the former national

security advisor accepted payments from Moscow illegally.

It appears Michael Flynn did not ask for approval when he took thousands

As a former military officer, that would be against US law.

The US tones down the rhetoric on North Korea after the entire

US Senate is summoned to the White House for

Another terror alert in the heart of London.

A man is arrested carrying knives near Downing Street

In France, the two presidential candidates are trawling for votes...

We will be live in Nice this evening where Le Pen is setting

In this run up to 100 days, we'll get the view of the voters,

including Tom and Gretschen - now united in Holy Matrimony,

We're not in election mode any more. Now we have a President. Until he's

impeached. I think that's coming very soon. But I still love you.

Hello, I am Katty Kay in London, Christian Fraser is in London.

Here is a picture you may have seen before.

Donald Trump's former National Security Adviser,

Mike Flynn sitting alongside Vladimir Putin at a gala dinner

We have shown it to you many times before and it was widely circulated

in the US media before Gen Flynn was appointed to his post.

He was paid $45,000 dollars for that appearance by the Kremlin's

television station, Russia Today.

A payment he's now accused of not disclosing when he joined

the White House staff, and that would be illegal.

Today, the House Oversight Committee revealed that in 2014,

General Flynn was warened by the Pentagon not to take money

The committee has been given documents from the Department

of Defence which suggest General Flynn had hidden

the money he received, which begs the question why,

and is the White House hiding something?

Here's the senior democrat on that committee, Elijah Cummings.

I honestly do not understand why the White House is covering

up for Michael Flynn, I don't get it.

After the President fired him, for lying.

So the President fired him for lying about the communications

They should be bending over backwards to help us.

It does not make any sense, and it makes the American people

think the White House has something to hide.

Sean Spicer has been speaking about this at the White House moments ago.

If they think there is wrong-doing, the department should look into

that. He was issued security clearance under the Obama

administration in the spring of 2016 The trip and transactions you

referred to occurred in December 2015, from what I understand.

Obviously, there is an issue that, as you point out, the Department of

Defence and Inspector General is looking into that. We welcome that.

That was made during the Obama administration and with knowledge of

the trip that he took. Joining us now from Capitol Hill

is Democratic Senator Chris Coons, who sits on the Foreign Relations

Committee. The national security adviser sits

in the West Wing near the President. He advises the President on vital

issues of national importance and intelligence. How was Jen Michael

Flynn able to get the job of national security adviser to

President Trump? That's a great question. That clip I just heard

from Sean Spicer was an attempt to make it the Obama's administration

fault that General Flynn was seated as the national security adviser to

President Trump and a participant in Situation Room discussions about

vital national security issues there. Is bipartisan movement in the

House to insist on an investigation and that the Pentagon Inspector

General was taking this matter up. It suggests that the Trump

administration, although they almost certainly knew about Michael

Flynn's, General. Flynn's conflict of interest, didn't take them

seriously enough, didn't investigate them throughly enough or just didn't

care. Senator, what do you think is going on? Is the White House trying

to hide something about General Flynn? Well, this is just

another billowing column of smoke that suggest there are complicating

relationships between Russia's Intelligence Services, Russian

representist and the Trump administration and his core team of

advisers. I don't know what the administration might be hiding here

it seems truly odd after the President fired General Flynn for

lying he wouldn't step forward and have his administration co-operate

with the investigation into General Flynn's conflict of interests. It's

Christian in London, General Flynn's story has changed over time. He

originally said he wasn't paid for this. He said it came from his

speaking agency in London. That it was paid second hand to him. Is it

possible that the White House just didn't know because, after all, he

had lied before to them about his meetings with the Russian

ambassador, perhaps he said to them - look, I wasn't paid for this and

they just didn't know? That's conceivable and the way to put that

to rest would be for the White House to fully disclose the records that

they've got about the background check and the clearance process for

General Flynn. I will remind you, we have a number of cases like this

where there isn't full co-operation and where the administration isn't

doing everything they can to clear up questions such as the questions

about General Flynn's conflicts of interest. Fascinating story. There

is probably more to come on it. We have been following what you have

been doing in recent weeks. You have been to Uganda to this

refugee camp over there. One of the biggest camps in the world, 250,000

people in that camp. Yes. I want to ask you about the President's policy

on the foreign aid budget. US food and aid to that camp in particular

is crucial, what might happen if the budget is cut, as the President has

proposed? Well, the President has proposed an outrageous 30% cut to

our development and demroim i accounts. Now, at a time when our

confrontation with North Korea is at a fever pitch, at a time when we

have challenges and adversity to face in Syria as well as in Russia's

ongoing aGreggs in the Ukraine and the real humanitarian crisis in

South Sudan and Yemen, Somalia and Nigeria it's not a time for a cut in

US foreign assistance. It would lead to millions of people starving. The

UK gives a higher level of its GDP we need to carry our share of the

global humanitarian burden. It contributes to American leadership

and our security and it's frankly also just the right thing to do.

It's important we consider that in the context of the cuts we've talked

about. Thank you for being with us on the programme. General Flynn,

there is a feeling among the Democrats that the White House is

dragging its feet on this. What is peculiar to some people is why

Donald Trump is continuing to show loyalty to General Flynn when,

really, he could throw him under the bus? Interesting. We have spoken

about that $45,000 he got from Russia today. General Flynn got

$500,000 from the Turkish government to lobby directly on Turkey's

behalf, that was while he was on the campaign last summer. The last word

we've had from the President on this was at that rather rambling press

conference a couple of months ago in which he said that General Flynn was

aened woerful guy who had been badly mistreated by the press. He was

laying the blame firmly with the media not with his former national

security adviser. Donald Trump hates to be seen to be disloyal. He feels

that General Flynn was one of a few people who supported him.

He also feels that perhaps if he admits he made a mistake that would

be a reflection on his personnel judgment. That is perhaps the

psychology behind this. A quick one to finish on that. I'm saying he

could throw him under the bus. If he knows something about this Russia

investigation, you don't want him firing back at you from outside the

White House? Yes, that's the cynical politician in you, Christian,

reemerging! Late yesterday, the White House

released a statement on North Korea that made no mention of a military

option against the communist state. That's being seen as toning down

the heated rhetoric on a crisis which seems to have been

getting increasingly tense. The statement came on the heels

of a meeting at the White House Republican Senator John Barrasso was

at that meeting, he joins us now. Did you learn anything at the

meeting at the White House yesterday that you didn't know before you went

there? I had just gotten back from being in China meeting with the

Premier there in Beijing. So I've been focused on what's happening in

Korea. I've been to Japan as well within the last week or so. I was

very interested to share with other Senators the fact that the threat is

real. The fact that all options are on the table and the goal really is

a nonnuclear Korean peninsula. The threat is very real. We see

increased ability of North Korea to develop nuclear weapons and to

deliver those weapons. We see it with changes in their rockets. It

was a valuable briefing to attend I'm happy it was done at the White

House including the entire Senator. The statement that the White House

put out after all of the Senators left last night excluded mention of

a military option. That is seen as toning down the rhetoric. Do you

think that's a good idea if the White House now, kind of, tries to

calm things down a bit with North Korea? Well, of course, the goal is

a peaceful resolution ever the process. That's what we want. We

want North Korea without nuclear weapons and this whole thing

peacefully resolved. That's the deliberations and discussions with

China, so they can get much more involved. After all, 85% of the

trading that North Korea does is with China. I think China right now

realises their interests are aligned with the United States, with regard

to a nuclear armed North Korea because the question is really - can

they - or can't they, in terms of delivering a nuclear warhead to

where you live as opposed to will they or won't they? That's a change

in the position for China. You would have been told in this briefing that

Kim Jong-un is prepareded to starve his people. He's prepared to go to

the wall to have this nuclear capability. Where is the leverage.

China can cut everything out. It doesn't seem to make any difference?

China has not cut everything off. They now said they will, in terms of

purchases of coal. It's additional leverage. The other thing I think

you are seeing as well is, with President Trump and his actions with

regard to Syria and with regard to the mother of all bombs in

Afghanistan, we have someone in North Korea who watches the world

stage and says - this guy is serious. In terms of deterrents, you

have to have a capacity to deter, which the United States always had.

You have to have a commitment to use that deterrent. People around the

world are seeing President Trump showing his commitment to use our

capacity. That also sends a strong message to North Korea. Thank you

very much for joining us. Back now in the Senator away from the White

House. I want to pick up on on one thing about the foreign aid budget.

He talked about the cuts, you mentioned the cuts and the American

aid budget. Here is an interesting fact. America spends less than 1% of

its budget on foreign aid. Many Americans think it's about a quarter

of the US budget. That is where the political demand for it to be cut

comes from. The Senator is quite right, this is an important part of

American diplomacy around the world and cutting it would cause America

problems potentially. Soft power. Soft power. Less than 1% of the

budget, remember that. Today there was another terror alert

just yards away from last month's Armed police have arrested a man

under the Terrorism Act and seized It's now clear that the suspect -

who has been captured - was under surveillance

by Scotland Yard's Joining us now from the scene

is the BBC's Dan Johnson. Does it seem to you as though this

man had been followed into Westminster, Dan? Indeed, that does

seem the case we know he'd been under surveillance and although it

was armed officers who stepped in to stop and search him, that wasn't a

random act. It appears they were following this man. When he got to

the point here, in the middle of the road, cross from parliament and down

the street from the gates of Downing Street, that is when armed officers

moveded in to stop and search with a was on his person and was in his

bag. They found a number of knives. He has been arrested on suspicion of

preparing acts of terrorism and suspicion of possession of an

offensive weapon. He is 27, he lives in London, although he has a British

passport, but is believed to have been born abroad. Police are now

searching addresses that are linked to this suspect. We don't know his

name, we don't know any more about him. Witnesses who were here

described how it was a frightening screen. Ing -- scene. No-one injured

in this attack, just one person under arrest, being questioned by

police now. Dan, briefly, how much has security been stepped up in that

area since the attack? Yes. Obviously, it's been on high alert.

We are right in the heart of government here. The police have

been taking things very seriously since last month. They were still on

high alert today. I think that is why they will have moved in so

quickly today. It appears that they have stepped in quickly and

effectively to stop something that could have been much more serious.

The eyewitnesses saw five knives laid out on the street this guy had

been carrying. The police investigating what he might have

been planning to do with them. It shows how effective the services are

most of the time, doesn't it. Dan, for the moment, thank you very much.

There was a report this week that the British Foreign Secretary,

Boris Johnson, was being sidelined in the election campaign here in UK.

Some suggested he might be despatched to foreign

Because today he was out and about, responding to a newspaper article

in which he called the leader of the opposition, Jeremy Corbyn,

Yes, if who don't know what a mugwump is -

Apparently, it is someone who remains aloof or independent.

But anyway, mugwumps aside, the Foreign Secretary did have some

He was asked what the UK's response would be if the Assad regime

Would the UK get involved in Syria alongside the United States?

I think it would be very difficult if the United States has a proposal

to have some sort of action, in response to a chemical weapons

attack, and if they come to us, and ask for our support,

whether it's with submarine based cruise missiles in the Med,

or whatever it happens to be, as was the case back in 2013.

John, in my view, I know this is also the view

of the Prime Minister, it would be very difficult

Remember, parliament has been dissolved ahead of the election,

so MP's would not get a vote on military action if something

Nonetheless, the opposition parties have all responded today,

I would say, we don't need unilateral action,

But, above all, we need to bend ourselves totally to getting

Well, unilateral, illegal intervention would be

It seems to me, that Boris Johnson is following

then they should ask for parliamentary authority,

not speculate wildly and will jump to whatever President Trump does

and support America regardless and will do it

The White House hasn't shown a need to consult the UK, it got on with

Syria. It has the biggest military in the world. It doesn't need the

help of Britain who don't have an aircraft carrier at the moment. In

one sense, it's an important point - would the Parliament consult would

the Government consult the Commons if and when help was needed if we

were expanding the coalition? The Defence Secretary said, just a few

weeks ago, in fact, Sir Michael Fallon, if it came to this they

would consult the Commons. Maybe Boris Johnson was talking about the

fact that Parliament has been dissolved it reminds me of August

2013 when David Cameron went to Parliament to ask for a vote on

action in Syria. He didn't get the votes. The Americans were unhappy

about that. President Obama then rode back from taking military

action here in the United States against Syria and, at the time, the

White House was saying - it was because Britain didn't get the vote.

Obviously, this is something that America would love to have is

Britain alongside it. Particularly, with parliamentary approval. I'm not

sure it does Boris Johnson many favours though to be seen to be so

cosy with the Trump administration. Look, it didn't do Tony Blair many

favours, did it, politically? What they want to do is get the focus of

the debate in the election on strong and stable leadership. Did you hear

that, it's basically, the strong and stable stable leadership they want

to talk about. You will hear a lot about the strong and stable

leadership in the coming weeks. You are not a mugwump. This is a double

headed programme. I can't be aloft and detached. It's impossible. I can

push you to one side in the screen anyway.

Now, when it comes to love it's often said opposites attract.

That's certainly true for one couple in Pennsylvania whose politics

Before the election we met Democrat Gretchen Wisehart

and her fiance Tom Ellis, who supported Donald Trump.

Since then they have tied the knot, but they still disagree

Rajini Vaidyanathan's been catching up with them to see how they've been

I voted for Hillary Clinton. I voted for Donald Trump. We just got

married! We did have a couple of days after the election where I said

- I can't talk to you. For you? It was difficult because I didn't know

what to say to her. I met the couple at their home during the election.

They were engaged, in a lot of heated political discussions. Don't

talk over me yet. I caught up with them again, six weeks into their

marriage. This is the room you got married in. 100 days into the Trump

presidency. I didn't think I would be living under a Trump presidency.

I wonder what happened overnight that I'm not aware of. Our wedding

and honeymoon was paid for by the Donald Trump increase in the to

being stock market. The travel ban was an ill conceived, racist ban

that was never going to pass constitutional muster. It was too

quick a roll out. That was the problem. The philosophy was fine.

The rollout was poor. The President totally flopped on healthcare

reform. It really was amazing that he didn't have a plan in place when

he finally got to the White House. No, he tried to roll it out too

quickly. It's going on right now. It's an albatross around every

President's neck. It takes a long time. I did support the strike in

Syria. I think a measured response to the atrocities that occurred in

Syria was long overdue. It was well done, well orchestrated strike that

I was very proud of the President on. The President promised to come

to Washington and drain the swamp. Instead of draining the swamp he

dredged it to fill it with nep row 'tissism. I think his staff has been

terrific and his staff on national security is one of the best. You

might wonder how they make their marriage work with these political

differences, but they do? We have had disagreements about this our

entire relationship. We can have discussions and argue and disagree

without disrespecting even other. We are not in election mode any more.

Now we have a President. Until he's impeached. I think that's coming

very soon - but I still love you! I just wish they were like the rest of

America. I have to say, they are exceptional. This is a country that

is so severely divided that you would think that people lived on

different planets who supported Donald Trump. There is a new poll

out which suggests that Tom is pretty representative of a majority

of supporters of Donald Trump who tend to be older, male and white.

It's exactly what we saw in the election itself. That's held out

during the course of this 100 Days. Tom, doesn't strike me as the kind

of average guy! No. I didn't say he was average financially. He was

average in terms of the Trump profile. God, you never agree with

me on anything! No. They manage to disagree and get along still. We are

not in election mode any more, as Tom says! Shall we move on to

another election. Let's look at France.

In France, Marine Le Pen says she is the presidential candidate

In an interview published today, she has dismissed her centrist

rival, Emmanuel Macron, as a "young trader who wants

We are ten days from the second round vote.

Marine Le Pen is a long way behind Mr Macron,

Today, she has been aboard a trawler campaigning

Tonight she is back on dry land in Nice, scene of that awful

James Reynold is at the rally for us.

Every day is valuable, is it too early to get any sense of whether

marine Le Pen with stunts like that, being on a fishing boat, turning up

in a car park yesterday, is managing to chip away at Macron's or support?

It probably is. The polls have him 20 points ahead. He has closed by

two. She had a good day yesterday that the factory. We showed you

where she went to meet the workers and hijacked his visit to the

factory. She's doing what she needs to do in her eyes is appeal to

French workers and make him the young trader. The guy who wants to

sweep away French nationality. That might work in some quarters. She is

in Nice, she needs to pick up the voters that went to Fillon. It's the

damage she does to Macron in the eyes of the voter when he becomes

President. Is he really one of them? If if he doesn't hit the ground

running within a few months he will be in the same positioland. As the

current president. When she talks about him being a trader, how much

does that resonate, perhaps not so much with Macron supporters or

Fillon supporters, but with people on the left of the spectrum? More so

than this would do on this country. They talk about the Anglo-Saxon

capitalism. . There are a lot of Le Pen supporters, 15-20% that went to

the far left, they will come back. She will have a struggle on her

hands to get the rest of them. You're watching 100

Days from BBC News. Still to come for viewers on the BBC

News Channel and BBC World News, we report from a state that helped

Donald Trump win the White House, but are voters there

still giving him the thumbs up? And America's Department

of Homeland Security sets up a new 'alien' hotline -

are you confused? That's still to come

on 100 Days from BBC News. The weather today a little bit like

a pick and mix sweet shop, everything in there to suit all

tastes. There has been some sunshine around. In actual fact temperatures

close to Edinburgh have been just over 14 degrees. Today there has

been showers though as well with cloud and in came bridge the showers

were on and off throughout the day. Because of a series of weather

fronts that have been sweeping southwards. There has been some

cloud, some sun and some showers as well. Not as cold as in recent days.

The cloud and the showers will sink south and west overnight. They will

prevent a frost from forming, which is welcome news. Perhaps the

chillest of the temperatures up into the far north and east, not as cold

as the night just passed. Friday morning will start off on a quiet

note. There will be clouds and showers from this weather front that

has to continue to sink south and west. All in all, we will see a

quiet story for Friday before more rain threatens for the weekend. Yes,

cloudy with a few showers into the south and the west. The best of the

sunshine first thing in the morning in sheltered eastern areas. The

cloud will build up into the afternoon. We will see a scattering

of showers likely anywhere across the country. The driest of the

weather in the south-east. Highs of 8-13 degrees. As we move towards the

Bank Holiday weekend it will be breezy, but milder than of late.

However, there is some rain in the forecast. Trying to pinpoint the

details for that is tricky at the moment. Here goes. Saturday looks

likely to be the best day of the weekend. Enjoy it. The wind will

increase as a weather front threatens by the end of Saturday

into the south-west. It will bring heavy and welcome rain. Ahead of it

on Saturday a promising day, decent, dry, sunny spells. Highs of 15

degrees. The winds will strengthen to the south-west, the cloud and

rain will arrive. On Sunday it will be a wet affair into Cornwall,

Somerset, are Dorset and into Wales. The rain will move eastwards through

England and moved across Scotland. It will clear on bank holiday

Monday. Showers to the east. Not a washout, any means. That's it, take

care. Welcome back to 100 Days,

I'm Katty Kay in Washington, Christian Fraser is in London.

Our top story - It's a drip feed on former

Trump national security adviser Michael Flynn -

this time it looks like he didn't ask for permission when he took

thousands from Russia Today - against the law for

a former military officer. And coming up - day 100 is fast

approaching for the US President - is he really putting "America

First"? I'm Laura Trevelyan live

in the state of Pennsylvania - voters here helped catapult

Donald Trump into the White House - but what do voters make

of his first 100 days? Donald Trump's "America First"

rhetoric, alarmed many The heavyweights in foreign policy

circles warned that if the President withdrew America from the world

stage the Russians and Chinese In fact, the Trump administration

is now a lot closer to conventional foreign policy than perhaps

many of his supporters In the last several weeks -

Tomahawk missiles have been fired at a Syrian airbase,

they dropped the biggest 'conventional' bomb

on IS in Afghanistan, and North Korea -

as we have discussed - Joining us now to discuss

the President's foreign policy thus far is former State Department

official Richard Haass, author of A World in Disarray,

he is now President of the Council The communications director at the

White House has said there is no foreign policy doctorate for the

Trump administration, does that matter, does there need to be one?

On one hand, you want to have some principles. So much is coming into

your inbox, you don't want to react to everything in isolation. You

don't want to have to make it up every day. But it is way too early

to be thinking about a doctorate, 100 days is just that. It would need

to be big and consistent and endure. We may get thereafter a couple of

years but in some ways, we shouldn't have one yet. One ideal perhaps of

this White House is not to staff itself properly when it comes to the

foreign policy side and the President has said this is a

deliberate decision he has made, not to fill some of those posts. How

does he compared to previous presidents and how much does it hurt

America on the world stage not to be staffed properly? It is going much

more slowly and even if it were to start up this afternoon or tomorrow,

it would still take months to happen given the congressional process. The

fact it is deliberate is anything but reassuring. This means you are

denied all the extra historical knowledge, advice of people and it

also means when it comes to executing or implementing policy,

you are much weaker. I don't understand why the President would

do this and also I don't understand why the Secretary of State or the

secretary of defence would put up with it. They can't do their job

without hundreds of professionals. That's the point. You could make an

argument for some of the staffing at the state department being culled

but not to have an ambassador in South Korea or maybe in the UK for

instance, one of your closest partners, it's bizarre. Again, you

are denied all sorts of expertise. I wouldn't make a case for cutting at

the State Department. Look at the inbox Donald Trump inherited, from

North Korea to China, to all the Russian challenges in Europe and

what is going on with the EU. The Middle East, itself would be enough

to staff the State Department so I don't understand why you would want

to avail yourself. To make it worse, hundred Republican figures in the

foreign policy will have experience working save for George W. Bush and

virtually all of them are being denied the opportunity to work here

because they oppose the candidate Donald Trump. I am hoping that at

some point, this President and those around him get over that. We are at

day 98, I think it is, is President Trump putting America first? I'm not

quite sure what it means to the extent it means we will calculate

the very narrow way, what is good for us, than I fear to some extent

he is. One of the messages of the foreign policy is not just that it

is unpredictable to our adversary 's, which can be a times useful, but

to be unpredictable to your friends, most recently it has been Canada and

Mexico, it was Australia, it's been in Germany, South Korea and Japan.

That is very dangerous because friendly relationships depend upon

predictability. Reliability. These countries are placing their security

in our hands. If they sense our hands are not predictable and save,

they will take their security elsewhere. Either they will bow to a

powerful neighbour or they will simply start taking matters into

their own hands, either way, to use my favourite word, that is a world

of much greater disarray, a world of much diminished American influence.

The book is A World Of Disarray. You got the plug in! There is a concern

that after 70 years, you had a world order based on certain norms and

laws and alliances, whether trade or security alliances. Donald Trump

Osman position on that is very different. He once a much more

transactional relationship with countries that doesn't necessarily

stick to those alliances and I think that's why you hear someone like

Richard Haass who is part of the American foreign policy

establishment, expressing concern is not just about the staffing but

about what this President wants to do with American leadership. Are we

likely to get an ambassador? I think the UK might get one before... Names

have been floated around another good start at least. Some of the

other countries where perhaps relations are more contentious,

which might as you have suggested, South Korea several times, that's

where you really need the ambassadors and I haven't even heard

names for countries like that. This Saturday Donald Trump travels

to Pennsylvania to mark the 100th day in office

with a night-time rally. At the elections it was a state

he flipped from the Democrats So what are people there

saying as he finishes The BBC's Laura Trevelyan

is in Philadelphia and joins us now. We have heard from people in rural

areas who voted for Donald Trump but a lot of where we see division and

people who could flip either way are in suburbs are places like

Philadelphia, what are you hearing from them? Views on Donald Trump

still extremely divided. Very few people seem to have changed their

opinion of him. Nearly 100 days in. The won the state of Pennsylvania

extremely narrowly by less than a percent but not that less than 0.5%

because that would have triggered a recount which didn't happen. He won

by flipping three counties from Obama's column, three counties in

former manufacturing areas where his message clearly resonated very

strongly. What are people in Philly making of the Trump presidency on

day 98? I've been speaking to people to find out.

We are moving in the right direction, B plus so far with

improvement come but off to a great start. Impeach him, he's horrible

and he hasn't stuck to any of his promises. He has had a changing

effect on the country, I'm hesitant to say it's a good one but certainly

a change. I think he's done a good job, I think he has tried to fulfil

a lot of his campaign promises, I think he has done to some of them,.

I didn't vote for Trump so of course I'm going to say I don't think he's

doing a good job but I also believe we have to give people an

opportunity. Here in the UK, people say if you

are in the Brexit column you don't shift and if you are in the EU

column you don't shift. The polling suggests this. One poll said only 2%

of people who supported Donald Trump in the election now have buyers

remorse. It was interesting talking to people and those that did not

vote for him now say they loathe him even more than when they didn't vote

for him. They feel he has horrified them even more they thought he

would. Amongst those people that did vote frame, it's interesting to note

what is bringing it in. It's all about this question of family and

the prominence of the Trump family. These are the issues that seem to be

coming through even with people that supported with him. Is it really the

big event this week? I thought the draft was on for the NFL? The draft

is absolutely huge here. My kids asked if I was going to Philly for

the draft and I had to ask what it was! The worst teams get to choose

the best players first. Laura Trevelyan, just became our sports

correspondent! Thank you. Flying saucers, UFOs -

these are not terms the White House want you to associate with the word

'alien' - why are we telling you this?

Well, the Department of Homeland Security has just opened

a new office called Voice. And the point of Voice is to "serve

the needs of crime victims and their families who have been

impacted by crimes committed But according to one Twitter user,

"...they introduced the alien hotline on Alien day.

I hope Sigourney Weaver called". And since the switchboard operators

have been plagued by reports I'm speechless! I am as well. I have

not tried to call the hotline but apparently it is taking a long time

to get through because so many people who are opposed to Donald

Trump's immigration policies are calling up pretending they have had

crimes committed by little green men. One person called to say his

tractor was stolen. I have a tractor, I hope it hasn't been

stolen. Mulder and Scully are out there. Maybe they are just waiting

for a hotline like this. Maybe there are lots of little green men running

around! That is 100 Days -

a reminder that we have a special show tomorrow -

day 99 of the Trump administration - We will have lots of good guests. We

will and we will talk about how the President is doing. We have spoken

about how this was a concept that came about with FDR but presidents

are measured on their first 100 days in office and after that, you lose

the honeymoon period and things are harder to accomplish.

The programme will also carry on beyond the 100th day,

We are launching with One Hundred Days plus. Plus what? I'll get the

hang of it. Can you just say goodbye? If you want to get in

touch... If you want to get in touch with us,

you can do so using the hashtag, BBC-one-hundred-days.

For now from Katty Kay in Washington and me

Christian Fraser in London, goodbye.