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Hello and welcome to One Hundred Days Plus.

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President Trump calls James Comey a showboat and a grandstander.

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He says he decided to fire the former FBI Director,

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The White House says Mr Comey had lost the confidence

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The acting director tells the Senate that's simply not true.

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Simply put, sir, you cannot stop the men and women of the FBI

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from doing the right thing, protecting the American people

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The Labour Party leaks - a month before the election

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We look at what it tells us about the party's platform.

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And, we're in Alaska, where the ice is getting thinner,

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summers are getting longer, and climate change is far

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Also, a regional election in Germany is suddenly in the spotlight.

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Could the result help predict whether Angela Merkel can remain

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Chancellor when Germans go to the polls later this year?

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And behind the scenes at the White House.

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We'll speak to a reporter about his dinner with the President,

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and finding out Donald Trump's favourite modern invention.

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We are learning a lot today about the firing of the head

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of the FBI and we are hearing it from the President.

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Mr Trump has just called Mr Comey a "showboat" and a "grandstander".

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He also revealed he was determined to fire the Director anyway,

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whatever the Justice Department recommended.

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Mr Trump also reasserted the claim, that Mr Comey told him three times

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that he personally wasn't under investigation over ties to Russia.

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Mr Trump made those comments in an interview with NBC News that's

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He is a showboat. He is a grandstander. The FBI has been in

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turmoil. You know it, dynamic, everybody knows it. You take a look

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at the FBI a year ago, it was in virtual turmoil, less than a year

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ago. It hasn't recovered. On Monday you met with Rod Rosenstiel. Did you

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ask for a recommendation? What I did was I was going to fire Comey. My

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decision. You had made the decision. I was going to fire Comey.

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Mr Trump's comments come as the acting FBI

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Director, Andrew McCabe, is testifying before the Senate.

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Mr McCabe says Mr Comey had the full respect of the FBI.

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He also insisted the probe into the Trump campaign's ties

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with Russia will continue unfettered.

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The work of the men and women of the FBI

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will continue despite any changes in circumstance, any decision.

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There has been no effort to impede our investigation to date.

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Quite simply put - you cannot stop the men and women

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of the FBI doing the right thing, protecting the American people

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The acting FBI Director Andrew McCabe there.

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Well, Democrats aren't so convinced about the timing

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A brief time ago I spoke with Democrat Bob

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He is calling for a special prosecutor and spoke

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I think this decision was made, based upon reasons that are

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inappropriate. You can't fire the head of the investigative team that

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is investigating either your activity or the activities of people

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connected to you potentially, in this case starting on March 20, when

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director Comey said he was leading this investigation that had been

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going on for many months. At that moment, the White House and

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President Trump had forfeited any opportunity, any rationale to fire

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him. If they felt so strongly about what he was doing in 2016, and there

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is a lot of debate about that and calls for criticism, if that was the

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basis of your decision and it all rested on 2016 activity, why wasn't

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the decision-making in the transition or soon after? The

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question now, is it possible to put in place a new director of the FBI

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with bipartisan support, who the American people can trust is doing

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an independent job? I sure hope we can find that person because it is

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vital that that person has bipartisan support. The Democrats

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have come out vehemently opposed to the firing of James Comey, even

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though some called for it last year during the election campaign. You

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yourself have used the word Nick Servini and about what happened this

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week. Our claps at risk of overplaying the hand,

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hyperventilating over this. You will get a new director of the FBI and

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the bureau will carry on its work. I used the word Nixon- like, because

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it is the closest analogy to a top investigator being fired in the

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midst of an investigation, so it was entirely appropriate. You could

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easily agree with everything that was asserted in the deputy Attorney

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General's memorandum, you could have all kinds of criticisms of director

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Comey, but once he stated publicly on March the 20th, the

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Administration forfeited the opportunity to make a change. No

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matter what you believe or what you assert about director Comey's

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activities in 2016, the higher and more important responsibility is, do

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not create the appearance of impropriety in the middle of an

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investigation. How does this look to America's adversaries? I think we

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look terrible around the world. We are supposed to be the country that

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no matter what the changes, politically or otherwise, the rule

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of law is paramount and that even the public officials, appointed

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public officials are concerned about not just impropriety but the

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appearance of impropriety. And yet around the world people scratch

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their heads and wonder if we are still that kind of country. We have

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to restore the confidence of the American people as well as our

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standing in the world, and what they see as the appearance of

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impropriety, a lot of chaos and ad hoc governing which is undermining

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our system. This Administration has to do a lot of work to restore

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credibility and to create a firm foundation for both propriety and

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those appearance questions which are critically important. Thank you.

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Our Washington Correspondent Gary O'Donoghue has been speaking to

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the Republican Senator Bill Cassidy, who gave his thoughts, on the way

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There are two issues. One is the timing, and the second is the actual

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method. The timing was never going to be good. The report said

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President Trump considered his firing right after the election.

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Democrats have been calling for it since last fall. Hillary Clinton

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recently criticised Comey. But the President needed and Attorney

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General and an Assistant Attorney General. The Assistant Attorney

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General was appointed about three weeks ago and recommended the

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firing. If the Assistant Attorney General had recommended a firing now

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but Trump had not dismissed for four months, that would have been the

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issue. Mr Comey had become a distraction from the work of the

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agency. There was never going to be good timing. Mr Trump did what he

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felt he had to do. Do you think that in order to protect the independence

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of the FBI you should fire someone investigating you? He is not the one

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doing the investigation. On Monday morning, his first meeting is about

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the budget, his second is about HR, his third is about the cafeteria

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director, his fourth is about narco terrorism, and his last meeting is

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about this. The person who is heading that investigation is still

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on the job. I have every confidence that she or he will do great work.

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We are told he was asking for daily updates about the Russian

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investigation, and asking for more money. That establishes two things.

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There is someone doing the investigation, giving him updates,

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and secondly he is concerned about the budget. He will get more money.

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I suspect that is going to be the case. How do you not? I also trust

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that the people of the FBI are professionals and will respond to

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their responsibility with greater alacrity now, if only to establish

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independence. And joining us now to help make

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sense of all the developments in this case is our North America

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Editor Jon Sopel. There has been a lot going on.

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Hearings on the Hill, the interview which the President gave to NBC.

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What do you make of it? If you were my doctor, my general to Schneier I

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would be saying, my problem is that I am suffering from dizziness and

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vertigo, and whilst I not hearing voices, what I thought I heard two

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nights ago is not what I am hearing today and how can I make sense of

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it. I thought that Comey was fired because of a letter written by the

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attorney get pretty general but I now hear the President saying he was

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going to fire him anyway. I thought James Comey had lost the confidence

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of the rank and file of the FBI, because that is what I heard

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yesterday at the White House, but now I hear that is not true. We had

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the White House press spokesperson yesterday, Sarah Huckabee Sanders,

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saying this about James Comey and the FBI. The rank and file of the

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FBI had lost confidence in their director. But then the acting

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director spoke to senators this morning and said this.

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I hold Director Comey in the absolute highest regard.

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I have the highest respect for his considerable abilities

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and his integrity and it has been the greatest privilege

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and honor of my professional life to work with him.

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I can tell you also that Director Comey enjoyed broad support

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within the FBI and still does to this day.

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I interrupted you. Why was Sturrock to James Comey fired as head of the

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FBI? Well, let's think of why he was not fired. I don't think it had much

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to do with the Hillary Clinton e-mail investigations last July,

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which is what we are being told. Donald Trump has said he had decided

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fire him. If you look at the timescale of when Donald Trump

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became most dissatisfied, it surrounds the investigation into

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Russia. I think that is the reason but I think there is something very

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interesting in his use of the word grandstander, showboat. There can

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only be one star. The spotlight can only come on one particular person

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on the stage. And I think that person is Donald Trump, and I think

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there is almost a sense, listening to it, decoding it, that actually

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James Comey was stealing a bit of the limelight and there was only

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room for one-man show. James Comey was standing up... One other thing

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that I think is the great difference, I think Donald Trump

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prizes, more than anything else, loyalty. And I think James Comey

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prizes more than anything else independence and integrity. And that

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was a clash waiting to happen, and it has, with the results we have

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seen. I have covered many resignations in politics before. The

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first thing you do is that you get your ducks in a row. Have we all got

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the same line? OK, this is how we can to sell this. We have had

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anything but that. We are all becoming armchair psychologists,

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what is your take, Clive? You made a brilliant point, and not just to

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massage your ego, but do you remember when James Comey Hirst

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went, I think it was to the White House, and there was a line of

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people standing to greet him and Donald Trump was in the middle? He

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took Comey's hand when he walked towards him and he shook it and he

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said, this guy is more famous than I am. He made that point and it stuck

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in my mind. Everything you have said points to that. I think you have a

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substantive issue, Russia, which the President is furious about. He wants

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it to go away. He was tweeting last week about taxpayers money being

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wasted on this. That is a substantive issue, but there are

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other aspects which are to do with personality, differences in

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approach, that you just have to think played a part in it, because

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otherwise it is inexplicable. The only other thing I would add is that

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we have now seen three high-profile sackings. The head of the FBI, the

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acting director-general, the attorney from New York. What do they

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have in common? They were all investigating, in some way, what

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Donald Trump was doing. He does not like that much. My armchair theory,

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Donald Trump is thin-skinned and that is why he was fired. Thank you.

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It's 29 days until the UK general election and the Labour Party

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Their draft manifesto has been revealed,

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a week earlier than the party planned, and it had some

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Senior officials in the party held meetings today to limit the damage,

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and say the manifesto has now been unanimously agreed on.

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Now here's what we learnt from the leak.

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The party says it will renationalise the railways, reverse the sale

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of Royal Mail and create publicly owned energy companies.

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There'll be ?6 billion of extra annual funding for the NHS,

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paid for by raising income tax for the top 5% of earners.

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And ?250 billion will go on infrastructure spending

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Our correspondent Tom Symonds is in our Westminster studio.

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It was a surprisingly cruel. No one saw it coming, and it was very

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revealing. It was. They say there is no such as bad publicity. The Labour

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Party had a lot of bad publicity today but there is that feeling that

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this should not have happened. It has put the party on the back foot.

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Everyone can now prepare their rebuttal to the Labour Party

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manifesto when it comes out early next week. It has told us roughly

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what the party will do and it is a huge change to what we have seen

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Labour governments do in the past. This party, Labour, would become, if

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given power, a party of taxing, of borrowing and of spending. I went

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through some of the spending commitments in the draft manifesto

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today, and assuming that is in the real thing, there are dozens of

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points where the party wants to spend more money. And it is saying

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this is an offer for a very different type of government, a

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government that will get stuck in and make changes. We will see

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whether that all ends up in the final document. Labour was caught

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short by this. What has been the reaction from the other parties?

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There has been a lot of questioning as to where the leak came from and

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no one has established that. Theresa May was very quick to call it

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shambolic. She has had a mantra throughout the campaign that Labour

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is a coalition of chaos waiting to happen. Well, it was pretty chaotic.

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It is pretty bad for a party to get its manifesto out in this way

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without any of the mass arching that it would normally do. The Institute

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of fiscal and is, which number cruncher is in the UK, described it

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as the biggest intervention in the economy since the 1970s outside a

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crisis, which is a reference to all of that spending. Labour said it is

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a fully costed, modern package, and that they would be borrowing to

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invest wisely as a country, as most invest wisely as a country, as most

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businesses do. Thanks. We started this week with our top

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story as the election Well, Mr Macron will be inaugurated

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on Sunday as the new President, He's renamed his grassroots movement

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Republique en Marche, but he doesn't have long to rest

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on his laurels. In June, he faces

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parliamentary elections. Here's the Secretary General

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of the party explaining how their election plans will change

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the face of French politics. TRANSLATION: On political clarity,

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the candidates come from the entire political spectrum reflecting the

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reconstruction of the political landscape that the President wanted

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to uphold the project he has flower country.

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Regarding the parity, 214 candidates are women, 214 are men so,

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428 candidates are included in the list that will

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The French journalist Anne Sinclair is a close observer of the political

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She was once married to the former head of the IMF

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Dominique Strauss Kahn, tipped to become French President

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for the Socialist Party, until a series of sex

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She founded Huffington Post France, and has just written a book

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about the challenges facing the country.

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I spoke to her today, and began by asking how

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Emmanuel Macron has gained so much support.

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We are a little bit tired in France voting against. We would like to

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vote for somebody. For a programme, for a leader. And people have voted

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for Macron, hoping that maybe something will come out. What do you

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think of Emmanuel Macron? You have met him and know him a little. He is

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very smart, clever, skilled. But he has little political experience. But

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that is positive now in France because nobody wants any more the

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ancient political life to go on. Do you think the two party system,

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Republicans on one side, socialists on the other, do you think it is

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finished? If Emmanuel Macron's party just replaced the Socialist party in

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Parliament, and if the right stay like they are, there will not be any

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change. There would already be two different forces, one against the

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other. So it has to come out something new, something else. The

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turnover is very quick in all democracies. So Emmanuel Macron has

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to be very cautious, keep his line and see if he can stay popular for a

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time. At this moment, he is popular for a range of people but not

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popular for the whole French people, because the majority of the people

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didn't vote for him. Is he going to be able to reach out to those parts

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of society that didn't vote for him, particularly the working classes in

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some depressed areas in the north and in the south-east? Is he going

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to be able to get a platform that is appealing to them? What does he have

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to do? Well, he will have to have success about unemployment, of

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course, which is the big problem in France since years and years. And we

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have to have this rate of unemployment go down. And if he

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isn't successful in the five years of his term as President, does that

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open the way for Marine Le Pen perhaps in 2022? This election is

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the last chance. The last chance because we tried the right, and the

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right failed. We tried the left, the left seems to have failed as well.

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So we try the Centre. And if the Centre fails, well, danger is great.

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So in that regard, are you confident about the future of France? I am

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pessimistic in the short period and optimistic for a long run, for a

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long period. Especially because a new generation is coming out in all

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parties. Let's hope things are going to move but move smoothly. The

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French people can be very rude in one way or the other. So you never

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know what French people like. Her ex-husband, Dominique Strauss-Kahn,

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was expected to be the leader of the socialists in 2012. Francois

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Hollande won the election. Ahead of the election,

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President Hollande had a 4% approval rating and the Socialist candidate

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Benoit Hamon lost in the first Absolutely appalling numbers for the

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socialists. I did ask her about her ex-husband, a very innocuous

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question. I said, do you think the Socialist party would be in a better

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position if her husband had stood and won the party nomination? She

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recoiled straightaway. I wasn't asking about the ins and outs of

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what happened but if she thought the situation might be better. His very

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name, bringing up his name, she froze. She recoiled, physically.

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Clearly, the wounds are still very raw. It was a dreadful experience

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for her. The socialists are being pulled in one direction by Marine Le

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Pen, another direction by the far left, a dreadful state for them.

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President Trump loves the fact that his press

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And the White House press briefing has become must see TV.

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But this week, in the middle of the drama over Comey,

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Before any of you get into conspiracy theories,

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His deputy, Sarah Huckabee Sanders, has been filling in,

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She is giving the briefing right now. It was not inappropriate and

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was not wrong for the President to do so. Again, I am not an attorney.

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I do not even play one on TV. But I have heard from legal minds and

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people that actually are attorneys, and that is their opinion, so I have

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two trust the justice system on that.

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REPORTER: Would you say, based on the experience you and Sean and this

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communications office had, that you were given the best information to

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relay to the American public, through us, and your job is to relay

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that information... You say you are only intermediaries, but using to

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take a more proactive approach most of the time. I think we were

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absolutely given the information we had at that time. It was a quick

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moving process and we took the formation as we had it and got it

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out to the American people. And would you say that information was

:24:35.:24:38.

accurate then or is more accurate now? We just happened to dip into

:24:39.:24:43.

that as she is being asked about what we talked about at the top of

:24:44.:24:49.

the programme. Yesterday she said the FBI Director had lost the faith

:24:50.:24:53.

of the rank and file, the agents of the bureau. Then we have the acting

:24:54.:24:57.

director today directly contradict that and say, he has the full faith

:24:58.:25:03.

of the rank and file. Either she was lying yesterday, or somebody was not

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telling her the truth. She went out at the White House podium and said

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something that was not true. We think Sean Spicer is on Navy reserve

:25:13.:25:16.

duty but the President of the United States would want his top person

:25:17.:25:21.

speaking to the public after he has fired the chief law investigator

:25:22.:25:23.

office of the country, you would think. And yesterday Sean Spicer was

:25:24.:25:30.

hiding behind a hedge, or something. That was two days ago but it feels

:25:31.:25:32.

like a year. You're watching 100

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

:25:35.:25:35.

News Channel and BBC World News: We'll be speaking to Time Magazine

:25:36.:25:39.

about their exclusive trip behind the scenes with Donald Trump

:25:40.:25:41.

at the White House. And we'll be live in Alaska

:25:42.:25:44.

where a meeting of eight countries is trying to find out

:25:45.:25:46.

where the Trump administration That's still to come on 100

:25:47.:25:49.

Days Plus, from BBC News. Good evening. A decent day across

:25:50.:26:15.

the northern half of the UK with sunshine in most places. Further

:26:16.:26:20.

south, some changes. Low pressure is bringing clouds and rain but also

:26:21.:26:24.

pulling in air from a long way south, fairly warm and humid

:26:25.:26:31.

continental air. This is the satellite sequence, confirming a

:26:32.:26:35.

lovely day for many, but with shower cloud coming up from the South on

:26:36.:26:39.

the warm breeze. Further showers to come from the south overnight. Still

:26:40.:26:43.

the potential for the odd rumble of thunder. Some rain moving through

:26:44.:26:49.

East Anglia and up into the Midlands but most of northern England and

:26:50.:26:54.

Scotland will stay dry. Some low cloud reaching the east of Scotland

:26:55.:27:00.

and the north-east England. Further south, lots of cloud around and that

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delivering further showers. Some breaks in the cloud and brighter

:27:06.:27:09.

weather at times but always the threat of showers from the south.

:27:10.:27:15.

Largely dry first thing in northern England. Much brighter in the

:27:16.:27:18.

north-west. Northern Ireland starts a bit damp. In western Scotland,

:27:19.:27:23.

plenty of sunshine to start the day, but in the east of Scotland it is

:27:24.:27:28.

grey and windy. We keep the contrast across Scotland. Elsewhere it is a

:27:29.:27:37.

mixture of a fair bit of cloud and a little bit of sunshine and quite a

:27:38.:27:41.

few showers which could be heavy and thundery. Again, warm and close in

:27:42.:27:50.

England and Wales. Into the weekend, some spells of sunshine but also

:27:51.:27:55.

some showers. By Sunday, things will turn fresher. On Saturday, not too

:27:56.:28:01.

many showers for the Midlands and the south-eastern corner but more

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likely to see showers in the West of England and Wales and the North

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Western quadrant. Through Saturday night we see a spell of rain for

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pretty much all parts of the UK. Behind that, fresher air from the

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Atlantic. On Sunday, still sunny spells and showers. Notably,

:28:22.:28:24.

humidity will be lower. Donald Trump claimed he always

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intended to fire James Comey and calls the former FBI director

:30:09.:30:20.

a showboat and a grandstander. The acting head of the American FBI

:30:21.:30:23.

says the investigation alleged ties between Russia and the Trump

:30:24.:30:27.

election campaign will continue. Is the Trump administration too

:30:28.:30:41.

combative, and what mistakes have Those are some of the questions

:30:42.:30:43.

the president answered during an interview

:30:44.:30:48.

with Time magazine. The team had exclusive access behind

:30:49.:30:52.

the scenes at the White House and even learned about one

:30:53.:30:59.

of Mr Trump's favourite inventions. Washington Bureau Chief Michael

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Scherer was among those who conducted the interview

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and he joins us now. Michael, firstly, you had dinner

:31:04.:31:11.

with President Trump in the White House and went right

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behind-the-scenes. How was his demeanour? It is interesting. He is

:31:15.:31:20.

on one hand very hospitable, he was gracious, loves showing people round

:31:21.:31:24.

the White House. I think he is very honoured to be the to his private

:31:25.:31:28.

residence, talked about the history of the rooms. On the other hand,

:31:29.:31:31.

there is a real frustration that is very evident. There is a sense of

:31:32.:31:36.

agreement largely directed at the press. -- disdain. He took us into

:31:37.:31:43.

his private room in the Oval Office at one point and showed us take

:31:44.:31:50.

clips of the Senate hearings. He said, this witness was about to drop

:31:51.:31:53.

like a dog. He was kind of vicious. There is an emotion to it. -- about

:31:54.:32:04.

to choke. There is a sense that he is not gotten a fair shake,

:32:05.:32:07.

especially from the press but from his opponents as well. And there is

:32:08.:32:11.

a frustration. At one point he says, at one -- the only way to survive is

:32:12.:32:18.

to be combative. I asked him at several times if he thought that

:32:19.:32:23.

during his presidency, he had been to combatants. He adds initially by

:32:24.:32:28.

saying, yes, it could be my fault. Then he says, there is a real mean

:32:29.:32:34.

this area in politics. He went on to say that and went on to talk about

:32:35.:32:37.

his opponents. I think is struggling with that. There was a sense a few

:32:38.:32:42.

weeks ago that it had gone too far. They pulled back a number of

:32:43.:32:46.

policies. I think is very proud of the way that when. This with the

:32:47.:32:53.

filing of James -- filing of James Comey and some of his tweets, he's

:32:54.:32:56.

going back to some of his old habits. Which in his business life

:32:57.:33:01.

and previous life elevated his message with controversy. I guess

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people don't change very much, right? That is a valid point.

:33:07.:33:12.

What was interesting from the interview was the in-built filter

:33:13.:33:14.

that the president seems to have, through which he sees everything

:33:15.:33:19.

relating to him in a positive, good light. It is not as if the glass is

:33:20.:33:25.

half empty. It is almost 99.9% overflowing for him. There seems to

:33:26.:33:28.

be very little introspection from this man. We have had psychologist

:33:29.:33:35.

on the programme today. Is that your feeling? I think there is more

:33:36.:33:39.

introspection that he shows. But you're right, this is a guy who

:33:40.:33:42.

always had the best and the biggest and most fantastic businesses. So

:33:43.:33:50.

he's still... Almost every paragraph he speaks has some kind of bag or

:33:51.:33:56.

post. He continues to do that. He's very sophisticated and how he

:33:57.:33:59.

handles the press. Even in print interviews. I think he's putting on

:34:00.:34:02.

a performance at the show follows during that in which he is not

:34:03.:34:05.

willing to break character or show weakness. That said, I think there

:34:06.:34:12.

is a little bit of introspection. Part of this is from my reporting

:34:13.:34:15.

with other people in the White House. I think he has been

:34:16.:34:17.

travelling to put his own personality and history, who he was

:34:18.:34:21.

in cell to be and Celtic the end what has got tells them to be into

:34:22.:34:29.

this new role of president. -- who he is and what his gut tells him.

:34:30.:34:35.

What he has not given up is watching television. Tivo.

:34:36.:34:50.

He has won in his residence rooms. He knows how to work the remote. I

:34:51.:34:54.

watched him do it. He knows how to work the clicker. Thank you very

:34:55.:34:57.

much. The eight countries that

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all have a stake in the Arctic Seven of them are anxious to learn

:35:01.:35:03.

more about how the United States will approach the region

:35:04.:35:07.

after President Donald Trump called for more oil

:35:08.:35:09.

drilling and development. Most experts think human activity

:35:10.:35:10.

affecting the climate is leading to shrinking levels of ice covering

:35:11.:35:14.

in the Arctic, but President Trump doesn't appear to agree,

:35:15.:35:17.

once dismissing climate change James Cook in Alaska

:35:18.:35:19.

has sent this report. It is springtime in Alaska

:35:20.:35:25.

and the winter ice is The villagers here say

:35:26.:35:30.

that the thaws are coming earlier. Summers are longer

:35:31.:35:37.

and the ice is thinner. Here, climate change

:35:38.:35:39.

is not a theory. When I was younger, it was up

:35:40.:35:45.

to eight feet thick. Since the day that he was

:35:46.:35:51.

born, this man has been Now he works with 20 local tribes

:35:52.:35:54.

trying to to maintain We are witnessing the disappearance

:35:55.:36:00.

of the cryosphere. We are witnessing its disappearance

:36:01.:36:05.

in many parts where it The process appears

:36:06.:36:12.

to be accelerating. The more that ice melts,

:36:13.:36:23.

the less sunlight is reflected And halfway across Alaska,

:36:24.:36:25.

at a meeting of the Arctic Council, As delegates from around

:36:26.:36:30.

the Arctic gather here in the pristine wilderness of Alaska

:36:31.:36:37.

for this summit, their conversations What does President Trump think

:36:38.:36:40.

about climate change? And as the meetings began,

:36:41.:36:43.

there were few clues from oilman turned politician,

:36:44.:36:49.

Rex Tillerson. It is a particular honour for me

:36:50.:36:55.

to join you to celebrate 20 years of peace, stability and cooperation

:36:56.:36:58.

in the Arctic through There's particular concern that

:36:59.:37:00.

the US could be about to withdraw from the landmark Paris Agreement

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to reduce carbon emissions. If the US does withdraw,

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it will set the US policy back by a decade or two in terms

:37:14.:37:16.

of responding to climate change. The warming that we have seen

:37:17.:37:20.

in the last 50-100 years is greater than the warming we have seen in any

:37:21.:37:24.

part of the last 2000 years. Is human activity causing

:37:25.:37:30.

that climate change? Yes, it is.

:37:31.:37:32.

It is a prime contributor. Outside the meetings, protests

:37:33.:37:34.

were largely directed at the US, which has chaired the Arctic Council

:37:35.:37:40.

for the past two years. Arctic states are the main emitters

:37:41.:37:44.

of greenhouse gases. So it is the most important thing

:37:45.:37:54.

that all of them stick There is now doubt about it.

:37:55.:37:57.

Climate change is real. We have the science.

:37:58.:38:02.

We know it. Still, the clear air

:38:03.:38:07.

here is filled with unease Because while sceptics

:38:08.:38:09.

are on the fringes of science, they are at the heart of the US

:38:10.:38:13.

Government. James joins us live from Alaska. The

:38:14.:38:22.

president has gone backwards and forwards on pulling America out of

:38:23.:38:25.

the Paris treaty on climate change. What do people at that gathering

:38:26.:38:30.

make of the White House's position on this issue? Well, I think it is

:38:31.:38:38.

fair to is a that all other members of the Arctic Council, the seven

:38:39.:38:43.

other nations and the indigenous representatives, hope that the

:38:44.:38:45.

United States does not pull out of the Paris climate change agreement.

:38:46.:38:49.

The meeting is now under way. The session with the ministers has got

:38:50.:38:55.

under way in the past 20 minutes or so. What will be interesting to see

:38:56.:39:00.

is how they frame the communications at the end of this meeting. Because

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usually the Arctic Council would commit to continuing to reduce

:39:05.:39:08.

carbon emissions and the expectation would be that it would include in

:39:09.:39:13.

the wording a suggestion that all the Arctic Council members would

:39:14.:39:16.

remain committed to the Paris agreement. Now, it is not clear that

:39:17.:39:21.

that is US policy. Rex Tillerson, US Secretary of State, former oilman,

:39:22.:39:25.

as we know, is chairing this meeting because the US holds the

:39:26.:39:28.

chairmanship. It will be handed over to his Finland shortly. In the past

:39:29.:39:35.

few minutes, Rex Tillerson has been saying that the US will be an active

:39:36.:39:40.

member of the Arctic Council. There are still issues of great concern

:39:41.:39:44.

that they need to address and he says, we appreciate you have a point

:39:45.:39:47.

of view. We will make the right choice for the United States. Not

:39:48.:39:51.

quite clear what that means, but Rex Tillerson acknowledging that he

:39:52.:39:54.

might be on one side of the argument possibly, and everyone else on the

:39:55.:39:59.

other. It seems you can not have a perfect Alaska scene and satellite

:40:00.:40:03.

link. There were some glitches there. Interesting, this thing on

:40:04.:40:08.

climate change. It is not entirely clear what the president intends to

:40:09.:40:11.

do, no views in office, about this critical issue. In tonight's

:40:12.:40:17.

programme, we have discussed the US, UK and French election. Another race

:40:18.:40:20.

we are looking ahead to is in Germany.

:40:21.:40:27.

The federal election is on September 24th -

:40:28.:40:29.

pitting Chancellor Angela Merkel against the former European

:40:30.:40:31.

But on Sunday there'll be a local state election,

:40:32.:40:34.

which could be a barometer of the popularity of

:40:35.:40:36.

Our Germany correspondent Jenny Hill has this report from the state

:40:37.:40:39.

Not a vote cast yet, but there is something

:40:40.:40:46.

of the victory march in Angela Merkel's step.

:40:47.:40:48.

It is actually years since her party won here.

:40:49.:40:51.

The polls suggest that might be about to change.

:40:52.:40:54.

It is not often that a German regional election

:40:55.:40:57.

Angela Merkel knows that if our party can to back the state,

:40:58.:41:10.

Angela Merkel knows that if her party can take back this state,

:41:11.:41:13.

then she has a very strong chance of taking the country,

:41:14.:41:15.

But first, she must persuade this town, this country.

:41:16.:41:18.

TRANSLATION: I think she really will be Chancellor again.

:41:19.:41:21.

She is very self-assured, reliable and calm.

:41:22.:41:22.

And because she's a woman, I like that.

:41:23.:41:26.

TRANSLATION: She promised too much and invited to many

:41:27.:41:33.

people without thinking, and too many of the wrong people

:41:34.:41:35.

One man stands between Angela Merkel and victory.

:41:36.:41:43.

Martin Schulz's arrival on the German political scene

:41:44.:41:45.

gave his Social Democrat Party a boost in the polls.

:41:46.:41:50.

Even here, in SPD country, the so-called Schultz

:41:51.:41:52.

TRANSLATION: His approval ratings will almost table eyes once he says

:41:53.:42:02.

In the eyes of the voters, that has not happened yet.

:42:03.:42:07.

We need a clear programme, clear policies on topics that

:42:08.:42:09.

That includes a powerful industrial lobby.

:42:10.:42:13.

Germany's next Chancellor will need the support

:42:14.:42:15.

TRANSLATION: We need to cut bureaucracy.

:42:16.:42:23.

We need support for businesses in the digital future.

:42:24.:42:30.

And we need better infrastructure in this region.

:42:31.:42:35.

Angela Merkel might seem reluctant to take the baton here,

:42:36.:42:37.

but make no mistake, this woman wants German voters

:42:38.:42:41.

Every election is local and nationally but the themes in

:42:42.:42:59.

Germany, France and America and Britain are strikingly similar. From

:43:00.:43:04.

both of us, thank you for watching us. Have a great weekend, we will

:43:05.:43:06.

see you next week. Goodbye.

:43:07.:43:09.

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