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better feel to things as we head to the second part of the weekend. If | :00:00. | :00:00. | |
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Hello and welcome to One Hundred Days Plus. | :00:10. | :00:11. | |
President Trump calls James Comey a showboat and a grandstander. | :00:12. | :00:14. | |
He says he decided to fire the former FBI Director, | :00:15. | :00:16. | |
The White House says Mr Comey had lost the confidence | :00:17. | :00:22. | |
The acting director tells the Senate that's simply not true. | :00:23. | :00:31. | |
Simply put, sir, you cannot stop the men and women of the FBI | :00:32. | :00:34. | |
from doing the right thing, protecting the American people | :00:35. | :00:36. | |
The Labour Party leaks - a month before the election | :00:37. | :00:42. | |
We look at what it tells us about the party's platform. | :00:43. | :00:49. | |
And, we're in Alaska, where the ice is getting thinner, | :00:50. | :00:51. | |
summers are getting longer, and climate change is far | :00:52. | :00:53. | |
Also, a regional election in Germany is suddenly in the spotlight. | :00:54. | :01:05. | |
Could the result help predict whether Angela Merkel can remain | :01:06. | :01:07. | |
Chancellor when Germans go to the polls later this year? | :01:08. | :01:13. | |
And behind the scenes at the White House. | :01:14. | :01:15. | |
We'll speak to a reporter about his dinner with the President, | :01:16. | :01:18. | |
and finding out Donald Trump's favourite modern invention. | :01:19. | :01:31. | |
We are learning a lot today about the firing of the head | :01:32. | :01:37. | |
of the FBI and we are hearing it from the President. | :01:38. | :01:40. | |
Mr Trump has just called Mr Comey a "showboat" and a "grandstander". | :01:41. | :01:44. | |
He also revealed he was determined to fire the Director anyway, | :01:45. | :01:46. | |
whatever the Justice Department recommended. | :01:47. | :01:50. | |
Mr Trump also reasserted the claim, that Mr Comey told him three times | :01:51. | :01:53. | |
that he personally wasn't under investigation over ties to Russia. | :01:54. | :01:59. | |
Mr Trump made those comments in an interview with NBC News that's | :02:00. | :02:02. | |
He is a showboat. He is a grandstander. The FBI has been in | :02:03. | :02:17. | |
turmoil. You know it, dynamic, everybody knows it. You take a look | :02:18. | :02:23. | |
at the FBI a year ago, it was in virtual turmoil, less than a year | :02:24. | :02:28. | |
ago. It hasn't recovered. On Monday you met with Rod Rosenstiel. Did you | :02:29. | :02:36. | |
ask for a recommendation? What I did was I was going to fire Comey. My | :02:37. | :02:42. | |
decision. You had made the decision. I was going to fire Comey. | :02:43. | :02:45. | |
Mr Trump's comments come as the acting FBI | :02:46. | :02:46. | |
Director, Andrew McCabe, is testifying before the Senate. | :02:47. | :02:48. | |
Mr McCabe says Mr Comey had the full respect of the FBI. | :02:49. | :02:51. | |
He also insisted the probe into the Trump campaign's ties | :02:52. | :02:54. | |
with Russia will continue unfettered. | :02:55. | :02:55. | |
The work of the men and women of the FBI | :02:56. | :02:57. | |
will continue despite any changes in circumstance, any decision. | :02:58. | :03:03. | |
There has been no effort to impede our investigation to date. | :03:04. | :03:07. | |
Quite simply put - you cannot stop the men and women | :03:08. | :03:10. | |
of the FBI doing the right thing, protecting the American people | :03:11. | :03:14. | |
The acting FBI Director Andrew McCabe there. | :03:15. | :03:20. | |
Well, Democrats aren't so convinced about the timing | :03:21. | :03:22. | |
A brief time ago I spoke with Democrat Bob | :03:23. | :03:28. | |
He is calling for a special prosecutor and spoke | :03:29. | :03:34. | |
I think this decision was made, based upon reasons that are | :03:35. | :03:51. | |
inappropriate. You can't fire the head of the investigative team that | :03:52. | :03:55. | |
is investigating either your activity or the activities of people | :03:56. | :04:00. | |
connected to you potentially, in this case starting on March 20, when | :04:01. | :04:06. | |
director Comey said he was leading this investigation that had been | :04:07. | :04:11. | |
going on for many months. At that moment, the White House and | :04:12. | :04:15. | |
President Trump had forfeited any opportunity, any rationale to fire | :04:16. | :04:19. | |
him. If they felt so strongly about what he was doing in 2016, and there | :04:20. | :04:25. | |
is a lot of debate about that and calls for criticism, if that was the | :04:26. | :04:30. | |
basis of your decision and it all rested on 2016 activity, why wasn't | :04:31. | :04:33. | |
the decision-making in the transition or soon after? The | :04:34. | :04:39. | |
question now, is it possible to put in place a new director of the FBI | :04:40. | :04:44. | |
with bipartisan support, who the American people can trust is doing | :04:45. | :04:50. | |
an independent job? I sure hope we can find that person because it is | :04:51. | :04:54. | |
vital that that person has bipartisan support. The Democrats | :04:55. | :05:00. | |
have come out vehemently opposed to the firing of James Comey, even | :05:01. | :05:04. | |
though some called for it last year during the election campaign. You | :05:05. | :05:08. | |
yourself have used the word Nick Servini and about what happened this | :05:09. | :05:15. | |
week. Our claps at risk of overplaying the hand, | :05:16. | :05:18. | |
hyperventilating over this. You will get a new director of the FBI and | :05:19. | :05:23. | |
the bureau will carry on its work. I used the word Nixon- like, because | :05:24. | :05:30. | |
it is the closest analogy to a top investigator being fired in the | :05:31. | :05:34. | |
midst of an investigation, so it was entirely appropriate. You could | :05:35. | :05:39. | |
easily agree with everything that was asserted in the deputy Attorney | :05:40. | :05:45. | |
General's memorandum, you could have all kinds of criticisms of director | :05:46. | :05:52. | |
Comey, but once he stated publicly on March the 20th, the | :05:53. | :05:54. | |
Administration forfeited the opportunity to make a change. No | :05:55. | :06:00. | |
matter what you believe or what you assert about director Comey's | :06:01. | :06:05. | |
activities in 2016, the higher and more important responsibility is, do | :06:06. | :06:09. | |
not create the appearance of impropriety in the middle of an | :06:10. | :06:14. | |
investigation. How does this look to America's adversaries? I think we | :06:15. | :06:20. | |
look terrible around the world. We are supposed to be the country that | :06:21. | :06:22. | |
no matter what the changes, politically or otherwise, the rule | :06:23. | :06:29. | |
of law is paramount and that even the public officials, appointed | :06:30. | :06:34. | |
public officials are concerned about not just impropriety but the | :06:35. | :06:38. | |
appearance of impropriety. And yet around the world people scratch | :06:39. | :06:41. | |
their heads and wonder if we are still that kind of country. We have | :06:42. | :06:46. | |
to restore the confidence of the American people as well as our | :06:47. | :06:50. | |
standing in the world, and what they see as the appearance of | :06:51. | :06:54. | |
impropriety, a lot of chaos and ad hoc governing which is undermining | :06:55. | :06:58. | |
our system. This Administration has to do a lot of work to restore | :06:59. | :07:04. | |
credibility and to create a firm foundation for both propriety and | :07:05. | :07:12. | |
those appearance questions which are critically important. Thank you. | :07:13. | :07:14. | |
Our Washington Correspondent Gary O'Donoghue has been speaking to | :07:15. | :07:16. | |
the Republican Senator Bill Cassidy, who gave his thoughts, on the way | :07:17. | :07:19. | |
There are two issues. One is the timing, and the second is the actual | :07:20. | :07:32. | |
method. The timing was never going to be good. The report said | :07:33. | :07:37. | |
President Trump considered his firing right after the election. | :07:38. | :07:42. | |
Democrats have been calling for it since last fall. Hillary Clinton | :07:43. | :07:47. | |
recently criticised Comey. But the President needed and Attorney | :07:48. | :07:49. | |
General and an Assistant Attorney General. The Assistant Attorney | :07:50. | :07:55. | |
General was appointed about three weeks ago and recommended the | :07:56. | :07:58. | |
firing. If the Assistant Attorney General had recommended a firing now | :07:59. | :08:03. | |
but Trump had not dismissed for four months, that would have been the | :08:04. | :08:07. | |
issue. Mr Comey had become a distraction from the work of the | :08:08. | :08:11. | |
agency. There was never going to be good timing. Mr Trump did what he | :08:12. | :08:18. | |
felt he had to do. Do you think that in order to protect the independence | :08:19. | :08:23. | |
of the FBI you should fire someone investigating you? He is not the one | :08:24. | :08:27. | |
doing the investigation. On Monday morning, his first meeting is about | :08:28. | :08:32. | |
the budget, his second is about HR, his third is about the cafeteria | :08:33. | :08:37. | |
director, his fourth is about narco terrorism, and his last meeting is | :08:38. | :08:41. | |
about this. The person who is heading that investigation is still | :08:42. | :08:45. | |
on the job. I have every confidence that she or he will do great work. | :08:46. | :08:51. | |
We are told he was asking for daily updates about the Russian | :08:52. | :08:54. | |
investigation, and asking for more money. That establishes two things. | :08:55. | :09:00. | |
There is someone doing the investigation, giving him updates, | :09:01. | :09:03. | |
and secondly he is concerned about the budget. He will get more money. | :09:04. | :09:09. | |
I suspect that is going to be the case. How do you not? I also trust | :09:10. | :09:14. | |
that the people of the FBI are professionals and will respond to | :09:15. | :09:17. | |
their responsibility with greater alacrity now, if only to establish | :09:18. | :09:18. | |
independence. And joining us now to help make | :09:19. | :09:21. | |
sense of all the developments in this case is our North America | :09:22. | :09:24. | |
Editor Jon Sopel. There has been a lot going on. | :09:25. | :09:30. | |
Hearings on the Hill, the interview which the President gave to NBC. | :09:31. | :09:36. | |
What do you make of it? If you were my doctor, my general to Schneier I | :09:37. | :09:41. | |
would be saying, my problem is that I am suffering from dizziness and | :09:42. | :09:46. | |
vertigo, and whilst I not hearing voices, what I thought I heard two | :09:47. | :09:50. | |
nights ago is not what I am hearing today and how can I make sense of | :09:51. | :09:55. | |
it. I thought that Comey was fired because of a letter written by the | :09:56. | :09:58. | |
attorney get pretty general but I now hear the President saying he was | :09:59. | :10:04. | |
going to fire him anyway. I thought James Comey had lost the confidence | :10:05. | :10:09. | |
of the rank and file of the FBI, because that is what I heard | :10:10. | :10:12. | |
yesterday at the White House, but now I hear that is not true. We had | :10:13. | :10:19. | |
the White House press spokesperson yesterday, Sarah Huckabee Sanders, | :10:20. | :10:22. | |
saying this about James Comey and the FBI. The rank and file of the | :10:23. | :10:32. | |
FBI had lost confidence in their director. But then the acting | :10:33. | :10:35. | |
director spoke to senators this morning and said this. | :10:36. | :10:36. | |
I hold Director Comey in the absolute highest regard. | :10:37. | :10:38. | |
I have the highest respect for his considerable abilities | :10:39. | :10:41. | |
and his integrity and it has been the greatest privilege | :10:42. | :10:43. | |
and honor of my professional life to work with him. | :10:44. | :10:47. | |
I can tell you also that Director Comey enjoyed broad support | :10:48. | :10:52. | |
within the FBI and still does to this day. | :10:53. | :11:04. | |
I interrupted you. Why was Sturrock to James Comey fired as head of the | :11:05. | :11:14. | |
FBI? Well, let's think of why he was not fired. I don't think it had much | :11:15. | :11:18. | |
to do with the Hillary Clinton e-mail investigations last July, | :11:19. | :11:21. | |
which is what we are being told. Donald Trump has said he had decided | :11:22. | :11:28. | |
fire him. If you look at the timescale of when Donald Trump | :11:29. | :11:31. | |
became most dissatisfied, it surrounds the investigation into | :11:32. | :11:35. | |
Russia. I think that is the reason but I think there is something very | :11:36. | :11:39. | |
interesting in his use of the word grandstander, showboat. There can | :11:40. | :11:46. | |
only be one star. The spotlight can only come on one particular person | :11:47. | :11:52. | |
on the stage. And I think that person is Donald Trump, and I think | :11:53. | :11:56. | |
there is almost a sense, listening to it, decoding it, that actually | :11:57. | :12:00. | |
James Comey was stealing a bit of the limelight and there was only | :12:01. | :12:05. | |
room for one-man show. James Comey was standing up... One other thing | :12:06. | :12:09. | |
that I think is the great difference, I think Donald Trump | :12:10. | :12:13. | |
prizes, more than anything else, loyalty. And I think James Comey | :12:14. | :12:18. | |
prizes more than anything else independence and integrity. And that | :12:19. | :12:23. | |
was a clash waiting to happen, and it has, with the results we have | :12:24. | :12:29. | |
seen. I have covered many resignations in politics before. The | :12:30. | :12:32. | |
first thing you do is that you get your ducks in a row. Have we all got | :12:33. | :12:37. | |
the same line? OK, this is how we can to sell this. We have had | :12:38. | :12:43. | |
anything but that. We are all becoming armchair psychologists, | :12:44. | :12:49. | |
what is your take, Clive? You made a brilliant point, and not just to | :12:50. | :12:54. | |
massage your ego, but do you remember when James Comey Hirst | :12:55. | :12:59. | |
went, I think it was to the White House, and there was a line of | :13:00. | :13:03. | |
people standing to greet him and Donald Trump was in the middle? He | :13:04. | :13:08. | |
took Comey's hand when he walked towards him and he shook it and he | :13:09. | :13:12. | |
said, this guy is more famous than I am. He made that point and it stuck | :13:13. | :13:17. | |
in my mind. Everything you have said points to that. I think you have a | :13:18. | :13:23. | |
substantive issue, Russia, which the President is furious about. He wants | :13:24. | :13:27. | |
it to go away. He was tweeting last week about taxpayers money being | :13:28. | :13:31. | |
wasted on this. That is a substantive issue, but there are | :13:32. | :13:37. | |
other aspects which are to do with personality, differences in | :13:38. | :13:39. | |
approach, that you just have to think played a part in it, because | :13:40. | :13:44. | |
otherwise it is inexplicable. The only other thing I would add is that | :13:45. | :13:48. | |
we have now seen three high-profile sackings. The head of the FBI, the | :13:49. | :13:53. | |
acting director-general, the attorney from New York. What do they | :13:54. | :13:59. | |
have in common? They were all investigating, in some way, what | :14:00. | :14:01. | |
Donald Trump was doing. He does not like that much. My armchair theory, | :14:02. | :14:08. | |
Donald Trump is thin-skinned and that is why he was fired. Thank you. | :14:09. | :14:13. | |
It's 29 days until the UK general election and the Labour Party | :14:14. | :14:16. | |
Their draft manifesto has been revealed, | :14:17. | :14:19. | |
a week earlier than the party planned, and it had some | :14:20. | :14:21. | |
Senior officials in the party held meetings today to limit the damage, | :14:22. | :14:25. | |
and say the manifesto has now been unanimously agreed on. | :14:26. | :14:28. | |
Now here's what we learnt from the leak. | :14:29. | :14:31. | |
The party says it will renationalise the railways, reverse the sale | :14:32. | :14:34. | |
of Royal Mail and create publicly owned energy companies. | :14:35. | :14:36. | |
There'll be ?6 billion of extra annual funding for the NHS, | :14:37. | :14:38. | |
paid for by raising income tax for the top 5% of earners. | :14:39. | :14:42. | |
And ?250 billion will go on infrastructure spending | :14:43. | :14:44. | |
Our correspondent Tom Symonds is in our Westminster studio. | :14:45. | :14:59. | |
It was a surprisingly cruel. No one saw it coming, and it was very | :15:00. | :15:09. | |
revealing. It was. They say there is no such as bad publicity. The Labour | :15:10. | :15:14. | |
Party had a lot of bad publicity today but there is that feeling that | :15:15. | :15:17. | |
this should not have happened. It has put the party on the back foot. | :15:18. | :15:23. | |
Everyone can now prepare their rebuttal to the Labour Party | :15:24. | :15:25. | |
manifesto when it comes out early next week. It has told us roughly | :15:26. | :15:31. | |
what the party will do and it is a huge change to what we have seen | :15:32. | :15:36. | |
Labour governments do in the past. This party, Labour, would become, if | :15:37. | :15:42. | |
given power, a party of taxing, of borrowing and of spending. I went | :15:43. | :15:48. | |
through some of the spending commitments in the draft manifesto | :15:49. | :15:51. | |
today, and assuming that is in the real thing, there are dozens of | :15:52. | :15:58. | |
points where the party wants to spend more money. And it is saying | :15:59. | :16:02. | |
this is an offer for a very different type of government, a | :16:03. | :16:05. | |
government that will get stuck in and make changes. We will see | :16:06. | :16:09. | |
whether that all ends up in the final document. Labour was caught | :16:10. | :16:17. | |
short by this. What has been the reaction from the other parties? | :16:18. | :16:21. | |
There has been a lot of questioning as to where the leak came from and | :16:22. | :16:26. | |
no one has established that. Theresa May was very quick to call it | :16:27. | :16:31. | |
shambolic. She has had a mantra throughout the campaign that Labour | :16:32. | :16:35. | |
is a coalition of chaos waiting to happen. Well, it was pretty chaotic. | :16:36. | :16:41. | |
It is pretty bad for a party to get its manifesto out in this way | :16:42. | :16:44. | |
without any of the mass arching that it would normally do. The Institute | :16:45. | :16:49. | |
of fiscal and is, which number cruncher is in the UK, described it | :16:50. | :16:53. | |
as the biggest intervention in the economy since the 1970s outside a | :16:54. | :16:58. | |
crisis, which is a reference to all of that spending. Labour said it is | :16:59. | :17:04. | |
a fully costed, modern package, and that they would be borrowing to | :17:05. | :17:06. | |
invest wisely as a country, as most invest wisely as a country, as most | :17:07. | :17:10. | |
businesses do. Thanks. We started this week with our top | :17:11. | :17:13. | |
story as the election Well, Mr Macron will be inaugurated | :17:14. | :17:15. | |
on Sunday as the new President, He's renamed his grassroots movement | :17:16. | :17:21. | |
Republique en Marche, but he doesn't have long to rest | :17:22. | :17:24. | |
on his laurels. In June, he faces | :17:25. | :17:26. | |
parliamentary elections. Here's the Secretary General | :17:27. | :17:27. | |
of the party explaining how their election plans will change | :17:28. | :17:30. | |
the face of French politics. TRANSLATION: On political clarity, | :17:31. | :17:50. | |
the candidates come from the entire political spectrum reflecting the | :17:51. | :17:53. | |
reconstruction of the political landscape that the President wanted | :17:54. | :17:56. | |
to uphold the project he has flower country. | :17:57. | :18:01. | |
Regarding the parity, 214 candidates are women, 214 are men so, | :18:02. | :18:04. | |
428 candidates are included in the list that will | :18:05. | :18:07. | |
The French journalist Anne Sinclair is a close observer of the political | :18:08. | :18:12. | |
She was once married to the former head of the IMF | :18:13. | :18:15. | |
Dominique Strauss Kahn, tipped to become French President | :18:16. | :18:17. | |
for the Socialist Party, until a series of sex | :18:18. | :18:19. | |
She founded Huffington Post France, and has just written a book | :18:20. | :18:24. | |
about the challenges facing the country. | :18:25. | :18:26. | |
I spoke to her today, and began by asking how | :18:27. | :18:28. | |
Emmanuel Macron has gained so much support. | :18:29. | :18:37. | |
We are a little bit tired in France voting against. We would like to | :18:38. | :18:46. | |
vote for somebody. For a programme, for a leader. And people have voted | :18:47. | :18:54. | |
for Macron, hoping that maybe something will come out. What do you | :18:55. | :19:00. | |
think of Emmanuel Macron? You have met him and know him a little. He is | :19:01. | :19:07. | |
very smart, clever, skilled. But he has little political experience. But | :19:08. | :19:11. | |
that is positive now in France because nobody wants any more the | :19:12. | :19:18. | |
ancient political life to go on. Do you think the two party system, | :19:19. | :19:21. | |
Republicans on one side, socialists on the other, do you think it is | :19:22. | :19:28. | |
finished? If Emmanuel Macron's party just replaced the Socialist party in | :19:29. | :19:33. | |
Parliament, and if the right stay like they are, there will not be any | :19:34. | :19:40. | |
change. There would already be two different forces, one against the | :19:41. | :19:45. | |
other. So it has to come out something new, something else. The | :19:46. | :19:50. | |
turnover is very quick in all democracies. So Emmanuel Macron has | :19:51. | :19:57. | |
to be very cautious, keep his line and see if he can stay popular for a | :19:58. | :20:05. | |
time. At this moment, he is popular for a range of people but not | :20:06. | :20:09. | |
popular for the whole French people, because the majority of the people | :20:10. | :20:14. | |
didn't vote for him. Is he going to be able to reach out to those parts | :20:15. | :20:20. | |
of society that didn't vote for him, particularly the working classes in | :20:21. | :20:23. | |
some depressed areas in the north and in the south-east? Is he going | :20:24. | :20:27. | |
to be able to get a platform that is appealing to them? What does he have | :20:28. | :20:32. | |
to do? Well, he will have to have success about unemployment, of | :20:33. | :20:37. | |
course, which is the big problem in France since years and years. And we | :20:38. | :20:40. | |
have to have this rate of unemployment go down. And if he | :20:41. | :20:45. | |
isn't successful in the five years of his term as President, does that | :20:46. | :20:50. | |
open the way for Marine Le Pen perhaps in 2022? This election is | :20:51. | :20:57. | |
the last chance. The last chance because we tried the right, and the | :20:58. | :21:01. | |
right failed. We tried the left, the left seems to have failed as well. | :21:02. | :21:07. | |
So we try the Centre. And if the Centre fails, well, danger is great. | :21:08. | :21:13. | |
So in that regard, are you confident about the future of France? I am | :21:14. | :21:19. | |
pessimistic in the short period and optimistic for a long run, for a | :21:20. | :21:24. | |
long period. Especially because a new generation is coming out in all | :21:25. | :21:28. | |
parties. Let's hope things are going to move but move smoothly. The | :21:29. | :21:35. | |
French people can be very rude in one way or the other. So you never | :21:36. | :21:49. | |
know what French people like. Her ex-husband, Dominique Strauss-Kahn, | :21:50. | :21:52. | |
was expected to be the leader of the socialists in 2012. Francois | :21:53. | :21:55. | |
Hollande won the election. Ahead of the election, | :21:56. | :22:02. | |
President Hollande had a 4% approval rating and the Socialist candidate | :22:03. | :22:04. | |
Benoit Hamon lost in the first Absolutely appalling numbers for the | :22:05. | :22:20. | |
socialists. I did ask her about her ex-husband, a very innocuous | :22:21. | :22:23. | |
question. I said, do you think the Socialist party would be in a better | :22:24. | :22:28. | |
position if her husband had stood and won the party nomination? She | :22:29. | :22:34. | |
recoiled straightaway. I wasn't asking about the ins and outs of | :22:35. | :22:38. | |
what happened but if she thought the situation might be better. His very | :22:39. | :22:43. | |
name, bringing up his name, she froze. She recoiled, physically. | :22:44. | :22:50. | |
Clearly, the wounds are still very raw. It was a dreadful experience | :22:51. | :22:55. | |
for her. The socialists are being pulled in one direction by Marine Le | :22:56. | :22:59. | |
Pen, another direction by the far left, a dreadful state for them. | :23:00. | :23:02. | |
President Trump loves the fact that his press | :23:03. | :23:04. | |
And the White House press briefing has become must see TV. | :23:05. | :23:08. | |
But this week, in the middle of the drama over Comey, | :23:09. | :23:11. | |
Before any of you get into conspiracy theories, | :23:12. | :23:16. | |
His deputy, Sarah Huckabee Sanders, has been filling in, | :23:17. | :23:21. | |
She is giving the briefing right now. It was not inappropriate and | :23:22. | :23:37. | |
was not wrong for the President to do so. Again, I am not an attorney. | :23:38. | :23:44. | |
I do not even play one on TV. But I have heard from legal minds and | :23:45. | :23:47. | |
people that actually are attorneys, and that is their opinion, so I have | :23:48. | :23:51. | |
two trust the justice system on that. | :23:52. | :23:57. | |
REPORTER: Would you say, based on the experience you and Sean and this | :23:58. | :24:01. | |
communications office had, that you were given the best information to | :24:02. | :24:07. | |
relay to the American public, through us, and your job is to relay | :24:08. | :24:16. | |
that information... You say you are only intermediaries, but using to | :24:17. | :24:19. | |
take a more proactive approach most of the time. I think we were | :24:20. | :24:25. | |
absolutely given the information we had at that time. It was a quick | :24:26. | :24:29. | |
moving process and we took the formation as we had it and got it | :24:30. | :24:34. | |
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 | :25:04. | :25:07. | |
telling her the truth. She went out at the White House podium and said | :25:08. | :25:12. | |
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 | :25:33. | :25:34. | |
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 | :27:01. | :27:05. | |
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 | :28:02. | :28:04. | |
likely to see showers in the West of England and Wales and the North | :28:05. | :28:11. | |
Western quadrant. Through Saturday night we see a spell of rain for | :28:12. | :28:17. | |
pretty much all parts of the UK. Behind that, fresher air from the | :28:18. | :28:21. | |
Atlantic. On Sunday, still sunny spells and showers. Notably, | :28:22. | :28:24. | |
humidity will be lower. Donald Trump claimed he always | :28:25. | :30:08. | |
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 | :31:00. | :31:01. | |
Scherer was among those who conducted the interview | :31:02. | :31:03. | |
and he joins us now. Michael, firstly, you had dinner | :31:04. | :31:11. | |
with President Trump in the White House and went right | :31:12. | :31:14. | |
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 | :33:02. | :33:06. | |
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 | :34:58. | :35:00. | |
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 | :37:01. | :37:09. | |
to reduce carbon emissions. If the US does withdraw, | :37:10. | :37:13. | |
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 | :39:01. | :39:04. | |
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. |