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Hello and welcome to One Hundred Days Plus. | :00:11. | :00:11. | |
A car plows into a crowd in Times Square. | :00:12. | :00:14. | |
One person is dead and 23 are injured. | :00:15. | :00:21. | |
Officials say there is no indication it was terror-related | :00:22. | :00:23. | |
as the vehicle drove at speed onto a pavement in the | :00:24. | :00:29. | |
congressional enquiries, an FBI probe, | :00:30. | :00:36. | |
the investigations into Trump and Russia stack up. | :00:37. | :00:38. | |
The President says it's all a witch hunt. | :00:39. | :00:43. | |
What does the former head of the CIA Leon Panetta | :00:44. | :00:46. | |
make of the string of stories about the | :00:47. | :00:48. | |
Also, this all comes as President Trump is | :00:49. | :00:53. | |
set to depart on his first foreign trip. | :00:54. | :00:55. | |
We're live in Saudi Arabia, Donald Trump's first stop. | :00:56. | :01:01. | |
And, Fox News founder Roger Ailes dies at the age of 77. | :01:02. | :01:19. | |
Not far from where I am a car has ploughed into a group | :01:20. | :01:26. | |
One person is known to have died and 23 are injured. | :01:27. | :01:34. | |
Police are saying it isn't terror-related but the location | :01:35. | :01:36. | |
draws tourists from around the world and it comes at a time when people | :01:37. | :01:39. | |
on both sides of the Atlantic are on edge about cars | :01:40. | :01:42. | |
The mayor of New York has been speaking, this is what he had to | :01:43. | :01:51. | |
say. So far what we know, 23 individuals were injured in this | :01:52. | :01:56. | |
incident. That includes tragically one young woman who has passed away. | :01:57. | :02:06. | |
The perpetrator is in custody, a United States citizen and a former | :02:07. | :02:09. | |
member of the Armed Forces. INAUDIBLE | :02:10. | :02:10. | |
The BBC's Nada Tawfik is on the scene for us | :02:11. | :02:13. | |
What more do we know about the driver? What the NYPD has said is | :02:14. | :02:23. | |
that this was a 26-year-old man from the Bronx, here in New York, New | :02:24. | :02:29. | |
York native, former member of the Navy, they say that he does have a | :02:30. | :02:33. | |
criminal history, he had two arrests for drunk driving, and after this | :02:34. | :02:39. | |
incident happened, very quickly the NYPD arrested him and they say he is | :02:40. | :02:45. | |
now being questioned. Obviously, if this happened in some other | :02:46. | :02:49. | |
location, we might not be leading the programme with it, it might not | :02:50. | :02:54. | |
be such important news, but this is a city still on edge from the | :02:55. | :02:56. | |
prospect of terror attacks and looking at other countries were | :02:57. | :03:00. | |
similar terror attacks have happened, what are they saying | :03:01. | :03:03. | |
specifically about any link to possible terrorism? | :03:04. | :03:09. | |
It is a scene that automatically brought up the biggest fears in the | :03:10. | :03:15. | |
minds of New Yorkers, the authorities say that this is an hour | :03:16. | :03:19. | |
and a half after the incident, from the best knowledge, they do not | :03:20. | :03:22. | |
believe it was terror related, but of course we know that a car | :03:23. | :03:27. | |
ploughing into pedestrians in Times Square, it really made people fear | :03:28. | :03:32. | |
the worst in terms of it being a tactic that Isis has used over the | :03:33. | :03:36. | |
Atlantic, in Europe, several times, in New York, this past September, an | :03:37. | :03:40. | |
incident where a fuel pressure cooker bombs went off in lower | :03:41. | :03:44. | |
Manhattan, and those words seem to be terror related as well. While the | :03:45. | :03:48. | |
NYPD has said that they do believe this is isolated, they have Ian | :03:49. | :03:54. | |
forced other key spots in New York City, out of an abundance of | :03:55. | :03:58. | |
caution, but I suppose you could also say, to reassure New Yorkers. | :03:59. | :04:04. | |
It's not that unusual for American presidents to be the subject | :04:05. | :04:06. | |
Presidents Reagan, Clinton and Bush all faced special prosecutors. | :04:07. | :04:10. | |
It is however unusual for Presidents to respond to those probes | :04:11. | :04:12. | |
in the way Donald Trump did this morning. | :04:13. | :04:20. | |
The president is Lily frustrated at the appointment of former FBI | :04:21. | :04:26. | |
director Robert Muller to investigate his ties to Russia, this | :04:27. | :04:27. | |
is what he said on Twitter: He also complained that there wasn't | :04:28. | :04:37. | |
ever a special counsel appointed to investigate Hillary Clinton or | :04:38. | :04:42. | |
Barack Obama. Donald Trump did not appoint Mr Mueller - the deputy | :04:43. | :04:44. | |
Attorney General did. And the president was only told after the | :04:45. | :04:46. | |
appointment order had been signed. But House Speaker Paul Ryan said | :04:47. | :04:55. | |
it's business as usual. It is very important that people know that we | :04:56. | :04:59. | |
can walk and chew gum at the same time, drama is not helpful in | :05:00. | :05:02. | |
getting things done but we are still getting things done and that is the | :05:03. | :05:04. | |
important point. So Mr Ryan says things | :05:05. | :05:06. | |
are still getting done, but how serious is all this for Mr | :05:07. | :05:08. | |
Trump? we're joined by former US | :05:09. | :05:10. | |
Defence Secretary and CIA chief, What is your take, as you look back | :05:11. | :05:20. | |
at the last ten days, I cannot believe it has been that quick, we | :05:21. | :05:24. | |
have the firing of James Comey, the revelations that Donald Trump gave | :05:25. | :05:29. | |
secrets to Russian officials, and reports that he tried to interfere | :05:30. | :05:32. | |
with the investigation into the Russia probe. How damaging is all of | :05:33. | :05:40. | |
this for the president? I don't think there is any question that a | :05:41. | :05:47. | |
number of serious issues have been raised by these incidents is, that | :05:48. | :05:56. | |
involved the possible violations of war, -- violations of law, there is | :05:57. | :06:00. | |
no question, all of the incident you have mentioned, whether it is the | :06:01. | :06:03. | |
Flint investigation, and efforts to deter that, the rush investigation, | :06:04. | :06:10. | |
the firing of James Comey, the issue of whether the president released | :06:11. | :06:13. | |
classified information to a foreign adversarial, all of those are issues | :06:14. | :06:16. | |
for which he could be investigated. -- Flynn investigation. From be the | :06:17. | :06:20. | |
best that has happened is that the deputy Attorney General did point | :06:21. | :06:25. | |
Robert Mueller, a man of impeccable integrity, to act as special consul | :06:26. | :06:30. | |
on this, and that is of some comfort to all of us in this country. It | :06:31. | :06:40. | |
looks like Mr Trump protected Michael Flynn, put him in as | :06:41. | :06:43. | |
national security adviser, out of some sense of loyalty and that he | :06:44. | :06:48. | |
felt he had a right to interfere into the probe of Russia, by firing | :06:49. | :06:52. | |
James Comey, putting pressure on him not to investigate Michael Flynn, | :06:53. | :06:57. | |
does this raise questions for you about not so much if there is some | :06:58. | :07:02. | |
nefarious deal between the Trump administration and the Russian | :07:03. | :07:06. | |
government but whether Mr Trump has the character or the temperament to | :07:07. | :07:10. | |
be able to make a success of his presidency? We all know that | :07:11. | :07:19. | |
President Trump lacked political experience, lacked experience in | :07:20. | :07:25. | |
governing, did not fully understand or appreciate the rules and laws | :07:26. | :07:29. | |
that are involved when you are president of the United States. It | :07:30. | :07:37. | |
shows in the way he behaved here. It was more the behaviour of somebody | :07:38. | :07:40. | |
who operates is in the real estate industry, in New York City, as | :07:41. | :07:45. | |
opposed to the president of the United States. A lot of questions. | :07:46. | :07:58. | |
Behaviour that does not take into consideration the possibility of | :07:59. | :08:00. | |
violating possible laws, he was acting more out of personal concern | :08:01. | :08:06. | |
for what was happening, to somebody like general Flynn, but when you are | :08:07. | :08:09. | |
president of the United States, your first responsibility is to protect | :08:10. | :08:15. | |
and enforce the constitution of the United States, and the laws of this | :08:16. | :08:19. | |
country. And I think the president has not appreciated the level of | :08:20. | :08:24. | |
responsibility associated with his oath. You were brought in in 1994, | :08:25. | :08:32. | |
to be Bill Clinton, president Bill Clinton's chief of staff, Clinton | :08:33. | :08:36. | |
presidency had got into trouble, needed a reboot, you were the man | :08:37. | :08:41. | |
brought in to oversee the reboot, do you think it would be possible now | :08:42. | :08:45. | |
to have somebody come into the White House and get this presidency back | :08:46. | :08:49. | |
on track, away from the scandals and back to doing business. Not | :08:50. | :08:57. | |
impossible but an awful lot depends upon whether or not the President of | :08:58. | :09:00. | |
the United States is willing to change the way he behaves in that | :09:01. | :09:08. | |
office, if he does appoint a new team of individuals that are | :09:09. | :09:10. | |
experienced in politics, appreciate the laws, appreciate how you deal | :09:11. | :09:17. | |
with Congress and with the different institutions of democracy and is | :09:18. | :09:20. | |
willing to listen to that person, then it is not impossible. He does | :09:21. | :09:25. | |
have a strong national security team, for example, I have a great | :09:26. | :09:29. | |
deal of respect for the quality of his national security team, he seems | :09:30. | :09:35. | |
to want to listen to them, which is good. Can he do the same thing when | :09:36. | :09:38. | |
it comes to domestic issues and issues that relate to the laws of | :09:39. | :09:44. | |
this country? That is the question. That will determine to a large | :09:45. | :09:47. | |
extent whether he survives in office. We are still not any | :09:48. | :09:54. | |
clearer, are we, if Mr Trump was recording the conversations with | :09:55. | :09:59. | |
James Comey, with also do not know if those contemporaneous notes | :10:00. | :10:01. | |
exist, which Jim Comey allegedly made after the meeting, and what | :10:02. | :10:07. | |
about the involvement of Vladimir Putin, offering to release | :10:08. | :10:12. | |
transcripts of the meeting with Donald Trump, said a lover of and | :10:13. | :10:18. | |
the Russian ambassador in the White House. Any time Vladimir Putin | :10:19. | :10:23. | |
decides that he's going to inject himself into issues in this country, | :10:24. | :10:36. | |
that becomes cause for concern. -- Sergey Lavrov. I'm pleased that | :10:37. | :10:41. | |
Congress rejected that offer, he is a foreign adversarial, his interest | :10:42. | :10:47. | |
is not in the interest of protecting the United States of America, his | :10:48. | :10:50. | |
interest is in destabilising them, the United States, and I'm sure that | :10:51. | :10:55. | |
he's enjoying the fact that in this country we are going through a | :10:56. | :10:59. | |
certain amount of turmoil largely because the Russians tried to | :11:00. | :11:03. | |
directly interfere in the election process. This country is smart | :11:04. | :11:08. | |
enough to understand that we are not in the mood of cooperating with | :11:09. | :11:11. | |
somebody who is a foreign adversarial. It seems you do not | :11:12. | :11:17. | |
trust the benevolence of bad in Putin(!) so far, but the Saudis and | :11:18. | :11:22. | |
Israelis have said they will carry on sharing intelligence information | :11:23. | :11:25. | |
with the United States is. -- seems you do not trust the benevolence of | :11:26. | :11:30. | |
Vladimir Putin. How dangerous do you think, the meeting with Sergey | :11:31. | :11:36. | |
Lavrov, the intelligence that was passed on, how dangerous has that | :11:37. | :11:41. | |
been to America's relationships? As somebody who was formerly involved | :11:42. | :11:49. | |
in the CIA -- formerly. And with intelligence people... Not just | :11:50. | :11:51. | |
formerly involved, you ran the place! And I really respect those | :11:52. | :11:59. | |
people who work in our intelligence agencies, who are willing to put | :12:00. | :12:03. | |
their life on the line in order to be able to gather the kind of | :12:04. | :12:07. | |
intelligence that was presented to the president. I think it is | :12:08. | :12:14. | |
irresponsible of the president to reveal classified information, | :12:15. | :12:18. | |
particularly to a foreign adversarial, particularly classified | :12:19. | :12:22. | |
information that could jeopardise the very source of intelligence that | :12:23. | :12:27. | |
was presented to the president. It is not responsible, it is very | :12:28. | :12:32. | |
damaging, sending a terrible signal to all of those sources that are out | :12:33. | :12:36. | |
there, putting lives on the line to gather that kind of intelligence. | :12:37. | :12:40. | |
This is a matter that I believe all to be investigated and looked at, | :12:41. | :12:45. | |
and I think the president as to understand his responsibility as | :12:46. | :12:50. | |
President of the United States, to protect the very people that are | :12:51. | :12:55. | |
providing that kind of intelligence. Leon Panetta, thank you very much | :12:56. | :12:57. | |
for joining us. Thank you. So Democrats had been | :12:58. | :13:02. | |
calling for a special Republicans, at least | :13:03. | :13:04. | |
the ones on Capitol Hill So what powers will Mr Mueller | :13:05. | :13:07. | |
have in this role? A special counsel is | :13:08. | :13:13. | |
a person appointed by head of the justice department, | :13:14. | :13:15. | |
when an investigation by the Department itself might pose | :13:16. | :13:17. | |
a conflict of interest, or if it's believed it's | :13:18. | :13:19. | |
in the "public interest" He has the power to initiate | :13:20. | :13:21. | |
investigations, subpoena records Robert Mueller will also be able | :13:22. | :13:29. | |
to widen his jurisdiction, although he'd have to ask | :13:30. | :13:33. | |
the Attorney General But not everyone thinks this | :13:34. | :13:35. | |
appointment is a good idea. Joining us from Washington | :13:36. | :13:38. | |
is Ron Christie, a former Why not? It is important to | :13:39. | :13:52. | |
recognise what is going on in the United States government, it was | :13:53. | :13:56. | |
engaged in a counterintelligence operation to ascertain whether or | :13:57. | :14:00. | |
not the Russians had on properly influence the election, the | :14:01. | :14:05. | |
appointment of a special counsel takes it out of the realm of | :14:06. | :14:08. | |
counterintelligence, when there is not a prosecutor involved. -- | :14:09. | :14:10. | |
unproperly. Now we have some blue with prosecuting powers. Question a | :14:11. | :14:15. | |
lot of Republicans ask in Washington, what is the underlying | :14:16. | :14:19. | |
crime, I don't understand and I have not, from looking at the statement | :14:20. | :14:24. | |
from Robert Mueller, I cannot see what underlying crime he may be | :14:25. | :14:28. | |
looking at which Donald Trump, the president, or his associates are | :14:29. | :14:31. | |
allegedly having considered violated. One possible case with the | :14:32. | :14:37. | |
attraction of justice, if it was proven that Donald Trump asked Jim | :14:38. | :14:41. | |
Crow me to drop the investigation into Michael Flynn. -- James Comey. | :14:42. | :14:48. | |
In the statutory, obstruction of justice, not only are you in a | :14:49. | :14:54. | |
position where you are impeding somebody carrying out their response | :14:55. | :14:58. | |
abilities but it is also about whether they bribe that individual, | :14:59. | :15:04. | |
specific intent, the resident would have had to specifically intended | :15:05. | :15:07. | |
not only to impede James Comey and his investigation but also bribe | :15:08. | :15:11. | |
them as well, ice on the evidence I have heard so far, the facts in the | :15:12. | :15:16. | |
case do not seem to meet the case that the president of the United | :15:17. | :15:19. | |
States could have done that. Let's be clear, you are a Republican, you | :15:20. | :15:24. | |
have conversations with this White House but often you have been | :15:25. | :15:28. | |
critical of Donald Trump, so when Donald Trump tweets out this | :15:29. | :15:31. | |
morning, using his own language, that this is the greatest witchhunt | :15:32. | :15:36. | |
in history... Is there something there, that he is the subject of an | :15:37. | :15:41. | |
unfair amount of investigation, do you think, and pressure from | :15:42. | :15:47. | |
Democrats? You know, it shouldn't matter, you are the President of the | :15:48. | :15:50. | |
United States, chief law enforcement officer in the country, sadly, I | :15:51. | :15:54. | |
think Donald Trump, in some measure, if not large measure, brought the | :15:55. | :15:58. | |
special counsel appointment on himself. You cannot send out a tweet | :15:59. | :16:03. | |
that says, I hope it wasn't being recorded when I spoke to James | :16:04. | :16:07. | |
Comey, he had better watch out...! Cannot say those things and not have | :16:08. | :16:10. | |
members of Congress on both sides of the aisle in a nonpartisan way | :16:11. | :16:15. | |
saying, is the President of the United States recording people who | :16:16. | :16:18. | |
come to the Oval Office? Where are the transcript? And also, what else | :16:19. | :16:24. | |
could he have been doing? ! His behaviour on Twitter, seems to be | :16:25. | :16:28. | |
bringing this on himself, and he does not seem to have learned a | :16:29. | :16:31. | |
lesson and heeded the warning that that can have serious consequences | :16:32. | :16:38. | |
which he is now facing. Thank you for coming in. Always a pleasure. | :16:39. | :16:42. | |
There is a long game and a short game here, in the short term, looks | :16:43. | :16:48. | |
like the appointment of this special counsel is something of a blessing, | :16:49. | :16:52. | |
because it takes the heat off, because you can say, there is a | :16:53. | :16:57. | |
special counsel investigating it, it is under control, we will let Robert | :16:58. | :17:00. | |
Mueller get on with the job. In the long term, the risk is that the | :17:01. | :17:03. | |
special counsel comes up with something that proves some kind of | :17:04. | :17:07. | |
illegality, then there is a whole heap of problems for the White | :17:08. | :17:10. | |
House. Interesting how Republicans are saying, having resisted the idea | :17:11. | :17:14. | |
of some kind of special investigation, right now at least | :17:15. | :17:17. | |
they feel it is taking off some of the political pressure. The point | :17:18. | :17:21. | |
that interests me, this could take years, we have this enquiry, plus | :17:22. | :17:25. | |
all the others, which will take priority? There is the risk, Donald | :17:26. | :17:29. | |
Trump could be completely exonerated, what there is the risk, | :17:30. | :17:34. | |
this drip of more damaging headlines and information, keeping it there in | :17:35. | :17:40. | |
the public domain, and eroding anymore confidence in the | :17:41. | :17:47. | |
presidency. Yes, this is not going anywhere. Absolutely right! ! | :17:48. | :17:52. | |
In Brazil there are calls for the president to resign | :17:53. | :17:55. | |
following newspaper reports that he authorised bribes to silence | :17:56. | :17:57. | |
a potential witness in what has become a huge corruption scandal. | :17:58. | :18:00. | |
President Temer is denying the allegations that say | :18:01. | :18:02. | |
he authorised payments to Eduardo Cunha, | :18:03. | :18:07. | |
a politician who was jailed in March for corruption, | :18:08. | :18:09. | |
money laundering and tax evasion. | :18:10. | :18:19. | |
Still in Latin America, Venezuela says it's sending more | :18:20. | :18:25. | |
to the region of Tachira in order to control looting and rioting. | :18:26. | :18:29. | |
There have been violent anti-government protests | :18:30. | :18:31. | |
and three people were killed in Tachira this week. | :18:32. | :18:33. | |
President Nicolas Maduro has accused the opposition of inciting violence | :18:34. | :18:35. | |
John McCain called for the expulsion of Turkey's US ambassador | :18:36. | :18:39. | |
after violence erupted between protesters and Turkish | :18:40. | :18:41. | |
security personnel during President Tayyip Erdogan's | :18:42. | :18:43. | |
Senator McCain said, "We should throw their ambassador the hell out | :18:44. | :18:50. | |
Meanwhile, Britain's governing Conservative Party, has | :18:51. | :19:00. | |
published its manifesto, for next month's general election. | :19:01. | :19:02. | |
pensioners' incomes, and adopts policies aimed at helping | :19:03. | :19:05. | |
It includes, proposals to address the shortfall | :19:06. | :19:08. | |
in the social care budget, as people live longer. | :19:09. | :19:16. | |
Viewers in Britain can get up to date with all of those events in the | :19:17. | :19:21. | |
election wrap, which follows 100 days plus. That is on the BBC news | :19:22. | :19:28. | |
channel from half past seven, right across the United Kingdom. | :19:29. | :19:33. | |
With all the investigations into his administration, | :19:34. | :19:35. | |
President Trump may be relieved to be getting out of town tomorrow. | :19:36. | :19:38. | |
He leaves for a mammoth nine-day, five-city foreign excursion, | :19:39. | :19:40. | |
it's first foreign trip since becoming President. | :19:41. | :19:42. | |
It's also the first chance for people abroad to see how | :19:43. | :19:44. | |
how he delivers on his "America first" pledge. | :19:45. | :19:46. | |
The trip starts in the Middle East with visits to Saudi Arabia | :19:47. | :19:49. | |
and Israel before moving onto Nato in Belgium then Italy where he'll be | :19:50. | :19:52. | |
Also travelling to Sicily, as well. Interesting, he has chosen Saudi | :19:53. | :20:08. | |
Arabia first, symbolic decision to make the first overseas trip, the | :20:09. | :20:13. | |
birthplace of Islam, you have been to a White House briefing, what are | :20:14. | :20:17. | |
the ambitions of the trip? Yesterday I had to duck out early, to rush to | :20:18. | :20:22. | |
the White House for a briefing of a senior White House official, they | :20:23. | :20:25. | |
have an ambitious agenda for the trip, laying out a series of steps | :20:26. | :20:33. | |
concrete proposals that include the formation of a Nato like. The arable | :20:34. | :20:37. | |
world, they are going to ask TCC countries, Gulf countries, to sign a | :20:38. | :20:43. | |
pledge making it illegal for anyone to make contributions to terrorist | :20:44. | :20:47. | |
organisations or terrorist linked organisations. They think they can | :20:48. | :20:54. | |
get -- they think if they can get all the Gulf countries on board, | :20:55. | :20:57. | |
that would give cover to some of the Gulf countries accused of allowing | :20:58. | :21:01. | |
funds to get to so-called Islamic State, that would give them cover to | :21:02. | :21:06. | |
sign the pledge. They are setting up a centre in Riyadh, which will | :21:07. | :21:12. | |
combat the cyber war, combating Islamic State, and giving a counter | :21:13. | :21:16. | |
to the growth and power of Iran in the region. I thought, from the | :21:17. | :21:20. | |
briefing I have, that they sound very confident about the trip but a | :21:21. | :21:24. | |
lot of the confidence is based on leash on ships. This is a president | :21:25. | :21:28. | |
who thinks relationships are very important in foreign policy and when | :21:29. | :21:31. | |
you push them for details and why would these countries do things they | :21:32. | :21:35. | |
have never done before, it really comes down to the power of Donald | :21:36. | :21:39. | |
Trump, to persuade countries to make concessions in a way that they have | :21:40. | :21:43. | |
not. Interesting briefing, certainly an ambitious trip for the president. | :21:44. | :21:47. | |
Giving a talk on Islamic extremism as well. We can go live to Riyadh, | :21:48. | :21:55. | |
Lyse Doucet is the BBC's Chief International Correspondent and she | :21:56. | :21:57. | |
joins us from Riyadh ahead of Donald Trump's first stop. You are quite | :21:58. | :22:05. | |
dark, we can just see you. Getting a warmer welcome than Barack Obama. | :22:06. | :22:11. | |
This is the anti-Obama visit, it is no secret that relations between the | :22:12. | :22:16. | |
Saudi kingdom and the United States southward during president Obama's | :22:17. | :22:21. | |
term, one of the leading ministers from one of the Gulf Arabic states | :22:22. | :22:26. | |
said, if president Obama was about change, sympathising with the Arab | :22:27. | :22:32. | |
Spring, then Donald Trump represents stability. He will arrive here on | :22:33. | :22:36. | |
Saturday morning for the mother of all welcoming committees, not just | :22:37. | :22:40. | |
the senior royal rulers of this kingdom, but senior members, the | :22:41. | :22:44. | |
leaders of the Persian Gulf Arab Spring 's, and, 37 presidents, | :22:45. | :22:49. | |
kings, prime ministers, from the Arabic Islamic world. Riyadh is | :22:50. | :22:55. | |
making this a one-stop trip that president Trump can engage with the | :22:56. | :22:59. | |
entire Muslim world, right here in Riyadh. The king, the custodian of | :23:00. | :23:08. | |
the holiest sites in Islam, Mecca and Medina. Donald Trump is less | :23:09. | :23:14. | |
reliant on Saudi oil, resume really will be looking to clinch big arms | :23:15. | :23:21. | |
deals, what do we hear about that? Already done, and billion dollars, | :23:22. | :23:25. | |
included, President Trump is the man who called on all his friends and | :23:26. | :23:29. | |
allies to pay their own way, as you heard from Cathy, coming here with a | :23:30. | :23:34. | |
big agenda, and what we heard from the Saudi Foreign Minister, it is an | :23:35. | :23:40. | |
agenda that Saudi Arabia endorses 100%. Went through the list, | :23:41. | :23:48. | |
fighting against extremists, fighting extremist groups including | :23:49. | :23:51. | |
so-called Islamic State, so do we, he wants to push back against Iran, | :23:52. | :23:56. | |
to stop its behaviour across this region, so do we, he said. He wants | :23:57. | :24:02. | |
to strengthen the military cooperation, don't forget that Saudi | :24:03. | :24:04. | |
Arabia as well as other countries were behind the formation of the new | :24:05. | :24:10. | |
Arabic Islamic alliance, headed by a former Pakistani army chief. | :24:11. | :24:14. | |
Afterwards, I spoke to the Saudi Foreign Minister and I said, if | :24:15. | :24:18. | |
President Trump ask you to play your part, will you contribute troops, he | :24:19. | :24:25. | |
said, yes. It was very complimentary about the strike on Syria by Donald | :24:26. | :24:31. | |
Trump, calling it decisive and important. You know that area of the | :24:32. | :24:34. | |
world welcome these things are confidence I heard in the White | :24:35. | :24:42. | |
House yesterday is justified? It is justified when he comes to Saudi | :24:43. | :24:46. | |
Arabia, what a coup for Saudi Arabia, first start, President | :24:47. | :24:52. | |
Trump's first foreign visit. We were here when he introduced the travel | :24:53. | :24:56. | |
ban, described as a Muslim ban, every single senior Saudi official | :24:57. | :24:59. | |
we spoke with said President Trump is a man you can do business with, | :25:00. | :25:03. | |
military business, economic business, political business, they | :25:04. | :25:08. | |
think he is a man... This is what they think, superpower. Beyond, | :25:09. | :25:12. | |
other countries around the world will be worried about President | :25:13. | :25:15. | |
Trump, don't forget, the next stop is Israel, they are scrambling to | :25:16. | :25:19. | |
discover what could be the cost of what appears to be or is alleged to | :25:20. | :25:23. | |
be mishandling of intelligence information. In Saudi Arabia, thank | :25:24. | :25:30. | |
you very much, it will be fascinating talking to you during | :25:31. | :25:34. | |
the course of the trip, Lyse Doucet, and they have mentioned that they | :25:35. | :25:37. | |
will have a very different attitude to human rights. | :25:38. | :25:41. | |
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And we will look back at the life of Roger Ailes, | :25:54. | :25:57. | |
the founder of the American news channel Fox News has died. | :25:58. | :26:10. | |
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