12/06/2017 100 Days+

The British Prime Minister apologises to her MPs

for the election result and they give her

But the markets aren't so easily pleased -

the pound hit a seven-month low against the euro.

Mrs May apologises to party MPs for the mess she got them into.

Just a week from the start of Brexit negotiations,

The first round of parliamentary voting gives

US Attorney General Jeff Sessions says he wants to testify in public

tomorrow on the firing of James Comey and his own meetings

And protests on the streets of Moscow

Thousands demonstrate against the alleged

The opposition leader Alexei Navalny is placed under house arrest.

A year ago this week, 49 people were shot dead

in the Pulse nightclub, Orlando.

We will hear from the choir that is helping the community

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

where the pound has fallen to a seven-month low

against the euro and a new survey suggests business leaders are fast

losing confidence in the state of the UK economy.

Theresa May - Britain's Prime Minister, at least for the moment -

has been meeting Conservative Party leaders and she had a lot

May apologised repeatedly for last week's election result.

According to one MP who was in the meeting, "She said,

I'm the person who got us into this mess.

I will serve she told them as long as you want me."

We can speak to Rob Watson in Westminster. I will serve you as

long as you want me? That doesn't suggest she will be around for long.

Probably not long enough to fight idolater election. For those who do

not know that Conservative Party well, it is ruthless. If you win

elections, you can do what you like but if you lose them you were a

goner. The reason that is different this time is because the party is

not in a mood to fight another election which it might lose. As a

colleague put it, the Conservatives have decided they would rather have

a bad Prime Minister than no Prime Minister, and you have to remember,

many Conservative MPs, the most important thing, more precious than

gold, is getting Brexit done so they will not want anything like a new

leadership contest to threaten that. That seems to be the big issue, what

impact does the election have in practical terms on those perks of

negotiations and on Britain's future relationship with Europe? The answer

to that one is easy, who knows? I was hoping you did! It's been widely

discussed in Westminster and the answer is who knows. The answer from

the government is to say we will carry on as before, that was the

line from David Davis, the Brexit Secretary, and that is the view of

lots of hardline Eurosceptics but one of the things that was the

result of the general election, Theresa May had held it to try to

put the divisions of the EU referendum behind anyone and get the

country united, the opposite has happened, it has reopened the debate

about what Brexit should mean, not just within the Conservative Party,

were a lot of people who are pro-European are saying they need to

rethink this, but outside the Conservative Party and outside

politics. You talked about businesses saying we all need a

rethink on this so the short answer is who knows, that is the longer one

and it shows you there is a vast amounts of uncertainty. Rob, thank

you. Well, let's speak to someone

who was in the room. Nadhim Zahawi is a Conservative MP

and supported Brexit. She apologised, it sounds like the

people in the room with accepted that apology, she a standing

ovation, they were happy with accepting full responsibility but

she has got her party into a mess, hasn't she? Remember she won the

election with the greatest number of seats in parliament, 318, and with

the DUP can form a working majority and has moved swiftly to focus on

the job in hand of reshuffling her Cabinet and having a strong cabinet

in place, promoting Michael Gove, making sure Damian Green is her

second-in-command, her chief of staff, it Alan Barwell, has a wealth

of respect in the parliamentary party. The 1922 committee meetings

are confidential... You are not going to try and say this is a good

result for the Conservative Party? I wouldn't insult your intelligence by

saying that although the Prime saying that although the Prime

Minister quite rightly said that we polled almost 42%, a staggering

achievement but it didn't have the desired outcome because under any

other circumstances that would have been a large majority but Labour did

better as well. Although it was a confidential meeting, she had three

standing ovations. She judged the room rightly, she had thought long

and hard about how she will move forward, she spoke about the way

Number 10 is changing, how it will interact with the parliamentary

party, how it will work with colleagues across the different

views on Brexit within our own party and literally each and every person

who stood up to ask a question from either side, those who campaign for

Remain for those who wanted Brown said, gave the Prime Minister that

complete call some support for her position. She also said there will

be more consultation on Brexit. The Shadow Foreign Secretary Emily

Thornberry said they will hold the government's feed to the fire and

where they don't agree they will put forward amendments and I assume

Remainer is in the Conservative Party will vote for some of those

amendments. I suspect you will see the Labour Party being held to

account. In the election campaign, if you look at their manifesto it

was close to our position saying they wanted access to the single

market, so out of the single market, out of the Customs Union and

controlling our borders but Keir Starmer and Jeremy Corbyn will have

to make up their mind what they will do. I would highly advise them, not

that they want my advice, to put the national interest ahead and deliver

a good Brexit, which Theresa May is now determined to do, she said she

called the election and took full responsibility and now has to

deliver a good Brexit. Can I underline a point you made there

because I think it's being lost and politicians and the media are to

blame, can we be clear that both parties will have to leave the

single market? It does seem, as you said, if Labour are suggesting we

can stay in it somehow, we are talking about access to the single

market, not staying in it. That's right and it's worth many of your

colleagues asking that question of the Labour Party because if that the

position they have taken in the manifesto, it is close to our

position and so over 80% of people who voted last Thursday voted for a

good Brexit, to come out of the EU, accessed the single market and

control our borders, so I hope many of your colleagues in the broadcast

and print media will begin now asking Labour if they are serious

about that and will deliver their manifesto pledge. Thank you for

joining us. Christian, this is interesting, what the practical

implications will be. Rob Watson said he doesn't know if this will

lead to Brexit because the Prime Minister is under pressure form some

in their own party to deliver us after Brexit. He was sending good

about the future of the party but I cannot believe he is happy about the

business surveyed saying 20% of Islamist leaders are losing

confidence in the British economy and the euro is down to a seven

month low. It looks chaotic, and bear in mind

that the European Commission president was encouraging Theresa

May to hold this election because they wanted clarity, he said you

cannot come to the table with a majority of 17, you need a mandate,

so what reaction they will give to her when she goes over next week,

the Europeans want certainty, they don't want to get to a sticking

point and then she will go back and see if she can get it passed

Parliament. The Europeans want to crack on with it.

One European who doesn't seem to be having problems this morning is

president Micron. He is waking up a happy man.

Emmanuel Macron shows you can be populist in the centre because the

parliamentary elections are a landslide, he will have the majority

of MPs anti-war want to crack on with Brexit to because he wants to

re-energise the Franco German partnership. It was always the Brits

who were standing in the wake of this so having them out of the way

clears that up and it Brexit isn't a success, it is Marine Le Pen who

would pay the price for that because she has put Brexit up in shining

lights and said that is what we want.

And he has taken people from left and right into his government. If he

manages to reform the French economy with this model, I bet it will sense

Chivers down the spine of traditional figures like the

Conservatives and Labour Party in Britain. There are the results.

There is strategic voting in the second round so it might change,

that is the first round. He has brought new blood into politics but

a lot of them are upwardly mobile middle-class elite, not the people

you see at the bottom, the hard right and hard left, they don't

represent them, the National front and France Unbowed but if he doesn't

carry the country with it, they will come back onto the streets.

Just a short time ago, another federal court has ruled

against President Trump's revised executive order, which

limits travel from six predominately Muslim countries.

The ninth Circuit Court of Appeals ruling came after a similar decision

in the fourth circuit of Virginia which is currently being appealed

This all comes as the US Attorney General Jeff Sessions gets

ready to appear before congress tomorrow to offer testimony

about the firing of James Comey and Mr Sessions' interactions

with Russian officials during the election campaign.

Well, the White House Secretary Sean Spicer has been speaking

I think the president has been clear, last week in the rose garden,

that he believes the sooner we can get this address and dealt with that

there has been no collusion, he wants this to get investigated as

soon as possible so he can continue the business of the American people.

And I'm happy to say that Ron Christie, our political analyst,

is safely back here on set with me after visiting Christian

Ron, there Sean Spicer saying they want to get to the bottom of the

investigation so it will all blow over. This cloud continues to hang

over the White House. The White House is looking at the Attorney

General having a chance to speak to say let's put away misconceptions

about Russian collusion and speak in a unified manner, the only way they

can get out of this is if they are forthright with the people. To what

extent are removing away from the issue of collusion, with several

Republicans and some Democrats say will be hard to prove against the

president, into the Morton are key areas of not just obstruction of

justice but of the president perjuring himself? This is why I

don't understand why the president said he welcomed the chance to

testify. You will get yourself in a perjury trap if you go before the

special counsel and do not remember everything you said, they can replay

that and ask for you telling the truth now or then, so we are moving

away from collusion but the perjury trap is a real trap for this

president if he says he will do it. Bill Clinton got himself into a

perjury trap against Monica Lewinsky, it is often the cover up.

And it was a point that Lindsey Graham was saying, the president is

talking too much. You may be the first president in history to go

down because you can't stop talking about an investigation which if you

were quiet would clear you. And that is the point, he needs to stop

tweeting about it. He does. As a lawyer you know the more you talk

the more you put yourself in legal peril and this president, it has

worked well for him as a businessman to believe people that now you are

getting into the world of political and legal jeopardy and it amazes me

that neither his chief of staff or his Attorney General and say, Mr

President, you are digging yourself a whole and it will be hard for you

to get out unless you stop tweeting. So tomorrow we have another grab

your popcorn day in Congress, Jeff Sessions will testify, he will be

asked questions about evidence that James Komi gave last week and this

idea that James Comey came to Sessions and said don't believe me

on my own with the president again. I find that staggering. From having

being a staffer, you need to protect the principle, have someone in the

room with the president and the Attorney General or the FBI

director, so if there is one person who may have put himself in a bad

spot, it is James Komi recognising that he should not be in that

position, you need to have someone there to chronicle the conversation

between those two gentlemen. Ron Christie, you could be advising the

president. He needs a lawyer to tell him to stop talking. I'm staying

right here! For more on how this is changing established orders, heroes

Nick Bryant. You have written a great piece on the BBC website, we

have a bit of it we can joke about the US UK relationship and how all

the chaos here is affecting that. You write a piece which we can show

our viewers... What do you mean? There has always been a shared

conceit at the heart of the special relationship and it is that global

leadership is best expressed in English. It is American

exceptionalism meets English exceptionalism, and now that doesn't

look so good because you have instability and chaos, something

near chaos in Washington, on both sides of the Atlantic and it seems a

vacuum has created, remember going back 70 years, so much of the

post-war architecture was Anglo American in origin, so much of it

stemmed from an Atlantic Charter signed by FDR and Churchill in 1941,

IMF, the World Bank, Nato, but now it seems that Anglo-American

leadership is under threat and a void is being created which others

are filling. How much does the UK election and the issue of Brexit and

no negotiations meant to start next week late into Britain's position

cutting itself from Europe at a time when getting, for Theresa May, close

negative consequences? Getting close negative consequences? Getting close

to Donald Trump speaks of the to Donald Trump speaks of the

diplomacy of desperation that Britain is practising. It cannot

rely on support from its former 27 EU partners, so it has to look more

closely across the Atlantic and to get a strong relationship with

Donald Trump but that is very unpopular in Britain, used so that

after the London attacks when he launched up Twitter parade against

Sadiq Khan, the Mayor of London, and it undercuts British leadership

because they are increasingly cast adrift. One of the great uses for

America or Britain over the past 40 years has been as this close ally at

the heart of Europe and that will not be the case anymore so while

many might say this looks like a short-term problem, a temporary

difficulty Ford governments in Britain and America, actually it

looks like outlasting the Trump Administration. Nick, thank you.

Fascinating piece, go and have a look for it on the BBC website.

Thanks, Christian. I'm still here! I'm sticking around.

From this side we are constantly looking at you in Washington, how is

America looking at what's happening in the UK? I cannot tell me the

number of people who have said to me, what are they doing in Britain?

We thought we had the monopoly on political chaos and now Britain want

to get in on the act. That's pretty much how it looks now. Ron just now

said he cannot believe Britons have done this to themselves.

Did they think that Brexit would sail through? Is that the way they

portrayed it in Washington? They had watched all this in

Parliament, they knew it would go through but they cannot understand

why the Prime Minister would put herself in a position, at a time

when electorates are unpredictable, why did she have at vote that she

didn't need to call and that has confused people and it is what makes

people here nervous about the stability of a relationship that is

as Nick was saying essential to the US. Talking about the essential

relationships... It's easy to forget amid all

the Russia investigations and Trump's tweets that at the heart

of this story is the attempt by Moscow to meddle

in Western democracy. It's a growing facet of

Vladimir Putin's autocratic rule - a point not lost today on thousands

of demonstrators in Russia. Anti-Putin activists took

to the streets of Moscow and several Scores of people were detained

and the Russian opposition leader, He was placed under house arrest as

he came out of his apartment block. Our Moscow correspondent

Steve Rosenberg has the latest. One mile from the Kremlin,

a public holiday turned Russia Day is supposed to be

a national celebration. But riot police were sent in to

clear anti-government protesters Thousands had come

to accuse the Russian "Putin is a thief", they shouted,

and "one, two, three, Putin, Families accidentally caught up

in the violence fled. Police detained

hundreds of protesters. The police have been telling

the crowd that people don't have the right to protest here,

that they don't have permission. But the protesters have been saying

they don't need permission, There were anti-corruption

demonstrations in As for the man who'd organised

this nationwide protest, opposition leader Alexei Navalny,

he was detained as he left home. Not everyone today was in the mood

to criticise the government. In Moscow, this patriotic festival -

on the street as the protest - was celebrating Russian military

might. "Protests don't make

life better", he says. "Not one revolution has ever

brought anything good". Up the road this was no Russian

revolution, but it was a display of defiance from those people,

many of them young Russians, who Striking images there from Russia,

and the news just coming in from the White House which says the United

States condemns the Russian crackdown on peaceful protesters,

this from Sean Spicer, and the US is calling for their immediate release.

It has been five months since President Trump moved

into the White House and now he is getting some company.

Yes, this weekend his wife Melania announced on social media

that she and their son Barron had officially moved down

from New York - now calling 1600 Pennsylvania Avenue home.

She tweeted out a photograph, Christian, I imagine this is your

view as well, of the view from the White House.

And a big question is whether her presence in the White House. Him

tweeting the kids she was on the foreign trip a couple of weeks ago

and the tweeting slowed down, and if you believe this side the that he is

kicking around a white eyes watching Fox and friends and tweeting because

she is not there, that theory hold some water.

Does your wife stop you tweeting at weekends?

Know but I will mention Barron Trump's T-shirt, the expert, I will

get my daughter one of those. You're watching 100

Days + from BBC News. Still to come for viewers

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why Donald Trump is turning up And 50 years ago this

couple was forced to fight for their marriage in the US

Supreme Court - we'll be explaining why this

is an anniversary worth marking. That's still to come on 100

Days +, from BBC News. It's been a bright and breezy affair

for many of us today. We had quite a lot of cloud and the strongest winds

to the Central Belt that as the afternoon progressed, the cloud

broke up, we saw some sunshine and a pleasant end to the day. The

Northwest kept the cloud and it was rather gloomy with showers and that

will continue through the day, showers into Northern Ireland and

North West Scotland along with north-west England and Wales,

further south clear skies and temperatures in rural spots bawling

to single figures, but the rain in the north-west will be heavy first

thing through much of Scotland, a bright start into eastern Scotland

and showery through Northern Ireland and much of Northern England and

North Wales but there will be some cloud. Further south we will see the

mist and fog lifting, temperature climbing and some decent spells of

sunshine and with light winds it will feel pleasant through the day,

as we go into the afternoon the persistent rain in the far North

West of Scotland becomes lighter and showery, allowing for some brighter

skies into north-west Scotland. We will see a little fair cloud further

south but warm, 17 or 19 degrees further north. On Wednesday an area

of low pressure threatens but this high pressure will hang on in and we

will drag in warm water humid air from the near continent, so

Wednesday could be quite hot, especially in the south-east. There

will be decent spells of sunshine across England and West, clouding

over Western showers in the North West but temperatures will respond,

they beat 26 in the south-east and still quite warm in the far north.

We could see some thundery downpours, some of them have a in

the south-east corner, at the same time a weather front pushing through

and as it does the wings swing around to the westerly and introduce

fresh air, so from Thursday into Friday we have a scattering of

showers but a fresher feel for many, still pleasantly warm with some

decent spells of sunshine in the south-east.

Welcome back to 100 Days Plus - I'm Katty Kay in Washington,

The British Prime Minister apologises to her party's MPs

for the mess she got them into, as she fights to form a government

And coming up - a year ago this week 49 people were shot dead

in the Pulse nightclub, Orlando.

We will hear from the choir that is helping the community

With so much going on in the White House, there's not been

much focus on possible conflicts of interest with Mr Trump

The attorney generals of Maryland and Washington DC are suing

the President for foreign payments to his hotels and clubs.

The lawsuit - from two Democrats - claims the payments violate the US

constitution's anti-corruption clause.

Mr Trump handed the running of his business to his sons

after the election but there is a question of how much

involvement he still has and whether there is

Never in the history of this country have we had

a president with these kinds of extensive business entanglements.

Or a president who refused to adequately distance himself

President Trump's businesses and his dealings violate

the Constitution's anti-corruption provisions - known as

Well for more, let's speak to our business correspondent

We are told by Eric Trump himself that Donald Trump gets regular

updates on the financial performance of his companies. The Attorney

General they're saying he has broken many promises to keep separate his

public duties and his private business interests? All along, many

experts have been saying, the best way for the president to really

separate himself from his businesses is to establish a blind trust, that

means it's all put into a blind trust, and he has no involvement in

the business whatsoever. But they have not done that. That's why you

are seeing these kinds of lawsuits being filed by the attorneys

generals, of the District of Columbia and merriment, saying

because he is still entangled with his businesses, that means he is

still automatically in violation of the US Constitution and Wally meant

clause. Which really is an 18th-century term for bribes. --

emolument clause. These are two Democrats who have filed the suit.

Critics of the Democratic party and supporters of Mr Trump would argue

this is another political axe to grind, that Democrats have against

this president and it will stop at nothing to do everything to make his

presidency a failure? That's exactly what the White House has said. It

has said that one, the president is absolutely not in violation of the

US Constitution, and that these lawsuits are politically motivated.

But this is just one of the lawsuits. There is another similar

kind of lawsuit that was filed actually here in New York by a

ethics watchdog organisation that is based in Washington, DC. They along

with the restaurants that are impacted by some of the competition

they are seeing from Mr Trump's restaurants, they have made a

similar case in a lawsuit and the Department of Justice who is

representing Mr Trump has actually filed to say this case should be

absolutely dismissed for the same reasons, that the president does not

-- is not in violation of any bribes whatsoever. If this does go all the

way to court, presumably the Supreme Court, he will have to produce his

financial records and his tax returns to defend himself, and that

could be key for the Russia investigation? That's exactly right,

and you could expect there will be some dog-eared saying that they do

not want that to happen. Mr Trump has a lot of interest in trying to

keep that under wraps, to keep that Private, and you will expect the

lawyers will try to make that happen. Thank you.

Trump criticised Obama for playing a lot of golf during his presidency

and claimed he wouldn't have to time to golf

Well according to NBC that's not quite accurate...

They've calculated how many days the President has spent

at his businesses and golf courses during his term so far.

He's spent 42 days at his properties - over half of these

And he has spent 29 days at his golf properties.

I think that means our programme has been running for about 140 something

days, how many times have you played golf in that time? Not once. They

keep me busy on this programme! What I have seen on Twitter is that he

constantly gate-crashes these weddings. When he goes to the golf

club, he just photo bombs the bride. She looks very happy.

This is Kristin and her husband Tucker. They got a surprise visit

this weekend at his golf resort in Bedminster. The wedding was going on

so he decided to drop by and signed lots of make America great again

hats. They pay a lot for that, because the

fees at these golf clubs have doubled since he became president.

Anyway, if he is playing a lot of golf, do you know what his handicap

is? No. I have been doing some digging around, and not on the US

Gulf website, Captain Donald J Trump and there it is at winged foot golf

club. His handicap is 2.8, which borrowed a 70-year-old guy is quite

a handicap. Can you see at the top, the 2016, that's the last time he

returned a school. He is obviously keeping under wraps how many times

he is playing rounds of golf to keep handicap like that. That's my

investigation. Not quite sure what you're investigating that, Kristian.

What's your handicap? Two children and a wife! It's going up. I don't

get a chance to play any more. I didn't ask you for excuses! If

you're keeping single figures, you need to play a lot, that's all I've

got to say. People in the US territory

of Puerto Rico have voted in favour of becoming America's 51st

state, but on a turnout The result is non-binding,

and any change in status would require approval from the US

Congress in Washington. The move is supported

by the territory's governor who hopes it might help solve

the island's economic crisis. Another arrest has been made

by police investigating the London Bridge attack nearly two

weeks ago. The Duchess of Cambridge has

been meeting victims of the attack - who are recovering at King's College

Hospital. She's also been talking

to staff who treated those injured in the attack,

which saw three Islamist militants crash a van into crowds on London

bridge before attacking All of those that made it to

hospital survived. In the early hours of this morning

the names of the 49 people killed at Pulse Nightclub in Orlando

were read out to mark the one year It was the first in a series

of memorials and among those performing today is

the Orlando Gay Chorus. The singers were credited

with helping the community move Their work was so powerful

that the city's mayor has singled Our North America Correspondent

Rajini Vaidyanathan reports. They were named ambassadors of hope,

love, and healing in Orlando. This is what we are here for,

we sing songs of love Josh lost his friend Shane

in the attack at Pulse. As he was dealing with his own loss,

he was called upon to sing with I did not know it was going to turn

out to be the biggest event that the chorus had ever sung at,

at that time. At that moment, that was was when -

for me - I started to heal. Joel Strack, one of the founding

members of the chorus, In my head, I was thinking

I would give up my own life to bring I'm 57 years old, I've lived a rich,

vibrant life, I've done things in this world that these kids

are never It was after that concert

that the group took on an unlikely role - as a rapid response

team, sent to gatherings I think the chorus recognised

we had an important role Both representing the gay

community as well as using our music to heal,

and bring hope. The timing kind of has us reeling,

because it was right around the one-year anniversary of gay

marriage being realised nationwide. It was a slap in the face,

and it was a huge wake-up call Shea Callinan left her home

after her family refused One place where she did

feel welcome was Pulse. A gay club is not just

a gay club, you know? But I'm really glad that I joined

the chorus when I did, and I'm really glad that when Pulse

happened, I had this group of people They are my brothers

and sisters in song. They fill my heart with love,

so that I can go out and fill 50 years ago today the Supreme Court

agreed Richard and Mildred Loving Remember that the Kintbury clearly

when that happened. So started to come out about how the attacker had

questions about his own sexuality. They had been issues about affairs,

the fact he had gone to the nightclub for -- before, issues with

his wife. There were questions about the motivation for that awful attack

on the nightclub. Now, an anniversary that is much farther

away. 50 years ago today the Supreme Court

agreed Richard and Mildred Loving The mixed-race couple

from Caroline County, Virginia had been arrested a month

after their wedding in 1958 and were charged

with violating state laws The Loving's were given one year

suspended jail terms and were told not to return to Virginia

for 25 years. The ban was eventually overturned

on the 12th July 1967 - and it changed the rules not only

in Virginia but in 15 They made it into a film, didn't

they? It came out last year. I love that photograph of Richard and

Mildred. They got pregnant, they decided to get married in Virginia.

They got that sentence because what they did was illegal so they came to

live here in Washington, DC where interracial marriage was not illegal

and they could avoid that prison sentence, but then they could not

visit their families. You know what she did, Mildred? She wrote to the

Attorney General, one Bobby Kennedy. She wrote to him and said, we need

to have this overturned, we want the conviction overturned, we want to

stay married with each other. Every year in America on June 12, you'll

love this, they celebrate loving day. 50 years on, how many

interracial marriages? 20% of marriages in America are now

interracial! The fabric of marriages in this country changed.

for now - we'll be back the same time tomorrow.

For now though, from Katty Kay in Washington and me