:00:07. > :00:09.Hello and welcome to 100 Days + - the British Prime Minster
:00:10. > :00:14.in takes her Brexit plan to Brussels, but is the EU listening?
:00:15. > :00:18.The German Chancellor says the focus won't be on Britain at these talks,
:00:19. > :00:20.but on those who are remaining in the bloc.
:00:21. > :00:23.So, what hope does Mrs May have of flying the UK flag,
:00:24. > :00:26.to get the deal she wants on the Irish border, the exit bill
:00:27. > :00:38.and setting out how we propose to ensure that EU citizens living in
:00:39. > :00:39.the UK have their rights protected in the United Kingdom.
:00:40. > :00:41.More high-rise buildings in England are found to have combustible
:00:42. > :00:44.cladding after the safety check that were ordered in the wake
:00:45. > :00:51.President Trump announces there are no tapes of his conversations
:00:52. > :00:55.He launched the speculation weeks ago but now says there are no
:00:56. > :01:01.recordings of his talks with James Comey.
:01:02. > :01:02.The battle lines are drawn over health care.
:01:03. > :01:05.Republican senators roll out their version of the bill.
:01:06. > :01:10.Democrats say it is a tax break for the rich.
:01:11. > :01:13.And: Seeking a job in President Trump's cabinet?
:01:14. > :01:19.People with small bank balances need not apply.
:01:20. > :01:23.And I love all people, rich and poor.
:01:24. > :01:25.But in those particular positions I just don't want a poor person.
:01:26. > :01:40.I'm Christian Fraser in London, Jon Sopel is in Washington.
:01:41. > :01:42.The European Commission supported Theresa May's decision
:01:43. > :01:46.They wanted reassurance the Prime Minister had a mandate
:01:47. > :01:50.for Brexit AND would be there to see it through to the end.
:01:51. > :01:58.So, the dinner conversation tonight might be somewhat strained.
:01:59. > :02:01.Over coffee, Mrs May will be explaining to the other 27 leaders
:02:02. > :02:06.how the UK plans to protect the rights of EU and UK citizens
:02:07. > :02:11.The commission has already made its counter offer, some weeks ago.
:02:12. > :02:16.But President of the European Council, Donald Tusk,
:02:17. > :02:19.stressed Brexit wasn't the only thing on the agenda -
:02:20. > :02:41.Somebody needs to set up permanent UK corporation in defence. It is a
:02:42. > :02:44.historic step because such cooperation will allow the move
:02:45. > :02:52.towards deeper integration in defence. Our aim is for it to be
:02:53. > :02:58.ambitious and inclusive. So every new countries invited to join.
:02:59. > :03:05.Terrorism was also high on the agenda with Angela Merkel agenda
:03:06. > :03:06.announcing a new forum to combat extremist activity on social media.
:03:07. > :03:09.We'll lets get more on today's developments from Ros Atkins,
:03:10. > :03:20.We heard they would do these compare and contrast ideas of citizenship,
:03:21. > :03:26.do we know what the differences are? It is quite hard to get much detail
:03:27. > :03:29.on this. All of this is being done behind closed doors and you are
:03:30. > :03:33.mentioning the fact that Theresa May will be doing her briefing towards
:03:34. > :03:36.the end of a dinner that the 28 leaders will be having. Normally
:03:37. > :03:41.when you have a dinner party as the meal goes on and a few glasses of
:03:42. > :03:45.wine are drunk everyone loosens up and chat small. That will not happen
:03:46. > :03:52.here. Theresa May will be laying out her ideas for EU systems in the UK
:03:53. > :03:55.and UK citizens in the EU. Everyone will listen, say thank you, and then
:03:56. > :03:59.she will have to pick up her stuff and leave the room because it is
:04:00. > :04:02.only once she has gone that the remaining 27 can discuss what they
:04:03. > :04:06.think of that and how they think about the Brexit negotiations have
:04:07. > :04:10.gone in their first week. And as she looks around the room she will cease
:04:11. > :04:19.a new faces. Notably Emmanuelle Macron but also someone else. Both
:04:20. > :04:24.of them are under the age of 40 and both are seen as two examples of a
:04:25. > :04:26.new, enthusiastic generation of European leaders who are trying to
:04:27. > :04:31.invigorate the EU and what it stands for. He spends a lot of the day
:04:32. > :04:36.getting to know people. He needs to start building relationships in the
:04:37. > :04:41.EU and that is because he's concerned about the border between
:04:42. > :04:44.the Republic of Ireland and Northern Ireland, the North being within the
:04:45. > :04:50.UK and what Brexit might do to the border. He wants the border to
:04:51. > :04:54.remain open in terms of trade and freedom of movement. In terms of
:04:55. > :04:58.Emmanuel Macron, I was there when he arrived earlier, just a couple of
:04:59. > :05:04.hundred meters from here, and whatever you think of his politics
:05:05. > :05:07.he has star power and at home. He was confident, swaggered in, laughed
:05:08. > :05:11.with the the press, answered questions, and when he decided it
:05:12. > :05:17.was enough time off he went, looking incredibly at home and confident.
:05:18. > :05:21.You also mentioning the new defence deal. Emmanuel Macron is a big
:05:22. > :05:25.supporter of that just as he is a supporter of these new measures to
:05:26. > :05:26.take on extremism and extremist material being shared online. Thank
:05:27. > :05:28.you. He's Director of the research group,
:05:29. > :05:41.UK in a Changing Europe. He's quite an interesting figure
:05:42. > :05:47.because he is the first non-white premiere in Western Europe, he is
:05:48. > :05:50.young and he will go into this room feeling quite emboldened because
:05:51. > :05:53.Ireland has a big stake in what Britain is trying to do. It is
:05:54. > :05:57.interesting because there is the holder bite about the intra- Irish
:05:58. > :06:02.border bug busters curious because both sides are on the same size, no
:06:03. > :06:05.one wants a border, but no one can figure out legally how to not have a
:06:06. > :06:07.border if we decide to leave the customs union, and it is that the
:06:08. > :06:22.lawyers will be wrestling with to see if
:06:23. > :06:24.there is a way around it. We talk about what comes first, the divorce
:06:25. > :06:27.or the future trade deal, but you can't decide on what sort of border
:06:28. > :06:30.there will be all no border without talking about the future trade deal
:06:31. > :06:31.can you? No, but yes because our Government has excluded the
:06:32. > :06:35.possibility of the customs union. That is a policy decision. They have
:06:36. > :06:38.said we wanted leave. As long as that is the case it is a headache
:06:39. > :06:43.for Ireland because you need checks on the border. When it comes to
:06:44. > :06:46.Theresa May, I was making the point in the introduction that they wanted
:06:47. > :06:50.her to come back with this mandate. The one thing I picked up on Monday
:06:51. > :06:56.is they don't know whether she will be there at the end of the process.
:06:57. > :06:59.I think you can make too much of that. Personally, I always thought
:07:00. > :07:02.the size of the majority didn't bother at the EU in the sense that
:07:03. > :07:07.they will negotiate with her, they know their position and that is
:07:08. > :07:13.quite simple. And I don't think they will negotiate about whether she is
:07:14. > :07:18.there not, they will negotiate to the end. If she's replaced they will
:07:19. > :07:22.have to deal with that. The problem the small majority bring all in the
:07:23. > :07:25.House of Commons. A lot of legislation needs to be passed and
:07:26. > :07:29.her final deal will go there for a vote and it is there we will see the
:07:30. > :07:33.small majority. That is clearly the frustration for all the leaders.
:07:34. > :07:36.There is not only difference within the Conservative Party and the
:07:37. > :07:45.cavernous but also the Labour Party as well. It's not as if you have an
:07:46. > :07:51.opposition with one plan. They are all over the place. You are too
:07:52. > :07:54.young to remember the John Smith period, but you had a situation
:07:55. > :07:57.where Labour didn't have a position on Europe other than to oppose
:07:58. > :08:02.everything the Government did. I suspect that will quite quite well
:08:03. > :08:03.now because they cannot agree amongst themselves but might agree
:08:04. > :08:16.to oppose the Government. He wouldn't say I was too young! I
:08:17. > :08:20.wonder, Christian, of course the other EU leaders wanted Britain to
:08:21. > :08:23.remain. But I wonder whether there were certain transactions that will
:08:24. > :08:28.be taking place from now on West life has gotten a lot easier without
:08:29. > :08:33.those recalcitrant Brits in the room. That is possibly true. We were
:08:34. > :08:38.talking about the defence procurement thing that they agreed,
:08:39. > :08:40.and that is the sort of thing that some time ago with Britain in the
:08:41. > :08:43.tent they would not have got through. You can look at other
:08:44. > :08:48.things Emmanuel Macron has been talking about in recent days. A
:08:49. > :08:54.future finance minister of the European Union, the Eurozone bill,
:08:55. > :08:59.anti-dumping regulations, these are things Britain has stood against. He
:09:00. > :09:04.is saying we are in this not to punish Britain, but let's look at
:09:05. > :09:09.the opportunities. The irony is, you have heard from the likes of Donald
:09:10. > :09:14.Tasks today that he hoped Brexit is cancelled and Britain comes back,
:09:15. > :09:18.but some Federalists think this is the kick that they wanted and
:09:19. > :09:20.perhaps they can progress to a more deeply integrated EU without the
:09:21. > :09:22.British. For weeks the President
:09:23. > :09:24.has kept us waiting. Tantalising the press -
:09:25. > :09:28.and also the investigators - on whether he had made recordings
:09:29. > :09:31.of his conversations with former FBI Well, just a short time
:09:32. > :10:06.ago we got the answer - So why has he prevaricated for so
:10:07. > :10:09.long? I am about to put that question to read Wilson.
:10:10. > :10:13.We are joined by Reid Wilson from The Hill.
:10:14. > :10:22.I loved the cheek of it. He was the one who set the whole hare running
:10:23. > :10:27.and now it has taken him the best part of five or six weeks to deny
:10:28. > :10:33.it. And the question is now what was the purpose of suggesting it? One of
:10:34. > :10:40.his close allies, Newt Gingrich, has suggested it was to rattle dames
:10:41. > :10:45.Comey who testified before Congress. Is that witness intimidation,
:10:46. > :10:56.obstruction of justice? There is a special counsel looking into that
:10:57. > :10:59.and he has hired a number of very highly talented prosecutors with a
:11:00. > :11:02.lot of experience. It becomes increasingly clear that the
:11:03. > :11:06.president will have to answer questions about this, probably under
:11:07. > :11:10.oath, if he sticks with his claim that James Comey was lying before
:11:11. > :11:16.Congress. Somebody is not telling the truth. That could be a problem.
:11:17. > :11:23.Does this in anyway get Donald Trump off the hook? It may be in elegant
:11:24. > :11:28.to admit but maybe it helps him. The hook it gets him off as with the
:11:29. > :11:31.House of Representatives, which had regret requested any information
:11:32. > :11:35.about possible tapes by a deadline of tomorrow. Now he has said there
:11:36. > :11:39.are no tapes so he hears of that short-term hook. But this is a
:11:40. > :11:45.long-term investigation. Why has it taken him so long? Why didn't he say
:11:46. > :11:50.when it was obvious immediately that he had set something in motion? This
:11:51. > :11:55.is not a person who is accustomed to admitting when he is wrong or has
:11:56. > :11:58.said something that is untrue. Even on things that are easily
:11:59. > :12:03.verifiable, he has scrambled for some kind of information. And this
:12:04. > :12:06.notion that there were no tapes so they were trying to keep James Comey
:12:07. > :12:07.honest, that is some real spare! Stay with us Reid, we've got
:12:08. > :12:10.another story developing , after weeks working secretly behind
:12:11. > :12:12.closed doors, Senate Republicans have finally revealed their plan
:12:13. > :12:15.to replace Obamacare. They had promised a top-to-bottom
:12:16. > :12:19.revamp of the health bill passed by the House last month -
:12:20. > :12:21.but there are only The debate over the repeal bill
:12:22. > :12:28.is shaping up as a titanic political struggle, which will have major
:12:29. > :12:30.implications for both parties The Republicans can only afford
:12:31. > :12:35.to lose two senators in this vote. And they don't have long to sort
:12:36. > :12:38.out their differences. The majority leader Mitch McConnell
:12:39. > :12:58.wants a vote before lawmakers return Let's pick up on that and what we
:12:59. > :13:02.have heard. I gather already a number of the more free dumb caucus
:13:03. > :13:10.right-wing senators have said they are not happy. There are three very
:13:11. > :13:13.conservative senators in repealing the Affordable Care Act and there
:13:14. > :13:18.are a number of moderates with real problems because the Affordable Care
:13:19. > :13:22.Act steered so much money to their states, people like the Senator for
:13:23. > :13:28.Nevada and Ohio, a number in the rust belt region where the opioid
:13:29. > :13:33.crisis is killing tens of thousands of people every year, this bill
:13:34. > :13:37.would defund efforts to fight that. There is a very narrow window that
:13:38. > :13:41.the majority leader has to get through. He will not get any
:13:42. > :13:46.Democratic votes and somehow has to marry those moderates with the
:13:47. > :13:50.ultimate Conservatives. The politics don't look particularly good? When
:13:51. > :13:54.you look at the polling for it it's actually pretty poor around the
:13:55. > :13:58.country around the plan. I would suppose that senior Republicans are
:13:59. > :14:03.looking about polling. They certainly are. The health care
:14:04. > :14:08.debate has been a larger issue in several of the special elections
:14:09. > :14:12.here in the US over the last few weeks than even President Trump and
:14:13. > :14:17.his dismal approval rating. It was health care that crossed Democrats
:14:18. > :14:21.their majority back in 2010. They really hope it will be health care
:14:22. > :14:25.that costs the Republicans their majority in 2018 midterms. Great to
:14:26. > :14:27.have you with us, thank you so much. Well, health care along
:14:28. > :14:30.with the rest of President Trump's agenda has been overshadowed lately
:14:31. > :14:32.by the multiple investigations into alleged Russian interference
:14:33. > :14:37.in the presidential election. But how do the die hard
:14:38. > :14:39.Trump supporters feel The BBC's Rajini Vaidyanathan was in
:14:40. > :14:43.Cedar Rapids Iowa on Wednesday night for the president's rally -
:14:44. > :14:50.and no question who they blame. All everyone wants to concentrate
:14:51. > :14:52.on is this Russia thing. Russia does not bother me
:14:53. > :14:57.at all, whatsoever. I'm not really worried at all,
:14:58. > :15:00.to be honest with you. Politics in Washington might be
:15:01. > :15:05.dominated by the Russian investigation but what do Trump's
:15:06. > :15:09.supporters here in Iowa, a state the president won in last
:15:10. > :15:13.year's election, make of it all? No, why would I be
:15:14. > :15:17.concerned, why would I? What you mean concerned -
:15:18. > :15:19.concerned about what? He might be under
:15:20. > :15:20.investigation, because... Investigation doesn't
:15:21. > :15:22.mean he's guilty. This investigation has been
:15:23. > :15:24.going on for seven, eight months. We've got pictures
:15:25. > :15:33.here of various people. We don't like him -
:15:34. > :15:46.James Comey is a liar. Just when he speaks he is a liar,
:15:47. > :15:51.because he is involved Leaker, liar, I don't believe him,
:15:52. > :16:00.I don't believe what he is saying. It seems him and
:16:01. > :16:01.President Trump both have two opposite viewpoints
:16:02. > :16:05.about what has happened. The president has not
:16:06. > :16:10.been under oath yet. No, but he has also said
:16:11. > :16:13.he will go under oath, and I I don't trust James Comey and it's
:16:14. > :16:17.not because he went after Trump. I don't like what he did
:16:18. > :16:21.in the election, period. I don't think it was right
:16:22. > :16:23.that he said that Hillary was under investigation a week
:16:24. > :16:26.before the election. Robert Mueller -
:16:27. > :16:28.what you think of him? I don't know how
:16:29. > :16:30.tight he is yet with Comey, so I don't know whether or
:16:31. > :16:35.not he can be trusted or not. They say he is respected
:16:36. > :16:38.on both sides of the aisle. I don't like that he appointed
:16:39. > :16:40.Hillary Clinton's friend as special counsel
:16:41. > :16:43.to the investigation, but I'm not going to bash
:16:44. > :16:46.somebody just off of that. I think he is a little bit
:16:47. > :16:50.too connected and he should either resign or be
:16:51. > :16:52.removed from that position. Well, in my opinion, I think it
:16:53. > :16:57.needs to be a total outsider. # There ain't no doubt
:16:58. > :17:02.I love this land #. This man is taking care
:17:03. > :17:23.of the United States of America. Good to get out of Washington, you
:17:24. > :17:24.get a different view. What about that rally?
:17:25. > :17:26.The President was back in campaign mode last night,
:17:27. > :17:28.buoyed by that Republican win in Georgia this week.
:17:29. > :17:31.He has been cooped up for too long and this was an opportunity
:17:32. > :17:35.He defended his administration against the attacks from the press
:17:36. > :17:42.and he had this to say about the criticism of his cabinet.
:17:43. > :17:49.And I love all people, rich or poor. But in those particular positions I
:17:50. > :17:53.just don't want a poor person, does that make sense? Does that make
:17:54. > :17:55.sense? If you insist, I'll do it, but I like it better this way,
:17:56. > :18:02.right? I didn't ask, I have it in my
:18:03. > :18:07.contract that I shouldn't have to do present with polar presenters, I
:18:08. > :18:13.hope you are wealthy enough! I will have to disappoint you. I can't
:18:14. > :18:18.believe it. Do you see this on campaign literature? I don't want to
:18:19. > :18:22.work with poor people. These are all appalling. Blue-collar workers!
:18:23. > :18:26.That's the huge difference between a lot of British and European politics
:18:27. > :18:31.compared to the US, they love the fact he is a swaggering billionaire
:18:32. > :18:34.who seems to have appointed a bunch of other billionaires to his
:18:35. > :18:39.cabinet. In a way which would be just unthinkable in a lot of other
:18:40. > :18:43.democracies. But blue-collar Iowa were cheering him last night when he
:18:44. > :18:49.said I don't want poor people around me. One other thing I wanted to talk
:18:50. > :18:51.about, we took a lot about the Republicans and Donald Trump but
:18:52. > :18:55.let's talk about the Democrats, there have a lot of headlines about
:18:56. > :19:00.Georgia and how the Democrats got it wrong they said they begged it up
:19:01. > :19:11.and then lost it and that is embarrassing. But this was a
:19:12. > :19:16.headline in the New York Times. : they came very close in Georgia and
:19:17. > :19:19.in another special election seat in places that were absolutely safe
:19:20. > :19:24.Republican. They are not doing terribly, they are doing pretty
:19:25. > :19:27.well. But they are not making the breakthrough and there is a battle
:19:28. > :19:31.for the heart and soul of the Democratic party going on with some
:19:32. > :19:36.people saying we must be more like Bernie Saunders, appealing to young
:19:37. > :19:39.people, more radical. And there are those old-fashioned centrists who
:19:40. > :19:45.says we have to rent pond politics from the centre ground and otherwise
:19:46. > :19:49.we are destined to lose. That battle is unresolved. I want to turn to
:19:50. > :19:50.more serious issues. Here, the Government is trying
:19:51. > :19:52.to figure out how many high-rise buildings have combustible cladding,
:19:53. > :19:55.similar to the type used on Grenfell Tower -
:19:56. > :19:57.the scene of that terrible fire last Camden Council in North London has
:19:58. > :20:04.already started removing external cladding from some of its buildings,
:20:05. > :20:08.after they didn't meet its standard. At least 79 people died
:20:09. > :20:12.in the Grenfell tragedy - here's what Mrs May said
:20:13. > :20:14.about the investigation, Mr Speaker, what became clear very
:20:15. > :20:21.quickly is that the royal borough of Kensington and Chelsea could not
:20:22. > :20:25.cope and that the chief executive officer has now resigned it is also
:20:26. > :20:31.why I set up the Grenfell Tower recovery task force
:20:32. > :20:35.which I set up personally. But this is not just about the steps
:20:36. > :20:39.we take in the first few weeks, it is about the lasting commitment
:20:40. > :20:42.that we are making to support the families effected long
:20:43. > :20:44.after the television cameras have Christopher Miers is
:20:45. > :20:59.a forensic architect Good to see you. As the Prime
:21:00. > :21:03.Minister said, we must be careful about speculating on the cause of
:21:04. > :21:06.the fire because the preliminary findings are not back yet. But she
:21:07. > :21:11.said earlier today, and there is some confusion over figures, maybe
:21:12. > :21:16.as many as 600 apartment blocks are fitted with this type of cladding.
:21:17. > :21:22.How easy is it to get rid of? It is a very practical proposition to
:21:23. > :21:25.remove it. Only took about 600 blocks it is not necessarily that
:21:26. > :21:31.they all have the same combustibility as Grenfell. They may
:21:32. > :21:34.use a rain screen system and may have aluminium composite material.
:21:35. > :21:41.The risks will be different. It is important that each building owner
:21:42. > :21:43.does rapidly identify the risks. The cladding is one element but they
:21:44. > :21:49.need to look at overall construction. We spoke last week
:21:50. > :21:53.outside Grenfell Tower and you explained how this works and why it
:21:54. > :21:58.spread from the bottom of the tower almost to the top in the space of an
:21:59. > :22:02.hour. Go through that again for us. It is very concerning. When one
:22:03. > :22:05.looks at the photographs it is striking that the speed and the
:22:06. > :22:08.spread of the fire, the way it consumed the building so quickly,
:22:09. > :22:14.the way the external wall is made up if there is an outer panel that we
:22:15. > :22:18.see, that is a sound which, six millimetre composite material with
:22:19. > :22:23.two layers of aluminium and a core material and it is that core which
:22:24. > :22:27.there is discussion about right now. Is it combustible, is it
:22:28. > :22:31.noncombustible? Behind that there is a gap, typically about 50
:22:32. > :22:35.millimetres or so and that allows air to move, and if that air turns
:22:36. > :22:43.out to be smoke and hot flame, unless it is suitably stopped off...
:22:44. > :22:49.It acts like a flu. The flames accelerate behind. Our standards
:22:50. > :22:52.require there to be intermediate firebreaks, so the fire is stopped
:22:53. > :22:56.from going up behind those panels. They're behind we have insulation.
:22:57. > :23:02.Which presumably will form part of the investigation? The thing that
:23:03. > :23:06.struck me here in Washington is how little discussion there has been
:23:07. > :23:10.within the US about what happened in the UK. Is that simply because there
:23:11. > :23:15.are totally different regulations, where I don't think this material
:23:16. > :23:20.would be used on blocks of flats or apartments here in the US compared
:23:21. > :23:25.to the UK. Does it raise questions about the standards we have in
:23:26. > :23:28.Britain not being good enough? I think there are differences but
:23:29. > :23:33.equally there is shared concern as well because the system we use, we
:23:34. > :23:37.call it a rain screen system, is very widely used internationally and
:23:38. > :23:41.the US shares some concerns but not the same degree as the UK. But we
:23:42. > :23:46.need to look elsewhere around the world. The middle east and do by for
:23:47. > :23:51.example, there have been a number of tower fires, they have frequently
:23:52. > :23:55.been connected with aluminium composite material panels of a
:23:56. > :23:57.similar construction to what is said to have been installed at Grenfell.
:23:58. > :24:10.Thank you for joining us. The funeral has been held for the
:24:11. > :24:16.American student who was held in North Korea. His father said his son
:24:17. > :24:23.was tortured by the regime and sent home in a coma. Senator John McCain
:24:24. > :24:28.says North Korea is guilty of murder. Let us return to Donald
:24:29. > :24:29.Trump. Ok Christian, you pointed out
:24:30. > :24:32.a little of what Mr Trump had to say at that rally in Iowa about poor
:24:33. > :24:42.people earlier - I am a builder. And we are thinking
:24:43. > :24:47.of something that is unique, we are talking about the southern border.
:24:48. > :24:53.Lots of sun, lots of heat. We are thinking of building the wall as a
:24:54. > :24:59.solo wall so it creates energy. And pays for itself. Pretty good
:25:00. > :25:07.imagination, right? My idea. My idea! Love it. Is it his idea? Not
:25:08. > :25:12.strictly speaking. There were other people who submitted plans for the
:25:13. > :25:18.wall. But in those rallies where he said he was going to pay for it and
:25:19. > :25:22.the chance went up Mexico it wouldn't have had the same ring if
:25:23. > :25:26.it had been well, it is going to be self funding because it will have
:25:27. > :25:32.solar panels. What will it cost? We don't know. Those fine details... I
:25:33. > :25:34.do that. You're watching 100
:25:35. > :25:36.Days Plus from BBC News. Still to come for viewers on the BBC
:25:37. > :25:40.News Channel and BBC World News - two of Prime Minister May's most
:25:41. > :25:43.senior advisors are gone, how solid We'll put that to her
:25:44. > :25:48.former media chief. And with a health care battle
:25:49. > :25:52.before him, Mr Trump's thinking well beyond his first term with eyes
:25:53. > :25:55.already fixed on another run in 2020 That's still to come on
:25:56. > :26:15.100 Days +, from BBC News. What a difference a Day makes. In
:26:16. > :26:19.fact it can make a difference of more than 10 degrees in our
:26:20. > :26:24.temperatures. Yesterday in the grip of the heatwave we were well up into
:26:25. > :26:29.the 20s, even the mid-30s but look at the temperatures we have seen
:26:30. > :26:35.today. A westerly wind brings fresh air across the country. 35 drops to
:26:36. > :26:39.close to 23 in London. With that change came one or two
:26:40. > :26:44.thunderstorms. But this was a more typical scene. A fairly quiet day
:26:45. > :26:49.for many, with some extra cloud and a few glimpses of sunshine. Things
:26:50. > :26:54.are going to turn a bit more unsettled over the next 24 hours.
:26:55. > :26:57.Low pressure is approaching. Still fresh air from the Atlantic and as
:26:58. > :27:01.this weather front slides across Northern Ireland, Scotland into
:27:02. > :27:07.northern England tonight it will bring cloud, sporadic rain, for the
:27:08. > :27:12.south and east are largely dry night and for the rest of us a fresh
:27:13. > :27:15.appeal. Tomorrow morning is quite damp across Northern Ireland and
:27:16. > :27:20.much of Scotland, though the far east of Scotland Macy's and
:27:21. > :27:23.brightness. The band of rain by eight o'clock will sit across
:27:24. > :27:30.northern England and North Wales. The heaviest rain for hills and
:27:31. > :27:33.coasts. Across into East Anglia and the South East dry start but some
:27:34. > :27:38.spells of sunshine. Temperatures lower than they have been. As we go
:27:39. > :27:42.through the day tomorrow, the weather front, the band of rain will
:27:43. > :27:46.continue to journey slowly southwards but gets stranded across
:27:47. > :27:50.northern England, Wales, in two parts of the Midlands. The heaviest
:27:51. > :27:55.rain always for coasts and hills in the West. The North largely dre with
:27:56. > :28:00.some sunshine. The south largely dry and we all have a cooler, fresh
:28:01. > :28:04.appeal. Saturday has rain hanging around across the south-east. It
:28:05. > :28:10.will clear then leaves us with a blustery day, there could be gales
:28:11. > :28:15.across the North. Some sunny spells, some showers, just 14 degrees in
:28:16. > :28:19.Glasgow. Sunday, essentially more of the same. Low pressure to the
:28:20. > :28:27.north-east. And call north-westerly wind. A lot of dry weather and
:28:28. > :28:28.showers. The next few days, fresher and breezy with rain at times and
:28:29. > :30:06.still some sunshine as well. Welcome back to 100 Days +
:30:07. > :30:09.with me Jon Sopel in Washington. As the British Prime Minster
:30:10. > :30:16.takes her Brexit plan to Brussels, the German Chancellor says the focus
:30:17. > :30:19.won't be on Britain at these talks, but on those who're
:30:20. > :30:24.remaining in the bloc. And we speak to the former
:30:25. > :30:27.US Secretary of State Madeleine Albright about
:30:28. > :30:29.what she calls a chaotic time and the global role
:30:30. > :30:33.the US must to play. I think that we all are a kind of
:30:34. > :30:37.looking to see about the evolution of American position and I happen
:30:38. > :30:40.to believe the world can't exist Just how isolated is
:30:41. > :30:54.the British Prime Minister? After the Conservative disastrous
:30:55. > :30:57.showing in the General Election, she was forced to get rid of her
:30:58. > :31:01.two closest advisers Nick Timothy and Fiona Hill and others have
:31:02. > :31:09.since left, including yesterday, John Godfrey, who headed up
:31:10. > :31:11.the No 10 Policy Unit. Who does she need alongside
:31:12. > :31:15.her to steady the ship? Joey Jones was formely
:31:16. > :31:29.a media adviser to Mrs May And an firm. She has cut quite an
:31:30. > :31:33.isolated figure in recent days. Yes, she has. It must be a very lonely
:31:34. > :31:39.and Nvidia 's place as she finds herself in right at the moment. She
:31:40. > :31:41.will know that the vast swathe of the Conservative Party blames her,
:31:42. > :31:46.blames her advisers were principally blames her for the situation in
:31:47. > :31:49.which they find themselves. I think the key thing to remember is that
:31:50. > :31:52.she was crystal clear with the parliamentary party, the 1922
:31:53. > :31:57.committee, she said that she would serve as long as they want her to.
:31:58. > :32:00.And she knows that she is basically a hostage to the desires of the
:32:01. > :32:07.Conservative Party. At the moment, they have shown her, in no uncertain
:32:08. > :32:14.terms, to Harrods might have felt rather cruel to have stripped her as
:32:15. > :32:17.a ritual exercise in humiliation of key advisers, but to demonstrate
:32:18. > :32:21.that it is the party which is boss at the moment. She is there for as
:32:22. > :32:23.for as long as they designate her the Prime Minister because she
:32:24. > :32:28.doesn't really have the power to dictate terms at the moment.
:32:29. > :32:32.Obviously, some of it is down to not having her key people around her but
:32:33. > :32:36.how much of this comes down to political instinct? I was thinking
:32:37. > :32:40.the other day of the fairly shambolic performance over Grenfell
:32:41. > :32:43.in the early days. Some of that, she might just thought she wouldn't it
:32:44. > :32:49.be a bite of the police, go out and get in amongst it. Isn't that just
:32:50. > :32:51.instinct? I can't imagine what would have been going through the minds of
:32:52. > :32:56.anyone in Downing Street at that time. As you say, a procession of
:32:57. > :32:59.people have left after the election. You have to come back to the fact
:33:00. > :33:03.that the general election, the result would have come as a massive
:33:04. > :33:08.shock. I think we could see that in the statement she made at midday in
:33:09. > :33:13.Downing Street, the lunchtime after the election result. She and
:33:14. > :33:16.everybody around her looked to me as though they were floundering. They
:33:17. > :33:20.were shell-shocked. They were rudderless. They didn't know which
:33:21. > :33:25.way to turn and I think, to be honest my this is a band with them,
:33:26. > :33:31.they couldn't process it? Its shock. Not bandwidth, in terms of having
:33:32. > :33:36.the amount of people to do with it, but they were blindsided. If you
:33:37. > :33:42.imagine 24 hours before, the scale of the ambition and the scale of the
:33:43. > :33:46.expectation as to what they were heading into, which was a complete
:33:47. > :33:51.political dominance, complete dominance over the UK political
:33:52. > :33:56.scene, crushing the catlike Labour Party, Lib Dems, forget about them,
:33:57. > :33:59.and also a renaissance for the reserves a party in Scotland as well
:34:00. > :34:03.and then they suddenly see the exit polls. That is hard to deal with.
:34:04. > :34:11.What we saw over that period, I would tend to come back to, was it
:34:12. > :34:13.will shock and probably a individual or Prime Minister but an
:34:14. > :34:17.organisation around her that was just struggling to deal with the
:34:18. > :34:23.magnitude of what had just happened to them. Jerry, good to see you.
:34:24. > :34:28.Haven't seen you for ages. I wanted to ask you, do you think that the
:34:29. > :34:32.Conservative Party could have agreed easily on a successor whether
:34:33. > :34:36.Theresa May would still be there? No, she wouldn't be there on that
:34:37. > :34:40.basis. I think the reality is that they look at situation which is
:34:41. > :34:43.unappetising and it is certainly very unappetising from her point of
:34:44. > :34:47.view because she is, as I say, hostage to the desires of the
:34:48. > :34:53.Conservative Party at the moment. They don't seem to be reworked, to
:34:54. > :34:57.be able to work what the best way forward is. If you speak to any
:34:58. > :35:00.Conservative MP, on whatever wing of the party, the one thing they are
:35:01. > :35:05.afraid of is a general election. The one thing they are afraid of is that
:35:06. > :35:08.whoever you install, they won't have that legitimacy, they what have that
:35:09. > :35:11.mandate and then you will head down the track to another general
:35:12. > :35:16.election and they do really think that if you head into a general
:35:17. > :35:19.election, all bets are off. The momentum is with Labour, it is with
:35:20. > :35:23.Jeremy Corbyn and from their point of view, that is a terrifying
:35:24. > :35:27.prospect. Much better to have an attempt to steady the ship which is
:35:28. > :35:32.what they are doing at the moment, roll on a bit and try to take stock
:35:33. > :35:36.down the track. I must ask you before you go, the general drums are
:35:37. > :35:40.sounding. You are being bandied around as the next communications
:35:41. > :35:44.director. Have you been approached? Absolutely not. So, I was actually a
:35:45. > :35:49.civil servant when I was working with Theresa May and I think that's
:35:50. > :35:54.the reality of the situation is they will look to somebody who has the
:35:55. > :36:02.same sense of duty to the party that she has two the Conservative Party
:36:03. > :36:05.and to the country generally because it's back to the wall is time for
:36:06. > :36:08.the Tories at the moment. They will need somebody who is willing to go
:36:09. > :36:11.in there and to suck up a very, very difficult situation and I have at
:36:12. > :36:15.the foggiest who that might be, frankly. That's good for us, you can
:36:16. > :36:18.come back and talk to us. Good to see you, Baxter coming in.
:36:19. > :36:26.The other thing that was striking was this idea that she is a
:36:27. > :36:30.figurehead now. What he is almost constitutionally defining is the
:36:31. > :36:33.role of the Queen. It's like Theresa May has no real power any more. Her
:36:34. > :36:38.Cabinet ministers are the ones who will tell her what to do and she is
:36:39. > :36:41.just there to be the front person, for Prime Minister's Questions and
:36:42. > :36:46.going to EU councils in Brussels. But as he said, if you look at the
:36:47. > :36:49.journey in front of her, if she gets past the Queen's speech next week
:36:50. > :36:53.which I think she probably will, then there is the repeal bill to
:36:54. > :36:56.bring EU legislation onto the statute books which needs to get
:36:57. > :36:59.through, seven other Brexit bills, who would want to take over when
:37:00. > :37:04.there is that a go at? It is a sobering thing that they are looking
:37:05. > :37:09.and then also Beijing, Philip Hammond is the Chancellor, his stock
:37:10. > :37:12.prices up and if he comes and he will have a softer Brexit than we
:37:13. > :37:17.are looking so maybe we are better ways to reason they're in the hot
:37:18. > :37:21.seat. Ie Think the only danger is probably, if she gets stuck on one
:37:22. > :37:24.of these votes, the catlike remainders might come back in and
:37:25. > :37:28.say we need one of our people in the hot seat. One thing I can't work out
:37:29. > :37:31.is I thought they were trying to take Brexit out of Parliament. I
:37:32. > :37:38.thought they would just have this one repeal Bill and then at the end
:37:39. > :37:42.of the day, you have to have it rubber-stamped. There are now seven
:37:43. > :37:45.pills about immigration, one about immigration. Who the hell knows what
:37:46. > :37:50.they are going to do about it? Is Theresa May the person who can take
:37:51. > :37:54.that forward? And immigration Bill that attracts the best and brightest
:37:55. > :37:57.but also continues to define immigration along the tens of
:37:58. > :38:02.thousands that has been her mantra? Idol thing on policy terms that
:38:03. > :38:05.looks viable. There are some weeks where there is just too much
:38:06. > :38:08.political news and it takes too long to digester and analyse it all
:38:09. > :38:12.because... Anyway... Moving from politics at home
:38:13. > :38:14.to foreign policy abroad. Today, former Secretary
:38:15. > :38:16.of State Madeleine Albright was at an event here in Washington
:38:17. > :38:19.speaking about the need for bipartisanship when it came
:38:20. > :38:21.to national security. That's a word you don't
:38:22. > :38:23.hear often in US politics lately but she sat down with the BBC
:38:24. > :38:26.and offered this assessment of the Trump administration
:38:27. > :38:28.thus far. I think we are in a very chaotic
:38:29. > :38:31.time and that would have been true no matter what because there
:38:32. > :38:35.are questions about the world order and I think that as this
:38:36. > :38:40.administration gets organised, there have been some mixed
:38:41. > :38:43.signals but what I find interesting is the way that policy
:38:44. > :38:48.is evolving and some of the people that are part of the decision-making
:38:49. > :38:52.mechanisms, the members of the National Security Council,
:38:53. > :38:56.are giving some very strong messages about the fact that
:38:57. > :39:00.the US is present. That we are going to be active,
:39:01. > :39:04.and so it is my hope that frankly, there will be more
:39:05. > :39:08.of a confluence of some of the statements and I think
:39:09. > :39:11.that the conferences that I have been to,
:39:12. > :39:15.people are satisfied with the words, but they want to see the actions,
:39:16. > :39:18.and I think that we all are kind of looking to
:39:19. > :39:20.see about the evolution of American position and I happen
:39:21. > :39:23.to believe the world can't exist Returning now the health care battle
:39:24. > :39:36.under way in Washington. Republicans have introduced
:39:37. > :39:39.their bill and now both sides Members of President Trump's party
:39:40. > :39:42.argue that Obamacare is broken Democrats say this will strip away
:39:43. > :39:46.benefits and protections is Democratic Senator Bob Casey
:39:47. > :40:02.from Pennsylvania. Senator, so grateful to you. Thank
:40:03. > :40:05.you for joining us. There was the Donald Trump quote were apparently
:40:06. > :40:08.he said two Republican senators, the problem with the bill that went
:40:09. > :40:11.through the house was that it was mean and cold-hearted. Is this
:40:12. > :40:18.generous and warm-hearted, what you now have in the Senate? I think this
:40:19. > :40:23.bill in some ways is worse, but in Norway is it better. When you
:40:24. > :40:27.juxtapose what this bill does with regard to cutting Medicaid, the
:40:28. > :40:32.problem that takes care her children from urban and rural areas, people
:40:33. > :40:35.with disabilities, older citizens, when you juxtapose the cuts to
:40:36. > :40:39.Medicaid tax giveaways to the super-rich, there are a lot of words
:40:40. > :40:43.to describe it but one word is obscene. It is really outrageous
:40:44. > :40:49.what they are doing. Go to page 53 and page 86 of the bill, the two
:40:50. > :40:55.Medicaid, basic Medicaid provisions. One is to put a per capita cap on
:40:56. > :40:59.Medicaid and one is to allow the states to block around it. Bad
:41:00. > :41:04.ideas, both will be to devastation for people who happen to be real
:41:05. > :41:06.income, people that have a devastation, children with
:41:07. > :41:09.disabilities and of course older citizens trying to get into a
:41:10. > :41:13.nursing home. It is a bad bill for a lot of reasons but the Medicaid
:41:14. > :41:18.parts are among the most egregious. Do you think you will be able to
:41:19. > :41:23.stop it? I still think we have a chance to stop it and that is what
:41:24. > :41:28.we should do. Use every minute, every hour for the next six days or
:41:29. > :41:31.so, six or seven days. One week from now, we could be voting on this bill
:41:32. > :41:35.and I think it is just beginning to dawn on people across the country
:41:36. > :41:40.how badly built this is, but we have time and there are a lot of people
:41:41. > :41:43.that are speaking out in their communities. They are not just
:41:44. > :41:47.coming to Washington, they are contacting their senators. This will
:41:48. > :41:52.come down to one or two or three United States senators. That is the
:41:53. > :41:55.whole ball game here and we have, I hope, to persuade three Republican
:41:56. > :42:01.United States senators to do the right thing. The interesting thing
:42:02. > :42:05.that you say is that we have had former Republican senator is kind of
:42:06. > :42:09.from the right of the party saying that it doesn't dismantle Obama care
:42:10. > :42:15.enough and then you hear voices as well from the kind of moderate wing
:42:16. > :42:19.of the Republican party, Senator Collins in Maine and others in the
:42:20. > :42:22.van as saying actually, maybe it goes too far. What do you think is
:42:23. > :42:27.going to happen in the intervening week if it does come to a vote next
:42:28. > :42:31.week? I am not sure what will happen, but as long as we get 30
:42:32. > :42:36.votes to stop this bill, I will be very satisfied. There are some who
:42:37. > :42:38.don't think it goes far enough but I don't know how you reach the
:42:39. > :42:43.conclusion because what this bill does to medicate has never happened.
:42:44. > :42:46.It is a 50-year-old programme, a good programme. Children get very
:42:47. > :42:51.good health care in Medicaid. People admit disabilities you could never
:42:52. > :42:54.pay for even a fraction of what it costs to provide the therapies and
:42:55. > :42:57.treatments and services for people with disabilities, they get help and
:42:58. > :43:04.we should preserve that programme. If Republicans want to sit down and
:43:05. > :43:07.talk about fixing parts of the system that aren't working, we have
:43:08. > :43:10.a lot to talk about, but we are not going to be part of an effort to be
:43:11. > :43:15.peeled Medicaid in essence, repealing the bill and devastating
:43:16. > :43:19.Medicaid for kids, people with disabilities and seniors. Senator
:43:20. > :43:27.Casey, so grateful to you for giving us your time. Thank you for being
:43:28. > :43:28.with us here on the BBC. I feel bereft of elections, we have had one
:43:29. > :43:29.for a few weeks. Trump 2020 - does it
:43:30. > :43:31.have a ring to it? Barely into his first year
:43:32. > :43:33.as American president, for a second term
:43:34. > :43:36.in the White House. His campaign director says
:43:37. > :43:38.the president's first fundraising event will be held at the Trump
:43:39. > :43:46.hotel in Washington next Wednesday. Come on, let's guess where it was be
:43:47. > :43:50.held! You give it away too easily! With bated breath, wondering where
:43:51. > :43:53.it could possibly be Hal (!) anyway, this is 100 days plus for this week.
:43:54. > :43:55.You can get in touch with us using the hashtag
:43:56. > :43:58.For now, from Jon Sopel in Washington
:43:59. > :44:12.and me Christian Fraser in London - goodbye.
:44:13. > :44:15.Tests are carried out on the cladding on