:00:08. > :00:12.America says the threat of an attack by North Korea
:00:13. > :00:18.Military plans are on the table as all eyes are on the rogue
:00:19. > :00:25.It may not help that the new South Korean president,
:00:26. > :00:28.in Washington now for a visit, has a very different view on how
:00:29. > :00:37.In six hours Donald Trump's travel ban will take effect.
:00:38. > :00:39.People from six Muslim majority countries will be affect
:00:40. > :00:42.Meanwhile, the President attacks a female television
:00:43. > :00:46.anchor in a tweet, drawing a sharp response.
:00:47. > :00:50.Even Republicans call it beneath the dignity of the office.
:00:51. > :00:52.What we are trying to do round here is improve
:00:53. > :00:58.the tone and civility of the debate and this doesn't help do that.
:00:59. > :01:00.Theresa May has cleared her first major hurdle
:01:01. > :01:07.The new Parliament has backed the government's legislative
:01:08. > :01:11.programme for the next two years, but it was another narrow vote.
:01:12. > :01:14.And could ties be a thing of the past in the House of Commons?
:01:15. > :01:17.We'll have the latest on the dress code which could leave
:01:18. > :01:31.I am in Washington, Christian Fraser is in London.
:01:32. > :01:33.The Pentagon is concerned that North Korea's nuclear programme has
:01:34. > :01:35.advanced so quickly, they are no longer able
:01:36. > :01:42.Intelligence experts believe that, very soon, Pyongyang
:01:43. > :01:45.will have a nuclear weapon capable of reaching the Western seaboard
:01:46. > :01:48.That is forcing a rethink in the White House.
:01:49. > :01:51.The President recently suggested China's attempts to put pressure
:01:52. > :01:57.Nobody wants to consider a military option but one
:01:58. > :02:06.What we see now is really two fundamental things have changed.
:02:07. > :02:09.One is the threat is much more immediate now and so it's clear
:02:10. > :02:12.that we can't repeat the same approach,
:02:13. > :02:17.And the second is the recognition that previous approaches have not
:02:18. > :02:20.worked and so the definition of insanity would be to continue
:02:21. > :02:25.to do the same thing and expect a different result.
:02:26. > :02:27.Tonight Donald Trump will meet the new South Korean President Moon
:02:28. > :02:31.The two countries are closely aligned.
:02:32. > :02:34.There are over 20,000 American troops on the Korean peninsula.
:02:35. > :02:37.Both men want an end to North Korea's nuclear programme
:02:38. > :02:39.but they disagree on how to get there.
:02:40. > :02:42.And in recent months the alliance has been strained.
:02:43. > :02:46.And joining us now is Christopher Hill,
:02:47. > :02:49.who formerly served as US Ambassador to South Korea and is currently dean
:02:50. > :03:01.of the international studies school at the University of Denver.
:03:02. > :03:08.We often hear the North Korean programme is advancing more quickly
:03:09. > :03:14.than we thought beforehand. Is there something new in the intelligence?
:03:15. > :03:19.They are referring to engine tests on missiles, that they have managed
:03:20. > :03:26.successfully to start testing this new generation of solid feel
:03:27. > :03:31.rockets. An abundance of caution. There is an expectation that in the
:03:32. > :03:35.next couple of years we may have a deliverable North Korean nuclear
:03:36. > :03:39.missile and that presents huge challenges for the United States and
:03:40. > :03:44.presents questions about the degree to which the US would be prepared to
:03:45. > :03:50.get into a war on the Korean peninsula if that were could include
:03:51. > :03:57.attacks on the US mainland with nuclear weapons. We are getting to a
:03:58. > :04:01.no kidding period of time and the President bet heavily on China and
:04:02. > :04:04.what he has seen is that China has been encouraging North Korea to come
:04:05. > :04:08.back to talks but in no way does that mean that North Korea has
:04:09. > :04:10.indicated that they will give up their nuclear weapons as they did
:04:11. > :04:14.before or that they plan to before or that they plan to
:04:15. > :04:19.negotiate elimination of nuclear weapons. There is a very serious
:04:20. > :04:25.problem and the administration is quite concerned about what to do
:04:26. > :04:29.with it and now comes the planned new South Korean president who has
:04:30. > :04:34.indicated mod of an interest and somehow having talks with the North
:04:35. > :04:38.Koreans, talks about talks, and that is not a very robust response.
:04:39. > :04:42.Certainly not in the way this administration likes to look at
:04:43. > :04:47.things. The focus will be on the alliance between the US and South
:04:48. > :04:51.Korea. For decades to have had thousands of troops on the peninsula
:04:52. > :04:56.but is there a point when this nuclear capability goes so far that
:04:57. > :05:04.what takes President says America's domestic influence? Does it become a
:05:05. > :05:09.domestic debate? It becomes more so but I do not think it ever becomes
:05:10. > :05:13.exclusively so. It is inconceivable for the US to take military action
:05:14. > :05:20.without working together with its South Korean ally. If it comes to
:05:21. > :05:24.some kind of military action they need the South Koreans and 20
:05:25. > :05:32.million South Koreans live within range of North Korean artillery so
:05:33. > :05:37.any type of decision to move mullet early would probably involve some
:05:38. > :05:41.kind of civilian evacuations and it is not clear that the South Koreans
:05:42. > :05:47.are prepared for these kind of steps as yet. What is important about this
:05:48. > :05:52.meeting is if they are going to have to establish a good relationship
:05:53. > :05:55.with South Korean want to show they can manage the American relationship
:05:56. > :05:59.but also wants to appoint the Americans with some of their special
:06:00. > :06:01.problems that are different with the problems of the US several thousand
:06:02. > :06:04.miles away. It was just last week
:06:05. > :06:24.President Trump tweeted: Does that suggest that the president
:06:25. > :06:30.has a different strategy, that he has pitched the idea that Chinese
:06:31. > :06:35.could be the way to tame North Korea? It is premature to say that.
:06:36. > :06:38.He is trying to respond to criticism especially within the Republican
:06:39. > :06:44.party that somehow he has been duped by the Chinese. He wants to be able
:06:45. > :06:51.to say I am disappointed as well but at least they are trying as opposed
:06:52. > :06:57.to others. He is trying to manage that and double down on China. That
:06:58. > :07:02.said he needs to and will feel he needs to look beyond China to solve
:07:03. > :07:08.this because it is clear the way China is talking is to somehow have
:07:09. > :07:13.the freeze for freeze, if they can get North Korea to freeze these
:07:14. > :07:17.things maybe we can freeze our joint exercises with South Korea, and that
:07:18. > :07:28.is not a dog that is going to hunt in Washington. Thank you. There are
:07:29. > :07:33.no good military options but no certainty diplomacy will work
:07:34. > :07:37.either. The White House has some scepticism about the diplomacy. Yes.
:07:38. > :07:53.The great bromance, the White House setting
:07:54. > :07:57.stall that China could be answer. Officials saying that the
:07:58. > :08:00.administration is proposing more trade sanctions against China. This
:08:01. > :08:05.week the State Department have put China on a list of countries that
:08:06. > :08:09.are guilty of human trafficking. I wondered if you would have seen that
:08:10. > :08:16.list, out at the beginning of the administration. There are not very
:08:17. > :08:22.many other good options. The national security adviser said we
:08:23. > :08:29.are still going to try to cooperate with China. Once again we are in a
:08:30. > :08:32.situation where an you make sense of it, messages coming out of the
:08:33. > :08:37.administration when it comes to China and North Korea are modelled.
:08:38. > :08:43.The South Koreans are worried about it. I was looking about the
:08:44. > :08:53.research. 88% of South Koreans in favour of the job that Barack Obama
:08:54. > :08:54.was doing and 17% have confidence in Donald Trump. No doubt they are
:08:55. > :08:55.worried about it. After months of court battles,
:08:56. > :08:58.parts of Donald Trump's travel ban On Monday, the Supreme Court
:08:59. > :09:01.partially upheld his executive order, restricting travel from six
:09:02. > :09:06.mainly Muslim countries. There is an exception for those
:09:07. > :09:09.with "a credible claim Those with business or educational
:09:10. > :09:13.ties are also exempt. Joining us now is Republican
:09:14. > :09:19.Congressman Will Hurd who sits on the intelligence committee
:09:20. > :09:31.and formerly served in the CIA. You know from your claim and the CIA
:09:32. > :09:34.that America works closely with countries like Iraq and Syria with
:09:35. > :09:39.civilians and military members of those countries and they need those
:09:40. > :09:44.people to translate them, to help protect them in those countries. To
:09:45. > :09:49.what extent does this undermine America's security and a sense in
:09:50. > :10:00.countries like Iraq and Syria? I was originally against the travel ban in
:10:01. > :10:05.its initial forum just for that reason and when it comes to Iraq and
:10:06. > :10:13.Syria the people that we are fighting shoulder to shoulder with
:10:14. > :10:17.our Iraqis and Syrians. This changed travel ban, if you have a
:10:18. > :10:25.relationship already, so if you are a translator, if you are going to
:10:26. > :10:28.school, you will be allowed to continue to come to the country. It
:10:29. > :10:33.addresses some of the biggest concerns we had which was making
:10:34. > :10:38.sure those that are being helpful to our country are allowed to come back
:10:39. > :10:42.and forth. The way that we are going to solve the problem of security in
:10:43. > :10:49.our homeland and making sure we are defending our borders is by
:10:50. > :10:53.improving information exchange with our allies. We have to make sure we
:10:54. > :10:57.get the right information to the right people at the right time to
:10:58. > :11:02.keep terrorists off of our shores and I have introduced legislation to
:11:03. > :11:06.do that, to give some open sourced knowledge it to our partners to
:11:07. > :11:13.improve information sharing with allies. Because of the concerns you
:11:14. > :11:16.outline, Iraq was taken off of the list, Syria is still on it, but the
:11:17. > :11:18.message is the same. You sit on the House
:11:19. > :11:20.intelligence committee. You've said before that this
:11:21. > :11:22.investigation into Russia needs Yesterday, former Nato Ambassador
:11:23. > :11:25.Nicholas Burns testified at the committee's hearing
:11:26. > :11:27.on the Russian It is his duty, President Trump's,
:11:28. > :11:32.to be sceptical of Russia. It is his duty to
:11:33. > :11:35.investigate and defend our country against cyber defences
:11:36. > :11:39.because Russia is our most dangerous If he continues to
:11:40. > :12:01.refuse to act it is a Those are pretty strong words. It
:12:02. > :12:06.seems that everybody in congress sees the Russian interference as a
:12:07. > :12:10.problem but when Donald Trump hears Russia and the Russia investigation
:12:11. > :12:16.he hears it is bad for him and he does not want to engage with it so
:12:17. > :12:23.how do you get round that? We do not have an Emperor, we have a
:12:24. > :12:27.president. We are getting ready to start the appropriations process and
:12:28. > :12:31.when it comes to... We are looking to get more money to the agencies
:12:32. > :12:41.trying to collect more information on the Russians. Our secretary of
:12:42. > :12:44.defence has been very clear at the threat Russia poses. I was recently
:12:45. > :12:48.in Ukraine and I saw what the Russians were doing in eastern
:12:49. > :12:53.Ukraine and they are a threat and we should be doing everything to stop
:12:54. > :12:58.them and be prepared for them to try to manipulate and influence our
:12:59. > :13:03.elections in 2018. We should be having a broader conversation about
:13:04. > :13:07.how to do a counter covert influence campaign will stop the Russians are
:13:08. > :13:15.using debt information and asymmetrical warfare to try to erode
:13:16. > :13:23.trust in our institutions and we cannot let that stand. President
:13:24. > :13:37.Trump will have a meeting with President Clinton on the sidelines
:13:38. > :13:42.of the G20 summit -- President Putin. I am sure the issue of Syria
:13:43. > :13:47.will come up but America does not have a strategy, does it? I would
:13:48. > :13:55.not agree with the premise of your statement. I would say it has been
:13:56. > :14:03.very clear that we are not going to let Al Asad use chemical weapons. I
:14:04. > :14:07.believe Assad must go. He has used chemical weapons on his own people
:14:08. > :14:12.dozens of times. That is unacceptable. I think the recent
:14:13. > :14:18.statements that they used weapons we will respond and making sure that we
:14:19. > :14:24.make clear what our response is going to be to different actions is
:14:25. > :14:29.partly a deterrent as well. That is a strategy in of itself. That is
:14:30. > :14:34.something that in the international community we need to get on the same
:14:35. > :14:37.page and look at what happens in Syria after Assad and one of the
:14:38. > :14:44.questions President Trump should be asking glad you put in is why
:14:45. > :14:50.Vladimir Putin is not outraged and what he is going to do if Assad uses
:14:51. > :14:54.chemical weapons again. Because of the Syrians use chemical weapons it
:14:55. > :15:07.is just as much at fault as the Russian government or the Iranian
:15:08. > :15:15.government. Thank you. On the issue of the travel ban, the numbers do
:15:16. > :15:19.not look huge. In the fiscal year of 2015 60,000 people from the six
:15:20. > :15:24.countries affected received visas, half of those went to people in
:15:25. > :15:27.Iran. Those people apparently will not be affected because they tend to
:15:28. > :15:32.have a bona fide reason for coming or a family member so that is down
:15:33. > :15:40.to 30,000, some of whom will meet the criteria. It is not very many.
:15:41. > :15:43.You are starting to look at 10,000 or 20,000 people who could be
:15:44. > :15:48.affected. It is worth bearing that in mind given all of the chaos that
:15:49. > :15:54.we saw on the first few weeks of the administration and the scenes that
:15:55. > :15:59.we saw. Those lines at the airport. We may see that again tonight. It
:16:00. > :16:07.comes into effect in six hours. It will be interesting to see what
:16:08. > :16:09.happens. North Korea, the travel ban, health care, the issues that
:16:10. > :16:23.the White House wants us to focus on.
:16:24. > :16:44.The response from the president's own party has not
:16:45. > :17:09.And here's what House Speaker Paul Ryan had to say.
:17:10. > :17:11.Obviously I don't see that as an appropriate comment.
:17:12. > :17:14.What we are trying to do round here is improve
:17:15. > :17:20.the tone and civility of the debate and this doesn't help do that.
:17:21. > :17:23.And here's what the vice president of communication at NBC
:17:24. > :17:49.Full disclosure, she is somebody I work with, she is a friend of mine,
:17:50. > :17:57.but I would not say this is about how or that programme. What has
:17:58. > :18:01.caused the uproar, the response from Republicans has been swift and
:18:02. > :18:05.condemnatory, has been the words that he used and the particularly
:18:06. > :18:13.personal way he talked about how bleeding, are having a face-lift.
:18:14. > :18:20.That is what has shocked people. Yesterday we ran a piece of footage
:18:21. > :18:21.that was from the briefing and the press secretary said Americans
:18:22. > :18:29.deserve something better from the media. Reading Twitter today, that
:18:30. > :18:32.is the point many people are making, we need something better from the
:18:33. > :18:37.office, because if you make that comment with any company or perhaps
:18:38. > :18:41.anywhere else in politics you might be fired. What is frustrating for
:18:42. > :18:45.the congressmen we quoted as they are working hard on the agenda of
:18:46. > :18:48.the White House is putting out and they are being pulled away from the
:18:49. > :18:55.agenda when they come out of their committee rooms to comment on
:18:56. > :19:00.something he is tweeting. She is saying we are not addressing policy.
:19:01. > :19:05.They need to speak to the President and ask him to keep them on policy.
:19:06. > :19:10.It is his tweets shifting the agenda. Yes. The White House
:19:11. > :19:15.communications team has to spend time cleaning up something the
:19:16. > :19:24.president has tweeted about but not a single Republican or supporter of
:19:25. > :19:30.Donald Trump has defended. Mullally is running an anti-bullying campaign
:19:31. > :19:34.on cyber. She has come out in support of her husband and said when
:19:35. > :19:39.he is attacked he attacks back. Even harder. That has been her response.
:19:40. > :19:41.A retired Court of Appeal judge, Sir Martin Moore-Bick,
:19:42. > :19:43.has been chosen to lead the public inquiry into the
:19:44. > :19:47.He said he's doubtful that the investigation will be broad
:19:48. > :19:53.Police believe that about 80 people died in the fire in west
:19:54. > :20:00.One of the Pope's closest advisors, Cardinal George Pell,
:20:01. > :20:02.has been charged with historical sexual offences against children.
:20:03. > :20:04.At a press conference this morning the Cardinal insisted
:20:05. > :20:12.he was innocent and said he looked forward to having his day in court.
:20:13. > :20:15.Theresa May has such a wafer thin majority in the House of Commons,
:20:16. > :20:18.she can't afford to miss any of the important votes.
:20:19. > :20:21.Today she was in Berlin at a planning meeting for the G20,
:20:22. > :20:27.Hours later she was back in the UK to ensure the government's
:20:28. > :20:32.Within it are eight Brexit related bills.
:20:33. > :20:35.Tonight, with the support of the DUP, the Queen's Speech
:20:36. > :20:40.was approved by a majority of 14 votes.
:20:41. > :20:43.Through the day the Conservatives did have to see off a series
:20:44. > :20:46.Not that the Labour leader Jeremy Corbyn has been
:20:47. > :20:52.One amendment tabled by his own backbencher,
:20:53. > :20:54.Chuka Umunna, exposed Labour's own divisions, over Mr Corbyn's wish
:20:55. > :20:59.Labour's Hillary Benn joins us from our Westminster studio.
:21:00. > :21:02.He was chair, in the last parliament, of the committee
:21:03. > :21:10.that is scrutinising the government's Brexit policy.
:21:11. > :21:21.Chuka Umunna's amendment is interesting. 322 MPs voted against
:21:22. > :21:24.it, 101 voted for. What he set out was that the government should
:21:25. > :21:33.remain or Britain should remain within the single market. Only 49
:21:34. > :21:39.Labour MPs voted for it. Does that definitively say that Labour is
:21:40. > :21:42.coming out of the single market? We recognise that membership of the
:21:43. > :21:47.single market creates a difficulty because of the issue of free
:21:48. > :21:52.movement because you cannot control free movement if you are in the
:21:53. > :21:55.single market. A policy on which we fought the election was to say we
:21:56. > :22:00.wish to retain the benefits of the single market and of the customs
:22:01. > :22:03.union. If the reference to the single market had not been in the
:22:04. > :22:08.amendment you would have seen a different outcome. What today and
:22:09. > :22:14.since the election demonstrates is that the government no longer
:22:15. > :22:19.controls the kind of agreement that parliament in the end is going to
:22:20. > :22:24.decide to sign up to and we have seen open dissent in Theresa May's
:22:25. > :22:28.cabinet between Brexit secretary and the Chancellor of the Exchequer
:22:29. > :22:32.because firstly the Prime Minister knows the idea of leaving the
:22:33. > :22:38.European Union with no deal is dead and buried. Secondly we have to make
:22:39. > :22:42.sure we get the right deal out of the important negotiations that have
:22:43. > :22:46.just begun and Parliament in the end is going to be hugely influential in
:22:47. > :22:51.determining what kind of deal we are prepared to accept. Somebody said
:22:52. > :22:56.this is a backbencher is' Parliament and we have seen that with the
:22:57. > :23:01.number of amendments put forward. I wonder if there's a balance between
:23:02. > :23:05.putting forward position, rightly putting forward opposition to what
:23:06. > :23:10.the government is discussing, but at the same time not undermining the
:23:11. > :23:16.position of the country, because the other 27 countries are united and we
:23:17. > :23:19.look chaotic. To describe it as a backbencher is' Parliament is a
:23:20. > :23:25.pretty good description because we saw a stunning example of that
:23:26. > :23:28.today. Stella Creasy put-down an amendment with cross-party support
:23:29. > :23:34.calling on the government to fund a abortions in England for women from
:23:35. > :23:37.Northern Ireland where it is not permitted and the government gave
:23:38. > :23:43.way in a matter of hours. That shows the power that Parliament has
:23:44. > :23:46.because the government is not sure apart from supplying money and votes
:23:47. > :23:52.of confidence exactly what they are going to be able to get through. All
:23:53. > :24:01.of us who accept the outcome of the referendum, ie regretted but they
:24:02. > :24:05.accepted. What was not determined by that referendum is the terms on
:24:06. > :24:08.which we leave for the nature of the new relationship we wish to have
:24:09. > :24:13.with our friends and neighbours in the other 27 member states. If we
:24:14. > :24:18.put pressure as we will do on the government it is because we want to
:24:19. > :24:22.get the right deal and I would highlight trade and ministers say we
:24:23. > :24:27.wish to minting Tal y Fan barrier free trade. I personally do not
:24:28. > :24:30.understand why we decided against Britain remaining part of the
:24:31. > :24:34.customs union because that would deal with that and it would deal
:24:35. > :24:38.with the problem of Northern Ireland where nobody wants to see a return
:24:39. > :24:43.to customs posts on the border between the Republic and Northern
:24:44. > :24:46.Ireland. Trying to negotiate a trade and market access agreement is going
:24:47. > :24:57.to be very challenging. Nobody I have met thinks that it is possible
:24:58. > :25:05.to be done before October. We have to leave it there. I do not know
:25:06. > :25:10.whether we got the answer to the question about whether it helped,
:25:11. > :25:16.this outright opposition. Yes, it is interesting. We are almost out of
:25:17. > :25:17.time but to the there was an interesting from the Speaker of the
:25:18. > :25:21.House of Commons. I don't know whether you knew this
:25:22. > :25:24.or not, but it is customary for male MPs to wear ties in Parliament,
:25:25. > :25:27.especially when asking a question. But it seems, in a break
:25:28. > :25:30.with tradition, Speaker of the House of Commons John Bercow
:25:31. > :25:36.now says otherwise. I am slightly worried about this. I
:25:37. > :25:41.have brought my tie collection. I am worried I am going to have to go to
:25:42. > :25:47.the car-boot sale. It's not a fashion programme. I do not think
:25:48. > :25:55.you need a tie. It raises etiquette issues. You have one or two buttons?
:25:56. > :26:00.I know it worries you. You can carry on wearing your tie on this
:26:01. > :26:08.programme. I just never know if you should tuck in. It is a minefield
:26:09. > :26:15.once you get rid of the time. -- tie.
:26:16. > :26:18.Today, the wettest weather has been in the south-east of Scotland.
:26:19. > :26:21.We've had a couple of inches of rain and it's not a particularly
:26:22. > :26:23.summer looking scene here at St Andrews in Fife.
:26:24. > :26:25.That was sent by one of our weather watchers.
:26:26. > :26:28.You can see the extent of the rain earlier across Scotland,
:26:29. > :26:29.trying to push into Northern Ireland.
:26:30. > :26:31.Patchy rain elsewhere and a lot of cloud too.
:26:32. > :26:34.We will hang onto cloudy skies for most of the night.
:26:35. > :26:36.Further rain across not just Scotland and Northern Ireland,
:26:37. > :26:42.That rain could be heavy for a while, with rain further east too.
:26:43. > :26:46.As a result, temperatures no lower than 13 or 14,
:26:47. > :26:55.not dropping much from the highs we had today.
:26:56. > :26:57.As we head into the rush hour on Friday, we have rain
:26:58. > :26:59.in Devon and Cornwall, perhaps in West Wales.
:27:00. > :27:03.In the Midlands, cloudy skies and maybe the odd shower,
:27:04. > :27:06.but a hint of sunshine across East Anglia and
:27:07. > :27:10.A bit misty and murky over the hills as you head further north,
:27:11. > :27:15.It will not be the continuous, heavier rain that some
:27:16. > :27:17.places had earlier, but not a very pleasant start.
:27:18. > :27:22.That will be blowing down the chilly air.
:27:23. > :27:25.Where we keep the rain, temperatures will be very slow to rise.
:27:26. > :27:26.It should dry off across Northern Ireland
:27:27. > :27:32.The rain is beginning to push into England and Wales.
:27:33. > :27:35.It should be a bit warmer across the Midlands
:27:36. > :27:40.towards the south-east, where you get sunshine.
:27:41. > :27:44.Ahead of that weather front, which takes the patchy rain
:27:45. > :27:46.southeastwards across the UK, for the weekend, everything
:27:47. > :27:52.There will not be as much rain and with a bit of sunshine around,
:27:53. > :27:59.It's been quite chilly under the rain recently.
:28:00. > :28:03.Some early rain in the south-east corner of England will clear away
:28:04. > :28:05.and we will see rain through the day, eventually
:28:06. > :28:09.For most of England and Wales, a nice day.
:28:10. > :28:17.It should be dry, the winds will be lighter and it will feel warmer.
:28:18. > :28:22.Again, that should be gone and we'll get a few showers
:28:23. > :30:24.Welcome back to 100 Days+. America says the threat of an attack by
:30:25. > :30:27.North Korea is more immediate. Donald Trump's Upper Bann will take
:30:28. > :30:32.effect in a few hours' time after the Supreme Court allowed parts of
:30:33. > :30:43.it to go ahead. People from six Muslim majority countries will be
:30:44. > :30:47.affected. The G20 meeting for world leaders already has a stormy
:30:48. > :30:51.forecast. European heads appear to have solidified their stance to keep
:30:52. > :30:54.markets open, with a warning that the protectionism and isolationism
:30:55. > :30:58.symbolised by Mr Trump's America first stance will not solve global
:30:59. > :31:02.problems. Angela Merkel has stressed that the EU will push ahead with
:31:03. > :31:06.measures to tackle climate change, despite the President'sdecision to
:31:07. > :31:11.pull out of the Paris agreement on global warming. Here is what the
:31:12. > :31:14.German Chancellor had to say in her parliament earlier today.
:31:15. > :31:19.TRANSLATION: The EU fully supports the Paris agreement and will
:31:20. > :31:21.implement it quickly and resolutely. Furthermore, since the United States
:31:22. > :31:28.decided to leave the Paris agreement, we are more determined
:31:29. > :31:30.than ever to be successful. French President Emmanuel Macron said he
:31:31. > :31:34.hoped the US would return to Britain after announcing it would pull out
:31:35. > :31:39.of the Paris come to God. But since Donald Trump's announcement,
:31:40. > :31:47.President Trump has used the make it a great slogan for the climate. I'm
:31:48. > :31:53.here with President Macron. Well talking about environmental issues.
:31:54. > :31:58.Now we want to make the planet great again. I am joined by the London
:31:59. > :32:05.economics correspondent for Lamont. We were surprised by this yesterday.
:32:06. > :32:07.I'm surprised firstly that Mr Macron extended the invitation and more
:32:08. > :32:26.surprise that Donald Trump accepted it. What is Emmanuel Macron stand to
:32:27. > :32:28.gain? He is poking fun openly at Trump, saying, let's make the planet
:32:29. > :32:40.great again. He was going towards the leaders who
:32:41. > :32:44.were together and almost extended his hand to Trump, and said hello to
:32:45. > :32:51.Merkel first. Then he finally shook hands with Trump. So he was playing
:32:52. > :32:55.to the idea that, oh, yes, I am going to stand up to Trump and have
:32:56. > :33:00.a strong handshake. But in the end, he is the leader of the first
:33:01. > :33:06.country in the Western world and we have to deal with him. Let's invite
:33:07. > :33:10.him on a pretty impressive day, which is the 14th of July, Bastille
:33:11. > :33:14.Day. It shows that he is in the top rank of world leaders, doesn't it?
:33:15. > :33:29.What does Donald Trump stand to gain from this, Cathy? -- Katty? Well, it
:33:30. > :33:35.makes Emmanuel Macron looked like a statesman. But for Donald Trump, who
:33:36. > :33:39.hangs onto grudges, to agree to go to this, it is interesting. Eric,
:33:40. > :33:47.what will the actual day look like in terms of awkwardness, with Donald
:33:48. > :33:50.Trump turning up and the French presumably not happy to have him,
:33:51. > :34:05.given the low approval ratings the president has in France?
:34:06. > :34:12.Actually, the backlash was much less than has been in Britain. Maybe the
:34:13. > :34:23.question is why the backlash was so big in Britain. Trump was officially
:34:24. > :34:29.invited almost a couple of months ago and invitation was unanswered.
:34:30. > :34:36.Then Macron called him again ten days ago. Finally, he did say yes to
:34:37. > :34:43.the invitation. So why did he change his mind? Trump did poke fun at
:34:44. > :34:53.France not long ago, saying France is not what it used to be. Paris is
:34:54. > :34:56.dangerous now. But there is a pattern here. You might have spotted
:34:57. > :35:01.this trend among global leaders. They know that if they flatter Mr
:35:02. > :35:04.Trump in order to get his ear, he might respond. We have seen it with
:35:05. > :35:11.otherworldly goes, where they roll out the red carpet for him and he
:35:12. > :35:13.does respond. And that official invitations for the 100th
:35:14. > :35:22.anniversary of the US fighting in World War I. So there will be US
:35:23. > :35:26.troops and French troops on Bastille Day and it will look very grand that
:35:27. > :35:33.he will like that a lot. That will flatter his ego, for sure. Eric,
:35:34. > :35:42.thank you for coming in. We are out of time. We will do some therapy,
:35:43. > :35:48.Christian. Get you outside of your comfort zone. Take the tie off, look
:35:49. > :35:54.Californian. Going back to what Eric was talking about, have you seen how
:35:55. > :36:02.we are now slipping back to the back of the queue? He is going to Poland
:36:03. > :36:08.first, Mr Trump, then he goes to hamburger than to France. Theresa
:36:09. > :36:11.May must be sitting there weakened and not in a stronger position as
:36:12. > :36:17.Emmanuel Macron, thinking, I would love to do this, but she doesn't
:36:18. > :36:20.have the poll rating to back it up whereas Emmanuel Macron has the
:36:21. > :36:26.mandate and the power and he is able to socket both the Berlin and also
:36:27. > :36:29.to London. And he is doing something which could be unpopular in one
:36:30. > :36:33.country, but he has managed to transform it into a sign of his own
:36:34. > :36:37.statesmanship. I am interested in the fireworks. Gold Cup will have to
:36:38. > :36:43.watch the Bastille Day fireworks. What if the French fireworks are
:36:44. > :36:47.bigger than the American ones for the 4th of July? They won't be! At a
:36:48. > :36:53.time of austerity in France! The Secretary of State Rex Tillerson
:36:54. > :36:56.has relied so far on a very small He is yet to fill several
:36:57. > :36:59.hundred senior posts, some of his picks have been vetoed
:37:00. > :37:02.by the President. There are top jobs in Europe,
:37:03. > :37:04.Asia and the Middle East And there are scores of countries,
:37:05. > :37:08.Britain included, that don't It would seem Mr Tillerson's
:37:09. > :37:12.patience is wearing thin. This week, there are
:37:13. > :37:14.reports that he exploded of the White House staff
:37:15. > :37:18.when he dared to question one He also complained,
:37:19. > :37:21.according to those quoted, that the White House was leaking
:37:22. > :37:24.damaging information about him. Let's pick that up with Republican
:37:25. > :37:38.political strategist Run, how unusual is all of this? Not
:37:39. > :37:42.just the lack of personnel, but to have stories that the Secretary of
:37:43. > :37:45.State is basically fed up with the situation and doesn't like the fact
:37:46. > :37:49.that you can't get his staff and doesn't like the fact that people in
:37:50. > :37:52.the White House are running foreign policy? It is extraordinarily
:37:53. > :37:56.unusual to find is being played out in the press. In the Bush White
:37:57. > :38:00.House and with the Obama White House, the President'sclose aides
:38:01. > :38:03.might have concerned about the direction of policy, but you never
:38:04. > :38:08.let this play out in the press. I look at this administration and it
:38:09. > :38:14.seems ironic to me that their way of trying to quell difficult situations
:38:15. > :38:17.is to leak information to the press. It is not presidential. It doesn't
:38:18. > :38:21.serve the President'saddenda and it makes a bad situation look worse.
:38:22. > :38:29.How unusual would it be for someone like Jared Kushner, the son-in-law
:38:30. > :38:32.and a fairly inexperienced person coming to the White House, to have
:38:33. > :38:39.so much control over America's policy around the world and for the
:38:40. > :38:43.Secretary of State to be sidelined? Highly unusual. Presidential
:38:44. > :38:49.personnel office is the office that is designed to not only have the
:38:50. > :38:53.cabinet secretaries, but all those thousands of people, the assistant
:38:54. > :38:56.secretary and the key staff were looking at. To have someone like
:38:57. > :38:59.Jared Kushner, who has never worked for the American government have
:39:00. > :39:06.this amount of sway, it shows you that the secretary, if these reports
:39:07. > :39:09.are to be believed, why he is frustrated and he doesn't have
:39:10. > :39:16.assets around the world to American diplomacy. This clip is from John F.
:39:17. > :39:20.Kennedy, a very different American president, in 1962. These are his
:39:21. > :39:25.views on the value of a free press, despite disagreeing with its recent
:39:26. > :39:30.tray Little treatment of him. It came after the Bay of Pigs invasion.
:39:31. > :39:35.He once said you were enjoying it less. Are you still as avid a reader
:39:36. > :39:39.of newspapers and magazines? I remember those of us who travelled
:39:40. > :39:47.with you on the campaign, a magazine was not safe around you. I think it
:39:48. > :39:50.is invaluable, even though it is never pleasant to be reading things
:39:51. > :40:12.that are not agreeable news. But it is invaluable. So I would
:40:13. > :40:15.think that Mr Khrushchev, operating in a totalitarian system which has
:40:16. > :40:19.many advantages in terms of being able to move in secret and all the
:40:20. > :40:24.rest, but it is a terrific disadvantage not having the abrasive
:40:25. > :40:28.quality of the press applied to you daily to an ministration. Even
:40:29. > :40:33.though we never like it and even though we wish they didn't write it
:40:34. > :40:36.and even though we disapprove, there isn't any doubt that we couldn't do
:40:37. > :40:44.the job at all in a free society without a very active press. So that
:40:45. > :40:49.was JFK, under a lot of heat over the Bay of Pigs. He obviously sees
:40:50. > :40:55.the benefit of the fourth pillar, the media. This president, not so.
:40:56. > :41:00.He sees the media as a threat. He's trying to make it into an enemy of
:41:01. > :41:07.the people. I have got to ask you about today's tweet. What do you
:41:08. > :41:11.make of it? I find that tweet to be so on present and shall, so beyond
:41:12. > :41:16.the pale of a person in a position of power -- so on in -- so
:41:17. > :41:19.unpresidential to use that social platform, how many times have we
:41:20. > :41:24.spoke on this show about how the President'sworse enemy is himself?
:41:25. > :41:28.In general and in particular, using social media to say stupid things.
:41:29. > :41:32.In my view, this is one of those things that is undignified. You have
:41:33. > :41:35.had a number of members of Congress on both sides of the political aisle
:41:36. > :41:47.in Washington today saying this enough, stop it. I am just reading
:41:48. > :41:50.here from Reuters that that presenter is saying Trump did not go
:41:51. > :41:57.too far in his tweets on Thursday. So you have the communications
:41:58. > :42:01.department backing him up! It is absurd. President George W Bush did
:42:02. > :42:06.not like speaking to the press. And did not get an easy time. Sandra Gal
:42:07. > :42:11.but it is fascinating, the clip we just saw of President Kennedy. It is
:42:12. > :42:13.very important for the President of the United States to have that
:42:14. > :42:16.adversarial relationship with the press, so that the American people
:42:17. > :42:19.can have a sense that they are being told the truth. If President Trump
:42:20. > :42:22.decides that he doesn't want the press briefings to be televised or
:42:23. > :42:26.he doesn't want to go on camera, it does a disservice to his
:42:27. > :42:30.administration. It will only raise more questions about, what are you
:42:31. > :42:37.going to hide and why would you not level with the adversarial press?
:42:38. > :42:41.Ron, JFK uses the word abrasive about the American press, but he
:42:42. > :42:45.uses it and says it is a good thing. It is not just good for the country,
:42:46. > :42:50.it is good for the presidency. That is something that this president
:42:51. > :42:59.really doesn't feel. Before we go, lovely ties, gentlemen! Do come back
:43:00. > :43:05.again, Ron Christie. From me and Christian, have a great weekend. We
:43:06. > :43:07.will see you here back on