29/06/2017 100 Days+

America says the threat of an attack by North Korea

Military plans are on the table as all eyes are on the rogue

It may not help that the new South Korean president,

in Washington now for a visit, has a very different view on how

In six hours Donald Trump's travel ban will take effect.

People from six Muslim majority countries will be affect

Meanwhile, the President attacks a female television

anchor in a tweet, drawing a sharp response.

Even Republicans call it beneath the dignity of the office.

What we are trying to do round here is improve

the tone and civility of the debate and this doesn't help do that.

Theresa May has cleared her first major hurdle

The new Parliament has backed the government's legislative

programme for the next two years, but it was another narrow vote.

And could ties be a thing of the past in the House of Commons?

We'll have the latest on the dress code which could leave

I am in Washington, Christian Fraser is in London.

The Pentagon is concerned that North Korea's nuclear programme has

advanced so quickly, they are no longer able

Intelligence experts believe that, very soon, Pyongyang

will have a nuclear weapon capable of reaching the Western seaboard

That is forcing a rethink in the White House.

The President recently suggested China's attempts to put pressure

Nobody wants to consider a military option but one

What we see now is really two fundamental things have changed.

One is the threat is much more immediate now and so it's clear

that we can't repeat the same approach,

And the second is the recognition that previous approaches have not

worked and so the definition of insanity would be to continue

to do the same thing and expect a different result.

Tonight Donald Trump will meet the new South Korean President Moon

The two countries are closely aligned.

There are over 20,000 American troops on the Korean peninsula.

Both men want an end to North Korea's nuclear programme

but they disagree on how to get there.

And in recent months the alliance has been strained.

And joining us now is Christopher Hill,

who formerly served as US Ambassador to South Korea and is currently dean

of the international studies school at the University of Denver.

We often hear the North Korean programme is advancing more quickly

than we thought beforehand. Is there something new in the intelligence?

They are referring to engine tests on missiles, that they have managed

successfully to start testing this new generation of solid feel

rockets. An abundance of caution. There is an expectation that in the

next couple of years we may have a deliverable North Korean nuclear

missile and that presents huge challenges for the United States and

presents questions about the degree to which the US would be prepared to

get into a war on the Korean peninsula if that were could include

attacks on the US mainland with nuclear weapons. We are getting to a

no kidding period of time and the President bet heavily on China and

what he has seen is that China has been encouraging North Korea to come

back to talks but in no way does that mean that North Korea has

indicated that they will give up their nuclear weapons as they did

before or that they plan to before or that they plan to

negotiate elimination of nuclear weapons. There is a very serious

problem and the administration is quite concerned about what to do

with it and now comes the planned new South Korean president who has

indicated mod of an interest and somehow having talks with the North

Koreans, talks about talks, and that is not a very robust response.

Certainly not in the way this administration likes to look at

things. The focus will be on the alliance between the US and South

Korea. For decades to have had thousands of troops on the peninsula

but is there a point when this nuclear capability goes so far that

what takes President says America's domestic influence? Does it become a

domestic debate? It becomes more so but I do not think it ever becomes

exclusively so. It is inconceivable for the US to take military action

without working together with its South Korean ally. If it comes to

some kind of military action they need the South Koreans and 20

million South Koreans live within range of North Korean artillery so

any type of decision to move mullet early would probably involve some

kind of civilian evacuations and it is not clear that the South Koreans

are prepared for these kind of steps as yet. What is important about this

meeting is if they are going to have to establish a good relationship

with South Korean want to show they can manage the American relationship

but also wants to appoint the Americans with some of their special

problems that are different with the problems of the US several thousand

miles away. It was just last week

President Trump tweeted: Does that suggest that the president

has a different strategy, that he has pitched the idea that Chinese

could be the way to tame North Korea? It is premature to say that.

He is trying to respond to criticism especially within the Republican

party that somehow he has been duped by the Chinese. He wants to be able

to say I am disappointed as well but at least they are trying as opposed

to others. He is trying to manage that and double down on China. That

said he needs to and will feel he needs to look beyond China to solve

this because it is clear the way China is talking is to somehow have

the freeze for freeze, if they can get North Korea to freeze these

things maybe we can freeze our joint exercises with South Korea, and that

is not a dog that is going to hunt in Washington. Thank you. There are

no good military options but no certainty diplomacy will work

either. The White House has some scepticism about the diplomacy. Yes.

The great bromance, the White House setting

stall that China could be answer. Officials saying that the

administration is proposing more trade sanctions against China. This

week the State Department have put China on a list of countries that

are guilty of human trafficking. I wondered if you would have seen that

list, out at the beginning of the administration. There are not very

many other good options. The national security adviser said we

are still going to try to cooperate with China. Once again we are in a

situation where an you make sense of it, messages coming out of the

administration when it comes to China and North Korea are modelled.

The South Koreans are worried about it. I was looking about the

research. 88% of South Koreans in favour of the job that Barack Obama

was doing and 17% have confidence in Donald Trump. No doubt they are

worried about it. After months of court battles,

parts of Donald Trump's travel ban On Monday, the Supreme Court

partially upheld his executive order, restricting travel from six

mainly Muslim countries. There is an exception for those

with "a credible claim Those with business or educational

ties are also exempt. Joining us now is Republican

Congressman Will Hurd who sits on the intelligence committee

and formerly served in the CIA. You know from your claim and the CIA

that America works closely with countries like Iraq and Syria with

civilians and military members of those countries and they need those

people to translate them, to help protect them in those countries. To

what extent does this undermine America's security and a sense in

countries like Iraq and Syria? I was originally against the travel ban in

its initial forum just for that reason and when it comes to Iraq and

Syria the people that we are fighting shoulder to shoulder with

our Iraqis and Syrians. This changed travel ban, if you have a

relationship already, so if you are a translator, if you are going to

school, you will be allowed to continue to come to the country. It

addresses some of the biggest concerns we had which was making

sure those that are being helpful to our country are allowed to come back

and forth. The way that we are going to solve the problem of security in

our homeland and making sure we are defending our borders is by

improving information exchange with our allies. We have to make sure we

get the right information to the right people at the right time to

keep terrorists off of our shores and I have introduced legislation to

do that, to give some open sourced knowledge it to our partners to

improve information sharing with allies. Because of the concerns you

outline, Iraq was taken off of the list, Syria is still on it, but the

message is the same. You sit on the House

intelligence committee. You've said before that this

investigation into Russia needs Yesterday, former Nato Ambassador

Nicholas Burns testified at the committee's hearing

on the Russian It is his duty, President Trump's,

to be sceptical of Russia. It is his duty to

investigate and defend our country against cyber defences

because Russia is our most dangerous If he continues to

refuse to act it is a Those are pretty strong words. It

seems that everybody in congress sees the Russian interference as a

problem but when Donald Trump hears Russia and the Russia investigation

he hears it is bad for him and he does not want to engage with it so

how do you get round that? We do not have an Emperor, we have a

president. We are getting ready to start the appropriations process and

when it comes to... We are looking to get more money to the agencies

trying to collect more information on the Russians. Our secretary of

defence has been very clear at the threat Russia poses. I was recently

in Ukraine and I saw what the Russians were doing in eastern

Ukraine and they are a threat and we should be doing everything to stop

them and be prepared for them to try to manipulate and influence our

elections in 2018. We should be having a broader conversation about

how to do a counter covert influence campaign will stop the Russians are

using debt information and asymmetrical warfare to try to erode

trust in our institutions and we cannot let that stand. President

Trump will have a meeting with President Clinton on the sidelines

of the G20 summit -- President Putin. I am sure the issue of Syria

will come up but America does not have a strategy, does it? I would

not agree with the premise of your statement. I would say it has been

very clear that we are not going to let Al Asad use chemical weapons. I

believe Assad must go. He has used chemical weapons on his own people

dozens of times. That is unacceptable. I think the recent

statements that they used weapons we will respond and making sure that we

make clear what our response is going to be to different actions is

partly a deterrent as well. That is a strategy in of itself. That is

something that in the international community we need to get on the same

page and look at what happens in Syria after Assad and one of the

questions President Trump should be asking glad you put in is why

Vladimir Putin is not outraged and what he is going to do if Assad uses

chemical weapons again. Because of the Syrians use chemical weapons it

is just as much at fault as the Russian government or the Iranian

government. Thank you. On the issue of the travel ban, the numbers do

not look huge. In the fiscal year of 2015 60,000 people from the six

countries affected received visas, half of those went to people in

Iran. Those people apparently will not be affected because they tend to

have a bona fide reason for coming or a family member so that is down

to 30,000, some of whom will meet the criteria. It is not very many.

You are starting to look at 10,000 or 20,000 people who could be

affected. It is worth bearing that in mind given all of the chaos that

we saw on the first few weeks of the administration and the scenes that

we saw. Those lines at the airport. We may see that again tonight. It

comes into effect in six hours. It will be interesting to see what

happens. North Korea, the travel ban, health care, the issues that

the White House wants us to focus on.

The response from the president's own party has not

And here's what House Speaker Paul Ryan had to say.

Obviously I don't see that as an appropriate comment.

What we are trying to do round here is improve

the tone and civility of the debate and this doesn't help do that.

And here's what the vice president of communication at NBC

Full disclosure, she is somebody I work with, she is a friend of mine,

but I would not say this is about how or that programme. What has

caused the uproar, the response from Republicans has been swift and

condemnatory, has been the words that he used and the particularly

personal way he talked about how bleeding, are having a face-lift.

That is what has shocked people. Yesterday we ran a piece of footage

that was from the briefing and the press secretary said Americans

deserve something better from the media. Reading Twitter today, that

is the point many people are making, we need something better from the

office, because if you make that comment with any company or perhaps

anywhere else in politics you might be fired. What is frustrating for

the congressmen we quoted as they are working hard on the agenda of

the White House is putting out and they are being pulled away from the

agenda when they come out of their committee rooms to comment on

something he is tweeting. She is saying we are not addressing policy.

They need to speak to the President and ask him to keep them on policy.

It is his tweets shifting the agenda. Yes. The White House

communications team has to spend time cleaning up something the

president has tweeted about but not a single Republican or supporter of

Donald Trump has defended. Mullally is running an anti-bullying campaign

on cyber. She has come out in support of her husband and said when

he is attacked he attacks back. Even harder. That has been her response.

A retired Court of Appeal judge, Sir Martin Moore-Bick,

has been chosen to lead the public inquiry into the

He said he's doubtful that the investigation will be broad

Police believe that about 80 people died in the fire in west

One of the Pope's closest advisors, Cardinal George Pell,

has been charged with historical sexual offences against children.

At a press conference this morning the Cardinal insisted

he was innocent and said he looked forward to having his day in court.

Theresa May has such a wafer thin majority in the House of Commons,

she can't afford to miss any of the important votes.

Today she was in Berlin at a planning meeting for the G20,

Hours later she was back in the UK to ensure the government's

Within it are eight Brexit related bills.

Tonight, with the support of the DUP, the Queen's Speech

was approved by a majority of 14 votes.

Through the day the Conservatives did have to see off a series

Not that the Labour leader Jeremy Corbyn has been

One amendment tabled by his own backbencher,

Chuka Umunna, exposed Labour's own divisions, over Mr Corbyn's wish

Labour's Hillary Benn joins us from our Westminster studio.

He was chair, in the last parliament, of the committee

that is scrutinising the government's Brexit policy.

Chuka Umunna's amendment is interesting. 322 MPs voted against

it, 101 voted for. What he set out was that the government should

remain or Britain should remain within the single market. Only 49

Labour MPs voted for it. Does that definitively say that Labour is

coming out of the single market? We recognise that membership of the

single market creates a difficulty because of the issue of free

movement because you cannot control free movement if you are in the

single market. A policy on which we fought the election was to say we

wish to retain the benefits of the single market and of the customs

union. If the reference to the single market had not been in the

amendment you would have seen a different outcome. What today and

since the election demonstrates is that the government no longer

controls the kind of agreement that parliament in the end is going to

decide to sign up to and we have seen open dissent in Theresa May's

cabinet between Brexit secretary and the Chancellor of the Exchequer

because firstly the Prime Minister knows the idea of leaving the

European Union with no deal is dead and buried. Secondly we have to make

sure we get the right deal out of the important negotiations that have

just begun and Parliament in the end is going to be hugely influential in

determining what kind of deal we are prepared to accept. Somebody said

this is a backbencher is' Parliament and we have seen that with the

number of amendments put forward. I wonder if there's a balance between

putting forward position, rightly putting forward opposition to what

the government is discussing, but at the same time not undermining the

position of the country, because the other 27 countries are united and we

look chaotic. To describe it as a backbencher is' Parliament is a

pretty good description because we saw a stunning example of that

today. Stella Creasy put-down an amendment with cross-party support

calling on the government to fund a abortions in England for women from

Northern Ireland where it is not permitted and the government gave

way in a matter of hours. That shows the power that Parliament has

because the government is not sure apart from supplying money and votes

of confidence exactly what they are going to be able to get through. All

of us who accept the outcome of the referendum, ie regretted but they

accepted. What was not determined by that referendum is the terms on

which we leave for the nature of the new relationship we wish to have

with our friends and neighbours in the other 27 member states. If we

put pressure as we will do on the government it is because we want to

get the right deal and I would highlight trade and ministers say we

wish to minting Tal y Fan barrier free trade. I personally do not

understand why we decided against Britain remaining part of the

customs union because that would deal with that and it would deal

with the problem of Northern Ireland where nobody wants to see a return

to customs posts on the border between the Republic and Northern

Ireland. Trying to negotiate a trade and market access agreement is going

to be very challenging. Nobody I have met thinks that it is possible

to be done before October. We have to leave it there. I do not know

whether we got the answer to the question about whether it helped,

this outright opposition. Yes, it is interesting. We are almost out of

time but to the there was an interesting from the Speaker of the

House of Commons. I don't know whether you knew this

or not, but it is customary for male MPs to wear ties in Parliament,

especially when asking a question. But it seems, in a break

with tradition, Speaker of the House of Commons John Bercow

now says otherwise. I am slightly worried about this. I

have brought my tie collection. I am worried I am going to have to go to

the car-boot sale. It's not a fashion programme. I do not think

you need a tie. It raises etiquette issues. You have one or two buttons?

I know it worries you. You can carry on wearing your tie on this

programme. I just never know if you should tuck in. It is a minefield

once you get rid of the time. -- tie.

Today, the wettest weather has been in the south-east of Scotland.

We've had a couple of inches of rain and it's not a particularly

summer looking scene here at St Andrews in Fife.

That was sent by one of our weather watchers.

You can see the extent of the rain earlier across Scotland,

trying to push into Northern Ireland.

Patchy rain elsewhere and a lot of cloud too.

We will hang onto cloudy skies for most of the night.

Further rain across not just Scotland and Northern Ireland,

That rain could be heavy for a while, with rain further east too.

As a result, temperatures no lower than 13 or 14,

not dropping much from the highs we had today.

As we head into the rush hour on Friday, we have rain

in Devon and Cornwall, perhaps in West Wales.

In the Midlands, cloudy skies and maybe the odd shower,

but a hint of sunshine across East Anglia and

A bit misty and murky over the hills as you head further north,

It will not be the continuous, heavier rain that some

places had earlier, but not a very pleasant start.

That will be blowing down the chilly air.

Where we keep the rain, temperatures will be very slow to rise.

It should dry off across Northern Ireland

The rain is beginning to push into England and Wales.

It should be a bit warmer across the Midlands

towards the south-east, where you get sunshine.

Ahead of that weather front, which takes the patchy rain

southeastwards across the UK, for the weekend, everything

There will not be as much rain and with a bit of sunshine around,

It's been quite chilly under the rain recently.

Some early rain in the south-east corner of England will clear away

and we will see rain through the day, eventually

For most of England and Wales, a nice day.

It should be dry, the winds will be lighter and it will feel warmer.

Again, that should be gone and we'll get a few showers

Welcome back to 100 Days+. America says the threat of an attack by

North Korea is more immediate. Donald Trump's Upper Bann will take

effect in a few hours' time after the Supreme Court allowed parts of

it to go ahead. People from six Muslim majority countries will be

affected. The G20 meeting for world leaders already has a stormy

forecast. European heads appear to have solidified their stance to keep

markets open, with a warning that the protectionism and isolationism

symbolised by Mr Trump's America first stance will not solve global

problems. Angela Merkel has stressed that the EU will push ahead with

measures to tackle climate change, despite the President'sdecision to

pull out of the Paris agreement on global warming. Here is what the

German Chancellor had to say in her parliament earlier today.

TRANSLATION: The EU fully supports the Paris agreement and will

implement it quickly and resolutely. Furthermore, since the United States

decided to leave the Paris agreement, we are more determined

than ever to be successful. French President Emmanuel Macron said he

hoped the US would return to Britain after announcing it would pull out

of the Paris come to God. But since Donald Trump's announcement,

President Trump has used the make it a great slogan for the climate. I'm

here with President Macron. Well talking about environmental issues.

Now we want to make the planet great again. I am joined by the London

economics correspondent for Lamont. We were surprised by this yesterday.

I'm surprised firstly that Mr Macron extended the invitation and more

surprise that Donald Trump accepted it. What is Emmanuel Macron stand to

gain? He is poking fun openly at Trump, saying, let's make the planet

great again. He was going towards the leaders who

were together and almost extended his hand to Trump, and said hello to

Merkel first. Then he finally shook hands with Trump. So he was playing

to the idea that, oh, yes, I am going to stand up to Trump and have

a strong handshake. But in the end, he is the leader of the first

country in the Western world and we have to deal with him. Let's invite

him on a pretty impressive day, which is the 14th of July, Bastille

Day. It shows that he is in the top rank of world leaders, doesn't it?

What does Donald Trump stand to gain from this, Cathy? -- Katty? Well, it

makes Emmanuel Macron looked like a statesman. But for Donald Trump, who

hangs onto grudges, to agree to go to this, it is interesting. Eric,

what will the actual day look like in terms of awkwardness, with Donald

Trump turning up and the French presumably not happy to have him,

given the low approval ratings the president has in France?

Actually, the backlash was much less than has been in Britain. Maybe the

question is why the backlash was so big in Britain. Trump was officially

invited almost a couple of months ago and invitation was unanswered.

Then Macron called him again ten days ago. Finally, he did say yes to

the invitation. So why did he change his mind? Trump did poke fun at

France not long ago, saying France is not what it used to be. Paris is

dangerous now. But there is a pattern here. You might have spotted

this trend among global leaders. They know that if they flatter Mr

Trump in order to get his ear, he might respond. We have seen it with

otherworldly goes, where they roll out the red carpet for him and he

does respond. And that official invitations for the 100th

anniversary of the US fighting in World War I. So there will be US

troops and French troops on Bastille Day and it will look very grand that

he will like that a lot. That will flatter his ego, for sure. Eric,

thank you for coming in. We are out of time. We will do some therapy,

Christian. Get you outside of your comfort zone. Take the tie off, look

Californian. Going back to what Eric was talking about, have you seen how

we are now slipping back to the back of the queue? He is going to Poland

first, Mr Trump, then he goes to hamburger than to France. Theresa

May must be sitting there weakened and not in a stronger position as

Emmanuel Macron, thinking, I would love to do this, but she doesn't

have the poll rating to back it up whereas Emmanuel Macron has the

mandate and the power and he is able to socket both the Berlin and also

to London. And he is doing something which could be unpopular in one

country, but he has managed to transform it into a sign of his own

statesmanship. I am interested in the fireworks. Gold Cup will have to

watch the Bastille Day fireworks. What if the French fireworks are

bigger than the American ones for the 4th of July? They won't be! At a

time of austerity in France! The Secretary of State Rex Tillerson

has relied so far on a very small He is yet to fill several

hundred senior posts, some of his picks have been vetoed

by the President. There are top jobs in Europe,

Asia and the Middle East And there are scores of countries,

Britain included, that don't It would seem Mr Tillerson's

patience is wearing thin. This week, there are

reports that he exploded of the White House staff

when he dared to question one He also complained,

according to those quoted, that the White House was leaking

damaging information about him. Let's pick that up with Republican

political strategist Run, how unusual is all of this? Not

just the lack of personnel, but to have stories that the Secretary of

State is basically fed up with the situation and doesn't like the fact

that you can't get his staff and doesn't like the fact that people in

the White House are running foreign policy? It is extraordinarily

unusual to find is being played out in the press. In the Bush White

House and with the Obama White House, the President'sclose aides

might have concerned about the direction of policy, but you never

let this play out in the press. I look at this administration and it

seems ironic to me that their way of trying to quell difficult situations

is to leak information to the press. It is not presidential. It doesn't

serve the President'saddenda and it makes a bad situation look worse.

How unusual would it be for someone like Jared Kushner, the son-in-law

and a fairly inexperienced person coming to the White House, to have

so much control over America's policy around the world and for the

Secretary of State to be sidelined? Highly unusual. Presidential

personnel office is the office that is designed to not only have the

cabinet secretaries, but all those thousands of people, the assistant

secretary and the key staff were looking at. To have someone like

Jared Kushner, who has never worked for the American government have

this amount of sway, it shows you that the secretary, if these reports

are to be believed, why he is frustrated and he doesn't have

assets around the world to American diplomacy. This clip is from John F.

Kennedy, a very different American president, in 1962. These are his

views on the value of a free press, despite disagreeing with its recent

tray Little treatment of him. It came after the Bay of Pigs invasion.

He once said you were enjoying it less. Are you still as avid a reader

of newspapers and magazines? I remember those of us who travelled

with you on the campaign, a magazine was not safe around you. I think it

is invaluable, even though it is never pleasant to be reading things

that are not agreeable news. But it is invaluable. So I would

think that Mr Khrushchev, operating in a totalitarian system which has

many advantages in terms of being able to move in secret and all the

rest, but it is a terrific disadvantage not having the abrasive

quality of the press applied to you daily to an ministration. Even

though we never like it and even though we wish they didn't write it

and even though we disapprove, there isn't any doubt that we couldn't do

the job at all in a free society without a very active press. So that

was JFK, under a lot of heat over the Bay of Pigs. He obviously sees

the benefit of the fourth pillar, the media. This president, not so.

He sees the media as a threat. He's trying to make it into an enemy of

the people. I have got to ask you about today's tweet. What do you

make of it? I find that tweet to be so on present and shall, so beyond

the pale of a person in a position of power -- so on in -- so

unpresidential to use that social platform, how many times have we

spoke on this show about how the President'sworse enemy is himself?

In general and in particular, using social media to say stupid things.

In my view, this is one of those things that is undignified. You have

had a number of members of Congress on both sides of the political aisle

in Washington today saying this enough, stop it. I am just reading

here from Reuters that that presenter is saying Trump did not go

too far in his tweets on Thursday. So you have the communications

department backing him up! It is absurd. President George W Bush did

not like speaking to the press. And did not get an easy time. Sandra Gal

but it is fascinating, the clip we just saw of President Kennedy. It is

very important for the President of the United States to have that

adversarial relationship with the press, so that the American people

can have a sense that they are being told the truth. If President Trump

decides that he doesn't want the press briefings to be televised or

he doesn't want to go on camera, it does a disservice to his

administration. It will only raise more questions about, what are you

going to hide and why would you not level with the adversarial press?

Ron, JFK uses the word abrasive about the American press, but he

uses it and says it is a good thing. It is not just good for the country,

it is good for the presidency. That is something that this president

really doesn't feel. Before we go, lovely ties, gentlemen! Do come back

again, Ron Christie. From me and Christian, have a great weekend. We

will see you here back on