04/07/2017 100 Days+

North Korea test fires a missile it claims could have

President Trump calls on China to act and end this

The European Commission president unleashes on the European Parliament

for failing to show up, and threatens to not return.

The wall of the old city in Raqqa has been breached by allies

There are only a few members who can control the commission. You are

ridiculous. I will never again attend a meeting of this kind.

The wall of the old city in Raqqa has been breached by allies

of the US led coalition as they advance against

And to mark America's Independence Day we will take

you to meet the presidents, 43 of them, in one small

That is how long it would take for an inter-continental ballistic

missile to reach LA from North Korea.

There is no consensus on how far Pyongyang has advanced

Or whether they have the capability to arm it with a nuclear warhead.

But some experts suggests the type of missile they have just tested

might already be able to reach Alaska, and with further refinement

could put the major cities in the United States within reach.

That, says Donald Trump, will never happen.

But how will they stop Kim Jung Un, a man who is seemingly immune

Our diplomatic correspondent James Landale reports.

This is the moment that North Korea says it became a major power.

The launch of a missile that it claims

can reach across continents and deliver nuclear weapons as far away

The news was announced on state television with

We have become a nuclear power with intercontinental ballistic missile

the presenter said, showing the handwritten order given by the

He personally supervised the launch of

a missile which he believes will secure him power, protect his people

If North Korea ignores our military's warning

and continues provocations, we are clearly warning Kim Jong-un's

This is the missile that could carry the

It was launched from an airfield here in

western North Korea, and it was aimed at

a steep angle, and rose to

an altitude of about 1,700 miles it's claimed,

It then landed 37 minutes later more than 500

miles away, somewhere in

The key point is that if this missile were fired

at a more shallow angle it might have the power to reach potentially

more than 3,400 miles, the minimum defined range for an

And, if so, that could mean reaching as far

as Alaska on the mainland of

The pressure being applied internationally is

having very little effect on changing the tactics of the regime

It's also significant as well because it has

been reported that it is an intercontinental ballistic missile

which means North Korea are making tangible

steps towards being able to target the US.

Experts said it was still not clear if North Korea had

the technology needed to protect a warhead

on re-entry and guide it to

its target, but if North Korean missiles can now reach the US, it is

a significant step forward and one that President Trump said earlier

Today in a tweet he again urged China

to put pressure on North Korea, but so far China has shown no

The president of China was in Russia today,

both he and President Putin called for a freeze on North Korea's

nuclear weapons programme and suspension of exercises

The fear among diplomats is the dispute could destabilise

an already tense region, packed full of conventional weapons.

At this weekend's G20 Summit, all sides will

Some of the strongest reaction today has come

The launch, said Shinzo Abe, clearly shows that the threat has grown.

I'm joined here in the studio by Shin-ichi iida, Minister

for Public Diplomacy at the Japanese Embassy

Thank you for being with us. My pleasure. We have not yet talk about

the direction in which the missile flew. Where did it land? It landed

100 miles from the Japanese Archipelago is, very close to Japan.

It is hundreds of miles from the Japanese land Archipelago, and that

is causing massive concern amongst Japanese people, and, of course, as

you mentioned in your initial presentation, there was a good

possibility that they have launched a pretty sophisticated missile and

it is a clear indication that the North Korea threat is not only to

the region but also to the world, and I think it is critically

important to send a strong message to North Korea and closely

coordinate and strengthened the pressure through economic sanctions.

Of course we are hearing a lot of rhetoric from Washington, that

patience has run out and military action is obviously on the table,

but we don't know what that will be or what it would involve but if

there was a military strike the implications for Japan would be

severe. The Prime Minister and other high-ranking officials have

expressed again and again that Japan supports the Trump administration

position that all options are on the table. You do not rule out a

military strike? Guild our first and foremost priority is to resolve this

North Korea nuclear and missile issue through diplomatic efforts.

The UN Security Council has passed a very strong resolution last month

and the US have announced a new additional economic sanctions

against North Korea. I think it is quite important to rigorously and

fairly implement the economic sanction measures that have been

agreed upon by various countries concerned so that we can get under

the International coordinated efforts to give the strongest ever

pressure against North Korea so that it will come to sensors and for that

purpose I must reiterate that China can play a critical role, because,

after all, 90% of North Korean trade on value terms is with China. We

were talking before we came negative -- about how this comes so close to

the Japanese coast and you said it was very deliberate. Does that make

a debate in Japan about a missile defence shield? There was a

discussion, and also a project going on for a missile defence mechanism,

in close cooperation with the United States, who are very important part

of it. My point is that military actions are not the primary course

of action that we should take at the moment. The most important thing at

the moment is too closely coordinate not only just amongst Japan and the

US but in a way to include China and Russia. We have had six party talks

which are very effective in relation to North Korea and they have agreed

economic sanctions but they must be implemented fairly and rigorously

and what is making it possible for the North Koreans to develop nuclear

weapons and ballistic rep missiles is the massive foreign currency

revenue and we need to hit that and that is a very important point.

Thank you very much for being with us. We had there that diplomacy is

the way that regional departments would want to go but.

Well, last week President Trump's National Security Advisor HR

McMaster spoke about the changing threat from North Korea and need

Will be seen are really two fundamental things that have

changed. The threat is now much more immediate so it clear that we cannot

repeat the same approach, failed approach, of the past. The second is

the recognition that previous approaches have not worked and so

to continue to do the same thing and to continue to do the same thing and

expecting different results. In Washington we are joined

by Kurt Volker, the former US Ambassador to NATO who now serves

as the Executive Director Hello. Hello. How part do you think

Washington will let Pyongyang go before it is going to have to change

the equation? Well, I think there is still some room to go before there

is a great confidence that North Korea has the real ability to fire a

missile and hit the US. The test that we saw is an incentive for the

US, China and others in the region to get much more serious even than

we have already been about trying to get North Korea to change course. As

your Japanese guest just said, the goal is not to use military force,

the goal is to find economic and other leaders that cause North Korea

to change behaviour and frankly most of those in the hands of China

summit will be ramped up effort and an effort to try and get North Korea

to stop where it is and reverse course. You would accept, as our

previous guest just accepted, that so far diplomacy has failed. We all

know that China quite likes having North Korea on its border, rather

that than having South Korea on its border, along with US troops. That

is right, but if the militant North Korea brings missile defences from

the US into the area and a larger military presence on the Korean

peninsular none of that is anything that China wants and it is in fact

in their interest to act before that does happen. It is obviously

unacceptable to everybody that North Korea keeps escalating the situation

as it is, but we heard there that the military option has been

reviewed. If there was a military option, what would it look like?

Well, I think it would have to be a last resort because you have in

Seoul a very large population within range of artillery fire from North

Korea and we have North Korea that possess a nuclear device that even

if it cannot be not very far can still cause a lot of damage so it

would have to be something very swift and subtle but it would really

be a last resort because we do not want to risk any of those casualties

or any loss of life that might occur. There is a very strong

likelihood that these missiles are on mobile launchers so even with a

pre-emptive strike, you would not get all the missiles. I have a lot

of confidence in US capabilities and intelligence so I think if we got

that point I have a lot of confidence in the ability to succeed

but obviously no one wants to get to that point. Very good of you to be

with us. Thank you for joining us. Katty Kay might be taking July 4th

off, but I'm very pleased to report that our resident expert

and political analyst Ron Christie is hard at work,

and he is going to be with us Hello. Good afternoon, Christian. I

can see your US flag pins your lapels you are in the 4th of July

spirit. . Write! I am in the spirit and enjoying the independence and

the celebration of the of the United States. Donald Trump is starting to

collide with the harsh reality of North Korea. There are no good

options in this, are there? There are not. Frankly, this is the first

foreign policy crisis of his administration. President Trump has

been looking to Mexico and Canada and talking about we negotiating

trade deals. The United States finds itself this morning in the position

that if, in fact, this missile that was launched by career is any

indication of their new technological prowess you have a

missile that could potentially hit Alaska or even San Francisco so the

geostrategic supporters -- importance of meeting with the G20

this weekend has taken on an even greater importance for this

president, his first foreign policy crisis. Looking back at the tweet

that we referred to in the report, it came out before the inauguration.

Donald Trump said that North Korea stated it was in the final stages of

developing nuclear weapons capable of reaching parts of the US, it

won't happen. Clearly, one he was getting his pre-presidential

briefing this was foremost in his mind. There are people around the

world who are worried about this president because he is impulsive

and he easily rattled. You know the inside track in the White House.

What sort of advice will he be getting? He will be getting the best

and brightest advice. I will guarantee you this morning there

will have been in the situation room, in a secure facility in the

basement of the West Wing of the White House, you have military

intelligence officers who man these positions 24-hour the day and you

have a specific North Korean desk and what they did was prepare a

matrix for him, giving him a sense of exactly what happened and what

time it happened and the potential threat to

the United States and our allies. Having been in a situation with

President Bush, I can tell you that these are very dedicated and great

individuals who are in the best spot to give President Trump the most

current and important strategic advice for him to make decisions. In

the end it comes down to him. In the end it does come down to him and it

comes down to the National Security Advisor and the focus of his inner

circle and the question I am thinking about right now is what is

the presidential take on this? Does he view this, as I do, as a very

significant threat and an escalation of threat from North Korea or do you

look at the Tweety sent out this morning and he was referring to the

North Korean dictator saying, does this guy have anything better to do

this time? So I hope that his mindset is in the right place as we

look at this very important juncture with relations with North Korea and

the rest of the world. We will have more from you in a moment.

The European Parliament has 751 elected representatives and once

a month the parliament moves from Brussels to Strasbourg, its

Today the invited guest was the Prime Minister of Malta,

his country is one of the smallest members of the union, it has spent

the last six months running the EU's rotating presidency.

But the parliamentary chamber was empty.

Barely 30 elected officials turned out to hear the speech.

Well, it drew this response from the European Commission President,

There are only a few members in here to control the commission. You are

ridiculous. HE SPEAKS FRENCH. HE SPEAKS FRENCH.

I will never again attend a meeting of this kind. The commission is

under the control of the parliament that the parliament house to respect

even the presidents of smaller countries and what the parliament is

not doing. That was a rather feisty exchange with the president of the

parliament. A little earlier I spoke

with Chris Morris, a long time More than once or twice you made

this visit from Brussels to Strasbourg and it is costly for the

parliament to move. Given some of the criticism the Parliament

receives it could well do without criticism from one of their own.

They could, but I can see his point. He has come all the way down from

Brussels to Strasbourg which is a difficult journey. The Prime

Minister of Malta has flown up from Malta and be with him and only 30

MEPs turnout. There are supposed to be 751 MEPs. They will not always

all be there but you would hope that if the President of the commission

and the Prime Minister who has been running EU business for the last six

months turn up then more than 30 should be bothered to come and

listen to them talk. He was a bit undiplomatic but he sometimes is and

he sometimes says what he thinks. I can understand where he is coming

from. Jean-Claude Juncker is the former Prime Minister of Luxembourg,

does he have a point that very often the smaller states have to jockey

for position? He does. One of the commission 's jobs is to look after

the interests of all member states, big and small. He went out of the

way to say that if it was Angela Merkel they would queue at the back

door to get in. Just because it is a small country you need to show a bit

more respect. It was a little bit of handbags and the president of the

parliament snapped back and said you don't control us, we control years.

Explain the parameters, he said it wouldn't come again and through his

toys out of the pram but where was the distinction on whether the power

lines like? The president of the parliament was referring to that

Parliament has the ability to sack commissioners. It can get rid of

commissioners in extremis, and it has to approve the commission so in

a sense parliament is the oversight over the commission rather than vice

versa. Said this was how dare you? A little bit. But I can see his point.

It brings us back to the point we have discussed many times, why is

there a second parliament anyway? Maybe he would not have been so

grumpy if he had only just gone down the road in Brussels but this costs

?150 million a year to have this second parliament in Strasbourg and

most MEPs would like to get rid of it but they cannot do anything about

it and it is up to the leaders of the member states and France are

opposed to losing this so it is pork barrel politics and it would be very

difficult to get rid of that second chamber but most people think it is

a waste of time. The point we have two include is that they are all

there in Strasberg and they didn't turn up late. This was the photo

that our correspondence sent three hours later and you can see that it

is full, so I do not know what that means. Tory own conclusions from

that. Do the Maltese Prime Minister not pulling in a very big crowd.

As a candidate, Donald Trump vowed to crackdown on illegal immigration

while building that wall along the border with Mexico.

In the first five months of his Presidency the number

of arrests by immigration officials has increased, but so far there have

But one particular group that is in focus,

is the undocumented minors, known in America as the DREAMers.

In 2012, President Obama issued an executive order to give

Now that policy is under legal challenge.

Will Grant has been to Mexico city to meet the DREAMers who have

already given in to the pressure and gone home.

These were some of the United States best and brightest. Now they are

Mexico's again. Young and dedicated and bilingual. In the US they were

known as DREAMers. Now thousands have returned to Mexico, he devoted

totally or under due west. -- either voluntarily or under duress. This

was a video chat with many of them. Many share similar stories of deer,

separation, deportation and stigma. Despite the proposed protection of

the Obama administration is deferred action policy, many of the DREAMers

at this event return to Mexico when their parents were deported to avoid

breaking up their families. Now they find themselves in a country that

they barely know and with which they have few connections. But these days

they are not looking backwards, but ahead, for opportunities in Mexico.

In Mexico there are also trains and the thing is you cannot put American

dream in your dream. It is your dream. If you put American comedy

you are already putting up the border wall that Trump wants to

build. Despite the President Trump tough rhetoric towards Mexico

deportations went down by 12% over his first 100 days and he recently

said that DREAMers should rest easy. Still activists say that more needs

to be done to inform immigrants in the US of their rights. They think

that as long as they are undocumented people they do not have

rights, and they do. We have to make them aware of that. Now a little

problem, or a little mistake, can have very big consequences. Someone

who knows just how big those consequences can be is Francisco. He

was arrested for trespassing and he said he was just crossing a car

park. He was deported after living in Kentucky for 14 years. After

battling the tangled bureaucracy in Mexico he finally has an ID card. I

am 46 years old but in the united states you get a job at that age

without any problem but here it is very difficult. Another thing is

that some people in Mexico say they are not racist but people with my

skin colour and it is actually a truth that we have less

opportunities. Connecting people at Francisco would deport the support

groups might take time. Most simply do not know that help exists.

Deportations may have slowed slightly but few expect the Trump

administration to let up, meaning more young people may soon have to

build their dreams in Mexico instead. This is a divisive issue.

Where do you stand on the type of support that the DREAMers should

get? I think they should get the support. It is a very difficult

environment for children who did nothing wrong on their own and their

parents may have brought them to the United States. They have a right to

bigger and we need to find a way to get them the to stay here. Let us

talk to another story. It is my favourite

story of the week. We showed you pictures yesterday

of the New Jersey governor Chris Christie enjoying a deserted

beach, having closed them to the public on Saturday over

a budget dispute with the Democrats. Bad enough, but in a press

conference a little later, the governor denied he had been

enjoying the sun that day. His spokesman defending him,

said strictly speaking that was true because he was sheltering under

a baseball cap. I think it is just so ironic,

Christian, that Chris Christie, and no relation, even though I was born

in New Jersey! He claims he is a fiscal conservative and one that is

really leading jersey forward but it almost looks as though he is Nero

while the rest of New Jersey is burning. It has been terrible and it

was terrible for him to deny his constituency opportunity to enjoy

the beach while he is there at a taxpayer funded Governor 's Mansion,

doing something that they couldn't so the optics of that were just

awful. You can imagine that Twitter has

been having some fun with this. There he is in his beach chair on

the George Washington Bridge. And so on and so forth. This is a man whose

approval rating has plummeted. He was a presidential candidate and he

opened the Republican convention back in 2012. It is amazing, isn't

it, how quickly the arc of Chris Christie 's political career as

cratered, frankly. He is a person who, not unlike Donald Trump, was

very forceful and aggressive and very abrasive and he tried to

present himself as something of a moderate to the American people and

it never really caught on. After you look at the presidential election

and the loss and the way that President Trump humiliated the

governor and brought him into run his transition team but then

immediately fired him shortly thereafter, it makes you wonder if

he has a future in politics in the United States. At this juncture I

just do not see it. His approval rating of 15%. He was asked about in

the press conference just after that but he said he did not care about

his poll ratings. John McCain used to have a joke, when you are down to

that level you are down to staffers and close family. 15%! You are

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Still to come: With North Korea saying they have a missile that can

reach the United States, we'll examine how their

And we'll visit some very presidential figures

That's still to come on 100 Days Plus, from BBC News.

Hello. It is a fine evening out there for many of us but it has been

one of those days in the Lake District, it has looked like this

pretty much throughout the day. There is a weather system sitting

across Northern Ireland, southern Scotland and northern England so if

you have been under it you know it is quite cloudy and wet and cool.

This evening into tonight the rain is easing away from Northern Ireland

but in parts of southern Scotland and northern England it stays quite

dampened drizzly overnight. There may be the odd shower in south-west

England but elsewhere it looks dry. Variable cloud and clear spells and

for many a warm night to come but for many of us it will dip down into

single figures. A bright start to the day tomorrow. In northern

Scotland it continues with those sunny spells and it feels pleasant

in the afternoon, maybe 20 degrees. In the central belt and southern

Scotland and Northern Ireland and for much of northern England, cloudy

start to the day. It looks drier than today but still light rain and

drizzle around, particularly across parts of south-east Scotland and

northern England. For the rest of England and down into Wales for many

of us it will be a blue sky start to the day, particularly south Wales

and southern England. More sunshine compared to today and

it will feel warm as a result. Sunshine in northern Scotland and

for some of us in Northern Ireland, south-west Scotland and North West

England it will brighten up in the afternoon. North-east England and

Southee Scotland stays cloudy but showers elsewhere in the North.

Maybe the odd one in Wales and the south-west but many of us will stay

dry. Quite a range of temperatures and in Newcastle it could reach 30

with the hottest sunshine in southern England. We are turning on

the humidity in Wimbledon the next few days with Thursday looking

interesting with a chance of downpours and possible

interruptions. That is after a warm and muggy night on Wednesday night.

We bring the weather disturbance forwards on Thursday. The warmth

will not extend further north but the rain will clear away in Scotland

and in eastern Wales and England they are most at risk of the

thundery downpours. Hit and miss and not everyone will but if you do that

brain could be torrential. The heat and humidity is there and it extends

further north across more of Scotland and Northern Ireland on

Thursday. By Friday there is still some heat to be had by the weather

system approaching the North West will sleep south-east as we go

through the weekend and turn a bit cooler and fresher.

Welcome back to One Hundred Days Plus,

North Korea test fires a missile and claims it could reach America -

the country's dictator wants to put a nuclear warhead on it.

In the battle for Raqqa, US-backed Syrian forces have

breached the wall surrounding the old city - closing

North Korea's missile program is advancing at some pace.

Since February they have fired 17 missiles further improving

But this latest test might be the most significant yet.

If it is proven to be an intercontinental missile.

The previous missiles that have been launched had ranges of 3 and half

thousand kilometres at most - which puts neighbours

South Korea, Japan, China and Russia within reach.

With Hwasong-14, the name given to this missile,

you can see Alaska and some areas of the West Coast

North Korea says it is a ICBM the US and Russia are not convinced.

Moscow believes it is another of the intermediate range.

Neil Ashdown is the Deputy Editor of Janes Intelligence Review.

There are two arguments, the nuclear warhead and then the delivery

mechanism. So the delivery mechanism first, TUC big strides that they

have made. While North Korea since Kim Jong Un came to power, there

have been working on a series of missiles designed to fulfil

different purposes. The missile would just seen tested today is

their version of a ICBM. The longest range missile. From what I can tell

it also has the longest rage that has been demonstrated. So different

tools to fulfil different jobs and this is the missile designed

potentially to threaten the United States. And based on some figures

made public it is credible that it could potentially reach places like

Alaska. Well we saw that the trajectory is a bit of a loop, goes

up and come down quite sharply. Ordinarily it would not be fired in

that way? So this is a test and they deliberately fired it in a lofted

trajectory because given the range they're trying to get, if they fired

with the traditional ballistic trajectory it would have reached

Japan and they obviously would have tried to fire it down. So they

deliberately tested it at this angle and so quite a few sums will be

doing -- will be being done in Washington and other parts of the

world to try to work out how far it can get. It was still go out of the

atmosphere if fired on that trajectory which brings us to the

warhead. How advanced we need to be to be able to come back through the

atmosphere and do they have that technology? There are two processes,

won the delivery and covered course of this year we've seen a series of

significant steps forward in the missile. In 2016 North Korea

released images that led us to believe they had designed a credible

re-entry system for warhead. Not to say that it is built or tested but

something they have been thinking about. We have not seen so much

progress on the delivery system this year but it does not mean they're

not working on it. Just looking at these pictures, a lot of technology

is involved for a country supposedly under sanctions, and supposedly

China putting pressure on, where is coming from? Much of it will be

developed domestically by North Korea and some of the tests seem to

mark a transition towards more domestic rebuild technology rather

than relying on old Soviet style systems that they inherited. But

there will be bits of technology needed to make these missiles that

North Korea may struggle to make domestically because of the high

tolerance required for the materials. And in some cases it is

likely North Korea is sourcing materials through front companies

and third countries to deliberately evade the sanctions that are in

place to allow it to advance its missile programme. Thank you for

coming in. The US backed coalition in Syria

says they have breached the historic More than two thousand

jihadi fighters, and up to a hundred thousand civilians,

are still thought to be inside the capital of

so called Islamic State. Meanwhile Iraqi forces say

they are also close to taking the last few remaining streets

controlled by IS in Mosul, as our correspondent

Richard Galpin reports. On the front lines

of Raqqa, the capital It's looking

increasingly vulnerable. These are troops of the Syrian

Democratic Forces, or SDF, Over the past few weeks

they have advanced rapidly through the outskirts

towards the city centre. This Kurdish commander said

the Islamic State militants are only firing mortar shells and rockets,

and claims their spirits are low. And now, after the arrival

of reinforcement last weekend, SDF troops are reported to have

taken another major step forward, breaking through the walls

guarding the old city. The US military says its warplanes

based in the region fired missiles to punch two holes in these medieval

walls surrounding the old city. SDF troops were then able to take

the fight inside the heavily fortified area, where it's estimated

at least 2000 Islamic State fighters Amongst those involved in this key

battle is a British man who calls They are making excellent inroads

into the city, which means that the confidence amongst the SDF

fighters on the ground is incredibly high, and we're looking forward

to seeing Raqqa completely done, finished, which is the heartland

of the so-called Islamic State. And, meanwhile, across the border

to the East, Iraqi troops are now very close to pushing Islamic State

completely out of its other major stronghold,

the strategic city of Mosul. It has taken the soldiers

here almost eight months to reach this point,

with just a handful of militants fighting on in a tiny

corner of the city. The caliphate proclaimed

by Islamist State across a large area of Syria and Iraq three years

ago is almost at an end, but with pockets of territory

elsewhere, the militants Italy has summoned the Austrian

Ambassador over reports that border controls should be imposed soon to

stop migrants crossing from Italy to Austria. There were reports that

Austria had moved armoured vehicles to the alpine Brenner pass. Narendra

Modi has become the first visit to Israel by an Indian Prime Minister.

He talked of the two countries working closely together to build

prosperity and cooperating in the fight against terrorism. They're

expected to announce partnerships in areas such as agriculture, defence

and space technology. Today is 4th July,

it is Independence Day in the United States and we thought

we would celebrate by dropping In fact we have been

out to meet 43 of them, It's a passion of mine and I feel

strongly about saving them. I guess it is my job

now to be the keeper of We have got 43 presidents

here ranging from our first President, George Washington,

to our 43rd, George Bush. They're probably 16

foot, to 18 feet. They weigh anywhere

from 14 to 20,000 There was a park built

about 12 years ago where the I was asked to crush

the statues or get rid of And I actually hauled them

off at my own expense. We had to lay them over tyres

to cushion their heads. And unfortunately we

dropped them and Lincoln took a good smack in

back of the head which history tells you something about that story.

Their moods seem to change, over the four years they've been

sitting here, the weather, a little mould gets on

them and everybody goes back to George,

They are strong, they fight the weather.

We need to go back to the beginning before there was a

president, what this country fought for,

to have freedom, to say what

That is my cause, I'm going to spread it.

After we move, and we are considering bronzing them, which

will make them last about 400 years without repair.

In their state of being concrete, they probably need

touch-up and attention on a yearly basis.

What a great film. Apparently he's trying to crowdfunding some of the

repairs to those statues. One of them I think Ronald Reagan was hit

by lightning and so they need yearly care. Let me tell you, as we

celebrate our independence on the 4th of July here is one of the

things we have in the bill of rights is freedom of speech and freedom of

expression and this gentleman certainly is taking the time to

speak his mind and its presence felt in a way to preserve the statues. So

God bless them, not necessarily my cup of tea. So where will you be

watching the 4th of July fireworks? I'm excited this evening, I will be

on a rooftop overlooking the White House, overlooking the South lawn

with my wife and a dear friend of mine who just became a United States

citizen. So this would be the first opportunity for my wife and I to sit

and be with someone who can celebrate their first 4th of July as

an American citizen. It is a deeply partisan time in Washington right

now, is this the kind of time when the village that is Washington comes

together? I think so, driving in to the BBC today you see so many

American flags waving, so many people in a good mood, sitting

together, visiting comic eating, and looking forward to these fireworks

tonight to say that we stand shoulder to shoulder as Americans

and we revel in our country and its history and look forward to history

yet to be made. While we wish you a happy 4th of July. Thank you very

much for coming in and sharing some of that with us. Kathie Kay will be

back tomorrow. She is taking a well earned break but we'll be back in

this seed tomorrow. Join us for that and thank you for watching.