:00:10. > :00:11.Hello and welcome to One Hundred Days Plus.
:00:12. > :00:15.The President says his son is innocent and transparent -
:00:16. > :00:17.but Donald Trump Jr's incriminating email chain leads
:00:18. > :00:22.And now even Republican lawmakers normally loyal to the White House
:00:23. > :00:24.are pressing for answers on why these Russia disclosures
:00:25. > :00:32.The president's son says he should have done things differently
:00:33. > :00:35.but he denies there's any big deal about meeting a Russian operative
:00:36. > :00:45.Far from Washington - those who voted for Donald Trump
:00:46. > :00:47.are riding out this latest controversy and still like
:00:48. > :00:55.He's a good businessman and that's what the country needs -
:00:56. > :01:00.get people working and I think that is what he is doing.
:01:01. > :01:02.President Erdogan tells the BBC that membership of the European Union
:01:03. > :01:05.is not indispensable for Turkey and that the bloc wastes
:01:06. > :01:14.Kazakhstan, our latest stop along the new silk road.
:01:15. > :01:16.Chinese companies are pouring workers into the country -
:01:17. > :01:21.it leaves the locals wondering what the benefit is for them.
:01:22. > :01:23.Plus what happens when a teenager takes over
:01:24. > :01:31.Well here in the UK those usual complaints have given way
:01:32. > :01:44.Hello, I am Katty Kay in Washington, Christian Fraser is in London.
:01:45. > :01:46.The President insists the White House is great shape
:01:47. > :01:54.We are focused on healthcare, tax cuts, reform and many other things.
:01:55. > :01:59.Behind the scenes the President, his administration and now his
:02:00. > :02:02.family are dealing with dramatic developments in the Russia
:02:03. > :02:03.investigation - which continues to overshadow the rest
:02:04. > :02:09.Republicans are openly expressing dismay at the conflicting stories,
:02:10. > :02:11.the indications of collusion with Moscow and the incompetence
:02:12. > :02:19.The normally loyal New York Post put it more bluntly,
:02:20. > :02:22.today accusing the President's son, Don junior, of "stupidity."
:02:23. > :02:28.Last night Don Jnr gave his side to the story.
:02:29. > :02:35.I probably would have done things differently. This is before the
:02:36. > :02:39.Russia mania before they were building up in the press. For me
:02:40. > :02:43.this was opposition research and I wanted to hear it out. But it went
:02:44. > :02:48.nowhere and it was apparent that was not what the meeting was about. Did
:02:49. > :02:50.you tell your father anything? It was such a nothing there was nothing
:02:51. > :02:51.to tell. The White House has said very
:02:52. > :02:54.little on these emails. The spokesperson says
:02:55. > :02:55.she is now referring all questions on the matter
:02:56. > :02:58.to Don Junior's own lawyers. The president has had no public
:02:59. > :03:01.engagement for three days but he did tweet following that
:03:02. > :03:03.Fox news interview. My son Donald did
:03:04. > :03:05.a good job last night. He was open, transparent
:03:06. > :03:07.and innocent. This is the greatest Witch Hunt
:03:08. > :03:10.in political history. I spoke with Democrat Congresswoman
:03:11. > :03:16.Jackie Speier who sits on the House So, Congresswoman, the president
:03:17. > :03:22.tweeted today that his son is open, transparent and innocent
:03:23. > :03:25.and that the Democrats are guilty of conducting
:03:26. > :03:27.a witchhunt, as is the press, Are you Democrats on a witchhunt
:03:28. > :03:34.against this president First of all, it is an investigation
:03:35. > :03:38.that is being undertaken We have a bipartisan investigation
:03:39. > :03:45.going on in the Senate, a bipartisan investigation
:03:46. > :03:47.going on in the house, And now you have got
:03:48. > :03:51.the new FBI director who the president appointed,
:03:52. > :03:53.testifying before the Senate today Furthermore, the fact that his son
:03:54. > :04:05.disclosed the e-mail chain was done only because it was about to be
:04:06. > :04:10.released by the New York Times. So that is not so much
:04:11. > :04:12.transparency as it is trying Is he innocent, though,
:04:13. > :04:18.of any legal misdemeanour? There seemed to be quite
:04:19. > :04:20.a few lawyers saying there was actually nothing illegal
:04:21. > :04:27.in what Donald Jr did. So the FEC is very clear that no
:04:28. > :04:29.candidate or operative can receive anything of value
:04:30. > :04:35.from a foreign national. Value is not determined by money,
:04:36. > :04:37.it is determined by something of value, getting dirt
:04:38. > :04:40.on Hillary Clinton would be It is the equivalent of off
:04:41. > :04:44.research, but you're not getting it from someone in the United States,
:04:45. > :04:47.you're getting it from foreign That would subject him
:04:48. > :04:59.I believe to an SEC action. You sit on the intelligence
:05:00. > :05:02.committee, do you have anything else in terms of communications,
:05:03. > :05:04.that the public does not yet know I would not be able to disclose that
:05:05. > :05:11.to you, but I can assure you that Donald Trump Junior is going to be
:05:12. > :05:14.someone that I want to see come before our committee
:05:15. > :05:20.and be questioned. Congresswoman, you have
:05:21. > :05:24.said that the Russians are experts at compromise,
:05:25. > :05:26.I'm sure this is what is preventing You do not know that, do you,
:05:27. > :05:35.you do not know the Russians have compromising material
:05:36. > :05:37.on this president? No, I do not have any
:05:38. > :05:39.official documentation. We certainly have the dossier that
:05:40. > :05:42.Christopher Steele provided that has And so far from what I have been
:05:43. > :05:48.told, there has not been anything that has been checked out about that
:05:49. > :05:51.dossier that has not So he does in terms of compromise
:05:52. > :05:57.talk about videos and the like, I do not know if they exist,
:05:58. > :06:01.I do not know if it is even true, but so far the dossier has
:06:02. > :06:07.proven to be accurate. Are you convinced that there
:06:08. > :06:16.will emerge during the course of Bob Mueller's investigation
:06:17. > :06:18.or the House or the Senate investigations, more evidence that
:06:19. > :06:21.reveals that the Trump campaign colluded in a way that was illegal,
:06:22. > :06:24.with the Russian government? And if breadcrumbs actually give
:06:25. > :06:30.you a pathway to a certain end, And there are so many breadcrumbs
:06:31. > :06:41.that have been dropped by the president himself on any
:06:42. > :06:44.number of occasions, on a number of different issues as it relates
:06:45. > :06:46.to this investigation, that I believe personally,
:06:47. > :06:49.this is me personally, not based on what I'm seeing
:06:50. > :06:51.in the intelligence community, I think that there was
:06:52. > :06:53.collaboration, coordination Congresswoman Jackie Speier,
:06:54. > :07:05.thank you so much for joining us. It's not just Democrats who are fed
:07:06. > :07:08.up with the Trump team failing to report these contacts
:07:09. > :07:10.with the Russians. Republican Congressman Trey Gowdy,
:07:11. > :07:12.is a fierce critic of Hillary Clinton, but here's his advice
:07:13. > :07:17.for the White House. Someone close to the President needs
:07:18. > :07:20.to get everyone connected with that campaign in a room and say,
:07:21. > :07:24.from the time you saw Dr Zhivago until the moment you drank vodka
:07:25. > :07:29.with a guy name Boris, you list every single one of those
:07:30. > :07:32.and we're going to turn them over to the special counsel because this
:07:33. > :07:35.drip, drip, drip is undermining the credibility
:07:36. > :07:49.of this administration. Just for full disclosure I have
:07:50. > :07:57.watched Doctor Zhivago twice. Trade dowdy is not someone, let's just
:07:58. > :08:00.talk about him, is someone who has stuck up for the White House all
:08:01. > :08:05.along and if he is saying things like that it suggests to me the
:08:06. > :08:08.Republicans are concerned. Just in the last couple of minutes I've
:08:09. > :08:13.heard from a couple of Republicans who had said to me before that they
:08:14. > :08:16.did not think there was anything in the Russian investigation and now
:08:17. > :08:21.they are leaning towards thinking investigation has to be conducted
:08:22. > :08:25.fully by Bob will because they start to think perhaps there is something.
:08:26. > :08:30.I cannot explain otherwise why Donald Trump has repeatedly backed
:08:31. > :08:33.away from being tough on President Putin and it is putting those things
:08:34. > :08:37.together that is leading them to think there is something that there
:08:38. > :08:41.is far behind all this smoke. They also watch the White House change
:08:42. > :08:47.the goalposts, initially at the White House said, John -- Donald Jr
:08:48. > :08:50.said the idea that they had cooperated with the Russians was
:08:51. > :08:53.disgusting. Now they're saying there may have been some kind of
:08:54. > :08:57.cooperation but it was totally legal. We do not know what happened
:08:58. > :09:01.after the meeting because everyone in the media has reason to say
:09:02. > :09:05.nothing happened. On the problem is when you look at what was in the
:09:06. > :09:11.e-mail, he says you know, I love it. There is no pause, he does not think
:09:12. > :09:16.this is concerning, maybe I should report this and that is what is
:09:17. > :09:19.raising concerns with Republicans. Exactly that, the White House does
:09:20. > :09:24.not seem to think it was a problem meeting Russians to get dirt on
:09:25. > :09:28.Hillary Clinton. Well as was mentioned they're President Trump,
:09:29. > :09:29.his nominee to be the next FBI director was grilled by Senators
:09:30. > :09:31.today. Christopher Wray is up
:09:32. > :09:33.to replace James Comey, who you'll remember was fired
:09:34. > :09:35.by Mr Trump in May because of Mr Wray promised he would insulate
:09:36. > :09:39.the bureau from any outside, But he was also pushed
:09:40. > :09:43.for his thoughts on Don Jr's meeting Republican Senator Lindsey Graham
:09:44. > :09:47.wanted to know what the President's You're going to be the Director
:09:48. > :09:52.of the FBI, so here's what I want If you get a call from somebody
:09:53. > :09:56.suggesting that a foreign government wants to help
:09:57. > :09:58.you by disparaging your opponent, To the members of this committee,
:09:59. > :10:08.any threat or effort to interfere with our elections from any nation
:10:09. > :10:11.state or any non-state actor is the kind of thing
:10:12. > :10:25.the FBI would want to know. That is reassuring for those people
:10:26. > :10:34.on the committee. But what I want to know, you could say Donald Jr is a
:10:35. > :10:37.private citizen, Jared Kushner, who is copied on these e-mails is a
:10:38. > :10:42.special adviser to the White House, as close as you get to the president
:10:43. > :10:48.and he knew what was in the e-mail. So how come his position is not
:10:49. > :10:51.hanging by a thread? The question is does he keep his security clearance,
:10:52. > :10:54.I do not think anyone is saying he will be fired from the White House
:10:55. > :10:58.but Republicans and Democrats are saying he should not have security
:10:59. > :11:04.clearance because of that meeting he had. There is the e-mail directed to
:11:05. > :11:05.him which specifically said Russia, Clinton, meeting. He cannot have
:11:06. > :11:08.ignored that. So - far from Capitol
:11:09. > :11:10.Hill and the feverish atmosphere of Washington -
:11:11. > :11:13.what kind of effect is this having on the President's popularity
:11:14. > :11:14.around the country? Today he has a 40
:11:15. > :11:16.percent approval rating. Down 5 points since
:11:17. > :11:20.he came to office. But of course - and we have
:11:21. > :11:23.said this many times before on this programme -
:11:24. > :11:26.that only tells part of the story. His support within
:11:27. > :11:27.his base is solid. 85 percent of Republicans
:11:28. > :11:37.are still behind this president. We have sent Nick Bryant to Nebraska
:11:38. > :11:43.- a state that has voted Republican In the rollicking ride
:11:44. > :11:46.of the Trump presidency, you often wonder how long he'll stay
:11:47. > :11:51.on the horse. Every day seems to bring
:11:52. > :11:55.a new wrestle in the mud. With the media, Congress,
:11:56. > :11:58.international leaders. But here in Nebraska,
:11:59. > :12:01.a Trump state at the election, there is still strong support
:12:02. > :12:04.for his presidency. Despite the attempts
:12:05. > :12:07.of opponents to ensnare him. Are you happy with
:12:08. > :12:12.the job he is doing? I think he's doing all
:12:13. > :12:15.right he has some flaws, but like any president,
:12:16. > :12:17.you know, they have I think he needs to
:12:18. > :12:22.lay off the keyboard. He is a good businessman
:12:23. > :12:25.and that is what the country needs. Get the country back out of debt,
:12:26. > :12:28.get a lot of people working. On the night that Donald
:12:29. > :12:34.Trump Junior's bombshell e-mails were released,
:12:35. > :12:36.the pigs were more No-one we spoke to at this county
:12:37. > :12:47.fair was in the least bit concerned that team Trump might have been
:12:48. > :12:49.telling porkies about its contacts They echoed the White House line,
:12:50. > :12:52.that the controversy The media has taken
:12:53. > :12:56.it out of proportion. I don't know, I haven't followed it
:12:57. > :13:04.for awhile now because of that. I think it is just spun
:13:05. > :13:12.by the left because they lost. What is noticeable about coming
:13:13. > :13:15.to the heartland is that people are not glued to their smartphones
:13:16. > :13:17.all the time. They're not following this
:13:18. > :13:18.presidency, minute by But you do get the sense that some
:13:19. > :13:24.people feel Donald Trump is fixated That is the concern of the local
:13:25. > :13:33.Republican mayor, Josh Moni. What I hear from people is less
:13:34. > :13:41.tweeting and more doing. I think there is kind
:13:42. > :13:43.of bewilderment about the compulsion to tweet
:13:44. > :13:45.about anything and everything. I think people like to see him focus
:13:46. > :13:48.more on working on some In America's fiercely
:13:49. > :13:57.patriotic heartland, it seems anomalous that voters
:13:58. > :13:58.aren't concerned They seem more mistrustful
:13:59. > :14:03.of the media than Moscow. Another indication of the polarising
:14:04. > :14:07.effect of the Trump presidency. Of how the United States
:14:08. > :14:09.increasingly sounds It's our penultimate
:14:10. > :14:23.show on 100 Days+. All our friends
:14:24. > :14:25.are back with us this week. Scott Shellady, Managing Director of
:14:26. > :14:40.the stockbrokers TJM Europe is here. The cow man! He is back. You watch
:14:41. > :14:45.that video, people in Nebraska asking why you keep going on about
:14:46. > :14:51.the Russia thing. Even if you take Donald Jr out of this, let's say he
:14:52. > :14:55.is a political novice, there is still in the e-mail thread showing
:14:56. > :15:03.that Russia wanted to interfere in the election. Surely worthy of
:15:04. > :15:06.reporting. But they have tried to get involved in other elections
:15:07. > :15:12.around the world, that is what they do. It is nothing new, it is old
:15:13. > :15:17.news. It is just a fact that those who who did not get their candidate
:15:18. > :15:21.elected are apoplectic and cannot deliver the fact that Donald Trump
:15:22. > :15:24.beat their candidate. But we just heard from Republicans and they're
:15:25. > :15:29.worried in Congress that this is constantly overshadowing the agenda,
:15:30. > :15:33.it has been shoved down the line, there's not on health care, tax
:15:34. > :15:38.reform, infrastructure. And it is Russia always at the forefront. Well
:15:39. > :15:42.the media are putting rush at the forefront and that is slowing down
:15:43. > :15:47.his agenda. It is an obstruction. But I would add that his own friends
:15:48. > :15:52.in Congress, other Republicans re-elected with him, have not
:15:53. > :15:55.behaved well either. So here's the swamp which he thought would be the
:15:56. > :15:59.Liberals or Democrats, is turning out to be the entire Congress. They
:16:00. > :16:04.want to keep it the same as it was and do not want to rock the boat.
:16:05. > :16:07.That is causing problems for him. He is a guide that may go down in
:16:08. > :16:12.history as being the first president that is going to try to do what he
:16:13. > :16:17.said he was going to do and his own party might even stop him. I've
:16:18. > :16:23.heard that argument before, if it is not Russia it is the press and even
:16:24. > :16:25.possibly the Republican party obstructing this president but one
:16:26. > :16:28.of the things that supporters liked about him when he ran in the
:16:29. > :16:33.election was he was the guy that was going to do deals and get things
:16:34. > :16:36.done in Washington. Specifically on jobs and the economy. But
:16:37. > :16:42.infrastructure, that tax reform Bill. But we have nothing big on the
:16:43. > :16:47.economy that he has done. Absolutely right and that has been his biggest
:16:48. > :16:50.mistake so far, he has not been able to heard the kittens. But his own
:16:51. > :16:56.party is stabbing him in the back and grandstanding. They have had
:16:57. > :17:00.seven, eight years to put something together that would be better than
:17:01. > :17:05.what we have today and they puff out their chest and said I do not like
:17:06. > :17:08.this or that. It is bad timing and the hardest thing to turn around in
:17:09. > :17:13.an economy is sentiment and confidence. He has been able, he has
:17:14. > :17:17.turned that around without telling anything else around. He needs to
:17:18. > :17:24.see the economic indicators coming in in support. Confidence is also
:17:25. > :17:29.slipping in the UK, you think Brexit is a good thing, you still think
:17:30. > :17:35.that? I do, you see so many cranes from here in the studio, still a lot
:17:36. > :17:40.of building and that is a good economic indication. I will never
:17:41. > :17:43.accept that if I want to take my ball home and leave the club I would
:17:44. > :17:50.be penalised for doing that. I do not get that.
:17:51. > :18:01.I think you're in so much trouble, Christian, you have gone over time
:18:02. > :18:07.again! Fascinating. I keep hearing it again and again, it is the
:18:08. > :18:10.Republicans, the press, the Russian investigation. Some supporters have
:18:11. > :18:12.a lot of tolerance for his inability to get things done. Let's move on.
:18:13. > :18:15.In just a few hours President Trump leaves for Paris where he will be
:18:16. > :18:19.The purpose for his visit is to celebrate 100 years years
:18:20. > :18:21.since US troops entered the First World War on the side
:18:22. > :18:24.of France and Britain - but it's hard to believe politics
:18:25. > :18:29.Perhaps one of the greatest divisions comes on the Paris Climate
:18:30. > :18:31.Accord which Mr Trump recently pulled the US out of.
:18:32. > :18:35.A brief time ago I spoke with Lord Stern - one of the leading
:18:36. > :18:37.climate change experts who helped advise the French government
:18:38. > :18:48.I put it to him that President Trump believes upholding the accord could
:18:49. > :18:50.risk jobs and other countries might not keep their side of the bargain.
:18:51. > :18:52.Since Paris, country after country has upped its ambition
:18:53. > :18:54.and is over performing, so other countries are
:18:55. > :18:59.The United States made a reasonably modest commitment in Paris to reduce
:19:00. > :19:07.by 26% to 28% measured from 2005 to 2025.
:19:08. > :19:10.It could well do that without the commitment
:19:11. > :19:13.of President Trump because a dozen states, 350 cities, a whole bag full
:19:14. > :19:29.of big firms are all committed within the United States.
:19:30. > :19:35.But there is one side of America, I mean we've heard in our programme
:19:36. > :19:38.today from people in Nebraska, and they don't feel
:19:39. > :19:40.as committed to climate change as they do to job creation.
:19:41. > :19:44.Yes, and he's obligated, in my view, to put serious economic arguments
:19:45. > :19:47.in front of them and there are big job opportunities in
:19:48. > :19:50.The United States is a great leader in innovation
:19:51. > :19:53.So it's very important that the economic arguments are laid
:19:54. > :19:59.out properly and not offering people false promises and false arguments.
:20:00. > :20:02.He's not going to presumably do that because the man
:20:03. > :20:04.who is the Environment Secretary, Scott Pruitt, is actually
:20:05. > :20:09.I mean, I'll read you something he said.
:20:10. > :20:15."I think that measuring with precision human activity
:20:16. > :20:17.on the climate is something very challenging to do.
:20:18. > :20:20.I would not agree that it's a primary contributor
:20:21. > :20:24.Well, if Mr Pruitt has new scientific results,
:20:25. > :20:27.The scientists would be very interested in seeing them.
:20:28. > :20:30.You've got 200 years of climate science, clear and strong, that
:20:31. > :20:36.But if you look across the administration at the Secretary
:20:37. > :20:40.of State, Mr Tillerson, if you look at Treasury,
:20:41. > :20:46.if you look at Defence, you'll find quite a lot of people
:20:47. > :20:49.in the administration who are absolutely not climate
:20:50. > :20:55.deniers and recognise the importance of action.
:20:56. > :20:58.The Paris Accord was hailed as this landmark achievement,
:20:59. > :21:01.but how watertight is it if a country the size
:21:02. > :21:05.of the United States can just walk away without any repercussions?
:21:06. > :21:09.Actually, the United States cannot withdraw for three years,
:21:10. > :21:12.that was part of the Paris Agreement.
:21:13. > :21:16.At the end of that three years, you have to give a year's notice.
:21:17. > :21:18.Donald Trump's going to sit down with Emmanuel Macron over the next
:21:19. > :21:22.couple of days and I'm sure there's going to be some arm twisting
:21:23. > :21:25.in the background about climate change.
:21:26. > :21:27.If you were sitting in front of him, for the next two-days,
:21:28. > :21:33.I'd be very happy to sit before him and I would make the case
:21:34. > :21:35.that the route to the low-carbon economy is enormously attractive,
:21:36. > :21:39.in terms of jobs, growth itself, cities where you can move,
:21:40. > :21:41.cities where you can breathe, cities where you can be productive,
:21:42. > :21:47.eco systems which have some chance of survival.
:21:48. > :21:53.It's completely false to portray it as climate
:21:54. > :21:57.responsibility versus growth, that's just to get it wrong.
:21:58. > :22:00.We've seen that around the world in China now, in India,
:22:01. > :22:06.in the kind of objectives that President Macron himself has.
:22:07. > :22:09.What we've done in the UK, where we've cut emissions by 40%
:22:10. > :22:16.This is the growth story and it's a very attractive one and that's
:22:17. > :22:25.the most important point I think to get across.
:22:26. > :22:31.Some interesting thoughts. A quick take from that which is keen to get
:22:32. > :22:35.across, first America was not forced into this and second-best they said
:22:36. > :22:39.they were on target. The target was not imposed on them as President
:22:40. > :22:43.Trump seems to suggest and thirdly within the Paris agreement they can
:22:44. > :22:48.change the targets. So why pull out of it. That was the argument of
:22:49. > :22:54.Barack Obama and when he pulled out they said it is crazy, we could have
:22:55. > :22:58.been negotiated the existing deal. I think Donald Trump did not want to
:22:59. > :22:59.be part of that big international deal, he does not like that kind of
:23:00. > :23:01.international pact. I spend a good deal of my day
:23:02. > :23:04.watching the Twitter But yesterday -
:23:05. > :23:08.competing for attention - was the twitter feed
:23:09. > :23:11.of Southern Rail, not a twitter handle I normally follow -
:23:12. > :23:13.but yesterday the company left it in the hands of a 15
:23:14. > :23:23.year old student. Here on Work Experience and ready
:23:24. > :23:28.to answer your questions! Would you rather fight 1 horse sized
:23:29. > :23:37.duck or 100 duck sized horses? Now I don't know if you have tried
:23:38. > :23:40.these feeds in the past. And certainly not to
:23:41. > :23:44.a question like that. Eddie is that guy that
:23:45. > :23:50.goes the extra mile. A horse-sized duck
:23:51. > :23:57.would be pretty scary! And with that the hashtag
:23:58. > :23:59.'Ask Eddie' was born. And he answered every
:24:00. > :24:03.question they had. People asking for
:24:04. > :24:13.dinner suggestions. If he would rather have rollerblades
:24:14. > :24:17.on his feet or chopsticks for fingers. He answered every single
:24:18. > :24:23.one. I tried to get on the programme and he's not responding. He has been
:24:24. > :24:27.taken out of circulation! That is because they brought him back again
:24:28. > :24:33.at Southern Rail. They put up a photograph of him and he is back on
:24:34. > :24:40.that Twitter feed. I do not know what kind of summer jobs you had,
:24:41. > :24:45.Christian, I do not know many 15-year-olds who have such excellent
:24:46. > :24:52.work experience. He is going to be inundated by job offers. Just to say
:24:53. > :24:56.one thing, you are a useless Twitter feed editor, you need to find
:24:57. > :25:01.something else. You missed the best of all, at one stage he was asked
:25:02. > :25:07.whether a boy can swim faster than a shark. Here is what he replied. I do
:25:08. > :25:19.not think so, but you never know. There could be a girl. All the girls
:25:20. > :25:23.following Eddie! Hopefully all the boys as well and learning a thing or
:25:24. > :25:26.two. We will see if we can get him on the programme tomorrow.
:25:27. > :25:31.You're watching 100 Days Plus from BBC News.
:25:32. > :25:34.Still to come - Donald Trump calls the Russia investigation a witchhunt
:25:35. > :25:38.- the same term used by Nixon during Watergate.
:25:39. > :25:40.We'll hear from William Cohen who was a Republican Congressman
:25:41. > :25:45.And our journey continues on the New Silk Road -
:25:46. > :25:48.with a stop in Kazakhstan - where people feel squeezed by their
:25:49. > :26:09.That's still to come on 100 Days Plus, from BBC News.
:26:10. > :26:19.For most of us a beautiful day today. Lots of sunshine. Take a look
:26:20. > :26:26.at this picture from yesterday. A different story. This is in London.
:26:27. > :26:31.And today sunny skies in the north and south. So a very different day
:26:32. > :26:35.today across the south of the country with that rain pushing out
:26:36. > :26:39.into the continent. We are under the influence of high-pressure bust up
:26:40. > :26:44.it started off cloudy across the south and then just some fair
:26:45. > :26:50.weather cloud is pretty much it. So for this evening we have the
:26:51. > :26:56.high-pressure over us, a light wind and it is going to turn quite cold.
:26:57. > :27:00.In the middle of city centre is not especially cold but in rural areas
:27:01. > :27:08.just take a look at the difference. Four or 5 degrees across some
:27:09. > :27:10.northern areas. Thursday another fine day, the high-pressure
:27:11. > :27:14.dominating much of Western Europe. We have a weather front approaching
:27:15. > :27:19.the north-west, so perhaps thickening cloud and some spots of
:27:20. > :27:24.rain. Also just the chance of summer showers around across the Midlands
:27:25. > :27:33.and South West. But for most of us it is dry. So very hit and miss and
:27:34. > :27:37.for most of us another fine day. Low 20s in the south, around the 20
:27:38. > :27:45.degrees mark or high teens in the North. The greater chance perhaps of
:27:46. > :27:50.catching a few spots of rain across the north-west of the country. So
:27:51. > :27:54.there is fine day all in all and a good evening as well. From Friday
:27:55. > :28:00.onwards we see the wind picking up a little bit and pushing in some cloud
:28:01. > :28:04.from the Atlantic. So turning cloudy across some of these western areas
:28:05. > :28:08.and overall what is going to be happening through the course of
:28:09. > :28:14.Friday, weather systems coming in, bringing outbreaks of rain. That
:28:15. > :28:19.means Wimbledon is looking cloudy, and warm, actually really muggy
:28:20. > :28:26.during Saturday and Sunday for the finals. So this weekend, cloudy and
:28:27. > :28:27.muggy in the north-west in particular, and warmest across the
:28:28. > :30:07.South. I'm Katty Kay in Washington?
:30:08. > :30:15.And I'm Christian Fraser in London. Our top stories - Donald Trump
:30:16. > :30:18.defends his son over a meeting with a Russian lawyer
:30:19. > :30:21.during his Presidential campaign saying he's
:30:22. > :30:35.innocent and transparent. His son disclose the e-mail chain
:30:36. > :30:39.was done only because it was about to be released by the New York Times
:30:40. > :30:40.so that is not so much transparency as it is trying to get the upper
:30:41. > :30:41.hand. Turkey's President tells the BBC -
:30:42. > :30:44.the EU is wasting his country's time and that his country would find it
:30:45. > :30:48."comforting" if the EU said it The Kremlin today insisted it was in
:30:49. > :31:04.no way linked to the meeting between President Trump's son
:31:05. > :31:07.and a Russian lawyer. And on Twitter Mr Trump again
:31:08. > :31:10.said the current news cycle is a witch hunt.
:31:11. > :31:14.It is the same term by the way that Richard Nixon used
:31:15. > :31:16.nearly 45 years ago. The cases are different but maybe
:31:17. > :31:22.there are some lessons from history. Back then, William Cohen was a young
:31:23. > :31:25.Republican congressman from Maine who would go on to become a Senator
:31:26. > :31:28.and later the American Secretary He's been a regular guest on this
:31:29. > :31:45.programme and joins us again today. When you look at what has happened
:31:46. > :31:49.over the last 48 hours with Donald Trump, the revelations of Donald
:31:50. > :31:52.Trump Jr's meetings with Russia and the solicitation shown in those
:31:53. > :31:55.e-mails, how normal is that in the context of American politics because
:31:56. > :32:01.that is what some people around the White House seem to be saying. It
:32:02. > :32:05.was not just opposition research, when it comes to a foreign
:32:06. > :32:09.government. This is something that has the sink into the American
:32:10. > :32:16.people, that the Russian government according to all of our intelligence
:32:17. > :32:21.agencies, in fact did meddle in our last election. They did interfere,
:32:22. > :32:26.they did try to impede Hillary Clinton in terms of her quest for
:32:27. > :32:30.the presidency. Our intelligence agencies say that. The KGB and
:32:31. > :32:33.President Trump are denying this. It brings into focus the statements
:32:34. > :32:39.coming from the President that none of his staff, his associates had
:32:40. > :32:44.anything to do with the Russians. We are starting to see that is not
:32:45. > :32:49.quite true. We saw with General Flynn, we see with the President's
:32:50. > :32:56.son-in-law. It raises the whole issue of truth and the search, not a
:32:57. > :33:01.witch hunt, it is they hunt for the truth. Once we start it, we have to
:33:02. > :33:04.carry it out. I want you to take me back because one of the things we
:33:05. > :33:09.heard earlier in the programme from some of Trump's and supporters, it
:33:10. > :33:13.is all about the press conducting this investigation and no one else's
:33:14. > :33:17.very interested. Pickers but the Watergate because my understanding
:33:18. > :33:22.is that for the first year of that, people around America would
:33:23. > :33:28.interested in the Watergate investigation. I think that was
:33:29. > :33:33.true. The President tried to say this is simply a break-in, I had
:33:34. > :33:36.nothing to do with it. The Democrats are simply trying to reverse the
:33:37. > :33:44.election, which they lost. Sounds familiar! But there is something
:33:45. > :33:49.else involved. I believe it is important that those who have
:33:50. > :33:53.business interests not be engaged in the White House. This is for family
:33:54. > :33:58.members and non-family members. Anyone who has a security clearance
:33:59. > :34:01.and is also working in the White House, anyone doing business as
:34:02. > :34:10.Sidey whiteheads, but is reducing the White House to the Camilla
:34:11. > :34:17.commercialisation. This is all tied up in who we believe, why are they
:34:18. > :34:23.getting security clearances? This is the branding of the President but
:34:24. > :34:29.not of America. People have to wake up and say, this is serious, not
:34:30. > :34:32.simply an issue of what people said. Our intelligence community believes,
:34:33. > :34:37.we have absolute evidence the Russians tried interfere. The
:34:38. > :34:40.President needs to put that down to the Russians saying, you can't do it
:34:41. > :34:47.again we're not going back to reset until you stop doing what you have
:34:48. > :34:52.doing with us. I know you have been travelling, what did you make of the
:34:53. > :34:58.way he approached the Putin meeting and what was said and the readout we
:34:59. > :35:02.have had since? I want to have better relations with the Russians,
:35:03. > :35:09.I think we need that. But not on the terms. Let's just start over and go
:35:10. > :35:14.forward, forget about Crimea, Ukraine, what we have done in terms
:35:15. > :35:22.of the elections. Let's start from scratch and move forward? No. If you
:35:23. > :35:23.violated a national law, occupying a country, destabilising Ukraine,
:35:24. > :35:28.interfering in our system, we don't go back to square one, we have to
:35:29. > :35:32.hold you accountable and we will and once we get reset with you on a
:35:33. > :35:33.proper basis, then let's go forward and have a proper relationship.
:35:34. > :35:39.Thank you. It's one year since a faction
:35:40. > :35:41.of the Turkish army said it was seizing power to protect
:35:42. > :35:44.democracy from President But without public support
:35:45. > :35:50.or wider military backing, the botched coup attempt
:35:51. > :35:53.was soon over. Today, Mr Erdogan remains a divisive
:35:54. > :35:56.figure in Turkey but he now appears stronger and more
:35:57. > :35:59.confident than ever. He sat down, for an exclusive
:36:00. > :36:01.interview with Zeinab Badawi for HardTalk and she gave us this
:36:02. > :36:12.preview of their discussion. Turkey is a pivotal nation and it
:36:13. > :36:18.operates in a tough neighbourhood. President Erdogan says he wants to
:36:19. > :36:29.retain ties with Turkey. There has been a lot of criticisms
:36:30. > :36:33.about his style of leadership, his clamp-down on press freedoms,
:36:34. > :36:36.particularly we have heard that from the European Union leaders who say
:36:37. > :36:42.this is another reason why we cannot allow Turkey to become a member of
:36:43. > :36:47.this Democratic club, because frankly, it does not possess the
:36:48. > :36:50.right democratic credentials. I put to President Erdogan that he really
:36:51. > :36:56.has particularly in the last years since that failed coup, really
:36:57. > :36:58.clamped down on press freedoms. Turkey now imprisons more
:36:59. > :37:03.journalists than any other country in the world. TRANSLATION:
:37:04. > :37:08.Opposition journalists write a lot of insulting articles about me.
:37:09. > :37:20.Those insulting articles are still out there. Those people who are
:37:21. > :37:23.inside jail, they are not journalists, some of them
:37:24. > :37:28.corroborated with terrorist organisations, some had possession
:37:29. > :37:33.of firearms. They have a journalist Badgebup this is not the official
:37:34. > :37:39.press guard. They claim to be journalists. On the European Union,
:37:40. > :37:46.I asked him what he personally thought about membership for the EU
:37:47. > :37:50.and he expressed his frustration but at the same time, it was a nuanced
:37:51. > :37:55.response because he said nevertheless, Turkey is still
:37:56. > :38:03.committed to the accession process. TRANSLATION: We are loyal to our
:38:04. > :38:08.worth, if the EU bluntly says we will not be able to accept Turkey in
:38:09. > :38:10.the EU, this will be comforting for us. We will then initiate plan B and
:38:11. > :38:24.see. The European Union is not
:38:25. > :38:27.indispensable for us. Turkey is able to stand on its own two feet.
:38:28. > :38:30.The full HardTalk interview with Turkey's President Erdogan
:38:31. > :38:36.will be broadcast here on BBC News on Friday.
:38:37. > :38:39.Now if you have been with us through the week,
:38:40. > :38:43.you've our journey along China's new Silk Road.
:38:44. > :38:45.It includes a rail route across three continents
:38:46. > :38:48.which will cost the Chinese government almost a trillion
:38:49. > :38:54.Our China Editor Carrie Gracie is travelling the 11,000 kilometre
:38:55. > :38:59.And as the Silk Road reaches Central Asia,
:39:00. > :39:02.she has been looking at China's challenge to Russia.
:39:03. > :39:06.For two centuries, central Asia was Russia's backyard.
:39:07. > :39:09.Kazakhstan got its independence when the Soviet Union collapsed
:39:10. > :39:15.but Russia remained the language of business until now.
:39:16. > :39:19.This is China's new Silk Road in action.
:39:20. > :39:22.The economy is slowing back home, state construction
:39:23. > :39:35.Master builders delivering a cutting-edge urban railway.
:39:36. > :39:38.TRANSLATION: China's advanced technologies bring convenience
:39:39. > :39:41.and more comfort and safety for travellers in Kazakhstan.
:39:42. > :39:45.If this project goes well, it will serve as a model for others.
:39:46. > :39:52.China says its plans offer something for all.
:39:53. > :39:56.But most jobs here will go to Chinese workers and the loan
:39:57. > :40:04.It is not just building across central Asia,
:40:05. > :40:08.China's buying into banks and oil fields as well.
:40:09. > :40:17.In one village, a kindergarten has become a hostel for Chinese workers.
:40:18. > :40:26.This woman complains of pollution and jobs going to outsiders.
:40:27. > :40:29.TRANSLATION: The Chinese have done nothing.
:40:30. > :40:33.There is a huge oil industry here but no jobs
:40:34. > :40:36.or facilities for young people. We want to live decently
:40:37. > :40:41.so that we won't be ashamed of our village.
:40:42. > :40:46.Government intimidation makes many Kazakhs cautious on camera.
:40:47. > :40:48.But privately, several accused Chinese companies
:40:49. > :40:56.China says its presence abroad is a win-win,
:40:57. > :41:01.a win for China and a win for the people in its path.
:41:02. > :41:12.They say their oil wealth is going elsewhere.
:41:13. > :41:16.And that win-win means China wins once and then China wins again.
:41:17. > :41:20.Back at this cathedral, this man says the nations of central
:41:21. > :41:24.Asia are like billiard balls in a game between the big players -
:41:25. > :41:30.China, I believe will be some threat for our independence.
:41:31. > :41:37.Because for China, Kazakhstan is not an equal partner.
:41:38. > :41:40.For China, Kazakhstan only is like one of the players
:41:41. > :41:50.That game stretches far beyond these mountains.
:41:51. > :41:55.But already, it is changing lives, shaping the destiny of young nations
:41:56. > :42:13.We are sharing the air miles from this trip. It is only fair since we
:42:14. > :42:19.have been promoting it! Tomorrow is our last show. Cathy wants to go on
:42:20. > :42:25.holiday, I would work through but Cathy wants to go on holiday! What
:42:26. > :42:30.have we got on the show? I think you are a slave driver! Just one
:42:31. > :42:34.question, one tweet, Donald Trump senior called Donald Trump Jr a
:42:35. > :42:40.high-quality guy and I just want to know whether anyone has ever called
:42:41. > :42:46.you that. No but I know Melania Trump is a very high quality person
:42:47. > :42:57.and I think you are as well. 175 days. I am still standing! Or
:42:58. > :43:03.sitting! I am feeling 125 years old! We will be back tomorrow for the
:43:04. > :43:08.last show for 175 days, do join us for that, goodbye.