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