:00:09. > :00:15.I am honoured to have Prime Minister Theresa May here for our first
:00:16. > :00:18.official visit from a foreign leader. This is our first visit. So,
:00:19. > :00:21.a great honour. The special relationship
:00:22. > :00:26.between our two countries has been one of the great forces in history,
:00:27. > :00:30.for justice and for peace. And by the way, my mother
:00:31. > :00:33.was born in Scotland, Stornoway, which is
:00:34. > :00:36.serious Scotland. Today, the United States
:00:37. > :00:41.renews our deep bond with Britain, military, financial,
:00:42. > :00:45.cultural and political. We pledge our lasting support
:00:46. > :00:54.to this most special relationship. Together, America and
:00:55. > :00:56.the United Kingdom are a beacon That is why the United States
:00:57. > :01:05.respects the sovereignty of the British people
:01:06. > :01:07.and their right of A free and independent Britain
:01:08. > :01:16.is a blessing to the world and our relationship has
:01:17. > :01:19.never been stronger. Both America and Britain understand
:01:20. > :01:22.that governments must be responsive to everyday working people,
:01:23. > :01:26.that governments must Madam Prime Minister,
:01:27. > :01:36.we look forward to working closely with you as we strengthen our mutual
:01:37. > :01:39.ties and commerce, business Great days lie ahead for our two
:01:40. > :01:47.peoples and our two countries. On behalf of our nation, I thank
:01:48. > :01:52.you for joining us here today. Can I start by saying that I am
:01:53. > :02:04.so pleased that I have been able to be here today and thank
:02:05. > :02:06.you for inviting me so soon I'm delighted to be able
:02:07. > :02:12.to congratulate you on what was As you say, the invitation
:02:13. > :02:20.is an indication of the strength and importance of the special
:02:21. > :02:21.relationship that exists between our two countries,
:02:22. > :02:24.a relationship based on the bonds of history, family, kinship
:02:25. > :02:30.and common interests. In a further sign of the importance
:02:31. > :02:33.of that relationship, I have today been able
:02:34. > :02:36.to convey Her Majesty the Queen's hope that President Trump
:02:37. > :02:39.and the First Lady would pay a state visit to the United Kingdom
:02:40. > :02:42.later this year, and I'm delighted that the president has
:02:43. > :02:45.accepted that invitation. Today, we are discussing
:02:46. > :02:47.a number of topics, The president has
:02:48. > :02:52.mentioned foreign policy. We are discussing how we can work
:02:53. > :02:56.closely together to take on and defeat Daesh and the ideology
:02:57. > :03:02.of Islamist extremism Our two nations are already
:03:03. > :03:06.leading efforts to face up to this challenge,
:03:07. > :03:08.and we are making progress with Daesh losing territory
:03:09. > :03:10.and fighters, but we need Today we are discussing how we can
:03:11. > :03:27.do this by deepening intelligent Today we are discussing how we can
:03:28. > :03:30.do this by deepening intelligence and security cooperation
:03:31. > :03:32.and by stepping up our efforts We know we will not eradicate this
:03:33. > :03:36.threat until we defeat the ideology I am sure we will discuss other
:03:37. > :03:41.topics, Syria and Russia. On defence and security cooperation,
:03:42. > :03:44.we are united in our recognition of Nato as the bulwark
:03:45. > :03:46.of our collective defence. Today, we have reaffirmed our
:03:47. > :03:47.unshakeable commitment Mr President, you confirmed that
:03:48. > :03:51.you are 100% behind Nato. But we are also discussing
:03:52. > :03:55.the importance of Nato continuing to ensure it is as equipped to fight
:03:56. > :03:58.terrorism and cyber warfare as it is to fight more
:03:59. > :04:01.conventional forms of war. I have agreed to continue my efforts
:04:02. > :04:05.to encourage my fellow European leaders to deliver
:04:06. > :04:08.on their commitments to spend 2% of their GDP
:04:09. > :04:11.on defence so that the burden It is only by investing properly
:04:12. > :04:16.in our defence that we can ensure we are properly equipped
:04:17. > :04:18.to face our shared Finally, the President and I have
:04:19. > :04:24.mentioned future economic Trade between our countries is
:04:25. > :04:33.already worth ?150 billion a year. The US is the single biggest source
:04:34. > :04:36.of inward investment to the UK and, together,
:04:37. > :04:39.we have around $1 trillion invested The UK-US defence relationship
:04:40. > :04:42.is the broadest, deepest and most advanced of any two countries
:04:43. > :04:44.sharing military The President and I are ambitious
:04:45. > :04:52.to build on this relationship in order to grow our respective
:04:53. > :04:54.economies, provide the high skilled, high-paid jobs of the future
:04:55. > :04:57.for working people across America So we are discussing how
:04:58. > :05:06.we can establish trade negotiation agreements,
:05:07. > :05:08.take forward immediate high-level talks, lay the groundwork
:05:09. > :05:16.for a UK-US trade agreement and identify the steps we can take
:05:17. > :05:19.now to enable companies in both countries to do business with one
:05:20. > :05:21.another more easily. I am convinced that a trade deal
:05:22. > :05:24.between the US and the UK is in the national interest of both
:05:25. > :05:27.countries and will cement the crucial relationship
:05:28. > :05:28.that exists between us, particularly as the UK
:05:29. > :05:30.leaves the European Union Today's talks are a significant
:05:31. > :05:37.moment for President Trump and I to build our relationship
:05:38. > :05:40.and I look forward to continuing to work with you as we deliver
:05:41. > :05:43.on the promises of freedom and prosperity for all the people
:05:44. > :05:45.of our respective countries. You will be speaking tomorrow
:05:46. > :06:00.with the Russian president. What message would you
:06:01. > :06:03.like to convey to him? How close are you to lifting some
:06:04. > :06:07.of the sanctions imposed on Russia over its Ukraine incursion,
:06:08. > :06:13.what would you expect in return and Prime Minister May,
:06:14. > :06:16.do you foresee any changes in British attitudes
:06:17. > :06:19.towards sanctions on Russia? Well, I hear a call
:06:20. > :06:22.was set up and we will see We look to have a great
:06:23. > :06:33.relationship with all countries, ideally, but that
:06:34. > :06:35.will not necessarily happen. Unfortunately, it probably will not
:06:36. > :06:37.happen with many countries, but if we can have, as we do
:06:38. > :06:40.with Prime Minister May and the relationship
:06:41. > :06:42.we have developed and even that we have just developed
:06:43. > :06:52.by being with each other, having lunch, we have had some
:06:53. > :06:55.interesting talks and very But if we can have a great
:06:56. > :06:58.relationship with Russia and with China and with all
:06:59. > :07:01.countries, I am all for that. No guarantees, but if we can,
:07:02. > :07:09.that would be a positive. As far as the UK is concerned
:07:10. > :07:12.on sanctions for Russia in relation to their activities in Ukraine,
:07:13. > :07:16.we have been clear that we want to see the Minsk Agreement
:07:17. > :07:19.fully incremented. We believe the sanctions should
:07:20. > :07:23.continue until we see that agreement fully implemented and we have been
:07:24. > :07:26.continuing to argue that Prime Minister, you have talked
:07:27. > :07:38.about where you agree, but you have also said you would be
:07:39. > :07:41.frank where you disagree Can you tell us where in our talks
:07:42. > :07:46.you did disagree, and do you think the President listened
:07:47. > :07:49.to what you have to say? You have said before
:07:50. > :07:58.that torture works. You have said you want to ban some
:07:59. > :08:04.Muslims from coming to America. You have suggested there should be
:08:05. > :08:08.punishment for abortion. For many people in Britain,
:08:09. > :08:13.those sound like alarming beliefs. What do you say to our viewers
:08:14. > :08:16.at home who are worried about some of your views and worried
:08:17. > :08:19.about you becoming the leader On the issue you raised with me,
:08:20. > :08:37.Laura, can I confirm that I have been listening to the President
:08:38. > :08:40.and the President has been listening to me, that is the point
:08:41. > :08:42.of having a conversation. We have been discussing
:08:43. > :08:47.a number of topics. We will carry on meeting
:08:48. > :08:49.after this press conference There will be issues
:08:50. > :08:53.on which we disagree. The point of the special
:08:54. > :08:56.relationship is that we are able to have that open and frank
:08:57. > :08:59.discussion so that we can make that But I am clear also
:09:00. > :09:04.that there are many issues on which the United Kingdom
:09:05. > :09:07.and the United States stand alongside one another,
:09:08. > :09:14.many issues on which we agree. As I said in my speech,
:09:15. > :09:17.I think we are at a moment when we can build an even stronger
:09:18. > :09:20.special relationship which will be in the interests not just of the UK
:09:21. > :09:23.and the United States, but in the interests
:09:24. > :09:27.of the wider world as well. We have a great general who has just
:09:28. > :09:35.been appointed secretary of defence, He has stated publicly that he does
:09:36. > :09:47.not necessarily believe in torture, or waterboarding or however
:09:48. > :09:49.you want to define it, enhanced interrogation, I guess,
:09:50. > :09:52.would be the words a lot of people I don't necessarily agree,
:09:53. > :09:59.but I would tell you that he will override because I am
:10:00. > :10:01.giving him that power. He is the generals' general,
:10:02. > :10:10.got through the Senate very quickly, which in this country is not easy,
:10:11. > :10:13.I will tell you. I have been open about that
:10:14. > :10:23.for a long period of time, but I am going with our leaders
:10:24. > :10:27.and we are going to As far as Putin and Russia, I don't
:10:28. > :10:34.say good, bad or indifferent. I hope we have a fantastic
:10:35. > :10:39.relationship. That is possible, and it is also
:10:40. > :10:43.possible that we won't. I will be representing
:10:44. > :10:47.the American people very And if we have a great relationship
:10:48. > :10:56.with Russia and other countries and if we go after Isis together,
:10:57. > :10:59.which has to be stopped, that is an evil that has to be
:11:00. > :11:03.stopped, I will consider that a good How the relationship works out,
:11:04. > :11:11.I won't be able to tell until later. I have had many times
:11:12. > :11:14.where I thought I would get along with people and I don't
:11:15. > :11:16.like them at all. And I have had some where I didn't
:11:17. > :11:19.think I was going to have much of a relationship,
:11:20. > :11:22.and it turned out to be So, Theresa, we never know
:11:23. > :11:28.about those things, do we? But I will be representing
:11:29. > :11:31.the American people very strongly. Mr President, thank
:11:32. > :11:44.you and Madam Prime Minister. It is my understanding that you had
:11:45. > :11:48.an hour-long phone call this morning with president
:11:49. > :11:55.Enrique Pena Nieto of Mexico. Could we get an update
:11:56. > :11:58.on where the relationship is? Further to that, what do you say
:11:59. > :12:01.to critics who claim you have already soured a relationship
:12:02. > :12:05.with a very important US ally? And Madam Prime Minister,
:12:06. > :12:07.are you concerned about the state of relations between
:12:08. > :12:13.the United States and Mexico? I think the Prime Minister has other
:12:14. > :12:16.things she is much more worried about than Mexico
:12:17. > :12:19.and the United States' relationship. But I will say that we
:12:20. > :12:21.had a very good call. But as you know, Mexico,
:12:22. > :12:37.with the United States, has out-negotiated us and beat us
:12:38. > :12:40.to a pulp through our past leaders. We have a trade deficit
:12:41. > :12:47.of $60 billion with Mexico. On top of that, the border
:12:48. > :12:49.is soft and weak. Drugs are pouring in, and I am not
:12:50. > :12:54.going to let that happen. General Kelly is going
:12:55. > :12:57.to do a fantastic job We have a very good relationship,
:12:58. > :13:14.the President and I. We had a talk that lasted
:13:15. > :13:17.for about an hour this morning, and we are going to be working
:13:18. > :13:20.on a fair and new relationship. But the United States cannot
:13:21. > :13:22.continue to lose vast amounts of business,
:13:23. > :13:24.vast amounts of companies and millions of people
:13:25. > :13:26.losing their jobs. We are no longer going to be
:13:27. > :13:33.the country that doesn't So we are going to renegotiate our
:13:34. > :13:41.trade deals and we are going to renegotiate other aspects
:13:42. > :13:44.of our relationship with Mexico. In the end, I think it will be
:13:45. > :13:49.good for both countries. I think you will hear that
:13:50. > :13:56.from the President and I think you will hear that from the people
:13:57. > :14:00.of Mexico that represent him. I look forward to, over the coming
:14:01. > :14:03.months, we will be negotiating But I am representing the people
:14:04. > :14:10.of the United States and I am going to represent them as somebody
:14:11. > :14:12.should represent them, not how they have been represented
:14:13. > :14:15.in the past where we lose As the President has
:14:16. > :14:25.said, the relationship with the United States and Mexico
:14:26. > :14:28.is a matter for the Mr President, you said you would
:14:29. > :14:41.help us with a Brexit trade deal. You said you would stand by us
:14:42. > :14:45.with Nato, but how can the British You have been known in the past
:14:46. > :14:52.to change your position on things. May I ask this question
:14:53. > :14:55.to both of you, people are fascinated to know how
:14:56. > :15:07.you will get on with each other. You are so different,
:15:08. > :15:09.the hard-working vicar's daughter, Have you found anything
:15:10. > :15:12.in common personally yet? I am actually not as brash
:15:13. > :15:14.as you might think. And I can tell you that I think
:15:15. > :15:18.we are going to get along well. It is interesting,
:15:19. > :15:20.because I am a people person. I can often tell how I will get
:15:21. > :15:24.along with somebody very early, and I believe we are going
:15:25. > :15:27.to have a fantastic relationship. And I don't change my
:15:28. > :15:30.position very much. If you go back and look,
:15:31. > :15:33.my position on trade has been solid for many years since I was a young
:15:34. > :15:36.person, talking about how we were getting ripped off
:15:37. > :15:39.by the rest of the world. I never knew I would be in this
:15:40. > :15:42.position where we can But we will be talking
:15:43. > :15:45.to your folks about Brexit. Brexit was an example
:15:46. > :15:50.of what was to come, and I happened to be in Scotland,
:15:51. > :15:53.at Turnberry, cutting a ribbon And we had a vast
:15:54. > :15:57.amount of press there. And I was scorned in the press
:15:58. > :16:11.for making that prediction. I said, I believe it is going
:16:12. > :16:14.to happen because people want to know who is coming
:16:15. > :16:17.into their country and they want to control their own trade
:16:18. > :16:19.and various other things. And lo and behold,
:16:20. > :16:21.the following day, it happened. And the odds were not looking good
:16:22. > :16:24.for me when I made that statement because, as you know,
:16:25. > :16:26.everybody thought it I think Brexit is going to be
:16:27. > :16:31.a wonderful thing for your country. When it's ironed out,
:16:32. > :16:34.you will have your own identity and you will have the people
:16:35. > :16:37.you want in your country and you will be able to have free
:16:38. > :16:44.trade deals without somebody I had something in another country,
:16:45. > :16:53.and getting the approvals Getting the approvals
:16:54. > :17:02.from the country was fast, Getting the approvals
:17:03. > :17:05.from the group, I call them the consortium,
:17:06. > :17:13.was very tough. But I think Brexit will end up
:17:14. > :17:16.being a fantastic thing It will be a tremendous asset,
:17:17. > :17:25.not a tremendous liability. On the question you asked me, Tom,
:17:26. > :17:28.as the President himself has said, we have already struck up
:17:29. > :17:30.a good relationship. I think if you look at the approach
:17:31. > :17:36.we are both taking, one of the things we have in common
:17:37. > :17:45.is that we want to put the interests of ordinary working people
:17:46. > :17:47.rightat the centre stage. Those people who are working
:17:48. > :17:50.all the hours, doing their best for their families and sometimes
:17:51. > :17:54.feel the odds are stacked against them, it is that interest
:17:55. > :17:57.in ensuring that what we do, our economies and governments
:17:58. > :17:59.actually work for ordinary working people, work for everyone
:18:00. > :18:19.in our countries. That was the press conference in its
:18:20. > :18:25.entirety. Chris Mason is here. We have a lot of the usual phrases,
:18:26. > :18:29.great days lie ahead for our two people, a deep bond, we were
:18:30. > :18:33.expecting that. Theresa May said, of America, that they are 100% behind
:18:34. > :18:37.Nato, and we were not expecting that? That really left out from what
:18:38. > :18:46.we heard from the Prime Minister. She didn't have to say that. It is
:18:47. > :18:53.clear she was very clear to ram home publicly that one of their
:18:54. > :18:57.conversations in private was a commitment to Nato. President Trump
:18:58. > :19:01.said repeatedly on the campaign trail that he said that the north
:19:02. > :19:04.Atlantic alliance is obsolete, a word he has used, and in particular
:19:05. > :19:09.he is very concerned about the funding formula. He thinks America
:19:10. > :19:13.has to bail out other countries that don't pay enough into the pot. The
:19:14. > :19:19.UK has long maintained that it meets the Nato spending commitment on
:19:20. > :19:22.defence, as does the United States, but a good number of other members
:19:23. > :19:25.don't. The Prime Minister has acknowledged it is understandable,
:19:26. > :19:31.on that basis, that there might be a difference. There was clearly
:19:32. > :19:34.concerned from her and from loads of British politicians that if America
:19:35. > :19:38.were to go soft on the idea of Nato, the very existence of the Alliance
:19:39. > :19:42.would be called into question. At a time when President Putin had been
:19:43. > :19:49.flexing his muscles with the eyes Asian of Crimea and the fear from
:19:50. > :19:55.some of the -- with the annexation of Crimea, and the fear from the
:19:56. > :20:02.Baltic states, it was interesting that the Prime Minister wanted to
:20:03. > :20:06.publicly pen his colours to the mast. We did know if that was a
:20:07. > :20:14.surprise, or if it was something they had agreed that she should say.
:20:15. > :20:18.I am actually very confident that President Trump and the
:20:19. > :20:24.administration, they are strongly committed to the transatlantic bond.
:20:25. > :20:28.They see a strong Nato is not only good for Europe, but good for the
:20:29. > :20:32.United States. Two world wars and a Cold War have taught us that
:20:33. > :20:39.stability in Europe is important for the United States. They know the
:20:40. > :20:44.only time that Nato has invoked, Article five, the defence clause,
:20:45. > :20:49.was after an attack on the United States, and hundreds of thousands of
:20:50. > :20:53.soldiers, including money from United Kingdom, have been fighting
:20:54. > :20:57.in Afghanistan in an operation that was a direct response to an attack
:20:58. > :21:04.on the United States. In the United States, they know that Nato is
:21:05. > :21:07.important. Making it really quite clear, his opinion. Moving into
:21:08. > :21:11.other aspects of the press conference, one thing that came out
:21:12. > :21:17.was that there is to be a state visit, that the Queen has invited
:21:18. > :21:21.Donald Trump. We know he is an Anglophile and a supporter of the
:21:22. > :21:24.Royal family. It would be a big deal to him? A huge amount, there has
:21:25. > :21:29.been a sense in Whitehall, the Foreign Office and amongst
:21:30. > :21:32.diplomats, as soon as they knew it would be Donald Trump as President,
:21:33. > :21:35.a terrific card Britain could play was to tap into his Anglophile
:21:36. > :21:45.history, the fact his mother was born on the Isle of Lewis, he was in
:21:46. > :21:50.Scotland the day before the referendum, and his mum was a real
:21:51. > :21:53.royalist. He has talked in the past about how she would regularly
:21:54. > :21:57.reflect on her love for the Queen, even though she spent a good number
:21:58. > :22:02.of decades of her life living in the United States. To give him the
:22:03. > :22:06.chance to meet the Queen, be looked after and hosted by the Queen, stay
:22:07. > :22:10.in Buckingham Palace or Windsor Castle, it is a tremendous thing for
:22:11. > :22:13.the UK to be able to offer the President. We expect that was going
:22:14. > :22:18.to come, but we got confirmation that the invitation has been sent,
:22:19. > :22:21.Theresa May carried it over the Atlantic, the President has
:22:22. > :22:25.accepted. That is going to happen later this year. It would be an
:22:26. > :22:29.extraordinarily colourful moment. I guess it is one with controversy as
:22:30. > :22:32.well. Those that think that President Trump is great will point
:22:33. > :22:37.to loads in this news conference which they think proves that, in
:22:38. > :22:41.terms of the strengthening UK- US relationship. Those that do not like
:22:42. > :22:45.him will no doubt have plenty of opportunity, during the state visit,
:22:46. > :22:50.to make their views very well-known. That will be quite a spectacle, when
:22:51. > :22:55.it happens. A lot of journalists are posting about what their opinion
:22:56. > :23:01.this press release. From the Guardian, saying perhaps Donald
:23:02. > :23:05.Trump was acting, and his tone was quite restrained, he perhaps was not
:23:06. > :23:12.as gung ho, clock sure as he normally is? Yes, he was pretty
:23:13. > :23:17.calmly spoken. We are so used to shots of him on the campaign trail.
:23:18. > :23:23.He is almost shaking the lectern, shouting, it is a very particular
:23:24. > :23:28.style of tub thumping rhetoric. It was quietly spoken. He was
:23:29. > :23:32.attempting to be that bit more reflective. He took a question where
:23:33. > :23:39.it was suggested he was quite bombastic, he said he was not.
:23:40. > :23:46.Occasionally he would get flashes of the campaign Trump. He had a bit of
:23:47. > :23:52.a pop, half joke, half not joke, Laura Kuenssberg, when she asked
:23:53. > :23:55.pointed questions about his views on torture. Why publicly said to
:23:56. > :24:03.Theresa May, you asked for her to ask the question, you answer it!
:24:04. > :24:11.It is an insight into how he has a frosty relationship with the media
:24:12. > :24:14.and is open to saying it publicly. He made a virtue of it on the
:24:15. > :24:19.campaign trail. What about the body language? I know neither of us are
:24:20. > :24:25.experts, but you can't help not look at it. Here is a sequence when they
:24:26. > :24:38.were walking to the White House. He grabs her hand. Who removes whose
:24:39. > :24:43.hand? Those pillars have a lot to answer for. We don't know if it was
:24:44. > :24:46.a proactive Theresa May or Donald Trump, I guess he was trying to be
:24:47. > :24:53.courteous as she made her way along the rather posh gangway. It is
:24:54. > :24:56.inevitable that we focus on the human relationship in the first
:24:57. > :25:00.meetings. It is difficult. Think of it from their perspective, they are
:25:01. > :25:03.both new in office. This is the first time President Trump has had a
:25:04. > :25:06.foreign leader visiting. He has only been there a matter of days and it
:25:07. > :25:11.is the first time the Prime Minister has been to Washington since she
:25:12. > :25:13.took on the job. You are bound to be nervous and probably wouldn't. I
:25:14. > :25:18.thought what was quite interesting was when they were specifically
:25:19. > :25:23.asked about their similarities, Theresa May went for a political
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