:00:12. > :00:20.Well-to-do Outside Source. A few hours back Donald Trump gave a press
:00:21. > :00:29.conference. He was on the attack from the very beginning. I inherited
:00:30. > :00:34.a mess and got 306 electoral college votes. This administration is
:00:35. > :00:39.running like a fine tuned machine. It was bothered opening statement
:00:40. > :00:43.which covered a huge number of topics but then there was an
:00:44. > :00:49.extended Q and A and there were no subject is off-limits. Wait expect
:00:50. > :00:54.light! I know who you are, let me tell you about the travel ban. In
:00:55. > :00:59.terms of the National security of Isa, this was the verdict. The leaks
:01:00. > :01:09.were real. You saw it. The news was fake. Lots of questions are coming
:01:10. > :01:16.in and if you use the hashtag they come straight to the BBC screen as
:01:17. > :01:18.well. We will play you more clips of that almost hour and a half long
:01:19. > :01:37.press conference. Let's turn to the issue of Mr
:01:38. > :01:43.Trump's connections with Russia and alleged contacts with Russia of his
:01:44. > :01:47.campaign team during the election. This came up several times during
:01:48. > :01:51.the press conference on the president was very clear on the
:01:52. > :01:56.issue. I can tell you, speaking for myself, I own nothing in Russia, I
:01:57. > :02:02.have no loans in Russia, I don't have any deals in Russia, President
:02:03. > :02:06.Putin called me up very nicely to congratulate me on the wind of the
:02:07. > :02:14.election. He then called me up next grimly nicely -- extremely nicely to
:02:15. > :02:18.congratulate me on the inauguration, which was terrific. But so did many
:02:19. > :02:24.other leaders. Almost all the leaders. Russia is fake news. This
:02:25. > :02:28.is fake news that out by the media. There were so many sound bites in
:02:29. > :02:35.this press conference, rush of being fake news was another one. He was
:02:36. > :02:39.pushed again by other journalists at this press conference. When you
:02:40. > :02:43.aware that anyone in your campaign had contacts with Russia during the
:02:44. > :02:48.course of this election? General Flynn, but he was dealing as he
:02:49. > :02:55.should've been. During the election? Nobody that I know. So, you are
:02:56. > :02:58.aware of anybody during the election? Russia is a ruse. I know
:02:59. > :03:04.you have do get up and ask a question, but Russia is a ruse. I
:03:05. > :03:10.haven't made a phone call to Russia in years. Live from Washington, DC,
:03:11. > :03:16.the president is genuinely exasperated at that point. Guess. He
:03:17. > :03:21.has been asked about this before. The reason is because his answers
:03:22. > :03:24.are not definitive. You know it is very clearly that he said that there
:03:25. > :03:30.were no contacts that he knew of, that is a big escape hatch if need
:03:31. > :03:35.be. We saw an article in the New York Times just the other day saying
:03:36. > :03:40.that there were contacts between people in Trump's team during the
:03:41. > :03:44.campaign and Russia and intelligence operatives also did Trump know about
:03:45. > :03:50.that or not? We don't know. Whether those contacts amounted to anything
:03:51. > :03:53.sensitive, we also don't know that. That would be a big area of concern
:03:54. > :04:03.of either of those things were true. -- substantive. He's going to be
:04:04. > :04:07.asked about that, as the FBI investigation keeps going on. That
:04:08. > :04:11.is not going to go anywhere anywhere soon. I want to play everyone now a
:04:12. > :04:16.question from the BBC's North America editor Jon Sobel. Here is
:04:17. > :04:25.how John got on with the president. Where are you from? BBC. Here is
:04:26. > :04:34.another beauty. It is a good line, impartial, free and fair. Just like
:04:35. > :04:38.CNN. On the travel ban, would you accept that that was a good example
:04:39. > :04:45.of the smooth running of Government? I do! Weight! Weight! I know who you
:04:46. > :04:51.are, just wait. Let me tell you about the travel ban. We had a very
:04:52. > :04:55.smooth roll-out of the travel ban. We had a bad court. We got a bad
:04:56. > :04:59.decision. We had a court that has been overturned again, I think it is
:05:00. > :05:03.80% of the time, I maybe wrong. A lot. We had a bad decision. We will
:05:04. > :05:08.keep going with that decision, we will put in a new executive order
:05:09. > :05:14.next week sometime. Let's bring in the BBC's Acehnese against. We mind
:05:15. > :05:17.which way it is, but it does not seem particularly accurate of the
:05:18. > :05:22.president to say that roll-out is moved. I don't think he can say that
:05:23. > :05:29.with any kind of justification. He says the court made a bad decision.
:05:30. > :05:32.That lower court level didn't happen until later in the week. What
:05:33. > :05:36.happened when he first imposed that travel ban was a lot of confusion on
:05:37. > :05:40.the part of the implementing agencies that weren't informed about
:05:41. > :05:45.how to put it into effect, whether to allow green card holders into the
:05:46. > :05:48.country or not. You saw conflicting messages, people coming to the
:05:49. > :05:51.country thinking they would be admitted but then being detained for
:05:52. > :05:56.hours, sometimes even longer. Sometimes put back on planes and
:05:57. > :06:00.sent back to where they came from. That is not an audibly
:06:01. > :06:07.implementation of the travel ban. -- orderly. Geoffrey would like to ask,
:06:08. > :06:13.what is this rally in Florida? What is it and who is paying for it? It
:06:14. > :06:17.is a rally in an aeroplane hangar near new Melbourne Florida which is
:06:18. > :06:21.in the upper area of Florida, even with Orlando, he had a campaign
:06:22. > :06:26.event there that I was actually at earlier this year. Last year in
:06:27. > :06:33.October. He pulled up in his the aeroplane and gave a speech to
:06:34. > :06:35.adoring crowds. About 10,000 people there, through popular there. That
:06:36. > :06:40.is why he's going back there probably. Who is paying for it, that
:06:41. > :06:44.is interesting. It is the Donald Trump for President 2020. This is a
:06:45. > :06:50.campaign event for a presidential race that isn't going to happen for
:06:51. > :06:56.more than three and half years. You serious? That is a fact that I
:06:57. > :06:59.didn't know. We are already on to talking about whether Donald Trump
:07:00. > :07:04.will be re-elected. Remember, we are still in February and the president
:07:05. > :07:12.was inaugurated in January. Anthony was live with this in Washington,
:07:13. > :07:23.DC. They say it is hard to find in Government diplomacy in DC. ... Mr
:07:24. > :07:26.Trump would say he's not interested in Washington, he is interested in
:07:27. > :07:31.the country who have selected him. Michelle has asked other polls,
:07:32. > :07:36.investigations into grassroots supporters beyond Twitter to gauge
:07:37. > :07:41.their thoughts Post investigation miss these are approval ratings.
:07:42. > :07:52.Memory the sixth was when the poll was conducted. Republicans are 87%
:07:53. > :08:00.in favour. Independents 37%, Democrats 11%. At least 41% -- that
:08:01. > :08:03.leads to 41% approval rating which would at this point be considered
:08:04. > :08:10.low. Here he is talking about the media. I never get phone calls from
:08:11. > :08:13.the media. However they were right a story like that in the Wall Street
:08:14. > :08:16.Journal without asking me or in the New York Times put it on the front
:08:17. > :08:22.page? That was likely story they wrote about the women and me,
:08:23. > :08:28.FrontPage. The massive story. It was nasty. They called and said we never
:08:29. > :08:31.said that. We like Mr Trump. On that particular issue as to whether
:08:32. > :08:35.journalists are asking Mr Trump about the stories they are covering,
:08:36. > :08:39.the moment he stepped back, many, many completely reliable journalists
:08:40. > :08:50.queued up to say that we do this every time. This is Maggie Hagerman
:08:51. > :08:56.from the New York Times saying... I can really many, many e-mails from
:08:57. > :09:00.other journalists saying they have the call records and journalists to
:09:01. > :09:05.say. Dot-macro I think we can see the president is not sharing with us
:09:06. > :09:14.the truth. It was an astonishing achievement that the election
:09:15. > :09:19.result. We talked about the scale of it with Benjamin Netanyahu. It did
:09:20. > :09:25.so again today. I put it out for the American people. I got 306 electoral
:09:26. > :09:34.college votes. I wasn't supposed to get 222. They said there was no way
:09:35. > :09:39.to get you to do. 230 is impossible. 270 is what you need and that is
:09:40. > :09:42.laughable. We got 306 because people came out and voted like they have
:09:43. > :09:45.never seen before. That is the way it goes. I guess it was the biggest
:09:46. > :09:54.electoral college win since Ronald Reagan. That is Ronald -- Donald
:09:55. > :09:57.Trump Social Democratic and the biggest electoral college win since
:09:58. > :10:00.Ronald Reagan. Remember that each state gets a certain amount of
:10:01. > :10:04.electoral college votes. The first one to get the clear majority
:10:05. > :10:08.becomes president. Unfortunately, the president told you something
:10:09. > :10:12.there that was completely untrue. As he was in a room full of
:10:13. > :10:16.journalists, it was unlikely that he was going to get a way with not
:10:17. > :10:22.being picked up on that. You said that you got the biggest electoral
:10:23. > :10:27.margins and Ronald marking of 304 and 306. In fact, President Obama
:10:28. > :10:34.got 365. I'm talking about Republican. Jos Buttler 426 when he
:10:35. > :10:41.won as president. Why should Americans trust you? I was just
:10:42. > :10:48.given that we got a big margin. Why should Americans trust you when you
:10:49. > :11:00.are providing false information? I have seen that information. Thank
:11:01. > :11:04.you. If you want to watch back some of these clips from the press
:11:05. > :11:10.conference, you can find them online from BBC News. Probably the most
:11:11. > :11:15.single most controversial action that Donald Trump is taken as the
:11:16. > :11:22.travel ban. In a while, I will play you a report about the Somali
:11:23. > :11:31.American communities get their response to the proposed ban. A deal
:11:32. > :11:36.reached two weeks ago which promise to help end the country's rail
:11:37. > :11:43.strike has collapsed raising the prospect of more industrial action.
:11:44. > :11:59.Leaders of the train driver was Mancunian Asef said... For nearly a
:12:00. > :12:07.year, nearly -- many users have had strikes and delays. Thanks everybody
:12:08. > :12:12.for coming. After two weeks of talks hosted by the TUC, it was thought
:12:13. > :12:16.that the deal had been done. We are pleased to announce that Aslef and
:12:17. > :12:24.Southern Rail have reached an agreement. Now that deal has
:12:25. > :12:29.unravelled and for commuters in Brighton are unhappy. I'm not happy.
:12:30. > :12:38.It is wasting my time. It is terrible. What can we do? It is a
:12:39. > :12:42.lot of money on Uber, isn't it? Around 900 Aslef drivers voted on
:12:43. > :12:47.the ballot. There was a turnout of over 72%, nearly 46% voted in favour
:12:48. > :12:53.of the deal, but over 54% voted against. This is an embarrassment
:12:54. > :13:00.for Aslef, a deal negotiated by their leadership has been overturned
:13:01. > :13:03.by rank and file membership. The general secretary of Aslef says we
:13:04. > :13:07.understand and support the decision arrived at democratically by our
:13:08. > :13:12.members. The dispute is over how many members of staff should be on
:13:13. > :13:15.every train. Can there be driver only trains or must they are always
:13:16. > :13:21.be a second person, a conductor on board? Aslef said they had got a
:13:22. > :13:28.deal where there would always be to staff on the train with some
:13:29. > :13:29.exceptions. Southern's parent company Govia said in the statement
:13:30. > :13:47.that we are disappointed... The RMT has already scheduled
:13:48. > :13:49.another 24-hour strike on the southern network next Wednesday and
:13:50. > :13:54.the same distribute about driver operated trains is breading to other
:13:55. > :14:00.parts of the country. Ballots are being sent out today to staff on a
:14:01. > :14:01.Riva trains north, there is also the prospect of industrial action on
:14:02. > :14:16.Merseyrail. We live on the BBC newsroom. Our
:14:17. > :14:21.lead story confirms Donald Trump's press conference which was arranged
:14:22. > :14:26.at the last minute. According to multiple sources, at the behest of
:14:27. > :14:32.the president. He took many questions across an hour or more.
:14:33. > :14:39.Let's come back to the outsize source screen to talk further about
:14:40. > :14:43.this conference. The covered a lot of ground. He did not leave out the
:14:44. > :14:46.economy. He has plenty of to say on business, jobs and fair trade. Their
:14:47. > :14:54.response abilities will be ending the bleeding of jobs from our
:14:55. > :15:04.country. And negotiating fair trade deals for our citizens. Fair trade,
:15:05. > :15:11.not free. Fair. If a country is taking advantage of this, it is not
:15:12. > :15:15.going to happen any more. Every country takes advantage of this. I
:15:16. > :15:18.may be able to find a couple that don't, but the most part, that would
:15:19. > :15:24.be a tough job us to do. Michelle, this message that America needs to
:15:25. > :15:29.realign itself economically with the world was one of the reasons Mr
:15:30. > :15:35.Trump got the presidency. It certainly was. It is a claim he said
:15:36. > :15:39.talking about the bleeding of jobs. On balance, it is very say that is
:15:40. > :15:43.not quite true. If you go back to the height of the recession, what
:15:44. > :15:48.happened afterwards, unemployment peaked at 10%. Now we're back down
:15:49. > :15:51.to 4.8%. We are talking about an unemployment rate in the country
:15:52. > :15:56.that suggests America is close to full employment. Where Donald Trump
:15:57. > :16:02.is referring to is specifically the manufacturing sector, there can ever
:16:03. > :16:07.since 2000, it is fair to say the manufacturing jobs has been falling
:16:08. > :16:11.in declining at a faster rate. They did not decline between that period
:16:12. > :16:18.between 1994 and 2000, the reason I mention those dates is because the
:16:19. > :16:25.North American Free Trade Agreement was introduced then. He has
:16:26. > :16:29.criticised that in asked to roll it back. If you look at manufacturing
:16:30. > :16:34.jobs immediately after that came into effect, you don't see much
:16:35. > :16:42.change until as I mentioned 2000. I would like to play a couple more
:16:43. > :16:45.clips of the press conference. Here is the president talking about the
:16:46. > :16:58.car industry. Jobs have already started to surge since my election.
:16:59. > :17:03.Ford also be will -- Ford say they will invest in Michigan. Ford the
:17:04. > :17:10.Lima Chrysler say they will invest in Michigan, they were with me a
:17:11. > :17:15.week ago. General Motors committed to invest millions of dollars in its
:17:16. > :17:19.American manufacturing operation. Keeping many jobs here that were
:17:20. > :17:25.going to leave. If I didn't get elected, they would have left. These
:17:26. > :17:28.jobs and things that I am announcing would never have come here. What is
:17:29. > :17:35.your assessment of the President's description of his impact? We know
:17:36. > :17:39.this is a president who likes to talk things up and I think that is
:17:40. > :17:42.perhaps what is going on here. These investments, if you look at
:17:43. > :17:46.businesses, they planned years in advance. When you are talking about
:17:47. > :17:50.a car factory, plant, something that is going to cost them millions if
:17:51. > :17:54.not billions of dollars. This is not a decision that they just took
:17:55. > :17:57.overnight. In response to a tweet from the president. Many of these
:17:58. > :18:06.were carefully planned for months, perhaps as long as years. But
:18:07. > :18:11.perhaps they did time the announcement or rush it out to carry
:18:12. > :18:14.favour with the incoming administration, with the new
:18:15. > :18:18.president and also for Donald Trump committee gets to call it a win. It
:18:19. > :18:24.is something we have seen again and again from American companies. It is
:18:25. > :18:28.a win-win for both sides, American companies gets to say they have
:18:29. > :18:32.created jobs, carry favour with the incoming administration, Donald
:18:33. > :18:40.Trump gets to claim a victory. Very useful. Next, Mr Trump focused on
:18:41. > :18:44.two other companies, Intel which makes microchips are very
:18:45. > :18:49.successfully and the retail giant Walmart, have listened. Intel just
:18:50. > :18:54.announced that it will move ahead with a new plant in Arizona that
:18:55. > :19:00.probably was going to not be moved ahead with. That will result in at
:19:01. > :19:04.least 10,000 American jobs. Walmart announced it will create 10,000 jobs
:19:05. > :19:08.in the American A E United States -- United States because of our
:19:09. > :19:16.various plans and initiatives. There will be many, many more. These are a
:19:17. > :19:21.few that were named. You can talk to me about those big deals. How
:19:22. > :19:27.involved is the president getting in these corporate decisions? I hate to
:19:28. > :19:33.sound like a broken record, but I think it is a case of these being a
:19:34. > :19:40.long-term investment. Companies can't spend that kind of money
:19:41. > :19:49.overnight. Intel, it is not false or true, it is more complicated. Intel
:19:50. > :19:53.actually planned on spending $7 billion, that is the announcement
:19:54. > :19:57.that Trump was referring to. That was a factory in Arizona. That
:19:58. > :20:00.factory with actually started in 2011, it was announced under
:20:01. > :20:04.President Obama and the reason it was not completed was that there was
:20:05. > :20:09.a lack of demand for the product. That isn't and we have not heard
:20:10. > :20:15.from Donald Trump that economies to Lee E but economists worried about.
:20:16. > :20:20.Where is the demand coming from? As the Walmart? Again, the company in
:20:21. > :20:24.its press release did not mention Donald Trump, but did say it was
:20:25. > :20:27.increasing jobs, go back to 2015, they cut as many jobs as they said
:20:28. > :20:39.they were going to add when they closed about 154 stores. It is a
:20:40. > :20:44.mixed picture, many people are excited about Donald Trump's tax
:20:45. > :20:47.policy, they are excited about what he's doing about regulation and that
:20:48. > :20:51.is something that you do uniformly hear from the business community.
:20:52. > :20:55.For the second time and final time, thank you for joining us from New
:20:56. > :21:01.York. Let's finish the programme by looking at Donald Trump's travel
:21:02. > :21:04.ban. It is suspended at the moment, but most polls suggest Americans
:21:05. > :21:10.supported. Or the majority of them. One of the countries it targets is
:21:11. > :21:11.Somalia and the BBC has visited a Somali American community in
:21:12. > :21:20.Minneapolis. An event to teach
:21:21. > :21:22.people their rights You should take a second look
:21:23. > :21:26.if they ask about your Organisers say it was badly needed
:21:27. > :21:29.after support groups were inundated with calls
:21:30. > :21:31.from anxious American Muslims. Those in Minneapolis
:21:32. > :21:33.mainly have roots in Somalia, one of the country
:21:34. > :21:39.is the president named in the ban. Donald Trump talked
:21:40. > :21:41.of Somali Americans as There are tens of thousands
:21:42. > :21:46.of people of Somali origin in Minneapolis, many came
:21:47. > :21:51.over as refugees but others were born here and some
:21:52. > :21:54.of them tell us this is the first time they feel
:21:55. > :21:56.the For some, that has happened
:21:57. > :22:09.in face-to-face encounters. This woman is a fashion
:22:10. > :22:16.designer, make-up artist and She says women like her
:22:17. > :22:21.who are visibly Muslim because of the hijab
:22:22. > :22:24.are having a tough time. She herself has had
:22:25. > :22:27.in cells hurled at her when Things have changed since
:22:28. > :22:30.the election because people are openly racist,
:22:31. > :22:32.people are not scared They tell us to go
:22:33. > :22:39.back to our country, In his music Mohammad talks
:22:40. > :23:01.of the tough problems people have. He thinks the president
:23:02. > :23:02.could have made He is not keeping America
:23:03. > :23:13.safe, he's giving It will make them
:23:14. > :23:17.harder and anger them because some people do not
:23:18. > :23:26.want to go to school no more because they feel there is hate
:23:27. > :23:28.there, at workplace, There have been cases
:23:29. > :23:35.of young Somali Americans being convicted of trying to go
:23:36. > :23:41.abroad to join militant groups, but there is an overwhelming feeling
:23:42. > :23:43.here among that score that the Presidents actions
:23:44. > :23:44.are counter-productive. You are helping groups
:23:45. > :23:46.like Isis and Al-Shabab and Passing the message
:23:47. > :23:53.America does not want you, you do not belong
:23:54. > :23:55.in the The same message Isis and al-Shabab
:23:56. > :23:59.used to recruit young men. Around the country, many think
:24:00. > :24:01.Donald Trump is doing the right things to counter extremism but
:24:02. > :24:04.people here warn he is only sowing the seeds of more
:24:05. > :24:19.alienation and hatred. Before I finish the programme, one
:24:20. > :24:25.more message coming in. Why is the BBC assigning so much time to Donald
:24:26. > :24:28.Trump? Wood ignoring and not attending his events be an option to
:24:29. > :24:33.science? We're not interested silencing Donald Trump we are
:24:34. > :24:37.interested in reporting and analysing and in terms of why we
:24:38. > :24:39.give so much time to one press conference, by the accounts of many
:24:40. > :24:44.people who were there and who watched, it was one of the most
:24:45. > :24:48.extraordinary press conferences and American president has ever given
:24:49. > :24:51.and also Donald Trump is reshaping the American presidency and
:24:52. > :24:54.America's role in the world. It is really important we understand that.
:24:55. > :25:06.Thank you very much for watching. See you next week. Goodbye.
:25:07. > :25:11.In a moment, I will take you somewhere that is about to get more
:25:12. > :25:16.rain than it can handle. Some of us have a wet day on Thursday, there
:25:17. > :25:19.were showers in Scotland. Here is a view of a rainbow looking out over
:25:20. > :25:20.Perth. Parts of south west Scotland have been