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Hello, I'm Ros Atkins, this is Outside Source. | :00:14. | :00:14. | |
The fallout from the sacking of the FBI director is gathering pace. | :00:15. | :00:17. | |
The FBI has been in turmoil, you know that, I know that, | :00:18. | :00:21. | |
The man who worked directly under James Comey disagrees | :00:22. | :00:26. | |
I can tell you that I hold director Comey | :00:27. | :00:32. | |
I have the highest respect for his considerable | :00:33. | :00:36. | |
The acting FBI director also says the agency | :00:37. | :00:44. | |
will continue its investigation into claims of Russian collusion | :00:45. | :00:46. | |
in the Trump campaign vigorously and completely. | :00:47. | :00:48. | |
The party of the French president-elect has unveiled a list | :00:49. | :00:57. | |
of fresh faces to stand at next month's parliamentary elections. | :00:58. | :00:59. | |
More than half have never held elected office and half | :01:00. | :01:02. | |
We'll be live in Alaska, where the foreign ministers | :01:03. | :01:07. | |
of the eight Arctic Council nations are meeting. | :01:08. | :01:09. | |
Climate change is top of the agenda. | :01:10. | :01:17. | |
The business will be live in New York talking about the latest | :01:18. | :01:25. | |
developments relating to the free trade agreement in North America. | :01:26. | :01:36. | |
Donald Trump has given his first interview since he sacked FBI | :01:37. | :01:39. | |
He is a showboat. He is a grandstand. The FBI has been in | :01:40. | :01:55. | |
turmoil. You know that, everybody knows that. You take a look at the | :01:56. | :02:02. | |
FBI a year ago, it was in virtual turmoil. Less than a year ago. It | :02:03. | :02:09. | |
hasn't recovered from that. Monday, e-mail with Rosenstein. It was my | :02:10. | :02:15. | |
decision. I was going to fire Comey. Donald Trump calling Mr Comey | :02:16. | :02:23. | |
a showboat and saying This was the view of | :02:24. | :02:25. | |
Mr Comey's replacement - acting FBI Director Andrew McCabe, | :02:26. | :02:28. | |
who appeared before the senate We have heard in the news that | :02:29. | :02:46. | |
claims that director Comey had lost the confidence of rank and file FBI | :02:47. | :02:52. | |
employees. You have been there for 21 years. In your opinion, is it | :02:53. | :02:58. | |
accurate that the rank and file no longer supported director Comey? No, | :02:59. | :03:07. | |
sir. That is not accurate. I can tell you that I worked very closely | :03:08. | :03:13. | |
with director Comey. From the moment he worked at the FBI was his | :03:14. | :03:19. | |
assistant national director. I worked for him, running the | :03:20. | :03:23. | |
Washington Field office. I served as his deputy for the last year. I can | :03:24. | :03:29. | |
tell you I hold director Comey in the highest regard. I have the | :03:30. | :03:34. | |
highest respect for his abilities and integrity. It has been the | :03:35. | :03:39. | |
greatest privilege and honour in my professional life to work with him. | :03:40. | :03:42. | |
There's a ringing endorsement of James Comey. | :03:43. | :03:43. | |
That's doesn't match this assessment from White House spokeswoman | :03:44. | :03:45. | |
She told CBS News Mr Comey had lost the confidence of the rank | :03:46. | :03:51. | |
Earlier I spoke with with Aaron Blake from the Washington Post. | :03:52. | :04:06. | |
Here is the update. We have certainly heard a lot about concerns | :04:07. | :04:14. | |
over what Jim Coric did during the 2016 campaign. We have not had a | :04:15. | :04:20. | |
recording saying there was a revolt against him in the FBI. This seems | :04:21. | :04:24. | |
to be reasoning is offered by the Trump Administration for his firing, | :04:25. | :04:28. | |
more so than something we have actually seen bubbling up from | :04:29. | :04:36. | |
inside Europe. We can see the Washington Post website behind you. | :04:37. | :04:42. | |
Your article is at the top of the most red list, looking at why Mr | :04:43. | :04:48. | |
Comey was sacked. What is your understanding of the real reasons? | :04:49. | :04:52. | |
From the very beginning, it looked like this was a situation where Jim | :04:53. | :04:58. | |
Comey was somebody who is president Trump did not trust. It was not his | :04:59. | :05:03. | |
pointy, it was somebody who had been put in there by President Obama. | :05:04. | :05:09. | |
President Trump is big on loyalty. He likes to have people around him | :05:10. | :05:17. | |
he feels he can depend upon. He has an FBI director investigating his | :05:18. | :05:20. | |
alleged ties with Russia. That was always the underlying assumption | :05:21. | :05:26. | |
that maybe that was the deep-seated reason. The White House said this | :05:27. | :05:32. | |
was basically the recommendation of the Justice Department, of the | :05:33. | :05:37. | |
deputy Attorney General who had come to Donald Trump saying this man | :05:38. | :05:40. | |
should be fired. We found out from the clip that Trump is not | :05:41. | :05:48. | |
pretending that is what happens. It seems clear that this is a situation | :05:49. | :05:56. | |
that Trump did not like James Comey. It is about whether Coric was doing | :05:57. | :05:59. | |
it for his own political purposes whether he thought James Comey was | :06:00. | :06:06. | |
not a good FBI director. I want to play little more of what we played | :06:07. | :06:25. | |
from Andrew McCabe. The work of the FBI continues. There has been no | :06:26. | :06:30. | |
effort to impede our investigation today. Do you feel like you have the | :06:31. | :06:40. | |
adequate resources for the existing investigations that the bureau is | :06:41. | :06:44. | |
invested in right now to follow them wherever they may lead? If you are | :06:45. | :06:49. | |
referring to the Russian investigation, I do. I believe we | :06:50. | :06:53. | |
have the adequate resources to do it. I know we have resource that | :06:54. | :07:02. | |
investigation adequately. He also said this investigation is highly | :07:03. | :07:04. | |
significant. It is directly in line with what the White House has been | :07:05. | :07:11. | |
saying. The president last week said it was a tax payer funded, basically | :07:12. | :07:18. | |
waste of time. That has been the line from Trump for a while. Not a | :07:19. | :07:24. | |
lot of Republicans acknowledge this was an issue worth looking into. | :07:25. | :07:28. | |
They say it is more about Russian hacking as opposed to allege it ties | :07:29. | :07:34. | |
with the Trump campaign. The White House is on an island in saying it | :07:35. | :07:40. | |
was a waste of time. The FBI was pressing for investigations led by | :07:41. | :07:44. | |
publicans, including one in the Senate he said he was troubled by | :07:45. | :07:51. | |
the timing of Comey's firing. It is progressing forward. The real | :07:52. | :07:55. | |
question is who will be in charge of the FBI investigation if and when | :07:56. | :08:01. | |
President Trump chooses a replacement? What is the process | :08:02. | :08:06. | |
from where we are now to having a new director of the FBI? It depends | :08:07. | :08:10. | |
on when he will make the nomination. It is a big nomination for a couple | :08:11. | :08:15. | |
of reasons. One is the investigation. It'll be very | :08:16. | :08:19. | |
difficult at this point for the president to install somebody who is | :08:20. | :08:22. | |
a political ally of his, someone like Chris Christie, I'm not sure | :08:23. | :08:31. | |
even some Republicans would go along with that. The other thing is it is | :08:32. | :08:37. | |
a ten-year appointment. Director Comey was fibre in the midst of a | :08:38. | :08:41. | |
ten-year term. This decision will not be taken lightly by anyone in | :08:42. | :08:46. | |
the Senate. I presume the White House make a very careful decision. | :08:47. | :08:50. | |
The Senate will take time in deciding this is the right person | :08:51. | :08:54. | |
for the job because it is such a lengthy term relatively speaking for | :08:55. | :08:56. | |
any political appointee. Emmanuel Macron will become | :08:57. | :09:00. | |
President of France on Sunday. All along he's promised to bring | :09:01. | :09:04. | |
new blood into French politicis. His Republique en Marche party | :09:05. | :09:06. | |
has announced the names exactly half are women, | :09:07. | :09:16. | |
and 52% are from civil society with no prior experience | :09:17. | :09:25. | |
of political office. France will vote for all the seats | :09:26. | :09:30. | |
in its National Assembly next month. Richard Ferrand, Secretary General | :09:31. | :09:34. | |
of the party was speaking earlier. TRANSLATION: Candidates come from | :09:35. | :09:48. | |
the entire Republican political spectrum which reflects the | :09:49. | :09:53. | |
political landscape that the president wants to hold for the | :09:54. | :10:03. | |
country. Regarding the parity, 214 candidates are women, 214 are men. | :10:04. | :10:09. | |
428 candidates are included in the list provided to you. | :10:10. | :10:18. | |
I have been speaking about Mr Macron and his mission to reshape French | :10:19. | :10:27. | |
politics. Most of the candidates are complete unknowns. Half of them are | :10:28. | :10:36. | |
women. That is very important in a country where only one in four MPs | :10:37. | :10:41. | |
are women. It is a very male dominated world. There are retired | :10:42. | :10:51. | |
people, lawyers. A farmer. A famous mathematician. A broad spectrum. | :10:52. | :10:55. | |
There are also some outgoing MPs. 24 of them. They are all from the | :10:56. | :11:02. | |
Socialist Party. It has a strength. It is wide open. In terms of opening | :11:03. | :11:07. | |
to all sides of the political spectrum, it is only to the left at | :11:08. | :11:15. | |
the moment. This party has not been around for very long at all. All | :11:16. | :11:20. | |
people he has found, do they have a shared vision of France? They were | :11:21. | :11:26. | |
asked to share Macron's reformist agenda. He is trying to redraw the | :11:27. | :11:35. | |
political landscape into a broad, reformist, progressive camp. He is | :11:36. | :11:40. | |
calling on all the progressives. That is how he is trying to redraw | :11:41. | :11:46. | |
the map. The other political parties, the traditional ones, are | :11:47. | :11:50. | |
generally in prices, some worse than others. The Socialist Party is | :11:51. | :11:54. | |
dying. The National Front did lose the election but it is going through | :11:55. | :12:01. | |
its own crisis. Do you ever stop for a moment and think, I cannot believe | :12:02. | :12:06. | |
this is happening. Have a 39 your president who has created a party | :12:07. | :12:09. | |
from nothing which has suddenly dominated. It is historic. To | :12:10. | :12:17. | |
succeed he will need a majority in parliament next month. In terms of | :12:18. | :12:22. | |
changes in the political landscape, it is extraordinary. It is a dream | :12:23. | :12:26. | |
of a political centre in France which never really happened. It is | :12:27. | :12:32. | |
happening now and is fascinating. We will keep you right up to date with | :12:33. | :12:37. | |
everything Emmanuel Macron is doing and have full coverage of his | :12:38. | :12:39. | |
inauguration on Sunday. We will be live in Alaska. There is | :12:40. | :12:57. | |
a meeting to discuss the future of the region. | :12:58. | :13:02. | |
Waiting times for a number of key NHS services in England | :13:03. | :13:04. | |
were the worst in five years, according to analysis of figures | :13:05. | :13:07. | |
For the year 2016-2017, 2.5 million patients waited longer | :13:08. | :13:11. | |
The figure five years ago was just over 700,000. | :13:12. | :13:15. | |
The target for cancer treatment is to be seen within 62 days, | :13:16. | :13:19. | |
The NHS is treating more and more people and that is what has always | :13:20. | :13:34. | |
happen. Funding must keep up with that. The figure they have with put | :13:35. | :13:40. | |
on it is funding has to increased by 4%. Since 2010 funding has increased | :13:41. | :13:46. | |
by around 1%. The Labour Party today said the failure on the targets is | :13:47. | :13:50. | |
about the funding. There is not enough of it. The Conservatives said | :13:51. | :13:55. | |
today at the Labour government was in place, it is economic policy that | :13:56. | :14:04. | |
the NHS would be worse off and have less Lib Dems said they were the | :14:05. | :14:06. | |
anyone's with a clear strategy in terms of investment. | :14:07. | :14:11. | |
This is Outside Source live from the BBC newsroom. | :14:12. | :14:14. | |
Donald Trump has been defending his decision to fire | :14:15. | :14:17. | |
In an interview with a US TV network, he called James Comey | :14:18. | :14:21. | |
a showboat and a grandstander and said the FBI had | :14:22. | :14:23. | |
The Chinese leader has told the new president of South Korea | :14:24. | :14:28. | |
to cancel the deployment of a US missile defence shield. | :14:29. | :14:33. | |
The shield is designed to counter possible missiles from North Korea. | :14:34. | :14:40. | |
The Iraqi army chief says his forces are only days away from completing | :14:41. | :14:43. | |
the operation to recapture Mosul from the Islamic State Group. | :14:44. | :14:46. | |
And among the most read on our website, | :14:47. | :14:49. | |
a Russian billionaire has been ordered to pay his estranged | :14:50. | :14:52. | |
wife ?453 million in a divorce settlement. | :14:53. | :14:57. | |
One of the biggest awards ever made by a UK court. | :14:58. | :15:07. | |
The land that makes up the Arctic Circle is owned by eight | :15:08. | :15:10. | |
Today their foreign ministers are meeting in Alaska - | :15:11. | :15:14. | |
and some of them are worried about Donald Trump's intentions. | :15:15. | :15:19. | |
That meeting is under way in Fairbanks. | :15:20. | :15:31. | |
The BBC's James Cook joins us from Fairbanks in Alaska. | :15:32. | :15:35. | |
The meeting has in fact broken up in the last few minutes. I can tell you | :15:36. | :15:43. | |
that the declaration has been issued, the Fairbanks Declaration. | :15:44. | :15:48. | |
It is several pages long full you will be interested to learn that the | :15:49. | :15:54. | |
key part, about climate change, with the United States except language | :15:55. | :15:58. | |
that recognised human contribution to climate change and the need of | :15:59. | :16:03. | |
action? It goes very close to doing so. Activities taking place outside | :16:04. | :16:09. | |
the Arctic region, including those occurring outside of Arctic states. | :16:10. | :16:15. | |
Saying they are the main contributors to climate change | :16:16. | :16:17. | |
effects and contributors in the Arctic. It says the Arctic is | :16:18. | :16:21. | |
warming up more than twice the rate of the global average and says it is | :16:22. | :16:27. | |
having a big impact. It also accepts the pressing need for adaptation | :16:28. | :16:33. | |
actions. It fudges essentially on Paris, the climate change agreement | :16:34. | :16:38. | |
in Paris, which agreed to reduce emissions in 2015. With the US | :16:39. | :16:41. | |
withdrawal? It is still the question. It does reiterate the need | :16:42. | :16:48. | |
for global action to reduce long-lived greenhouse gases and | :16:49. | :16:55. | |
short lived climate products? That is what has been agreed by these | :16:56. | :17:07. | |
nations, including the US. Professor, what make of what has | :17:08. | :17:12. | |
just been agreed that the United States seven other members want to | :17:13. | :17:24. | |
reduce June -- greenhouse gases. There was a lot of hedging on | :17:25. | :17:29. | |
whether or not we were going to accept climate change, about whether | :17:30. | :17:37. | |
it was about the cost -- there was a human cost. I am hopeful hearing | :17:38. | :17:42. | |
this statement. I am part of the Arctic social sciences that oration. | :17:43. | :17:50. | |
We are working hard to understand what it means to respond to climate | :17:51. | :17:56. | |
change. -- federation. The place which invests the largest amount of | :17:57. | :18:00. | |
money in Arctic research will continue to support our efforts to | :18:01. | :18:06. | |
look at this. It does not go so far as to permit all of the Nations cup | :18:07. | :18:12. | |
all eight nations, Russia, Canada, the US, Scandinavian nations, | :18:13. | :18:17. | |
including Iceland as well. It does not commit them explicitly to | :18:18. | :18:20. | |
implementing the Paris agreement. That will be crucial in coming days | :18:21. | :18:26. | |
and weeks. Will the US pull-out of that agreement? We are wondering | :18:27. | :18:31. | |
ourselves as US and international research is what action the US will | :18:32. | :18:37. | |
take. The comments that were made by ministers from the other Arctic | :18:38. | :18:40. | |
nations clearly acknowledged that we needed to be working on climate | :18:41. | :18:47. | |
issues. I don't anticipate active opposition to Paris will stop the | :18:48. | :18:52. | |
other conversation we are having is a lot of actions have been taken | :18:53. | :18:56. | |
which will not be reversed, regardless of the rhetoric. What we | :18:57. | :19:01. | |
are most concerned about is whether there will not be investment in the | :19:02. | :19:09. | |
work needed on the research side and the change in business practices. On | :19:10. | :19:15. | |
that note, Rex Tillerson, who was chairing this meeting and has handed | :19:16. | :19:20. | |
over to Finland, did not mention climate change. In terms of science, | :19:21. | :19:27. | |
they are committing themselves to continuing the scientific endeavour. | :19:28. | :19:33. | |
That is from your perspective. What is, from an Alaskan point of view, | :19:34. | :19:40. | |
what is Alaska experiencing? How does it affect all walks of life? We | :19:41. | :19:47. | |
are seeing a lot of impact from climate change. That is part of the | :19:48. | :19:53. | |
biggest issue, that it is not predictable. Our experience has been | :19:54. | :19:57. | |
winters where we have had very little snowfall, her great deal of | :19:58. | :20:04. | |
ice. Absolutely horrid windstorms coming in following torrential | :20:05. | :20:09. | |
downpours. In one case they have not doubt one third of the trees in our | :20:10. | :20:14. | |
beautiful city. Others can definitely speak first hand to what | :20:15. | :20:18. | |
is happening in rural and remote communities. Certainly, we have | :20:19. | :20:25. | |
entire villages that are making very difficult decisions about relocating | :20:26. | :20:28. | |
from places they have been for thousands of years. There are a lot | :20:29. | :20:34. | |
of other issues that matter to the Arctic. What is the most important | :20:35. | :20:40. | |
being the Arctic Council should look at, other bank climate change? We | :20:41. | :20:46. | |
must look at the sustainability of communities, not just economically | :20:47. | :20:50. | |
but well-being as well. Well being very broadly on our young people, | :20:51. | :21:02. | |
who are experiencing ger Matic social problems, whether suicide, | :21:03. | :21:09. | |
domestic violence. Also issues and causes which had to do with a loss | :21:10. | :21:14. | |
of culture, a loss of self-determination. That, for me, is | :21:15. | :21:19. | |
the big thing. Indigenous communities have more control over | :21:20. | :21:23. | |
their own lives. If that happened we would see less of the negative | :21:24. | :21:29. | |
outcomes which have to do in some parts with where your future is | :21:30. | :21:37. | |
going. Interesting to speak to you. Just to reiterate what has happened | :21:38. | :21:41. | |
in the past few minutes. An agreement has been reached among the | :21:42. | :21:44. | |
eight nations with territory in the Arctic. They have agreed activities | :21:45. | :21:50. | |
taking place in their own states contribute to climate change and | :21:51. | :21:54. | |
they have agreed to take urgent action to reduce greenhouse gases as | :21:55. | :22:01. | |
a result. We appreciate the update and the interview. Fascinating to | :22:02. | :22:07. | |
listen to James and his guest. Also the beautiful location as well. | :22:08. | :22:10. | |
Donald Trump has been talking a lot about trade since he became | :22:11. | :22:16. | |
He does not like the North American Free Trade Agreement. He said it was | :22:17. | :22:35. | |
one of the worst deals ever done and said he was going to ditch it. Now | :22:36. | :22:39. | |
he has said he will change it. This man is crucial to how he can change | :22:40. | :22:47. | |
that. In the last couple of hours, he has been confirmed by the Senate | :22:48. | :22:56. | |
as the new US trade Representative. Over the last few weeks, we have | :22:57. | :23:01. | |
been trying to see where the president is taking theirs. With | :23:02. | :23:05. | |
this appointment, do we get a better picture of the direction he may go? | :23:06. | :23:11. | |
We get a better picture in terms of action. Part of the problem has | :23:12. | :23:16. | |
always been, we have heard President Trump is talking a lot about Nafta | :23:17. | :23:21. | |
but there has been no action. In this appointment as US trade | :23:22. | :23:29. | |
Representative, he will push the US closer to being able to start | :23:30. | :23:33. | |
negotiations with Canada and Mexico. The problem has always been the | :23:34. | :23:37. | |
White House has to notified Congress they will be doing this. Having a | :23:38. | :23:45. | |
trade representative is crucial of starting that process of alerting | :23:46. | :23:49. | |
conquests. The United States has someone who will be able to take | :23:50. | :23:54. | |
charge in terms of renegotiating, so it seems like we might be getting | :23:55. | :23:57. | |
there soon. Sticking with Canada, | :23:58. | :24:01. | |
Mexico and the USA. Those three countries | :24:02. | :24:02. | |
will almost certainly get That's something we learnt from | :24:03. | :24:04. | |
Fifa's Congress in Bahrain today. But big changes are on the cards | :24:05. | :24:18. | |
when it comes to sponsorship of the tournament, with the cash | :24:19. | :24:21. | |
increasingly coming from China Last year Fifa managed | :24:22. | :24:23. | |
to make a loss of $369m. A significant reason why | :24:24. | :24:28. | |
was the cost of the corruption Bear in mind the World Cup | :24:29. | :24:36. | |
is the most profitable If you look where the new money is | :24:37. | :24:51. | |
coming from, it is coming from China and the Middle East. In the short | :24:52. | :24:57. | |
term, I think big, global, western European brands web based in Western | :24:58. | :25:01. | |
Europe and the US will be fearful about their image. I think we will | :25:02. | :25:06. | |
wait until the World Cup 2026 is revealed. I think they are fast | :25:07. | :25:13. | |
tracking that. Once that goes out, if it goes back into the US, Canada | :25:14. | :25:19. | |
and Mexico is a joint bid, I think that will have an effect. I think | :25:20. | :25:25. | |
they will want to take a punt on it. It is arguably the biggest sports | :25:26. | :25:29. | |
event in the world for them it is quite a small window of activity. I | :25:30. | :25:37. | |
think brands will step back in. Whether they will lose out to China | :25:38. | :25:45. | |
and the Middle East and the emerging markets remains to be seen. In the | :25:46. | :25:53. | |
next half of the programme, we will hear an interview with one of the | :25:54. | :25:58. | |
Chibok fathers who has been reunited with his daughter. | :25:59. | :26:02. |