11/05/2017 Outside Source

Welcome back to Outside Source. The fallout from Donald Trump's decision

to sack his FBI director very much continues. He's a showboat, he's a

grandstand. The FBI has been in turmoil. You know that, I know that.

I can tell you that I hold director Comey in the highest regard. I have

considerable respect for his ability and integrity. That's the acting FBI

director who says his agency will continue their investigation into

allegations of Russian collusion with the tramp campaign. -- with the

Trump campaign. And we will talk about the leaked manifesto of the

Labour Party here in the UK and we will look through some of the latest

opinion polls as well. The BBC's Alistair Lippert has been

interviewing the head of the Chibok parents Association, who has just

been released by the broker her Islamist 's. -- the Boko Haram is my

list. In case you didn't see me play a

little of what Donald Trump has been saying on US TV, let me play you

some of that interview right now. He's a showboat, a grandstand. The

FBI has been in turmoil. You know that, I know that. You take a look

at the FBI a year ago, it was in virtual turmoil, less than a year

ago. It hasn't recovered from that. On Monday year met with the Deputy

Attorney General. Did you ask for a recommendation? What I did was, I

was going to fire Comey. You had already made the decision? I was

going to fire Comey. The Prime Minister and pulling no punches as

to why Comey was fired from the FBI. I have been speaking to a president

of law at a big US university and I asked her how she thought the

president came to take the decision. I think he got sacked because he

didn't have the confidence of anyone on any part of the political

spectrum in any state. James Comey alienated the Republicans, that was

when he failed to recommend that the investigation went forward past

July, and then he alienating the Democrats when he sort of

regurgitated the e-mail scandal right before the election in

November. I think it's fair to say that James Comey got fired because

he had lost the confidence of most Americans. Why was it then that Sean

Spicer said the president has confidence in the director? That was

this month and there are multiple quotes from Donald Trump saying, I

have confidence in him. What he does not telling us the truth or has he

changed his mind? I just think there's a certain etiquette involved

in this. Whenever the press asks a president if he had confidence in X,

Y or Z, it's appropriate for the president if they guess until such

time as the president makes a determination otherwise. I think

it's pretty clear that President Trump, from the day of his

inauguration, was concerned about director Comey and was probably

gearing up and laying the groundwork to fire him. It just took a little

while to dot the I and cross the Tees. Can you understand the many

people who are saying this doesn't look good given that James Comey was

leading an investigation into the Trump campaign? I can definitely

understand that. I think it's been a little bit overblown. Let's face it,

there is some intense political opposition in the US to President

Trump and literally everything he does, so even on an issue like this

where even the Democrats had publicly criticised Comey rather

vociferously for some time, you find that they are certainly playing the

part as political card now and pretending like somehow this is

nefarious. I would agree with you that if in fact anyone in the

investigation community in the United States had gone on record and

said there was evidence of collusion between someone in the tramp

administration and Russia, that the firing of Comey would raise

suspicions, even with someone like myself, but that's not the fact that

we have. In fact, we don't have any fact that all that indicate such

collusion exists and I think until such time as we do, maybe the

paranoia levels need to be ratcheted down a notch. I guess that's for

others to decide but certainly there was an ongoing investigation. Do you

have any concerns that the FBI can conduct that investigation given the

president just got rid of the man in charge of it? No, I don't, because

that's not how these investigations work. Comey was not in charge of the

investigation. It's a lot of people lower down the totem poll doing the

grunt work day-to-day. Those people are still in place, what ever

evidence they have is still in place and I think it's a new director came

in and tried in any way to suppress existing evidence, that would be

very bad. But again, we don't have that kind of evidence. I think we

need to call out jets, respect that the president has the ability to

fire people. The FBI director says that the leisure of the president.

Even President Obama apparently was seriously considering firing Comey.

Comey was just not doing a good job and when you don't do a good job as

an employee, you might get fired. Saying there that people need to

cool their jets. Whenever we check into Washington, no sign of anyone

cooling their jets. Let's check into sport now and Jose Mourinho's hunt

for a major trophy for Manchester United, in the semifinals of the

rape a leak. How was it going? I have got to screens in front of me

-- of the Europa League. How is it going? I have got to screens in

front of me and it is important because if they win this, having

never won it before, they get access to the Champions League next year.

That would mean a big tick and Jose Mourinho's resume.

The big haired man is celebrating with everyone. There has been a lot

of focus on Paul Pogba's transfer deal from Juventus to Man United.

Whether the attention with affecting but it didn't. He's been brilliant.

Let's switch to attention on the other match. I axe are plainly on

and they were 4-1 ahead from the first leg. Leon launched a fightback

with two goals, so it is 2-1 to Lyon at the moment but it is still 5-2 on

aggregate to Ajax. It looks like it will be Manchester United versus

Ajax in the final in stock:. -- in stock column in Sweden. Now, this is

the third's president. Fifa President Gianni Infantino

was following Donald Trump's playbook when addressing a FIFA

Congreess in Bahrain. Mr Infantino was upset at some

of the recent coverage the football Fake news, alternative facts. These

terms did not exist until some time ago. They have the common folk. --

they have become en vogue. Fifa bashing has become a national sport

in some countries. And I understand also why, and it was right. And it

was right. But, Fifa has changed now. This is a new Fifa. We are new

people here. And we act with facts. He says it's a new Fifa and Fifa has

changed but Fifa will be judged on its actions in the coming weeks,

months and years. Over the last few weeks BBC has

showcased some great women's football stories

from around the world. Here's the final instalment -

from Nigeria. Lagos is the best most populated

city in the world and it has 21 million residents and the men's

national team, the super Eagles, are flourishing with big-name players

playing week in, week out in the Premier League and the women's team

just won the Africa cup of Nations last year in Cameroon. But at the

grassroots level, there's just small group of people who are trying to

grow the women's game. I am the coach and owner of the greens. I was

sitting in my office in the school one day and some girls came to me

and they said, we are sisters and we want to play for school. So I looked

at them, I felt very sorry. Because I saw they had no place. They needed

someone to encourage them because this is what they love to do, they

have the passion for it. What my parents can't see, he is in the best

position to see it and correct me, to help with my career. He is my

coach and he is very, very important to me because he has always been

there for me and I love him because he is my Nigerian Romeo. Here in

this field is where the young girls come three days a week after school,

some of them don't even have enough money to buy jerseys and boots, but

all they know is that they come right here with one thing and that

is their love to pursue football. That was a report from Nigeria. I

will have another very different report for you from Nigeria and it's

on an interview with the father of one of the Chibok girls who were

recently released by Boko Haram. We will Pele you that in full in a few

minutes. -- play you that in full. A pioneering school for young people

with disabilities is celebrating its 50th anniversary. The national staff

Academy in Cheltenham provides special accommodation and education,

helping people to become as independent as possible.

Things have changed a lot over the 50 years that national star has been

going. In 1967, the first ten students arrived. Now, the college

has over 150, all with very different disabilities. Patrick

studied here in the 80s. He left this place available side went on to

get a degree in social science. This is the actual computer that Patrick

took his exams on. Today, he is back with his former teacher, John,

picked up the old technology. It picked up the old technology. It

took him about two minutes. All right, brainbox. I absolutely loved

my years here. My dad said it was like an equivalent to eat in for

disabled people. It's important to have special schools for people with

complex needs and disabilities. Thanks to these accessible flats,

students like that then can study and live independently away from

home. As the college celebrated big

anniversary, its expanding, although other charity, investments around

funding are calculated risks. But being bold is what National Star is

all about. They are trying to build on the aspirations of disabled

people and today, just for fun, they are doing that with a hot-air

balloon. The education people get here allows them to live and study

just like any other student with one aim, to prepare them as best as

possible for life after college. Our lead story in the Outside Source

newsroom is that Donald Trump has been defending his decision to fire

the director of the FBI, calling James Comey a showboat and a

grandstand in an interview, saying the FBI had been in turmoil.

For those of you not counting, it is 28 days to go until the UK election.

The big story today was the announcement of the leak of the

Labour Party manifesto. Labour leader Jeremy Corbyn TWEET

@jeremycorbyn that he was "Proud to announce our Shadow Cabinet

and National Executive Committee have just unanimously

agreed our manifesto For The Many, It's undoubtedly

a substantial document. Let's look at some of the policy is

getting the most attention. There are plans to renationalise the

railways, also to reverse the sale of Royal Mail and to create publicly

owned energy companies. There will be ?6 billion

of extra annual funding That will paid for by raising income

tax on the top 5% of earners. And ?250 billion on

infrastructure spending Let's bring in mark from

Westminster. Voters can't complain they don't have some distinct

choices here. That is absolutely the point. There are some eye watering

proposals. On top of what you mentioned, they want to end tuition

fees, Banff racking and have national pay bargaining for certain

industries. What wasn't mentioned in this leaked draft manifesto, the

question mark over all of this, is the cost. How much will it all cost

and how will they pay for it. We don't know the answer to that yet.

We did have a taster recently when the Labour Party said they would

increase the taxes on business, corporation tax. Economists have

come out and said that might not work because if you raise it, you

might find businesses move away and you get less money in. Labour

insists it won't be higher than any of the G-7 countries though, so

there won't be a cheap alternative close by. That's showing how even

when they come out with costings, there will be confusion over whether

it will work or not. The Institute for Fiscal Studies have given a

quick verdict on the labour manifesto and they said it was the

greatest state intervention in the economy outside of a crisis since

the 1970s. So whatever you think, as you said, one thing voters he has is

a choice between Labour and the Conservatives. How is this working

because we have been talking about this all day, it's been the main

story in the UK, but presumably it will be revealed all over again next

week? It will, and from what we understand, the leak we have all

seen will be quite similar to what is actually agreed. We don't think

there will be many differences. This was not the plan for Labour. What

happened was newspapers and then the BBC got hold of it last night. It

was leaked out, embarrassing for Jeremy Corbyn said he didn't turn up

to a poster launch this morning, and one of the questions was why was it

leaked? It undermines the discipline within the party and suggests either

the more radical element wanted to get their undeleted ideas out there

or somebody opposed to Jeremy Corbyn wanted to show him up. We don't know

which one. The polls are showing that the Conservatives still have a

clear lead over the Labour Party with the Liberal Democrats

following. Those polls are not changing much at the moment, are

they? No, they are not, but they really do matter. They matter in

terms of what kind of lead Theresa May will, one with -- come away with

if she wins this election. Of course any party could win the election but

the polls were similar place when she called the election. So why did

she call it? So she could increase her majority. We had the local

elections. Our greatest litmus test, if you like, and the Conservatives

made good progress in England, they started making progress in Scotland.

They came up against strong Labour support in Wales, and so it really

isn't clear whether they can do it but the polls last week showed they

could come away with a landslide. One secret weapon for Theresa May,

Ukip were pretty much wiped out at the local elections. If all the Ukip

votes went to the Conservatives, and they are both now trying to be the

party for the leave votes in the UK, the Conservatives would get about 57

extra seats, so that could be their secret weapon. Mark, thank you.

Another thing I should mention, because of the first past the post

system, the polling doesn't necessarily translate to

representation in parliament. You can get a full explanation of how

that works on our website. All week, we have been reflecting on the

release of 82 Chibok schoolgirls. Once released they were flown

from Banki near the border with Cameroon - to Maiduguri

and then to the capital Abuja. Most of them have yet

to be reunited with their You might have expected them to be

so by now but it hasn't happened yet for a variety of practical reasons

in many cases. But next, I've an interview

with one man who has been He's Yakubu Nkeke, head

of the Chibok Parent's Association - and he's been talking

to Alastiar Leithead. When I first heard and I saw her,

she jumped and grabbed me, I held her and started dancing around with

her. She's not the only one because there are my brothers daughters. In

my family, there were seven. Everybody in Chibok, they all

rejoice, not only the biological parents. Everybody rejoices because

they are rescued. What will happen next? They will be brought to Chibok

by our council chairman and he will give me photographs to make

identification for the parents so they can see their daughters. For

example, some of them. See another one. When I reached Abuja, the

minister gave me the list. They got it from the girls. So I compiled my

register, there is no mistake, and I went to the girls and I confirmed,

asking one after the other, and they told me exactly and I made good

identification. What will the reaction be in Chibok to the news?

It is a wonderful day. Everybody is trooping into my house. Even today,

you will see them. Many parents will come. What about the 22 girls, the

21 plus, are they all well? They are fine. They continued their

education. Every month, three of us paid a visit to them and their

parents as well. What we are planning now, by September, we hope

they will be distributed to different schools to carry on their

education. When the news of this 82, they spent the whole night singing,

praising God. What do they tell you about the time living under Boko

Haram? Sometimes, they cannot even have a meal. There are some of them,

those that have been given in marriage, but according to them, it

is not forceful. It is when you decide to marry with them. What do

you think of these Boko Haram fighters who kidnapped your girls?

The Boko Haram fighters, I forget them. I am a Christian, I forgave

them. For listening to the Nigerian government, for making a release of

these girls, they are human beings too. Do you think the negotiations

will continue and the rest of the girls will be released? Through the

process they are going through now, I know by God 's grace, they will be

released. A remarkable man. You can see that interview on the BBC News

app. A few minutes ago we were talking about the semifinals of the

Europa League. First of all, it is now 11 in their majesty United

match. As it stands, Manchester United go through to the final, but

one more goal, and so to the go-go three. To make it more interesting,

they have both just had a player sent off. Lyon only need one goal to

take that match into extra time now as well. You can follow both games

through the BBC sports up now. It is the live page and you can watch

that. That's all from me. Goodbye.