18/02/2017 The Papers

That was in it sets like Reagan. We have part of a wide shot. He is

making it sound so easy. If it was so easy, why hasn't it been done so

far? We had his supporter who came up on the stage. Not at all

scripted. I am sure it was all unscripted! He was overwhelmed! He

said that he knew Mr Trump would deliver. To be fair, the guy has

only been in office for one month. It is a four-year term. He is trying

to get people behind him. But you look at that and I am sure to some

Americans and, without trying to start a war between our countries, I

shall most Britons would have looked at that chap and thought, they would

have raised an eyebrow or sniffed at this guy. He was a happy looking

chap and Trump was happy to bring him up and let this average looking

guy, he had no idea what he was going to say, be his spokesman and

he was the stronger spokesman he could have had. He keeps talking

about fake news. BBC News have carried his speech unedited for

about 40 minutes, so no one is twisting his words. It is the first

sign of a dictator when people talk about fake news. What's fake about

carrying his speech unedited for 40 minutes. That's one of the big

problems. He is in a position now where he is starting... It is only

one month in, he will have to start delivering on some of these things.

It is all very well to talk about the healthcare than solving Middle

East problems, but it's that tough line on immigration, which works

well with that crowd. He was in his home territory. But there will come

a time when we will have -- it will have to start delivering on his

promises. I think again he has brought forward solutions, even some

as simple as the pipe. It seems something only a businessman would

have notice. This is a non-partisan sort of divided. The us and them,

blue-collar, average worker versus Leeds. He said he demanded the pipe

was built here. That's hitting it out of the park. Talking about

negotiations, he also brought up air force on. As I was listening to

this, most people understand why you need two planes and you have someone

as important as the president of the United States. Did think it was

right for him to bring those negotiations out of the public? He

says he is the businessman, he does the deals. It is all very well doing

some of those things, like the deal with the Prime Minister in Japan,

people like that language, but it is very hard to translate that to

geopolitics and all of the big structures. He picks on this little

emblematic things. What he will have to start doing the things. The

Middle East solution, he says they will build safe zones, but that's

impossible to do. Simplistic lines like, we will get rid of all the bad

guys. I'm going to end drugs coming to America. Well, good luck with

that. The businessman, the instruction is always to say, of

course I can, then figure it out later. You can sell that stuff but

you could say the same thing when John F. Kennedy said, we will put a

man on the moon in ten years. That was an ask and they did it. At least

he has the impetus and the push forward to motivate and to change

the level of confidence in America and I think that's part of what

being a leader is. Again, Reagan wasn't necessarily thinking about

the plans himself, he had people to do that, but he could get up in his

Uncle Ron sort of way to explain these things. A different style, but

it is very Reagan. He referenced wrecks it in his speech and as

example of people taking back control. -- referenced Brexit. Some

people might think Brexit is a long way from being under control, as

there is a lot of uncertainty. It is interesting. One of the most

interesting thing is the idea of that you can't trust anything you

see on TV and the news. He kept saying they wouldn't pan around at

the crowd, but of course not as they will focus on a man the speech. He

is very focused on the crowd. I mean, the whole world is watching

him. The world is watching this man. 35% tax on goods. He was talking

about industry in the country. What did you make of the language that he

used? Slightly threatening perhaps? They will pay a big rise if they

leave. The interesting thing, and I speak to a lot of people in business

and trade and they do have worries about protectionism. But I don't

think he will be protectionist. What he didn't say is that the stick, but

for most of these companies the main thing is he will bring down business

rates. The highest in the world, about 35%. He was about 15%, which

is still a benefit for most. So most of these companies will want to come

back. He is the type of guy who will bring back... The official estimate

is about $3 trillion, it could be as high as $6 trillion that sitting

offshore. So as Obama did before him, he is using it in his effective

way. If we could lower taxes in a way that brings all of that offshore

work back on great, but I think that's very unlikely. By lowering

taxes he lowers the revenue he will need to create some of the things he

wants to do, like we build the military. It is the argument where

on the one hand he says he will cut taxes, but on the other hand he

promises all of this sort of infrastructure. Just because we need

to go onto the papers, what do you make of your standing on your

president of broad? Because you are abroad. The reaction to him.

Europeans will never understand him and will look down on him, just as

the elites in America look down on him. When he comes over here he will

be one step below Hitler and the world's most hated man and it really

doesn't matter because it doesn't bother him. In some respects, and I

don't want to sound arrogant, but it's a sovereign country that

considers itself to be exceptional and always has been. We do try to do

the right thing. You know, we will do what we think is right. Shall we

go back to the job that we brought you into? That was a distraction!

Will start with the Observer. You can lead us, Vincent. The main story

is chaos looming for EU citizens who want to stay in Britain. This is a

leaked document from Euro-MPs in the European Parliament and they say the

trouble is that when we finally have Brexit, the status of the EU

citizens in Britain is uncertain. We already know this and Theresa May

say she will solve it. It is still quite unclear and the MPs say that

we do not have good emigration records and what will the status of

these people be? The suggestion is that many EU citizens living in the

UK, possibly millions of them, will be in a stranded illegal no man's

land. This is some of the problems that people like Donald Trump and

who wants to take back control, the Observer is saying control is

lacking. And I say fake news. I do think we have had all of these

Brexit scare stories and for every story that goes this way it could

also go that way. Immigration was never the problem for me. I know I

was fought along those lines but for me it was about having control over

immigration not the EU Commission. This is something that will be

sorted out. I'm not worried about the people who are already here.

Most of them fall under a grandfather clause, if you are

already here you should still be entitled to that and we still have

two years to work out Article 50. I can understand the problems but if

you were worried about every obstacle, then we would never put a

man on the moon. Let us stick with Brexit because in the Sunday Times

they link at Brexit with foreign aid. What is this? This is a Donald

Trump out of the deal. The ministers are at war over plans to divert

foreign aid spending from wherever it goes to Eastern Bloc countries in

the EU. We were talking before, Poland and who else? Hungary? But we

want to buy off our friends within the European Union to make it so we

have people on the inside helping us negotiate our way out and who knows?

We could be speeding along the exit of other countries. You never know.

This is an internecine war between departments. You can't use this

money to spend in Europe, it needs to go elsewhere. Many people

listening to this are wondering why we would centred elsewhere. Why

don't we use it and keep it here? That is the purest version of the

article, that is what people in the UK want. Cash that is prompting to

wasteful products as referred to. You get into an argument about

whether or not you have foreign aid, is a better spent in Asia and Africa

or somewhere like India which has a fast-growing economy or should you

be putting it into eastern European countries where you can love rigid

trade deal. And the point of this story is that officials in Downing

Street and we can use it to get a good trade deal. Money spent should

benefit this country. Countries work on their own self-interest. There

have been stories in the past of deals gone awry because there is so

much cash to get rid of we don't know what to do with it. They have

to meet funding goals so Germany will not spend 2% on defence towards

Nato will hearing today but meanwhile we have cash rolling

around under a bomb with the 4 billion years to help Iranians.

Sitting there on the at an airport. It makes you wonder. In talking

about foreign aid, India says they never asked for it but they were

given it. Yes. This is the Indian High Commissioner and his wife. They

say they never asked for foreign aid, is said they were thinking. Why

does India get it? They have a fast improving economy. He does say that

is a win-win situation for them and the sky is the limit for the two

countries together. So it is a very positive interview but it is used by

the Sunday Express rather sceptically about how the money is

spent is another example should this money really be going to India?

India is quite a balkanised country in many ways. There is a huge middle

class and a huge amount of money. But there are still extremely poor

areas and there is still an argument for spending international aid. I

think the Institute of economic affairs points out that it is money

that goes from our poor to their reach. The money always goes to the

wrong places. Best aid is people coming to this country and working

and sending a portion of their hard earned money back home. For things

that they care about instead of just being dumped without any idea of

where it is going. Russia is allegedly involved in an

assassination plot. This one is just amazing. To the point where we need

to queue the James Bond theme. The Kremlin, according to MI5 or MI6...

MI6. And people in the United States have researched this. The Kremlin

had plotted to oust the Montenegro government, kill the Prime Minister

and take over the Parliament. And this is the opening scene of a Bond

film. They had a pair of people who are setting this up and had spent

months organising it. The two people spent months is overseeing the

recruitment and equipping of a small force of Serbian nationals to attack

the Parliament building disguised as a local police and an kill the Prime

Minister. I mean that... And not just on any day, but on election

day. So despite the difficulties with and assassinations, they were

going to do it on a particular day as well. They are trying to deny

that they are not making a good president about it are they? The

heart is about Russian meddling. Talking about the Defence Secretary

were they won about a change in the way the Kremlin medals and

countries. It feeds into that broad theme of meddling across Europe and

across the world. An increasing sense of alarm amongst government

sources because of the closeness of America to Vladimir Putin as well

and that is one of the problems. Where it gets interesting is that

Vladimir Putin is making the argument that this is a form of

expansionism. Nato... That is the moral equivalent that does not

equate. Countries joining Nato for their own defence. This is markedly

different from expansion of the Russian Federation. Did we point out

that the reason they were doing this, allegedly, is because they

were not too happy about the plans of Montenegro to join Nato? Exactly.

Vincent. Take a screw the story dominating the front of the Mail on

Sunday? A couple of pages inside as well. More on the allegations

against the former Prime Minister Sir Ted Heath. He was accused of sex

crimes. One of the many people in the Westminster release was put in

the frame for this. It seems largely to centre on the fact that police,

the police chief who started this enquiry about a year ago is

convinced according to the source, that Ted Heath is 120% guilty.

People around him said he could not do these crimes because he could not

drive a car yet photos have emerged of Ted Heath posing in a car. It has

reignited the idea of these allegations and the Mail on Sunday's

line is that it is a witch-hunt. We saw in Britain and we have seen it

before. The same territory here. The question we are being asked is

assured these allegations still be being investigated by police at a

huge cost? I will jump in there. I would like to really touch on the

link and story. Do you have the sport pages? In the meantime, off

the back of the story, there is a statement that has been released

now, a statement by the Wiltshire police and I will go through the

main lines here. The chief Constable states in an open letter published

back in December 2016 that it is his role to ensure the investigation is

necessary. If abuse has occurred then it remains relevant to support

those affected and to seek to bring to justice any person still living

who may have committed associated criminal offences. It is important

to identify any vulnerable individuals who require

safeguarding. The role of the police service is to impartially

investigate allegations that without fear or favour and go where the

evidence takes us. We'll see where this goes but it is sorry that was

ongoing. Now, Lincoln City. I would like to recuse myself. I may not

understand this. It is just a massive story. A huge story. The

argument that a nonleague club could do so well. And the back of the Mail

on Sunday, is that it is Linc-possible. Leicester City is

out, isn't it? Yes. They are out. They are not having a wonderful

season. So you are in the final eight? The quarter-finals? Yes. A

few games away from the final. Our chances of winning are slim but the

chances of them getting this far with slim. We love these fairytale

stories from the footballing world. It is nice to see a change about in

big names are a lot of people. And especially for the fans. I should

have put a bet on. That would have been better. I did not put a dent on

Trump either so... Charlie and Vincent, thank you very much. -- did

not put a bet on Trump either. You can read a detailed review of

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