0:00:18 > 0:00:21Hello and welcome to our look ahead to what the papers will be
0:00:21 > 0:00:22bringing us tomorrow.
0:00:22 > 0:00:24With me are Michael Booker, Deputy Editor of The Express
0:00:24 > 0:00:26and the political commentator Daisy McAndrew.
0:00:26 > 0:00:27Tomorrow's front pages...starting with...
0:00:27 > 0:00:35The FT leads on the first charges made as part of investigations
0:00:35 > 0:00:37into alleged Russian links to Donald Trump's Presidential
0:00:37 > 0:00:39election campaign, featuring pictures of
0:00:39 > 0:00:49George Papadopoulos and Paul Manafort on its front page.
0:00:50 > 0:00:53That is the top story in the Guardian too, summed up in their
0:00:53 > 0:00:55headline.
0:00:55 > 0:00:57The Metro splash is that the government is promising
0:00:57 > 0:00:59a crackdown against sexual harassment at Westminster.
0:00:59 > 0:01:01It's the same lead for the Daily Telegraph, which reports
0:01:01 > 0:01:04that the story could turn out to be more embarrassing for MPs
0:01:04 > 0:01:09than the expenses scandal.
0:01:09 > 0:01:11Ministers face being fired over "inappropriate" behaviour -
0:01:11 > 0:01:16which goes with the same story, according to The Times.
0:01:16 > 0:01:20It also features a picture of Kevin Spacey, who today apologised for
0:01:20 > 0:01:25inappropriate advances a young actor claims he made when he was only 14.
0:01:25 > 0:01:29And the Express focuses on a health story. But paper this is a dose of
0:01:29 > 0:01:39aspirin a day can halve the risk of developing some cancers.
0:01:39 > 0:01:41Let's start with the Financial Times and the story we will be talking
0:01:41 > 0:01:51about for months, the charges in the Mueller investigation, Daisy.I
0:01:51 > 0:01:54think a lot of attention will be on George Papadopoulos, but actually,
0:01:54 > 0:01:59it is the Paul Manafort anger of the story that I am more interested in.
0:01:59 > 0:02:07This chap was Trump's chief of his campaign from June until August
0:02:07 > 0:02:122016, some might say a small period of time. But this story is about his
0:02:12 > 0:02:17involvement with Viktor Yanukovych in Ukraine, for whom he was working
0:02:17 > 0:02:23for a number of years, taking millions of dollars. I have spent
0:02:23 > 0:02:27some time in Kiev earlier this year. This man was a seriously unpleasant
0:02:27 > 0:02:34criminal, running a country, stealing billions of dollars, who
0:02:34 > 0:02:41has now fled after he was unseated. It was not a bloodless unseating.
0:02:41 > 0:02:45100 were killed as a direct result of his actions. We had the war in
0:02:45 > 0:02:50Crimea and he is now being harboured in Russia. He is a seriously nasty
0:02:50 > 0:02:56piece of work and Trump's right-hand man was working for him, getting
0:02:56 > 0:02:59thousands of dollars every month. He is now accused of laundering $18
0:02:59 > 0:03:08million. I think that shows you the type of man he is and we should not
0:03:08 > 0:03:13underestimate the influence of Ukraine and Russia on this story and
0:03:13 > 0:03:21how entwined it all is.But what is difficult for people to understand
0:03:21 > 0:03:26is how everything is linked. Robert Mueller is meant...If you listen to
0:03:26 > 0:03:31Donald Trump, it has nothing to do with him. Then when he heard about
0:03:31 > 0:03:36George Papadopoulos admitting to lying, he went a bit quiet on
0:03:36 > 0:03:45Twitter. This was seen as indicative that he may be a bit worried. But he
0:03:45 > 0:03:49does not always show that he is worried about anything. In the FT it
0:03:49 > 0:03:52says it is a serious threat to the president. The White House has
0:03:52 > 0:03:57denied any tie-up, but these indictments are digging away at the
0:03:57 > 0:04:05side issues to get towards Donald Trump himself. There were stories
0:04:05 > 0:04:08over the weekend that he would not bother standing in 2020, because it
0:04:08 > 0:04:14has all been too much for him. He does not like the spotlight on him.
0:04:14 > 0:04:18And away the FBI are working this, clearly Robert Mueller is only
0:04:18 > 0:04:27bringing in his indictments when he is certain. And as he gets these
0:04:27 > 0:04:31people like George Papadopoulos, he has gone towards them and they have
0:04:31 > 0:04:37said, I will cooperate. Will Manafort now start to operate will.
0:04:37 > 0:04:41With his business partner? It is the Al Capone way. You get them on tax
0:04:41 > 0:04:44evasion and then see if you can get them on something else.The
0:04:44 > 0:04:48Financial Times says the three indictments revealed the twin track
0:04:48 > 0:04:53approach taken by Mr Manafort in this investigation -- the approach
0:04:53 > 0:04:59taken by Mr Mueller.He is being clever and he has to be. Trump and
0:04:59 > 0:05:05his administration want rid of him, and you can see why.Manafort is
0:05:05 > 0:05:09under house arrest now. I assume the FBI will not let him, but I am sure
0:05:09 > 0:05:12he must be tempted to do as many others do and go to Moscow and stay
0:05:12 > 0:05:17there for a bit.That story is clearly going to run. Let's move to
0:05:17 > 0:05:21the front page of the Metro, also something I suspect has a lot of
0:05:21 > 0:05:32legs on it. Pestminster crackdown.A lot of MPs are worried at this time
0:05:32 > 0:05:35of night when the papers are shown on television, because they worry if
0:05:35 > 0:05:40they are the ones who are going to be publicised.But they will only be
0:05:40 > 0:05:43publicised if they have done something wrong.And it sounds as if
0:05:43 > 0:05:52a few of them have done something wrong. In Westminster, Andrea
0:05:52 > 0:05:55Leadsom was talking about how they want to see a tough and independent
0:05:55 > 0:05:59panel created so that victims can go to them with complaints and then be
0:05:59 > 0:06:04urged to go to the police. You would think they normally should go to the
0:06:04 > 0:06:11police, but in an environment like this where there are powerful men,
0:06:11 > 0:06:17women don't want to make complaints because it can affect their career.
0:06:17 > 0:06:21Hopefully, it will have some effect, but 36 Tory MPs are accused of
0:06:21 > 0:06:26sleaze. There are four Labour MPs at the moment also facing separate
0:06:26 > 0:06:30claims that they have sexually harassed women. There is clearly a
0:06:30 > 0:06:38big problem in society.Let me bring in the front page of the Daily
0:06:38 > 0:06:42Telegraph, with the same story. They are saying the sex scandal could be
0:06:42 > 0:06:49worse than expenses. An exaggeration?It could be worse, but
0:06:49 > 0:06:52there is a danger that lots of different types of behaviour are all
0:06:52 > 0:06:57lumped into one dustbin and all men are being thrown into that dustbin.
0:06:57 > 0:07:03The power point is an important one. This is the behaviour that Harvey
0:07:03 > 0:07:08Weinstein is being accused of, that he was using his powerful position
0:07:08 > 0:07:14to bully, attack and harass women who he felt he had power over
0:07:14 > 0:07:19because they wanted to be in his movies. When you move that situation
0:07:19 > 0:07:25to the House of Commons, of course there are situations like that.
0:07:25 > 0:07:29Sometimes, they are just clumsy men who have had a drink too many and
0:07:29 > 0:07:35are making a pass to a woman. That is not the same thing. People are
0:07:35 > 0:07:41now saying it is a witchhunt. Others say it is just a way of getting men
0:07:41 > 0:07:47off the hook. The truth is somewhere in the middle.It is this use of the
0:07:47 > 0:07:51word inappropriate. Where does inappropriate" and begin? I don't
0:07:51 > 0:07:56think we have set those boundaries yet as a society -- where does
0:07:56 > 0:08:03inappropriate end and criminal begin's you and I have both worked
0:08:03 > 0:08:09in the House of Commons, Reeta.I was lucky enough never to experience
0:08:09 > 0:08:12anything like that from an MP, but the power balance was not there. I
0:08:12 > 0:08:17was a journalist. I didn't want to be a politician, so they couldn't
0:08:17 > 0:08:22further my career apart from maybe giving me a story, which is not the
0:08:22 > 0:08:28same kind of power balance. Some of these women are saying politicians
0:08:28 > 0:08:33were trying to exert their authority in an unseemly way by saying, if you
0:08:33 > 0:08:43want to be a candidate, I can help you.In the Telegraph, they say two
0:08:43 > 0:08:46women have left one minister's employer because of his behaviour.
0:08:46 > 0:08:50It could make or break those women's careers. They may no longer think
0:08:50 > 0:09:00they want to be in politics.For some people, the worms are turning
0:09:00 > 0:09:05and saying, why didn't these women report it? We all know why they did,
0:09:05 > 0:09:07because they would become the story and people would say, a
0:09:07 > 0:09:14troublemaker.I am going to stop you there because we want to get through
0:09:14 > 0:09:18a few of these stories. The other story on the front page of the Daily
0:09:18 > 0:09:22Telegraph is Kevin Spacey's house of cards cancelled after harassment
0:09:22 > 0:09:26claims.They are doing a sixth series at the moment. Netflix have
0:09:26 > 0:09:30announced they will not do a seventh. That was announced last
0:09:30 > 0:09:36night on Buzzfeed when the story came out from Anthony Rapp, who was
0:09:36 > 0:09:4014 in 1986 and Kevin Spacey invited him to a party and made a sexual
0:09:40 > 0:09:45advance on him. There has been a lot of controversy firstly about that
0:09:45 > 0:09:48and secondly about the fact that he says he can't remember it, but if it
0:09:48 > 0:09:52did happen he is sorry and he said, by the way, I am now living as a gay
0:09:52 > 0:09:56man, which people have seen as an attempt to somehow wriggle out of it
0:09:56 > 0:10:00. But at the same time, he has caused uproar by somehow conflating
0:10:00 > 0:10:05making sexual advances against a child with homosexuality, which for
0:10:05 > 0:10:09a long time, the gay community have been trying to get away from that
0:10:09 > 0:10:18bigotry.A miscalculation? Certainly, because it looks so
0:10:18 > 0:10:25cynical. If he provides the press with the story of him coming out of
0:10:25 > 0:10:29the closet, which is what he is doing, he then stops the attention.
0:10:29 > 0:10:34I have read a lot of members of the gay community saying, this is
0:10:34 > 0:10:39outrageous. They are not saying he should have come out. But to come
0:10:39 > 0:10:45out today seems very cynical. And then to somehow link it, almost as
0:10:45 > 0:10:50if to say, this is just what happens if you are a gay man in the closet,
0:10:50 > 0:10:53you make inappropriate advances on young boys, no, it isn't. Nobody
0:10:53 > 0:10:59believes that. He has made himself very unpopular with the community he
0:10:59 > 0:11:05has only publicly joined today. Let's move onto the front page of
0:11:05 > 0:11:12your paper, Michael. Aspirin cuts cancer risk.Well, it is different
0:11:12 > 0:11:17to all the other front pages. This is good, because a lot of people
0:11:17 > 0:11:24take aspirin every day. This is a study that has been done of 600,000
0:11:24 > 0:11:28people who have taken this for at least six months, and it seems to
0:11:28 > 0:11:32have reduced the chances of being struck down by a number of digestive
0:11:32 > 0:11:36system cancers by up to 50%, things like stomach, pancreas and bowel
0:11:36 > 0:11:47cancer fell. We had the decision of whether to go with something like
0:11:47 > 0:11:51Kevin Spacey or Trump on the front page, but that is all inside the
0:11:51 > 0:11:55newspaper. This is the sort of thing a lot of people will talk about as
0:11:55 > 0:12:01well. And it has not been part of the news agenda during the day.
0:12:01 > 0:12:05Michael, we know the Express often goes with a health story on the
0:12:05 > 0:12:09front. You and your colleagues are sometimes teased about that. But
0:12:09 > 0:12:13presumably, it must work for you. There must be a reason why you do so
0:12:13 > 0:12:17many health stories. Is it because you think people are bored of the
0:12:17 > 0:12:21politics?I think you have to sometimes give people something
0:12:21 > 0:12:25different. You know there are so many newspapers that will go down
0:12:25 > 0:12:30similar lines. This story is part of something that is embargoed until
0:12:30 > 0:12:36tomorrow morning, so no one will have read it already. Newspapers are
0:12:36 > 0:12:39all fighting for their lives, so if you can give them something
0:12:39 > 0:12:43different, why not?And the other different thing you have given is
0:12:43 > 0:12:49the royal kiss. Is that news?We believe that is the first kiss on
0:12:49 > 0:12:56the lips that Prince Charles and Camilla have done in 2005. We have
0:12:56 > 0:12:59been talking about how in recent weeks, the Royal Family are getting
0:12:59 > 0:13:04more touchy-feely. They are not as cold as the monarchy used to be and
0:13:04 > 0:13:08this is another example of it. She has been at a yoga retreat.She has
0:13:08 > 0:13:14been doing her downward dog. 12 years, they have been married.
0:13:14 > 0:13:21Doesn't time fly? Thank you both very much. My client Daisy. That is
0:13:21 > 0:13:26it for the paper tonight. You can see the front pages of the papers
0:13:26 > 0:13:35online on the BBC News website. -- Michael and David. And if you missed
0:13:35 > 0:13:40the programme any evening, you can watch it later on BBC iPlayer.
0:13:40 > 0:13:47Bye-bye.