hello, and welcome to 100 days,: a second attempt a travel ban. people from six mainly muslim countries will be stopped, but iraq is taken off the list. the ban comes into effect in ten days and is likely to face a new court challenge. this executive order, just as the first executive order, is a lawful and proper exercise of presidential authority. the president stands by his extraordinary claim that barack 0bama tapped his phones. we will speak to a close friend of donald trump. he was sort of angry that he was targeted, and he was very confident about the information he had. approval ratings suggest that support for the president remains strong among republican voters. we will hear views from arkansas. in france, fillon slips in the polls

but refuses to stand aside. his party seems to be stuck with him now that alain juppe has party seems to be stuck with him now that alainjuppe has ruled himself out. and peugeot buys the failing arm of gm motors. what happens tojobs in the uk? it has taken the white house above to produce its new revised travel order. this one will come into play in ten days and wouldn't wean a temporary freeze on visas from people travelling from these six predominantly muslim countries. it also places a 120 day freeze on refugee arrivals. iraq has been removed from the list. syrian refugees, green card holders and visa holders are exempt. 0n the

decision to exempt iraq, here is rex tillerson. iraq is an important ally in the fight to defeat isis, with their brave soldiers fighting in close co—ordination with america's men and women in uniform. this intense review over the past month identified multiple security measures that the state department and the government of iraq will be implementing to achieve our shared objective of preventing those with criminal or terrorist intent from reaching the united states. the previous executive order was struck down by the courts, butjeff sessions said that both that version and today's revised order are legal. the department of justice believes that this executive order, just as the first executive order, is a lawful and proper exercise of presidential authority. this department of justice will defend and enforce lawful orders of the president consistent with the core principles of our constitution. the executive is empowered, under the

constitution, and by congress, to make national security judgments and to enforce our immigration policies in order to safeguard the american public. jeff sessions, speaking there. nick brya nt jeff sessions, speaking there. nick bryant is with us. the first version of this order cause bedlam at american airports and in american courts — will this do the same?m feels like presidential deja vu, doesn't it? so many key differences here. they have taken their time with this order, being meticulous in their planning, seemingly, where last time, they were haphazard and rather slovenly about the wording of the order. the reason is that they wa nt the order. the reason is that they want this to withstand legal challenge. the last order was fairly easy for opponents like the american

civil liberties union to overturn, to persuade a federal court that it was unconstitutional. that is one aim of this revised ban. another aim is, it makes it more politically palatable to take iraq off the list. john mccain said, how can you include our ally in fighting islamic state 7 ta ke include our ally in fighting islamic state? take iraq off the list. and they have done that. republicans have been critical of the first order and have said that they are happy with this one. the washington state attorney general said the trump administration has capitulated on numerous policies. it looks like they have more legal backing, but we have the aclu saying they are not happy, and an attorney general in massachusetts saying he is not happy. will this face another court challenge? you would have thought so. challenge? you would have thought so. there are challenge? you would have thought so. there are areas challenge? you would have thought so. there are areas where the aclu, the american civil liberties union,

will focus. you can be discriminated on grounds of race, sex, nationality, place of birth or place of residence. the supreme court has argued that protects —— some protections don't apply to some people. it doesn't include dual citizens. we will see there is a challenge whether the courts go with it. there is one interesting line from jeff sessions, who said that 300 refugees that had come into the country are now under investigation by the fbi. there will be plenty people in europe will look at that, who felt that refugees coming to europe weren't properly screened and vetted who will say, yes, we have sympathy with where the americans are coming from on this. and that is why so many people in america support this ban, and supported the initial one. there are people who think this is an american, that it

violates that welcoming tradition —— that that is not american. against that that is not american. against that are these people who think, no, we have to protect their homeland and do what it takes. what liberal and do what it takes. what liberal and progressive opponents of the ban would say is that if you were serious about the national security aspects, why is saudi arabia of the list? pakistan, afghanistan? there is no evidence that people from any of the countries listed have actually carried out attacks on american soil, which is an argument you might hear in court. christian, we will talk a lot about law today, and national security, but that revised travel order is supposed to put the white house on the front foot, and yet the headlines this morning in america were dominated by the administration ‘s allegedly next to russia. president trump alleged

that president 0bama had ordered a wiretap on his phone, calling it mccarthyism. he then went on to say that president 0bama's action was not legal, and he described it as a new low. how low as president 0bama gone? that is what he wrote in another. this is nixon/ watergate. and then, president 0bama is a bad 01’ and then, president 0bama is a bad or sick guy. it is extraordinary to hear a sitting president speak about a former president like that. mr trump spent a weekend at his mara largo florida golf club. we spoke to a friend whojoined largo florida golf club. we spoke to a friend who joined him there. chris ruddy, you spoke to president trump over the weekend — how would you describe his mood at the moment? i spoke to him twice on saturday. i would say he is not a happy camper. i spoke to him after he had done

the tweet that morning, where he alleged that there were wiretaps made against him and his campaign at the order of president 0bama, and he was sort of angry that he was targeted, and he was very confident about the information he had, so i don't think, and i don't think we've seen any walkback from the white house since he made those comments, and he told me later that night, as the story was developing, i asked him, based on all the denials that had come out during the day, and he said, look, and i have this on my blog, he said, look, you know, if they investigate, they will find out, i will be proven right, and they need to look into this. so, just to be clear, you spoke to the president twice. you spoke to him on the phone, i understand, or did you see him in person? i saw him in person twice. i saw him at the lunch hour and at the dinner hour. and you've known mr trump for 20 years,

but i think you've reported that you've never seen him this angry. i don't recall, certainly during this election period, him being... he wasn't screaming or yelling, but he had a certain look and demeanour that indicated that he was not happy. it wasn't about the media that he wasn't happy. he was unhappy that the former president, he believed, had targeted his campaign, and he described it to me as a watergate action. he described it as mccarthyism, and he was also concerned that the press... he asked me if the press was covering it. remember, he had just come off the links, and i said, no, it is all over. we had it as the lead on newsmax, and he was glad to hear that people were picking it up. so, it was the allegations, as he put it, that president 0bama had wiretapped trump tower that were making him particularly angry? that he was targeted. i don't know if trump tower is really key, or that crucial, here. i think, and if you look through all the denials that came through this weekend, nobody, and one of the trump administration officials told me late last night, everybody‘s mincing their words.

they're not really saying that the trump campaign was not surveilled. they are saying that president 0bama never issued an order. legally, he is not empowered to issue an order, so the question is, did he know about it or not? the fbi has given a very narrow, not an official denial, a narrow denial through an anonymous source in the new york times. you wonder why they haven't come out and officially just denied it altogether. i can tell you that, having been knowledgeable about the trump campaign and the election period, that there is basically a 100% consensus among trump campaign people that they were surveilled during the campaign. just to be clear, president trump didn't just say it once, he said it in four separate tweets that it was president 0bama who had tapped him. he said it in different ways but in four separate tweets. what evidence did he give

you in the conversations that you had with him over the course of the weekend to back that up, to back up that claim that president 0bama had wiretapped or surveilled the trump campaign? he didn't offer me any evidence, but he spoke with great confidence on the matter. it would strain credulity if the president did not know about this, even if he officially didn't give an order, and knowing how the 0bama white house operated. the irs targeted conservative organisations, i believe illegally, and the head of that irs was over at the white house 2a times meeting with 0bama's top advisers. she pleaded the fifth amendment. they deleted e—mails. there was never an investigation, never a special prosecutor, and for them to say that the president didn't know about the irs issue, it is again another thing where if somebody looks into this, they might find that there is a lot more there.

we're getting to 50 days in the trump presidency — do you believe that president trump, your friend of 20 years, is being well served by the team around him? by his own admission, they got a c+ on messaging. several weeks ago, i gave him an a for shaking things up in washington, and i have given him a c as well on messaging on one of my interviews here in the states. and i think that he realises there needs to be improvement. i think you have seen a dramatic... reince priebus, for instance, whom i've been critical of in the past, i think you have seen him really pick up his game. the speech that was given to the joint session of congress was tremendous, and what we saw is that the press didn't like the narrative coming out of that speech and they started talking aboutjeff sessions and the recusal. the head of 0bama's intelligence agencies wasjust on meet the press yesterday, and he said they found no evidence of collusion between the trump campaign and the russians, nothing. so, why is the press

continuing saying there is a huge story here if they are saying there is nothing after a massive investigation? mr ruddy, it's christian slater here in london. i just want to take you back to the warrant. if a warrant was issued, you will know that the court that oversees the foreign intelligence surveillance act has federaljudges sitting on it, independentjudges. there are also lawyers, judicial branch lawyers, who are experts on national security, who sit and scrutinise any demands that are made, so the idea that president 0bama could rubber—stamp such an order seems pretty fanciful. under the law, the president's not allowed to issue any order for a wiretap. at least, that's how the law writes. i should tell you that in the past, presidents have wiretapped political campaigns. we know in 1968, lyndonjohnson wiretapped the nixon

campaign during the whole campaign. he used the fbi to do it. it was done illegally. we know it happened because hoover's assistant wrote a book about the illegal operation, so these things happen. i think the american public realises this type of stuff happens. that's why the fisa act was brought in in 1978 — to stop exactly that. i'm not a big fan of fisa, because i think a lot of times the judges rubber—stamp. there are reports which you are aware of that when they first went to fisa over the trump campaign, thejudge turned down. there are other types of warrant that could be in play here. there is a title three warrant, which is a criminal probe, and that would not necessarily involve the fbi, i'm told, so some of these things could be happening, and i think it's up to congress. trump said, let's investigate it, and he seemed confident that he would win. i think he has a low threshold to prove here, because there's been a consensus in the trump campaign that they were surveilled, or their

associates were surveilled, at one point or another. mr ruddy, looking back over the course of the past 48 hours, and you spoke about the address to congress that the president gave last week, you spoke about the need to improve the president's messaging — would you describe this as a good weekend for president trump? i wouldn't say it was a great weekend. i personally think we'd have been better off having these disclosures not come out in a tweet but in some other method, certainly being raised by congress, but this president is different. he is the first non—politician ever to be a president, and his view basically is that he wants to go directly to the american people on these matters. 0k, chris ruddy, we will let you go. thank you forjoining us. thank you. and off he ran to another meeting!

it is worth remembering that chris ruddy is quite close to donald trump, and he would know his state of mind at the weekend. we have not heard from donald trump since friday, so to get that sort of perspective, that the president did go off the deep end on saturday when he looked at what had happened on thursday and friday, and again, this frustration over the lea ks thursday and friday, and again, this frustration over the leaks and his administration being continually undermined. yes, as chris ruddy were suggesting, there seems to be relief in the trump campaign that they were subject to surveillance. there is a picture of chris ruddy with donald trump in the oval office, proof that they are close. 0ne trump in the oval office, proof that they are close. one of the things that struck me listening to that interview was chris ruddy saying, when i asked for evidence, what evidence donald trump had given him that barack evidence donald trump had given him that ba rack 0bama evidence donald trump had given him that barack 0bama had ordered the tapping of his foes, he said coming he didn't offer me any evidence but he didn't offer me any evidence but he sounded confident on the matter. —— the tapping of his phones. and he was quite coy about how he

had gone. he gave the president a c+ for messaging and communication. today, it has been low—key. all the president's meetings have been off—camera, and it was a low—key roll—out of the travel order. this is the last few minutes in the white house press room. sean spicer is giving a briefing, and you can see how many people are there for the questions, but again, this is off—camera today. iamjust off—camera today. i am just reading the latest from what is called a gaggle, and donald trump has apparently not spoken to the fbi about this. he does want congress to expand its investigation to include this business of surveillance, and sean spicer, on this issue of the surveillance and where it might have been ordered from, said it could have been various sources. we will need to wait to see if there is further

evidence. to put it in perspective, it is extraordinary what donald trump did this weekend. he effectively accused the previous president of committing a crime. the onusis president of committing a crime. the onus is on the white house to find the evidence for that, whether it is through a fisa court, as you were asking chris ruddy, by other means. let's look at the legality of this. have chris ruddy referred to an interview that the head of national intelligence gave yesterday. there was a denial of any wiretapping going on before the election. there was no such wiretap activity mounted against the president elect at the time as a candidate or against his campaign. you would be told this? i would know that. if there was a fisa court order about something like this? something like this, absolutely. and at this point, you can't confirm or deny whether that exists? i can deny it. a short while ago, i spoke to matthew miller, who served as

spokesperson at the justice department until 2011. matt miller, you heard chris ruddy there saying that president trump and his team are very confident that during the course of the campaign, they were under surveillance by the us government. what do you make of that? well, they might be confident. president trump was very confident for a long time that barack 0bama wasn't born in the united states. it doesn't mean that it's true. we've heard the director of national intelligence come out publicly now and say that the president wasn't wiretapped. his campaign wasn't wiretapped. trump tower wasn't wiretapped. and apparentlyjim comey believes the same thing and has asked the department ofjustice to make a public statement, so the fact that the president has these paranoid conspiracy theories doesn't mean they're based in reality. you worked at the us justice department under president 0bama. do you think it is possible that there was some kind of surveillance of the trump campaign and, if so, would president 0bama have known about it? you know, itake director clapper at his word when he said there wasn't any surveillance. that said, it is possible that the government was listening to russian government officials or russian intelligence operatives, something they do

in the normal course of business and in the course of that surveillance came across trump campaign officials or trump associates, former campaign officials, having conversations with those intelligence operatives. and if so, that is the type of information that would have been briefed throughout the intelligence community, would have been shared beyond the fbi with the cia, the director of national intelligence and probably ultimately with the president, but that's a very different thing to the president ordering a wiretap of trump or his campaign. and is that the only circumstance under which you can imagine president trump's team being wiretapped or surveilled in some way? well, no, it's not. before director clapper came out and said what he said yesterday, i think a lot of people thought it was possible that the fisa court has approved a warrant looking into the trump campaign. and there have been reports that approaches were made by the fbi to the fisa courts. there have been reports. but what is so odd about president trump surfacing that allegation, for that to be true, it would have meant a federaljudge

found credible evidence that either trump or members of his campaign were acting as agents of a foreign power. if you're the president, that's not the type of story you want to encourage people to pay attention to! but if you do take director clapper at his word, it seems that that didn't happen. so just to be crystal clear, under american law, there is no way that president 0bama could have ordered the wiretapping of donald trump or his campaign team? no, none. it would have been illegal? it would have been absolutely illegal. since christopher ruddy talks about something that happened in the ‘60s, we passed a law after that specifically because that happened to prevent future presidents from doing it. because of watergate? because of watergate. and there's no way for the president to do that now. could he have come up with a nod and a wink, commissioned his justice department to order the surveillance of president trump? that is the type... then candidate trump and his team? that is the type of thing that would be such a violation of the department of

justice's traditional independence that i think people in the chain of command would have resigned en masse because, you have to remember, it's notjust loretta lynch the attorney general who would have been involved, it is career people, civil servants who work in the department ofjustice under administrations of both parties who would have been charged with carrying out that order. i believe they never would have done that. matt miller, thanks very much for coming in. thank you. the former french prime minister, alainjuppe has criticised his party's presidential candidate, francois fillon, saying he has wasted a chance of victory. members of the republican party, who've been holding crisis talks today, had hoped mrjuppe might replace the scandal—hit candidate, but this morning juppe said he had decided "once and for all" not to stand in france's presidential election. translation: i have no intention to engage in partisan negotiations, nor in the negotiations ofjobs. i confirm once and for all that i won't be a candidate to the republic's presidency.

this is what i will say to nicolas sarkozy and francois fillon if they wish to meet me. alainjuppe, alain juppe, pulling alainjuppe, pulling himself out of the running. this leaves francois fillon as the kind that for the republican party. what has he been saying? years given a statement the night, saying the party needs to get behind him and pull his socks up and start supporting him. a lot of people will point to, dare i say, the arrogance of francois fillon, because he is facing prosecution and will face magistrates again on the 15th of march. he goes into the running, and there are seven weeks until the first round in the two are —— on the 23rd of april, in pretty poor shape. he has lost another poll to night, rooted at 19%, compared to 25.5% for emmanuel macron. nicolas sarkozy,

and a former prime minister, have both say that you have to put the party first, think about whether you can win this. the polls suggest that at this moment in time he cannot. here is a question: in a normal election somewhere else, i would imagine that if a candidate was in this much trouble this close to polling day, there would be a queue of other people from their party wanting tojump into the race, but why are there not a tonne of republican candidate saying, hold on, i will give this a shot? what have they got to lose? ffion briton -- fillon... there are not great alternatives. alainjuppe there are not great alternatives. alain juppe would have there are not great alternatives. alainjuppe would have had quite a

good chance. as soon as he ruled himself out this morning, the party have come together tonight for a meeting to look at it, they said, what else do we have? he has the 500 signatures, fillon. his candidacy is officially registered, and there are just seven weeks. not great for them. you're watching 100 days from bbc news. still to come for viewers on the bbc news channel and bbc world news: the clinton who voted republican. we report from arkansas and the town of clinton that threw its support behind donald trump or stop what they make of his presidency so far? and the french companyjiving at —— buying out general motors' european business. still to come on 100 days. you may have got a passing shower

today, but most of us will have seen sunshine today. a fair amount of that in evidence in shropshire today. it could have been such a different story. this low—pressure gave a glancing blow to south—west england, making for a wet start to the day in the channel islands. look how stormy it got. in north—west france, gusting winds of up to almost 120 mph. we dodged something there! we will have fairly light winds overnight. a bit of rain clipping the north sea tip of aberdeenshire, some outbreaks of rainfor aberdeenshire, some outbreaks of rain for the northern isles. showers feed through northern scotland, north—west england and into the midlands. elsewhere, variable cloud and clear spells. lower temperatures in the countryside, so some frost first thing. a fine stop many of us. 0nly first thing. a fine stop many of us. only in north—west scotland will fade. early rain being confined to shetland. this weather systems comes

in but won't make too much progress into scotland until the evening. it will, with rain and hill snow for a time. it will cross northern ireland. a large part of england continues to be dry well on through the afternoon. the rain heads into cornwall, into devon, at this stage, into south and west wales, accompanied by a freshening wind. 10 celsius in london, but most parts seeing 7—9dc. we take that rain east across the rest of the uk on tuesday evening. some snow on the tops of their hills in north wales in north—west england, but especially in scotland. it is gone by wednesday morning. the rain should clear away, sunny spells developing. a blustery day, especially in northern scotland, with gales and showers here. on thursday, a fine start for most, but this weather front pushes cloud and outbreaks of rain through

in the cause of the day. from the south, thursday into friday, we bring in milderair. south, thursday into friday, we bring in milder air. temperatures will be into the mid—teens. quite a lot of cloud around. it is an u nsettled lot of cloud around. it is an unsettled week, wet at times. dry in brighter moments too. and it will turn milder. welcome back to 100 days with me katty kay in washington and christian fraser in london. our top story — a second attempt at a travel ban — donald trump signs a new executive order. meanwhile the president stands by his extraordinary claim that barack 0bama tapped his phone, we've been hearing from a close friend of mr trump. he was angry at being targeted and very confident about the information he had. and approval ratings suggest that support for the president remains strong among republican voters. we'll hear views from arkansas. the french car company psa — who own peugeot and citroen —

has agreed a deal to buy vauxhall in britain and 0pel in germany from the us company general motors for £1.9 billion — that's about 2.3 billion dollars. there are concerns about big job losses as a result of the deal. four and a half thousand people work at vauxhall plants in the uk — in luton and ellesmere port. unions say the fight begins now to try safeguard jobs. here's our industry correspondentjohn moylan. vauxhall‘s vast vehicle plant at luton, for decades a cornerstone of gm's european operations. but soon what happens here will be decided in france. creating uncertainty for thousands of workers. we've all been worried, of course. we're all going to be worried because we've all got families. i myself have been here nearly 30 years. disbelief because no—one really knows what's going on. as again, we haven't been told. do you think you are safe?

i believe we are. i don't see the reason to shut it down. earlier in paris, peugeot's boss, carlos tava res, alongside his counterpart from general motors confirmed plans to create a european auto giant, second only to volkswagen. huge cost savings are planned, and we asked him what that will mean for vauxhall‘s workers. i trust my vauxhall employees in the uk, i trust them. i know they are skilled. i know that they are dedicated and i know they are committed and i trust that they will be in a very good position by working in a constructive and open manner, as long as we improve the performance and we become the best, there is no risk they should fear. the deal redraws the map of the european car industry. across europe, the psa group has 1a production sites with 139,000 workers. its buying gm europe, known as 0pel, with its eight plants outside the uk and 38,500 employees.

the deal includes vauxhall‘s plants in luton and ellesmere port and their 11,500 staff. here at ellesmere port, the vauxhall astra has been rolling off the production line since the 1980s. to secure the future of the site, unions know the new french owners must commit to a new vehicle for the plant in the coming year. a message to psa, or indeed, general motors before it. it needs to be clear. if they want to sell cars in the united kingdom, they're going to have to build cars in the united kingdom. that's unite's position and we will fight tooth and nail to make sure that happens. the conversations that i and the prime minister have had, both with gm and psa, tell me that they intend to safeguard the plants, honour their commitments and look to increase the performance and the sales of cars. so, we want to hold them to those commitments. uk plants are known to be amongst the most productive and efficient in the world.

but it's what goes into the vehicles, which are built in our plants, which could be the big problem. 60% of the components that go into the vivaro van which is built here at luton come from abroad. for the astra built up at ellesmere port, it is 75%. the former boss of gm's european operations warns that this crucial issue puts the uk's plants at a disadvantage. theyjust don't have enough components purchased here, so it puts the cost of the car up, because they have to import so many components. and so, being realistic, the uk is in a weaker position than other operations. the uk's brexit deal will play into this, too. trade tariffs could increase the cost of those components, as well as the cars we export. britain's auto sector has been a huge success story. but the creation of this new european car giant could present major challenges. john moylan, bbc news, luton. let's get more on this with our business correspondent, michelle fleury.

gm europe has not made a profit since 1999. so something i suppose had to give. you look at the chief executive of general motors, she has been under pressure for a while to do more to keep shareholders happy and inside that is why you're seeing the deal today. there has been a sense that it has not been profitable, it was almost profitable at one stage but brexit and the impact on the pound actually knocked that back. and the company has decided instead to sell the european region off and focus on north america and china, very profitable market for the company. and to reinvest a ny market for the company. and to reinvest any future money as in new technologies. that is the argument they have given and part of the promised to shareholders is to return more money to them. this was pa rt return more money to them. this was part of delivering on that. think

psa would look to use a double to make a push into the united states but of course they have got to deal with donald trump who already has threatened german manufacturers with a 35% import tax. i think threatened german manufacturers with a 3596 import tax. i think if you are in the car industry you're looking long term so at the moment yes there is concern about selling cars in the united states from overseas but specifically we are seeing donald trump critical of car—makers, american car—makers actually, producing cars in mexico and bring them across the border into the us. long—term though it remains to be seen. how big a market there is for 0pel cars in the us. but certainly it leaves the door open for the company to grow. what is interesting if you look at general motors, for a long time it was known as a huge global player, with a footprint around the world. now suddenly it is leaving one region behind the century although it can still sell cadillacs into the european market.

it is focusing instead on more profitable regions. but it is changing the shape of the car industry as we know it, bw and toyota can industry as we know it, bw and toyota ca n fig ht industry as we know it, bw and toyota can fight it out for the title of the world's biggest car—makers, general motors is shrinking and you have psa with the chance now to grow and become the number two player in europe and who knows, whether or not it has ambitions beyond that and into the united states. an interesting vote of confidence in the chinese market and chinese consumer markets. but talk to me about this investment in future technologies, is this the gm of saying that the futurist d riverless ca rs of saying that the futurist driverless cars and that is what we will spend some of these games on? right now you have the geneva motor show going on, and when i've been to the detroit motor show in the past, the detroit motor show in the past, the right hand man to the boss of gm has talked a lot about right sharing, a change in the way we go

about transport that in future car ownership in big cities will not play as big a part. and that right sharing will be something to invest in. they have a partnership with the company. lift, they're called and we could see an expansion of that. in europe that is the area that they wa nt to europe that is the area that they want to continue to focus on, this right sharing, not to mention of course electric cars. we are hearing about less about that and then of course is driverless cars which gm compared to some of its rivals have been less involved with. perhaps this will free up some cash for them to put more towards that technology. thank you. while president trump faces questions in washington, it's worth noting he still has 85% support among republicans and his current approval rating — at 45% — represents a bit of an uptick. it was middle america — among voters he described as ignored and forgotten — that put him in the white house, people like dan and peggy eoff — ranchers from clinton — a small town in rural arkansas.

here's why they backed mr trump. i can't do it! we've become so politically correct that you can't say poop if you stepped in it. friends, neighbours, jesus christ — they are all welcome. that's pretty good. i really enjoyed that. that just kind of starts everything right. i'm peggy, this is my husband, dan, and we host the national championship chuck wagon races at our branch, here at clinton, arkansas. ido the... the hard work! i pay the bills. she pays the bills. this is our 32nd year. we started out with eight wagons, and last year

we had 5045 horses checked in. it's the largest horse event that we know of in the united states at one time. i was born to be a cowboy. i thought maybe a bull rider, but god didn't want me to be a bull rider or a bronco rider, it was a chuck wagon race promoter. and a rancher. i always wanted to be a rancher. president trump, i like him. i tell people i'm married to him, but my husband'sjust like him, you know. he says what he's going to do and does what he says he's going to do. and that's why we like him, because dan's the same way. i think the government's out of control. you know, they need to have more people running the government that's had hands—on experience, that's made their land and lived on the river. if we're terminating the river, i'm going to stop it, because my grandmother and my grandchildren sank the water down below here,

and if we're terminating, i'm going to stop it. we don't have to have washington to stop that. are they here to help us? it used to be i felt they were, you know. most of ourfurniture, wooden furniture, comes from mexico. if we were to buy it from an american producer at this quality, it wouldn't. .. 0ur wholesale cost would be what we retail this table for. but now, we do support our president, and if he says there's going to be a border tax, we're going to pay it, because we feel like it will benefit us all in the long run. just... man... could you not dream of having a ranch and being the rodeo star i thought i was going to be? i'm a chuck wagon race producer, i guess, but that's ok. you know, it's to do with people, horses, cattle, and we've been blessed.

i like the look of clinton, arkansas. i could see you there. i could do radio there. an important reminder, we gets obsessed by the nuances of stories within the so—called beltway washington, how much does it really matter to donald trump and his base in places like arkansas and wisconsin, montana. that base when you look at the polling today that has come out, is rock—solid. polling today that has come out, is rock-solid. they still very much like what president trump and particularly these executive orders and travel bans, has been doing since he came into the white house. it isn't to dan and peggy eoff and you start to think that washington is all twitter to use a phrase about what the president tweeted this weekend. 0nce what the president tweeted this weekend. once i picked myjaw off the floor i was also amazed. but for dan and peggy eoff i suspect all the story about russia is perhaps not as

important as people here in washington think it is. that is 100 days for this monday — i'll be taking your questions live on our facebook page shortly, with my colleague rajini vaidyanathan. so do send us your thoughts, for now though from katty kay in washington and me, christian fraser in london — goodbye. you're watching bbc news. the top stories. president trump has signed a new executive order imposing a ban on travellers from 6 million muslim countries, iraq is no longer on the list. the head of the french car company psa has played down fears of british plant closures after its ta keover of forecastle. british plant closures after its takeover of forecastle. he says he has faith in the uk has a 4000 workers was oblivious of the french centre—right have reaffirmed their support forfossilfuel

centre—right have reaffirmed their support for fossil fuel as their candidate in the presidential elections next month. and an update on the markets, the ftse and the dax close of trading are down and about an hourand 15 close of trading are down and about an hour and 15 minutes to go to the closing bell on wall street. the dow and nasdaq are also down. talks are underway in belfast to try to form a new power—sharing government. the two largest parties, the democratic unionists and sinn fein, are still divided over a green energy scheme that led to the collapse of the previous administration. 0ur ireland correspondent, chris page is at stormont. is the price that nationalist would wa nt is the price that nationalist would want for power sharing this time around arlene foster to walk? well sinn fein and indeed the other nationalist party, the sdlp, have said they would not serve in a new power—sharing executive with arlene foster as first minister at the head for the duration of a public enquiry

into that green energy scheme you we re into that green energy scheme you were talking about. the renewable heat incentive which ran almost half £1 billion over budget. dup ministers ran that and the scheme was set up in 2000 drop under the guidance of arlene foster who at the time was enterprise minister. so a public enquiry is underway now but could take at least six months for it to report. so if arlene foster went along with demands of the nationalist parties, she could be out of the first minister's offers for quite some time. there are suggesting they would be content with another dup politician in the role of first minister and perhaps even arlene foster in another ministerial role. but for arlene foster as leader of unionism to stand down from the top political post in northern ireland, would be a very major step. she spoke to the media today in between meetings with the northern ireland secretaryjames brokenshire and a meeting with sinn fein and the dup and did not seem to com pletely fein and the dup and did not seem to completely rule out the thought that

a caretaker first minister could ta ke a caretaker first minister could take over. when the prospect was put to her she said it was regrettable but sinn fein had been