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without ever glimpsing the president. um... you know what? well, here we are. another edition of the president's path. another wild week in washington. and long—time friend of mine as well.

nice to see you. on thursday eastern time, just to timestamp that for everyone that's tuning in to show where we're at. after that visit of the british prime minister, olivier, you'll remember all of those days over the years and things running late and the chaos you know, actually with the time stamp, you're doing pretty well because many a night for a president who's only, you know, a month and a week into his administration, he's had quite a lot of world leaders come through. he's got an ambitious agenda. these world leaders. leaders, they're the ones

who need the visit. macron poured on the charm. an invitation from the king. and then he played it up as an unprecedented second state visit. and just be very pleased that he was going to make some history. and i think that that was a smart move in that it kind of set up the tone of the rest of the day in which, you know, sir keir kind of went out of his way for there not to be at least any public disagreement between the two men.

you know, there was a lot of lavish praise being thrown back and forth. you know, efforts to make canada the 515t state, to say you're trying to divide us when there in quite a good mood. on mood and instinct. so i think that was a very kind of astute move to kind of set a similar thing happen with president macron

thing president trump said was, "this guy's in our discussions. you're a very tough negotiator. as we would love to. but it seems to be that they they've been really pushing president trump in private, different tone in public. i thought this afternoon was almost noticeable, they were discussing, you know, behind closed doors.

the thing about macron is he agrees with donald trump on a lot of really important things. if macron pitched that to donald trump behind the scenes, that would have pleased donald trump immensely. you know, he's called donald trump a game changer in public for ukraine and for european security. that if he repeated it to donald trump, it would we heard him say in, i can't remember now which of the press conferences

it was, and he said the same thing. you know, europe needs to step up more. go up to 4% or 5%." but it's interesting in terms of this approach that world leaders are taking to how they come to president trump, and just really careful measuring of the language. it's also very public, but it's really interesting. you know, you've got these calls. there were a bunch of calls before the prime minister came over. i think that's very...

it's, you know, like a team effort almost to see, you know, we need him, we need an american role how do we get that? you know? you know, i mean, i'm imagining here, i'm speculating, pennsylvania. i think that's very interesting. between zelensky and macron before the macron meeting, starmer will most definitely be speaking to zelensky before that meeting.

between russia and ukraine at this point. president zelensky wants in a deal before "like that." so it's a kind of chicken and egg—type situation, and it's going to be really interesting to see, and who comes to the table. i mean, we haven't even mentioned the eu, i mean, their chief diplomat, kaja kallas, was in town this us secretary of state.

i interviewed her on my show and the meeting gets cancelled. what do you do? but for us, if russia is going to get things they've asked for without shifting its position at all, that feels like appeasement. so kind of very strong words coming from the eu towards the us. so that's a tense relationship. and around about the time that

secretary rubio was due to be of the week — this first cabinet meeting that donald trump held with his team. they're not all confirmed yet, but most of them are. and that was, again, extraordinary. it was 60 minutes or so before. 65 minutes. 65 minutes! essentially in a room and the president going around senate confirmed. and he was there addressing journalists as well, and we're told stayed in the room for the duration of were asking, you know,

about tensions that had been reported between some of the cabinet members that have been made. and president trump kind of turned to the room and said, and it was...it was crickets. there was total silence. that he is very much the boss in the room. and one wonders, you know, behind closed doors, a little more heated too. less enthused with doge. so ijust thought that was quite a remarkable moment, especially when musk is there as not a member of the cabinet, you know.

of highlight that. from the republican party. they said, you know, cabinet meetings are a very formal affair. cup, as he went through it. none of them rode talking about before. cards, which are a gold

green card, it seems, detail on this, but based on what howard lutnick was saying, it gets them a green card for life that's the president referred to it being a solid i mean, just because, you know, i cover immigration quite they'll get, i think they said at one point $1 trillion, you know, so it was interesting to hear him speak about immigration

of the us, for example, his mass deportation and sometimes public health issue. of the immigration coin. i'm glad you mentioned not seeing a final proposal. any trump white house, because they been hearing for a while. i thought, what's interesting is

on immigration from these countries. i don't want to be excessively cynical, but it would seem to open the door to folks from russia we haven't seen... "ah, this is what this "confers on this deep pocketed individual." and we're really going to have to look at that carefully. he was actually asked specifically when he when he first mentioned the gold cards

you know, given that the war is still happening and that and there was also, and i know you were keeping an eye on this, this kind of notion of a migrant registry was floated this week. a significant announcement that they made. you know, 1940. a very foreign concept. i think it will be very hard to implement. i mean, who's going to sign up for that when you hear the hard line on deportations and so on? exactly. of the fact that, you know,

we're hearing less and i think that's probably because president trump and tom homan, for example, has explicitly said and in their view, this could help because it broadens but to actually make that work, i mean, strikes me as fairly impossible. so, i mean, there's a lot of questions left. i think this is, again, another example of the announcement an undocumented migrant to essentially potentially set themselves up for deportation? if you give your address and fingerprints and

administration. in terms of media relations between the white house do you want to talk through a little bit aboutjust sure. exists essentially to represent the interests of the white house press corps, action by the press in relation to the white house, and the like.

moving forward, what they said this week was that they would take control over who was in this pool. from this journalist organisation, which had it's a really significant blow to press freedoms to pick who covers them. outlets in the united states, because he doesn't like

that they are still using "gulf of mexico" instead of using his "gulf of america." have an agenda that's against trump, as others but the whca is for everyone, no matter your agenda, right? that's right. as far as i know, no news organisation was ever turned away if they applied for the pool because of ideology. this isjust a red herring here. the whca controlled access to the pool because we

who regularly do pool duty. is saying and inviting ones that are.

that's not hypothetical. because it was the press corps and the whca that blocked house coverage altogether. so, bern, we've spoken before in the podcast, you've been doing. but since this was announced by the press secretary, at least when i got there in the morning, there who's going to send

the reports? and then plus, you know, logistical questions of these new media outlets that the trump that sort of thing. it's a huge logistical task that, you know... people today at least weren't sure that the white house had really thought through some of those day—to—day questions. so, i mean, really, there was a huge sense in my little area of the basement down there. well, speaking of freedom of the press, it's time to free the press, of the president's path. and, olivier, great to have you with us for your

maiden voyage here. and you can catch up with all of the episodes it'll be under the global story bannerfor sounds users. hello, it's been a sunny sunday, at more of that to come in the next few days. by more sunshine tomorrow. a weather front is approaching. of the high pressure.

scotland later on. some dribs and drabs in the south of scotland it is a clear start for most of england and wales, now, that fog will eventually clear as it has done in the last few days. of rain. but elsewhere, it is a case of sunny skies. still around 9 or 10 in the south after that chilly and frosty start. here is tuesday's outlook. the weather fronts are making more progress into scotland, so increasing winds, eventually some

but away from the north—west, it is once again a fine will hover into double figures right across the board. in fact, that will be the trend for the rest of the week. area of high pressure, certainly by wednesday, thursday, we will see air coming in from the southern climes. it's not particularly mild air, but it's enough for most of us to notice. across the western parts of europe, even to scandinavia. so i think the low to mid—teens could be expected. looking very promising indeed for london, for cardiff, via our weather app.

a crucial meeting of

european leaders wraps up with an agreement they hope will lead to a lasting says it's a "once in a generation moment" for europe's security. we are at a crossroads in history today. this is not a moment for more talk. it's time to act, time to step up and lead. on to sandringham for a private audience with king charles. hello, i'm samantha simmonds. sir keir starmer says is a crossroads in and that time to history and that it's time to act and unite a new plan act and unite around a new plan for a just and peace for a just and enduring peace in ukraine. the british prime was speaking after a minister was speaking after a key of world leaders at

house. 7; the lancaster house. he said the agreed four steps to