us via united states, sir christopher meyer who joins us via describe united states, sir christopher via describe in london. hello, good to see you. thank you for joining hello, good to see you. thank you forjoining us. we are used to donald trump's style. some say blueser. he's nine days away from becoming quite possibly the most powerful politician on the planet. what did you make of his rhetoric and what he was saying in this news conference? well, either historic standards of trump public declarations and pronouncements this was pretty calm and sub died. none of the flaming technicolour that some of his previous pronouncements have had. he started the press conference on the defensive, as regards the buzzfeed, russian allegations and questions of conflict of interest, actually, he got through this pretty well. he was able to handle it pretty willing. i think the problem here for those who wa nt to think the problem here for those who want to try and push him out of office is that although these allegations are in parts particularly lurid sexually, no—one yet has been able to stand

well, this was the assessment of that news conference from sir christopher meyer, who's a former britishstates. one of the great thing is that we will all worried about was that donald trump was going nasty on nato while he was going nice on putin. that is a toxic combination. what we now have, certainly on the basis of the press conference is a firm statement of support for nato. that secures one flank. and, actually, donald trump been cautious about the future of possible relations with russia and was president vladimir putin. so they are, theresa may has really got a result which is good for britain, very good for britain and also for the rest of europe. moving on to other topics, the other weather came out time and again was brexit. donald trump seems to relish in that and is possibly the first us president we have had who has openly said that that is a great thing. president we have had who has openly said that that is a great thinglj mean... said that that is a great thing.|j mean... theresa may could not have asked for any more fervent support of brexit then she has received from

ambassador to the us — sir christopher meyer — whojoins us now from central london.m special relationship is bunk — is that fair? i don't like the expression. it is a rhetorical advice that we, the brits, craig, and we go into a blind funk when it is mentioned. —— crave. we need to work out what are our interest, what we wa nt work out what are our interest, what we want from the us, what we want trump to do, what we want trump not to do. that is the basis for a proper high—level discussion between the prime minister and the president. i was interested to hear borisjohnson say president. i was interested to hear boris johnson say we president. i was interested to hear borisjohnson say we are at the head of the queue, according to mr trump. that is not what mr trump said in his interview with michael gove this week. i wonder how easy it will be to forge any kind of relationship with the united states when the president is saying america first, and congress will have a role in deciding what the trade deal is. that's true, but america first is not yet a policy, it's a s

well, we can now speak to sir christopher meyer, who's a former british ambassador to the united statesom central london. i suppose that headline as laura put it with the nato section of the speech and something that a loss of world leaders will be very pleased to hear cosmic they will be extremely pleased to hear, because one of the great things were all worried about was donald trump going nasty on nato, while he was going nice on putin. that is a very touchy conversation. now we have a very firm statement of support for nato. that secures one flank and actually donald trump been quite cautious about the future of possible relations with russia and president putin. theresa may has really got the result, which is good for britain. it's also good for the rest of europe. moving to other topics, of europe. moving to other topics, of course the other word that came out time and again was brexit. donald trump seems to relish in that and is possibly the first us president we've had who has come openly out and said he thinks it's a great thing. theresa may could not have asked for any more fe

the former british ambassador to the united states, sir christopher meyer, says trump's rocky relationshiprning for both us and world security. in this press conference, although he did not exactly underlined this coming hugely suggested that the intelligence agencies might be behind the publicly king of these allegations, such that they have appeared in certain news agencies —— the public the king. you might say this is a renewed war between himself and the intelligence agencies, you are quite right to say that for a president to start his term of office on bad relations, very bad relations, with the intelligence agencies, it is not brilliant for american security and not brilliant for world security or the security of the north atlantic treaty organisation. this is outside source live from the bbc newsroom. our lead story is... donald trump gave his first press conference as president—elect — facing questions on obamacare, conflicts of interest and whether he is vulnerable to blackmail by russia. his answer was no. it was his first press conference in almost six months. some of the main

earlier i spoke to the former uk ambassador to the us — sir christopher meyer. the uk to forge a relationship with a president who promised to put america first. america first is not a policy, it's a slogan. if you take a blank sheet of paper and you write down america first on it, the only other two things you can add to it on the basis of what the president has said is one, china, because america thinks that china has been cheating in global trade. the other thing you write down is mexico because trump believes the north american free agreement signed under president bill clinton has meant a migration ofjobs out of the united states into mexico. beyond that we do not know what trump means by america first. i personally don't believe for five seconds that it rules out the possibility of uk— us trade agreement. whether it's the front, middle or back of the queue, who gives a toss? it is piddling staff and it doesn't matter. the fact of the is trump has expressed a warmth of feeling towards the united kingdom, he wants to do a deal with us kingdom, he wants to do