david willis has more.y credited for helping steer donald trump to victory, he was one of the most powerful men in the white house. the driving force behind donald trump's nationalist ideology, his was the ethos of putting america first, and taking back the country. as economic conditions get better, as morejobs get better, they will continue to fight. if you think they will give your country back without a fight, you are sadly mistaken. every day — every day, it is going to be a fight. he is not a racist, i can tell you that. he is a good person. he actually gets a very unfair press in that regard. but we'll will see what happens with mr bannon. by the time that donald trump had made that less than ringing endorsement of his special advisor this week, the die was cast. steve bannon‘s clashes with more moderate forces in the west wing, chief among them the president's son—in—law, jared kushner, and his daughter, ivanka, coupled with renewed accusations following the violence at charlottesville of white nati

david willis is following this story for us from washington. david, good to see you.s, an excerpt from hillary clinton's book, more of that i'm sure, how is this going down in the states? hillary clinton has said, babita, that that second debate with donald trump was one of the toughest moments if not the toughest moment for her of the campaign. she said in the past that it presented her with a dilemma, whether to lash out, as she put it in the extract you just heard there, oi’ in the extract you just heard there, or to keep her calm. and she is firmly of the view, she said, in the past, that women in public life can appear irritated, they can appear frustrated but they cannot afford, she believes, to appear angry. so, of course, ironically this was an election all about anger, anger she felt she was unwilling to express. but there's no doubt i think on the pa rt but there's no doubt i think on the part of anybody who watched that debate, as many did here in the united states, that donald trump did attempt to use his considerable physical stature, six tall, to attempt

david willis reports.n in the white house. if you think they will give your country back without a fight, you are sadly mistaken. every day... every day, it is going to be a fight. steve bannon has now returned to right—wing website, breitbart news, which he ran before leaving tojoin the trump campaign a year ago. he has said that he intends to keep fighting on the president's behalf, but in an interview with the conservative magazine the weekly standard, he has said that the trump presidency that they fought for and won is now over. he is not a racist. i can tell you that. he is a good person. he actually gets a very unfair press in that regard. but we'll see what happens with mr bannon. by the time donald trump had made that less than ringing endorsement of his special adviser earlier this week, the die was cast. steve bannon‘s clashes with more moderate forces in the west wing coupled with renewed accusations following the violence in charlottesville that he harboured white nationalist sympathies helped

david willis, bbc news, washington.ke to don champion, a reporter for the cbs network in the us. he's in corpus christi, texas and described what it was like there. hurricane harvey is still showing little mercy on this part of the texas gulf coast. the storm is already making two landfalls, the first one last night around 10.00pm local time and the second one just a few hours after that. the storm is nowjust to the north of us and will basically be stalling out through the weekend. folks here are not expecting rain in inches but rather in feet through the next two, three, four or even five days in this region. this is a slow—moving disaster that is far from over. already, even in the dark of night, we are getting damage reports from around the region, including in the town of rockport which is about 30 miles north of where i am standing, which is where the category four hurricane made landfall. we have possibly some senior citizens were trapped in a senior citizens home there and collapsed buildings there as well. cert

david willis, bbc news. this morning we're remembering the life and work of sir bruce forsyth.ars, from those early broadcasts at the london palladium, to the strictly ballroom more recently. in a moment, we'll speak to his friend, the comedianjimmy tarbuck. but first here's a look back at sir bruce's shows over the decades. # when i look at you... what am i going to do? #. isaid,i going to do? #. i said, i want to become a star and by my mum a fur coat. i used to go and see fred astaire films rennie with dancing in them, and i would be intrigued by the dancing, and i would come home and dance away sometimes hours all by myself. if i didn't make it, i wanted to get out, maybe go more into the musical side of the business. then i did the palladium, which turned everything around. welcome to the generation game. it's nice to see you, to see you, nice. the first bit about audience participation is, you got to enjoy it. i've always loved it. i've loved it because you never know what is going to happen. i'm dying for a night of! what is going to happen. i'm dying fora night of! i wh

david willis reports.ing set up to help the president deliver on his promise to help "make america great again," the business advisory councils brought together the heads of some of the biggest companies in the us. who would have thought, then, that the racial clashes in cha rlottesville on saturday, in which one person died, would have proved their undoing? the president's response to this violence shocked members of his own party and unnerved many corporate executives. once the country's most prominent african—american businessman, pharmaceutical ceo ken frazier, announced that he was leaving, others swiftly followed. we believed the symbolism of being associated with that spirited defence of racism and bigotry was just unacceptable. as a trickle of resignations turned into a flood, a close ally of the president, blackstone ceo steve schwarzman, rang to tell him that members were threatening to quit en masse, at which point the president took to twitter to pull the plug: rather than putting pressure on t

david willis, bbc news. donald melania trump rayudu skip and a rts donald melania trump rayudu skip and arts ceremony. some of those due to attend the kennedy centre honours... many have been angered by mr trump's plans to scrap funding. many angry about his reaction to the cha rlottesville about his reaction to the charlottesville protest as well. passengers aboard a jet2 flight from malaga to birmingham on friday have reported feeling "terrified" as their plane was shadowed by a french fighter jet for around 15 minutes. a spokesman forjet2 has said that they are "awaiting clarification" from french air authorities as to why the military jet seemingly followed their flight. let's get the weather. i believe summer let's get the weather. i believe summer is coming back. chris foulkes has the details. we have had another day of sunshine and showers. the showers particularly frequent in the north and west of scotland. they will continue through the night. elsewhere, they will fade away, we will have falling tem

our correspondent, david willis joins me now from washington. nor says taxes is facing a very major disaster. yes, it is now a category for is harvey, and it is bearing down on the golf coast of texas —— gulf coast of texas. it is due to hit landfall in a matter of hours. president trump has been briefed by the drill emergency officials, this is of course the first potential national disaster that he has to face as president. of course we all remember hurricane katrina and those images still haunt federal emergency officials to this day, more than 1000 people died, and there was devastation caused a course of the city of new orleans. resident trump obviously very keen to avoid that are ironically he was talking only a few months ago of limiting the amount offunding few months ago of limiting the amount of funding to the federal emergency response team, but there has been no progress on that and president trump may be quite pleased by the time that this is all finished that there was not cut in funding, at least thus far. and one of his assistants

david willis, bbc news, washington.orth america correspondent james cook is in the seaside town of corpus christi for us and sent this update. hurricane harvey smashed the shore just a short time ago, not very far from here. about 30 miles east—north—east of where we are standing in corpus christi. rockport is where it came ashore. the winds were said to be 130mph, according to the national hurricane center, that makes it a category four hurricane. an extremely dangerous storm, and the most powerful storm to hit the mainland united states in more than a decade. there are already reports of damage. i've seen part of a building that was being constructed coming down. there are palm trees down as well, and other damage. the real effect will only come to light as we get into the morning. the governor of texas had warned that this was going to be an extremely serious storm, and a potential major disaster. that is, at the moment, certainly possible. we'll keep you up—to—date with the situation in texas. a man has been arreste

i spoke to our washington correspondent david willis about what his departure means for the trump administrationer outside the white house he will be a friend orfoe. outside the white house he will be a friend or foe. there is no doubt at all that he had been waging somewhat ofan all that he had been waging somewhat of an internal war against some close to donald trump, including, it is thought, his son—in—law, jared kushner, whose daughter, ivanka trump, and people he branded the globalist, if you like, and whether that war will continue with him outside the white house remains to be seen. and david, will we see this revolving door at the white house slowdown now? is this the end of it? what is the word on capitol hill? well, the speculation that there are others aligned to steve bannon who may also be heading for the door, not big names, that said, chris, but others who were close to steve bannon. this is all part of housecleaning, housekeeping, undertaken by the new white house chief of staff, generaljohn kelly, who has really sought in the three weeks he has been made to instil some sort of

for more on this washington correspondent david willis joins us. it doesn't look good, does it?hat would have demolished anyone else‘s reputation and he has come sailing through. does any of this stop him from doing the things he will select to do? it is a good question. we will have to wait and see. he was the president of the business. he appointed himself as the ultimate dealmaker, or at least described himself as such. one of the first things he did was to set up the first things he did was to set up two councils tube boostjobs and the manufacturing industry, and to deliver on the promise that he made while he was campaigning for the presidency to make america great again. in recent days, we have seen resignations from those bodies, a trickle became a flood. then, word came out that members of one of these groups were thinking of basically disbanding the group itself. the president heard about that and he is of course the man that and he is of course the man that likes to say, you're fired, rather than be told as such. he decided to jump the gun and decided to disband those

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our correspondent, david willis has this update from washington.ur, bearing down on the golf close to texas. it is due to hit landfall in a matter of hours —— gulf. president trump has been briefed by federal emergency officials. it is the first potential national disaster that he has to face as president. we all remember hurricane katrina, and those images which still haunt federal emergency officials to this day. more than 1000 people died. there was devastation caused to the city of new orleans. the national hurricane in centre says that to be iof hurricane in centre says that to be i of hurricane harvey is beginning to come onto land in the middle of the texas coast. here are some pictures from earlier —— the eye. you can see the weather getting angrier and you can see the weather getting angrierand angry you can see the weather getting angrier and angry over the last few hours. you can see the waves crashing on to shore, that is going to bea crashing on to shore, that is going to be a feature of the coming days. a storm surge of several metres

i recently spoke to david willis and asked for more reaction from washington.dinary and the reaction has been what you would anticipate, calls forfirm leadership, calls for a denunciation of the very notion that both sides were equally to blame for what happened in cha rlottesville on saturday. we've had calls from leaders of the house, paul ryan, from senator marco rubio, also a member of donald trump's party, and from the democratic governor of the state of virginia, terry macauliff, where this violence occurred on saturday. all basically lending their voices to the denunciation of president trump's rhetoric today and of course the only support really that has figured prominently in the headlines has been from one david duke, the former head of the ku klux klan, who applauded mr trump for what he called his "courage", as he saw it, for what happened on saturday. we should probably read the direct quote from the governor of virginia in full. we have it here. he said: of course, quite apart from all this, there is collateral damage. more people feeling the need

i don't blame her either well we spoke to our resident powerful correspondent david willis a short time ago. favorite clearly you didn't win either so what do we know about the women a day it. you'll still here and i'm still here jay which means that you may choose to set up a else out. in future to get your lottery tickets perhaps a of the numbers on this ticket that i bought for myself. to get a single one writes i'm somebody who did though is a fifty three year old lady called a mavis one zick. she's a mother of three from chicopee in massachusetts of the last thirty two years she's words adds a local hospital well surprise surprise. she doesn't anymore she is now officially one of the richest people in the world and. she's worth apparently of the cost of a couple of islands old to a self. and i bet she's rushing out to buy them i mean how much does she actually debts because seven hundred fifty million sounds a lot but just get all that the sheik. she doesn't this was a jackpot of what says seven hundred fifty eight million dollars in total now they have the option. of taking this e

david willis has this report violence. 0ur ——i have no doubt about it and if you reported accurately,. condemned to failing to apportion blame for the violence and more than 30 others injured, the president took to the white house on monday to denounce racism and the white supremacist groups that organise this rally. a carefully worded statement which briefly served to cool the embers of outrage, only to the president to reignite them 2a hours later. outrage, only to the president to reignite them 24 hours later. you had a group on one side and you had a grip on the other side that was also very violent and nobody wants to say that but i will say that right now. the remarks prompted sweeping condemnation from leading members of his own party. speaker of the house paul ryan took to twitter to brand white supremacy repulsive, adding there can be no moral ambiguity. while senator marco rubio branded the organisers for the rally 100% to blame for what happened and the governor of virginia, a democrat said ina the governor of virginia, a democrat said in a statement: support came from davi

the bbc‘s david willis gave me the latest from washington., making the totaljackpot prize now in excess of $700 million. that is the second—highest, if it gets won, in american history. i bought mine earlier on, at a convenience store. there was a row of people out the door, i can tell you. and they call people like me, i can tell you, jackpot chasers. they are the sort of people who don't normally buy a powerball ticket, but are inspired to do so when they see figures like $700 million, and go out and join the frenzy. so there's a lot resting on this, mike. and, if you hear that over the next few days i have cleared my desk, you'll know it has worked out pretty well. if you don't pop pop up for the next bulletin, we will draw our own conclusions. there is some marketing, isn't there? some suggestion the odds have been manipulated to rack up the size of that jackpot. you're right, and over the course of the last couple of years, actually, here in the us, they have made the lottery slightly harder to win. now, what that has done is it's pushed

david willis takes up the story from washington.ospital worker one of the richest people in the world. mother of two mavis wanczyk, from chicopee, massachusetts, has since told her bosses she won't be at work tomorrow, or the next day or any other day after that. her $758 million prize is the largest single ticketjackpot in american history. last night it was kind of like... i didn't realise it. today, i'm still like, this is untrue, it can't be. now it's like... uh...i am a winner and i'm scared. i'll be ok. us lottery winners have the choice of taking the jackpot as a lump sum or a series of annual payments, spread over the course of 29 years. mavis has opted for the former. even after paying $300 million in taxes, it will still leave her wealthy beyond her wildest dreams. another more modest beneficiary is the convenience store where she bought the winning ticket. they are donating their $50,000 prize to charity. we just happen to be the lucky people, that's all, and we are glad to be able to pass it on. mavis said she always dre

david willis reports. at the top of our agenda is the creation of great high—paying jobs...mise to help make america great again, the business advisory councils brought together the heads of some of the biggest companies in the us. who would have thought, then, that the racial clashes in cha rlottesville thought, then, that the racial clashes in charlottesville on saturday, in which one person died, would have proved there on doing? the president's response to this violence shocked members of his own party and unnerved many of corporate executives. once the country's most prominent african—american businessmen, pharmaceutical ceo can phrase you, announced that he was leaving, others swiftly followed. —— ken frazier. we believe the symbolism of being associated with that spirited defence of racism and bigotry was just unacceptable. as that spirited defence of racism and bigotry wasjust unacceptable. as a trickle of resignations turned into a flood, a close ally of the president, blackstone ceo steve schwartzman, rang to tell him that members were threatening to quit en masse,

our washington correspondent david willis reports.message and refer to his original assessment of the cause of saturday‘s violence. i think there is blame on both sides. you look at both sides, i think there is blame on both sides and i have no doubt about it, and you don‘t have any doubt about it either. only the nazis...! and, and if you reported it accurately, you would see that. condemned for failing to apportion lame for the violence which left one person dead and more than 30 injured, the president took to the white house on monday to denounce racism and the white supremacist groups that organised the rally. a carefully worded statement which briefly served to cool the embers of outrage, only for the president himself to reignite them 2a hours later. you had a group on one side that was bad and a group on the other side that was also very violent. nobody wants to say that, but i will say it. the remarks prompted sweeping condemnation from leaders of his own party. the speaker of the house took to twitter to say... a notable sour

david willis reports. harvey hit texas hard overnight, bringing with it high winds and heavy rain.urricane, capable of causing catastrophic damage. deemed the most powerful storm to hit the us mainland in over a decade. this is going to be a very major disaster. this is harvey from above, a malevolent storm system ten miles wide, capable of dumping up to a0 inches of rain. corpus christi, a city in the eye of the storm, has seen a rush to evacuate. fears of a power outage forcing the sickest babies at a children's hospital to be moved out of the hurricane's path. the national weather service warned of winds that could leave homes uninhabitable for weeks or even months. among those heeding the local mayor's advice to "get out of dodge", this woman and her three children. i try to be strong because i don't want my children to see. they get scared and i don't want to have them scared. i have to be a strong mother for that. briefed earlier by his advisers, president trump is facing the first national disaster of his term in office. the lessons of hurricane katrina i2 years ago still se

. >> reporter: david willis delivers pizzas full time. the unknown troubles him, too. being able to buy coverage if insurers leave. >> it would be a struggle, a real, real struggle. >> reporter: both republicans prefer talking pizza to politics. but each had messages to washington about obamacare. >> i would like them to replace it and make it better. don't repeal it. we need it. there's people that don't make enough money that need this insurance. >> get something right. work together on it. quit knit picking and do something for the american people. they have to figure out something. can't be rocket science, can it? >> and, stephanie, it wasn't rocket science for the state to fix these counties here. they basically asked people insurers from neighboring counties to try to pick up a few of these counties each and spread the risk around. still one county here that doesn't have obamacare insurer lined up for next year. >> all right, thanks, garrett. i'm with them. pizza over politics. new york pizza. >>> coming up, how has trump's d.c. hotel changed washington's culture

our us correspondent david willis reports.there is blame on both sides. you look at both sides, i think there is blame on both sides and i have no doubt about it, and you don't have any doubt about it either. and, and if you reported it accurately, you would see that. can do and for failing to apportion lame for the violence which left one person dead and more than 30 injured, the president took to the white house on monday to denounce racism and the white supremacist groups that organised the rally. a carefully worded statement which briefly served to cool the embers of outrage, only for the president to reignite them 24 hours later. you had a group on one side that was bad and a group on the other side that was also very violent. nobody wants to say that, but i will say it. it wa nted to say that, but i will say it. it wanted sweeping condemnation from leaders of his own party. the speaker of the house to twitter to say: a notable source of support came from david duke, the former leader of the ku klux klan. he applauded the

our us correspondent, david willis, reports.led to make a statement about infrastructure, only veering wildly off message and referring to his original assessment of the cause of saturday's violence. i think there is blame on both sides. you look at both sides, i think there is blame on both sides and i have no doubt about it, and you don't have any doubt about it either. and, and if you reported it accurately, you would see that. condemned originally for failing to apportion blame for the violence which left one person dead and more than 30 injured, the president took to the white house on monday to denounce racism and the white supremacist groups that organised the rally. a carefully worded statement which briefly served to cool the embers of outrage, only for the president to reignite them 2a hours later. you had a group on one side that was bad and a group on the other side that was also very violent. nobody wants to say that, but i will say it. the remarks prompted sweeping condemnation from leaders of his own party. the sp

david willis reports. at the top of our agenda is the creation of great high—paying jobs.sident deliver on his promise to help "make america great again," the business advisory councils brought together the heads of some of the biggest companies in the us. who would have thought, then, that the racial clashes in cha rlottesville on saturday, in which one person died, would have proved their undoing? the president's response to this violence shocked members of his own party and unnerved many of those corporate executives. once the country's most prominent african—american businessman, pharmaceutical ceo ken frazier, announced that he was leaving, others swiftly followed. we believe the symbolism of being associated with that spirited defence of racism and bigotry was just unacceptable. as a trickle of resignations turned into a flood, a close ally of the president, blackstone ceo steve schwarzman, rang to tell him that members were threatening to quit en masse, at which point the president took to twitter to pull the plug: a large crowd took to the streets of charlottesvill

david willetts has more. —— willis.rful men in the white house. if you think they are going to give your country back without a fight, you are sadly mistaken. every day it is going to be a fight. he is not a racist, i can tell you that. he isa not a racist, i can tell you that. he is a good person. he actually gets a very unfair press in that regard. but we'll see what happens with mr bannon. by the time donald trump made that less than ringing endorsement of his special adviser early this week, the die was cast. steve bannon's clashes with more moderate forces in the west wing, coupled with the violence in cha rlottesville coupled with the violence in charlottesville that he harboured white nationalist sympathies, helped seal his fate. steve bannon has now rejoined the white wing website breitbart news that he ran before leaving tojoin breitbart news that he ran before leaving to join the trump campaign one year ago. he says he intends to keep fighting on the president's half, but in an interview with the conservative

willie johnston reports. david colin has been to little rock ‘s many times. of a telephone being unanswered. they went to investigate the keepers cottage. we found the lighthouse keeper who had been murdered. clark, senior on the left had been shot at point—blank range by his assistant, robert dixon. the dead man left with a bloody towel covering his head. dixon. the dead man left with a bloody towel covering his headm never crossed my mind that we had discovered a murder. you don't think of murder on a august day on a remote island. it is the last thing that would enter your head, we thought the mass and fallen —— man had fallen. but robert dixon had fled the island. he was later arrested in yorkshire. despite pleading insanity, he was convicted of capital murder and sentenced to hang. david colin gave evidence.” felt very troubled by seeing a gunman sentenced to death in dumfries. my trouble defining the actual victim. ifound dumfries. my trouble defining the actual victim. i found it dumfries. my trouble defining the actual victim. ifound it horrific, witn

i do want to thank my buddies connell mcshane, david asman, maria bartiromo, gerri willis, filling in when i was out. nothing says love spending a couple hours subbing on a show you don't even do like that. so i want to thank them. we're also getting ready to hear from the president of the united states later on tonight addressing the nation on beefing up, we're told our troop commitment in afghanistan. remember the president already committed 3900 additional troops to the region but his defense secretary mattis has not committed them to the region yet without getting a sense of fuller policy on what we're going to do there, even in the pacific, both which will be outlined by his commander-in-chief tonight. our coverage, 8:00 p.m. eastern time. president's address 9:00 p.m., reaction, markets and otherwise to all of that. off just a couple of days and they're putting me to work all day. that is okay. i'm here for you, america. i did want to leave you with that image of stuart varney on clothing-optional beach. because that is how i roll. stuart is missing, is missing this big eclipse