mike hawes, the chief executive of the smmt. now byjim holder, editorial director of what car and autocar. how bad are the figures for the industry, because mike hawes said, when i spoke to him, that in context it was still a relatively good year? it is important to do that, we have come off the back of six straight yea rs of come off the back of six straight years of growth and that has to end sometime. if you look at the past yea r‘s sometime. if you look at the past year's figures, they are the third best over the past decade and the sixth best in the history since this. accounting in the 50s. the car market is strong, not as strong as it was when it was at an almost historic high. the problem really is with the diesel market, isn't it, and we know why? absolutely, the downturn has been sudden, up until march last year we were at record levels for new car registration and diesel levels were strong, but the mood has changed, particularly from government, there were damaging state m e nts government, there were damaging stateme

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the last time he hemmed and hawed. we have lots of friends and advisers saying don't do it. it's a trap. what do you think? >> if he and his inner circle are looking at this, and as an investigator you love a big personality to walk into the room. that's the best way to get somebody to say something they wouldn't normally say. >> because their egos are so big. >> it is their personality. they're used to being the biggest personality in the room. >> martha stewart. >> a great example of it. the legal world is not something they're used to dealing with. they think i've talked my way out of everything else. i can do it. they think they can own it. so in this case, it would not surprise me if his lawyers and his associates and his adviseors are saying, don't do it. as a matter of fact, you can wait. you have work to do as president of the united states. should you wait on doing that interview. i think for the good of the country, they should work out a deal to have this done so we can put this behind us one way or the other. the whole mess, the optics for the fbi are not great r

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about the president's speech and his trip here to davos generally is it was absent of any major pope haws the president spoke from a teleprompter except for two questions at the end of his speech the speech was on disrupted by any protest although there was a large protest earlier in the week in zurich the city where the president's plane air force one landed before departing to davos on several helicopters with the presidential entourage during his davos trip the president met with several world leaders including british prime minister to resubmit he also met with many business leaders or when asked earlier today if he was bringing back any big deals from his visit here and how much those might be worth the president simply said the united states is doing fantastically well business is are coming back and then when pressed robert reporters on how much any business deals might be worth the president simply replied probably a lot so far there hasn't been any more specifics on any deal or deals manila that's the latest on the president but it boom bust as you know we're not all trump all th

earlier we asked mike hawes from the smmt, whether this is down to people switching to electric vehicles undoubtedly in terms of electric vehicles, highbury brits, growing at 35% per annum. but it is is a small base. last year we sold 2.5 million vehicles, only 13500 thousand were battery vehicles. it is growing but must grow faster. there are deals owners sitting on their hands waiting to see what the chancellor would do, what the changes would be in terms of taxation, or access to cities, there is more clrity, the new cars are exempt from those, so we hope that gives confidence into the diesel consumer. saudi arabia has taken a major step towards selling off a chunk of its state owned oil company. saudi aramco is now a joint—stock company something that is required of saudi companies before lisiting their shares. there has been speculation the plan may be abandoned. trillion when 5% is sold in the biggest share listing in history. music streaming service spotify says it now has 70 million paying subscribers. the announcement comes a day after reports emerged that the company has submit

let's talk to mike hawes from the smmt about what's happening.'s a combination of factors. 0bviously down to? it's a combination of factors. obviously the slower growth in the economy means that consumer confidence is suffering, especially when it comes to big ticket items and office leave the car is the second biggest ticket item you will purchase. 0bviously second biggest ticket item you will purchase. obviously there has also been confusion around diesel and what the government policy will be on that. the decrease of the value in sterling has made the cost of imports more expensive and a significant number of cars sold in the uk are imported. it is diesel where we have seen a significant drop in sales. our people switching to petrol and electric vehicles instead or do you think they are simply holding off from purchasing at all? there is a small amount of switching. hybrid and electrics are undoubtedly growing but it's a very small base. last year we sold 2.5 million vehicles, only 32,500 were battery vehicles. its growing but it needs to grow

you don't have to worry about him him-hawing around. he will say, this is what i need you to go do. whenever you and mceachin, you talk aboutut it, this economic deal and how it will affect this and what have you. then he hears information and says, this is what i want you to do or it you do -- what you to do. you do this, you do that, or do that. he can be talked off the ledge. he listens to reason. and that's what i share with people. this president is really engaged. i'm not sure i met anybody who works harder than he does, any longer hours. him bey may have seen tired. i've never seen what i would recognize as any fatigue. which is, i know how hard this business is. i know the drain that always being on costs you physically and mentally. and he does it as well as anybody i've seen. steve: two final points. first, what next for you? secretary perry: i'm going to do my best to spend the next 36 months making this agency as resultse and long-term oriented as i can. after history basically has said that for years is about the longest anybody serves, there has certainly been changes.

of course we know that over the weekend the syrian negotiations committee after much humming and hawing decided that they did not want to come here to sochi saying that this was a distraction from the geneva peace process but then we understand also that there were late nights kfar fals in the airports in sochi last night with the turkish backed opposition delegation deciding that they didn't want to go after they'd arrived on the plane decided that they didn't want to leave the airport because of syrian government flags straight all around the place they're all over the branding for this congress and we also know that there are various kurdish groups who are staying away turkey feels are not welcome but also they don't want to take part in sochi because of what's going on in africa and so again like in processes like a stand and even some part of the geneva negotiations we're seeing the difficulty of getting everyone around the table to talk well so having said that what is russia hoping to achieve what do they think they can possibly achieve when it's even this difficult just to get e

hatch has been hemming and hawing as if to he worked to run. hatch is been in office 41 years to the day today. longer than i have been alive technically. he wanted to spend more time with his family and if romney is waiting in the wings, and bonus. >> romney has got deep roots in utah. he is mormon in a conservative. is it a slamdunk if he runs? >> the romney name is golden in utah. you put him on a ballot and he will do well. the last poll we had in october , the field of eight candidates and romney got 44%. if you imagine romney versus a democrat, he will do pretty well in utah. >> i lived in boston for number of years and i know he ran for governor in that had aspirations to move on. do you think he may have the same aspirations, he senator for a few years and then may want to run for president? >> that would be interesting. i'm not sure we see another future presidential run in romney. he did run for the senate in 1994. he ran against ted kennedy in a tight race. i think in some ways, i was trying to talk this to myself today, why would ro

friends and family members in some way seal lying more obvious decision often report scrg had to hem and haw, and it took a long time to dudes and strangers often report that the decision to donating was essentially instantaneous they heard that -- kidney disease is a 9th leading cause of debt nt united states, and what an enormous number of people die on dialysis because they take so long to get a kidney. and they hear this and they hear that -- it is possible to donate a kidney to a stranger we can live fine with one kidney and just like that they decide all right i'll do it i'll donate. >> so suggest a diskt different to know -- >> i think that's compelling evidence whatever is deriving the situation they're making is deep seated in brain not a protracted conscience sort of way of cost and benefits, and it is deep down in the brain so it's the part that is helping make that decision. >> there differences are there differences in jean ises arety say between -- gender nations or animals better than other animals? >> absolutely. this is one of the things that became focus of my work there's

haw he lobbied, how sessions was looking to put out damaging information on the director comey, the justice department denying that. do you think those men need to be investigated? >> do they need to be investigated for that, not necessarily. again, i don't know what's legally proper in this case or what isn't. i have heard a lot of experts, though, on various shows talking about this meeting and saying, look, it's actually proper for the president's lawyer to go out and say, hey, here's a concern. i want an independent investigation free of influence from the executive branch, but we have to keep in mind the president does have oversight of judiciary -- not of the judiciary, but of justice. so i think for the lawyer to say here's what's of concern, here's what's of interest is not necessarily -- when it became obvious the attorney general was going to recuse himself, he did back away. >> axiose is reporting that president trump's schedule has shifted to include less meetings and more executive time, axiose reporting that includes more time to tweet. the white house totally denying that. bu

rick haw. >> it was the music factory that produced hits from wilson picket. >> one, two, three. >> arethan. ♪ you're no good >> and eta james. ♪ i'd rather be blind boy >> reporter: fame studios founded in the 1950s by rick hall gave birth to a new sound for rock 'n' roll. named for the small northern alabama town where fame is still located. muscle shoals. >> i heard entertainers and producers tell me we got some kind of sound here they can't get anywhere else. they have to come here. it's that sold, deep, down, into your stomach, coming up out of your gut, coming up out of your heart, that's that muscle shoals sound. >> wreck hall died this week at the age cb85s's mar.kf strassman on to fame's studios with hall last year. >> why muscle shoals? >> well i couldn't get a gig in new york city, couldn't get a gig in memphis, tennessee. couldn't get a gig in nashville tennessee which is 120 miles up the road. and, so i said, well, i'm going to build myself a studio and cut some hit records. >> hall's muscle shoals sound often teamed white session musicians with black singers. all while record

who says one thing in the morning and will say something completely different only hours later and haw made some potential incriminating comments, you know, such as the one he gave to lester holt about his motivation in fire james comey. i can certainly understand the concern, but at the same time i understand the imperative of special counsel in conducting this interview. it's not something you can ask a witness like this to do in writing. if you ask the president to respond in writer, what you're getting are the lawyers' answers, not the president's answers. >>> way back in march, though, last year, you said you had seen, quote, more than circumstantial evidence that people connect that the president -- where do you stand on that now? have you seen any more than circumstantial evidence? >> yes, i think even if you look at what is in the public domain, you have to be willfully blinding yourselves or accrediting every self-serving explanation to ignore the evidence that is before us. here you have as early as april the russians apromise the george papadopoulos that they have dirt on hi

mike hawes is chief executive of the society for motor manufacturers and traders.ught diesel cars still play an important role in the market. for the average consumer buying a diesel car versus the equivalent petrol, they can save around £400 a year, the same as your annual gas bill. add to the fact that with these new diesel vehicles you are also getting the other technology and they can be a compelling prospect. what we need to do, and what manufacturers are doing, is help new customers into vehicles through incentives, additional support mechanisms, but we need government to make sure it is encouraging these vehicles. in other words, get the government to tax older vehicles off the road, effectively? not necessarily, people bought these vehicles in good faith. we need to recognise diesel is the right choice for many consumers. if you live in a city, fine, electric or small petrol is probably the right vehicle for you. most people drive in and out of the city, rural areas, longer mileage, which is where you get the benefit of a diesel and that, for many people, i

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so not redundant, blowing snow, causes cents visibility hawes armed, drifting snow is the stuff you see by the wheels of that suv, that piles up in the ground, but is not obviously a visibility hazard, unless you're planning your face first on the ground. because you fell. here is a showing you the drifting here. look at this. there is no snow on the sidewalk at all here. then against this parking thing, you got like 6 inches. it is even drifting on to the intercome surface in this little outcove here on a porch. so, it is blowing underneath things. by the way, why i'm here, and i have what's left of the teeth of the scraper, look at this, here is another hazard. we just cleared these wiper blades. there is ice built up while driving, getting thick, harled, as you can see on your windshields. so this is the stuff that will be hitting you, as people fly over you, and you go behind somebody, this is the stuff, why they tell to you clear off your car first, but you can't clear this stuff because it is building up on your windshield. so lots of hazards if you're driving, and seeing too many

and it's important to note, as congress is hemming and hawing and trying to figure this out, there are d.r.e.a.m.ers who are losing their status. it's not just happening in march. those that didn't meet the early october deadline, which was kind of a hastily set deadline, they're already losing their status. so while there are real-life things out there happening, while everyone's still trying to get their act together. >> john importantly notes what the white house -- part of what was not included in that transcript, but was on tv cameras, is here, watch. >> i would like to ask the question, what about a clean daca bill now? with a commitment that we go in to a comprehensive immigration reform procedure. >> i think that's basically what dick is saying. we're going to come up with daca. we're going to do daca. and then we can start immediately on the phase two, which would be comprehensive -- >> would you be agreeable to that -- >> yeah, i would like to -- >> mr. president, you need to be clear, though. i think what senator feinstein is asking, when we talk about just daca, we don't wa

let's speak now to mike hawes, chief executive of the society of motor manufacturers and traders.ou for talking to us this morning, not the best news but put it into context for us? the context is important, yes the market was down 5.5% last year but we still sold over 2.5 million vehicles. that is the third best year in the past decade and the sixth best year ever, so decade and the sixth best year ever, so hardly falling off a cliff. it is obviously a concern but certainly not all doom and gloom. but clearly a problem with the diesel sector, if you look at the electric car market there was a sharp increase from a small base, but a sharp increase nonetheless, and it does highlight the fact that diesel cars have a bad image at the moment so what can you do to get those older polluting models off the road and, if you like, convert the public back to diesel? you have put your finger on it there, it is about getting the older vehicles off the road, so we need policies to encourage the purchase of new vehicles. they deliver much improved c02 and fuel economy so for the average consume

and there was a lot of hemming and hawing. and finally one of the members said you know what, we don't think it is that popular. we don't think it is politically attractive. and i said, well, let me just give you a point of view. on a good day, the united states senate breaks into the teens in terms of its popularity. and on a bad day the pope falls into the 80s. and all he does is talk about the poor. maybe you ought to try it. and they sort of nodded and said, well, this is a nor that doesn't shy from talking about poverty and opportunity. senator scott as you know is a republican from south carolina. he is a member of the senate finance committee, health and education, labor and pensions, banni banking and housing and urban affairs, but his story is more powerful than any political. raised by a single mom. mentored by a powerful figure that taught him that everyone deserves an opportunity and that every opportunity ought to be seized. he -- i had read over the weekend you had a town hall down in south carolina. and ivanka t

he hemmed, he hawed, and finally made it clear that, well, no, he would not make that commitment. so i asked him another simple question. would he at least recuse himself from policy discussions about the sale of lockheed martin products through the ford military sales practice. the answer was again clear. no, he would not make that commitment either. i followed up with additional written questions. i asked, mr. rood, will you commit not to seek or accept a waiver from your recusal obligations under your ethics agreement? and here is his response. i am concerned that a commitment never to seek or accept a waiver could unnecessarily restrict my ability if confirmed to take an action that is important to u.s. national security and defense interests should a circumstance arise that is currently unforeseen. in other words, no. he would not commit to abide by his own ethics agreement. just think for a minute about what that means. president trump has nominated an industry executive to one of our most senior national security positions, and that individual is unwilling to steer clear of

family members which in some ways seems like the more obvious decision often report having to hem and haw, and it took a long time to decide whether or not to do this. whereas people who donate kidneys to strangers often report the decision was instantaneous. kidney disease is the ninth leading cause of death in the united states, an enormous number of people ultimately die on dialysis because it takes so long to get a kidney. and they hear this, and they hear it is possible to donate a kidney to a stranger, we can live fine with one kidney, and just like that, they decide, i'll do it, i'll donate. >> it really does suggest a neurological difference, right? >> yeah, i think that's really compelling evidence that whatever is derived in the decision they're making is really deep-seeded in the brain. it's not a protracted, conscious weighing. amygdala is helping make that decision. >> so are there differences -- why are there some -- are there differences in generosity, say, between gender, nations, you know, animals? i mean, are women better than men, are some countries better than other co

i asked deputy attorney rosenstein the same question under oath and he hemmed and hawed and would notnswer the question. it is weird when the doj will not answer, but yet, there are people in the fbi or doj who have no problem leaking that to "the new york times" ." that attempt strikes me as an attempt on some people in the agency to deflect from the dossier, because they know the dossier has gone so much attention, the report that fox did about mccabe's testimony i thought was really devastating, because according to that report, mccabe said they did not verify anything other than carter page went to russia, which is not necessarily a big deal. we are going to get those answers, but people are trying to say, do not worry about the dossier or these other things. i'm not sure the papadopoulos explanation is any better. in fact, it is probably thinner than the dossier. at a bar drinking? >> sandra: it starts out, during a night of heavy drinking in an upscale london bar in maine. a young foreign policy advisor struggling revelation from australia's top diplomat. when we await the docum

and just recently with the chairman's help, passed a haw -- a rule change that requires mandatory sexual harassment training. so there has been work year after year on these issues, and i thank senator lankford for bringing this to our attention. as you'll see from my remarks, i just feel that this is not the right moment to make these changes to the rule, and i will explain. many people refer to the senate as the world's greatest deliberative body because the senate is an institution which is designed for the careful consideration and debate of proposed laws and nominations. how we deliberate, as i mentioned, is governed by senate rules. and only once in the history of the cloture process has the senate voted to permanently reduce the time we have to debate an issue. that happened back -- i'm looking at senator alexander who is an expert on this -- that happened back in 1986 when we went from 100 hours of post-cloture debate time to the current rule of 30 hours. the resolution we are considering today asks us the make a second permanent change. as senator lankford notes in his written t

they were hemming and hawing. >> very concrete, yes. >> it was really impressive.so, i mean, there is a sense, yeah, that maybe that is sort of more of a burden and maybe you're saying the book or the next thing i have to do is really be more concrete and more galvanizing that way. i wanted to just tell the history, like chris was saying, i just want today say how did we get here? i was genuinely baffled and i kind of came at this stuff with a lot of optimism. wikipedia is an obsession of mean and i saw it as an incredible, arctic sum of little parts. and optimism and more trying to answer the question how did we get here, more than how can we get it back. but that's definitely the next question. >> we're going to have to open this up for questions in a minute. and i'm going to ask one last question and if anybody in the audience would like to ask a question, please go to one. two microphones here, we'd love to hear from you, because we're at mit, i am 0 obligated to ask, what role does the university have for its students who are here, who are designing things, ma

>> yee-haw, neil. we get to do this again in three weeks. i absolutely agree with you earlier in the show when you said the number of times that this has happened, it's silly. you know, how do we keep getting back to this tonight? this is a really serious issue. so i'm certainly not happy as a progressive that when dreamers came forward out of the shadows and gave the government their information under the, you know, directive that they would be protected that that has not happened. i really do feel for those dreamers. but we cannot as a government keep getting to this place. so i'm just -- i'm done with dems and republicans on both sides of the aisle, and i really do think it's going to take women being elected. that's all it is. it's women being elected that will stop. neil: right or left, we go through this a lot. i apologize for this. with all the breaking news, we have cut back on time. stocks are liking this in and out of record territory right now. the senate follow-up vote right now that could pave the way to then kicking it to the h

chief executive mike hawes joins us now. how things have gone. things have gone. local markets, so basically cars built in the uk for uk customers. built in the uk for uk customers. diesel changes that the government is looking to make. is looking to make. year which has a knock—on effect on production as well. production as well. second—hand cars in the market would ultimately affects new—car sales. ultimately affects new—car sales. have held up which is good for the finance packages that are available. finance packages that are available. changing nature of the new—car consumer. thank you forjoining us. 0k, mike, thanks. boss of the company, ellipsis entertainment. entertainment. trading, so there will be updates you the business live page. you the business live page. you can find out more on the website. china as she begins her three—day tour of the country. tour of the country. is looking to boost trade and investment after brexit. investment after brexit. china must agree to free and fair trade practices. trade practice