ron christie, jay newton small, thanks for joining better. forjoining us for this marathon evening of coverage, we appreciate your presence. that's all from us here in washington. thank you so much forjoining us for this bbc news special on president donaldj this bbc news special on president donald j trump's this bbc news special on president donaldj trump's first state of the union. i'll hand you over to the capable hands of my colleague mike embley who is over the pond in london. thank you very much indeed, laura. in case you havejust joined us, let's round up what we have been hearing in the president's words. president trump has delivered his first state of the union address to the us congress. he started by saying he had taken forward what he called his righteous mission to make america great again for all americans, during his first year in office. and mr trump called on congress to set aside differences and seek the unity needed to serve the american people. mr trump told the audience that he intended to reverse president obama's deci

ron christie, thanks forjoining us. for a trip which is effectively all about trade. visit in 2015. newbrexit. not be so easy. no sign of a slowdown here. the chinese economy creates 5,000 millionaires every week. and britain, more than ever, is keen to get on board. is make money. it's all about how we use that money. middle classes could help give the uk a post—brexit boost. british brands tend to be a lot quieter. more, in comparison to other brands and other cultures. the land wind. of one of its designs. is a far bigger challenge. british sectors, like banking, finance and insurance. run smoothly either. the belton road initiative. year, proves success is possible despite the challenges. it wants the uk to get serious about its china strategy. levels, that we start much more intensive dialogues. does the golden era still exist? for whom? britain—china? i think it's still yet to come. meanwhile, china is fashioning its own future. and reams of ambition about where her country is headed. translation: china has had master craftsmen since ancient times. we are not just the world's fact

laura: ron christie, thank you for joining us. ron: great to see you. laura: the president's tough talk the past 24 hours is not confined to domestic feuds. on the international scene, mr. trump had choice words for kim jong-un, claiming that his nuclear button is bigger than the north korean leader's. against the bellicose backdrop, north korea has reopened the diplomatic hotline to the south. our correspondent rupert wingfield-hayes reports from seoul. rupert: on monday, kim jong-un welcomed in the new year with a more conventional display of fireworks than the sort he has been firing off throughout 2017. but anyone who is helping his -- who was hoping his new year message would carry an offer of peace and goodwill was quickly disappointed. "the entire united states is within range of our nuclear weapons," he said, "and the nuclear button is always on my desk. this is reality, not a threat." that was all the excuse president donald trump needed, and as we have come to expect, his response came in a twitter tirade. "north korean leader kim jong-un just

jane: ron christie, thanks for joining me. ron: great to see you. jane: ok, for all the drama in washington, what do president trump's supporters think of him his performance so far? the state of michigan was key to his victory, not having voted republican in almost 30 years. rajini vaidyanathan has returned to detroit to check in on trump supporters she spoke to in the past. rajini: the economic decline in detroit, america's motor city, came to symbolize and america many voters felt had been left behind by politicians. ago,i came here to years -- 2 years ago donald trump was , not even the republican candidate. but it was his win in the michigan primary that eventually propelled him into the white house. i met a man named rich ashby. a union member who signed on to the trump train early on. rich, how are you? >> i'm doing wonderful. rajini: how does he feel a year into the presidency? >> i'm happy with the results with the economy, not that he is the total reason things have been turning around, at least in our region of the country, but he has pla

is she the 46th president, ron christie? in washington next week. i think she was extraordinarily eloquent. i stand by the sentiments expressed in my tweet. with so much rancour and division in hollywood, with harvey weinstein and the six scandals, it is nice to see a strong woman of collective eloquent remarks and take head—on an issue that has ripped apart the fabric of our society today. yes, i apart the fabric of our society today. yes, lam apart the fabric of our society today. yes, i am still coming apart the fabric of our society today. yes, lam still coming back today. yes, lam still coming back to washington, don't worry. good man. great to see you. so what do you make of it, the round the table? i thought it was fascinating. it is fascinating partly because we haven‘t seen the president do this. this is what presidents in the past have done, got everyone together. we have talked a lot about division in washington and kudos to the president for managing to get democrats there to listen to them as they made their pol

republican members voted to release the memo, which allegedly outlines abuses of fisa law, to my panel, ron christiebeverly hallburg. ron krist to you on this. adam schiff dejected there. he did get right, this is historic for many reasons, american public som should appld transparency. >> good afternoon, this is a historic evening the vote that just took place is vitally important, american people have been told that trump administration as colluded with russia government, underlying investigation that taking place is that democrats, fueled a dossier that has we believe was used to then spy on innocent americans, american people deserve to see the 4 pages, we need to know what our government did, did they use irk menges ire police power state they have to stystay on innocent importance. charles: we'll get a chance to see what some house members describe as horrific, shocking news, very damning for our intelligence committee. >> also report that mccabe staff members read the report ahead of time, there is reason to think there is a lot in this memo. democrats, we're seeing them talk about this being

deneen borelli, ron christie, and ford o'connell, and beverly halberg. let's talk about winners and losers. >> there is a reason why the schumer shutdown that's now trending the schumer sellout. schumer is ultimate loser in all of this. i want to give republicans credit on messaging. using his this with humanners e is working well. saying he was funding against the troops and children's healthcare. government shutdowns never work with the people pushing for the shutdown. charles: a "new yorker" article at 4:00 p.m. said republicans won the shutdown battle but may lose on immigration. chuck schumer blinked and you have to wonder why he fought this fight in the first place. >> it was a charade aimed at two groups. the democrats had to cave because they didn't have the leverage and public opinion was turning against them. according to the latest harvard harris poll, 60% of americans disapproved of a shutdown for daca. the democrats' position according to the american people was indefensible. charles: the media kept criticizing the president for in the weigh

it is not a new story. >> we were talking about ron christie about half an hour ago. made the observation that we and the media spent a lot more time paying attention to what the president said specifically on twitter than what the results have been of his first year. if the president puts twitter down for good, how much popular do you think he will be? >> i believe the election in november would be about the economy and not about what he puts on twitter. >> i agree with you on that, by the way. >> i think people got 4% gdp, they're not going vote to bring the democrats back twitter may have been the greatest distractions ever from moving important the most legislation regulatory of the last 25 years. we have to wait and see. it is a great question, i don't know the answer to it. >> just so i know, one quick questio question if donald trump stops tweeting from his account, the dow would rise 500 points on that day, would you agree with that? >> i don't think it could go any higher if he stops tweeting, i am afraid of what will happen because the market enjoys it maybe

deneen borelli, ron christie, and ford o'connell, and beverly halberg.about winners and losers. >> there is a reason why the

from our new york studio is republican political strategist and former advisor to george w bush, ron christietion may not in the end add up to much legally for the president, but can his administration would cover from the political fallout at this point? yes, i think the trump administration can get beyond this if muller and his investigation do not produce anything that either shows collusion with the russian government during the past election cycle or, where i think this investigation is going now, and obstruction of justice investigation is going now, and obstruction ofjustice angle. i believe it's in our best interests asa believe it's in our best interests as a country that our congress passes laws. the president signs them and we govern effectively and responsibly. but only until this investigation ends and one way or the other, i think the trump administration will be under a form of paralysis and it will be difficult for them to remove themselves from it. we have heard various stories about the president'sinteractions with the fbi this week, first and foremost that he pressured the

we can do that with our political analyst ron ron christie.elling your inner clint eastwood? there are has been so much that good that come. unemployment rate has dropped for african—americans. we have seen the economy of war. consumer and business confidence is up. you get to the bad. the bad is we have the lafrjest governing majority since 1929. republicans don't act as if they know how to govern. the youing rein the oval office that took place or didn't about certain countries. more than that, i think the ugliness is the insulting terms that the president uses to characterise those perceived or real political opponents on twitter. that is ugly and beneath the dignity of the office of president and i wish he would stop doing it. it's clear talking to trump supporters they don't like what you are talking about the tweeting but they love the state of the economy. does that mean president trump is setting himself up president trump is setting himself upfora president trump is setting himself up for a better year this coming year than the previo

and also will be met by the french president a monolith mccraw who is due to speak here later ron christie with colbert in done well thank you very much for bringing us up to did with the latest from what chancellor angela merkel has been telling delegates that. well to fill a wide ranging speech as we heard from christoph in davos from time to answer i'm going to mecca i want to first get your initial thoughts on what you made of what he said it was tough that you simon she touched on a lot of political subjects what do you think was the key message when it was a fascinating speech it was billed of course is a speech about europe we had thought she was really going to focus on this idea of a president macross energy going into european reforms and so on but it went way beyond europe didn't it she talked about africa as well a very important moment there i think where she said for me personally it's very important to get our relationship with africa right that was interesting and of course this theme that went right through the speech of multilateralism is christoph was saying they're sayi

joining me now is political analyst and former advisor to george w bush, ron christie. you. happy new year. we are glad to have you back from the sunni west coast and with us on from the sunni west coast and with us on the freezing east coast. we know that president trump has a full agenda. let's have a quick look at some of the things he has to get done. if this was in my inbox on the 2nd of january, i done. if this was in my inbox on the 2nd ofjanuary, i think it would give me heart failure. he has to keep the government open. that ought to be fine. he has to come with a budget and decide what to do about dreamers, the young undocumented workers. he has to carry on trying to repeal 0bamacare. we don't need to repeal 0bamacare. we don't need to go through the whole list, but there are lots of things. will this bea there are lots of things. will this be a year in which president trump can work with democrats, which he needs to do on lots of those things, and get something big done for america? it could be. this is something that democrats have as much of an interest in

let's bring in former advisor to george w bush and political analyst ron christie, who joins us now fromk. it seems to me that from over here the democrats tied spending to immigration, and the republicans ran a pretty smart and discipline strategy of saying here is chuck schumer and his supporters, in effect, shutting down the government in favour of illegal in the women's. good evening to you, christian. that is exactly what has happened here. if you go back to 2013, the last time we had a government shutdown, the democrat schumer said it was an act of industry —— and active idiocy to shut down the government and tight immigration. these polls indicated a majority of the american people wanted the government open, rather thanjust shut people wanted the government open, rather than just shut it people wanted the government open, rather thanjust shut it down people wanted the government open, rather than just shut it down and to daca, and the two and most importantly perhaps, what impact of this have on our military readiness in this children's health programmes and ceremony of the goods

and before that, even marco rubio, todd young, ron desantis, lisa murkowski, ted cruz, chris christiejeb bush and hillary clinton. lots of foof folks. 75.million to the manicurist? >> that's what the reporting show. >> how many women were involved in any of this, how many women have said that they have inappropriate experiences with him? >> well, it is sort of difficult to say. i mean our reporting certainly documents, you know, i believe at least four if not more accounts that we had, you know, we certainly have others. certainly former employees were more hesitant to talk even without attribution naming them. but yeah, it is difficult to say how widespread this has been, but certainly our reporting and as we said we talked to dozens of former employ yeees who had knowledge of this kind of behavior and the work environment at wynn's companies over the decades. so certainly shows that this was sort of a pattern of behavior that stretched back to, you know, certainly at least the 1980s from our reporting. and our reporting goes up up through four years ago i would say. so we have a bre

bacon, representative ron estey, representative brian fitzpatrick, randy -- representative bob, representative barry watermill, representative roger marshall, representative christie gnome, representative ralph norman, robert pitt injured, representative tom rooney, representative lloyd e, representative claudia tenney, glenn thompson, representative brad, joe wilson, and representative luke messer. do we have a pro-life congress or what? thank you. >> thank you very much. more than ever it is important to hear that our lawmakers hear from pro-life americans especially young people. when you finish marching today stop by their offices and let them know and those who aren't here, maybe they need to know more, let them know you stand for life. this advocacy has long been part of the march for life. turn your attention back to the jumbotron and we will identify four people who participated in the march '45 years ago, the first march for life, take a look at the jumbotron. >> in 1973, the roe versus wade decision was set down by the supreme court imposing abortion on all 50 american states. a small group of concerned citizens mobilize on the first anniversary of roe v

laura: ron christie, thank you for joining us. ron: my pleasure, laura. laura: among the topics we know the president will address tomorrow is the plan to rebuild america's infrastructure. he has already made it clear that he wants private investors to fund a lot of it. that is not going down well with democrats, who said the federal government needs to do more. -- pay more. while both parties argue over the cost jane o'brien has been , looking at the daunting task ahead. jane: daybreak in the nation's capital, and already traffic is grinding to a halt on one of the busiest bridges in the city. this bridge is clearly struggling to deal with the volume of traffic. is that typical? >> this is typical of our entire network. our infrastructure and transportation network is failing to meet the needs of the community. jane: the president of the americans society of civil engineers, which rates the nation's infrastructure every four years -- the current grade is b+. >> if we don't invest in our infrastructure, it will cost u.s. economy $3.9 trillion in by 2025,

ron christie and jay newton small.r people. belongs to, her people. that manufacture to those who serve abroad in our military. abroad in our military. reminder that he wanted to re—ground us and he accomplished that. us and he accomplished that. with democrats at the moment, will anything come of that? i hope so. there's lots of common ground with immigration issues. immigration issues. it's in the constitution that congress sets immigration policy. congress sets immigration policy. have a starting basis and he laid out his points. out his points. different from the american carnage in order of a year ago —— divisive. in order of a year ago —— divisive. in the really big items that the president... president... of state or when he's been abroad, he steps up to the plate. he steps up to the plate. that was a moment tonight so he acted presidential. acted presidential. guantanamo bay open so terrorist suspects can be there? suspects can be there? said that before he made this announcement. announcement. russell, thanks

. —— ron christie. to be very careful not to overstep their bounds. their bounds. subordinate officers executive branch. the executive branch. would take away his constitutional power, is ludicrous. power, is ludicrous. question is, whereas robert mueller going with the investigation? going with the investigation? have is going for over a year, there are still no signs of collusion. are still no signs of collusion. constitution where they have their power. i pressed you on this last week. week. to be using the fbi and the department ofjustice in this way? department ofjustice in this way? the united states has taken quite a hit here. it is. that we have enshrined a 10—year term of office for the fbi director. term of office for the fbi director. the president but also from the justice department, to do theirjob. justice department, to do theirjob. president trump gets itself into trouble. trouble. large part byjeremy special counsel. counsel. president should be acting in this way. —— why you have a special counsel. ron, thank you for your thoughts. britain's departure from the europea