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A french aid worker whod been kidnapped in mali and held hostage for 4 years has returned to her country so if you put on and was welcomed by a president a manual she and mali an opposition politicians say among several people had been released as part of a Prisoner Exchange deal heres President Donald Trump is trying to arrange a Campaign Rally for saturday night in florida trump doctor says he has now completed his course of treatment for corona virus and that by saturday it will be safe for him to resume public engagements his Campaign Appearances were postponed after he was hospitalized last week. May want to see pelosi the speaker of the u. S. House of representatives is looking to introduce legislation that questions where the trunk is fit to serve in office. Those are your headlines more news continuing here on aljazeera thats after the bottom line. Chance Steve Clements and i have a question as we approach a historic election what are americas closest allies thinking lets get to the bottom line. Last week we spoke with a former american official who spent his life looking at this countrys relations with the rest of the world that would be Lieutenant General h. R. Mcmaster who spent more than a year as President Donald Trumps National Security advisor this week were flipping the table and talking to someone whos on the outside looking in lets jog your memory for a moment remember a big story from last year although now it seems like ages ago someone leaked a confidential memo from the British Ambassador to his own government describing the Trump Administration with words like inept and dysfunctional possibly subject to collapse in disgrace among other really candid assessments it didnt take long for donald trump to hyper react on twitter targeting the ambassador as wacky and launching all sorts of insults and the ambassador then resigned quickly that former u. K. Ambassador and our guest today is kim derrick hes coming out with a new book about his experiences during those 3 years in washington Collateral Damage britain america and europe in the age of trump and master derek great to be with you to talk about your new book coming out but i also just want to get at something thats very deep and it comes out of your observations about the United States and what you were reporting back and im interested in the off sure view of our country right now and that is do you see america as broken in half. I assume there are as barry divided as divided as being as its been for decades but i have a fundamental i have a law for america i was not and a fundamental belief in american resilience it was a spring back form of problems that we will face huge problems with the time to make the economic destruction in schools d. And other issues you know it was excessive i did. So i think. You know fundamentals of the and with the right leadership cute you can scream about it but it does look a true place at the moment theres no doubt what if you had been writing a memo i mean not to hear about the memo you did write but what if youve been writing a memo saying you know everything is just great its so it its moving smoothly and on trumps firmly in control and this is all going as democracy goes its sort of messy but im interested if you had been the other more obsequious observer of trump in american politics well how that would have gone over. It looks very very strange steve i think my bosses in london. Particularly the senior Civil Servant in charge of the formal office given us the early travails of the truck presidency what big news everywhere anything is like that executive order about banning betting businesses from 7 many muslim countries that was immediately blocked in the courts but not without. Courts around the world its monitored something saying everything is going great kalou going to 24 hours later. The 2nd formal saying now you are right. Now all things and you know i had to go back. Every 2 or 3 months or so to brief all was going on and i think people will react to me looked at me rather strangely and maybe wondered if i really have bigger problems because out of how it all i mean in public of course you dont say this kind of thing but in private communications to united whole generation ones you tell it as strange as you possibly can and just one of the things that happens now days is brits sation a. Whiny you soon root about the trouble ministration that memo leaps and americans say to me why are you so while. Youre ready to laugh it was so i hear different reactions like the side of the of the palm but well you know as you say these were sort of assessments and story is nowhere around in the Mainstream Media in the us every day so didnt feel that exceptional will be here if we were fortunate and it moves you know hundreds of french away and said how do you feel about the memo you wrote what did you get right what did you get wrong. June 1st into say is us understand me and this is not the night of the new media its all of us well there was quite a lot of them and which was some 5 or d 6 pages long. Us the extraordinarily strong supports President Trump got from his base about his ability to ride through crises and criticism about his seeming instruct ability and in the in the last i said how in combat things look do this guy having a strong reelection in 2020 just because of the extraordinary from nationals he gets from his. From his from his base. And i didnt get much from sources so i thought it was a balanced picture and ive read it obviously several times since and one with i should look at things differently now as i was 7 number of times point at 3 since im comfortable with what i wrote and i feel you know when people could really take a view but it was a pretty good prediction of the way things were done photo. You know you had this wonderful section of your travel through america that you look for all these opportunities to get out into the sea and go meet real people nashville. You know going down to louisiana to new orleans going to talk to newburgh drivers and going to wisconsin and meeting farmers and pretty much everybody you met as you recounted in the book. Had admiration for trump and distain for clinton did i tell us about that. You know d thats exactly exactly what happened. I remember to this day. One of my colleagues from the embassy go to midwest a couple of weeks before the election and traveling around wisconsin maps with me and saying 2 is really strange here it consumes used to be 2 or 3 points and opinion polls i travel around was constant i never see a yard sign anywhere for Clinton Campaign christie hundreds for trauma tents and i you know that that worries me and on election nights that came back to me is still with me and if theres one thing i think now. Romeo. Mittimus read things a bit he was paying too much attention to opinion polls around the country about how the election as a team is going to go and too much attention to washington opinion this was a town of course as you know verges much to 93 percent here it comes im and not you not to those lessons i heard this messages about a year previously when i was doing my private tour around around the cell phone around bits of the southwest border cases like that so thats my favorite i think in my final evening report before election day too long and i said it everything in terms of opinion polls and pundits points tools a dictionary dot there is still a cost that brings donald trump into the white house and i kind of wish i had gone more strongly on the 2nd than the 1st but no one else was 7 because i would look very silly if clinton had won and she won the popular vote by 3000000. But you have a little conscious and it was different. Tell us about your 1st encounters with. The new team coming in after doc was elected before he was inaugurated you had this colorful description of your 1st meeting with gerry pushchair. Yeah i mean i would like to have met jerry pushed. Steve. And met Michael Flynn we met penny our cold way nestle real figures around the trump team that i had met. All. They were hot i mean not really any of the embassies in washington had really been in touch with those 2 that being with the president on his campaign trail anyway not not very assessable national of kentucky emails from both of them by inch leader is you know that goes to see me up in trucks hour in new york so i went up. And it was shortly after it loose it was during the transition period between election the true trump and innovation there being a version election issues in new york on his really settlements where i think all the other members of the Security Council have voted for the resolution to condemn israeli settlement policy and the u. S. Integrated with all past criticisms that abstaining normally the u. S. Votes against any u. N. Resolution that criticizes israel and i wouldnt for a while who would be a convivial 1st missions are not he was furious about this hopes to supposition that the u. K. To come along with the rest of the Security Council and said this wasnt the way that he tried ministration expect its allies to behave so it was meant to be really friendly going to. Turn to something a bit of it different i expected it was something unsuitable given long established was policy we would have the mission against the resolution euro against israeli sentence policy but it wasnt a very smart minds and then my mission with is to abandon which we should do a search after its. Our tech students that i am im too close to full bloom building i come up the attacks about to say actually im in washington who do not know all about me sick so i went up the 2 floors instead to. Inspect to see Michael Cohen. Are so also giving me his email and ive not met him or be in touch with him by assad regime but its an ability quick for me she said sure sure come up and the foreign minister to see Michael Cohen there was a big big Corner Office in the pen aramic if you are. Central new york at a manhattan and i could see through the office to your own is no bottom of the president elect but hung around for a few minutes hoopy i could just sort of going to announce my songs and the original us of all immigration all up on the table that a lot of them say hey now by why would a truck tire i met the president elect today but the telephone call he was on was going on and on long and i was getting quite heated so i call outs not going to work so weve seen my who currently mark off enough new suits talk about. American sports baseball it turned out and to invite him to come and play tennis because he was expected to come up to washington for a job in the white house and the my memory from that apart from you know quite a shorts question was these great piles of people everywhere in my office covering the decks in the in the shelves and you know lost lots of paper but i guess i made it up in the Prosecutors Office when when michael goss got arrested in us and he didnt want washington so we never got to play tennis now we are but it was it didnt anyway unfold quite as it would be quite as id expected to unfold i did meet the president a few days later when we have an event for the diplomatic and this is the enemy. In washington. Because it was beautiful week but a missile launchers missile who. Would basically i mean i want to give you know the audience understanding that you wanted odds with this administration you were you know meeting Kellyanne Conway you were meeting wilbur ross the secretary of commerce you had you were you were getting into some of these meetings you were a neighbor of Vice President pence they would come to your party so you were doing your job in getting this this going and would love to hear about it a little bit about those interactions and then this. Tweet by dawn from comes out where he says many people would like to see nigel farage represent Great Britain how did it how did that make you feel. I mean youre right it was this the jaw store all embassies now masses in washington to get as close to the sunni areas in the Incoming Administration as you can and thats what i was doing with we felt some success. Now its got flow will quite well already. Or of the Election Campaign and you know ive been going to meet steve manager and general flynn and and the other so we thought we had some reasonable caltex in and i was over a number of them when the president made his tweet about her our daughters as british as it was because im absolutely us i was actually in a moment to do a speech for speech and then in june in our office and my phone was on charge in the hotel room all lights switch son off it was kind of vibration away with lots of messages coming in jones vaguely aware of. And so was half asleep and eventually we got 5 30 in the morning to check or to come in when i saw theres this report on the screen of the president to treat it as you know i wasnt thinking necessary massively clearly at 5 30 in the morning but i thought i do was switch on the t. V. To see how big a story this falls. Maybe see breakfast t. V. News at 6 am it was the lead story i dont know whats a story rather thats going to stick around and that there was no comment from number 10 but by the 6 30 am bulletin number 10 important get out of their line which was there is no vacancy in washington which of course he was reassuring i mean from korea sure the opposite would be but i never source that it would actually lead to a change in the. It was actually the trees or a government that walls were the woods to the president s of the us 1st because nigel is. Full of opposing political policy to the conservatives and certainly recalls we should do d almost always close with difference with people who spend their career of service so its not a political appointees but. Afterwards i was being tossed around. When you leave friends nigel to explain well maybe its not going to work out like perhaps. You know when i 1st saw the title of your book Collateral Damage you know another term that we had in oklahoma and texas for that is roadkill and one of the interesting the interesting things when you when you read your book is that you dont sit there and whine oh woe is me and and feeling sorry for yourself youre essentially writing the kind of memo i think that you were writing for your government to to all of us and its not about you but it is about something deeper which is are your observations about the rise of populism your worries about you know the values of liberal democracy not only in the United States but around the world but also in Great Britain and id love to get understanding of how you see those tectonics right now because i think thats the really powerful anchor of your book is it is it sending a deeper message. Well firstly i am very glad its appreciative that that message that came through from the book for you because i do think i have very much to whine about you know i had a very traumatic 3 or 4 days i mean we were in touch of it as it was unfolding and nihal done without that but i had an extraordinary lucky career and you know things worked out very well for me i was brought up in in. The circumstances in what was you would call it Public Housing we call it comes from ours and for much of my years like im going to look it up its going to shoot at that school but i wasnt it wasnt a very privileged upbringing and i had a very very lucky to get to our ideas in my Foreign Office career i would never have imagined it at the beginning and the loss of moments when january luck made a parking so i think i had nothing to whine about and feel sorry for myself about what i want to sue in the book was try and explain why rex it happened why in America Donald trump won the election and that you know there is one single message out there is they didnt win leave didnt win the bricks a Campaign Truck didnt win the us election because for so many people things were going so well the opposite mainstream politics really wasnt and mr politicians really were delivering for enough people otherwise the advice they gave to look for a main or you know hillary Clinton Campaign with wa and few notes know who to computing out about how it is we populous leaderships you know in countries around the world unless mainstream politicians and mainstream Political Parties try to learn the lessons of where they were going wrong where they were listening to people where they were. Consulting where they werent following the right policies when they were appearing arrogant and out of touch im concerned about the plight of ordinary people and it being the keep up with what i spent most time a lot most about. At least in the context of grex it and i believe so also in context of the. Transcript tree and 2016. That it was about Us Immigration should be fact in our in our books of vote it was about inequality and the fact. That the original got rich and all the whole the poor have struck me as not core poor are over there i mean the policy is groom over the past past decade or 2 and another density about change happening so fast that people are conservative with a small c. People who are uncomfortable change because change comes across to many many people as loss and way that people felt and feel are a way of life has been threatened and while on the rock you know im against a light possible views i was i was liberal as anyone i was and a huge fan of brookss. And i dont agree with many of prison trends policies i try to understand why more people dont support them and i think unless as i say mainstream politics render stands well it starts to respond better then theres a lot more mileage in populous and yet to matter we have 2 minutes and i got 3 lightning round questions for you the encodes Donald Trumps former director of National Intelligence has wondered out loud whether Vladimir Putin has something on don trump have you ever found what lattimer putin might have on down from jersey this is my questions of the age and all i can say is everyone was intrigued by. The way donald trump spoke about the way behavior of person but i really. Version for the media prisoners of us media you had some of your best people trying to explain this as usual was anything to stand on the story but putin had some room to talk but i do believe things i have to say i do. Second thing is the era of candid memos from ambassadors back to their governments over. I who know. You know it caused a huge shockwave around the British Foreign service when my members believe its my resignation. And. Theres nothing unique about our russian friends memos and if you look at its release you will d see a huge pile of u. S. Foreign service memos that we dont talk about 10 years ago for the very frank about the governments the dealing with. But didnt you know i think you will have a Chilling Effect on how people report noticed and lastly i know that you know Vice President biden just about as well if not better than you know President Trump and his team my question to you is i know youre still keeping your antenna up in american political scene how do you think the election is going to go do you think as you were to as an analyst do you think donald trump may pull this out and be judged by. Do steve i think biden has to be the favorites i would have said through 4 weeks ago its too soon to tell because the election we. Will debate this was still to come and i didnt think joe biden was brilliant in the primary debates so sure about one supporter you might worry about how he would do in those dalton was a very difficult guy to to debate with now but weve now had the 1st debate and whether we have a mix to all we will see. And i think that. I do think that the president s illness writer in a virus all those medo up seems to me to remarkable in quick recovery will it help them because its caps the pandemic im kind of in one scene at the top of the show its the talk of new cycles well i think you rather have been about about Something Else so you know i do this on a stage on some new book book trust will put a gun to my her that i have to say i think joe biden will win which will im haunted by. Im going to happen attorney 16 so you know i have to read because it takes it to count all trumped up because he is an early is a mess is instructive loser im listening indestructibility you heard there donald trump may make it through i gem i tell people this is a really fascinating book to read and to learn from its also hilarious. In telling your own demise and i should acknowledge to our audience that you and i did talk during those days and i remember telling you dont worry youll be the only ambassador from england that any one remembers theyll be a book and then theyll be a movie so can your account african barrick thanks so much for joining us today the new structure see huge grocer thank you very much so. Thats the bottom line is the former British Ambassador to washington write to be ringing alarm bells about the end of democracy era and Global Politics and the rise of populist fueled autocrats like President Trump and trump clones around the world and are the ties that bind countries together based on liberal values just coming apart its really an open question right now the United States doesnt act like a country that wants or needs strong partnerships and it can afford to be that way when it thinks no major threats are facing it well china russia iran racial and economic tensions and Global Warming may see it differently and thats the bottom line. On counting the cost exit from the pandemic who will pay to get vaccines to the worlds poorest in kastrup zimbabwe strike oil using drilling reports in the 1990 s. And whats behind chinas plot to lift 1000000000 people into the middle class counting the cost on aljazeera. It was a wall that united egypt and syria had against israel but in the heat of the battle that different agendas soon became apparent i suppose little green was to avenge the defeat of nice a 67 when president sadat came to the poet he told us just give me 10 centimeters of land in the east the 2nd of a 3 part series is really a population were told that the troops were on the west bank of the su is going to expose the 2nd week of the war in october on aljazeera well about half it was when the president of the United States speaks out the rest of the world takes notice. Aggressive negotiation on trade deals. Unparalleled military might International Agreements hanging by a thread will the next u. S. Foreign policy put america 1st. Or be a Leading Light for the world at large. Examine the key issues of the us elections on aljazeera. Im rob matheson in doha the top stories on aljazeera there are reports of gunshots in kyrgyzstans capital bishkek after the president declared a state of emergency and ordered the deployment of troops theres been growing unrest following a disputed election supporters of the new selfproclaimed Prime Minister said the example of gathered near the house of government on friday protesters forced the resignation of the government in tuesday and the results of the election have since been an old Charles Stratford is live for us in bishkek just bring us up to date woods with whats happening now charles. You