Im stephen sackur. New year, same old donald trump. Not a day goes by without a new media storm over a president ial comment, tweet or announcement that had democrats decrying him as unfit for office and republicans, well. What what do republicans feel and do about their de facto party leader . My guest is Michael Steele, a former chairman of the Republican National committee. Should the party stand with or dump trump . Michael steele, welcome to hardtalk. Its good to be here, yeah. Great to have you here. I want to take you back to that day in november 2016 when it became clear donald trump was going to be the next president of the United States. For you, as a long and loyal republican, how did you feel . I guess the emotion would be, here we go. Lets strap in, get ready. Because i knew id worked with donald trump in the past, i know what kind of campaign, obviously, he had run over the past 1. 5 years, and had predicted his eventual win earlier on. But if i may say so, not in neutral
And 4pm in vancouver, where Foreign Ministers from 20 countries are meeting to try to exert concerted pressure on north korea to give up its nuclear ambitions. The group is made up solely of countries which were involved in the korean war more than half a century ago, which means that two Key International players, russia and china, are not there. Barbara plett usher has the latest from canada. Members of an exclusive and its your club have gathered again. These other states that sent troops and aid to help the un effort in the 19505 aid to help the un effort in the 1950s korean war. Now they want to show solidarity in the face of a modern day korean threat. Missing from the guest list was china, an enemy in the 1950s war, but now a crucial ally in confronting pyongyang. The absence left many wondering what could really be achieved. And recent talks between north and south korea have eased tensions on the peninsular so the question was how ministers here would respond. The us took a to
Glad you could join us. Its 8am in singapore, midnight in london, and 4pm in vancouver, where Foreign Ministers from 20 countries are meeting, to try to exert concerted pressure on north korea to give up its nuclear ambitions. The group is made up solely of countries which were involved in the korean war more than half a century ago, which means that two Key International players, russia and china, are not there. Barbara plett usher has the latest from canada. Members of an exclusive club have gathered again. These are the states that sent troops and aid to help the un effort in the 1950s korean war. Now they want to show solidarity in the face of a modern day korean threat. Missing from the guest list was china, an enemy in the 1950s war, but now a crucial ally in confronting pyongyang. The absence left many wondering what could really be achieved. And recent talks between north and south korea have eased tensions on the peninsula, so the question was how ministers here would respond.
Its 9am in singapore, 1am in london and five in the afternoon in vancouver, where Foreign Ministers from 20 countries have concluded their talks to try to exert more pressure on north korea to give up its nuclear ambitions. The meeting though has been overshadowed by apparent thaw in relations between north and south korea. The two koreas have agreed to march under the same flag at next months Winter Olympics in seoul and field a joint ice hockey team. My colleague lauara bicker has been following the latest developments from vancouver. A slight break but what happens now. That is the question i put to the south Korean Foreign minister. I started by asking her about her alliance with america, an ally of it has had them back for many years and now, with a president who treat tweets about war with north korea. She answered that question rather diplomatically, saying it was democracy but i asked why north korea has come to the discussion table now. After all, there have been overtures fro
Im stephen sackur. The white house has never before seen a president like donald trump. He doesnt play by any conventional political rules. That much is obvious from his twitter feed, from his hiring and firing of staff, and his apparent relish for outrage. My guest today is anthony scaramucci, the white house director of communications for all of 11 days before he was fired in a media firestorm. But the mooch has stayed loyal to his former boss. Why . Anthony scaramucci, welcome to hardtalk. Its good to be back. Do you believe that donald trump is a president that the American People can be proud of . Yeah, i mean listen, were in a polarised country, so certainly 40 60 of the people are not going to like the president at any given time, i think thats been true unfortunately for the last 30 years. But yeah, if you look at the diagnostics of whats going on in the last year in terms of the economic growth, the wage increases, the fact that hes tackling, or at least handling, are adverse