that would suggest to me thatjeff sessions has told him, this is too risky, perhaps you need to dial it back, if you really want to make sure to not lose this. but i think that the hallmarks of the trump presidency seem pretty clear, people who think that he is going to pivot and become more presidential in his style a nd and become more presidential in his style and manner, they are going to be left disappointed. his style is to attack, personally, people on twitter, judges, corporate executives. there is a real risk to that, going forward. not only is he tying himself very personally to policy initiatives such as the immigration order, he cannot distance from that or blame other advisers for its failure. but with attacks onjudges in his tweets, he seems to be parking blame at their feet, for any possible future terrorist attack, which is very, very dangerous going forward. no one should be surprised that this is how he s carrying himself. this is how he s carrying himself.
arrival of the new u.s. education secretary betsy devos. she s visiting jefferson memorial junior high school today. black lives matter demonstrators and other people were protesting outside the school around the time of ms. devos s arrival. on the other end teachers and parents held a peaceful vigil to promote public education. they joined the president of the washington teachers union to voice their concerns about devos s new role. we simply cannot be on the sideline allowing things to happen to our public school system without voicing our concerns and raising our voice and resisting things that will be harmful to our kids. saying shame on you mike pence. and it s spelled incorrectly because we are selling our school department short in 2017. ms. devos does not belong as the secretary of education. sometimes i was brought up in the public schools, and i taught in the public schools and we have support for public schools. reporter: jefferson memorial junior high is
to dateline london. president trump s travel ban ruled out by a court mr trump responds with see you in court. is he now the litigant in chief? and russian intervention in libya another tactical victory for putin? my guests today are. abdel bari atwan, who is a writer and broadcaster on arab affairs, stephanie baker of bloomberg news, yasmin alibhai brown, the author and commentator, and vincent magombe, who is an african commentator. president trump s own nominee to the us supreme court was said to have criticised the president over mr trump s attitude to judges trump talked of so called judges. . it follows the court s decision to rule out the president s travel ban on people from mostly muslim countries, and further bitterness between the president and some in congress. are these teething troubles or a sign of how the next four years are likely to be in washington with the president attacking the other pillars of the us constitution? where do you think we are
so who really does speak for the president? and the israeli prime minister arriving in washington to start a new relationship with the white house. iran, hezbollah, syria and settlements. there is plenty to discuss. this story begins at the end of december. president obama had just imposed new sanctions on russia in retaliation for moscow hacking the election. donald trump s senior foreign policy advisor, general mike flynn, hopped on the phone with russia s ambassador to discuss the penalty. now us law bars any private citizen from conducting foreign policy. but the greater mistake was to mislead the vice president. the national security advisor told mike pence that sanctions never came up in his calls with the russian ambassador. not true. the conversation had been bugged by us intelligence, disproving the general‘s account. in his resignation letter, flynn sai, unfortu nately, because of the fast pace of events, i inadvertently briefed the vice president elect and oth
to respond to claims he made regarding the hillsborough disaster. you said you lost a close personal friend, it is on your website. in a radio interview, he said it was wrong to say he lost close friends in the tragedy. full steam ahead on the settle to carlisle line. passengers will find an old fashioned name on the timetable for the next few days. good evening and welcome to bbc news. the white house has said it was a matter of trust that led to the president asking for his national security adviser‘s resignation, only a matter of weeks after he was appointed. michael flynn quit overnight after it emerged that he d misled the administration about the extent of his conversations with russia s ambassador in washington. tonight, sean spicer, the white house spokesman, told reporters that mr trump was convinced that michael flynn hadn t done anything wrong. the president instinctively thought michael flynn did not do anything wrong. it is not ordinary for an incoming national