newsroom. live in washington as well. get in touch. the contact details arejust here. for the trump presidency it s business as usual today. by that i meana business as usual today. by that i mean a cabinet confirmation, legal battles over its travel ban and defending claims it has made that are demonstrably untrue. we will get to those in a moment. first of all,, later an appeals court will hear arguments for and against the ban. it is suspended at the moment. we know some of the justice department s argument because last night it filed some statements. they say the president is best placed to make decisions about national security. it is incorrect to call it a ban on muslims because the seven countries were identified further terror risk. let s back let s bring the bbc correspondent live from washington. a lot of us are getting confused as to where this appeals court fits into the other legal processes. help us out, please? sure. it started at the district court in seatt
he s been tweeting about the us. if you wonder what he means by ‘true face . these are the first significant remarks from ayatollah khamenei about president trump. for his part mr trump has not been hiding his feelings about iran. this was a few hours ago. i could have brought you many examples. that s a reference to the iran nuclear deal which mr trump has indicated he d like to scrap. he is unhappy with the situation between iran and other countries with reference to the nuclear deal. rana rahimpour is with bbc persian. first let me play you this. he always has a purpose, whatever he says, it is the reason he says it. he wasn t attacking president club as much as he attacked president obama, the former president. president trump. he said that he imposed tougher sanctions on iran, obama, so he was more angry with him. he was a bit cautious with president trump. we think there are two reasons, either he is genuinely worried about what mr trump may do to iran, or he s wai
Capabilities. so that s the challenge. that s what iran has to prove. then will the united states and the west decide to have some kind of meaningful reciprocity? in other words, would they lift some of the sanctions in exchange for a step-by-step transparency of iran. those two really antagonistic bits you played from the previous president is what has gotten the world so angry about iran and so fearful and mist trustful over the last eight years. much more fearful and mistrustful than they were before. so president rouhani, who s a moderate and said he d been elected with a mandate to pursue a more moderate, less extremist, those are his words, foreign policy and engagement with the west. he came here promising to show, quote, the true face of iran. he was obviously meaning not the face that was just presented by ahmadinejad, his predecessor. clearly, in terms of style, there s a massive change already
Question, at least as far as today goes, is no. let me know when we have jim acosta ready to roll. in the meantime, i ll tell you this. this is from the domestic travel pool traveling with the president. this is cnn reporting. two senior administration officials have clarified that this iranian meeting question, they reaffirmed the white house signal that the staff level they were open to an informal meeting between obama and rouhani on the margins of the u.n. conference. even though many people watching, waiting for the handshake that could be, is not happening, at least today. am i hearing that correctly? reporter: there will be no handshake today. there will be no face-to-face encounter between president obama and president rouhani. we re just getting word from senior administration officials as a matter of fact, i have just heard from a white house official who has confirmed this independently to cnn that this is not going to happen because, quote, this was just too complicated