President trump is stepping up the pace here in washington. The oil and car sectors were both in his sights today. Mr trump is urging a new strategy for two very prominent american industries. The new administration is making big changes to americas stand on both energy and the environment. This morning, the president signed two Executive Orders to move ahead on a pair of Controversial Oil pipelines, known as the keystone xl and dakota access. Both had been stalled by the Obama Administration because of environmental concerns. Senatorjohn barrasso from wyoming is part of the Republican Leadership and he sits on the energy and the environment committees. I spoke to him a brief time ago about these new Executive Orders and President Trumps busy first couple of days. It looks like these signings this morning on the pipelines, thatjobs are going to win. I believe it is not one or the other, i think we can have clean air, clean water, clean land and still a healthy economy. The Obama Administration had so many expensive administrations, but i think donald trump will strike the right balance. He has done that with the right Epa Administrator to join his cabinet. Would you ever support environmental regulations . his cabinet. Would you ever support environmental regulations . I think that the whole purpose of the epa is important but they have lost their way in terms of the Environmental Protection and they cause to have the biggest problem is that we have had in the last number of years, so it is time for us to really modernise and improve the epa so we can protect the land under water and the air, but at the same time make sure that we have as strong, healthy economy, which is what people want. Jobs are such a critical part of building an economy in a country and in terms of general well being of the people and the quality of life. People in this country, it is clearly focused on having a good paying jobs. I also want to ask you about the tpp and the withdrawal of america from that. Other countries around the world said they are going to go ahead and do their own trade deals. We are looking at mexico, chile, china, germany all weighing in on this. Is this really the moment for america to be pulling back from global alliances like this . Donald trump campaigned on this . Donald trump campaigned on this so it should not be a surprise that he took this action. I am not surprised by this at all. He is a world class surprised by this at all. He is a world class trader, he has a great reputation for being able to get great deals. I am a free trader. For my homestead of wyoming and it is important that we can export our products, our number one product is beef. When i head to the pacific rim and visit with the president of japan, he wants to import Liquefied Natural Gas from the united states. You supported the temp two. Is this quy you supported the temp two. Is this Guy A Position in which conservative doctrine of free trade is going to be thrown out of the window by republicans like yourself in order to satisfy the new president . The president gets to make these decisions as we all want fairer trade, but i think he will be able to put forward Trade Agreements that are going to be favourable to the united states, that are going to be good with the american taxpayers and he will continue to work on trade. My he will continue to work on trade. My concern is in terms of china they will try to go into any void that exists. When i have been to that pa rt exists. When i have been to that part of the world, what i know about china is that people in the country is related to the tpp want to be friends of the united states, but they dont want to be enemies to china. Would you have preferred it if america had not been withdrawn from the tpp . I think president obama did not make the case. You had all three president ial candidates, hillary clinton, Bernie Saunders and donald trump all came out against the tpp so it should be no surprise to anyone that this is where we are now. I continue to be a free trader, believe in free markets and i want to be able to use overseas markets for wyoming products. Senatorjohn barrasso, thank you forjoining us. You start to get a feel of where the divisions might be between the administration and the republicans in congress. He is very much in favour of the deregulation of business but not so at ease with the way the administration is going on trade deals. If i can show you a picture. We keep talking about these Executive Orders. Focus on the people behind. We will see a lot of these people over the next few yea rs. These people over the next few years. Maybe you could point out one oi years. Maybe you could point out one or two of them and wiping rm portent. Get a new team trump behind the president on the left, the man with the dark hair is rinsed pre bursts. He is the conduit between the white house and the republican party. He will be a big liaison figure. Kelly and conway was the Campaign Manager for donald trump, the first woman to runa for donald trump, the first woman to run a president ial campaign. The tall gentleman with a green tie, thatis tall gentleman with a green tie, that is jarrod kushner. He is the husband of ivanka trump and he is a Special Adviser to the president. There has been quite a lot of fuss about nepotism and whether it was ok for him to work in the white house. He is very close to the president and will be a key figure particularly on international affairs. The gentleman with a blue shirt and yellow tie, steve bannon, maybe the most controversial pose in that photograph, he ran breitbart news, right wing news site, very controversial and hard hitting. He is the person who was behind Donald Trumps inaugural address. A strong nationalist, vary in favour of brexit and close, wanting to develop ties, with Marine Le Pen of the national front. He will be a figure in europe as well as here in the states. Marine le pen was in trump tower is just the other week. We were saying in the headlines that he has been meeting the bosses of the car industry. He is very good at this good cop, bad cop relationship. He hits them with these tariffs, that they will have 35 tariffs, then he showers them with love and croissants. Lets have a listen to this conversation. Were going to make process much more simple for the Auto Companies and Everybody Else who wants to do business in the united states. Youll find us to be from very inhospitable to extremely hospitable. I think well go down as one of the most friendly countried. Of the most friendly countries. Right now its not. I have friends who want to build in the united states. They go many many years and then they cant get their environmental permit, over something that nobody ever heard of before. Its absolutely crazy. I am to a large extent an environmentalist, i believe in it, but its out of control and were going to make a very short process. And were going to either give you your permits or were not going to give you your permits, but youre going to know very quickly. And generally speaking, were going to be giving you your permits, so were going to be very friendly. Not for a lot of environmentalists, they will not agree with him that he is the environmentalist. This is another new thing that people will have bigger tuesday in america, a different way of president ial intervention directly and american businesses. That wants it particularly well with republicans. Itll be interesting to see how those Car Executives feel about donald trump in a few years. What is this word bigly . The Trump Administration says it is not bigly home and they say it is big league, but i am hearing ugly, too. We will have to get used to that as well. If you have these powers of Executive Order you can do with g1, bigly days. Just before we came on air, the White House Press secretary, sean spicer, held a briefing for the media, his second in as many days. Lets have a listen to what was on the agenda today. Does the president believes that millions voted illegally in this election and what evidence do you have of widespread voter fraud in the selection, if that is the case . The president does believe that. He stated that before. He has stated his concerns over voter fraud people voting illegally in the campaign. He maintains that belief based on studies that people have presented to him. What evidence . Senator ryan today said there was no evidence. Other groups have said that they dont agree with the assessment by the president. As i said, believe the president. As i said, believe the president. As i said, believe the president has believe that for a while based on studies and information that he has. While based on studies and information that he has. Our north america editor, jon sopel, was listening. He joins us live from washington. Why do this . Why get yourself into a position where youre doing a huge amount of business popular with the american public, then the thing that dominates the Press Conferences donald trump saying something that wasnt true . Because 90 of donald trump saying something that wasnt true . Because 9096 of the time donald trump is driving the central message aboutjobs, what he was elected to do, and there is a bit of donald trump, whether it is the size of the crowd at his inauguration or the number of people that voted for him in the popular vote, he gets distracted. He is obsessed by those numbers. In the campaign he used to talk about hollow and many more people went to his rallies than Hillary Clintons. He is doing it still. He hasnt let go of the fact that he lost the popular vote by nearly 3 million. What was telling about that clip from sean spicer was what evidence have you got . Where are these reports . What he went on to say afterwards was well there was a nonpartisan body who had a Research Paper in 2008. Hang on, thought we were talking about 2016 he seems to be extrapolating from an early report about what potentially could have happened before to explain why he did not win the popular vote in november, but with absolutely no evidence of voter fraud in that election. No one has reported anything like that in terms of what unfolded in november across the 50 states. We should cover the other and use because otherwise this becomes the big distraction, we spent our time talking about this. What are the other headlines . The defence of the keystone xl pipeline, saying he was a champion of the environment but also that this would create thousands ofjobs, the us is there to enable these things. The other things we will be looking out for in days to come and the leading up for in days to come and the leading up to who could be the Supreme Court choice for him. I have read through the week a lot of these Comment Pieces from some of the big writers in the American Press who are concerned about the relationship they have at the white house. It seems to me that they will have to start packing up on the fa cts , have to start packing up on the facts, calmly and deliberately deconstructing what this administration says. Is that the way they need to go about it rather than reacting in a panicked way . they need to go about it rather than reacting in a panicked way . I think it isa reacting in a panicked way . I think it is a really challenging environment. What we need to do is when something is paid and the factually incorrect, we are, in the media, our reputation, and the bbc in particular, and being objective and impartialand in particular, and being objective and impartial and telling the truth, so and impartial and telling the truth, so if we see something that is not truthful we should point about. We should not be obsessed byjust trying to trip up donald trump, looking peevish, looking entitled, like we dont like him or are angry 01 cross like we dont like him or are angry or cross in any of our reporting. We have to be fair and balanced but just say, hang on, that cant be allowed to stand if it is not correct. It is our responsibility to do that and that is what our audience expects of us. Some of the people in the white house could not believe that they werent being treated with all the dignity that they deserved. Well, i think they need to get over themselves because donald trump will do Press Communication in a very different way and about mean that some of my esteemed colleagues at the white house might have a slightly bruised ego, live with it. Something you would never have, of course. Any more news on the Supreme Court . All of these Executive Orders will change things temporarily in america. They can be reversed, the Supreme Court not so much. The Supreme Court not so much. The Supreme Court not so much. The Supreme Court appointment is going to be probably all things being equal, the most consequential decision that donald trump is going to make in his presidency because the person who gets appointed, and it is likely to be somebody quite conservative, someone who believes in toughening the laws on abortion. At the moment the Supreme Court is balanced, for liberals for conservatives. If it becomes five republicans, abortion law can change, which will be a big thing for Social Policy in this country. Notjust for the term of donald trump, but for years going forward. Thank you forjoining us, jon sopel. There are big changes coming up in this administration, christian. Some of the other Key Developments in washington today now. President trump is planning to keep james comey as head of the fbi, according to Media Reports here in the us. Mr comey was strongly criticised by democrats in the run up to novembers election for re turning to an investigation of Hillary Clintons emails. The bureau is still investigating potential ties between russia and members of mr trumps team. A former American Defence secretary says hes concerned the new leadership is giving an impression the us is retreating from its role as a global leader. Robert gates, who was also a former director of the cia, told the bbc mr trumps policies could well be exploited by other countries. Mr gates, who served in the George W Bush and barack Obama Administrations, says china, iran or russia, will step into any vacuum that is left by the us. More now on mr trumps senior appointments. A Senate Committee has approved ben carson as the new housing secretary, allowing the nomination to go to the full senate. But there are delays on the confirmation ofjeff sessions, who donald trump wants as his Attorney General. The top democrat on the Senate Judiciary committee has forced a one week delay. Senator Diane Feinstein said the womens march at the weekend brought his position into focus. The role of the Attorney General she said is to defend equal rights. One thing we want to do in this programme is connect the dots between the new Political Trends on both sides of the atlantic. That, of course, includes brexit. Britain made its decision last year, but supporters of leaving the European Union may well think their populist revolution is moving a lot slower than americas. Who gets to pull the trigger on divorce . Today, the Supreme Court decided the Prime Minister, theresa may, cant go it alone. She will need parliaments approval before handing in the formal notice to quit the European Union, known as article 50 in the eu treaty. From the sidelines, i was there to watch. Democracy, said abraham lincoln, is the government of the people, by the people, for the people. In his statue outside the sabine court today, they were debating that very issue. The ruling, when it came, made clear that the court was not trying to frustrate the vote to leave the European Union. The judgment would only determine whether government could start the Brexit Process without parliamentary consent. Today, via majority of 83, the Supreme Court rules that the government cannot trigger article 50 without an Act Of Parliament authorising it do so. The government then defeated. But the 11 judges also had to decide Whether Westminster Ca N ta ke also had to decide whether westminster can take this decision alone or whether the devolved government of wales, scotland and Northern Ireland should also have a say. On the devolution issue, the Court Unanimously rules that uk ministers are not legally compelled to consult the devolved legislatures before triggering article 50. The verdict was w