Just before noon he signed an Executive Order formally withdrawing the us from the tra ns pacific partnership. It was a Campaign Promise and a key tenet of his pledge to deglobalise, putting in his words, America First. Our diplomatic editor, mark urban, looks at what trumps first day tells us about a new direction for america. Back to work on a blowy, rainy morning for the people of this city. For the new president , after a weekend of political bluster, a day to demonstrate that the Wind Of Change you porters bluster, a day to demonstrate that the Wind Of Change supporters had voted for had hit the white house. First one is withdrawals from the of the United States from the Trans Pacific partnership. Everyone knows what that means, right . Weve been talking about this for a long time. Mr trump signed three Executive Orders today, stopping a pacific trade deal, freezing governmentjob recruitment, and halting funding for abortion education overseas. That follows an earlier order to hobble the Obamacare Health programme, all these address Campaign Promises, but hardly yet in a spectacular way. Thats it. I think its important to recover from what was a really terrible Opening Weekend as president of the United States, where donald trump was worrying about how the media was reporting the crowd sizes of his inauguration. I think that signing these Executive Orders is, among other things, to send the signal that, yes, he is going to focus on the priorities that got him elected. And also on some issues that are not about him. There were dozens of Campaign Trail promises that were supposed to happen today. From starting construction of that beautiful wall on the mexican border, to the deportation of millions of Illegal Immigrants and the labelling of china as a currency manipulator. Well, today was the day that all of that got watered down by the reality of washington, both having to deal with foreign governments and, more importantly, building up a rapport with republicans on the hill to get some of this stuff enacted. On the hill, as The Business Of Vetting a Trump Administration continues slowly but surely, many republicans are working out which parts of trumps agenda they can help to vote through and which ones they simply cant support. It will be interesting to see the first time the Republican Congress or parts of the Republican Congress run into conflict with him. And surely, there will be those times. I think when you look at a policy that is so stridently anti free trade, that is something that will bother some republicans, without question. On the issue of infrastructure spending, the notion that we would spend 1 trillion that would be unpaid for will be very difficult for some fiscal conservatives to swallow. And will to the best of my ability. As this work gets under way, though, team trump is continuing to fire salvos at the media, over the number of people who attended the inauguration and an ill tempered diatribe from the Press Secretary on saturday. The thing i found most disturbing was that he spews a bunch of falsehoods and turns to the reporters in the room and says, this is what you should be reporting and covering. I cannot think of, at least in the time that ive been in washington, anyone ever standing there and lecturing the press, any government official, and telling them, this is what you cover. At todays first formal White House Press conference, he returned to the attack. Over and over again, theres this constant attempt to undermine his credibility and the movement that he represents. Its frustrating for, notjust him, but for so many of us who are trying to work to get this message out. Downpours seem fitting for a day when the president showed hell have to obey certain laws of politics, and the news media learned that it will be shown no quarter, less a bright new dawn, more welcome to the swamp. Earlier, i spoke to the former candidate for the democratic nomination, bernie saunders. Youll remember him as Hillary Clintons main challenger for the democratic nomination. He doesnt share much in common with donald trump, but they do share a certain view on anti globalisation. So, i asked him what he made of the cancellation of such a major trade deal today. The current Trade Policies that we have, which include nafta and cafta and trade relations with china, will be a problem. We have lost millions of decent paying jobs. I campaigned very strongly against the tpp and im glad that trump followed through and has gotten us out of that. If hes going to be honest with the American People, he has to withdraw his manufacturing in countries like mexico and bangladesh and turkey and china, where hes paying very low wages. If he wants to be honest with the American People, when he says buy american, hire american, hes got to bring those jobs back to the United States. For americas allies, that word withdraw is critical. A lot of people are looking at donald trump and saying is he going to pull america away from the rest of the world. He may want to do that, but thats not my view. We need to maintain and strengthen our contacts with people all over the world. Id rather have people sitting around the table arguing with each other rather than going to war. Climate change is a planetary crisis in which weve got to Work Together. The exploitation of children and women is a global crisis. Weve got to Work Together. I think trying to develop good Trade Policies for the people of our country and around the world does not mean, to me, that we should withdraw from the world or not play an active role in United Nations or other bodies. What do you think of the words about America First and he talked about americas carnage in the inauguration address. Thats the language used by isolationists in the 1920s. Its not language im sympathetic to. We are living in an increasingly small world. It is important that countries Work Together in every way possible. If its America First, then its the uk first, then its china first, then its japan first. I think we need International Cooperation to make sure that we have a world at peace, a world in which we effectively combat Climate Change and deal with so many of the other Serious Problems facing our planet. Theresa may becomes the first leader to meet donald trump. Shes hoping for a trade deal with him. How outward looking do you think donald trump will be with other countries . I cant predict, i honestly cant predict. But the United States is the most powerful nation on earth. We have got to work with countries all over the world to address the very serious crises facing our planet. Senator Bernie Sanders. Joining me, now republican strategist, ron christie, and molly ball. This was a day with such huge expectations, the weight of all that was going to be done, how did it add up . Several things happened today. In policy terms, it was significant that President Trump issued some Executive Orders, starting to actually implement some of his policy agenda. On the other hand, you had his Press Secretary, sean spicer, doing a do over press conference, seeming to want to atone for the Disastrous Press Conference he gave on saturday, where he said a lot of things which were plainly not true, and stuck a thumb in the eye of the american media, still a very combative and antagonistic press conference, but clearly trying to make amends. You have an administration that is still finding its footing, that is behind the curve in a lot of ways, that is not enjoying a conventional honeymoon. You have trump seeming to want to govern very much the way he campaigned. That is the point. Where was the honeymoon . It got off to a rocky start, notjust the press conference, but the cia discussion at the weekend. Was this a chance to reset all of that opening . I think so. I think mollys exactly right. You notice that theres already a do over, some of the statements theyve made and comments that theyve said for the last couple days. They need to recognise now theyre no longer campaigning. The campaign is over. The most difficult thing that i found walking in 16 years ago, on day one of an administration, how do we do this, how do we translate what we said to the American People. Youre a republican supporting the Trump Administration now. When he pulls out the Global Trade Deals and antiabortion legislation, do you cheer . I dont. I go by policy and what the president said he would do and how hes acted. I think pulling out of tpp was a mistake. The tra ns pacific partnership. I think this is something that president obama negotiated in good faith with several other nations. I think it would have helped American Business and workers. He said no, im going to pull out. I dont agree with that. That was his decision. This is something that trump has been consistent about both in the campaign and in his inaugural address. It was a very dark and divisive address, but a Declaration Of War on both parties. You have him doing things now that are in line with conventional conservative doctrine, like abortion. You say it is a Declaration Of War. Something like trade, that is something that someone like Bernie Sanders is more sympathetic. Instead of a Declaration Of War, you say this is what the American People have voted for. He has tried to sidestep washington. He doesnt care about party politics. He wants to talk to the people who voted him in. Thats what hes done consistently. That is exactly the way he and his team see it. The question is how big a group is that and is that going to be effective . I think people voted for trump because they thought he might be able to, because he is so unconventional, finally get something done in washington. They see the gridlock in washington as a bipartisan problem and theyd like him to overcome it as a businessman. If he runs up against the reality of governing and cant make the wheels turn, here in the senate, where we are on capitol hill, that is going to make people disappointed in him. Its been difficult for him to get the team through. This was a Point Sean Spicer made, that people he thought would be ok, like mike pompeo of the cia, had democrats stopping that from going through. Are we going to see the same sense of gridlock now . I do. Its typical. Chuck schimmer, the minority leader of the United States senate, wields a lot of power in being able to hold up some of the nominees that President Trump wants to puts into office. Its the usual horsetrading. This is only a marker, a spot for negotiation for the democrats and the new administration. Do the democrats have an obligation to say look, we may not like this man, we disagree with lot hes doing, but we cannot afford to have a system, an administration that simply doesnt function for another eight years . Without taking a side on what they ought to do, the democrats havent really decided what to do as a matter of strategy. Thats true. Youre talking about a delay of a few days. But the democrats do not have the ability nor do they have the willingness to actually stop any of these cabinet nominees. So far, it looks like theyre all going to get through, which would be a remarkable thing for any president. They started out behind. They werent up to date on a lot of the paperwork when they started. But it does look like the entire cabinet will be confirmed. Then it will be on to things like the Supreme Court and trying to find a replacement for obamacare. And those will be huge battles for this administration. Great to have you here. We will hear more about the Supreme Court and the Immigration Measures later in the week, now back to you. For several decades now, britain has been restrained in its ambitions for any kind of Industrial Policy. But no longer. We got this governments first big statement on it today, a green paper called building our industrial strategy. The mere fact of it is a big change, but what about the contents . There is quite a lot of waffle. The chapter on energy policy, for example, promises four new things two are reviews, one is a roadmap and one is a commitment to produce a plan. But there is real material in there too. Thank you, mr speaker. This is a hugely important moment for the united kingdom, a moment where we must prepare a new strategy to earn a prosperous living in the years ahead. We have had Government Policies for industry before. They were given a sendoff by cabinet boy harold wilson. It didnt end well. Instead of successfully picking winners, we ended up desperately trying to save losers. Has the government now come up with something and at the bottom is wales on £18,000. The broad problem is this. A successful industry is a collection of players, a key manufacturer, suppliers, the workforce. One company on its own may not be viable, but a whole cluster in a region may be world beating. But how on earth do you kick start a cluster . By ionm. Everybody wants igsdgagsgflz. But nobody wants to go first and be lfifieitfiffalefieefi§§§. ,. , it is promoting so called sector deals to give leadership in different areas. It is actually what vince cable did in the aerospace industry. The goal is to plant a few seeds and Watch Forests grow. There is a lot more in the green paper, notably on skills, and a new institutes of technology to upgrade vocational training. Peter mandelson held a number of cabinet posts, including being Secretary Of State for trade and industry. Lord Mandelsonjoins Us now. Good evening. What is your reaction to the green paper . I welcome it. Is it new . I think it has the potential to be new. What is important about it is that it does actually represent an attempt, finally, to bury mrs thatchers purely Market Driven philosophy. The reason why that is important is i think it provides the basis for cross party agreement, a consensus which is important if industrial strategy is going to endure and work really to work, it doesnt have to just be good, it has to be truly transformative. Tra nsformative and our ability to innovate and commercialise our science space, to transform our Skill Raising in this country, notjust for those at university, but for the other half of the young population but do not go to university, but also it has to be Tra Nsformative in our ability to make available patient long term finance for start up and growing companies. I am trying to work out if it is new orjust a continuation of the same. Was yours Tra Nsformative . In which case, this is transformative and a continuation . Well, i think if it had. If it had more than two years . What is the active ingredient of a transformative one . Culture change, legislative changes . It is certainly not more money, you never did that either . Well, we did, and scale matters, resources matter. Well, we did, and scale matters, resources matter. More resources, money and power, should be transferred from the centre to the regions. Strategy in the future. What is important, and let me give an example. Towards the end of my time as business secretary, i borrowed from germany a rather interesting concept of institutes. They were mechanisms, institutes for taking out, spinning out research and development, what was going on inside universities, putting it into the private sector and commercialising it. I pushed this through in the last months of the labour government. It was one of the things that the Incoming Coalition government embraced. They rechristened it, they became catapults, i think they claimed a lot of credit for themselves, fine. But they lived on. What i would hope the new government does is look at what works in these catapults and say, right, how can we roll out what works, what is best, how can we reform and strengthen what doesnt . As a party, im interested to look back on what you didnt do and what mistakes you might have made, do you think you neglected to the north . Its interesting that phrase Northern Powerhouse is a phrase associated with george osborne, the conservative government in particular. We didnt ignore it, w