Areas will generate interest from your questions and most of the questions are about Executive Orders, what the president s can use them for, if there are any checks, can they sign of funding or of Congress Needs to get involved. We have been looking at the questions on Executive Orders, anthony will join us in about 15 minutes and we can work through a lot of these issues. We must turn to some other really significant developments. Let us really significant developments. Let us do that. Bit by bit. There are reports that mr trump might intend to lift a ban on cia black site prisons, secret prisons or non us territory used for interrogations and well president George W Bush was in power. The New York Times says there is a Draft Executive Order that would roll back a series of restrictions that barack obama set on the treatment of detainees other media has this draft order, too. But lets take note of this the White House PressSecretary Sean Spicer says this document isnt from the white house. Can you shed any light on this draft memo going around about Interrogation Practices . Yes. What agency did this originate from . I dont know, it is not a white house document and for those who have reported on this, this is the second day that a document that was not from the white house has been reported on as factual. I have no idea where that came from. It is not a white house document. Donald trump has been asked about water boarding. If he feels it might prompt some useful information. This was his reply. Absolutely, ifeel it works. But hell defer to the Defence Secretary and cia director on whether to use it. But he is quite clear that he believes it is something the United States can justify and that it works. We can speak to Barbara Plett usher. That statement on water boarding, is that a significant shift . He has saying that been saying that throughout the campaign, that Enhanced Interrogation Techniques can be effective and he said that Terror Suspects deserve it but the caveat is significant. That he would take the advice or defer to the head of the military and the cia and the head of the military has been clear that they will stand against Enhanced Interrogation Techniques, this is something that do not advise, in keeping with government policy. At the moment we are looking at mr trumps opinion. If we see that enhanced in any executive what we will have to question what will come from this. If he says he would refer to the Cabinet Members and intelligence officials, it seems unlikely he will move forward on this. Officials, it seems unlikely he will move forward on thislj officials, it seems unlikely he will move forward on this. I wanted to mention reports on black sites, cia prisons, we have seen organisations saying that they oppose this what i wa nted saying that they oppose this what i wanted to emphasise the caveat, we cannot confirm this is happening. What have you been hearing . This is something that is in the pentagon and intelligence areas and i am at the State Department so there has not been a lot of talk here. But the document circulated talks about are a few of those black sites, it is something that president obama did away with, something that was very much criticised at home and especially abroad and at whitby at big step to bring them back but what does review mean . It means mr trump is thinking about it, he wants to signal he is ready to go in that direction and the question is, what do his key officials in the Security Tea M do his key officials in the Security Team advise him . And if he is going to ta ke team advise him . And if he is going to take the opinion of the top people on that, particularly the head of the military, he will be told he needs to temper that kind of approach. The next thing, i want to bring up some copy on the screen. Each of the stories would be considered significant on their own. This is from reuters, the draft of an Executive Order has been seen directing the pentagon and State Department to create plans for safe zones for civilians in syria. Barbara . What are you hearing . Zones for civilians in syria. Barbara . What are you hearing . |j zones for civilians in syria. Barbara . What are you hearing . I can tell you that the State Department is scrambling to keep up with not only these Executive Orders but the reports about Executive Orders that might get issued so were not getting any official reaction but i can say that this is consistent with what mr trump can say that this is consistent with what mrtrump said can say that this is consistent with what mr trump said during his campaign. He supported the idea of safe zones in syria for civilians, essentially at the time he presented them as a way to keep syrian civilians in syria or east of the region as a way to stem the Refugee Crisis and another thing he said he is crisis and another thing he said he is he would get the gulf countries to pay for that. Would they do that . He has never detailed how this would work militarily and the government has not gone for them so the government has not gone for them so far because to have a real one you have to have Military Muscle behind it, planes in the sky ready to shoot down any threat. This is quite a big deal to set up a safe sun but that will be studied, apparently. One last story of huge significance, if it happens. Reports that immigrants from seven countries, including libya, yemen, iran, syria and iraq will be incredibly restricted in their ability to come into the us. What have you heard . That is part of mr trump s promise to restrict immigration from countries that are seen immigration from countries that are seen as a immigration from countries that are seen as a Real Security threat because they have Islamic State or alqaeda operatives in them and he says he is not convinced the betting is good enough to make sure there is no threat so this has not been announced from but from what we hear, the idea is to block immigrants or bases from seven countries, all of them north african and middle eastern, for at least a period of one month or more. In order to look at what the Vetting Practices should be. That would be something that falls to the State Department briefed and you can hear people here saying we have stringent practices already and we are not sure how far we can go unless that it is something he turned to instead of his initial promise, which was to block muslims from coming to the United States. As it can see from the countries mentioned, syria, iraq, yemen, libya, they are all muslim countries anyway. But it would be some specific countries rather than a blanket ban and the way it has been presented is this would be a temporary block to begin with, based on reviewing vetting procedures. It has been quite a day. Thank you for helping us for that. Barbara plett usher live from the State Department. Were spending the entire hour looking at developments with the trump administration. We are taking you through these one by one. And also any questions you have one. And also any questions you have on the stories we are covering. You can find on the stories we are covering. You canfind me on the stories we are covering. You can find me on social media and we have an E Mail Address on screen. Next to federal communication. Mr trump has already fundamentally shifted us policy on trade, energy, and immigration next to federal communication. Two departments have been on the Receiving End of a de facto gagging order. These are memos released to the media they show the president has banned Us Environmental Protection Agency employees from providing updates on social media or to reporters. Similar guidance has been issued to Department Of Agriculture employees. That didnt go down well with someone with access to the Badlands National park. They treated. Today, the amount of Carbon Dioxide in the atmosphere is higher than at any time in the last 650,000 years. The point was to say, please take Climate Change seriously. That and a couple of others were deleted. Matt mcgrath is the bbcs environment correspondent. I wanted to know from him whether it would be normalfor an Environmental Agency like this to communicate directly with journalists and the public. Heres the answer. Pretty much so and what has happened in the United States under President Trump is very unusual. If you look at what he said about what he wants the epa to be, he wants to be about clea n the epa to be, he wants to be about clean air clean water. Not to be doing so much stuff on Climate Change. At the moment they have put in place a block on the epa furthering grants and doing business and they have asked employees not to communicate about that. Whether that will be reviewed and what will happen, we dont yet know. Clean air and what is important but regarding Climate Change the suggestion is the white house will take a more central role on how america responds . You must understand the epa has played a crucial role under president obama on Climate Change, the Supreme Court judge judged that Carbon Dioxide gas was a blatant and president 0bama used epa to regulate that. President trump and his team believe the epa is involved on putting up too much regulation that stop the Oil And Gas Industry and the Coal Industry and he wants to remove those. The Battle Over Climate has Practical Applications and President Trump sees this as key to the way he revives industry throughout the us. Is one of the applications that epa will get smaller . That is what people fear, if not shut down, at least curtailed in many ways. Scott pruitt, the Oklahoma Attorney general, who was likely to be the head of the epa, has taken lawsuits against epa. The belief is they will curtail this and its role in Carbon Dioxide production. We have talked about federal communications and immigration and trade and international security. We can talk about what he did on monday. On monday, President Trump signed an Executive Order cancelling funds for groups that offer abortions or abortion advocacy, even if they use their own funds to do so. This means that aid agencies working in Foreign Countries will lose millions of dollars in funds. Today weve heard that the netherlands is launching a global fund to try and cover the lost funding. The countrys Foreign Ministry said where decisions are taken that are bad for women in developing countries we should help those women,. Its not about the politics, its about those women. Pai is a Global Reproductive Health organisation and says this is a policy denying women Life Saving Services it will cut off funding for groups providing hiv testing kits to teenagers, it will cut Malaria Programmes. But donald trump and his supporters argue this move isjustified. The White House Press secretary took on the issue on monday. This is sean spicer. I think the president has made it clear he is pro life. He wants to stand up for all americans, pro life. He wants to stand up for allamericans, including pro life. He wants to stand up for all americans, including the unborn, and the reinstatement of this policy is not just and the reinstatement of this policy is notjust something that echoes that value but respects nick sayer funding and ensures we stand up not just for life and the life of the unborn but for all Taxpayer Funds being spent oversized to perform an action that is contrary to the actions of this president. Overseas. This continues to grow. Nancy kacungira in nairobi updated me on what this means for Aid Organisations in developing countries. Countries like kenya. Simply, they are worried they will have to reduce the number of services they offer to some of the oppressed people on the continent. The thing about this iteration of the global bank is it has spread the net wider and it encompasses not just family has spread the net wider and it encompasses notjust Family Planning at all Global Health funding. This means organisations working with Malaria Programmes here and with Maternal Health programmes, whatever it is, they have to ensure there is not a single part of any of those programmes that does so much as offer the suggestion of abortion. There is quite a lot of concern that this is going to impact them heavily in terms of the services they can offer. There might be some americans who want to ask, why is it us that is required to provide the funding for this . That is a longstanding commitment that the us has continually made and abortion is a very contentious issue. Here in africa, there are 1. 6 million cases related to unsafe abortions that are tended to across the continent every year and there is not much funding coming from anywhere else. Aid organisations have traditionally relied on the United States for help with some of this funding, especially in countries where the restrictions and the law allowed abortion is very complex or very ambiguous. So it is for the longest Term Partnership but the United States has been involved in with the continent and many will be sad to see that change. Thank you. Let us continue on the coverage of all the developments today involving the trump administration. I want to talk about gary cohn hes mr trumps pick to lead the Us National Economic council. Until Thatjob Offer came, hes been president of Goldman Sachs. His selection has sent the sent Goldman Sachs shareprice soaring and thats good news for mr cohn. It has gone up. This is january and it has been going up. Hes going to have to divest himself from the bank that will including selling shares. The Wall Streetjournal puts a figure on it. It estimated that his exit will top 100 million. First of all, what is thisjob . 100 million. First of all, what is this job . What will he be doing . You will remember under the Obama Administration he assembled a council so people who were within the Business Community and also economists who got around and talked a lot about what the direction of the us economy and what should be done about it. This is an extension of that same kind of idea. What is interesting is when you look at the wider trump economic team, including other members of that team, there area other members of that team, there are a few Goldman Sachs veterans and thatis are a few Goldman Sachs veterans and that is part of the reason why we see the stock value going up so much and that is probably one of the biggest lifts to the dow since the election, we have seen them entering the trump administration. That might lead to a lighter Touch Regulation for the Banking Sector and perhaps we could see after the crash in 2008 . Exactly right. Butjust for banks in general and mr trump has spoken about this and his colleagues, about rolling back some of those backing regulations but specifically regarding Goldman Sachs, when you have more than a few people who are veterans of that bank as part of the demonstration, there could be a lighter touch specifically regarding that bank. Thank you forjoining us twice. We have been getting lots of questions for you. Specifically about Executive Orde