BBC Panorama Trump speech edit was ‘designed to deceive’, says Andrew Marr

BBC Panorama Trump speech edit was 'designed to deceive', says Andrew MarrSOURCE: Good Morning Britain/ITV

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00:00Is this a problem that should have been cleared up more quickly?

00:03I think the top-to-bottom bit is that they should have got it

00:06within six days, not six months.

00:09That's the real shock.

00:10I mean, I have spent many, many hours of my life

00:13sitting in edit suites, and you're trying to get more punch

00:15from the raw footage, but you never, ever, ever do an edit like that.

00:19That is designed to deceive.

00:21If they had put, which is an editing convention, it's a technique,

00:25if they put a white flash between the two clips,

00:30would that have completely changed the meaning?

00:33Absolutely. Or said, do you know, 20 minutes later or 53 minutes later,

00:38he said this. Or had a reaction shot or something.

00:42There are ways of doing it, but this was dissimulation.

00:44The thing is, these are two clips that were spliced together.