00:00President Trump is taking a victory lap after two of the BBC's top bosses stepped down over how the network edited his January 6th speech.
00:11And this morning, one of those leaders is speaking out.
00:15In a Truth Social post Sunday night, Trump wrote,
00:17The top people in the BBC, including Tim Davey, the boss, are all quitting slash fired because they were caught doctoring my very good, perfect speech of January 6th.
00:29Thank you to The Telegraph for exposing these corrupt journalists.
00:33Hours earlier, the BBC confirmed both Director General Tim Davey and News Chief Deborah Ternes had resigned.
00:39It centers on a BBC panorama documentary that spliced together part of Trump's 2021 address,
00:47leaving out the line where he said supporters should, quote, peacefully and patriotically make your voices heard.
00:54The version that aired kept the phrase fight like hell, making it sound as if he were urging violence.
01:01Pressure exploded after Britain's Telegraph newspaper published details of a leaked internal dossier
01:06criticizing the BBC's editorial standards, including the Trump edit and accusing the network of broad bias issues.
01:15In letters to staff, Davey said the decision was his, that, quote, mistakes were made and he had to take responsibility.
01:22Ternes called the uproar damaging to an institution she loves, saying simply, the buck stops with me.
01:29She at one time had been the head of NBC News.
01:31Reporters asked her this morning whether she thinks reporters are institutionally corrupt.
01:36Watch.
01:37Do you think that the journalists are institutionally corrupt like President Trump does?
01:42Do you think journalists are corrupt?
01:43Of course our journalists aren't corrupt.
01:45Our journalists are hardworking people who strive for impartiality, and I will stand by their journalism.
01:50Is there institutional bias at the BBC?
01:52There is no institutional bias.
01:53Mistakes are made, but there's no institutional bias.
01:55But why weren't the mistakes dealt with on Trump, on anti-Semitism, on women's rights?
02:01I'm sure that story will emerge, but for now I'm going to go in and see our team.
02:04The resignations mark one of the biggest leadership shake-ups in BBC history and a major test of trust in Britain's public broadcaster.
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