Shadow Secretary for Culture Nigel Huddleston says that while it's "unprecedented" that U.S. President Donald Trump is threatening to sue the BBC, "he probably does have the grounds to do so". Report by Ajagbef. Like us on Facebook at http://www.facebook.com/itn and follow us on Twitter at http://twitter.com/itn
00:00Well, it probably is unprecedented that we've got a US president threatening to sue a British institution like the BBC.
00:07But let's be honest, he does probably have grounds to do so because the BBC themselves have admitted that they got that panorama programme wrong.
00:15You know, they spliced an interview, they interviewed people during the programme that were about 10 to 1 against him and didn't do another programme about Kamala Harris.
00:24So you can understand if you were the US president, you would think that the BBC probably had something against you.
00:30That's understandable for his anger as an individual, never mind about also as the US president.
00:36So the BBC has to apologise, wholeheartedly apologise here.
00:41But what I'd also be worried about is if there was a legal dispute and there was compensation, the problem then would be hit on the British licence fee payer.
00:50That's unfair because it was people at the BBC in the News and Current Affairs division that made the mistake because any compensation would have an impact on everything else across the BBC.
01:02And the BBC does a lot of good, does a lot of good programming as well.
01:05But the News and Current Affairs is where we've got the problems and the issues.
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