00:00The BBC has been accused of misleading, or of a misleading edit of Donald Trump's 6th of January speech,
00:07two years before the Panorama sequence that saw the resignation of the Director-General.
00:11The clip of his speech, first run on Newsnight in 2022, is reported by the Telegraph newspaper.
00:17Well, I'm joined now by our culture correspondent, Lise Mizimbo. Lise, what more do we know?
00:20Well, people might remember the issue with the Panorama was an edit where two separate pieces of a speech by Donald Trump were put together.
00:29One where he referred to going down to the Capitol, then a later bit from 54 minutes later in the speech where he referred to fighting like hell.
00:39And these were put together in a way that the BBC has since acknowledged was misleading about how his words were being used.
00:47It led to the resignation of two senior figures. The BBC chair, Samir Shah, has said that, yes, on reflection, it was an error.
00:54Now, this happened on Newsnight a few years before. A similar edit was made with the same speech and the same sections of the speech, not identical, but similar,
01:05where yet again Donald Trump talked in the first part about going down to the Capitol and in the second part fighting like hell.
01:13And these two bits were put together in a similar way to Panorama.
01:16This is different, though, to Panorama in a couple of ways. One, it was broadcast on Newsnight.
01:22Then immediately afterwards, there was an interview with a gentleman called Mick Mulvaney, who's a former chief of staff to President Trump.
01:30And he immediately said, look, you've spliced two different bits of the speech together in a misleading way.
01:37So it was flagged up immediately after it was broadcast by a live interviewee on Newsnight.
01:43Secondly, this was brought to the attention of the Telegraph, who've been reporting this this evening, by a BBC whistleblower, a former graphic designer.
01:52And he says the following morning, there was an editorial meeting looking at the previous night's programme.
01:59He said one producer said, how did that clip of Trump go out? How did that happen? Or words to that effect.
02:05And another editorial figure, he said, just brushed it off.
02:09So, again, the allegation being reported by the Telegraph is that a whistleblower has told them that it was, again, raised and brought to people's attention, but brushed off by an editorial figure.
02:19And what's the BBC's response been?
02:21We haven't had a response from the BBC at the moment. We've asked one. And as soon as one comes in, we will be bringing it to you.
02:28OK, Liso, thank you very much indeed.
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