Trump says UK ‘embarrassed’ by BBC as he threatens up to $5bn lawsuit

Trump says he will sue BBC for up to $5bn over Panorama editThe White House

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00:00So the BBC has apologised and retracted the report, but they say they won't pay a new parliament station.

00:06Well, we'll sue them. We'll sue them for anywhere between a billion and five billion dollars, probably sometime next week.

00:13So you're ready to sue them?

00:14Well, I think I have to do it. I mean, they've even admitted that they cheated.

00:19Has that...

00:20I mean, not that they couldn't have not done that.

00:23They cheated. They changed the words coming out of my mouth.

00:26That's worse than what CBS did with government.

00:29Well, they changed her answer, but in the city, it showed, you know, coming out of her mouth.

00:33Do you think it's appropriate that British TV viewers have to pay more than $200 just for a mic to watch television?

00:40Do you think the licence...

00:41Well, I don't know what they do in a place that I like a lot.

00:45In general, UK, right?

00:47But the people of the UK are very angry about what happened, as you can imagine.

00:54Because it shows the BBC's big news.

00:57Because you and I knew that for a long time.

01:00But we didn't know it was this thing.

01:01I don't know it was this thing.

01:02So I was watching this video.

01:03So...

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