Stride: BBC 'author of own misfortune' as Trump sues

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Sir Mel Stride, Shadow Chancellor, says that the BBC were "the author of their own misfortune" for "misrepresenting" US President Donald Trump in a Panorama documentary. Report by Ketchs. Like us on Facebook at http://www.facebook.com/itn and follow us on Twitter at http://twitter.com/itn

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00:00Well, look, the BBC should not have done what they did in the first place,

00:03which was to misrepresent him by splicing together two pieces of audio

00:07which were almost an hour apart.

00:08Now, they've apologised for that and heads have rolled.

00:11It's down to Donald Trump if he chooses to take legal action.

00:14We'll see where that goes and, you know, the response from the BBC

00:17is an operational matter for them.

00:19But they were the author of their own misfortune here

00:21and it will be the licence fee payers that will have to pick up

00:25whatever the cost is, I'm afraid.

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