Johnson Does The Honours
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BBC
4.3 • 6.6K Ratings
🗓️ 9 June 2023
⏱️ 28 minutes
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Summary
Chris Mason is back from the US to run us through who’s who on the resignation honours list, and discuss why former minister Nadine Dorries might have resigned with immediate effect as a Conservative MP.
BBC North America Editor Sarah Smith looks at the charges facing Donald Trump over the handling of classified documents.
And Private Eye Editor Ian Hislop tells us about this year’s winner of the Paul Foot Award for Investigative and Campaigning Journalism, David Conn.
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| 0:00.0 | BBC Sounds, Music, Radio, Podcasts. |
| 0:04.8 | Hello, we've got two bits of breaking news from the US of A. First of all, Donald Trump |
| 0:10.3 | there's a development in that story about the documents he borrowed from the White House |
| 0:15.1 | and kept after he was president. |
| 0:17.6 | And there's been an America's newscast mashup in the White House because Sarah Smith and |
| 0:22.8 | Chris Mason found themselves sitting next to each other in the press conference with |
| 0:26.3 | Rishi Sunak and Joe Biden when the PM was on his visit to DC. |
| 0:31.3 | So let's ruminate on both of them with Sarah Smith from America's Hello. |
| 0:35.3 | Hi there. |
| 0:36.3 | How was the America's newscast mega merger? |
| 0:40.4 | It was very good fun because we were further inside the White House than either myself or |
| 0:44.6 | Chris Mason had been when we went to a press conference yesterday with Joe Biden and Rishi |
| 0:49.3 | Sunak. |
| 0:50.3 | Chris got to ask a question I didn't, but then I got to speak to Chris on America's. |
| 0:54.1 | So it all works out in the end and we felt like we were behind the scenes at the seat of |
| 0:59.2 | power. |
| 1:00.2 | Now we digress because every time Trump posts something significant on his alternative |
| 1:06.1 | social network, truth social, you guys in America asked get your mate Mike from Shrewsbury |
| 1:11.7 | to read it out. |
| 1:12.7 | So here is Mike making his newscast debut. |
| 1:15.5 | Hi, I'm an innocent man. |
| 1:18.0 | The Biden administration has totally corrupt. |
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