Summary
Today, President Trump gives an exclusive interview to the BBC
Adam speaks to BBC chief North America correspondent Gary O’Donoghue about his call with President Trump, a year on from the Trump shooting that Gary witnessed.
Gary was woken up by a call from President Trump on Monday, where he spoke candidly about whether he trusts Russia’s President Putin.
President Trump also spoke about Brexit, his upcoming UK visit and whether he still thinks about the attempt on his life.
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| 0:00.0 | American politics can sometimes feel like a different language. |
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| 0:20.1 | I'm here with the president. Here you go. |
| 0:22.2 | Mr. President. |
| 0:22.9 | Hi, Gary. How are you? |
| 0:24.1 | I'm very well, sir. Thank you very much for sparing some time. |
| 0:27.3 | Good. You covered us very fairly. Appreciate it. |
| 0:30.7 | That was the White House calling our colleague Gary O'Donoghue so that he could do an interview with Donald Trump. |
| 0:38.3 | And now I'm going to do an interview with Gary. Hello. Hello, Adam. Nice to see you. |
| 0:42.7 | What was that moment like? Well, it was surreal because I was actually asleep. It wasn't the |
| 0:49.3 | middle of the night, as some people have said. It was early evening, but I was asleep in my apartment, Nackard, to be honest. |
| 0:54.9 | And I'd been trying for this interview for a while, and I thought it had gone away. |
| 0:58.2 | I thought the point had passed. |
| 1:00.4 | And I got the call. |
| 1:01.6 | And in my sort of rush, I actually managed to hang up on the President of the United States. |
| 1:07.3 | But fortunately, they were good enough to ring straight back and we got into it. |
| 1:15.8 | Gary, this sounds like an anxiety dream, but it's actually an episode of newscast. And so interesting is your interview, we've actually made some special newscast opening titles to mark |
| 1:20.7 | this moment. Have a listen to. Newscast. Newscast from the BBC. Thank you, Gary. It's a great |
| 1:26.4 | honor. I really like the prime minister a lot, even though he's a liberal. |
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