Hello, hello, I'm Hugo Rifkin, and now we're going to be unpacking the politics of the day,

and we're going to be talking about Trump, going all Dr. Evil and demanding $1 billion from the BBC,

Robert Generick's latest have-go hero stunt, and why new words are not something to fear.

And joining me are two people whose words inspire

shock and awe, but never fear. And they are James Marriott from The Times. Hello, James. Good morning. Good morning. And Libby Purvis will be joining us shortly. I'm not quite sure we've got her yet. No, I'm here. Oh, there you are. Hello, Libby. I am totally here. Yes. James is shock and I am all.

What does that make me? I don't know.

Maybe I'm the fear part. Who knows? I only feel fear in the

face of the shock and awe, who are respectfully James Marriott and Libby Purvis.

Lovely to have both you with me as ever. Let's start by talking about the BBC because we're in the

media and alive. The outgoing Director General

of the BBC, Tim Davy, has been addressing staff this morning as the threat of a one billion

dollar lawsuit from Donald Trump looms. Here is Davy speaking to reporters earlier. I'm here to

lead and support the BBC. I'm very, very proud of our journalists in this building. They're doing

work. I think that's incredibly important. I want to thank every one of them. They're doing a wonderful job. Also, everyone across the BBC doing their thing for the UK, and personally, I'm here to lead and support them. The BBC's going to be thriving, and I support everyone of the team. I'm very proud of them. Thank you very much, Your Honor. Great to see you.

Well, the American President has given the corporation until Friday evening

to remove a panorama episode which edited a speech to make it appear as if he was inciting violence.

Libby, you're a veteran of many, many years at the BBC.

How has it got itself into this mess?

Well, I have to say the other morning, both Paul and I were actually visorily distressed by looking at the Trump speech edit,

seeing what was actually done, because we spent all our youth editing tapes, audio and video,

and we were raised knowing that this sort of trickery is totally wrong,

even, in fact, especially with horrible people. You don't cut them to look more horrible

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