Trump Says He'll Sue the BBC for up to $5 Billion

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4.4 • 6.4K Ratings

🗓️ 15 November 2025

⏱️ 34 minutes

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Today, Laura and Paddy discuss President Donald Trump’s decision to continue with legal action.

The BBC apologised to the president, saying it had unintentionally given "the mistaken impression that President Trump had made a direct call for violent action" and said it would not be broadcast again. However, they would not pay financial compensation.

Chief North America correspondent Gary O'Donoghue joins us to talk about where we are with the legal proceedings, how much Americans care about this issue, and the political impacts after Trump said that Sir Keir Starmer was “embarrassed”.

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Newscast brings you daily analysis of the latest political news stories from the BBC. The presenter was Laura Kuenssberg and Paddy O’Connell. It was made by Chris Flynn with Adam Chowdhury. The weekend series producer is Chris Flynn. The social producer was Joe Wilkinson. The assistant editor is Chris Gray. The senior news editor is Sam Bonham.

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0:00.0	BBC Sounds, Music, Radio, podcasts.
0:05.7	It's pretty much the morning after the night before,
0:08.3	because Friday evening was a big deadline in, well, the BBC story,
0:13.0	but it's become sort of US-UK story as well.
0:15.3	It has, and in a really dramatic episode of, I think,
0:20.3	what is part of the world we live in now.
0:22.0	There's a sort of US-UK, kind of shared media echo chamber space with lots of big voices in it.
0:29.1	But yesterday was the deadline for the BBC to reply to Donald Trump, who had threatened to sue
0:34.5	after the admitted mistake in editing his speech in an episode of
0:39.3	Panorama.
0:40.3	The BBC had said, sorry, but said we're not going to give you any money.
0:43.3	This is what Donald Trump said on Air Force One.
0:46.3	You'll sue them for anywhere between a billion and five billion dollars, probably sometime next week.
0:52.3	So you're ready to take legal action? I think I have to do it.
0:55.2	I mean, they've even admitted that they cheated.
0:58.9	Haslats, I mean, not that they couldn't have not done that.
1:02.1	They cheated.
1:02.9	They changed the words coming out of my mouth.
1:05.3	That's worse than what CBS did with Kamala.
1:08.2	They changed her answer, but at least they didn't show it, you know, coming out of her mouth.
1:12.6	The people of the UK are very angry about what happened, as you can imagine.
1:17.6	Because it shows the BBC's big news.
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