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In a little while you'll be seeing, I'm suing the BBC for putting words in my mouth, literally,

and they put words in my mouth.

They had to be saying things that I never said coming out.

I guess they used AI or something.

So we'll be bringing that lawsuit. A lot of people were asking, when are you bringing that lawsuit?

Even the media can't believe that one. They actually put terrible words in my mouth.

Well, there was no AI. Those were the words spoken by Donald Trump, but Panorama had edited two bits of the

speech and put them together for which the BBC has apologised and the Director General and

Director of News have now resigned. Today we hear that Trump is suing the BBC for $10 billion.

And the question is this. Are we watching a political battle or a

legal battle? Will the British public back Trump or the BBC? Welcome to the news agents.

The news agents. It's John. It's Emily.

And over the weekend I contacted a BBC executive and said it all seems to have calmed down.

And then yesterday Trump announced the lawsuit and the person I wrote to who said, yeah, if you could keep quiet next time, thanks ever so.

It hasn't quieted and down.

And the worst nightmare that the BBC have sort of been

planning for has come to pass a month on from when Donald Trump threatened it. He has gone ahead

with this lawsuit filed in Florida, as you say, Emily, a defamation case for $10 billion that he says has cost him so much financial damage

and there has been malice and the BBC lied and misrepresented what he said, etc, etc.

And so I guess our job today is to dig a little bit into what this means legally,

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