British broadcaster responds to $1 billion lawsuit threat from president’s lawyer over the editing of footage from Trump’s speech before the attack on the Capitol.

US President Donald Trump said Friday he would sue the BBC for up to $5 billion after the British broadcaster apologized for a misleading edit of one of his speeches but said it would not pay damages.

The Beeb has made clear that, for all its regret at the editing process in the Panorama documentary which led to the resignations of director general Tim Davie and head of news Deborah Turness, it “st...