"Lisa Nandy's comments to the BBC's Sunday with Laura Kuenssberg programme came after reports a Panorama documentary misled viewers by editing a speech by US President Donald Trump. The Telegraph published details of a leaked internal BBC memo suggesting the programme edited two parts of Trump's speech together so he appeared to explicitly encourage the Capitol Hill riots of January 2021. BBC chair Samir Shah will provide a response to the Culture, Media and Sport Committee on Monday."
"In his speech in Washington DC on 6 January 2024, Trump said: 'We're going to walk down to the Capitol, and we're going to cheer on our brave senators and congressmen and women.' However, in the Panorama edit he was shown saying: 'We're going to walk down to the Capitol... and I'll be there with you. And we fight. We fight like hell.'"
Culture Secretary Lisa Nandy said BBC leadership is treating allegations of systemic bias with the seriousness they demand. A leaked internal memo from former independent adviser Michael Prescott alleged Panorama edited two parts of a Donald Trump speech so he appeared to explicitly encourage the January 2021 Capitol Hill riots. The Panorama documentary 'Trump: A Second Chance?', made by October Films Ltd and broadcast last year, included an edit that spliced together phrases more than 50 minutes apart from Trump's 6 January 2024 Washington DC speech. BBC chair Samir Shah will respond to the Culture, Media and Sport Committee and the BBC is expected to apologise. Prescott left his adviser role in June.
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