Charlotte Gallagher (host / presenter)

But he sounded like a man with purpose.

And he has been known to sue U.S.

networks, hasn't he?

Yeah, but not for billions of dollars.

I mean, you know, he mentioned CBS News.

And for anybody who's not familiar with that, broadly, some clips were put together of Kamala Harris, his opponent at the last election.

And those clips had been put together, he argued in his action against them in a way to make her sound better than she did.

They eventually settled for...

$16 million.

He'd settled for $15 million with ABC after one of their staff had falsely said he was adjudicated guilty of a rape in New York.

Of course, it wasn't rape and that was defamatory.

And that was the settlement there.

So, you know, the one to five billion dollars is what he says he intends to sue for.

Whether or not that happens is another matter.

And also, before we even go anywhere near any amounts of money, the court has to decide, firstly, do they have jurisdiction to hear the case from the U.S.

president aimed essentially at a media organization based in the United Kingdom for a program that was, the BBC argue, either broadcast in the United Kingdom or then geolocked to only be viewable on the iPlayer service.

to the uk in the first place and then if the court says okay we will hear this case we think we've got jurisdiction there are then the arguments as to whether the clips were edited with malice and whether there's freedom of the press and that the president's able to cross that exceptionally higher bar than exists in the uk when media organizations or anyone else are reporting on or discussing opinions based upon matters of public interest and of political speech

That was Sean Dilley.

Staying in the US, leading Democrats have accused President Trump of trying to deflect attention from questions about his relationship with the dead sex offender Jeffrey Epstein.

That's after Mr Trump announced he was asking the Attorney General and the FBI to investigate prominent Democrats who he claims spent large portions of their life with Epstein and on his island.