Tom Bradby
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But I don't know what you both...
much closer to it than me, but I do keep hearing from people who I've dealt with in intelligence services that there is quite a lot of worry about, for example, on certain subjects, sharing intelligence with America.
Maybe it's against Russian assets.
MI5 does a lot of work against the
right-wing extremism.
What do you both make of the state of the cross-Atlantic intelligence relationships, which everyone always tells me are so critical?
Yeah, it definitely is a shift.
Although I think, I'm sure this will be
a key part of your series, but I was in Heathrow when 9-11 happened and I can remember to this day, just watching the screens just cancel, cancel, cancel, cancel.
And everyone went to the BA ticket desk behind me because it was the only place with the TV.
And after a bit, there were just hundreds of people watching this horror unfold.
And if you were listening to this and you're only 20, it's hard to capture, isn't it?
For those of us who were alive at the time, the sheer seismic
impact of that.
I guess we've got to remember that Tony Blair's response in Afghanistan and Iraq came off the back of that.
I think it went south with Iraq, but Brits were with him for a long time.
In a way, no way would they be now.
Sorry to ask questions, but it's too tempting to be here with you guys.
One thing I wanted to ask is that when I was doing the TV drama and stuff, a lot of my thoughts were about the money.
Russian money flooded into London, as you all know, from 2010 onwards.