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News' presenter, Ben Leo, who is live in Washington, D.C. Ben Leo, what a coup and what a wonderful
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experience, a life experience right there. Talk to me about what happened. How was it
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Yeah, wow, what a day. Yeah, so proud of GB News for getting, and Bev, of course, for getting the
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interview. But the real important message from all of it was, of course, President Trump's
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attack on the BBC. I've been proven wrong because I tweeted a couple of days ago
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It just shows how much I know. I tweeted that I thought President Trump might accept the apology from the BBC as an off-ramp and say
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look, I want to be the nice guy here. I don't want to sting the great British public who, of course, pay the licence fee
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and who would ultimately be funding any settlement or court fees. So I thought he might use that as an off-ramp
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But, nope, we got into the Roosevelt room in the White House. Bev sat down with him
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I was standing just behind Bev listening to the whole interview. And even before we went live with the interview and started recording
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He was so shocked, angry and more than anything, actually, confused as to why the BBC would behave like that
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He just couldn't believe not that, you know, on one occasion, fine, maybe it could be a mistake
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But the second time, the Newsnight incident just proved that in his mind, it was intentional
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It was institutional bias. There's a clip there of a photo, sorry, there of us in the Oval Office
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It was an amazing experience, Nana, of course, just being in that room
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And once we finished the interview, President Trump came over to us and said hello and asked if we'd like to see his office and the Oval Office
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And yes stepping into that room the history you can feel it the soul of the place the grandeur the gold as well that President Trump has installed all over the room He received some criticism for his use of sort of gold decor across the White House but I have to say it was extraordinary And it didn stop there He then invited Bev and I and
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some of the crew out onto the Rose Garden patio. There was American music playing, which is very
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funny. And we had a quick glimpse down at the Presidential Hall of Fame just from the top of the
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the patio there. And we're talking about Joe Biden. But President Trump is he's a very
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I say, genuine guy. He's very interested when he speaks to people. He looks you in the eye
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He asks you questions. He has a great concern and, of course, an affinity for the UK as well
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He was asking how Nigel Farage was, who's leading in the polls, what he thinks the big
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policy debates will be when it comes to the general election. And I was speaking to him
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about energy prices as well. He was asking how we're settling into D.C. And I said, Mr. President
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one of the best things I love about your country is the energy bills I'm getting through the post
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Compared to the UK, goodness me, you know, the worlds apart are paying cents, dollars
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for electricity use and gas over here in the US. But compared to the UK, yeah, it's a completely
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different ballgame. And he seemed very happy that we were enjoying ourselves here in DC
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So yes, now the greatest experience, but also the most important thing, of course, is that President Trump is now pursuing this legal case with the BBC, proving me wrong, as I've said
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he's going for it. He is going to see them in court. He said between one and five billion dollars
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he wants from the BBC. And I just wonder whether the corporation, the board, Samir Shah, the chairman
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have made a mistake now in essentially calling his bluff and saying, look, sorry about that
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but we're not giving you any compensation. We're not paying up
