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The Inquiry into Historic Child Abuse is beset by yet more problems.

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We reveal details about the breakdown of relations at the top.

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Tonight, the lead QC has announced his resignation,

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following the departure of his junior counsel.

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The killing of British student Meredith Kercher.

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A new documentary promises the definitive story of the case.

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We interview the former boyfriend of Amanda Knox -

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This interview is something that adds a point, how I fought to reach

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the people and tell them, hey, I'm one of you.

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I'm a normal guy who passed through a nightmare.

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And in the aftershocks of the Presidential Debate,

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TRUMP: She was a Miss Universe contestant and, ultimately,

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a winner who they had a tremendously difficult time with

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She gained a massive amount of weight and it was a real problem.

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So rows over body-shaming sexism and poll movements.

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There's plenty to chew over with our US election panel.

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There is a huge problem at the top of the child abuse inquiry again.

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The day after the lead QC Ben Emmerson was suspended -

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he claimed he only found out on the internet - today we learned

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that the junior counsel and human rights specialist

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Elizabeth Procheska resigned on the 15th of this month.

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And in the last few minutes, we have learned that Emmerson

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We can reveal details of these events which suggest that,

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no matter that Theresa May said today she was very confident

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in the leadership of the inquiry under its fourth head,

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Professor Alexis Jay, there has been

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When Westminster orders a major enquiry, they rarely run completely

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smoothly. They can take a very long time, often dealing with

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controversial issues, and they can cost a fortune, but few have run

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into as much trouble as the independent enquiry into child

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sexual abuse. Arriving for work this morning, the current chair,

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Professor Alexis Jay, the fourth that the enquiry has had in little

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over two years. In the last 45 minutes, the news that Ben Emmerson,

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the most senior lawyer on the enquiry, has resigned. In a

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statement, Professor Alexis Jay said:

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last night, Mr Emerson was suspended from the enquiry, prompted by

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concerns over his leadership of the enquiry counsel and this afternoon

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we learned that his deputy, Elizabeth Prochaska, and was in a

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fortnight ago. There were suggestions today that Mrs

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Prochaska's departure was entirely unrelated to last night's statement,

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but we understand that not to be the case. Sources have told us there

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were serious problems in the working relationship between Mrs Prochaska

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and Ben Emmerson. They were the two most senior lawyers on the enquiry

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into these problems prompted her sudden resignation and immediate

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departure. For Professor Alexis Jay, the added headache that the largest

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survivors group involved in the enquiry say they don't want her to

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directly oversee their hearings because of her background as a

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social worker. Today in enquiry statement insisted there was no

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crisis. Others are very concerned. The

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enquiry has issued a statement saying they are not in crisis but

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frankly it simply isn't credible to claim this is properly functioning

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when it is now on to its fourth chair, the lead counsel has been

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suspended and apparently learned of that on the Internet, the second

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most lawyer has resigned and it turns out resigned on the 15th of

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September. This is a dysfunctional enquiry and we need urgent

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reassurance by the chair that she is getting a grip on the situation.

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When is the lead counsel going to, well, when they'll will be an

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investigation into whatever he is supposed to have done? This is

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beyond a pick-up. In the last month and a half, we have lost our chair.

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We have now had the lead counsel suspended. This is not about hiccups

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issues we can resolve. This is about examining why is enquiry is failing

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us as survivors. Newsnight understands that Alexis Jay has

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completed a review of the enquiry and she is considering running parts

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of the 13 strands of the enquiry in parallel. Bitter experience has left

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many child abuse survivors hugely sceptical of official attempts to

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deliver justice. The enquiry was never likely to run completely

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smoothly but the events of the last two days have been something nobody

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expected. Earlier, before the news

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about Ben Emmerson's resignation broke, I spoke to Andi Lavery

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from the abuse survivors I began by asking him

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for his reaction to Newsnight's revelations about the breakdown

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in relations at the top There's been a breakdown

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in relations if you're a survivor of the inquiry or if you are a core

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participant, because we don't have any relationship

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with the inquiry either, but I find it astonishing,

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that this continues to happen. Tell me what your knowledge

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was of Ben Emmerson. I was introduced to Ben Emmerson

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by Theresa May back in one of the number of meetings I had

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with her and the Home Office, who seem to be running the inquiry,

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as well as the inquiry staff. Ben Emmerson from an early stage

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sought to reassure and step in, but it really started back

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in January of last year when the Home Affairs Committee

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released derogatory e-mails about a number of survivors

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and remarks by then enquiry staff. Mr Emmerson handled that and took it

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over and sought to reassure ourselves and many behind us

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to continue to engage So in fact since the beginning

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Ben Emmerson has been a constant throughout the different

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heads of the inquiry. Yes, and he's also showed

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the utmost courtesy, professionalism and integrity

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but not only that, his subject matter and his knowledge

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of the nuances in what we face has been, I wouldn't say it was so much

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breathtaking as really reassuring, and that's what we need,

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because all we've ever seen is crass Tonight they say about

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listening to us. It's absolutely galling,

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the language they use. It's all PR and releasing

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it to the media. What's changed since

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we were children? Even the knowledge of his

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suspension, what impact has that had an abuse survivors,

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because I know that you are involved in a number

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of different survivor groups? It's just like when we were kids

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and he's been naughty It feels like just what happened

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to us as children. Suspension - that's a school

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word, you know? The guy's adversarial

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and he's quite, you know, tough but, at the end of the day,

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you can't have a wallflower in charge of this and he should

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be in charge. You are clearly a supporter

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of Ben Emmerson, because he has been there from the beginning

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and he is deeply involved. Did you know Elizabeth

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Prochaska as well? I've only been to one preliminary

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hearing thus far, and I saw her at the preliminary hearing

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with the Catholic Church back in July and the whole

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atmosphere was a bit funny, but obviously that was seven days

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before Justice Goddard went. Ben Emmerson e-mailed me

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yesterday and he said, I'm worried about suicides

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and people losing heart. And it seems to be, whether it's

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towards the staff or the people taking part, brave survivors,

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there is no duty of care. Finally, if you had something to say

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to Theresa May tonight, Theresa May met myself and the other

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survivors from across the country We have a demos, we represent

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others, vulnerable adults not capable of articulating

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what happened to them as children. Less of the sound bites,

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meet with us, let's work this out. If they can do it in Australia,

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they can do it here. There are good staff in the inquiry,

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there are good ideas but there's a lot of rubbish and there's a lot

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of people after the money. We need to sort this out and we need

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to sort it out now and save lives, Thank you so much for

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joining us tonight. If the Prime Minister

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is still undecided as to the shape and terms of Brexit,

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and whether to announce in her party conference speech the date

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on which the UK will trigger Article 50 and start the whole thing,

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her International Trade Secretary is steaming ahead anyway

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with his vision. Brexit, according to Liam Fox,

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will be a deal which will make our trade with the European Union

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as least as free as it We'll be out of the single market

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and outside the customs union. And the key thing, he wants Britain

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to take a seat as an independent member of the World

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Trade Organisation. So is this an agreed policy or just

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Liam Fox shooting from the lip? This is pretty much what happened. It

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Liam Fox reading a speech today and setting out his vision of what

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Brexit will look like. We know that, when you leave the world trade

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organisation as part of this relationship with the EU, you take

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independent membership. That can mean staying in a single market.

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Norway do that. In this case, I don't think it will. In his speech,

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Liam Fox mentioned the WTO no fewer than eight times and he mentioned

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the single market just once. I think what we got was not exactly a

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barnstorming speech, Kirsty, but one with plenty of history lessons.

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There was a bit of Adam Smith, a bit of the corn laws and a bit about the

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value of free trade to the British economy and how he wanted us to be

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right at the forefront of that, to look beyond Europe and embrace trade

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with the rest of the world. I believe that the UK is in a prime

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position to become a world leader in free trade because of the brave

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and historic decision of the British people

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to leave the European Union. Those who believe that

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the referendum was a sign of Britain looking inwards have it

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completely 100% wrong. It is the beginning of Britain

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increasing its global engagement. But no specifics, no talk of

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manufacturing or servicing is or the financial service sector, the most

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viable part of the sector? Very few specifics. We had no dates, nothing

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about whether it would be hard or soft. Lots of people reading into

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this that it would be hard. Nothing at all about specific bits of the

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economy. There are two bits that we should look towards, and one is the

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automotive sector, which has been very loud in its lobbying and today,

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almost as doctor fox was speaking, the chief executive of Renault-

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Nissan, who make half a million cars a year in the UK, saying that he

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would be looking for compensation if tariffs were imposed on his car.

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Financial services is the other one, the biggest export. That is a sector

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where a lot of people I have spoken to recently say they are confused,

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they want some guidance, more than anything the City hates a lack of

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information. That's what they have at the moment. If they were

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expecting answers and clarity today, they didn't get it.

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Joining me now is Gerard Lyons, co-chair of Economists for Brexit

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and Rain Newton-Smith, Chief Economist from the CBI.

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Good evening to both of you. First of all, Gerard, how did you

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interpret Liam Fox's tone? I did was a good speech in the sense it was

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about global Britain. It's been important since the referendum

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result for the UK to convey to the rest of the world that we are

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thinking globally. It isn't just about a good relationship with the

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rest of the EU but about our ability to sell our goods and services

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international beef. It talked about the WTO. It was short and -- short

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on specifics but one part of the debate is about the need to have a

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global British story. Soon do you think this is setting out the

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ultimate position and negotiating backwards? I tend to call it a claim

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against a messy Brexit. Liam Fox was talking along the lines of a clean

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Brexit, that is having a clean break, having control of

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sovereignty, migration, he touched on that, but something we can fall

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back on, trading internationally, and then to do a bespoke deal with

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the EU. The CBI's position pre-referendum was to remain, so you

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are making the best of what you would see as a bad deal, but what if

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the deal? To pick up on a few things, I don't know a single sector

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of the UK economy, a single business that doesn't think that what this

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might mean for their business. So I think it's something that touches on

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all sectors. At this stage, sensible not to get wedded to any one

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particular model. But I think we need to see a bit more clarity about

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where we might end up and importantly what kind of

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transitional arrangements we might have. That matters for passport in,

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financial services and also... Not just about financial services but

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Nissan and everybody else. Exactly, and that is a misconception.

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Passport in matters... Explain how simple that is. If you are a

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financial service that operates in the UK, pas sporting allows you to

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operate in 27 other countries in the EU -- in the EU easily and without

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tariffs. That matters for banks and also car manufacturers. When we buy

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cars, we often lease them so we get financing alongside it.

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These different sectors have to make long-term decisions and it is

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impossible to do that, do you even have a short-term plan? We need to

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be pragmatic and realistic and uncertainty is the big issue and it

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is important at some stage to invoke Article 50 and not necessarily give

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away all our secrets in terms of negotiation... But we need a road

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map. There is a road map, to position the UK globally and to have

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a sensible future relationship with the EU, in terms of passporting, I

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have come from dinner in the city and the Chinese, it was about China

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and the UK but the issue of passporting was not seen as

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important but the issue of the city being innovative and developing

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products... But with other sectors and businesses, where passporting,

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depending on the model, is important and you must recognise is a

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Broadchurch not just in the financial sector and you mentioned

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the automobile sector. The actual tower that would be imposed on the

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UK outside of the EU, according to the House of Commons library, was

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2%-3%, the automobile sector is 10%, but Germany sells a phenomenal

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number of cars to the UK. As Liam Fox pointed out, if we were outside

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the EU we can cut all of our talents, which helps UK consumers so

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the competitive balance changes and this is dynamic, this process. One

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thing we must remember is we look through the course of economic

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history when people have gone for the big bang approach, it has never

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worked well for the wider society so wherever we end up we want to have,

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we want to have a clear partnership between government and business at

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every step of the way to really understand what the issues are. Are

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you having these conversations with senior figures? We are starting to

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but we need to see a step up in gear. You either former, your former

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adviser, Boris Johnson, you can see there are very many different ways

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to skin a cat. We are in an unfortunate position because the

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previous Prime Minister and Chancellor did not do any

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preparatory work but thankfully the Bank of England was prepared for all

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eventualities so there is a catch-up process and we need to have a proper

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discussion amongst not just business and government but different

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sectors. You explain, Liam Fox seemed to say it was a

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straightforward thing and at the moment we are as a block in the WTO.

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We will sadly be an independent member but there is something beyond

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that? The important message is if we have a clean Brexit, you control the

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situation, if it is messy, you must depend on 27 other countries. Philip

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Hammond said in May that there has to be access to the single market?

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We must recognise we are one of 28 in that negotiating room and I think

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the idea that we can just do things completely cleanly, this is going to

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be long-running, I like to think of this as a marathon and not a sprint,

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we need to have the best minds in the UK for business and from

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government working through what this means. There is nothing clear about

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years and years of negotiation. If you invoke Article 50 and decide...

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Do you want Theresa May, in her speech next week, to give the date

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for Article 50? As a human being? I am looking at this from an economic

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perspective and minimising uncertainty is important, at the

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same time, we need clarity. I would like to be announced next week but

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at the same time, invoking this in the first half of next year and all

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of Whitehall working to a deadline at the end of it to leave the EU so

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against that we always have... With elections in France and Germany? All

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of these things have to be combined but you can only control in life

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what you control and we must have clarity of position ourselves. Thank

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you both very much. The murder of British student

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Meredith Kercher in Perugia in 2007 became the subject of a media

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frenzy when her housemate Amanda Knox and her Italian

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boyfriend were accused The case dragged on,

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with convictions being appealed and then appealed again,

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before the pair were eventually A new documentary on Netflix now

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claims to tell the definitive story of the case,

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and Secunder Kermani has been to southern Italy to meet one

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of the key protagonists - Amanda Knox's ex-boyfriend,

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Raffaele Sollecito. When I was with Amanda,

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I was so happy. Raffaele Sollecito had only been

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going out with Amanda Knox for a few days when everything

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in their lives changed. Meredith Kercher, a British student

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living in Perugia with Amanda Knox, The media ran wild with claims that

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Knox had killed Kercher Knox and Sollecito spent nearly four

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years in jail before Despite that, many in the public

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still believe they were involved. And they are now the subjects

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of a new feature-length documentary. I really need to reveal my image

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before being revealed in my life. So even this interview is something

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that adds a point of how I fought to reach the people and tell them,

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hey, I'm one of you. I'm a normal guy who passed

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through a nightmare. Now I am different because of

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the nightmare I passed through. The other person who was in that

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nightmare was Meredith Kercher. And her family have said on a number

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of occasions that they are not happy with the amount of attention given

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to you and Amanda Knox. Don't you think it is a little

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insensitive to produce yet another People never understood

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the truth about this case. So the victim is Meredith Kercher

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but there are another two Sollecito and Knox were

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initially convicted largely It was later ruled to

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have been contaminated. But this kiss whilst police searched

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the house became a symbol of what the media described

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as their strange and suspicious They just repeated that kiss

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hundreds of times to make it look It was a kiss of comfort

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because she was telling me that she felt lost, she felt

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with her family on the other side of the world and she didn't know

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what to do. Your relationship with Amanda has

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kind of been characterised in the media as her sometimes

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as being this femme fatale, this very dominant character,

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and you being more quiet and just Even after a few days,

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I was very attached to her because I found her

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good, very good to me. It would be really stupid

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to think about that. You mean, to be loyal,

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to have some misplaced loyalty to someone just

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because you loved them? Another man, Rudy Guede,

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was convicted of the murder. But some still claim others

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were involved, too. Sollecito says legal fees

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cost his family over $1 million and they still owe

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hundreds of thousands. He is not ready to

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let go of the past. They want to forget it,

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the prosecution want to forget it, So I will bring it until the truth

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about what they did, What is your relationship

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with Amanda now? We don't talk too much

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because we are very distant and we are hearing about our lives,

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so there is nothing to say You had your entire life turned

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upside down by something that What, if anything, has that

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experience taught you? You only have power in your

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decisions, you can make decisions each time and each decision can

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bring you more powerful I don't think about

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my future in my life I just think about here,

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what I have to do next month. For me, whatever happens after next

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month, even the world can be destroyed, but I didn't think

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about next year or anything. Two days after the first

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Presidential Debate, Donald Trump has apparently decided

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not to wing the next one, but to prepare -

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and, taking a leaf out of Jeremy Corbyn's approach to PMQs,

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he is crowdsourcing ideas in his sparkily titled

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Second Debate Preparation Survey, which has gone out to

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millions of supporters. Hillary Clinton's performance

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earned her a 4% fillip but, with two debates to go,

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Trump has promised to go harder on her, perhaps

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with more personal invective. I'm joined from Florida

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by senior Trump adviser AJ Delgado and from New York

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by Business Insider's Josh Barro. Good evening to both of you. We will

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make America great again! We will fix it together! Good evening. Josh

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Barro, during the debate when they form Miss Universe's name came up,

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Donald Trump stumbled over that and there was an issue about that. What

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impact did that have? This was a trap that Hillary Clinton set for

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Donald Trump and was reporting in advance that among the things she

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was doing was consulting with a team of psychologists to find ways of

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needle Donald Trump and draw out self damaging reactions from him.

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One thing about Donald Trump is when you criticise him he cannot let go

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of the thing you criticised him for and he has to fight back, even if it

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means fighting over an issue he would probably be better off not

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fighting at all. This was Miss Universe 20 years ago, back when he

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owned the pageant and she put on some weight as Miss Universe and

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Donald Trump made a number of crude public comments about the weight

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gain, Collingwood things like Miss Piggy and Miss housekeeping and she

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brought -- brought television reporters to watch are working hard

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to lose the weight and the next morning, instead of talking about

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trade and making America great again, Donald Trump goes around on

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television talking about how unfair it was to criticise him over this

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and was terrible working with her when she was Miss Universe and it

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was a problem she put on so much weight, it is a dumb argument to

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have when running for president but Hillary Clinton knew that if she

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brought this up he would not be able to let it go. And here he is on Fox.

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Talking about this again. TRUMP: She was a Miss Universe

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contestant and, ultimately, a winner who they had a tremendously

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difficult time with She was the winner and she gained

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a massive amount of weight. And we had a real problem

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with her, so... You are one of the senior advisers,

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was that about a lack of preparedness to do with this and

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also an idea that actually would harm him if he repeated the idea

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that she had gained a lot of weight? I must push back with something that

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Josh said, he said Mr Trump had publicly made crude remarks calling

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her Miss Piggy and that is actually untrue, that is simply an allegation

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and she claims that Mr Trump used those remarks when referring to her

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in private. Megan Kelly of Fox News Astro this week, are there any

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witnesses that heard Mr Trump calling you Miss Piggy? And she put

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an answer, there are no witnesses, this is purely an allegation by a

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woman who has quite a questionable character, she apparently threatened

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to kill a federal judge in Venezuela according to a judge their and was

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accused of driving the getaway car... We cannot really deal with

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that. I watched the clip on American television and she did not say

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whether or not she was called Miss Piggy but what Megan Kelly asked was

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about the eating disorder that she had and the subsequent weight gain.

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You said, as a result of what he said to you,

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you developed an eating disorder, bulimia and anorexia.

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But you had said publicly at the time

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that you suffered from both of those eating disorders prior to the Miss

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No, no, never, never prior to the Miss

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I never had any problem before Miss Universe.

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Megan Kelly went on to show her the Washington Post in which she had

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talked about having a eating disorder before the contest. What

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about that strategy about, is there not a duty of care in the Clinton

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campaign about bouncing her into the middle of the campaign? She has been

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very willing to be out there and assertive and she has been talking

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before this debate. I don't think that she has been drawn into this

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unwillingly. Even AJ is getting drawn into the track of litigating

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this story. There is no tape of him calling her Miss picky but there is

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take of him saying things like, this is a person who really likes to eat.

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There is a long record of Donald Trump talking in a crude way about

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the physical appearance of women not just in the context of beauty

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pageants, including one of his opponents in the Republican primary.

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He said she had an ugly face. He said, look at that face. That was

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the grimace she had on her face. The fight we are having to have is, did

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because her eating disorder or did she already had it? We shouldn't be

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litigating this. That's what I'm saying. It all goes to Donald

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Trump's terrible character. UR advising Donald Trump. We know he

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will perhaps have different tactics for the next debate and he might go

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after Hillary Clinton ardour. Would you advise him to go after her

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personal issues, getting her to talk about Bill Clinton's infidelities

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and her supposed enabling of it? No, I do believe that we should focus on

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the records. I think that's what the public wants. Speaking about his

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record on women, this is somebody who elevated to top positions in his

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company women, both as chief lawyer and cheap contract at Trump towers.

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I would love to see them focus on his record on a number of issues,

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and leave out the personal matters. How should Hillary play this? Next

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one is a town hall. They don't know what is coming at them. She has to

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make sure she doesn't look too prepared. I don't think she looks

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too prepared in the first debate. I thought it went well for her to be

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prepared. The Callum Hall format is favourable to Hillary Clinton. She

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has experience of it. -- town hall format. The events where she does

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best are those where she interacts directly with voters and be seen

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listening to them. She started her political career with a listening

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tour of upstate New York which was mocked and sub -- until it worked.

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She had a perfect strategy in the first debate. It doesn't sound from

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press reports like Donald Trump has decided to prepare an effective way

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for this debate and I think he will come in angry about the way the

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first debate was received, likely to try and litigate the items from the

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first debate again and I think we will get my head over personal

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things. He congratulated himself for not bringing up your Clinton's

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marital infidelities, but when you say, look how great it was that I

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didn't talk about it and then did he said was true then you sent talking

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point out saying, how to discuss this, you don't get any credit for

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not bringing up. Those talking points that were leaked were not

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written by Mr Trump. It isn't him sending out talking points. They are

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from the campaign, right? So Mr Trump doesn't control his campaign?

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He isn't asking us personally to go after Hillary Clinton and her

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husband's infidelities, no. Come on! This idea that the actions of one's

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campaign staff doesn't count as actions under half of one. That is a

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new one. Thank you. Big Brother Is Watching

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You entered the lexicon after the publication

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of Nineteen Eighty-Four, for state surveillance,

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and it was about one-way traffic. But would it be more

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accurate to change that now We're all at it - cyclists,

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snooping parents, police officers. Here's our man in a headcam,

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our technology editor When CCTV made an willing reality

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stars of us all, the power was all in the hands of the people who owned

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the cameras. Shops, councils, government and the police.

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Technology created a panopticon for us all to live in, at least in

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public. But, as Jeremy Bentham, the design of the panopticon prison,

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where the inmates are in sight of God at all times, new, it isn't

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necessary for anybody to be watching to have an effect. -- insight of

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guards. In Orwell's Nineteen Eighty-Four,

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Big Brother controlled minds with the mere possibility

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of being watched. "You had to live - did live,

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from habit that became instinct - in the assumption that every sound

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you made was overheard, and, except in darkness,

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every movement scrutinised." As the French philosopher

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Michel Foucault noted... "Surveillance is permanent

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in its effects, even if it is However, the evidence of now decades

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worth of mass surveillance doesn't appear to back up this theory. We

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presumed some type of magic would happen. If you put magic -- cameras

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on posts that crime would disappear. It didn't happen and we have cameras

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everywhere that cost vast amounts of money and we don't see the necessary

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drop in crime. Two technologies, though, that ended the monopoly of

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surveillance. The first, the smartphone, putting the power to

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record reality in more or less every personal pocket. The other is social

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media, allowing that footage to go global, even without convincing

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traditional broadcasters it is worth airing. One academic has called this

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not surveillance, meaning from above, but sousveillance, from

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below. We have seen lots of bees from police shootings in the US,

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through to unjustifiably heavy-handed reactions from police.

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Without the footage, they would never have been believed. Just last

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week, a London driver recorded this. Get out of the car! He says it was a

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case of mistaken identity. The officer involved is now on

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restricted duties. Look what you are doing to my car. I bought a license

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and insurance. The police have responded with more surveillance,

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body cameras, recording incidents from their point of view. They have

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the added twist of a screen at the front so the person being filmed by

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the officer can see their own image, so now everyone's behaviour is being

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changed, the public filming the police and the police filming the

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public. According to a study published today, body cameras have

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reduced complaints against the police by 93%, but cameras also

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allow members of the public to become crime-fighters. Some people

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call me the equaliser. A vigilante cyclist doing what he says the

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police won't. I have called road rage is, mobile phone users... .Txt

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and drive when you have a kid in your car.

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It is the illusion that somehow we're doing something by merely

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recording and then hoping to post that on a social network

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A case of pursuing justice against an abuse by an authority,

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And the simple act of the recording is merely the first step.

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And again, what we need are the systems within

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We need the oversight systems to make sure that

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We are rapidly moving towards a world where everyone is recording

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everything all the time. Does it make for a more safe or even more

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polite society or if it just another source of stress and annoyance?

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That's almost it for tonight, but before we go...

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Election debates are usually fertile territory for budding

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and the Presidential Debates in the US this week were no exception.

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We leave you tonight with the brainchild of the YouTube

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Instantly forgettable, or a new dance craze for the nation?

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It's the Hillary Clinton Shimmy Song.

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# Shimmy, shimmy, shimmy, shimmy, HRC.

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# Shimmy, shimmy, shimmy, shimmy, HRC.

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# Shimmy, shimmy, shimmy, shimmy, Hillary.

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# Shimmy, shimmy, shimmy, shimmy, HRC.

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# Shimmy, shimmy, shimmy, shimmy, Hillary.

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# Shimmy, shimmy, shimmy, shimmy, HRC.

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# Shimmy, shimmy, shimmy, shimmy, Hillary.

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# Shimmy, shimmy, shimmy, shimmy, HRC.

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# Shimmy, shimmy, shimmy, shimmy, Hillary.

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