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It's seen two of its top figures quit in as many months.

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Tonight, new disclosures about problems at the heart

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of the independent child sexual abuse inquiry.

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Also tonight, the first British TV interview with the man who created

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the image of Donald Trump with the book The Art of the Deal

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and who is now doing everything in his power to stop him getting

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He was sociopathic in the classic sense.

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Telling a lie did not bother him one bit.

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Shame, sex, honour and blackmail, how modern technology is making

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the lives of women in some conservative societies

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The video I received shows me with my husband, naked, having sex.

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He told me, "I was filming the whole time.

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It's been a turbulent few months for the Independent Inquiry

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It's seen the resignations of a third chairwoman

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The circumstances surrounding the departure of both

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figures remain hazy, to say the least.

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But tonight Newsnight can reveal that the inquiry

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faces its potentially most challenging criticism yet,

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that it was aware of an allegation that a leading figure on the inquiry

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had sexually assaulted a colleague, but was allowed to resign

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Jake Morris has this exclusive report.

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The independent enquiry into child sexual abuse was set up to

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investigate claims that a raft of institutions from police to the BBC

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had swept serious allegations under the carpet for decades. The

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departure of the enquiry's third share, Dame Lowell Goddard, who

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denies making racist remarks, has left politicians having to fend off

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charges they too have swept away serious claims. There were stories

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about the enquiry and individuals related to the enquiry but the Home

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Secretary cannot intervene on the basis of suspicion all rumour or

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hearsay. Now the enquiry faces a potentially more serious allegation.

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Newsnight has heard of a claim a senior figure on the enquiry

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sexually assaulted a colleague. It seems an investigation into that

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senior figure's behaviour has been quietly shelved. He resigned but is

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working at home on a hand over document to his successor and in

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that time the enquiry will pay him around ?55,000. It goes to the heart

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of what responsibility and organisation has to act on suspicion

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of wrongdoing, even in cases where it appears the alleged victim did

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not want to make an official complaint. The incident at the

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centre of the story is alleged to have taken place in the enquiry's

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headquarters. In early September, two colleagues, one male, one

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female, entered Millbank Tower and took the lift to the enquiry offices

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on the 23rd floor. Inside the lift, the man allegedly pushes the woman

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against the side of the lift and gropes her between the legs. That

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same day, the alleged victim gave an account of the incident. Newsnight

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understands in late September, the enquiry chair Alexis Jay and her

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panel became aware of it. They had serious concerns over the conduct of

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this man, Ben Emmerson, deputy High Court judge, a barrister of the year

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and most senior barrister on the entire enquiry. Now he had been

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named in the account of the alleged sexual assault. At the time the

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circumstances of the departure of Lowell Goddard put the enquiry under

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scrutiny. The victim did not want to make a formal complaint. The trouble

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spilled into the open with the Times reporting Ben Emmerson was

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considering quitting as lead counsel. That evening he was

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suspended. Alexis Jay said... Ben Emmerson said the first he knew

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of his suspension was when he was contacted by the media. Just over 24

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hours later more news from the enquiry. Ben Emmerson, the most

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senior lawyer working for the independent enquiry into historical

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child sexual abuse in England and Wales has resigned. It looked like

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the enquiry had got its way and whatever problems there may had been

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with Ben Emmerson, they would be no longer. Suggestions the tension of

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the previous night had been forgotten. He said in his letter...

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No reference was made to his suspension. 24 hours after

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suspending Ben Emmerson, the professor gave a tribute, she

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said... Furthermore she endorsed his

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reasoning for his departure. Again, there was no reference to his

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suspension or any concerns about his leadership and no suggestion that

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any investigation continues. Why was Ben Emmerson suspended? He is being

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paid ?1700 a day by the enquiry until the end of November. In terms

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of what happened, the enquiry will not say. I cannot discuss anything

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to do with his circumstances. The problem for the enquiry is that it

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is all a bit too convenient. The handling of the departure of the

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third chair appears similar. Lowell Goddard was we were led to believe

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homesick but reports in the Times newspaper painted a picture of

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dysfunction with her at the helm and even claims of racism. Again the

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enquiry says the details are private. Newsnight spoke to someone

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close to the enquiry who paints a picture of a broken institution. One

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that is so dysfunctional that if people needed to raise concerns, is

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the culture made it impossible for them to do so. It described the

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departure of Ben Emmerson as a kind of cover up the enquiry should

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uncover and until it can confront the reality of what has happened

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inside it, it will struggle to investigate others. The allegation

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of sexual assault is of course unproven. Newsnight has only named

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Ben Emmerson because it would be impossible to tell the story

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otherwise. His legal representative said his client denied any claim of

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wrong doing. The child abuse enquiry said...

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Newsnight has contacted the alleged victim of the sexual assault. Her

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lawyers refused to comment. Nobody ever imagines the official enquiry

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into child sexual abuse would have to deal with the disclosure of an

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alleged assault involving its own workers and handling such sensitive

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allegations, particularly when the alleged victim does not want matters

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taken further, can leave any organisation struggling to balance

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competing duties but some believe that by allowing Ben Emmerson to

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step down without proper investigation, the enquiry has left

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itself exposed to claims it behaves note if Ridley from those it seeks

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to pass judgment on. Ben Emmerson's lawyers said he categorically denies

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any sexual assault, any bullying or any misconduct at the enquiry and

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any allegations are completely false. I spoke to a Labour MP who

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has previously raised questions about the enquiry. It is the latest

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and probably the most serious to date of a series of allegations that

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have emerged in recent weeks. The allegations date back not just over

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recent months but some considerable time and paint a picture of an

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enquiry that was setup in order to shine a spotlight on institutions

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that had become by denial, secrecy and cover-up. Taking on some of

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those characteristics itself. I think the latest allegations raise

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serious questions of confidence for survivors and if this enquiry is to

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succeed, which it must, it must proceed on a different basis based

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on transparency and openness and the ability of people who raised

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concerns to be heard. To be fair to the enquiry, the alleged victim did

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not want this investigated. Did the enquiry really do anything wrong? It

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seems inconceivable given the scale of the dysfunction that has now been

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revealed in enquiry over several months and the seriousness of these

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allegations that there were not a number of people who were working on

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all connected to the enquiry who were aware of the allegations. It

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seems to me the Home Office has serious questions to answer as to

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the level of oversight of this enquiry. It is on its fourth chair

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in two years. They have lost five senior legal counsel during that

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time and is well as being of profound importance of the country

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there are huge questions of public money involved in these decisions.

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You talked about the confidence of survivors and victims. Diouf think

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the whole thing needs to start again? A new chair has been

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appointed -- do you think? Going forward the enquiry needs

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transparency, openness, a willingness to hear when problems

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occur and treat people properly and support them to be able to blow the

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whistle and make sure those concerns are acted on and what we have got is

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a series of allegations about very serious goings on in this enquiry

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that don't appear to have been acted upon by ministers over a long period

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of time, these being the latest. Some of the individuals concerned in

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these allegations are still being paid by the enquiry using public

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money and that is why we need ministers to come clean about what

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they knew and why no action has been taken and to constitute the enquiry

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on a different basis. Thanks. Today saw two of the most solid

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pieces of good economic news Growth figures today

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were better than expected, 0.5% as opposed to expected 0.3%,

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and the government announced that not only is Nissan

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staying put in Sunderland, there will be two new models

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on the production line, Both the government and Nissan

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insist no sweetheart deals have been done but does today's announcement

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indicate that the car industry is going to be judged a special

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case in EU negotiations? And if so, what other sectors might

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be in the same boat? Well, our policy editor,

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Chris Cook, is here along You have received information about

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the conversations between the government and this. We have gone

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from the chief of Nissan raising questions about its future in the UK

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to the vote of confidence today. As I understand it this and has heard

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three messages in meetings with government ministers and officials

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that have given it confidence it can compete with European rivals once

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the UK leaves the EU. They have been told, look at the substance of what

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the Prime Minister is saying about the EU and Brexit. Yes, she says she

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is taking the UK out and taking back control of the immigration and the

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ECJ will not have jurisdiction over the UK, but she is saying she wants

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to trade freely within the single market which means the strongest

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access with the single market outside membership. Secondly a

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question mark has been placed over whether there is a hard Brexit there

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would be tariffs on the Nissan car is going to Europe. Think of the

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Audis, BMWs, coming from the consulate to hear, would they want

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tariffs placed on them? And the icing on the cake, the government

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has said to Nissan we are proud of our industrial strategy and at the

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top of the list of priorities will be the car industry and new

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technology, driverless and electric cars. Who is investing in those?

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Nissan. And in the past with new technology, you have had tax

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subsidies you have been able to do under state aid rules and possibly

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it will not be trade distorting. They have been left with no specific

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commitments. It is worth thinking about why is it the government

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cannot just say if they put ?1000 of tariff on this and we would pay

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?1000 a head, why not go for that? It is the words trade distorting. If

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we negotiate a deal with the EU, good market terms, we will not want

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to appear to subsidise the industry. Secondly there are rules through the

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WTO about trade distorting subsidies. The system works in that

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we should aim for fewer subsidies and fewer tariffs. None of this

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makes sense if the government stays within one piece of the EU

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infrastructure, the so-called customs union. Leaving the customs

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union is a complicated thing which imposes costs on business. We're

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having this conversation because leaving the customs union would be

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expensive. Why would the government do it? We have made a to explain

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exactly that. A major argument for Brexit

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was that our businesses should manufacture more goods and sell them

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to far-flung places. A major argument for Brexit

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was that our businesses should So, why is it then that there

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is still discussion of Britain continuing to follow a big chunk

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of EU trade policy? There's some talk here in Whitehall

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about whether Britain might join what's called a customs union

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with the EU. And what it means is that Turkey can

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sell goods into the EU and buy goods from the EU without them having

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to go through bureaucratic and onerous customs checks,

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or having to pay tariffs. To be part of a customs union

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with the EU means having to adopt the EU's policies and tariffs

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on trade from anywhere So joining the customs

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union would really tie the hands of Liam Fox,

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our International Trade Secretary, who wants to cut a range of exciting

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new deals with new trading partners The advantages of staying

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inside the customs union are clear when you come to a wine

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warehouse like this one. The inventory here comes

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from all over the world. Everything inside this

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warehouse has already gone But how intensive that

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process is depends on where If it comes from inside the EU

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customs union, then it's If it's come from outside the EU

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customs union, though, it's a much more onerous process

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to sell into the EU, and that's something worth

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considering when we're talking about whether the UK

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should stay inside the EU So to import a case of wine into UK

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from an EU countries such as France, there is a simple entry

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into a computer system. This is just basically so HMRC can

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make sure the tax is paid? Yes, there is a track on tax

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and what has been received. However, if they are importing

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from outside the EU, someone is bringing wine

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in from Australia or Israel, there will be a VI1 form,

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it is called, which is the analytical details of the wine

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plus the certificate of origin. So this sort of proves

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where the wine has come from. This is entered for every

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single wine producer. And then we still need

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an entry of this, as well, in order to get the stock

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into the warehouse here. So there is much more paperwork

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if you bring the wine in from outside the EU

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than if it is coming Absolutely, yes,

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there is a lot more. Some of that paperwork relates

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to health and environmental Some, though, relates

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to the so-called rules of origin, which, if Britain gets a free

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trade deal with the EU, The EU has different tariffs

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for different countries and the rules of origin ensure that

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you are charged the tariff Just to give you an example,

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suppose there is a Chinese toy that is shipped

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to the United Kingdom and then What the European Union wants

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to ensure is it charges the Chinese tariff on it and not the tariff that

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applies to the UK, And if we leave the customs union,

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our products would also have to comply with these rules of origin

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when they are shipped It is one thing being outside

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a customs union when you deal in bottles of wine,

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but being outside would have been a big consideration for Nissan,

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who make cars in Britain Each piece might need

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to be origin certified. And Nissan might face tariffs

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on goods sold back into the EU. Being inside the customs union

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would also make it easier to maintain a soft border

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with the Republic of Ireland. It's something the government

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is committed to to help I think the experience of Norway

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and Sweden would illustrate the UK could be outside of the customs

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union, but without a hard border. I mean, the use of technology

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there to mitigate the effects of a customs border by having

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a light touch approach to spot checks on vehicles, having

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numberplate recognition, forwarding documentation in advance,

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means that you can have the freest possible flow of goods

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despite having a customs Furthermore, being inside

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the customs union would make it very difficult for us to cut trade deals

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of our own. It makes us beholden to EU

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decisions, so politically, it cuts straight across

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Vote Leave's message. The outcome that trade experts most

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commonly predict for Britain is this, that we won't join

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a customs union with the EU after Brexit, but rather

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that the government will seek to mitigate the problems

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of being outside the EU's external borders through so-called mutual

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recognition agreements. What that means is that for specific

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sectors that do a lot of cross-border work,

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they will seek to minimise the amount of bureaucracy

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that they have to deal with. Well, just because you are outside

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the customs union doesn't necessarily mean terrible

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bureaucracy for everyone involved. The USA, Canada and Mexico

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managed to maintain across a free trade area

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as opposed to a customs union, so that would illustrate this kind

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of cross-border relationship and integrated supply chains

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is possible in a free trade agreement as opposed

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to a customs union. That's consistent with

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what Theresa May said here. The important point

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about the customs union is how you deal with the customs union

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is not a binary choice. There are different aspects

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to the customs union. That is precisely why

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it is important to look at the detail and get

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the answer right. Officials are currently fretting

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about how ports, notably Dover, can accommodate extra customs checks,

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if we do leave the customs union. Civil servants have also told

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Newsnight that a new customs computer system, replacing

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the current 22-year-old one, They fear delays well

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beyond the current 2018 due date. But these are the short-term costs

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of an attempt to become a less European and a more

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global trading nation. What's it like to live and breathe

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the same air in the same room If there was one single thing that

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brought Donald Trump to the attention of Americans

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all around the US it was a buccaneering book called

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The Art of The Deal, which became an instant

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bestseller when it was It takes the reader through all

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Trump's big real estate deals line by line,

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but he did not write a word of it. That was the job of a 30-something

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year old journalist Tony Schwartz, who stuck with Trump

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every day for more than a year, but when Trump announced his

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candidacy, Schwartz was horrified and decided to atone

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for his part in Trump's rise. And he decided to try to stop him

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getting to the White House. This is his first British

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television interview. I started by asking him how,

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after finishing a newspaper interview with Trump,

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he ended up co-writing his book. We started doing the interview and

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at some point he mentioned he was going to do a book, I asked him what

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it was and he said it was his autobiography. I said that he is

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only 38 years old, but he said they were paying him a lot of money to do

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it. I said if I were going to do that I would write a book called The

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Art Of The Deal because people are interested in deals and that part of

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him. That's funny because that was 30 something years ago. It's the

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best title at ever come up with. I've never matched it and it

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happened happened spontaneously. So do you did a deal with him

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and you started to write a book From the very first time I sat down

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with Donald Trump I quickly understood that he had an incredibly

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short attention span. He got irritated very

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quickly by questions. Had limited interest in answering

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them and an even more limited So when that proved

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impossible, what happened? What happened was, I first thought

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maybe I'm going to have to abandon this book and then I thought,

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what if I came into his office every day and he was OK with it and picked

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up an extension phone and just What he was doing was making

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deals, which is what I So I thought, I can get some of this

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stuff from listening and I can go and fill in the details from other

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people who have been So did these other people

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at the other end of the line know that you were on

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the end of the line? Yeah, I mean, if he could have had

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an audience of 65 countries and 50 million people

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listening on the calls, But having one person

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listening in was great. In a way, you were very much partly

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responsible for the man that we see Yeah, I think I created a version

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of Donald Trump that was far more But did you actually in the course

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of that see him do bad things? He treated people very dismissively,

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he was intimidating, he was a bully. It was very clear that he lacked

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whatever it is that allows a person to be caring and compassionate,

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or even reasonably kind. I watched him behave badly

:25:13.:25:17.

and I also became aware, and this is the most important

:25:18.:25:21.

thing about Donald Trump, He was sociopathic

:25:22.:25:26.

in the classic sense. Telling a lie didn't

:25:27.:25:33.

bother him one bit. His idea of what to say

:25:34.:25:37.

was what he thought would work. If it happened to be true,

:25:38.:25:41.

fine but if it wasn't Not only didn't ask me about myself,

:25:42.:25:44.

he didn't know my name, When he called my home,

:25:45.:25:55.

which he would do once or twice a night, my wife would often answer

:25:56.:26:04.

and in a year and a half, he never got to know her name,

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he never got to know, I guess he might have known that

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I had kids but he didn't The normal social graces

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you would expect from a human being who you are deeply involved

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with were utterly absent. When did you realise

:26:20.:26:27.

things were going awry? Was it when he said

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he was going to stand? You know when I realised

:26:30.:26:32.

things were going awry? When he came down the escalator

:26:33.:26:35.

at Trump Tower to announce that he was going to run

:26:36.:26:44.

for president, to everybody's The very first thing or second thing

:26:45.:26:46.

he said was, "We need a president who wrote

:26:47.:26:51.

The Art Of The Deal." And I thought, I don't

:26:52.:26:53.

want to be president! But it really struck me that

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if he was going to start out his presidential campaign saying

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something that was not only completely false,

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I wrote every word of that book. I believe he read it,

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he certainly didn't have anything If he was going to lie about that,

:27:09.:27:15.

my belief was, wow, he's going to lie about anything

:27:16.:27:20.

because it is completely provable You're now advising

:27:21.:27:22.

the Hillary Clinton campaign. Is this because you feel the need

:27:23.:27:25.

to atone for The Art Of The Deal? Well I absolutely feel the need

:27:26.:27:28.

to atone for it. If Donald Trump were to win

:27:29.:27:31.

the election, I don't think he's going to,

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but if he were to win the election, I would take it seriously enough

:27:35.:27:39.

to move out of the United States. A lots of people say that

:27:40.:27:42.

but I would do it. I'm not going to put myself

:27:43.:27:45.

in harm's way, if this man has the tools of government to use

:27:46.:27:51.

against his enemies. This is quite extreme,

:27:52.:27:53.

you really feel you would have I've got my whole

:27:54.:27:59.

family ready to do it. In all that time, was there anything

:28:00.:28:04.

that ever happened to make you think, this guy isn't so bad,

:28:05.:28:07.

he's quite a good guy? You know, I spent a love of my life

:28:08.:28:10.

trying to understand the human potential, what is possible

:28:11.:28:20.

for a human being. My predisposition is to believe that

:28:21.:28:23.

all human beings are complex and there is no such thing

:28:24.:28:27.

as pure goodness any more Having said that, I've been asked

:28:28.:28:31.

this question multiple times and it made me uncomfortable,

:28:32.:28:41.

the first several times because I couldn't come

:28:42.:28:43.

up with something. Now what I realise is,

:28:44.:28:48.

one quality that he has that has obviously been incredibly useful

:28:49.:28:54.

is a relentlessness. Donald Trump will come

:28:55.:28:59.

at you and at you and at you, It's why he can tell something,

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say something that is patently and obviously untrue and get some

:29:04.:29:11.

percentage of the people If you could imagine that quality

:29:12.:29:14.

being used in the service of something virtuous,

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I could quite imagine If we are just talking

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about his character, no, And if you enjoyed that then a full

:29:29.:29:32.

version of that interview can be Let's talk now to commentator

:29:33.:29:42.

and Donald Trump supporter Charlotte Laws, who joins us

:29:43.:29:45.

from Los Angeles. Good evening to you. Tony Schwartz

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has probably spent more time close up and personal with Donald Trump

:29:58.:30:00.

and many people have including yourself. And he paints a pretty

:30:01.:30:06.

damning picture. Do you recognise elements of the picture?

:30:07.:30:11.

I think Tony Schwartz is somebody who is a disgruntled ex-employee who

:30:12.:30:20.

is looking for 15 minutes of fame and is a strong Hillary Clinton

:30:21.:30:23.

supporter. I think he is right when he says Donald Trump as personal

:30:24.:30:30.

servants, a positive quality. As for a lot of -- he has perseverance.

:30:31.:30:36.

Many people who have known Donald Trump decades will say the opposite,

:30:37.:30:41.

that he will be a wonderful president, he is reflective, he is

:30:42.:30:45.

kind and caring and gives to charity and gives to people when no one

:30:46.:30:51.

knows about it. Even people like Bill O'Reilly or Sean Kennedy with

:30:52.:30:55.

no Donald Trump for decades and they will say he will be a great

:30:56.:31:01.

president. I have met Mr Trump on three occasions and have had nice

:31:02.:31:04.

conversations and have nothing but positive things to say about those

:31:05.:31:10.

experiences. Tony Schwartz says he is a liar he keeps online and what

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is truth or fiction is of no consequence if it makes an impact.

:31:16.:31:20.

If that is halfway true, is that a pretty damning indication of what he

:31:21.:31:25.

would read like as President? I think he a grand negotiator and it

:31:26.:31:33.

is important for his presidency to renegotiate trade deals and bring

:31:34.:31:39.

money and jobs back to America and part of negotiating is withholding

:31:40.:31:43.

information, or exaggerating, you could argue. I think those

:31:44.:31:49.

qualities... But lying? Every politician lies, it is part of the

:31:50.:31:54.

way this system works. You could not attack someone so much for that.

:31:55.:32:00.

Hillary Clinton is commander-in-chief liar if she gets

:32:01.:32:04.

elected. It is a universal trait of politicians. Very quickly, would you

:32:05.:32:11.

trust Donald Trump with nuclear codes, because Tony Schwartz says

:32:12.:32:14.

that people should not trust him with nuclear codes. I would and he

:32:15.:32:20.

is a pacifist, he is much less likely to get into more than Hillary

:32:21.:32:26.

Clinton, he is not into nation-building, meddling into other

:32:27.:32:29.

countries and blasting people, that is not the way he operates and

:32:30.:32:34.

thinks. You can look at past interviews and talk to people who

:32:35.:32:37.

have known him and that is what they will say.

:32:38.:32:38.

On last night's programme we broadcast a film which forms part

:32:39.:32:41.

of the BBC Arabic Service's project on the impact of modern

:32:42.:32:44.

technology on one of our most basic emotions, shame,

:32:45.:32:47.

which has been ruining lives for as long as humans can remember.

:32:48.:32:51.

Traditionally it has been used as a form of social control.

:32:52.:32:53.

But in the modern era, technology has offered new ways

:32:54.:32:58.

for shame to be instilled in others - think revenge porn, for example.

:32:59.:33:01.

A problem in our relatively permissive society, but with far

:33:02.:33:05.

bigger human consequences in the more conservative societies

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Last night's film about shame, sex, honour and blackmail in an online

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world, explored the impact on men, tonight's shows how

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women are particularly vulnerable to blackmail.

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Joining me in the studio is Deeyah Khan, the Emmy and Peabody

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award-winning filmmaker and human rights activist.

:37:10.:37:11.

And from Kuwait is Dr Alanoud Al Sharekh, an expert in women's rights

:37:12.:37:15.

Good evening. Did anything you saw their shock you? No. I think what

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the internet has done for all of us in whatever field we are in is that

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it accent U eights everything that happens off-line. So whether that is

:37:37.:37:47.

a matter of -- accentuates. Whether that is creating revolutions,

:37:48.:37:51.

creating change or reinforcing discrimination and patriarch Lee,

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the internet is a part of that, so it is not shocking. -- the

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patriarch. The idea that technology, in this case cameras and the

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internet were men to liberate women and make their lives free has been

:38:08.:38:10.

turned on its head by this kind of example. There is a duality to it

:38:11.:38:19.

and so in a way, having the camera on them and being able to describe

:38:20.:38:24.

their experience and their own voice has been a big change that

:38:25.:38:30.

technology has allowed. Unfortunately it has exemplified

:38:31.:38:34.

this type of cruel and extortionate behaviour that we see happening in

:38:35.:38:41.

online blackmail. The idea that this man felt safe to do this with

:38:42.:38:47.

impunity in itself is very upsetting and unnerving for women. Yes, of

:38:48.:38:58.

course. It is also possible because of the nature of the conservative

:38:59.:39:02.

societies in this part of the world, the idea that you not only represent

:39:03.:39:08.

your own honour as an individual but the honour of your community and

:39:09.:39:12.

family makes you more like lead to put up with this behaviour then

:39:13.:39:17.

tried to raise attention around it. It is interesting that women have to

:39:18.:39:21.

put up with this behaviour. This is not exceptional? It is not. Women

:39:22.:39:29.

are constantly expected to be... To bear the burden of the honour not

:39:30.:39:37.

just of themselves but the burden of the honour of their family and

:39:38.:39:42.

community, as women who come from the backgrounds we come from we are

:39:43.:39:48.

not the owners of our own bodies and behaviours, everything we do

:39:49.:39:52.

reflects always on somebody else, and these men know that when they

:39:53.:39:59.

are exploiting. And the internet can amplify that? Absolutely, the

:40:00.:40:04.

internet can amplify the resistance against these types of norms, but it

:40:05.:40:09.

can also exemplified the discrimination and oppression and

:40:10.:40:14.

abuse that happens. You talk about traditional societies, but in this

:40:15.:40:19.

country we know that young women from all backgrounds, are called on

:40:20.:40:32.

the internet and the internet for evil is something we have not got to

:40:33.:40:36.

grips with yet. When it comes to the abuse of women in the US and

:40:37.:40:41.

England, you might not come from a Middle Eastern background and this

:40:42.:40:47.

shaming is the norm in some ways. I think the internet as much as it is

:40:48.:40:52.

a source of liberation for so many women and movements, it is an

:40:53.:40:59.

accentuation of discrimination and oppression and abuses that happen

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off-line but now have also extended into the platform and the world

:41:03.:41:09.

online. We also know just now there is an app by IS for selling. This is

:41:10.:41:24.

the essence of the challenge we all face, that the internet is where we

:41:25.:41:31.

can pick a lot of these challenges that we as women who come from these

:41:32.:41:35.

backgrounds, and we can use the internet to really on pick all of

:41:36.:41:44.

this. But it has become the space where we almost become destroyed.

:41:45.:41:49.

How do you suggest women countered this, that women are educated into

:41:50.:41:55.

not feeling cowed by this, particularly in Middle Eastern

:41:56.:41:59.

societies? I would save firstly there should be stronger legislation

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to prevent this kind of abuse online. Specifically be trolling and

:42:06.:42:13.

bullying of women. Online, when they are speaking and sharing, not only

:42:14.:42:20.

themselves, they represent a nation at times, if they are Muslim they

:42:21.:42:25.

represent their religion and there is an added layer of ambassadorship

:42:26.:42:29.

that women us to recognise and have the option to choose to reject and

:42:30.:42:36.

have their own voice as individuals online. But also because of the

:42:37.:42:41.

sensitive nature of honour in this part of the world, I think we are

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seeing more and more, special units that deal with online crimes and

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specifically blackmail. Thanks, I am afraid I will have to stop you. A

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final word on our exclusive story. While we were on air the inquiry

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said this statement, it is not true and inquiry worker made a complaint

:43:06.:43:09.

of assault to the panel or chair or official. It is worth pointing out

:43:10.:43:14.

our report did not say that a complaint had been made but rather

:43:15.:43:15.

that one had been disclosed. A final word on our exclusive story

:43:16.:43:18.

tonight on the child abuse inquiry. That's all we have time for,

:43:19.:43:25.

apart from a quick congrats to Newsnight's Katie Razzall

:43:26.:43:28.

and Yasminara Khan for winning an Asian Media Award tonight

:43:29.:43:30.

for their story about intimidation Subtle changes in the weather. Mist

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