dean baquet, welcome to hardtalk. thank you. good to be here.nk we have to start with the relationship between president trump and the established, he would say mainstream, media. this is something you said, even before he was elected, the month before he won the white house. you said, "trump says things that are demonstrably false, i think he is challenging our language — he will have changed journalism, he really will." yeah. how do you feel after more than 100 days of the trump presidency? he has. and i think what i said then still holds. we're used to politicians obfuscating, exaggerating, etc. but this president sometimes says things on monday that goes against what his advisers said on sunday and then he shifts gears on tuesday. but that's not the most profound way he has changed. he does things, he makes decisions that defy the logic of american politics, firing james comey, the fbi director. if you had asked me why the president fired the fbi director who was investigating him, i would say that it is so politically unwise. he did it and,

he's dean baquet, this is overheard. let's be honest, is this about the ability to learn, or is this about the experience of not having been taught properly? how have you avoided what has befallen other nations in africa? but you caused him to sleep in it. you saw a problem and over time, took it on. let's start with the sizzle before we get to the steak. are you gonna run for president? i think i just got an f from you. dean baquet, welcome. - thank you, it's good to here. - you don't look failing to me. - (laughs) that's because i worked out at the gym. - is that why, because you're kind of pumped up? what is the president's glitch? what is his problem with you? all he's done for the last few months, even back into the campaign, was get on twitter, get on the stump, and attack the new york times, attack the new york times. i mean, he's attacked everybody. he's attacked the media. but he seems to have a special problem with you. - i have two psychoanalytic thoughts about it. - [evan] bring it. - the first is, you have t

dean baquet speaking to hardtalk‘s stephen sackur.he full interview on bbc world news on tuesday. egypt's airforce has carried out airstrikes in libya, targeting jihadists in the east of the country. it's after an ambush in which at least twenty—eight people were killed south of cairo. egypt's president, abdel fattah al—sisi, said the strikes were in retaliation for the militant attack on a bus carrying coptic christians. president sisi said those behind the shootings had been trained at camps near the eastern libyan port of derna. from cairo, orla guerin reports. the bus in which so many were robbed of life on their way to an ancient monastery. the broken windows and scattered belongings, testament to an attack that was merciless and highly toward a naked. there were multiple conmen who escaped across the sands in three off—road vehicles. relatives of the dead told the bbc the authorities should be doing more to protect christians who we re doing more to protect christians who were obviously at risk. this was the scene last month aft

in an interview with the bbc‘s stephen sackur, dean baquet insisted his paper did nothing wrong in publishinghest level of secrecy. it was at a level of secrecy that made it much more widely dispersed than people acknowledged. it was not a confidential secret. police were concerned, it was totally confidential. there were different levels of confidentiality and it was not at the top. they said the revelations undermined their investigation and not only that, they also undermines the confidence of victims, witnesses and their families. are you now prepared to say sorry? families. are you now prepared to 0 families. are you now prepared to say sorry? no, absolutely not, no. they have given no evidence that illustrates how this undermines the investigations. this is the kind of standard information that has been made public after terror attacks since september 11. if you look at everything from the boston bombing to september 11, a picture of a backpack, nobody has ever offered any evidence that got in the way of investigations. the british press and american press have different attitudes here.

he's dean baquet, this is overheard. let's be honest, is this about the ability to learn, or is this about the experience of not having been taught properly? how have you avoided what has befallen other nations in africa? but you caused him to sleep in it. you saw a problem and over time, took it on. let's start with the sizzle before we get to the steak. are you gonna run for president? i think i just got an f from you.