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13/05/2017 GMT

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Former CIA head on President Trump’s sacking of FBI chief

Former CIA head on President Trump’s handling of the sacking of FBI chief

Former head of the CIA Leon Panetta talks to Weekend about President Trump’s decision to sack James Comey, the former head of the FBI.

Also in the programme: Journalist Anthony Lloyd on his harrowing visits to the Syrian war zone; The Dylan Thomas Prize – a literary award on open to authors under forty.

(Image: President Donald Trump, shakes hands with James Comey, former director of the Federal Bureau of Investigation in the White House in Washington, D.C. on Sunday 22nd Jan. 2017. Credit: Andrew Harrer/Bloomberg/Getty Images)

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