The BBC has apologized to president Donald Trump over a misleading edit of his speech on Jan. 6, 2021.

However, it said it had not defamed him, rejecting the basis for his $1 billion lawsuit threat.

BBC chair Samir Shah sent a personal letter to the White House saying that he and the corporation were sorry for the edit of the speech Trump gave before some of his supporters stormed the U.S. Capitol.

The publicly funded broadcaster said there are no plans to rebroadcast the documentary, which had spliced together parts of his speech that came almost an hour apart.

Among the parts cut out was a section where Trump said he wanted supporters to demonstrate peacefully.

Trump’s lawyer had sent the BBC a letter demanding an apology and threatened to file a $1 billion lawsuit for the harm the documentary caused him. It had set a Friday deadline for the BBC to respond.

Both Director-General Tim Davie and news chief Deborah Turness resigned Sunday, saying the scandal was damaging the BBC.

The British government defended the broadcaster on Tuesday, with Culture Secretary Lisa Nandy saying the national broadcaster faces “challenges, some of its own making,” but is “by far the most widely used and trusted source of news in the United Kingdom.”

While the BBC statement didn't respond to Trump’s demand that he be compensated for “overwhelming financial and reputational harm," the headline on its news story about the apology said it refused to pay compensation.