Biden and Trump meet at White House
Newshour
BBC
4.2 • 1.1K Ratings
🗓️ 13 November 2024
⏱️ 48 minutes
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Summary
President Biden and Donald Trump have held initial transition talks in the White House as the Republicans makes further significant nominations including Marco Rubio for secretary of state and Tulsi Gabbard for director of national intelligence. We hear from Estonia's foreign minister Margus Tsahkna.
Also in the programme: a cheap way to reduce damage from contrails; and more heavy flooding in the Valencia region of Spain.
(Picture: US President Biden hosts President-elect Trump at the White House, Washington Dc, USA. Credit: EPA-EFE)
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| 0:00.0 | Hello and welcome to News Hour from the BBC World Service coming live from London. |
| 0:07.9 | This is Owen Bennett Jones. |
| 0:09.5 | Well, President Biden met his successor, Donald Trump, in the White House today. |
| 0:15.2 | And after all the vitriol of the campaign, when terrible insults were flying around on all sides, there was a strikingly |
| 0:22.6 | gracious exchange. President Biden's spokesperson said it was cordial and substantive. Mr. Trump |
| 0:29.6 | said there was discussion of the Middle East. Most of all that was private. This is what |
| 0:34.8 | was said in public. Well, Mr. President, elect, |
| 0:38.0 | and the former president, |
| 0:39.2 | and Donald, congratulations. |
| 0:41.3 | Thank you. |
| 0:42.0 | And I'm looking forward to having, like we said, |
| 0:45.9 | smooth transition to everything we can |
| 0:48.4 | to make sure you're accommodated, what you need. |
| 0:51.1 | And we're going to get a chance to talk about some of that today. |
| 0:53.3 | Good. Welcome. Welcome. Thank you very much. what you need, and we're going to get a chance to talk about some of that today. So welcome. |
| 0:54.5 | Welcome. |
| 0:55.3 | Thank you very much, and politics is tough, and it's, in many cases, not a very nice world, |
| 1:04.0 | but it is a nice world today, and I appreciate it very much. |
| 1:07.2 | A transition that's so smooth, it'll be as smooth as it can get, and I very much |
| 1:13.0 | appreciate that, Jim. You're welcome. Thank you all. |
| 1:19.2 | Thousands of questions being thrown at them by the media there. None of them answered. They |
| 1:24.2 | went into private talks after that. And shortly after that, the US media |
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