March 23, 2026 - PBS News Hour full episode
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PBS NewsHour
4.5 • 2.2K Ratings
🗓️ 23 March 2026
⏱️ 52 minutes
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| 0:00.0 | Good evening. I'm Jeff Bennett. I'm the Navaz is away. On the news hour tonight, President Trump teases a potential way to end the war with Iran, but Iran pushes back. We report from on the ground in the third nation key to any peace deal is real. A fatal plane collision at LaGuardia and ICE agents try to assist understaffed TSA, |
| 0:24.3 | the widespread problems plaguing airline travel today. |
| 0:27.9 | This idea of using ICE agents at the TSA checkpoints is something that has never happened |
| 0:31.9 | in the history of the agency. And when is it too late for mail-in ballots to be counted? The U.S. Supreme Court takes up a case likely to affect the midterm elections. |
| 0:54.0 | Welcome to the News Hour. We are following two major ongoing stories tonight. The troubles |
| 0:59.5 | facing air travel continue to be compounded first by the congressional funding fight and now by a fatal |
| 1:05.5 | collision at a New York City airport. But we start with the latest in the war with Iran. President Trump today |
| 1:12.1 | hinted the conflict could be over soon, something met with immediate pushback from Iran. |
| 1:17.6 | That's as the U.S. and Israel continue their strikes and Iran retaliates. Our Nick Schifrin reports |
| 1:23.5 | tonight from Israel. |
| 1:26.9 | Today, following Israeli strikes on Tehran and U.S. threats to target Iran's energy |
| 1:31.8 | facilities, President Trump signaled an off-rent. |
| 1:35.0 | We have major points of agreement. |
| 1:37.7 | I would say almost all points of agreement. |
| 1:40.5 | President Trump said that top envoy, Steve Whitkoff, and his son-in-law, Jared Kushner, |
| 1:44.6 | had spoken to an official that he hoped would prove a possible Iranian Delsi Rodriguez, |
| 1:49.4 | the Venezuelan leader, largely following U.S. direction. |
| 1:53.1 | We are doing so well in Venezuela with oil and with the relationship between the president-elect and us. |
| 2:01.6 | And maybe we find somebody like that. |
| 2:04.6 | And if it goes well, we're going to end up with settling this. |
| 2:08.6 | Otherwise, we'll just keep bombing our little hearts out. |
| 2:11.6 | But Tehran denied any diplomacy. |
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