May 13, 2026 - PBS News Hour full episode
PBS News Hour - Full Show
PBS NewsHour
4.5 • 2.2K Ratings
🗓️ 14 May 2026
⏱️ 53 minutes
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| 0:00.0 | Good evening. I'm Amna Nawaz. And I'm Jeff Bennett. On the news hour tonight, President Trump |
| 0:08.7 | arrives in China for a meeting with Xi Jinping amid disputes over trade, Taiwan, and the Iran war. |
| 0:15.4 | We cannot change each other, but then we can probably find a way to coexist peacefully. |
| 0:20.1 | A court overturns the double murder conviction of Alec Murdoch, |
| 0:24.2 | whose case captured national attention. |
| 0:27.4 | And as Asian Americans remain the fastest growing demographic group in the U.S., |
| 0:32.4 | why their history and the discrimination they've endured is so often overlooked. |
| 0:41.2 | It is that question that we have been wrestling with for much of the history of the American Republic, |
| 0:44.4 | of who gets to be News Hour. |
| 0:59.7 | President Trump is in Beijing tonight for a state visit to America's chief global competitor |
| 1:04.3 | and increasingly its chief geopolitical rival. |
| 1:07.5 | Mr. Trump has long targeted China as an economic foe of the U.S. while cultivating a |
| 1:12.8 | relationship with its president Xi Jinping, the most powerful Chinese leader since Mao Zedong. |
| 1:18.3 | As Nick Schiffrin reports from Beijing, a host of global issues are on the table. |
| 1:24.3 | Tonight, for the first time in nearly a decade, an American president landed in China. |
| 1:29.3 | On to a red carpet and into a synchronized ceremony by a country seeking stability. |
| 1:36.3 | But President Trump also arrives to a China confident and hosting an embattled American president at war with a Chinese ally. |
| 1:46.0 | Iran survived five weeks of war and now maintains a chokehold over the Strait of Hormuz, |
| 1:51.5 | through which 20 percent of the world's oil and natural gas usually flows. |
| 1:55.2 | To help open the strait and make a diplomatic deal, a senior U.S. official says that President |
| 1:59.8 | Trump will quote, pressure |
| 2:01.0 | Xi Jinping to exert his influence over Iran. |
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