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News Wrap: Israel’s Netanyahu heads to U.S. to meet with Trump

PBS News Hour - Segments

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4.11K Ratings

🗓️ 2 February 2025

⏱️ 3 minutes

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In our news wrap Sunday, Netanyahu and Trump are preparing to meet at the White House, new preliminary data shows conflicting altitude readings for the aircraft that collided in D.C. on Wednesday, and top USAID security officials were put on leave after refusing to give Musk’s government efficiency team access to classified materials. PBS News is supported by - https://www.pbs.org/newshour/about/funders

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0:00.0

In today's other news, President Trump is preparing for the first foreign leaders to visit the White House since he began his second term.

0:07.4

This week, Mr. Trump meets with Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, and a week later, King Abdullah of Jordan.

0:13.9

Before leaving Israel, Netanyahu said he expects to discuss victory over Hamas, as he put it.

0:19.6

Tomorrow, Netanyahu will meet with Mr. Trump's

0:21.9

Middle East envoy, Steve Whitkoff, to discuss negotiations for the second phase of the ceasefire

0:27.3

deal. Those talks come after the Israeli military said it fired at a suspicious vehicle in

0:32.7

northern Gaza that wasn't traveling on the route agreed to in the ceasefire.

0:43.3

New preliminary data shows conflicting readings about the altitudes of the passenger jet and the Army helicopter when they collided near Reagan National Airport this past week.

0:48.0

The National Transportation Safety Board said different readings came from data from the

0:53.2

passenger jet's flight recorder and data from the passenger jets flight recorder

0:54.9

and data from the control tower. Investigators say it could still be months before they

1:00.2

have a final answer about what happened. Today, family members and loved ones of the 67 people

1:06.2

killed in Wednesday night's crash visited the scene. A short time later, first responders said the bodies of 12 of the victims remain in the water,

1:15.0

but they are committed, they said, to giving the family's closure.

1:18.3

They're just all hurt, and they still want answers, and we want to give them answers.

1:23.2

I mean, it's horrible.

1:24.6

It's horrible.

1:25.0

And no one has to suffer this.

1:28.9

So, yeah, it is hard on them.

1:31.8

They have a lot of questions. They haven't been through this.

1:37.6

Tomorrow, the Army Corps of Engineers plans to begin the process of lifting large pieces of the American Airlines plane out of the river. A step officials say is needed before those last

1:42.7

remaining bodies can be recovered.

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