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News Wrap: Trump wraps up state visit to the UK

PBS News Hour - Segments

PBS NewsHour

News, Daily News

4.11K Ratings

🗓️ 18 September 2025

⏱️ 6 minutes

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In our news wrap Thursday, President Trump closed out his state visit to the UK with a series of deals, the Trump administration is asking the Supreme Court for an emergency order to remove Lisa Cook from the Federal Reserve's board of governors and Pennsylvania prosecutors say that a suspected stalker was hiding at his ex-girlfriend's house when he opened fire on police who came to arrest him. PBS News is supported by - https://www.pbs.org/newshour/about/funders. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy

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0:00.0

Start the day's other headlines in the U.K., where President Trump closed out his state visit

0:05.4

with a series of deals aimed at further cementing ties between Britain and the U.S.

0:10.5

I think it's an unbreakable bond we have, regardless of what we're doing today.

0:15.0

I think it's unbreakable.

0:16.9

He and Prime Minister Kier Starrmer signed a major technology partnership as well as an agreement on nuclear energy.

0:23.9

Afterwards, they spoke with reporters where President Trump acknowledged that he disagrees with the UK's plan to recognize a Palestinian state.

0:32.5

On efforts to end the war in Ukraine, President Trump said he's disappointed that Russian President

0:38.6

Vladimir Putin is continuing his attacks.

0:41.8

The one that I thought would be easiest would be because of my relationship with President

0:45.6

Putin, but he's let me down. He's really let me down. It was going to be Russia and Ukraine,

0:53.0

but we'll see how that turns out.

0:55.3

President Trump also suggested that the U.S. may reestablish a presence at the Bagram Airfield

1:01.1

in Afghanistan. That facility played a central role in America's chaotic withdrawal from the country

1:07.1

in 2021. The president has floated this idea in the past, but has provided few details.

1:13.7

The Trump administration is asking the Supreme Court for an emergency order to remove Lisa Cook

1:19.6

from the Federal Reserve's Board of Governors. In its filing, the Justice Department claims

1:24.6

a lower court's refusal to okay her dismissal was, quote, yet another

1:29.6

case of improper judicial interference with the president's removal authority. President Trump

1:35.8

has accused Cook of mortgage fraud, which she denies. The request comes a day after Cook joined

1:42.3

a majority of other Fed board members in voting to cut interest

1:46.2

rates. Charlie Kirk's political organization, Turning Point USA, announced today that his widow,

1:52.4

Erica Kirk, will be its next CEO. The entrepreneur and podcaster often appeared with her husband

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