Trump, Netanyahu to meet in Florida for crucial talks on Iran and Gaza
2025-12-29_14-19 • 2m 37s
Leslie Picker (Reporter)
00:00.000
President
Trump
set
to
meet
with
Israeli
Prime
Minister
Benjamin
Netanyahu
at
Maralago
today.
Ayman
Javers
joins
us
with
a
look
at
what's
at
stake.
Ayman.
Eamon Javers (Senior Washington Correspondent)
00:09.200
Yeah,
Leslie,
you're
right.
Israeli
Prime
Minister
Benjamin
Netanyahu
is
expected
to
meet
with
President
Donald
Trump
at
Maralago
this
afternoon
and
the
discussion
could
turn
to
a
possible
additional
US
strike
against
Iran's
ballistic
missile
program.
Also
potentially
on
the
Eamon Javers (Senior Washington Correspondent)
00:23.720
agenda
for
this
conversation,
discussion
of
the
reconstruction
of
Gaza,
which
is
expected
to
be
difficult
and
expensive
This
will
be
Netanyahu's
sixth
meeting
with
Trump
this
year.
Netanyahu
visited
Mar-a-Lago
most
recently
in
July
of
2024
before
President
Trump
was
re-elected
Eamon Javers (Senior Washington Correspondent)
00:40.680
to
his
second
term.
Now,
President
Trump
has
been
extremely
proud
of
that
US
strike
on
Iran
that
he
authorized
in
June
boasting
that
it
set
the
country's
nuclear
program
back
by
years.
He
displays
a
small
model
of
a
stealth
bomber
in
the
Oval
Office
and
he
often
recounts
how
the
Eamon Javers (Senior Washington Correspondent)
00:56.400
pilots
trained
for
and
executed
that
grueling
around
the
world
flight
and
combat
strike,
but
it's
not
clear
despite
that
how
much
appetite
Trump
would
have
for
additional
strikes,
even
if
there
is
intelligence
suggesting
that
Iran
is
reconstructing
its
nuclear
program.
So
the
Eamon Javers (Senior Washington Correspondent)
01:12.440
meeting
is
scheduled
for
1:00
p.m.
today
and
as
of
now,
press
is
expected
to
be
invited
in
for
at
least
a
portion
of
that
session.
So
we
should
get
a
better
sense
of
the
positions
of
both
countries
by
later
on
today,
guys.
Back
over
to
you.
Leslie Picker (Reporter)
01:25.280
Amen,
is
there
a
sense
of
how
the
relationship
between
Trump
and
Netanyahu
is
at
this
disjuncture.
There
were
some
reports
over
the
weekend
that
I
was
reading
that
said
that
many
of
uh
other
administration
officials
have
uh
become
less
enchanted
with
Netanyahu
over
time.
Do
we
Leslie Picker (Reporter)
01:40.200
have
a
sense
that
President
Trump
feels
the
same
way?
Eamon Javers (Senior Washington Correspondent)
01:44.120
Well,
I
think
it's
a
it's
a
real
question
right
now.
And
one
of
the
questions
will
be
for
Benjamin
Netanyahu.
How
willing
is
he
to
allow
some
sort
of
political
deal
on
the
reconstruction
of
Gaza?
I
think
President
Trump
clearly
wants
to
move
forward
with
some
kind
of
rebuilding
Eamon Javers (Senior Washington Correspondent)
02:00.000
in
some
kind
of
political
stabilization
in
Gaza
after
all
the
carnage
and
chaos
that
we've
seen
there.
Netanyahu
has
been
unwilling
to
allow
the
Palestinian
Authority,
for
example,
to
be
part
of
that
deal
to
regovern
that
region.
And
so
I
think
the
question
for
Trump
is,
does
Eamon Javers (Senior Washington Correspondent)
02:17.280
Netanyahu
become
more
of
an
impediment
to
what
he
wants
than
a
partner,
which
is
the
way
he's
seen
Netanyahu,
you
know,
here
to
fore.
So
I
I
think
this
is
a
real
fulcrum
point
in
the
relationship
between
these
two
figures
who
Both
put
enormous
amounts
of
stock
in
the
Eamon Javers (Senior Washington Correspondent)
02:32.880
relationship
with
each
other
in
terms
of
their
governing
coalitions
domestically.
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