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How PBS News Hour has opened for 50 years
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How PBS News Hour has opened for 50 years
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Tonight marks a milestone for all of us at the PBS News Hour. On this day 50 years ago, we aired our first broadcast. The show had a different name, but the same mission to deliver thoughtful and trustworthy journalism. Half a century later, we're still at it and guided by the same principles and mission. We want to thank you — our viewers and supporters — for standing with us through five decades and trusting us to deliver news and storytelling that matters. | PBS NewsHour
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Tonight marks a milestone for all of us at the PBS News Hour. On this day 50 years ago, we aired our first broadcast. The show had a different name, but the same mission to deliver thoughtful and trustworthy journalism. Half a century later, we're still at it and guided by the same principles and mission. We want to thank you — our viewers and supporters — for standing with us through five decades and trusting us to deliver news and storytelling that matters. | PBS NewsHour
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We are PBS News, we stream our nightly broadcasts and specials live and for free on your public broadcast station, our website and our YouTube page. We bring you original digital and broadcast reports and strive to tell you the full story in five minutes, when others use one. Of course we strive to be the most balanced, objective news program in the business carrying on the journalistic mission of our founders, Jim Lehrer and Robert MacNeil. We’re PBS News, of course we do what we do because of
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The show's iconic theme song has a history of its own, and Deema Zein explains how the music has evolved over time. | PBS NewsHour
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PBS News Hour began 50 years ago with a different name. The show launched in 1975 as "The Robert MacNeil Report," and was inspired by MacNeil and Jim Lehrer's gavel-to-gave coverage of the Senate Watergate hearings two years earlier. @deema_zein explains. | PBS NewsHour
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Robert MacNeil Shares His Vision for NewsHour (1990)
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We have exciting news about PBS News and two new programs. These two original productions, Horizons and Compass Points, expand the depth and reach of our journalism. Horizons is hosted by William Brangham and explores the science, health and technology news making headlines each week. | PBS NewsHour
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WATCH: 'This is fabulous,' House Speaker McCarthy says in aftermath of debt ceiling deal
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WATCH: Civilian deaths rise as generals fight for power in Sudan
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New York Times columnist David Brooks and Kimberly Atkins Stohr of the Boston Globe joined PBS News Hour's William Brangham on Friday to discuss the year in politics, including President Donald Trump's return to the White House and the significant changes from his first term. | PBS NewsHour
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WATCH: Former chief justice would have dropped Second Amendment
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New York Times columnist David Brooks and Jonathan Capehart of MS NOW joined PBS News Hour's Geoff Bennett on Friday to discuss the week in politics, including President Donald Trump’s attempts to address his sinking approval ratings on the economy, the Department of Justice beginning to release the Epstein files and the renaming of the John F. Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts. | PBS NewsHour
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Why Canadians are giving the U.S. the 'silent treatment'
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President Donald Trump said during a Cabinet meeting on Thursday that he wants to "drive housing prices up." "Existing housing, people who own their homes, we're going to keep them wealthy. We're going to keep those prices up," Trump said. Trump made his comments following Housing and Urban Development Secretary Scott Turner's update that home sales in December "rose sharply to their strongest pace in three years." According to the National Association of Realtors, home sales in December rose to
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Trump says he wants to rename New Mexico
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WATCH: Sen. Mitt Romney on why he's not seeking reelection in 2024
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WATCH: Iowa Republicans react to Trump's federal indictment | #shorts
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Princess Diana in Washington: A 1985 NewsHour Moment
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President Donald Trump broke his own record Tuesday night for the longest presidential speech to Congress. The president spoke for nearly 108 minutes in the House chamber, painting a picture of the United States as “bigger, better, richer and stronger than ever before.” Trump also chastised Democratic lawmakers in the chamber as “crazy” for failing to stand and applaud at points during his address. The U.S. Olympic men’s hockey team also made an appearance in the House chamber to thunderous appl
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As President Donald Trump's administration has moved to loosen regulations on cryptocurrency and pledged to make the U.S. the "crypto capital of the world," his family's ties to the industry are raising ethical concerns and blurring the lines between business and government. White House correspondent Liz Landers takes a closer look. | PBS NewsHour
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Trump leads pledge to 'cheat like hell' in November elections
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Congress is moving toward revoking a billion dollars in already approved funding for the Corporation for Public Broadcasting, the entity that steers funds to public media stations. William Brangham discussed the potential impact on PBS with one of the network's most acclaimed filmmakers, Ken Burns. His documentaries covered subjects like the Civil War, baseball, Vietnam, country music and more. | PBS NewsHour
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Music in 2025 has had it all, from breakout new artists and big stars continuing to top the charts, to AI-generated artists igniting fierce debate online. To help us sift through the year in music, Stephanie Sy spoke with freelance music writer and critic Maura Johnston and freelance music journalist Candace McDuffie. | PBS NewsHour
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PBS News Hour made history in 2013, when Gwen Ifill and Judy Woodruff became the first female co-anchor team on an American network nightly news broadcast, says @deema_zein. | PBS NewsHour
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Since taking office, the Trump administration has sought to cancel tens of billions in climate grants and has proposed ending millions in climate research. One area that could be affected — and is especially vulnerable to the impacts of climate change — is South Florida, where start-ups, local governments and researchers are working to make the region more resilient. But federal funding cuts may hinder those efforts. PBS News Hour's William Brangham traveled to the region and reports for our ser
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PBS News is debuting two new shows this weekend. “Horizons from PBS News,” hosted by William Brangham, will explore the forces shaping our daily lives, from science to health and technology. “Compass Points from PBS News,” hosted by Nick Schifrin, will unpack global events and what they mean here at home. Viewers can watch these programs on YouTube and PBS. | PBS NewsHour
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The PBS News Hour has had five different names and six official anchors since it first aired in 1975. Through it all, we've stayed true to our mission of delivering fair, accurate and in-depth reporting. To celebrate 50 years of bringing news and context to viewers like you, we're taking a look back at how anchors have opened our program over the last five decades. | PBS NewsHour
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President Donald Trump's White House ballroom proposal has been approved by a panel whose members were handpicked by the president himself. The U.S. Commission of Fine Arts said the massive ballroom will increase hosting capacity for state dinners and other large events, which have traditionally been held in outdoor tents. Another body, the National Capital Planning Commission, will pick up the matter next month. In October, crews hastily demolished the entire East Wing to make way for the ballr
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President Trump said he is going to de-escalate tensions amid his aggressive immigration crackdown centered on Minneapolis. But at the same time, Trump said the adjustments should not be seen as a pullback, and he again blamed Alex Pretti for carrying a gun, which was legally permitted. As Fred de Sam Lazaro reports, skepticism of the president's shift remains high in the Twin Cities. | PBS NewsHour
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From "Silent Night" to "Jingle Bells," Christmas carols are some of the most familiar and beloved songs of the season, and some of the oldest. To help us dig into why Christmas carols have stood the test of time, Stephanie Sy spoke to Ariana Wyatt, a professor of voice at Virginia Tech. | PBS NewsHour
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Already a three-time winner, jazz vocalist Samara Joy is up for two more Grammys at Sunday’s awards ceremony. Her latest album, "Portrait," is receiving critical acclaim and creating more awards buzz. Following in the footsteps of jazz legends like Dizzy Gillespie and John Coltrane, Joy recorded the album at the historic Van Gelder Studios in Englewood Cliffs, New Jersey. PBS News Hour's Jeffrey Brown spoke to Joy about establishing a style and sound. "I want to put my best effort forward to fig
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It is "dangerous" that far-right Christian nationalists are attaching religious narratives to Republican presidential nominee Donald Trump, Matthew Taylor said. "[Trump] is seen as someone who is anointed by God for this role," he said. "That's a very dangerous sentiment to have in a democracy, where elections are about the will of the people, not the will of God." Taylor, author of "The Violent Take It By Force," spoke to PBS News Hour's Geoff Bennett about the relationship between MAGA ideolog
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New York Times columnist David Brooks and Jonathan Capehart of MSNBC joined PBS News Hour's Geoff Bennett on Friday to discuss the week in politics, including President Donald Trump celebrating the Gaza peace deal while targeting political enemies at home and the government shutdown entering its second weekend. | PBS NewsHour
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New York Times columnist David Brooks and Washington Post associate editor Jonathan Capehart joined PBS News Hour's Amna Nawaz on Friday to discuss the week in politics, including President Donald Trump's public spat with Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy during his visit to the Oval Office, whether Europe can depend on the U.S. and new restrictions on the White House press corps. "What we saw in the Oval Office was a travesty, horrendous, despicable. I — there aren't any words to describe
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The Corporation for Public Broadcasting, which has distributed federal funds to both PBS and NPR for decades, announced Friday that it's shutting down. The news comes after President Donald Trump recently clawed back more than a billion dollars of funding for public broadcasting. In a statement, CPB President Patricia Harrison said, "Despite the extraordinary efforts of millions of Americans who called, wrote and petitioned Congress, we now face the difficult reality of closing our operations."
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This Christmas, many children welcomed a familiar visitor – a jolly man in a red suit and a sleigh full of gifts. But the bearded figure Americans recognize today as Santa Claus is a relatively modern creation, shaped over centuries by folklore, art and evolving tradition. Stephanie Sy reports. And a warning for parents and younger viewers: this story contains some spoilers about Santa Claus. | PBS NewsHour
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As 2025 comes to a close, we’re taking a look at some memorable events of the year. Here are just 25 of the many stories we covered. | PBS NewsHour
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As the Trump administration continues to escalate immigration enforcement operations around the country, the Department of Homeland Security claims 75 percent of the people arrested by ICE have committed violent crimes. “Seventy-five percent of those illegal aliens who have been arrested have prior convictions,” DHS Assistant Secretary for Public Affairs Tricia McLaughlin told PBS News Hour’s Amna Nawaz on Wednesday. McLaughlin’s comments come as recent reports show that most of the people taken
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Monday marks the 80th anniversary of the liberation of the Nazis' Auschwitz-Birkenau extermination camp, where an estimated 1.1 million people, mainly Jews, were murdered during the Holocaust. One of the youngest survivors was an 8-year-old Polish girl named Rutka. She moved to Canada after World War II and took the name Rachel Hyams. Decades later, she died by suicide. Rachel's daughter, Audrey Hyams Romoff, has been retracing her mother's steps in search of answers, and allowed PBS News Hour s
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The Corporation for Public Broadcasting says the Department of Education terminated a federal grant program that funds educational shows and online games for children. According to reporting by the New York Times, the move means $23 million in funding to support children’s programming will be lost. Ready to Learn has funded shows like “Molly of Denali,” “Work It Out Wombats!” and “Lyla in the Loop.” In a statement, CPB said Ready To Learn-supported content was streamed 1.8 billion video times an
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Ukraine’s president has floated a possible compromise to a key Russian demand that Kyiv give up territory in eastern Ukraine. Volodymyr Zelenskyy’s proposal could address one of the main sticking points that have bogged down U.S.-led negotiations, but Moscow has given no indication whether it might agree. Nick Schifrin reports. | PBS NewsHour
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President Trump addressed the nation Wednesday night in a politically charged prime-time speech. In front of Christmas trees at the White House, he blamed Joe Biden and the Democrats in general for economic challenges and inflation. White House correspondent @elizlanders has this fact check. | PBS NewsHour
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In New York Monday, a court battle got under way that could have a major impact on the music industry. The Justice Department claims that concert giant Live Nation is running an illegal monopoly after merging with rival Ticketmaster in 2010. Officials claim the combined company uses its power to limit competition and drive up ticket prices. | PBS NewsHour
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However you listened to music this year — streaming on an app or the old-fashioned way on a radio — 2024 saw breakthrough artists, chart-topping hits and a return of some top-tier legacy performers. PBS News’ Stephanie Sy spoke to freelance music critic Maura Johnston and The Root senior writer Candace McDuffie to discuss the past year in music and their favorite albums of 2024. | PBS NewsHour
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The heads of America’s public media networks — PBS and NPR — faced sharp questioning by a House oversight subcommittee Wednesday about allegations of bias and why their work justifies continued federal support. That support also helps fund programs like the PBS News Hour. President Donald Trump, Elon Musk and many Republicans have argued those funds should be completely cut. William Brangham reports. | PBS NewsHour
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First, a takeover of leadership, then a renaming. Now, the Trump-Kennedy Center is facing canceled performances and a drop in overall ticket sales. Senior arts correspondent Jeffrey Brown reports on the turmoil at one of the nation’s preeminent arts centers. "The Kennedy Center has always stood for excellence in the arts, was named after President Kennedy. And he believed that the arts were at the center of all of our culture, all of our nation," Doug Varone told Brown after canceling a planned
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President Donald Trump suggested to House Republicans on Tuesday that their party needs to maintain control of Congress during this year's midterm elections or Democrats will "find a reason to impeach me." The president made the comments during a retreat for House GOP members at the Kennedy Center in Washington, D.C. The performing arts center's board, which includes members handpicked by Trump, recently renamed it the Trump-Kennedy Center. While some individual Democrats have called for Trump's
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Ahead of Europe's largest annual security conference, NATO defense ministers gathered in Brussels on Thursday to calm nerves and stiffen spines after President Donald Trump's threats to Greenland roiled the alliance. Nick Schifrin (@nickschifrin) filed this report from Germany. | PBS NewsHour
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A U.S. federal judge asked the Trump administration to explain how it failed to act on its court order to halt the deportation of hundreds of Venezuelan migrants, including alleged gang members, escalating the confrontation between the president and the federal judiciary. PBS News Hour's Laura Barrón-López reports. | PBS NewsHour
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The House gave final approval early Friday to President Donald Trump's request to slash more than $9 billion of already approved federal funding for foreign aid and public broadcasting. The package, a major victory for Trump, rescinds $8 billion for several foreign aid programs and about $1.1 billion for the Corporation for Public Broadcasting, the entity that steers funding to PBS, NPR and local stations across the country. The 216-213 vote marks the first time in more than two decades that a p
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President Donald Trump issued an executive order late Thursday night that instructs the Corporation for Public Broadcasting (CPB) to halt all direct federal funding to the nation’s two major public broadcasting networks – the Public Broadcasting Service (PBS) and National Public Radio (NPR). The move will directly affect the roughly 1,500 public media stations nationwide, as well as national programs like the PBS News Hour. Trump also directed CPB – a congressionally chartered, private, nonprofi
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President Donald Trump and Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth spoke to nearly the entire senior officer corps of the military on Tuesday at an unprecedented gathering at the Marine Corps base in Quantico, Virginia. Hegseth announced new directives, and the president laid out a vision to use the military against what he sees as threats within the United States. PBS News Hour's Nick Schifrin has more. | PBS NewsHour
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President Donald Trump said Tuesday that PBS and NPR are “a waste of money,” having convinced the Republican-led Congress to gut funding for U.S. public media last year. The president made the comment moments before signing legislation passed earlier in the day by the House of Representatives to fund most of the government through the end of September and end the partial government shutdown. Trump’s remarks were not the first time he has singled out PBS and NPR. Earlier in the year, the presiden
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The chameleon of rock, David Bowie, left behind a profound and colorful legacy. PBS News Hour's Lisa Desjardins reports on the new home for the British star's archive, the David Bowie Centre at the V&A East Storehouse in London. | PBS NewsHour
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The show you now know as the PBS News Hour went on the air 50 years ago. “The Robert MacNeil Report” first appeared on television screens on Oct. 20, 1975, an outgrowth of MacNeil and Jim Lehrer’s unprecedented gavel-to-gavel coverage of the Senate Watergate hearings two years earlier. In the past five decades, our team has covered the biggest stories and interviewed leaders around the world. Here’s a major moment from every year we’ve been on air. | PBS NewsHour
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The White House's effort to cut back $9.4 billion of already allocated government spending faces a critical vote in the Senate this week. Some Republicans have concerns about the cuts to foreign aid and public broadcasting as the clock ticks to Friday’s deadline to approve or modify the Trump administration's plan. PBS News Hour's Lisa Desjardins has more. | PBS NewsHour
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President Trump continues to claim his administration won’t touch Social Security. But as Elon Musk and DOGE look to slash federal jobs and spending, the Social Security Administration has plans to cut 12 percent of its workforce. PBS News Hour's Laura Barrón-López spoke to Martin O’Malley, who was the commissioner of SSA during the Biden administration, for more. | PBS NewsHour
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Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu said Saturday that that goal of its major military campaign with the United States in Iran is to “end the threat” of Ayatollah Ali Khamenei’s regime. Smoke was seen rising from the capital Tehran, with first strikes of “Operation Roaring Lion” appearing to hit areas around the offices of Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei. More strikes have been reported nationwide by Iranian media. “Together with the United States, we will strike the terror regime ha
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As the Senate sends the White House rescissions package with roughly $9 billion in federal spending cuts to the House, among the programs targeted for cuts is the Corporation for Public Broadcasting. It's the independent nonprofit created by Congress to distribute federal funds to more than 1,500 noncommercial TV and radio stations. PBS News Hour William Brangham spoke with Tom Abbott of public radio station KFSK in Petersburg to discuss what’s at stake for rural stations. | PBS NewsHour
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The John F. Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts, recently renamed the Trump Kennedy Center, will likely close its doors for two years starting this summer, according to President Donald Trump. The president made the announcement on social media late Sunday, claiming that the closure is necessary for renovations. On Monday, Trump said that the work will "probably" cost around $200 million. "I'm not ripping it down," he said. “I’ll be using the steel. So we’re using the structure, we’re using s
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Even though PBS and NPR are still in existence, President Donald Trump said Tuesday that he “heard they’re closed up.” During a news conference at the White House that lasted more than 90 minutes, Trump noted that, among his accomplishments during the first year of his second term in office, he signed legislation “to cut all taxpayer funding” to the two main American public media networks. The Trump administration’s move mainly affected the Corporation for Public Broadcasting (CPB), the independ
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Rapper Nicki Minaj claimed she is President Donald Trump's biggest fan at a U.S. Treasury event in Washington, D.C., on Wednesday, saying she and his supporters will not let him be bullied. "I am probably the president's No. 1 fan, and that's not going to change," she said. "The hate or what people have to say, it does not affect me at all. It actually motivates me to support him more." "We're not going to let them get away with bullying him and, you know, the smear campaigns. It's not going to
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New York Times columnist David Brooks and Jonathan Capehart of MS NOW joined PBS News Hour's Geoff Bennett on Friday to discuss the week in politics, including the fatal shooting of a U.S. citizen by an ICE agent, the removal of Nicolás Maduro from Venezuela and fresh signals of the Trump administration’s emerging vision of U.S leadership. | PBS NewsHour
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New York Times columnist David Brooks and Jonathan Capehart of MSNBC joined PBS News Hour's Amna Nawaz to discuss the week in politics, including President Donald Trump firing the head of the agency that produces the monthly jobs report, the White House surveying the humanitarian situation in Gaza on Friday and former Vice President Harris making her first television appearance since losing the election. | PBS NewsHour
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