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PBS News Hour - Full Show

April 16, 2024 - PBS NewsHour full episode

PBS News Hour - Full Show

PBS NewsHour

News, Daily News

4.42.1K Ratings

🗓️ 17 April 2024

⏱️ 54 minutes

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Summary

Tuesday on the NewsHour, the Supreme Court considers whether a charge of obstructing an official proceeding can be used to prosecute Capitol rioters and Donald Trump. A look at Russia's intensifying attacks on Ukraine's energy system and the impact on its people. Plus, House Speaker Johnson's job is in peril after a second House Republican pushes to oust him over aid to Ukraine and Israel. PBS NewsHour is supported by - https://www.pbs.org/newshour/about/funders

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0:00.0

Good evening. I'm on the Navas in Kyiv Ukraine. And I'm Jeff Bennett. On the news hour tonight,

0:10.6

the US Supreme Court considers whether a charge of obstructing an official

0:14.4

proceeding can be used to prosecute capital riders and former President Donald

0:19.3

Trump. Tonight from Ukraine we look at Russia's intensifying attacks on Ukraine's energy system,

0:26.6

the impact on its people and the war.

0:31.5

What's going to happen in the city? Will the rockets come into the city? Will they

0:35.2

have houses? What will happen the next day with heat, with water? And House Speaker

0:40.4

Mike Johnson's job is in peril again.

0:43.8

After a second House Republican pushes to oust him over plans to send aid to Ukraine and

0:49.1

Israel. Welcome to the news hour here in Ukraine as leaders await news of

1:06.3

additional US aid Russia's war here has entered a new phase now attacking

1:11.3

Ukraine's energy infrastructure with devastating precision.

1:15.0

But first we begin at home where the US Supreme Court heard oral arguments today

1:20.0

in a case about January 6th.

1:22.0

And those arguments focused on whether part of a federal obstruction law can be used to prosecute

1:27.4

some of the rioters involved in the January 6th attack on the U.S. Capitol.

1:32.1

The court's ruling could impact hundreds of

1:34.3

criminal cases, even the pending case against former President Donald Trump.

1:38.3

Kyle Cheney, political's senior legal affairs reporter, has been following the

1:42.3

January 6th legal

1:43.6

fallout and he joins us now. Kyle, thanks so much for being with us. We should say

1:47.3

this case was brought by a former Pennsylvania police officer Joseph Fisher

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