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PBS News Hour - Full Show

August 2, 2025 – PBS News Weekend full episode

PBS News Hour - Full Show

PBS NewsHour

News, Daily News

4.42.1K Ratings

🗓️ 2 August 2025

⏱️ 25 minutes

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Summary

Saturday on PBS News Weekend, a flurry of new tariffs imposed by Trump shook markets, along with weaker than expected jobs numbers that cost a Labor Department official her job. Former Venezuelan detainees speak out about their abuse in El Salvador’s mega-prison. The phenomenon of “super aging” and the science of longer human lifespans. Plus, the Indiana kids inspiring others to get outdoors. PBS News is supported by - https://www.pbs.org/newshour/about/funders

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0:00.0

Tonight on PBS News weekend, a flurry of new tariffs imposed this week by President Trump shook markets, along with weaker than expected jobs numbers that cost a key labor department figure her job.

0:17.9

Then we explore the phenomenon of super aging and the scientific advances that may help transform human lifespans.

0:25.6

And how a group of kids in Indiana are using their summer vacation to inspire others to get off their screens and get outdoors.

0:33.4

I'm Michael. I'm Lou. I'm Sam. I'm Jack. I'm Dick. I'm McGill. And we're the Creek Crawlers. This is day 25. We're trying to get to one million followers by the end of summer.

0:42.0

And today we're going to upgrade the fort and also swim and play games in the creek. Good evening. I'm Ali Rogan. John Yang is away.

1:01.6

Countries around the world are facing a flurry of steep new tariffs on goods sent to the United States.

1:07.2

The White House's announcement yesterday that it will impose hefty taxes on imports from nearly 70 countries next week

1:13.3

triggered the worst day on Wall Street in over a month. Those economic jitters were compounded by weaker than expected jobs numbers,

1:20.8

which prompted President Trump to fire the Bureau of Labor Statistics Commissioner who produced them.

1:26.3

Earlier, I spoke with Ernie Tedeski, former chief economist for the Biden White House

1:30.8

and the director of economics at the Budget Lab at Yale University.

1:34.9

We discussed the sweeping tariffs, but I began by asking him about the dismissal of the

1:39.3

Labor Statistics Commissioner Erica McIntyrefer.

1:42.9

Erica McIntyrefer is one of the most devoted public servants in government, and among economists,

1:51.0

one of the most data-focused and rigorous people that I know.

1:54.7

And you've written on X that this type of political interference sets a bad precedent.

2:00.1

What are your concerns?

2:01.7

The United States has some of the most trustworthy economic data in the world, both our

2:07.3

labor market data and our GDP data. Lots of different entities and consumers throughout the world

2:14.2

rely on it for making important decisions. If suddenly that data is politically

2:20.0

manipulated and is not trustworthy, these people that use and rely on the data may have to go

2:28.9

elsewhere to less reliable sources for data and may make decisions that are not as sound, you know, not as

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