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PBS News Hour - Full Show

August 22, 2025 – PBS News Hour full episode

PBS News Hour - Full Show

PBS NewsHour

News, Daily News

4.42.1K Ratings

🗓️ 22 August 2025

⏱️ 54 minutes

🧾️ Download transcript

Summary

Friday on the News hour, the FBI raids the home of John Bolton, President Trump's former national security adviser turned vocal critic. Famine is officially declared in parts of Gaza, where over half a million people face imminent starvation. Plus, Federal Reserve Chair Jerome Powell hints at a long-awaited interest rate cut, even in what he calls an "unusual" job market. 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

Good evening, I'm Amman Nawaz.

0:06.0

And I'm Jeff Bennett on the news hour tonight.

0:08.0

The FBI raids the home of John Bolton.

0:11.0

President Trump's former national security adviser turned vocal critic.

0:15.0

A famine is officially declared in northern Gaza,

0:18.0

where over half a million people face imminent starvation.

0:21.6

The great fear is that the statistics are actually worse. The reality on the ground is worse than the statistics suggest.

0:27.6

And Federal Reserve Chair Jerome Powell hints at a long-awated interest rate cut, even in what he calls an unusual job market.

0:50.5

Welcome to the News Hour.

0:55.2

Early this morning, FBI agents searched the Maryland home of John Bolton, the former national security advisor in President Trump's first administration.

0:59.2

Agents were also seen entering a building in downtown Washington, D.C., where Bolton has an office.

1:05.4

President Trump claimed he had no prior knowledge of the raid.

1:09.7

I'm not a fan of John Boe.

1:11.2

I thought it was a sleaze bag, actually.

1:13.4

And he suffers major Trump derangement syndrome, but so do a lot of people, and they're not

1:18.8

being affected by anything we do.

1:21.6

I don't know anything about it.

1:23.1

I just saw that.

1:24.3

I'll find out about it.

1:26.0

But if you believe the news, which I do, I guess his

1:31.3

house was rated today, but my house was rated also.

1:34.9

Since leaving the government in 2019, Bolton has become a sharp critic of President Trump,

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