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PBS News Hour - Full Show

August 27, 2024 - PBS News Hour full episode

PBS News Hour - Full Show

PBS NewsHour

News, Daily News

4.52.2K Ratings

🗓️ 27 August 2024

⏱️ 54 minutes

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Summary

Tuesday on the News Hour, special counsel Jack Smith files a new indictment against Donald Trump for his efforts to overturn the 2020 election. Israel rescues a hostage from Gaza but hope for a larger hostage and cease-fire deal remains dim. Plus, an American journalist freed from Russian detention in a prisoner swap shares her harrowing experience and how she's adjusting to life back home. PBS News is supported by - https://www.pbs.org/newshour/about/funders

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0:00.0

Good evening. I'm Jeff Bennett. I'm the Navas as a way. On the news hour tonight

0:08.2

Special Counsel Jack Smith files a new indictment against former President Donald Trump for his efforts to overturn the 2020 election.

0:17.0

Israel rescues a hostage from a tunnel in Gaza, but hope for a larger hostage and ceasefire deal remains dim.

0:25.0

And an American journalist freed from Russian detention in the latest prisoner swap

0:30.0

shares her harrowing experience and how she's adjusting to life back home.

0:35.0

Even when the darkest feelings and emotions took over sometimes I knew I knew the whole world was fighting for me. Welcome to the news hour. The fallout from last month's Supreme Court decision on

1:01.5

presidential immunity continues.

1:03.7

Special counsel, Jack Smith, has filed a new indictment against former President

1:07.8

Donald Trump in federal court.

1:09.8

The charges against Mr. Trump remain the same.

1:13.0

Four counts related to alleged actions he took to stay in power after the 2020 election.

1:18.7

To explain what the new indictment means, Kerry Johnson, Justice correspondent for NPR joins us Carrie.

1:24.0

It's always great to see you. So help us understand why Jack Smith thought that this new indictment,

1:29.2

this revised indictment, was necessary.

1:31.6

The Supreme Court decision last month cut away a

1:36.1

significant part of the Special Counsel's case against Donald Trump here in

1:40.4

Washington DC and the Special Counsel Jack Smith told the court today that he was responding

1:45.8

to the Supreme Court's directives and basically tightening his case in some important respects

1:51.6

against the former president to make it comply with the

1:54.3

instructions the Supreme Court had given him.

1:56.3

So we've got this new 36 page superseding indictment and the original 45 page

2:01.8

indictment.

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