December 10, 2025 – PBS News Hour full episode
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PBS NewsHour
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🗓️ 11 December 2025
⏱️ 53 minutes
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| 0:00.0 | Good evening. I'm Amman Nawaz. Jeff Bennett is away. On the news hour tonight, the U.S. |
| 0:09.4 | seizes an oil tanker off the coast of Venezuela, escalating tensions with the Maduro regime. |
| 0:15.9 | The Federal Reserve cuts interest rates again amid mixed economic data and more divisions within its own ranks. |
| 0:23.6 | And one woman's journey to return home to Syria after the fall of the decades-long Assad dictatorship. |
| 0:30.6 | The situation here is uncertain, but for the first time in so many years, I can stand in my country and see a future here. |
| 0:50.9 | Welcome to the News Hour. The United States today seized a tanker ship off the coast of Venezuela. |
| 0:57.1 | Attorney General Pambandi said in a social media post that a warrant was executed for the crude oil tanker that was once used to transport sanctioned oil from both Venezuela and Iran. |
| 1:08.2 | Nick Schiffen's been following this all, He joins me here now. So Nick, what happened |
| 1:11.6 | today? Well, as you just said, Pam Bondi just announced this, that the military with the Coast |
| 1:16.3 | Guard and the FBI's help seize this tanker off the coast of Venezuela. And Bondi also posted |
| 1:21.7 | this video. You can see it there, a helicopter hovering above the ship. You can see service members |
| 1:27.2 | rappelling down onto the ship. |
| 1:29.5 | Eventually, they draw their guns to seize this ship. |
| 1:32.9 | I mean, it goes without saying, but this is highly unusual to see in the Caribbean the military |
| 1:38.2 | launching an arm seizure of a tanker. |
| 1:40.7 | It was announced today by President Trump. |
| 1:44.0 | We've just seized a tanker. It was announced today by President Trump. We've just seized a tanker on the coast of Venezuela, a large tanker, very large. |
| 1:52.0 | Largest one ever seized, actually. It was seized for very good reason. |
| 1:57.0 | So as you said, Omna Bondi said the tanker was sanctioned by the U.S. as part of an |
| 2:01.9 | illicit oil-sirping network for supporting foreign terrorist organizations. But this is also a clear |
| 2:07.7 | attempt to pressure Venezuelan President Nicolas Maduro. And it's an attempt to pressure him |
| 2:12.2 | through economic means in the sense that it is an attempt to pressure Venezuela's exports of oil. Take a listen to |
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