December 12, 2025 – PBS News Hour full episode
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🗓️ 13 December 2025
⏱️ 54 minutes
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| 0:00.0 | Good evening. I'm Jeff Bennett. |
| 0:05.0 | And I'm Omna Nawaz. On the news hour tonight, President Trump and many other notable figures |
| 0:11.0 | appear in newly released photos from the late convicted sex offender Jeffrey Epstein's files. |
| 0:17.0 | The U.S. Special Forces veteran who helped get Venezuela's opposition leader out of the country |
| 0:22.1 | to accept a Nobel Peace Prize, details the complex and harrowing operation. |
| 0:26.6 | And centuries-old olive groves in the occupied West Bank sit untouched during harvest season |
| 0:33.6 | because of repeated attacks from Israeli settlers. |
| 0:36.6 | They beat me over the head nearly ten times, and then they beat the rest of my body. It's really painful. Now I can't go back to collect olives because of my brain injury. Very. Welcome to the News Hour. |
| 1:01.7 | Newly released photos are offering a closer look at the influential and wealthy people who spent time with convicted sex offender Jeffrey Epstein. |
| 1:10.1 | Democrats on the House |
| 1:11.2 | Oversight Committee say the batch of previously unreleased images came directly from Epstein's |
| 1:16.3 | estate, and they include multiple images of President Trump and former President Bill Clinton, |
| 1:20.7 | among others. It's not immediately clear when or where the photos were taken. For more, |
| 1:26.1 | we're joined now by White House correspondent Liz Landers. |
| 1:28.8 | Liz, thank you for being here. First, we should be clear that these documents today are coming from |
| 1:33.8 | Democrats in Congress. These are not documents from the Justice Department. Democrats have been |
| 1:38.5 | rolling these materials out, gradually keeping this story alive. What's new in this latest release? |
| 1:43.6 | So these are 90 or so more images that we're getting today, as you mentioned, selectively |
| 1:47.8 | being released by the Democrats over the last few weeks and months. These images today depict |
| 1:54.1 | Epstein and the people that he socialized with. Some of these images, three of them, do contain |
| 2:00.0 | photos of President Donald Trump. This was before he was president. One of these images, three of them, do contain photos of President Donald Trump. This was |
| 2:01.8 | before he was president. One of these photos is him with six women. All of their faces are redacted. |
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