December 19, 2025 - PBS News Hour full episode
PBS News Hour - Full Show
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4.5 • 2.2K Ratings
🗓️ 20 December 2025
⏱️ 54 minutes
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| 0:00.0 | Good evening. I'm Jeff Bennett. I'm the Navaz is away. On the news hour tonight, the Justice |
| 0:09.1 | Department releases a long-awaited trove of documents related to the late sex offender, Jeffrey Epstein. |
| 0:15.1 | What we know about the Brown University shooting suspect who was found dead after a days-long |
| 0:20.0 | manhunt. And we speak with |
| 0:22.0 | a relative of an immigrant with no criminal record who's being detained by immigration authorities. |
| 0:27.7 | She did exactly what the government asked her to do. She graduated from high school. She got |
| 0:32.2 | a valid work permit. Social Security card. She pays taxes, she had gainful employment. Welcome to the News Hour. Late this afternoon, the Justice Department began releasing thousands of pages of files and communications related to the late convicted sex offender Jeffrey Epstein. The new documents include photos, call logs, court filings, and more. Many of them heavily redacted. Our White House correspondent, Liz Landers, joins us now. So Liz, you and our team have been reading through these documents. |
| 1:11.8 | What stands out so far? |
| 1:13.3 | Well, there are thousands of documents that have been released today. |
| 1:16.4 | That is far fewer than the Attorney General, the Deputy Attorney General Todd Blanche had said. |
| 1:21.7 | And he has said that this will take a few weeks. |
| 1:24.3 | What we have noticed in today's release so far is that this is divided into |
| 1:28.8 | several different categories, and much of the new information is coming out in what is the |
| 1:33.9 | Department of Justice Disclosure category. We've seen a redacted masseuse list with more than |
| 1:39.5 | 250 names all redacted. We've also found at least one of the grand jury documents in there from the United States |
| 1:46.9 | versus Epstein. |
| 1:47.9 | That is key. |
| 1:48.7 | We have not gone through that document yet, but that is certainly something we will be looking |
| 1:51.9 | through. |
| 1:52.9 | There are tons and tons of photos in this. |
| 1:55.6 | That's really what is the bulk of what's in today's release. |
| 1:59.8 | Many more pictures showing Jeffrey Epstein in his |
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