December 20, 2025 - PBS News Weekend full episode
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🗓️ 20 December 2025
⏱️ 25 minutes
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| 0:00.0 | Tonight on PBS News Weekend, as the Justice Department releases more material on Jeffrey Epstein, |
| 0:11.0 | critics complain about heavy redactions. |
| 0:14.0 | Then how companies may be using AI to sift through your personal data online to set individualized prices. |
| 0:21.6 | And a conversation with world-renowned animal scientists and autism advocate, Temple Grandin, |
| 0:27.6 | whose portrait is now in the National Portrait Gallery. |
| 0:30.6 | Like you've got to be kidding. I think it's like some of the Nobel Prize winners. |
| 0:34.6 | When they get the call to Sweden, they just can't believe it. I almost couldn't believe it. |
| 0:38.5 | Good evening. I'm John Yang. |
| 0:53.3 | Overnight, the Justice Department released hundreds more |
| 0:56.3 | heavily redacted pages of material it had gathered on convicted sex offender Jeffrey Epstein. |
| 1:02.1 | Still, what's been made public so far falls well short of the full disclosure required by the law |
| 1:07.8 | Congress passed last month. These new releases come in addition to the thousands of pages of photos, correspondence, |
| 1:14.6 | and other material released on Friday afternoon. |
| 1:17.6 | And the Justice Department says there will be much more to come in the coming weeks. |
| 1:21.6 | Among the latest batch released around midnight is a phone message slip that reads, |
| 1:26.6 | She has females for Mr. J.E. Jeff, is a phone message slip that reads, she has females for Mr. |
| 1:28.9 | J.E. Jeff Mason is a White House correspondent for Reuters. Jeff, these new files, the files |
| 1:35.3 | even though were released yesterday, tell us a lot about, more detail about Jeffrey Epstein. |
| 1:40.0 | But does it tell us anything about his relationship with Donald Trump, with President Trump? |
| 1:45.9 | Very little. And that's one thing that people were maybe anticipating getting more information on. |
| 1:51.8 | But the files have some mentions of Trump and some conversations, but no photos. One of the pieces of evidence that people were expecting was not in the release. |
| 2:04.4 | And in general, the files were focused on other people in Jeffrey Epstein's orbit and not the current president of the United States. |
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