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PBS News Hour - Full Show

December 23, 2025 - PBS News Hour full episode

PBS News Hour - Full Show

PBS NewsHour

Daily News, News

4.52.2K Ratings

🗓️ 24 December 2025

⏱️ 53 minutes

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Tuesday on the News Hour, the latest release of files related to Jeffrey Epstein includes many mentions of President Trump. The White House recalls dozens of career diplomats in the latest effort to reshape U.S. diplomacy and foreign policy. Plus, an inside look at Ukraine's rapidly developing drone capabilities. PBS News is supported by - https://www.pbs.org/newshour/about/funders. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy

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0:00.0

Good evening. I'm William Brangham. Jeff Bennett and Omna Nawaz are away.

0:07.0

On the news hour tonight, the latest release of thousands more files related to the late sex offender Jeffrey Epstein,

0:14.0

files that include many mentions of President Trump. The White House recalls dozens of career diplomats

0:21.2

in the latest effort to reshape U.S. diplomacy and foreign policy.

0:25.8

And an inside look at Ukraine's rapidly expanding use of drone warfare.

0:31.7

We're targeting Russian fuel bases, logistics hubs, command headquarters,

0:35.6

and this forces them to move all of this away from the front line.

0:51.3

Welcome to the News Hour. The Justice Department released nearly 30,000 more pages of documents

0:56.9

related to the late convicted sex offender Jeffrey Epstein, including many that reference President

1:02.7

Donald Trump. The new batch comes as the DOJ is being criticized for not releasing all of the

1:08.4

documents by the deadlines set by Congress and heavily redacting many of those they have put out.

1:14.7

Our White House correspondent, Liz Landers, has been going through the recent batch,

1:18.6

and she joins us now.

1:20.1

Hi, Liz.

1:21.3

What is in this latest release?

1:23.8

This is 30,000 more pages that were put up last night, taken down, and then reposted by the Justice

1:29.6

Department. This includes photos, video surveillance, a lot of legal correspondence between

1:36.0

different prosecuting areas that were prosecuting the Epstein and Galane Maxwell case.

1:41.6

There are a few pages of this that are fully redacted, no explanation

1:44.9

why. There's also an email that mentions 10 co-conspirators that the FBI was discussing in

1:51.7

2019. That is some news that people have picked up on. And there's also a few mentions of President

1:56.8

Trump. Let's talk about some of those mentions of him. We should say the president has not

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