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PBS News Hour - Full Show

December 5, 2025 – PBS News Hour full episode

PBS News Hour - Full Show

PBS NewsHour

News, Daily News

4.42.1K Ratings

🗓️ 6 December 2025

⏱️ 53 minutes

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Summary

Friday on the News Hour, the CDC's vaccine committee changes recommendations for hepatitis B shots for newborns in a major shift for childhood immunizations. The world's largest streaming service announces plans to acquire one of Hollywood's oldest studios. Plus, Minnesota’s Somali community pushes back against President Trump’s rhetorical attacks as it prepares for immigration raids. 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 Jeff Bennett. I'm the Navaz is away. On the news hour tonight, the CDC's

0:09.7

vaccine committee changes recommendations for hepatitis B shots for newborns and a major shift for

0:15.5

childhood immunizations. The world's largest streaming service announces plans to acquire one of Hollywood's oldest studios.

0:23.8

And Minnesota's Somali community pushes back against President Trump's rhetorical attacks as it prepares for immigration rates.

0:31.7

I want to change his tongue because he doesn't know us.

0:35.8

Come over here, Donald Trump, you are our president.

0:52.1

Welcome to the News Hour. The U.S. Supreme Court has agreed to take up the question of whether President Trump's order ending birthright citizenship is legal.

1:00.7

The decision follows Trump's appeal of a lower court ruling that struck down his executive order as unconstitutional.

1:07.6

At issue is nothing less than the future of the 14th Amendment, which guarantees

1:11.8

citizenship to anyone born or naturalized in the U.S. It's another major Trump immigration policy

1:17.9

to reach the court, and the outcome could redefine a core principle of American law. The case will

1:23.3

be argued this spring. Separately, a federal judge in Florida has ordered the release of

1:28.3

materials from the 2005 and 2007 grand jury investigations into the late convicted sex offender

1:34.8

Jeffrey Epstein. A similar request was denied earlier this year, but U.S. District Judge Rodney

1:40.6

Smith said he is now granting the Justice Department's renewed petition in light

1:45.1

of a new law Congress passed last month, requiring the Department to disclose all of its records

1:50.5

related to Epstein. It remains unclear when the documents will be made public, but the law sets

1:56.1

a deadline of December 19th. The Virginia man charged with planting pipe bombs in Washington, D.C. on the eve of the

2:03.0

January 6th Capitol attack reportedly confessed to the act in interviews with investigators.

2:09.0

30-year-old Brian Cole Jr. did not enter a plea at his initial court appearance today.

2:14.2

Sources familiar with the investigation say Cole believed Donald Trump's false claims about

2:18.8

being cheated out of a victory in the 2020 election. Law enforcement officials have not publicly

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