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PBS News Hour - Full Show

December 7, 2025 – PBS News Weekend full episode

PBS News Hour - Full Show

PBS NewsHour

News, Daily News

4.42.1K Ratings

🗓️ 7 December 2025

⏱️ 20 minutes

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Summary

Sunday on PBS News Weekend, Hegseth doubles down on attacking alleged drug boats, saying Trump can take military action as he sees fit. What to know as online holiday shopping scammers get savvier. How small plug-in solar panels are gaining traction as a way to cut electricity bills. Plus, scientists flock to Iceland to study the effect of melting glaciers on earthquakes and volcanic eruptions. 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

Tonight on PBS News Weekend, Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth doubles down on attacking alleged drugboats, saying President Trump can take military action as he sees fit.

0:16.0

Then how small plug-in solar panels that can be mounted on balthanies and walls

0:21.6

are gaining traction as a way to cut electricity bills.

0:24.6

And the land of fire and ice.

0:27.6

Scientists are flocking to Iceland to see whether melting glaciers

0:31.6

could be more intense earthquakes and volcanic eruptions.

0:35.6

Iceland is essentially one of the best places in the world to study this.

0:39.3

It's a natural laboratory because we have both

0:43.3

volcanism and glaciers.

0:45.3

Good evening. I'm John Yang. The shock waves from the contentious second strike and an alleged drug smuggling boat in the Caribbean in September are still reverberating some three months later. That second attack came about a half hour after a first

1:11.9

strike appeared to have destroyed most of the boat. Today, lawmakers who were shown video of the

1:17.1

attacks offered starkly different interpretations of what they saw. The boat was adrift. It was going

1:23.0

where the current was going to take it. And these two were trying to figure out how to survive.

1:36.3

They were not incapacitated. They were not in the water, surviving only because they had a life jacket or hanging to a plank of wood. They were sitting on that boat. They were clearly moving around on it.

1:39.3

At a defense forum in California Saturday, Defense Secretary Pete Hegeseth defended the action.

1:46.5

Fully support that strike. I would have made the same call myself. Those that were involved in 20 years of conflict,

1:54.2

Iraq and Afghanistan or elsewhere, know that reattacks and re-strikes of combatants on the battlefield happen often.

2:06.6

Hegsteth wouldn't say if the video would be made public, saying the question is under review. Even as negotiators seek to end the war in Ukraine, Russia bombarded the country with overnight attacks.

2:12.6

At least four people were killed and nearly a dozen others injured.

2:16.6

In Florida, White House Special Envoy Steve Whitkoff and Ukrainian national security officials

2:21.8

were at three days of talks this weekend about President Trump's peace plan.

2:26.2

After the attack, Ukrainian President Vladimir Zelensky called for more air defense systems,

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