February 13, 2024 - PBS NewsHour full episode
PBS News Hour - Full Show
PBS NewsHour
4.5 • 2.2K Ratings
🗓️ 14 February 2024
⏱️ 54 minutes
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| 0:00.0 | Good evening. I'm Amna Navas. Jeff Bennett is away. On the news hour tonight. |
| 0:09.8 | The Senate passes a bipartisan bill for aid to Israel and Ukraine, but hardline immigration |
| 0:15.7 | politics threaten its future in the House. |
| 0:19.5 | Doctors sound the alarm about a cheap and easy-to supplement known as gas station heroin, part of a growing |
| 0:26.0 | group of unregulated and potentially addictive products. |
| 0:30.6 | And fresh off re-election, the president of El Salvador continues his gang crackdown, |
| 0:36.0 | which has already fueled mass arrests and concerns about democracy. |
| 0:40.0 | The challenge is helping people who have been subjected to the terror of gangs for decades |
| 0:45.9 | process what might have been lost in exchange for that security. Welcome to the news hour. A big day on Capitol Hill where early this morning |
| 1:05.2 | US senators passed a 95 billion dollar plan to fund Ukraine, Israel, and other |
| 1:10.8 | foreign aid. And where tonight the House of Representatives plans another attempt at impeaching Homeland |
| 1:16.6 | Security Secretary Alejandre Meorgas. |
| 1:19.5 | Our Lisa Desjardan is there and she joins me now. |
| 1:22.2 | So Lisa, it's fair to say just a few days ago. It wasn't |
| 1:24.8 | even clear that this bill could get through the Senate. What happened? |
| 1:28.8 | Right. There was a rare weekend session after that tumultuous week last week and after an overnight work |
| 1:36.1 | that ended in a 6 a.m. vote this morning where overwhelmingly the Senate in fact did vote |
| 1:41.5 | to pass this Ukraine and foreign aid bill. Let's quickly |
| 1:44.1 | remind folks what's in it. It's about a $95 billion bill. The largest amount in |
| 1:50.0 | there is for Ukraine, $60 billion. Then there's also money in here for Israel, $14 billion, |
| 1:56.0 | just under $10 billion for humanitarian aid that does include for civilians in Gaza, and there |
| 2:01.1 | are sanctions and penalties for fentanyl for international operations and perhaps |
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