February 27, 2026 - PBS News Hour full episode
PBS News Hour - Full Show
PBS NewsHour
4.5 • 2.2K Ratings
🗓️ 28 February 2026
⏱️ 53 minutes
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| 0:00.0 | Good evening. I'm Jeff Bennett. Amman Navaz is away. On the news hour tonight, |
| 0:08.8 | movement on a crucial sticking point whether Iran should be allowed to enrich uranium, |
| 0:13.8 | the latest on the nuclear talks with the U.S., as the two countries teeter on the brink of war. |
| 0:19.9 | Former President Bill Clinton testifies before a GOP-led congressional committee |
| 0:24.1 | saying he had no knowledge of Jeffrey Epstein's crimes. |
| 0:28.2 | And with a growing number of people detained in the Trump immigration crackdown, |
| 0:32.9 | the Trump administration looks to an unexpected place to house them, warehouses. |
| 0:38.3 | These places were built to hold goods and ship goods. |
| 0:41.3 | They were not meant to hold human beings. |
| 0:44.3 | So there's a pretty significant renovation process that has to go underway. |
| 0:48.3 | The Welcome to the News Hour. |
| 1:01.7 | President Trump said today he was unhappy with the progress of diplomacy with Iran and suggested he may, as he put it, have to use the military. |
| 1:10.8 | That came in contrast to a statement from the mediator of the talks who said they're making progress. |
| 1:16.4 | And that's as the U.S. has deployed the largest military presence in the Middle East in more than two decades. |
| 1:22.2 | Here's Nick Schifrin. |
| 1:24.2 | Today, as the U.S. prepares for the prospect of war, President Trump did not hide his disappointment |
| 1:30.6 | in U.S.-Iran nuclear talks. |
| 1:32.6 | We're not happy with the negotiation. |
| 1:34.6 | They just don't want to — they don't want to say the key words, we're not going to have |
| 1:38.5 | a nuclear weapon. |
| 1:39.5 | They have to say, we're not going to have a nuclear weapon, and they just can't quite get |
| 1:44.9 | there. |
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