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PBS News Hour - Full Show

February 5, 2026 - PBS News Hour full episode

PBS News Hour - Full Show

PBS NewsHour

News, Daily News

4.52.2K Ratings

🗓️ 6 February 2026

⏱️ 54 minutes

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Summary

Thursday on the News Hour, the showdown over Department of Homeland Security funding intensifies as Democrats make demands to rein in ICE. Measles spreads further in South Carolina in one of the biggest U.S. outbreaks in decades. How mortgages from before the 2008 financial crisis are haunting homeowners. Sudan's army breaks a yearslong siege of an embattled city and finds overwhelming suffering. 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. I'm the Navaz and Jeff Bennett are away. On the news hour tonight, the showdown over funding for the Department of Homeland Security intensifies as Democrats lay down their list of demands to rein in immigration agents.

0:20.0

Measles spreads further in South Carolina

0:22.6

in one of the biggest outbreaks the U.S. has seen in decades.

0:26.6

And how mortgages from before the 08 financial crisis

0:30.6

are coming back to haunt homeowners.

0:33.6

I did not find out until the day I was removed from my home that there was even a second mortgage out there.

0:53.4

Welcome to the NewsHour.

0:55.1

As immigration crackdown spread to new cities across the country,

0:59.2

Americans overwhelmingly disapprove of the actions of ICE and customs enforcement agents.

1:05.2

That's according to a new PBS News NPR Marist poll.

1:09.0

Our political correspondent Lisa Desjardin joins us with more on how public

1:13.4

opinion is shifting and how it may play into the debate on Capitol Hill. Hi, Lisa. What do Americans

1:20.4

think about ICE? What does this poll show us? These numbers are in big, bold print that the majority

1:25.3

of Americans very clearly do not approve of what ICE is doing,

1:28.9

and they're doing it by a large and growing margin.

1:32.1

Here's what we got in our poll.

1:34.1

65% of Americans told us that they do not, that they believe ice has gone too far.

1:39.7

Now what's interesting about this is when you look at how that compares to last year in

1:43.8

June,

1:44.5

at that time it was 54% of Americans.

1:46.7

That is a very big jump.

1:48.4

And also, June was an interesting pivot point as well.

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