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PBS News Hour - Full Show

February 8, 2025 – PBS News Weekend full episode

PBS News Hour - Full Show

PBS NewsHour

News, Daily News

4.42.1K Ratings

🗓️ 8 February 2025

⏱️ 25 minutes

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Summary

Saturday on PBS News Weekend, a federal judge blocks Elon Musk’s Department of Government Efficiency from accessing sensitive records while plans to dismantle USAID are temporarily halted. Then, we explore the deep roots of DEI in America as it comes under increasing attack. Plus, a NASA mission to collect a piece of an ancient asteroid offers new clues about the origins of life on Earth. PBS News is supported by - https://www.pbs.org/newshour/about/funders

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0:00.0

Tonight on PBS News Weekend, a federal judge blocks Elon Musk's Department of Government

0:09.8

efficiency from accessing sensitive records, while plans to dismantle U.S. aid are temporarily halted.

0:16.7

Then we explore the deep roots of DEI in this country as it comes under increasing attack.

0:22.6

And a mission by NASA to collect a piece of an asteroid offers new clues about the origins of life on Earth.

0:28.6

This is telling us that not just the water, but some of the building blocks of life, actually were seeded onto Earth and other planets. Good evening. I'm Ali Rogan. John Yang is away. Two courts have set back the Trump

0:52.3

administration's plans to shrink the federal

0:55.0

workforce and reshape the U.S. government. This morning, a federal judge temporarily blocked

1:00.5

Elon Musk's Department of Government efficiency from accessing sensitive Treasury Department

1:05.2

records, including social security numbers and bank accounts of millions of Americans. That came after another judge paused until next Friday.

1:13.8

The administration's plan to place more than 2,000 employees at the U.S. Agency for International

1:19.2

Development on paid leave.

1:20.8

It's a setback in President Trump's efforts to dismantle the Global Humanitarian Agency,

1:25.8

which the President says is engaged in unspecified

1:28.6

fraud and corruption. One of the two federal employee organizations that sued to halt the administration's

1:34.3

plans is the American Foreign Service Association, whose members primarily work abroad.

1:39.7

Randy Chester is its vice president for USAID. Randy, thank you so much for being here.

1:43.5

We know that some employees have all employees at USAID. Randy, thank you so much for being here. We know that some

1:45.1

employees have all employees at USAID got emails saying you should be able to access the system again,

1:51.3

have access to emails and everything you need to do your job. But sources I've been speaking with

1:56.4

say that they still cannot log into the system and they have no access. Where do you think

2:01.6

stand, as you're aware, and are the people running what remains of US aid right now,

2:07.7

are they complying with this court order? Well, so far, like you say, Allie, what I'm hearing

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