February 9, 2026 - PBS News Hour full episode
PBS News Hour - Full Show
PBS NewsHour
4.5 • 2.2K Ratings
🗓️ 10 February 2026
⏱️ 54 minutes
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| 0:00.0 | Good evening. I'm Jeff Pennett. And I'm Omnavaz. On the news hour tonight, global fallout from the Epstein files widens as his accomplice pleads the fifth before Congress. |
| 0:15.0 | The surge of immigration enforcement into Minnesota leads many residents there to forego vital health care for fear of being detained. |
| 0:23.4 | I think everyone in Minneapolis, including my clients, every single one of them, are experiencing |
| 0:29.8 | collective trauma. And I am too right there with them. And a reporter who gained access to a Texas |
| 0:36.1 | migrant detention facility details the experiences of children and families there. |
| 0:56.2 | Welcome to the News Hour. |
| 1:00.3 | The fallout from the recent release of the Epstein Files is continuing. His longtime associate and convicted child sex trafficker Elaine Maxwell declined today to answer questions from a congressional committee in a closed-door deposition. |
| 1:10.6 | Maxwell, who was subpoenaed by the House Oversight Committee last year, said she was invoking |
| 1:15.0 | her Fifth Amendment right to avoid self-incrimination. She appeared by video from a prison camp in Texas |
| 1:21.1 | where she's serving a 20-year prison sentence for sex trafficking and other crimes. |
| 1:26.3 | Maxwell's deposition comes the same day lawmakers were given access to view the unredacted files. |
| 1:32.3 | That includes two congressmen who led the congressional push to release the Epstein documents. |
| 1:37.3 | That's Congressman Thomas Massey and Rokane. |
| 1:40.3 | It has exposed people in the highest levels in technology and finance, in real estate. |
| 1:49.0 | It has exposed the establishment in monarchies in other countries. |
| 1:54.0 | So our push is how do we expose this and have accountability, not how do we score political points or have retribution. |
| 2:02.6 | Our Justice Correspondent, Ali Rogan, has been tracking all of this and joins us now. |
| 2:06.6 | So, Ali, let's start with today's developments. |
| 2:08.6 | What did we learn? |
| 2:09.6 | There were a number of actions today that really were efforts to pierce through this shroud of secrecy that still remains around many of these documents. |
| 2:18.1 | We did just hear from Congressman Massey and Kana. They said they've seen the names of six men |
| 2:24.6 | whose names were redacted in the public version that they were able to see today, who they said |
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