January 14, 2026 - PBS News Hour full episode
PBS News Hour - Full Show
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4.5 • 2.2K Ratings
🗓️ 15 January 2026
⏱️ 54 minutes
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| 0:00.0 | Good evening. I'm Amna Nawaz. |
| 0:05.8 | And I'm Jeff Bennett on the news hour tonight. As the unrest continues in Iran, President |
| 0:11.3 | Trump appears to tamp down his own threats of military action. |
| 0:14.9 | Fundamental disagreements remain after a meeting between the White House and officials |
| 0:20.2 | from Denmark and Greenland, |
| 0:22.0 | a territory the President has said the U.S. should control. |
| 0:25.9 | And more immigration raids and the ongoing fallout from the killing of a U.S. citizen |
| 0:30.7 | by an ICE agent keeps the Twin Cities on edge. |
| 0:35.0 | This morning when I left in my house, I was was like am I going to see ice? I don't |
| 0:39.2 | know are they going to rest to me I don't know and that's what you know the |
| 0:42.5 | entire Somali community and community of color feeling now. Welcome to the News Hour. |
| 1:00.4 | For days, fears and tensions have racked the Middle East. |
| 1:04.7 | And we're witnessing unprecedented protests in Iran, a deadly crackdown by Iranian authorities and threats to intervene by |
| 1:12.6 | President Trump. But tonight, President Trump said Iran's crackdown had eased and suggested his focus |
| 1:18.3 | was no longer a military strike. Nick Schifrin is here following all of this for us. So Nick, what did |
| 1:24.3 | the president say this afternoon? The president said that the killing in Iran is, quote, stopping and that Iran would not |
| 1:30.3 | follow through on the first execution of a protester, which we expected today. |
| 1:35.2 | And this is crucial, Jeff, because the president, for days, has been warning Iran, threatening |
| 1:40.0 | Iran, that if Iran killed protesters, which Iranian forces have done by the thousands, and that |
| 1:45.4 | if Iran went through with that execution that we expected, quote, we will take very strong action. |
| 1:51.3 | So by saying this today, the president at least appears to be no longer focused on a military |
| 1:56.2 | strike. |
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