January 27, 2026 - PBS News Hour full episode
PBS News Hour - Full Show
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4.5 • 2.2K Ratings
🗓️ 28 January 2026
⏱️ 53 minutes
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| 0:00.0 | Good evening. I'm Jeff Bennett. And I'm Amna Nawaz. On the news hour tonight, the Trump |
| 0:09.1 | administration changes its leadership for immigration operations in Minnesota in response to public |
| 0:15.1 | backlash from the two fatal shootings of U.S. citizens. Taiwan expresses fears the U.S. operation to oust Venezuela's leader might emboldened China to invade. |
| 0:25.6 | And we hear from the whistleblower who said Doge mishandled American Social Security data, |
| 0:31.6 | a claim the Justice Department now admits is true. |
| 0:35.6 | That database houses personal information, as I understand it, on all living |
| 0:40.7 | and dead Americans. So this is a real risk to everybody. |
| 0:57.3 | Welcome to the News Hour. |
| 1:04.7 | President Trump said today he's going to de-escalate tensions amid his aggressive immigration crackdown that's centered on Minneapolis. And toward that end, the president said he wanted what he called an honest inquiry into the shooting death of Alex Pretti and had his border czar Tom Homan meet with state and local officials. |
| 1:15.3 | But at the same time, Mr. Trump said during a trip to Iowa today, that the adjustments |
| 1:19.8 | should not be seen as a pullback. And he again blamed Pretti for carrying a gun, which |
| 1:25.1 | was legally permitted. As special correspondent, Fred |
| 1:28.4 | to Sam Lazaro reports skepticism of President Trump's changes remains high in the Twin |
| 1:33.4 | Cities even after the departure of Border Patrol commander Greg Bovino. |
| 1:39.2 | Gregory Bovino's final night in Minnesota was a loud one. |
| 1:48.9 | Protesters turned up the volume outside what they believed was Bolino's hotel. |
| 1:49.9 | What did they do? |
| 1:54.1 | Police arrested some demonstrators at the scene. |
| 1:59.9 | Bovino leaves a community far more on edge than it was when he arrived. |
| 2:06.9 | Under his command, federal agents fatally shot another U.S. citizen on Saturday, Alex Prettie. |
| 2:11.1 | It came two weeks after Renee Good was killed by ICE officers. |
| 2:16.0 | This week, Bovino claimed without evidence that Prettie had been planning to, quote, |
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