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PBS News Hour - Full Show

January 28, 2026 - PBS News Hour full episode

PBS News Hour - Full Show

PBS NewsHour

Daily News, News

4.52.2K Ratings

🗓️ 29 January 2026

⏱️ 54 minutes

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Summary

Wednesday on the News Hour, FBI agents raid an elections office in Georgia as part of a probe into the 2020 election, which President Trump continues to falsely claim he won. Political tensions intensify as a Minnesota Democrat is attacked at a town hall and Congress faces another potential shutdown. Plus, a family detention center that's been criticized for living conditions is put on lockdown. 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 Omnan Abbas. And I'm Jeff Bennett. On the news hour tonight, FBI agents raid an elections office in Fulton County, Georgia, as part of a probe into the 2020 election, which President Trump continues to falsely claim he won.

0:18.8

Political tensions intensify as a Minnesota Democrat

0:22.0

is attacked at a town hall

0:23.9

and Congress faces another potential government shutdown.

0:27.7

And a family detention center

0:29.7

criticized for substandard living conditions

0:32.2

is put on lockdown.

0:34.1

We speak to the lawyer of one family being kept there.

0:37.9

This is the reaction of the Trump administration to individuals expressing their free speech

0:44.8

rights, both inside these facilities and outside these facilities. Welcome to the News Hour.

1:01.8

The FBI executed a search warrant at an election center in Fulton County, Georgia

1:06.7

today seeking records related to the 2020 election.

1:10.4

Federal agents were seen entering the office outside of Atlanta this afternoon.

1:14.6

Baseless claims of voter fraud in Fulton County have been a focus of President Trump since he lost the 2020 election.

1:20.6

Our White House correspondent Liz Landers has been following all of this and she joins us now.

1:25.6

So Liz, this search is a remarkable escalation

1:28.3

of the president's unfounded claims about the 2020 election. What do we know about what happened?

1:33.0

The FBI confirming to us this afternoon that they are conducting what they say is a court-authorized

1:38.1

law enforcement action at that Fulton County Election Center. And just moments before we got on the

1:43.4

air, we obtained the search

1:45.1

warrant that they have there in Georgia. It was signed today by a federal judge. And in it, it gives us

1:52.2

some more information about what the FBI is seeking. It says they're looking for physical ballots

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