January 30, 2026 - PBS News Hour full episode
PBS News Hour - Full Show
PBS NewsHour
4.5 • 2.2K Ratings
🗓️ 31 January 2026
⏱️ 54 minutes
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| 0:00.0 | Good evening. I'm Amna Nawaz. And I'm Jeff Bennett. On the news hour tonight, protests continue against the Trump administration's immigration crackdown in Minneapolis, as federal authorities arrest reporters who say they were covering a protest inside a church. |
| 0:18.9 | The president nominates inflation hawk Kevin Warsh to lead the Federal Reserve, prompting |
| 0:24.8 | concerns about the central bank's future independence. |
| 0:28.6 | And after a massive Republican funding bill cut more than a trillion dollars from Medicaid |
| 0:33.5 | and children's health services, people with disabilities are bearing a disproportionate burden. |
| 0:38.3 | This is the single biggest rollback in federal support for healthcare that we've ever seen. |
| 0:45.3 | And people with disabilities are much more likely to rely on programs like Medicaid. Welcome to the News Hour. |
| 1:03.3 | The Justice Department said today it has opened a federal civil rights investigation into the shooting of Alex Preddy, the ICU nurse killed by immigration |
| 1:11.7 | officers in Minneapolis. The FBI will conduct that probe. That's a change from the department's |
| 1:17.5 | stance earlier this week when it only agreed to a more narrow inquiry into the use of force. |
| 1:22.7 | That news followed more arrests in Minnesota over a protest at a church. Special correspondent Fred |
| 1:28.7 | to Sam Lazaro has our report. |
| 1:31.2 | You can't kill us all. I so now. Another wave of protests swept through Minneapolis today. |
| 1:38.9 | Strike, strike, strike! And echoed in cities across the country. |
| 1:43.6 | We got the power. |
| 1:45.0 | We got the power. |
| 1:46.0 | As tensions grow over federal immigration enforcement and the Trump administration's response to dissent. |
| 1:53.0 | Federal agents today arrested former CNN anchor Don Lemon and three others in connection with a January 18th protest at a church in St. Paul, |
| 2:01.6 | where an ICE official serves as a pastor. |
| 2:04.6 | LEMON, who was fired from CNN in 2023, now hosts an independent show on YouTube. |
| 2:13.6 | The Justice Department has charged Lemon with federal civil rights crimes. |
| 2:18.3 | The National Association of Black Journalists, along with other news organizations, have condemned the move. |
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