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PBS News Hour - Full Show

January 6, 2026 - PBS News Hour full episode

PBS News Hour - Full Show

PBS NewsHour

Daily News, News

4.52.2K Ratings

🗓️ 7 January 2026

⏱️ 54 minutes

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Summary

Tuesday on the News Hour, President Trump presses U.S. energy companies to revive Venezuela's derelict oil industry, but barriers stand in the way of accessing the country's vast reserves. The Venezuela operation puts a changing U.S. foreign policy on full display. Plus, five years after the assault on the Capitol, the fight continues over how Jan. 6 is remembered. 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 Jeff Bennett. I'm the Navaz is away. On the news hour tonight, President Trump presses U.S. energy companies to revive Venezuela's derelict oil industry. But barriers stand in the way of accessing the country's vast reserves. The Venezuela operation puts a changing U.S. foreign policy on full display,

0:23.6

with threats of intervention and an effort to assert more influence in the Western Hemisphere.

0:29.6

And five years after the assault on the U.S. Capitol, the fight continues over how that fateful day is remembered.

0:36.6

It was a multi-pronged attack of

0:39.7

disinformation, radicalization, and violence to overturn the election.

0:56.3

Welcome to the News Hour.

1:04.3

The divides opened by the Trump administration's weekend operation to remove Venezuela's leader Nicolas Maduro widened further today.

1:12.5

European leaders denounced increasingly aggressive statements by Mr. Trump and top officials about an American seizure of Greenland,

1:15.1

a territory of NATO ally Denmark.

1:20.0

Late today, the White House press secretary shared a statement with the PBS News Hour saying,

1:24.0

quote, Greenland is a national security priority of the United States.

1:28.2

The president and his team are discussing a range of options, and, of course,

1:34.5

utilizing the U.S. military is always an option. Meantime, as Nick Schifrin reports again tonight in Venezuela, tensions and concerns are running high. As Venezuela heads toward an unknown,

1:42.5

future, one family mourns the past.

1:46.1

Jose Gonzalez says his 80-year-old sister Rosa was a kind woman, impeccable in her conduct.

1:52.0

And one of the few civilians killed in the Friday night raid to capture Nicolas Maduro.

1:56.6

The family says the attack destroyed her Caracas apartment and inflicted a fatal wound.

2:01.6

It caught us all by surprise.

2:03.6

We never thought it would be like this, this way.

2:06.6

But it happened, and it's something unavoidable now.

2:09.6

A now unavoidable new future for Venezuela without Maduro,

2:14.6

but his police state remains intact.

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