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PBS News Hour - Full Show

July 27, 2025 – PBS News Weekend full episode

PBS News Hour - Full Show

PBS NewsHour

News, Daily News

4.42.1K Ratings

🗓️ 27 July 2025

⏱️ 25 minutes

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Summary

Sunday on PBS News Weekend, Trump announces a trade deal with the European Union after months of tense negotiations. Israel opens some room for aid to reach Gaza amid worries it may be too late for some. We look at new cases of people carrying out crimes while posing as ICE agents. Plus, how funding cuts to national parks may harm the communities around them. PBS News is supported by - https://www.pbs.org/newshour/about/funders

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0:00.0

Tonight on PBS News Weekend, President Trump announces a trade deal with the European Union, one of the largest in modern history following months of tense negotiations.

0:16.6

Israel opens up some room for more desperately needed humanitarian aid, including airdrops into Gaza.

0:23.6

This amid worries it may be too late for some.

0:27.8

And we travel to New River Gorge in West Virginia to explore how funding cuts to national parks may impact the people around them.

0:38.3

Protecting the park and building the economy, the recreation economy, can help protect

0:43.3

people that may never set foot in this park. It's a linchpin of this economy. Good evening. I'm Lisa Desjardin. John Yang is away. We are tracking two major stories tonight in Gaza and in Europe.

1:08.7

We begin in Scotland, where President Trump and the European Union announced a major trade deal between their two massive economies.

1:17.2

We were able to make a deal that's very satisfactory to both sides.

1:20.6

It's tremendously, it's a very powerful deal.

1:25.5

The framework for this preliminary deal includes a 15% general tariff on most EU goods entering the U.S.

1:33.3

A 50% tariff on steel and aluminum would remain in place.

1:37.0

In addition, Mr. Trump said the EU has agreed to buy some $750 billion in U.S. energy

1:43.1

and invest hundreds of billions of dollars more.

1:46.6

A much higher general tariff, 30 percent, was due to go into effect later this week.

1:51.9

David Lynch is a global economics correspondent at the Washington Post.

1:55.2

He's also the author of The World's Worst Bet, how the globalization gamble went wrong

2:00.6

and what would make it right?

2:03.5

David, let's start, first of all, the U.S. is charging a 15% tariff from this preliminary deal

2:09.0

with the idea of easing the U.S. trade deficit with the EU.

2:13.6

What U.S. industries withstand a gain from this?

2:23.9

Well, I think we should start by saying this is really a bold departure from decades of U.S. trade policy that's been aimed at lowering trade barriers.

2:27.9

This new 15% tariff or tax is something that American companies will have to pay to import European

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