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PBS News Hour - Full Show

June 22, 2025 – PBS News Weekend full episode

PBS News Hour - Full Show

PBS NewsHour

News, Daily News

4.42.1K Ratings

🗓️ 22 June 2025

⏱️ 25 minutes

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0:00.0

Tonight on PBS News Weekend, the United States strikes three nuclear sites in Iran and anxiously

0:11.2

waits to see how Iran will respond.

0:14.2

Then we discuss the scale and scope of the attacks and what's next with H.R. McMaster,

0:19.2

National Security Advisor in President Trump's first term,

0:22.5

and Kareem Sajitpour, the Carnegie Endowment for International Peace. And we get a first-hand

0:28.1

account of the mounting desperation inside Gaza as Palestinians, including children, are killed

0:34.1

while trying to get food aid. The level of children I've seen with wounds of war over five visits

0:39.3

is unparalleled to anything I've seen in my two decades of this work.

0:43.2

Every hospital is the sound of children screaming

0:45.6

because of a severe lack of painkillers. Good evening. I'm John Yang. Tonight, the Middle East stands at a pivot point. The administration says Operation Midnight Hammer severely damaged or destroyed Iran's largest nuclear sites. In response,

1:13.5

Iran says the time for diplomacy is over and hits hints at military retaliation against the United

1:20.0

States, even as more missiles from Iran strike Tel Aviv. Our coverage tonight begins with

1:25.2

Foreign Affairs and Defense correspondent Nick Schifrin.

1:30.2

The U.S.'s unprecedented direct attack on Iran began under the cover of darkness.

1:37.3

A dozen B-2 bombers flew 30 hours with multiple mid-air refueling, all under strict operational security, including a decoy.

1:47.0

The bombers launched from Whiteman Air Force Base Friday night at midnight flying east.

1:51.5

At the same time, B-2s also launched West, tracked on social media.

1:55.8

But that was deliberate deception to allow the main bombers to fly to Iran undetected, and alongside

2:02.3

dozens of fighter jets target Iran's key nuclear enrichment sites at Natanz and Fordo,

2:08.7

where thousands of advanced centrifuges spin hundreds of feet underground. For the first time in

2:14.3

combat, the U.S. dropped 14, 30,000-pound massive ordinance penetrators

2:20.4

designed to dig deep before exploding. This satellite image shows at least half a dozen

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