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PBS News Hour - Full Show

June 24, 2025 – PBS News Hour full episode

PBS News Hour - Full Show

PBS NewsHour

News, Daily News

4.42.1K Ratings

🗓️ 24 June 2025

⏱️ 54 minutes

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Summary

Tuesday on the News Hour, a fragile ceasefire holds between Israel and Iran as President Trump meets NATO leaders at a time of tension for the alliance. A briefing for lawmakers is postponed, leading to questions about whether the Iran strikes were as successful as Trump claims. Plus, we delve into the massive GOP budget bill with a look at how its cuts to Medicaid could affect rural hospitals. PBS News is supported by - https://www.pbs.org/newshour/about/funders

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0:00.0

Good evening. I'm Jeff Bennett. Amman of Oz is away.

0:07.0

On the news hour tonight, a fragile ceasefire holds between Israel and Iran as President Trump

0:13.0

meets NATO leaders at a time of tension for the alliance.

0:16.0

A classified briefing for lawmakers is postponed, leading to more questions about whether the Iran strikes were as successful as the White House claims.

0:24.6

And we delve into the Republican's massive budget bill with the look at how its cuts to Medicaid could affect rural hospitals.

0:31.6

The only way we can make up for it is to cut expenses and which may mean cutting services. And that just hurt, and that hurts all

0:38.2

patients, not just Medicaid patients.

0:39.8

Welcome to the News Hour. President Trump is in the Netherlands tonight in advance of tomorrow's NATO summit, while in the Middle East, the ceasefire between Iran and Israel is holding.

1:02.5

Israel tonight described enormous damage to Iran's nuclear program, but the PBS News Hour has learned an initial U.S. assessment of the damage caused by the American

1:12.3

bombing of three Iranian nuclear sites suggests the sites have not been as destroyed as President

1:18.4

Trump has claimed. Nick Schifrin is in the Hague tonight and begins with the apparent end of

1:23.6

fighting between Israel and Iran. In Tehran, a tense quiet the city hasn't seen in nearly two weeks,

1:32.3

a fragile ceasefire now holding.

1:34.3

After final strikes leading up to the truce,

1:38.3

Israel said it hit dozens of Iranian missile launchers and military targets.

1:42.3

And in the largest city in southern Israel,

1:45.0

a barrage of Iranian ballistic missiles tore off the top floors of this apartment building.

1:51.0

At least four killed, dozens wounded. But some survivors rescued from the rubble by Israeli firefighters.

1:58.0

I went out during the siren and in the middle of the building, when I was going toward the safe room, it blew up.

2:06.6

I saw something close to me. I saw fire in front of me.

2:10.6

It was the final Iranian strike before the ceasefire, but Israel says it kept firing interceptors,

2:16.6

including this one that fell in northern Israel and accuse Iran of two ceasefire violations.

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