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PBS News Hour - Full Show

June 26, 2025 – PBS News Hour full episode

PBS News Hour - Full Show

PBS NewsHour

News, Daily News

4.42.1K Ratings

🗓️ 26 June 2025

⏱️ 53 minutes

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Summary

Thursday on the News Hour, President Trump doubles down on his claims that U.S. strikes destroyed Iran's nuclear program and its uranium stockpiles. The Supreme Court rules that states can cut off Medicaid funding from Planned Parenthood, even if it's not being used for abortions. Plus, we speak with the American who was imprisoned in Russia for donating $51 to Ukraine. PBS News is supported by - https://www.pbs.org/newshour/about/funders

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0:00.0

Good evening. I'm Amna Nawaz.

0:05.8

And I'm Jeff Bennett on the news hour tonight.

0:08.4

Amid differing intelligence assessments, President Trump doubles down on his claim that U.S. strikes completely destroyed Iran's nuclear program.

0:16.0

The U.S. Supreme Court rules that states can cut off Medicaid funding from Planned Parenthood,

0:22.5

even if it's not being used for abortions. And in her first interview since being freed,

0:27.8

we speak with the American who was imprisoned in Russia for donating $51 to Ukraine.

0:34.1

All of your world, all out of the sudden just flip upside down.

0:38.3

And you don't have anything that you used to anymore.

0:42.3

You don't have your loved ones.

0:44.3

You don't have your freedom.

0:46.3

You don't have your freedom. Welcome to the News Hour.

1:00.4

The Trump administration today again furiously defended the U.S.

1:04.2

airstrikes against Iran's nuclear program claiming the facilities were destroyed.

1:08.8

It comes in response to a leaked initial intelligence

1:11.7

assessment that said Iran's nuclear program was set back by only a few months. That leak is now

1:17.1

being investigated by the FBI. The report was produced by the Defense Intelligence Agency,

1:22.6

or DIA. But the director of the CIA issued a statement last night contradicting its finding.

1:28.6

At an early morning briefing today, Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth denounced the news media for its coverage of the report.

1:35.8

Because of decisive military action, President Trump created the conditions to end the war, decimating, choose your word, obliterating, destroying Iran's nuclear capabilities.

1:50.0

Every outlet has breathlessly reported on a preliminary assessment from DIA.

1:56.0

A day and a half after the actual strike, when it admits itself in writing that it requires weeks to accumulate

2:02.4

the necessary data to make such an assessment. It's preliminary. It points out that it's not

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