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PBS News Hour - Full Show

March 17, 2026 - PBS News Hour full episode

PBS News Hour - Full Show

PBS NewsHour

News, Daily News

4.52.2K Ratings

🗓️ 17 March 2026

⏱️ 53 minutes

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Summary

Tuesday on the News Hour, Israeli strikes kill Iran's security chief and another high-level official in a major blow to the country's leadership. The U.S. National Counterterrorism Center's director resigns in protest over the war in Iran, saying the country posed no imminent threat. Plus, a group of Chicago artists is channeling their skills into protest amid the immigration crackdown. 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 Amna Nawaz. And I'm Jeff Bennett. On the news hour tonight, Israeli strikes

0:09.3

kill Iran's security chief and another high-level official in a major blow to that country's leadership.

0:14.9

The head of the U.S. National Counterterrorism Center resigns in protest over the war in Iran, saying the country

0:22.4

posed no imminent threat.

0:24.4

And a group of Chicago artists is channeling their skills into organizing and protests

0:29.3

amid the federal immigration crackdown.

0:32.4

Am I completely surprised?

0:34.5

No.

0:35.5

In communities of color and in disenfranchised communities. We're always waiting for the shoe to drop.

0:39.1

It's always going to drop on us first.

0:53.3

Welcome to the news hour. Iranian officials confirmed today that Ali Larajani was killed by an Israeli

0:58.8

airstrike that also killed a second top security official.

1:02.5

Larajani had been a fixture of Iran's regime for decades and had essentially led Iran since

1:07.5

the killing of its supreme leader at the start of the war.

1:10.7

Also today, for the first time in years, a senior U.S. government official resigned in protest.

1:16.6

Joe Kent directed the National Counterterrorism Center and today refuted President Trump's

1:21.5

statements that Iran presented an imminent threat. Kent said the war was in Israel's interest,

1:26.9

but not the United States.

1:28.5

Nick Schifrin starts us off looking at both of those stories, beginning with Israel's

1:32.4

strikes on the regime in Tehran.

1:35.9

In Tehran today, an Israeli assault to decapitate the Iranian state.

1:41.4

Ali Larajani was the country's top national security official.

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