March 27, 2026 - PBS News Hour full episode
PBS News Hour - Full Show
PBS NewsHour
4.5 • 2.2K Ratings
🗓️ 27 March 2026
⏱️ 52 minutes
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| 0:00.0 | Good evening. I'm John Yang. Jeff Bennett and Adna Nawaz are away. On the news hour tonight, House Republicans reject a Senate deal to end the partial shutdown, even as airport lines grow longer. |
| 0:18.0 | Israel targets Iran's nuclear facilities while Iran tries to assert more control over |
| 0:23.2 | the Strait of Hormuz. And an army veteran faces conspiracy charges after participating in an |
| 0:30.0 | anti-ice protest. |
| 0:32.3 | These are the things that when I joined the military, I thought I was joining to protect. |
| 0:37.8 | You have a right as an American to voice your opinion. |
| 0:54.1 | Welcome to the News Hour. |
| 0:56.1 | It has been a dizzying and dramatic 24 hours in the halls of Congress. |
| 1:01.2 | Early this morning, the Senate unanimously passed a plan to immediately end the shutdown for most of the Department of Homeland Security. |
| 1:08.5 | But within hours, House Speaker Mike Johnson rejected it because |
| 1:12.1 | it didn't include money for ICE and Border Patrol. Now, House Republicans are pursuing a different |
| 1:17.8 | approach and risking a longer shutdown. Meanwhile, President Trump took executive action to pay one |
| 1:23.7 | group, TSA workers at airports. Congressional correspondent Lisa Desjardaz here to help us |
| 1:29.6 | understand all this if we can't understand it. TSA workers really want to, this has been focused on a lot. |
| 1:35.8 | So what happens to them in this? Let's start with them. They haven't been paid yet, but as you said, |
| 1:40.0 | President Trump signed that executive order today. He would use money that was passed last year |
| 1:44.8 | for borrow it from the one big, beautiful bill act. |
| 1:48.1 | The TSA tells us that they expect those workers |
| 1:50.5 | to be paid by Monday. |
| 1:52.8 | Now, of course, all this speaks to those long lines |
| 1:55.1 | that Americans have been seen at some airports. |
| 1:57.5 | We do know there's a permanent effect. |
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