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PBS News Hour - Full Show

May 19, 2025 – PBS News Hour full episode

PBS News Hour - Full Show

PBS NewsHour

News, Daily News

4.42.1K Ratings

🗓️ 19 May 2025

⏱️ 53 minutes

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Summary

Monday on the News Hour, as former President Biden reveals he has an aggressive form of prostate cancer, we take a look at what his diagnosis means. Israel says it will allow "minimal aid" into Gaza as it intensifies deadly air and ground operations and orders the immediate evacuation of Gaza's second-largest city. Plus, the price that everyday Americans will pay for tariffs on Chinese products. 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.

0:04.0

And I'm Amna Nawaz. On the news hour tonight, former President Biden says he's been diagnosed

0:09.0

with aggressive prostate cancer. A look at what his diagnosis means.

0:14.0

Israel says it will allow minimal aid into Gaza as it intensifies deadly air and ground operations

0:20.4

and orders the immediate evacuation of Gaza's second largest city.

0:25.0

And the price everyday Americans will pay for tariffs on Chinese products.

0:30.3

People are in for some surprises as the disruptions and trade

0:34.9

kind of work their way through the various supply chains that we rely upon.

0:50.9

Welcome to the News Hour. We begin tonight with a closer look at the announcement that former President Joe Biden has been diagnosed with an aggressive form of prostate cancer.

1:01.3

Yesterday, a spokesperson for the 82-year-old said the cancer had spread to his bones.

1:06.1

Today, Mr. Biden posted on social media, saying, quote, cancer touches us all.

1:11.1

Like so many of you, Jill and I have learned that we are strongest in the broken places.

1:15.8

Thank you for lifting us up with love and support.

1:18.4

Prostate cancer is the most common cancer and the second leading cause of cancer death among men in the U.S.

1:24.3

For more insight, I spoke earlier today with Dr. J. Rahman, chair of the Department

1:29.3

of Urology at Penn State Health. Dr. Rahman, welcome back to the News Hour. Thank you. Glad to be here.

1:36.6

That Biden's form of cancer is described as aggressive and having spread to the bone. What does that

1:41.8

mean for an 82-year-old? Well, there are different types of prostate cancer.

1:46.0

I often think about it as being sort of a heterogeneous or a mixed bag.

1:50.0

Some are slow growing and some are more aggressive and fast growing.

1:54.0

And those are the kind that have the potential to not only grow within the prostate,

1:58.0

but spread to the lymph nodes, liver, and in this case, for example,

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