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PBS News Hour - Full Show

May 27, 2025 – PBS News Hour full episode

PBS News Hour - Full Show

PBS NewsHour

News, Daily News

4.42.1K Ratings

🗓️ 27 May 2025

⏱️ 53 minutes

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Summary

Tuesday on the News Hour, a new group distributing aid in Gaza comes under scrutiny. President Trump pardons a tax offender after his mother attended a fundraiser at Mar-a-Lago. Plus, an online university rethinks the college experience by offering students around the world an inexpensive education. 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. And I'm Omna Navaz. On the news hour tonight, desperately needed food enters Gaza, but a new group distributing the aid comes under scrutiny.

0:13.0

President Trump pardons a convicted tax offender after his mother attended a $1 million fundraiser at Mar-a-Lago. We speak with the Justice Department's former pardon attorney about the implications.

0:24.3

And an online university rethinks the college experience by offering students around the world an inexpensive education.

0:32.9

I saw that you actually take people and give them the education.

0:36.5

Their future is totally different.

0:38.3

Welcome to the news hour.

0:52.3

There is a new aid distribution system in Gaza, and today it was quickly overwhelmed by Palestinians who for 11 weeks have been blocked from international assistance.

1:02.6

The Gaza Humanitarian Foundation is backed by the U.S. and Israel, which says the old UN-led distribution system allowed Hamas to flourish.

1:11.4

But humanitarian groups today said the new system was incapable of alleviating the suffering

1:16.4

of 2 million people and could be used to help Israel forcibly move the population.

1:21.9

Nick Schifrin reports.

1:25.6

This is what aid distribution in Gaza now looks like.

1:29.3

With Israeli warning shots in the distance, the hungry grab boxes designed to feed a family of five for three days,

1:36.3

with pasta, rice, cooking oil, beans, and tomatoes.

1:40.3

These boxes provide somewhat of a solution to the crisis.

1:45.0

It has been over 88 days since the crossings were closed and we are suffering from a great famine.

1:50.0

We are dying of hunger. The children are saying, Father, I want to eat, so I want to sell even my blood to feed them.

1:59.0

Humanitarian officials have been warning against these sites

2:03.0

because they funnel and screen the desperate into small areas.

2:07.2

They're also secured with private American contractors in the Israeli military.

2:12.4

Today's warning shots, apparently injuring at least three.

2:16.6

Even the group's initial head quit this weekend because he said the effort couldn't

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