May 7, 2026 - PBS News Hour full episode
PBS News Hour - Full Show
PBS NewsHour
4.5 • 2.2K Ratings
🗓️ 7 May 2026
⏱️ 53 minutes
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| 0:00.0 | Good evening. I'm Amman Nawaz. Jeff Bennett is on assignment. |
| 0:07.0 | On the news hour tonight, the United States and Iran trade fire near the Strait of Hormuz, |
| 0:12.0 | what it could mean for the ceasefire. Secretary of State Marco Rubio tries to mend relations |
| 0:18.0 | with Pope Leo after President Trump's criticism. |
| 0:22.2 | We report from Louisiana where a congressional map has been upended by a Supreme Court decision |
| 0:28.1 | months before the midterms. |
| 0:30.6 | And how European nations' efforts to thwart asylum seekers from Africa is playing out along |
| 0:36.3 | a dangerous migration route to the Canary |
| 0:38.6 | Islands. |
| 0:39.6 | Everyone has their own way of existing. |
| 0:42.0 | It's their decision to make, but I would never advise anyone to go down this path. Welcome to the News Hour. |
| 0:59.5 | The U.S. and Iran have exchanged fire in the Strait of Hormuz, with the top Iranian military |
| 1:04.8 | command accusing the Americans of violating the now-month-old ceasefire. |
| 1:09.8 | The U.S. says the truce remains in effect. |
| 1:12.6 | Nick Schiffen's reporting out this late-breaking story, and he joins me now. So, Nick, there's a lot |
| 1:16.5 | we don't yet know, but what are your sources telling you? The U.S. military now says an Iranian |
| 1:21.1 | official is confirming to me tonight what is perhaps the most serious exchange of fire |
| 1:26.5 | since the ceasefire. |
| 1:27.9 | But U.S. officials tell me, an Iranian official, says that he believes this is true also, |
| 1:33.4 | that this is not designed to end the ceasefire. |
| 1:36.3 | This is not the restarting of the war. |
| 1:38.6 | So a U.S. official tells me that earlier two U.S. destroyers were transiting through the Strait of Hormuz, |
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