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PBS News Hour - Full Show

November 15, 2025 – PBS News Weekend full episode

PBS News Hour - Full Show

PBS NewsHour

News, Daily News

4.42.1K Ratings

🗓️ 15 November 2025

⏱️ 25 minutes

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Summary

Saturday on PBS News Weekend, President Trump lashes out against a MAGA ally with a looming House vote to force the Justice Department to release its Jeffrey Epstein files, scientists search for why a man with a genetic predisposition for Alzheimer's seems to be protected from it and a look at how sanctions on members of the International Criminal Court may be jeopardizing its ability to function. 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

Tonight on PBS News Weekend, with a House vote looming on forcing the Justice Department to release its Jeffrey Epstein files,

0:13.0

President Trump lashes out against a MAGA ally who says his opposition is a huge miscalculation.

0:20.3

Then scientists search for why a man with a genetic

0:23.4

predisposition for Alzheimer's seems to be protected from it and how sanctions against members

0:29.6

of the international criminal court may be jeopardizing its ability to function.

0:34.7

It's really hard to imagine a world where we don't have this institution.

0:39.3

The U.S. is a very large, very powerful country with a lot of interests, and I think that makes

0:44.3

it very difficult when it's actively hostile toward you. Good evening. I'm John Yang.

1:01.2

President Trump continues to be dogged by a man who's been dead for more than six years, Jeffrey Epstein.

1:08.1

Late yesterday, the president broke with Representative Marjorie Taylor Green,

1:12.2

a one-time staunch ally, who was among four House Republicans who joined all 214 Democrats

1:18.2

to force a vote next week on releasing the Justice Department's Epstein files.

1:23.1

In a truth social post, Mr. Trump called her a ranting lunatic and said,

1:28.0

All I see wacky Marjorie do is complain, complain, complain.

1:32.7

Mr. Trump left Washington late yesterday, but couldn't escape the controversy.

1:36.8

A board Air Force won, he sought to deflect attention onto political opponents.

1:41.6

It's really what did he mean when he spent all the time with Bill Clinton with the

1:46.0

president of Harvard, you know, that is Summers, Larry Summers, whatever it's

1:52.0

that they said, all of the other people that he spent time with.

1:55.0

There haven't been any allegations that either former President Clinton or Larry Summers did anything wrong.

2:03.6

Jonathan Lemire is a staff writer at the Atlantic.

2:06.5

Jonathan, we should start off by saying right off the bat,

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