October 31, 2024 - PBS News Hour full episode
PBS News Hour - Full Show
PBS NewsHour
4.5 • 2.2K Ratings
🗓️ 31 October 2024
⏱️ 52 minutes
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| 0:00.0 | Good evening. I'm Amna Nawaz. Jeff Bennett is away. On the news hour tonight, |
| 0:09.0 | Kamala Harris and Donald Trump head west as the margins remain razor thin in critical swing states, |
| 0:16.0 | with days to go until voting ends. The Supreme Court allows Virginia to purge voter rolls, how unsubstantiated |
| 0:23.6 | claims of non-citizens voting have spurred the move and the effect it could have on the election. |
| 0:29.6 | And we examine the potential impact, economic impact of Donald Trump's promise to deport immigrants on mass. |
| 0:38.3 | From a pure economic point of view, massive costs. |
| 0:41.3 | Some sectors will have huge disruption. Welcome to the News Hour. Both presidential candidates brought their campaigns to the Southwest today. Former President Donald Trump stopped in New Mexico a detour from battleground territory, while Vice President Kamala Harris |
| 1:12.0 | jetted off to Arizona. But before she left, Harris spoke with reporters about what's on the |
| 1:17.1 | line on Election Day just five days out. Laura Barone Lopez begins our coverage with this report. |
| 1:23.0 | Be very clear that among the stakes in this election are whether we continue with the Affordable |
| 1:28.9 | Care Act or not. |
| 1:31.3 | In between campaign stops today, Kamala Harris warned that health care is on the ballot, following |
| 1:37.2 | a vow from House Speaker Mike Johnson for, quote, massive reform if Donald Trump is elected. |
| 1:43.8 | And now we have further validation of that agenda from his supporter, the Speaker of the House. |
| 1:50.0 | The American people, regardless of who they're voting for, |
| 1:53.0 | know the importance of the Affordable Care Act, as is also called Obamacare, |
| 1:59.0 | in terms of expanding people's coverage to health care. |
| 2:02.1 | In leaked video obtained by multiple outlets, Johnson echoed an audience member saying, |
| 2:07.3 | quote, no Obamacare, and that changes needed to be made. |
| 2:12.0 | Later, he walked it back, rejecting that he wants to gut the popular law, even though Trump |
| 2:16.6 | himself has repeatedly said he wants to repe the popular law, even though Trump himself has repeatedly said |
| 2:18.4 | he wants to repeal the Affordable Care Act. |
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