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PBS Washington Week with The Atlantic - Full Show

Washington Week with The Atlantic full episode, 12/19/25

PBS Washington Week with The Atlantic - Full Show

Washington Week

News, News Commentary, Politics

4.41.3K Ratings

🗓️ 20 December 2025

⏱️ 24 minutes

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Summary

President Trump had a lot of thoughts this week about affordability, Rob Reiner, the Middle East, all of his White House predecessors, and he seems very angry these days. Join moderator Jeffrey Goldberg, Ashley Parker and Franklin Foer of The Atlantic, Zolan Kanno-Youngs of The New York Times and Jonathan Karl of ABC News to discuss this and more.

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0:00.0

President Trump had a lot of thoughts this week about affordability, about Rob Reiner, the Middle East, about all of his White House predecessors, and he seems very angry these days.

0:12.0

Tonight, a close look at the President's fast and furious primetime address to the nation.

0:17.0

Next.

0:19.0

Good evening and welcome to Washington Week. This week started off terribly,

0:25.6

the anti-Jewish massacre in Australia, the deadly shootings at Brown University and MIT,

0:30.4

the murders of Rob and Michelle Reiner. Weeks like this should cause us and our leaders to do

0:35.9

some hard thinking about violence, hatred, mental health,

0:39.8

guns, spiritual malaise, and the warping effects of technology and social media on our thinking

0:45.1

and on our behavior. Alternatively, if you're the president, you could just not have

0:50.4

helpful thoughts at all. Such is what happened this week. One prime example, while the nation,

0:56.5

from left to right, mourned the loss of one of our country's most beloved filmmakers,

1:01.0

the president decided it was a good moment to make the murders of the Reiner's about his own grievances.

1:06.7

Well, I wasn't a fan of his at all. He was a deranged person as far as Trump is concerned.

1:12.4

You know, the Russia hooks. He was one of the people behind it. I think he heard himself in career-wise.

1:18.8

He became like a deranged person, Trump derangement syndrome. So I was not a fan of Rob Reiner at all in any way, shape, or form.

1:27.1

I thought he was very bad for our country.

1:30.2

I'll talk about all of this with our panel.

1:33.1

Franklin Four, a staff writer at The Atlantic.

1:36.2

Zolan Kenno Young's is a White House correspondent for the New York Times.

1:40.2

Jonathan Carl is the chief Washington correspondent for ABC News and the author of Retribution,

1:44.8

Donald Trump and the campaign that changed America.

1:47.6

And Ashley Parker is a staff writer at the Atlantic.

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