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Newsmaker Interview – PBS NewsHour
Analysis, background reports and updates from the PBS NewsHour putting today's news in context.
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Erdogan questions why U.S. has armed Syrian Kurdish ‘terrorists,’ disputes claims of dictatorship
Watch Video | Listen to the Audio JUDY WOODRUFF: Recep Tayyip Erdogan has led Turkey since 2003, first as prime minister, and since 2014 as president, an office he has remade into the nation’s preeminent leader. Turkey has been an ally of the U.S. for decades, but that alliance is now tense. A…
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Hillary Clinton on losing in Wisconsin, getting universal health care
Watch Video | Listen to the Audio ‘What Happened,’ according to Hillary Clinton (full interview) WILLIAM BRANGHAM: On Friday: Judy Woodruff sat down with Hillary Clinton, the former secretary of state and Democratic presidential candidate, to discuss her new book titled “What Happened.” We return...
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Dissecting the election, Hillary Clinton sees dangers for democracy
Watch Video | Listen to the Audio ‘What Happened,’ according to Hillary Clinton HARI SREENIVASAN: Hillary Clinton, she is one of the most prominent and polarizing figures in modern American history. This week, she is back in the spotlight promoting a new book. She opens up tonight to Judy…
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Christie: After Sandy, Congress learned its lesson for Harvey aid
Watch Video | Listen to the Audio JUDY WOODRUFF: It was five years ago this fall when Hurricane Sandy slammed into the Northeastern United States, leaving a death toll in the U.S. alone of more than 150 people. By the end, 24 states were affected, damages totaled over $70 billion, and it all...
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Mulvaney: Trump tax plan benefits middle class and ‘the places where they work’
Watch Video | Listen to the Audio JUDY WOODRUFF: On this day when the White House is unveiling the outline of a tax system overhaul, and negotiating down to the wire over a federal spending plan to fund the government through September, I sat down with Mick Mulvaney, the head of the Office of...
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Bernie Sanders on making Democrats a 50-state party
Watch Video | Listen to the Audio JUDY WOODRUFF: For more on these political battles we have been talking about and the challenges facing Democrats, I spoke this afternoon with Senator Bernie Sanders, the ranking member of the Senate Budget Committee. And I started by asking whether he thinks an...
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Susan Rice: The world wonders and worries if the White House can be trusted
Watch Video | Listen to the Audio Editor’s Note: Watch the full, first question asked of Ambassador Rice in this interview here. JUDY WOODRUFF: In this morning’s Washington Post, some tough words for President Trump and his administration led the opinion pages. We spoke earlier this evening with...
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Al Gore: We need to restore American democracy’s immunity to blatant falsehoods
Watch Video | Listen to the Audio JUDY WOODRUFF: Now: Has faith in the power of reason fallen victim to modern politics? Ten years after its original publication, former Vice President Al Gore has updated his book “The Assault on Reason.” Its new subtitle is telling: “Our Information Ecosystem:...
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Paul Ryan on working with Trump, Russia sanctions and GOP goals
Watch Video | Listen to the Audio JUDY WOODRUFF: Now to my interview with the speaker of the House of Representatives, Paul Ryan. We sat down at the Capitol. And I began by asking about his relationship with President Trump, after some tension during the campaign. REP. PAUL RYAN, R-Wis., Speaker…
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Vice President Pence on the Supreme Court fight, the travel ban and Bannon’s sway
Watch Video | Listen to the Audio JUDY WOODRUFF: Well, we turn now to my interview at the White House today with Vice President Mike Pence. It’s his first since assuming the office. I began by asking the former Indiana governor how he thinks the first few days have gone, a time some have…
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Refugee ban ‘a gift to those that hate us,’ says Madeleine Albright
Watch Video | Listen to the Audio JUDY WOODRUFF: Now, for more on the executive order on refugees and visa holders and changes the president to the makeup of the National Security Council, we turn first to former Secretary of State Madeleine Albright. She served as the United States’ top diplomat...
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Kerry: ‘We have a problem’ if people don’t care about accountability or policy being made on Twitter
Watch Video | Listen to the Audio WATCH MORE: The Obama Years JUDY WOODRUFF: This morning, I sat down with outgoing Secretary of State John Kerry at the U.S. Institute of Peace. He was one of many Obama administration officials participating in an event called Passing the Baton, focused on a…
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Kerry: Syrian conflict is ‘the worst human catastrophe since World War II’
Watch Video | Listen to the Audio WATCH MORE: The Obama Years JUDY WOODRUFF: And now to my interview with Secretary of State John Kerry. I sat down with him earlier today at the State Department, before the public release of that intelligence report on Russia. But I began by asking, now that we...
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Biden: Trump’s belittling of U.S. intelligence agencies is ‘dangerous,’ ‘mindless’
Watch Video | Listen to the Audio WATCH MORE: The Obama Years JUDY WOODRUFF: Mr. Vice President, thank you for talking with us. VICE PRESIDENT JOE BIDEN: I’m delighted to be here with you, Judy. I really am. JUDY WOODRUFF: Let me start with health care, the Affordable Care Act. The Republicans…
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Part 2 — John Brennan on what his CIA successor needs to worry about
Watch Video | Listen to the Audio WATCH: Our entire interview with CIA Director John Brennan JUDY WOODRUFF: We return now to my conversation with CIA Director John Brennan. Last night, we focused largely on allegations of Russian hacking of U.S. political operations during the election and the…
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