Politics Jan 04 Trump's attempt to 'manufacture votes' in Georgia raises legal questions President Trump's hour-long phone call with Georgia's secretary of state over the weekend and his requests to change the vote count have raised a number of legal questions. Rick Hasen, an election law professor at the University of California, Irvine,…
Politics Jan 04 Tamara Keith and Amy Walter on Georgia's U.S. Senate runoffs NPR’s Tamara Keith and Amy Walter of the Cook Political Report join Judy Woodruff to discuss the latest political news, including the U.S. Senate races in Georgia, Trump's call to the Georgia secretary of state, and how some Republicans are…
Episode Jan 03 January 3, 2021 - PBS NewsHour Weekend full episode On this edition for Sunday, January 3, Senate and House members are sworn in as the 117th Congress formally begins with a slimmer Democratic majority in the House and a toss-up in the Senate as the two Georgia seats head…
Politics Jan 03 Politics wrap: Trump threatens GA secretary of state, Senate runoffs too close to call Special Correspondent Jeff Greenfield joins Michael Hill to discuss what he calls a ‘poisonous’ political atmosphere: an explosive audio recording of President Trump threatening the Georgia Secretary of State to overturn the state’s election result, the too-close-to-call Senate runoff on…
Politics Jan 03 2020 in review: "The story is right outside." We’ve been looking back at some of the stories from 2020 with our team of producers here at NewsHour Weekend. Segment producer Mori Rothman joins Hari Sreenivasan to discuss how producing changed in 2020: reporting on stories, like the George…
Arts Jan 03 2020 in review: Iconic bookstore weathers COVID-19, Courtney Barnett's love for words Looking back at the stories he covered in 2020, NewsHour Weekend Special Correspondent Tom Casciato joins Hari Sreenivasan to discuss his profile of singer-songwriter Courtney Barnett and his reportage on the pandemic’s impact on small businesses through the lens of…
Nation Jan 03 2020 in review: Summing up an unimaginable year Hari Sreenivasan speaks with Christopher Booker about some of the most memorable stories he covered in what turned out to be an out-of-the-ordinary year: New York state’s first mobile COVID-19 testing site, the George Floyd protests in New York City,…
Nation Jan 03 2020 in review: Prop 22, school shutdowns and stranded American Samoans NewsHour Weekend’s Laura Fong discusses some of the biggest stories she reported on in 2020: How COVID-19 and school shutdowns impacted students and how hundreds of American Samoans are stranded in the U.S. for months because the island territory closed…
Episode Jan 02 January 2, 2021 - PBS NewsHour Weekend full episode On this edition for Saturday, January 2, COVID-19 vaccinations are proceeding slower than hoped as record hospitalization numbers continue, a look back at an unprecedented year through some of our producers’ biggest stories from 2020, and, with the Grammy’s approaching,…
Nation Jan 02 2020 in review: covering race, equity, and some not-so-brief press briefings NewsHour Weekend producer Zachary Green speaks with Hari Sreenivasan about his most illuminating work in 2020: covering race, equity, and the Black Lives Matter movement in small-town America, and on figuring out the best way to cover -- and fact-check…