PBS NewsHour’s Coverage Plans for President Trump’s State of the Union on Tuesday, February 5

Washington, DC (February 3, 2019) — PBS NewsHour will produce a prime time special broadcast for President Trump’s State of the Union on Tuesday, February 5, 2019 from 9 – 11:30pm ET. Managing editor Judy Woodruff will anchor the broadcast, with correspondents Yamiche Alcindor and Lisa Desjardins reporting live from the White House and U.S. Capitol, respectively. Joining Woodruff in studio will be syndicated columnist Mark Shields; the Cook Political Report’s Amy Walter; senior fellow at the Ethics and Public Policy Center Peter Wehner; senior adviser and national spokesperson for MoveOn Karine Jean-Pierre; and radio host and editor of the online journal American Greatness Chris Buskirk; and to remotely include Washington Post national political reporter and Washington Week moderator Robert Costa

NewsHour’s coverage will extend online at pbs.org/newshour, to include a podcast of analysis to launch in the early morning on Wednesday, February 6, as well as live streams on NewsHour’s social platforms including Twitter, Facebook, YouTube and Ustream. The “Special: State of the Union Aftershow” podcast will be hosted by national correspondent Amna Nawaz, with Alcindor, Desjardins, and digital politics editor Dan Bush discussing what really mattered in the speech and the Democratic response, which statements have traction and which are just rhetoric. Find this episode in all of our podcast feeds and at pbs.org/newshour/podcasts.