• April 3, 2022 - PBS News Weekend full episode

    April 3, 2022 - PBS News Weekend full episode

    Apr 03, 2022 10:27 PM EDT

    Sunday on PBS News Weekend, Ukraine's President Zelenskyy says Russia engaged in genocide following shocking images of civilians killed outside Kyiv. Then, we analyze the latest revelations from the Jan. 6 committee and look ahead to Ketanji Brown Jackson’s possible confirmation to the Supreme Court. Also, we spotlight ...

  • Dissecting Democrats' narrow path to a Supreme Court confirmation, pace of Jan. 6 probe

    Dissecting Democrats' narrow path to a Supreme Court confirmation, pace of Jan. 6 probe

    Apr 03, 2022 09:39 PM EDT

    The Jan. 6 committee's probe into the Capitol attack is turning up new findings about the involvement of former President Trump's allies, as Senate Democrats prepare to advance the Supreme Court nomination of Judge Ketanji Brown Jackson. Margaret Russell of Santa Clara University School of Law, Kyle Cheney ...

  • Jan. 6 panel pressures Attorney General Garland to charge Trump allies

    Jan. 6 panel pressures Attorney General Garland to charge Trump allies

    Apr 01, 2022 09:38 PM EDT

    ... 2020 election. The practical effect of that ruling was to order the release of more than 100 emails from Trump adviser John Eastman to the Jan. 6 Committee. But lawmakers zeroed in on a particular passage in the judge's opinion that characterized Jan. 6 as a "coup." "Dr. Eastman ...

  • March 3, 2022 - PBS NewsHour full episode

    March 3, 2022 - PBS NewsHour full episode

    Mar 04, 2022 12:46 AM EDT

    ... as brutal shelling continues elsewhere in Ukraine, while police in Russia crack down on independent media. Then, we explore how Ukraine's President Zelensky became the country's leader at a moment of crisis. Also, the House Jan. 6 committee lays out potential criminal conspiracy charges against former President Trump.

  • Rep. Adam Schiff on potential criminal conspiracy charges against former President Trump

    Rep. Adam Schiff on potential criminal conspiracy charges against former President Trump

    Mar 03, 2022 11:35 PM EDT

    ... a criminal conspiracy" to defraud the U.S. in seeking to overturn the 2020 election results. Rep. Adam Schiff, a member of the Jan. 6 committee, joins Judy Woodruff to discuss. ... Judy Woodruff: It's the clearest picture to date about the scope and potential conclusions of the House committee ...

  • Prosecutors in charge of Manhattan district attorney’s criminal investigation into Trump suddenly resigned

    Prosecutors in charge of Manhattan district attorney’s criminal investigation into Trump suddenly resigned

    Feb 23, 2022 10:08 PM EDT

    ... the National Archives revealed that classified information was found in 15 boxes of White House records taken to his Mar-a-Lago home. Meanwhile, the Jan. 6 committee is continuing to investigate the insurrection, and what role Trump played in inciting it, and an investigation in Georgia is continuing into ...

  • WATCH: Senate debates voting rights legislation unlikely to pass

    WATCH: Senate debates voting rights legislation unlikely to pass

    Jan 13, 2022 06:54 PM EDT

    ... R-Calif., talked to reporters for the first time since releasing a statement the previous evening saying he would not cooperate with a special House committee investigating the Jan. 6 insurrection. McCarthy said there is “nothing that I can provide the Jan. 6 committee” that would help their investigation and ...

  • Harris on the state of democracy a year after Jan. 6

    Harris on the state of democracy a year after Jan. 6

    Jan 06, 2022 11:40 PM EDT

    ... leadership role, while Democrats promoted her to vice chairwoman of the House committee that is investigating the Jan. 6 attacks.  Harris said she wouldn’t speak to whether the Jan. 6 committee was considering criminal prosecution as she was not “privy to the internal facts” made available to the committee.

  • Trump maintains grip on Republican Party despite violent insurrection

    Trump maintains grip on Republican Party despite violent insurrection

    Jan 06, 2022 03:51 PM EDT

    ... as part of an investigation into the family's business practices. Both children have been prominent political surrogates for Trump. Meanwhile, on Capitol Hill, the Jan. 6 committee continues to investigate the Trump White House's involvement in the deadly insurrection. Trump still has his eyes on 2024, even as ...

  • WATCH: House votes to hold Mark Meadows in contempt in Jan. 6 probe

    WATCH: House votes to hold Mark Meadows in contempt in Jan. 6 probe

    Dec 15, 2021 03:40 PM EDT

    WASHINGTON (AP) — The House has voted to hold former White House chief of staff Mark Meadows in contempt of Congress after he ceased to cooperate with the Jan. 6 Committee investigating the Capitol insurrection — making it the first time the chamber has voted to hold a former member in contempt ...