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PBS NewsHour
February 5, 2021 - PBS NewsHour full episode
Season 2021
Episode 36
Friday on the NewsHour, the economy faces an uneven recovery as daily coronavirus deaths top 5,000 for the first time, and Congress begins to move closer to passing a relief package. Also, six months after a massive explosion in Beirut a worsening pandemic complicates the city's long recovery, and David Brooks and Jonathan Capehart consider the Republicans Party's identity crisis.
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