Washington Week with Gwen Ifill

Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu pulled off a strong victory in his re-election bid this week. POLITICO's Michael Crowley reports on Netanyahu's win and the impact on Palestianian peace ta...

On the Webcast Extra, Bloomberg’s Jeanne Cummings breaks down the “delicious story” of the downfall of Rep. Aaron Schock (R-Ill.) after his resignation from Congress when stories of questionable ex...

Michael Crowley of POLITICO will report on the strained relationship between the U.S. and Israel following Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu's aggressive campaign against a Palestinian state and hi...

In the latest embarrassment for the agency tasked with protecting the president, two Secret Service agents are being investigated for driving a vehicle into a White House security barricade while u...

Several potential Republican presidential candidates travelled to New Hampshire this week. Jeff Zeleny of CNN explains the impact of campaigning in early primary states for these hopefuls. The Wash...

Carol Leonnig of The Washington Post will have the latest on the alleged misconduct by two senior Secret Service agents suspected of driving under the influence and crashing a government car into W...

This week, 47 Republican senators sent an open letter to leaders of Iran warning the Islamic Republic about agreeing to a nuclear agreement with the Obama administration. The letter, written by fre...

Potential 2016 presidential candidate Hillary Clinton addresses reporters in New York about her exclusive use of a private email server during her tenure as secretary of state. Republicans and some...

In March 1965, the Southern Christian Leadership Conference and the Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee organized a 54-mile march from Selma to the Alabama state capital of Montgomery to prot...

The Justice Department released a “scathing” report on the systemic racial bias of the Ferguson Police Department. One person has already been fired, but what lasting changes will be made? At the S...

On the Webcast Extra, Joan Biskupic of Reuters details the upcoming Supreme Court case tackling the nation's same-sex marriage laws. She says this time the justices will actually take on the case t...

In 2013, the country celebrated the 50th anniversary of the iconic March on Washington for Jobs and Freedom where Martin Luther King, Jr gave his famous, 'I have a dream' speech. Gwen Ifill spoke ...

The Supreme Court is considering a new challenge to the Affordable Care Act that contends only people who sign up for insurance on state exchanges are eligible for the federal subsidies. It's base...

On the Webcast Extra, NPR's Juana Summers explains the practical impact of failing to fund the Department of Homeland Security. What does a partial shutdown look like? As she explains, 15% of work...

In the hours before funding for the Department of Homeland Security was set to run out, the House of Representatives failed to pass a 3-week stopgap measure. CNBC's John Harwood and NPR's Juana Sum...

John Harwood of CNBC and The New York Times and Juana Summers of NPR will have the latest on the congressional standoff over funding the Department of Homeland Security and President Obama’s execut...

Supreme Court Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg has been making headlines lately by speaking out on decisions coming from the Supreme Court and even claiming she wasn't "100% sober" when she fell asleep ...

Washington Week marks its 48th year on the air today -- making it TV's longest running prime-time news and public affairs program. To mark this milestone we pulled a clip from the 25th anniversary ...

This Week, ISIS expanded its reach to North Africa where 21 Egyptian Christians were beheaded. At the same time, the White House held a violent extremism summit where President Obama rejected calli...

On the Webcast Extra, the week-old ceasefire in Ukraine seems to be crumbling, but as POLITICO's Michael Crowley says, the development is not surprising given the previous ceasefire failures. As IS...

Nancy Youssef of The Daily Beast will report on the rapid advance by ISIS militants beyond Iraq and Syria into Libya and the groups new threats against Italy.

Michael Crowley of POLITICO will expl...

President Obama's BuzzFeed video “Things Everybody Does But Doesn’t Talk About” went viral this week — racking up tens of millions of views. The White House effort to make give the president the “...

President Obama has formally asked Congress for war powers to fight Islamic State militants, but his request is being met with resistance. Republicans think Obama's three-year proposal is too restr...

Peter Baker of The New York Times will report on President Obama's formal request to Congress to authorize the use of military force in the war against ISIS.

Alexis Simendinger of RealClearPolitic...

President Obama is officially asking Congress to authorize military action against the Islamic State militant group. Obama's three-year proposal would limit the use of ground troops in the fight. ...

On the Webcast Extra, Doyle McManus of the Los Angeles Times details the coup in Yemen and the struggle the US government may have trying to work with the Houthi rebel group that is now in power. P...

This week, Islamic State militants released a video showing the barbaric execution of a Jordanian pilot held captive since December. As Jordan stepped up its fight against ISIS, the terrorist group...

Eamon Javers of CNBC will have analysis of the January jobs report that shows employers added 252,000 jobs and workers’ wages picked up, fueling optimism about the strength and stability of the ec...

2012 Republican presidential nominee Mitt Romney announced that he will not seek the nomination again in 2016. What does this mean for the rest of the 2016 field? Who benefits? Plus, the Republican...

On the Webcast Extra, Dan Balz of the Washington Post and Jeff Zeleny of ABC News report on Hillary Clinton's impending 2016 presidential campaign. When will she officially jump in? And what is sh...

Nancy Youssef of The Daily Beast will have the latest on the controversial negotiations between Jordan, Japan and the Islamic State (ISIS) to free a Jordanian Air Force pilot and a Japanese journal...

Confirmation hearings began Wednesday in the Senate Judiciary Committee for Loretta Lynch, President Obama's nominee to replace Eric Holder as Attorney General. If confirmed, Lynch, the U.S. Attor...

In the nearly five years since the passage of the Affordable Care Act in 2010, the GOP-controlled House of Representatives has voted over 50 times to repeal or defund all or part of the law. The f...

On the Webcast Extra, Alexis Simendinger reports on President Obama's round of interviews with YouTube personalities and the administration's digital approach to get the State of the Union message ...

President Obama's State of the Union was met with pushback from the Republican-controlled Congress, but where is there room for compromise on the president's 2015 legislative agenda? Alexis Simendi...

Alexis Simendinger of RealClearPolitics and Ed O'Keefe of The Washington Post will have analysis of President Obama's State of the Union address and how his 2015 legislative priorities may be aimed...

Starting this month PBS is proud to present "An Evening with Gwen Ifill" in partnership with The HistoryMakers, the nation's largest African American video and oral history collection. NPR's Mic...

On the Webcast Extra, NPR’s Tom Gjelten details what the new Cuba regulations mean for the individual traveler. Robert Costa of The Washington Post explains how the GOP is using immigration as a st...

Reverberations from the terror attack in Paris continued this week as dozens of arrests have been made, and Europe remains on heightened alert. Plus, nuclear talks with Iran continue, and Presiden...

Michael Duffy of TIME Magazine will examine the lessons from the Paris attacks and the changing threat of global terrorism.

Reuters' Joan Biskupic will report on the upcoming arguments and what ha...

A recent Reuters analysis of nearly 17,000 lawyers who have petitioned the Supreme Court with thousands of cases over the last 9 years found less than one-percent -- 66 lawyers -- have the highest ...

As the jockeying for the 2016 presidential primary begins, all signs point to a third run for 2012 Republican nominee Mitt Romney. The former Massachusetts governor first ran in 2008 but lost the ...

Three days of chaos in France ended Friday when law enforcement officials stormed two hostage sites in Paris and a nearby city killing the two suspects in the Charlie Hebdo magazine shooting that l...

On the Webcast Extra, jury selection began in the trial of accused Boston Marathon bomber Dzhokhar Tsarnaev. Over 1200 potential jurors have been summoned in a process that could take three weeks i...

Pete Williams of NBC News, Nancy Youssef of The Daily Beast and Michael Crowley of POLITICO will have the latest on the Paris investigation; some perspective on anti-Islamic sentiment in Europe; an...

At the first Republican leadership press conference since taking over both houses of Congress, Rep. Steve Scalise responded to the recent controversy that he spoke to a white supremacist group in 2...

Secretary of State John Kerry responded to the terror attack on a satirical magazine in Paris that killed 12 people.

"They may wield weapons, but we in France and the United States share a commit...

President Barack Obama congratulated the new Republican-controlled Congress led by House Speaker John Boehner and Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell: "There are going to be areas where we disag...

As the 114th Congress is sworn in and John Boehner runs for a third term as speaker, we look back in the Washington Week Vault to the beginning of the last Congress. Fresh off an eleventh-hour vote...

As the New Year kicks off, we look at the new political landscape in Washington as a new Republican-controlled Congress takes over. As President Obama begins his final two years in office, will he ...