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February 20, 2026

HIGHLIGHTS FOR ‘ABC NEWS LIVE PRIME WITH LINSEY DAVIS,’ FEB. 23-27

 

ABC News*

Check out the “ABC News Live Prime with Linsey Davis” highlights below for the week of Feb. 23-27.

The Emmy® Award-nominated newscast streams weeknights starting at 7 p.m. ET on ABC News Live, America’s No. 1 streaming news channel. ABC News Live is available on Disney+, Hulu, The Roku Channel, YouTube, YouTube TV, Samsung TV Plus, Amazon, Pluto TV, TikTok, ABCNews.com, the ABC News and ABC News Live apps, and more.

Highlights of the week include the following (subject to change):

Monday, Feb. 23 — Actress Yerin Ha (“Bridgerton”); Comprehensive State of the Union coverage live from Washington D.C.; Prime Focus, featuring Ian Pannell, details how Ukraine’s energy system has been crippled by unrelenting attacks from Russia, leaving families without power and water for days at a time.

Editor’s Note: Following “Prime” on Monday, Feb. 23, at 8:30 p.m. EST, Linsey Davis travels across the country in search of the American Dream and speaks with Americans about how their dreams have transformed and been affected by recent policies in new special “My Reality: The American Dream.

Tuesday, Feb. 24 — Comprehensive State of the Union coverage live from Washington D.C.; ahead of the State of the Union, Prime Focus, featuring Jay O’Brien, examines the controversial and conservative policies included in Project 2025 and how the Trump Administration’s stance on them have changed throughout the last 10 years.

Editor’s Note: Following “Prime” Kyra Phillips will anchor a special State of the Union pre-show on Tuesday, Feb. 24, at 8 p.m. EST, followed by network coverage of the State of the Union address and Democratic response. Linsey Davis will anchor the post-show from 11 p.m. EST to midnight with reporting and analysis from Mary Bruce, Martha Raddatz, Jonathan Karl, Rachel Scott and Pierre Thomas.

Wednesday, Feb. 25 — Comedian Nate Bargatze (“The Greatest Average American”); actor Ted McGinley (“Shrinking”); Prime Focus sits down with American lawyer and founder of the Civil Rights and Restorative Justice Project Margaret Burnham and Edward Smith, whose father, Tommy Lee Walker, was recently declared innocent 70 years after his execution in Dallas.

Thursday, Feb. 26 — Musician and director Anderson.Paak (“K-Pops!”); Top Chef host Kristen Kish and judges Tom Colicchio and Gail Simmons (“Top Chef”); singer-songwriter Josh Levi (“The Hydraulic Tour”); Prime Focus, featuring Devin Dwyer, examines an upcoming Supreme Court case that will decide whether or not a federal ban on guns for “habitual users” of illegal drugs, including marijuana, is constitutional.

Friday, Feb. 27 — Author Joshua Bennett (“The People Can Fly”); Oscar®-nominated director Andrew Jarecki (“The Alabama Solution”); director Richard Brown (“Origin: The Story of the Basketball Africa League”); Dr. Darien Sutton talks about heart health and more.

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