On Friday’s “PBS NewsHour,” New York Times columnist David Brooks stated that while he doesn’t like President Trump, “Democrats have done their best to slap people like me in the face over the last week, on a lot of different issues.” Brooks
On Friday’s “PBS NewsHour,” New York Times columnist David Brooks said he was more upset by Virginia Governor Ralph Northam’s (D) comments about abortion than the yearbook picture of Northam. Brooks began by stating, “Well, first, it just shocks you with how
On Friday’s “PBS NewsHour,” New York Times columnist David Brooks stated that House investigations on Russia “will completely consume what is left of an organization in the White House.” Brooks commented on the arrest of former Trump adviser Roger Stone by stating
On Friday’s “PBS NewsHour,” New York Times columnist David Brooks stated that the shutdown resolution “is a total victory for the Democrats.” He added that he believes the odds of another shutdown are low. Brooks said, “The Democrats have this big triumph.
On Friday’s “PBS NewsHour,” New York Times columnist David Brooks stated that Senate Republicans deserve “a lot” of the blame for the government shutdown and can lead the way to ending the government shutdown by passing something to end the shutdown and
On Friday’s “PBS NewsHour,” New York Times columnist David Brooks predicted that President Trump will not declare a national emergency on the border and said that if anything would lead to weakened Republican support for Trump, a national emergency declaration would do
On Friday’s “PBS NewsHour,” New York Times columnist David Brooks argued President Trump should have had the fight over funding the border wall when he had a Republican majority in the House. Brooks said Trump “should have fought this fight, obviously, when
On Friday’s “PBS NewsHour,” New York Times columnist David Brooks argued that while a border wall isn’t a great investment, trading wall funding for a path to citizenship for DREAMers “would be a good deal.” Brooks said, “I think there’s a solution
On Friday’s “PBS NewsHour,” New York Times columnist David Brooks stated that President Trump undercut his own party’s message on a government shutdown during his meeting with Senate Minority Leader Chuck Schumer (D-NY) and House Democratic Leader Nancy Pelosi (D-CA). Brooks said, “Republicans
On Friday’s “PBS NewsHour,” New York Times columnist David Brooks stated that many Republicans “are looking seriously at 2019, with a lot of Fridays like this one, and Trump really hurting himself, and maybe not serving out the term.” Brooks said, “[T]he
On Friday’s “PBS NewsHour,” New York Times columnist David Brooks wondered whether if there is an obstruction of justice case against President Trump, political norms in the United States have changed so that obstruction of justice isn’t politically fatal like it was
On Friday’s “PBS NewsHour,” New York Times columnist David Brooks commented on President Trump’s feud with Supreme Court Chief Justice John Roberts by saying the president only recognizes personal power, not the power of institutions, and that devolving institutional power into personal
On Friday’s “PBS NewsHour,” New York Times columnist David Brooks stated that President Trump’s threat to close the border completely and other recent statements by the president about the border are “mostly bluster, and they’ll find some muddling solution.” Brooks said, “[I]t looks like
On Friday’s “PBS NewsHour,” New York Times columnist David Brooks criticized President Trump’s statement on Saudi Arabia and Washington Post writer Jamal Khashoggi as “a gigantic demotivator for anybody who’s going to serve in the military, anybody who’s going to serve our government overseas.”
On Friday’s “PBS NewsHour,” New York Times columnist David Brooks stated that the court ruling that the White House must give back CNN Chief White House Correspondent Jim Acosta’s press pass “is basically a win for civility.” Brooks stated, “You know, when you
On Friday’s “PBS NewsHour,” New York Times columnist David Brooks stated President Trump has “walled himself in with 45 percent of the electorate.” Brooks said, “First, Donald Trump seems to have walled them in — walled himself in with 45 percent of
On Friday’s “PBS NewsHour,” New York Times columnist David Brooks argued that President Trump “picking out three African-American reporters and insulting their questions” is “who Donald Trump is. I don’t think that requires further explanation.” Brooks stated, “I thought the revoking of Acosta’s
On Friday’s “PBS NewsHour,” New York Times columnist David Brooks stated President Trump’s video ad was “pretty straight-up racist” and that the president is telling people that the GOP’s message is built “on a lot of bigotry.” Host Judy Woodruff asked if
On Friday’s “PBS NewsHour,” New York Times columnist David Brooks argued that President Trump’s rhetoric about the migrant caravan is “an exaggeration” given that the country has had refugees come to the US before it wasn’t a major crisis and the country
New York Times columnist David Brooks stated that we’re in a world where people treat politics as a fight to the death and make politics their identity, and President Trump “is the exclamation point” of that, on Friday’s PBS NewsHour.
On Friday’s “PBS NewsHour,” New York Times columnist David Brooks predicted that the US will probably react to the death of Washington Post writer Jamal Khashoggi by pretending to be angry, and then going back to normal. He further stated that the idea that the
On Friday’s “PBS NewsHour,” New York Times columnist David Brooks stated that while President Trump’s praise of Representative Greg Gianforte (R-MT) for bodyslamming a reporter is wrong, he wonders if behavior like that should be ignored because focusing on it “creates this drama that benefits
On Friday’s “PBS NewsHour,” New York Times columnist David Brooks argued that President Trump’s behavior “has put the Republicans at a moral disadvantage.” Brooks stated, “To me, one of the — an interesting debate is happening. You could call it
On Friday’s “PBS NewsHour,” New York Times columnist David Brooks stated that the confirmation battle over Supreme Court nominee Judge Brett Kavanaugh was “one of the most unpleasant and undignified and depressing spectacles I’ve seen covering in my career.” Brooks said, “I
On Friday’s “PBS NewsHour,” New York Times columnist David Brooks stated that both Supreme Court Judge Brett Kavanaugh and Dr. Christine Blasey Ford were “very compelling.” He also stated that there isn’t any hard evidence to determine who is telling the truth.
On Friday’s “PBS NewsHour,” New York Times columnist David Brooks criticized President Trump for his comments on the death toll in Puerto Rico from Hurricane Maria as “a lie where you render nearly 3,000 Americans invisible,” and “almost pathological.” Brooks said, “It
On Friday’s “PBS NewsHour,” New York Times columnist David Brooks stated that the drop in President Trump’s approval rating “should be very alarming” to Republicans. Brooks said, “Donald Trump had been sitting around 43 for the longest of times, an incredibly stable
On Friday’s “PBS NewsHour,” New York Times columnist David Brooks stated that the process around Supreme Court nominations gets worse every time. He wondered why Republicans won’t just release the documents about nominee Judge Brett Kavanaugh, and criticized the Democrats for turning
On Friday’s “PBS NewsHour,” New York Times columnist David Brooks stated that his takeaway from Bob Woodward’s book and the anonymous New York Times op-ed is that people around the president are trying to do the best they can dealing with “an agent of
On Friday’s “PBS NewsHour,” New York Times columnist David Brooks reacted to the results of Florida gubernatorial primaries by stating that Democratic nominee and Tallahassee Mayor Andrew Gillum has a “more progressive” policy agenda, and by nominating him, the Democratic Party “is
On Friday’s “PBS NewsHour,” New York Times columnist David Brooks said Florida Republican gubernatorial nominee Congressman Ron DeSantis either has “some nasty tendencies within himself, or he just doesn’t get out much. And neither is good.” Brooks stated, “I don’t know what’s
On Friday’s “PBS NewsHour,” New York Times columnist David Brooks stated that in some ways, he is “more offended” by President Trump’s attacks on Attorney General Jeff Sessions than the news about Michael Cohen and Paul Manafort. Brooks stated, “[I]n some ways,
On Friday’s “PBS NewsHour,” New York Times columnist David Brooks stated that while he doesn’t believe Michael Cohen’s allegations are presidency-altering, “the moral affront is so gigantic.” Brooks said, “I mean, to me, one of the things about — weird things about
On Friday’s “PBS NewsHour,” New York Times columnist David Brooks stated that he has a hard time getting worked up over the revocation of former CIA Director John Brennan’s security clearance. Brooks said, “I mean, he’s politicized something that probably shouldn’t be
On Friday’s “PBS NewsHour,” New York Times columnist David Brooks stated President Trump has been “constantly whipping up that sense of white identity.” Brooks said, “White identity politics has been his calling card for a long, long time, maybe stretching back generations
On Friday’s “PBS NewsHour,” New York Times columnist David Brooks stated that the GOP has been struggling in suburban areas and in doing so, “the Republican Party is losing what was the — sort of the enterprising side of that party. And
On Friday’s “PBS NewsHour,” New York Times columnist David Brooks discussed the QAnon members showing up at Trump rallies and stated that there aren’t people who can quash conspiracy theories anymore and “a lot of us mainstream journalists have become delegitimized in
On Friday’s “PBS NewsHour,” New York Times columnist David Brooks said it “totally makes sense that Trump admires the cut of Putin’s jib,” and “bullies can be sycophantic toward better bullies.” Brooks stated, “You know, some people think, oh, Trump has —
On Friday’s “PBS NewsHour,” New York Times columnist David Brooks stated that he has moved from a 3 to a 5 or 6 on a scale from 1-10 on whether he believes there was collusion between the Trump campaign and Russia because
On Friday’s “PBS NewsHour,” New York Times columnist David Brooks stated former EPA Administrator Scott Pruitt “seems to lack character, have a vicious or violent character.” He added that “character is destiny, I guess except if you’re the Oval Office. Then it