On Friday’s “PBS NewsHour,” New York Times columnist David Brooks stated that the Trump-Ukraine call transcript shows behavior that isn’t “an explicit quid pro quo, but it comes pretty close, I think.” Brooks said, “They thought it was exculpatory. But I don’t
New York Times columnist David Brooks is warning in an op-ed that the march to impeachment could end badly.
On Friday’s “PBS NewsHour,” New York Times columnist David Brooks said that President Trump is handling recent tensions with Iran “as well as you can do in this circumstance.” Brooks stated, “Trump is actually playing it reasonably well. I mean, it’s a
On Friday’s “PBS NewsHour,” New York Times columnist David Brooks stated that Trump attorney Rudy Giuliani has fallen and is engaging in “mob behavior.” Brooks said, “[T]he fall of Giuliani is one of the great stories of our age. I covered him
On Friday’s “PBS NewsHour,” New York Times columnist David Brooks reacted to the departure of National Security Adviser John Bolton by stating that “the scary thing” is that President Trump is making foreign policy by himself while watching TV. Brooks said, “I
On Friday’s “PBS NewsHour,” New York Times columnist David Brooks praised red flag laws and argued that on guns “it’s important to at least crack the wall of inaction.” Brooks stated, “I think the smart thing to do would be to…withhold weapons
On Friday’s “PBS NewsHour,” New York Times columnist David Brooks reacted to a report that states are planning to cancel their Republican primaries in 2020 by stating that “shutting down the democratic process so you can get 100% is something we associate
On Friday’s “PBS NewsHour,” New York Times columnist David Brooks discussed Sharpie-Gate and stated that reacting to President Trump’s “exaggerations and lies again and again” might be “the right thing to do,” but it also gets old. Brooks said, “[O]n the one
On Friday’s “PBS NewsHour,” New York Times columnist David Brooks stated that President Trump’s proposal to divert military funding towards a wall is “a crackpot idea,” but he wouldn’t be surprised if Congress “went back and reapportioned more money, and just piled
On Friday’s “PBS NewsHour,” New York Times columnist David Brooks argued that the DNC’s debate criteria are “fair” and that there has to be a way to narrow the debate field. Brooks said, “I think they’re fair. Getting to 2% is not
On Friday’s “PBS NewsHour,” New York Times columnist David Brooks stated 2020 Democratic presidential candidate former Vice President Joe Biden might “embellish” stories to make them more dramatic, “But he’s not mendacious. He’s not irresponsible.” Brooks began by saying that Biden’s statements
On Friday’s “PBS NewsHour,” New York Times columnist David Brooks said that he thinks 2020 Democratic presidential candidates former Vice President Joe Biden and Senator Kamala Harris (D-CA) gave good responses to questions on whether President Trump is a white supremacist. Brooks
On Friday’s “PBS NewsHour,” New York Times columnist David Brooks said that when he saw President Trump smiling and giving a thumbs-up in a picture with a child orphaned by the El Paso shooting, he thought, “well, he’s a sociopath.” Brooks said, “Well,
On Friday’s “PBS NewsHour,” New York Times columnist David Brooks stated that President Trump’s rhetoric is “not dog whistle anymore. It’s just straight-up human whistle.” And “We’re walking into George Wallace territory.” Brooks said, “You just look at who he’s attacking. It’s
On Friday’s “PBS NewsHour,” New York Times columnist David Brooks said his main takeaway from the Democratic debates “was that Democrats don’t understand what this election is about.” Brooks stated, “My main takeaway was that Democrats don’t understand what this election is
Post-graduate Democrats increasingly prefer to view American politics as all about race — even if it is all about money or power — according to David Brooks, an op-ed columnist at the New York Times.
On Friday’s “PBS NewsHour,” New York Times columnist David Brooks reacted to the budget deal by saying that President Trump started moving the party away from concern about balanced budgets, and the rest of the party “has followed at a gallop.” Brooks stated,
On Friday’s “PBS NewsHour,” New York Times columnist David Brooks reacted to Special Counsel Robert Mueller’s testimony before Congress by stating that “There was no collusion” and this “makes it much less likely that we move forward with an impeachment process.” Brooks said,
On Friday’s “PBS NewsHour,” New York Times columnist David Brooks stated that abolishing private health insurance is “a death knell for any Democratic candidate.” Brooks said, “I, of course, think Joe Biden’s policy is a better policy. And I just think, politically,
On Friday’s “PBS NewsHour,” New York Times columnist David Brooks reacted to President Trump’s statements about four Democratic congresswomen by arguing that in President Trump’s vision of America, “America is xenophobic.” Brooks said, “Well, it is racist. Let’s get that off the
On Friday’s “PBS NewsHour,” New York Times columnist David Brooks stated that we have learned that “deterrence doesn’t work” with immigration. Brooks said, “One, we’ve had these great jobs numbers. We could be feeling good about ourselves. But a lot of us
On Friday’s “PBS NewsHour,” New York Times columnist David Brooks stated that President Trump’s story of the United States is “basically what is a pagan Roman story.” He also stated that there was “Trump phobia” over the president’s July 4th celebration. Brooks
On Friday’s “PBS NewsHour,” New York Times columnist David Brooks stated that the 2020 Democratic presidential field has “an insularity problem” and “sometimes talk as if they’re campaigning for Brooklyn.” Brooks said, “I would say, across all issues, there’s an insularity problem.
Reparations are gaining steam again, as the House of Representatives has scheduled the first hearing on the subject in over a decade for Wednesday, June 19. The hearing is supposed to consider the “continuing impact” of slavery, which was abolished over 150 years ago, and ponder the concept of “restorative justice,” which means penalizing people who had nothing to do with it.
On Friday’s “PBS NewsHour,” New York Times columnist David Brooks stated that he’s “glad” President Trump called off strikes on Iran and said that it’s unclear how Donald Trump views the Iranian regime. Brooks began by saying, “Well, first, I’m glad he
On Friday’s “PBS NewsHour,” New York Times columnist David Brooks stated that 2020 Democratic presidential candidate former Vice President Joe Biden’s comments about working with segregationist senators were “tone-deaf on that,” but that members of Congress have to work with each other
On Friday’s “PBS NewsHour,” New York Times columnist David Brooks stated that 2020 Democratic presidential candidate Senator Bernie Sanders (I-VT) “is never able to define the left where he won’t go, whether it’s Venezuela, or whether it’s the Nicaraguan regime, the Sandinistas.” Brooks
On Friday’s episode of PBS’s “NewsHour,” New York Times columnist David Brooks argued that Republican support for President Donald Trump in the wake of his comments regarding the acceptance of “dirt” from foreign powers and the GOP’s reasoning for the backing was more disturbing than Trump’s remarks.
On Friday’s “PBS NewsHour,” New York Times columnist David Brooks stated that while impeachment hearings might be a wise idea “just for rule of law,” “it’s not going to go anywhere.” Brooks said, “Republican support for Donald Trump is now
On Friday’s “PBS NewsHour,” New York Times columnist David Brooks stated that he thinks that “we’re probably going to move in” the direction of impeachment. Brooks said, “Democratic voters in recent polls have shifted much more to, we need to impeach. That’s
On Friday’s “PBS NewsHour,” New York Times columnist David Brooks said that he is bothered by President Trump and House Speaker Nancy Pelosi (D-CA) questioning each other’s mental competence, and President Trump walking away from the infrastructure meeting with Democrats shows the
On Friday’s “PBS NewsHour,” New York Times columnist David Brooks said that “extremists have taken over both sides” of the abortion debate and “everybody is speaking for these extreme positions.” Brooks stated, “New York started this by passing a very liberal abortion
On Friday’s “PBS NewsHour,” New York Times columnist David Brooks stated that Republicans “went crazy” because Senate Intelligence Committee Chairman Richard Burr (R-NC) is “acting like an actual senator who wants to get to the bottom of a very serious issue.” Brooks
On Friday’s “PBS NewsHour,” New York Times columnist David Brooks stated that President Trump should cooperate with Congress and say he needs Congressional oversight, while the Democrats are just acting as “an attack machine.” Brooks said, “The president has to say, Congress,
Wednesday, David Brooks, a columnist for The New York Times, weighed in on the piece published by his colleagues about President Donald Trump’s tax return data from over 25 years ago that says the real estate mogul lost more than a
On Friday’s “PBS NewsHour,” New York Times columnist David Brooks stated that while Attorney General William Barr “didn’t lie” during his testimony before Congress, “he spun.” Brooks said, “I thought it was best expressed by a piece by Benjamin Wittes, who’s a
On Friday’s “PBS NewsHour,” New York Times columnist David Brooks reacted to President Trump’s phone call with Vladimir Putin by stating that even though there “was probably no collusion,” Trump “acts like someone who is in collusion with Russia.” Brooks said, “Trump
On Friday’s “PBS NewsHour,” New York Times columnist David Brooks argued that “Democrats should be pretty forceful” in their demands for testimony from members of the executive branch. Brooks said, “I’m not wild about impeachment, but I am earnest about forcing the
On Friday’s “PBS NewsHour,” New York Times columnist David Brooks said 2020 presidential candidate Senator Elizabeth Warren’s (D-MA) student debt forgiveness plan is “a very terrible” policy that is “helping people who are going to be doctors and lawyers.” Brooks said, “[T]his
On Friday’s “PBS NewsHour,” New York Times columnist David Brooks said that he likes the way former Vice President Joe Biden’s campaign announcement “made this about values.” Brooks stated, “I actually like the way he made this about values. I mean, there