On Friday’s “PBS NewsHour,” New York Times columnist David Brooks reacted to President Donald Trump’s executive order revoking funding to NPR and PBS by saying that PBS is more down the middle than CNN and he defends PBS “because I
On Friday’s broadcast of “PBS NewsHour,” New York Times columnist David Brooks commented on the Milwaukee County Circuit Judge Hannah Dugan case by stating that “if federal enforcement agencies come to your courtroom and you help a guy escape, that
On Friday’s “PBS NewsHour,” New York Times columnist David Brooks said that the Trump administration’s conditions for Columbia University to keep their federal funding “are kind of reasonable, and Columbia should have done all of this stuff five or ten
On Friday’s “PBS NewsHour,” New York Times columnist David Brooks stated that he isn’t super harsh on the Trump White House for barring the Associated Press from the Oval Office and Air Force One because “I lived through the end
On Friday’s broadcast of “PBS NewsHour,” New York Times columnist David Brooks praised the Trump administration’s NEPA regulatory reform and stated that “Kamala Harris said she was going to deregulate. I’m not sure she could have been able to do
During PBS’s Inauguration coverage on Monday, New York Times columnist David Brooks stated that “Americans are distrustful” and so President Donald Trump “giving them concrete things that they can applaud at” in his Inaugural Address is likely the right move. Brooks said,
On Friday’s “PBS NewsHour,” New York Times columnist David Brooks stated that pressure from President-Elect Donald Trump was what “really sealed” the ceasefire and hostage release deal “because Israel had to swallow a lot for this deal. They’re trading away
On Friday’s “PBS NewsHour,” New York Times columnist David Brooks stated that President Joe Biden’s warning about oligarchy in his Farewell Address is accurate, but “there is a Democratic oligarchy and a Republican oligarchy. And so, to say it’s all
Friday, during his weekly appearance on PBS’s “NewsHour,” New York Times columnist David Brooks argued the decline in viewership of political news was a positive.
On Friday’s “PBS NewsHour,” New York Times columnist David Brooks stated that while he sides more with Elon Musk and Vivek Ramaswamy in the debate over immigration, “you’ve got to secure the border if you want the American people to
On Friday’s “PBS NewsHour,” New York Times columnist David Brooks stated that Democrats “missed the chance when they were in office to reform government.” And “Donald Trump has some right instincts about immigration, about reforming government, but he does not
On Friday’s “PBS NewsHour,” New York Times columnist David Brooks stated that he believes Kash Patel will be confirmed by the Senate to be the FBI director, but he wonders how effective Patel and others will be because “the bureaucracies
On Friday’s “PBS NewsHour,” New York Times columnist David Brooks stated that he thinks Special Counsel Jack Smith was correct to dismiss the case against President-Elect Donald Trump and said that “the greater danger is that we use trials as
On Friday’s “PBS NewsHour,” New York Times columnist David Brooks said that “there are not going to be a lot of the Trump appointees like Jim Mattis, who want to be liked, who want to do a responsible job for
On Friday’s “PBS NewsHour,” New York Times columnist David Brooks argued that Democrats should not respond to everything President-Elect Donald Trump does during his tenure “And if they think, oh, all we have to do is hit him on the
During PBS’s election coverage on Tuesday, New York Times columnist David Brooks argued that President Joe Biden “did what he was assigned to do by the country” and that was to give money to people who are high school graduates, but “he
On Friday’s “PBS NewsHour,” New York Times columnist David Brooks stated that while he’s not a huge fan of Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu “over the last month, he’s gone against world opinion and American opinion on a whole range
On Friday’s “PBS NewsHour,” New York Times columnist David Brooks said that 2024 Democratic presidential candidate Vice President Kamala Harris’ “gouging” proposal “expresses a level of economic illiteracy which is kind of surprising in a responsible Democratic candidate.” And that
During the “PBS NewsHour” coverage of day two of the Republican National Convention on Tuesday, New York Times columnist David Brooks stated that Republicans are “prone” to “go with a little racial intonation” while talking about the border but the party’s stance on
On Friday’s “PBS NewsHour,” New York Times columnist David Brooks stated that the President Joe Biden we saw at the NATO press conference on Thursday “is the Biden that is there, which is a little mentally slow, a little cumbersome
On Friday’s “PBS NewsHour,” New York Times columnist David Brooks said that the President Joe Biden we saw at Thursday’s the NATO press conference “is an adequate President. He would make the right judgments, his staff would do the things
On Friday’s “PBS NewsHour,” New York Times columnist David Brooks stated that President Joe Biden had a strategy to win the 2024 race of “use fiscal stimulus to really turbocharge the election, you get these working-class voters coming to your
On Friday’s “PBS NewsHour,” New York Times columnist David Brooks stated that 2024 Republican presidential candidate former President Donald Trump’s proposal to give green cards to foreign nationals who graduate from American colleges makes sense and Trump is “a politician,
On Friday’s “PBS NewsHour,” New York Times columnist David Brooks stated that even though the University of Chicago has been “pretty tame here compared to a lot of the other places” things are bad enough there the school is sending
On Friday’s “PBS NewsHour,” New York Times columnist David Brooks stated that Hamas’ “chief strategy is to generate as many civilian deaths as they can to get world pressure to force Israel to desist.” But there’s “a growing callousness toward
On Friday’s broadcast of “PBS NewsHour,” New York Times columnist David Brooks said that “there are a lot of people out there who would fit both bills, who are good journalists and support Donald Trump.” And there need to be more
On Friday’s “PBS NewsHour,” New York Times columnist David Brooks stated that the Biden administration’s opposition to Israel invading Rafah is support for an approach that allows Hamas to emerge “surviving, competent, and, frankly, victorious.” And thus would kill any possibility of
On Friday’s “PBS NewsHour,” New York Times columnist David Brooks said that while he agrees with Senate Majority Leader Sen. Chuck Schumer’s (D-NY) comments about Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, he shouldn’t have said them because the Hamas strategy “is
On Friday’s “PBS NewsHour,” New York Times columnist David Brooks stated that President Joe Biden should act on the border and noted that Biden undid a lot of former President Donald Trump’s border policies and Biden hasn’t been shy about
On Friday’s broadcast of “PBS NewsHour,” New York Times columnist David Brooks stated that the notion that President Joe Biden “is puffing up the economy is just completely wrong.” And that while “it is true that the American people are
On Friday’s broadcast of “PBS NewsHour,” New York Times columnist David Brooks stated that President Joe Biden’s immigration policies “haven’t worked” and Democrats have had left-wing positions on the issue like Democratic presidential candidates who supported “decriminalizing the border.” He
On Friday’s “PBS NewsHour,” New York Times columnist David Brooks said that there should have been more clarity about the strategy in the Ukraine-Russia war that “time wasn’t on our side” because of Russia’s strategy of simply waging war for
On Friday’s “PBS NewsHour,” New York Times columnist David Brooks stated that he thinks President Joe Biden is “completely sharp enough to” run his administration and has “good” judgment, but his own staff clearly acts “like he has a big
On Friday’s “PBS NewsHour,” New York Times columnist David Brooks stated that we have a “really good” economy and “really rapidly decreasing crime rates” except in D.C. despite how people are “wounded by how Donald Trump wants us to feel” all the
On Friday’s “PBS NewsHour,” New York Times columnist David Brooks stated that Maine’s decision to remove 2024 Republican presidential candidate former President Donald Trump was “an even worse threat to democracy” than the Colorado ruling and that Maine Secretary of
On Friday’s “PBS NewsHour,” New York Times columnist David Brooks stated that he believes the U.S. Supreme Court will toss the Colorado Supreme Court’s ruling earlier this week removing 2024 Republican presidential candidate former President Donald Trump from the ballot
On Friday’s “PBS NewsHour,” New York Times columnist David Brooks stated that while 2024 Republican presidential candidate former President Donald Trump’s comments about immigration were wrong, “there’s an actual issue here.” And “we shouldn’t reduce the whole issue to those
On Friday’s “PBS NewsHour,” New York Times columnist David Brooks argued that “Democrats should hop on as much as they possibly can” to Republican proposals on changes to border policy, not only “because the border is a genuine national crisis” but also
On Friday’s “PBS NewsHour,” New York Times columnist David Brooks stated that the testimony of the presidents of Harvard, Penn, and MIT supported Republican assertions “that progressive elites have gone a little bonkers,” and the Hunter Biden indictment backed up arguments “that
On Friday’s “PBS NewsHour,” New York Times columnist David Brooks stated that the progressive wing of the Democratic Party has taken a “from the river to the sea” position on Israel that completely abandons a two-state solution in favor of
