On Friday’s “PBS NewsHour,” New York Times columnist David Brooks criticized the announced withdrawal of U.S. forces from Afghanistan and argued that it will lead to the Taliban taking over Afghanistan, which will force the U.S. to return and be terrible for
On Friday’s “PBS NewsHour,” New York Times columnist David Brooks said that “there is racial bias in policing” but that progress can be made with reforms like eliminating chokeholds, cutting down on pretextual stops, better data collection, and removing barriers to investigating
On Friday’s “PBS NewsHour,” New York Times columnist David Brooks said that because “the Constitution is not a suicide note” then “If we can’t get anything done, if politics is fundamentally broken, then we should probably widen the filibuster window.” Brooks said,
On Friday’s “PBS NewsHour,” New York Times columnist David Brooks predicted that President Joe Biden’s infrastructure package won’t be paid for since Democrats will keep all the spending in the bill, but will compromise on the tax increases in the plan. Brooks
On Friday’s “PBS NewsHour,” New York Times columnist David Brooks argued in favor of vaccine passports, saying that “we need to make life a lot better for people who have had the vaccine” and that doing so will help convince people who
On Friday’s “PBS NewsHour,” New York Times columnist David Brooks said that while he opposes Georgia’s election law, he is concerned about corporations opposing the law and moving business out of the state because it means another institution has become political, there’s
On Friday’s “PBS NewsHour,” New York Times columnist David Brooks said that the only way to have a meaningful impact on gun violence is to decrease the number of guns in the U.S., something countries like Australia have done. Brooks said, “[T]he
On Friday’s “PBS NewsHour,” New York Times columnist David Brooks reacted to Georgia’s election law by saying that the law is “political theater” and that people “vote when they want to vote, regardless of the law.” Brooks criticized the law, saying, “There
On Friday’s “PBS NewsHour,” New York Times columnist David Brooks stated that the Biden administration’s immigration message was the “very unclear message” of “you can come, but not yet.” Brooks said, “Well, the short-term problem for the Biden administration is
On Friday’s “PBS NewsHour,” New York Times columnist David Brooks said that “the guiding force within the Democratic Party” is a belief that the Republican Party is “so illegitimate” that compromising with them isn’t worth it. Brooks stated that he thinks there
On Friday’s “PBS NewsHour,” New York Times columnist David Brooks said that “at this moment, the government has had a fault of being a little too negative” on the coronavirus, and that he’s pleased with President Joe Biden giving people the possibility
On Friday’s “PBS NewsHour,” New York Times columnist David Brooks reacted to states relaxing coronavirus restrictions by stating that he understands why states are opening up, since there is an economic cost to keeping things closed, but “I do not understand getting
On Friday’s “PBS NewsHour,” New York Times columnist David Brooks stated that part of the “unconscious undertone” to the opposition to Neera Tanden’s nomination as OMB Director is that the OMB Director is usually “a super wonky, dry personality, white male.” Brooks
On Friday’s “PBS NewsHour,” New York Times columnist David Brooks stated that President Joe Biden has had a “professional organization” and hasn’t had many mistakes other than “one little error” on “when schools are going to re-open.” Brooks said, “He’s amazingly done
On Friday’s “PBS NewsHour,” New York Times columnist David Brooks stated that students can return to school safely right now, but teachers’ unions and the Biden administration are not informing teachers “of what we know scientifically to be true.” Brooks said, “We
On Friday’s “PBS NewsHour,” New York Times columnist David Brooks stated that the House impeachment managers “did cherry-pick in their video” on former President Donald Trump’s January 6 speech. Brooks stated that the managers proved their incitement case, but “I think they
On Friday’s “PBS NewsHour,” New York Times columnist David Brooks stated that he was wrong to want to get the impeachment trial out of the way quickly to work on the coronavirus relief bill, and that he was “struck by how moved
On Friday’s “PBS NewsHour,” New York Times columnist David Brooks stated that “aside from Joe Biden, I don’t think there’s any taste for bipartisanship in the Democratic Party,” and “we’re just not going to see” bipartisanship. Brooks said, “Joe Biden ran on
On Friday’s “PBS NewsHour,” New York Times columnist David Brooks stated that because President Joe Biden ran on unity, he has to try to get Republican support for the coronavirus relief bill, but the Biden administration is partially “just threatening Republicans, saying,
On Friday’s “PBS NewsHour,” New York Times columnist David Brooks said it’s unclear to him whether the Senate even has the constitutional authority to convict former President Donald Trump after he’s out of office given that the Constitution discusses impeachment in the
On Friday’s “PBS NewsHour,” New York Times columnist David Brooks said he thinks that if Senate Republicans “go into full oppo mode,” Senate Democrats should ax the filibuster. Brooks said, “I’ve spent my entire professional life supporting the filibuster. Because I think
Wednesday during PBS’s coverage of now-President Joe Biden’s inauguration, New York Times columnist David Brooks was moved to tears over the transfer of power.
On Friday’s “PBS NewsHour,” New York Times columnist David Brooks stated that while he supports the House impeaching President Donald Trump, he’s against a Senate trial because doing so would make it harder to pass needed coronavirus relief. Brooks said, “I completely
On Friday’s “PBS NewsHour,” New York Times columnist David Brooks stated that while he supports impeaching President Donald Trump, he is against the 25th Amendment. Because “That’s for incapacitation. The problem is, he’s not incapacitated.”
On Friday’s “PBS NewsHour,” New York Times columnist David Brooks said he thinks there are more bipartisan coalitions like the agreement between Sen. Bernie Sanders (I-VT) and Sen. Josh Hawley (R-MO) on increasing direct payments that can be made. Brooks said, “Well,
On Friday’s “PBS NewsHour,” New York Times columnist David Brooks said that $2,000 direct payments should be reserved for people making under $60,000 and giving people who earn more isn’t a smart use of federal money. After noting the agreement between Sens.
On Friday’s “PBS NewsHour,” New York Times columnist David Brooks stated that Americans “failed each other” because “We never shut down the way other countries did, and we certainly are not doing it now.” Brooks said, “We were failed by our institutions,
On Friday’s “PBS NewsHour,” New York Times columnist David Brooks stated that the expectation is that President Donald Trump’s criticisms of the coronavirus relief bill were “just more noise,” and that, when all is said and done, Trump will ultimately end up
On Friday’s “PBS NewsHour,” New York Times columnist David Brooks predicted that President Donald Trump’s veto of the National Defense Authorization Act (NDAA) will be overridden by Congress and that Republicans who voted for the bill will join in overriding the veto.
On Friday’s “PBS NewsHour,” New York Times columnist David Brooks expressed concern over Joe Biden’s Defense Secretary pick, retired General Lloyd Austin, and said that there’s no need to risk contradicting the principle that the secretary of defense should “have distance from
Joe Biden plans to create a “position that reaches out to conservatives,” according to Cedric Richmond, whom the former Vice President has tapped to lead the White House Office of Public Engagement.
On Friday’s “PBS NewsHour,” New York Times columnist David Brooks said he is “super encouraged” by the people Joe Biden has picked to make up his team Brooks said, “I’m super encouraged too. It’s Biden being Biden. It’s Biden people — picking
On Friday’s “PBS NewsHour,” New York Times columnist David Brooks discussed President Donald Trump’s reduction of troop levels in Afghanistan and stated that “the military probably wants to stay in a little too long.” Because of overconfidence in their abilities. Brooks said,
On Friday’s “PBS NewsHour,” New York Times columnist David Brooks stated that President Donald Trump’s reduction of troop levels in Afghanistan “seems to be just pure politics, so he can brag.” Brooks said that while the military “probably wants to stay in
On Friday’s “PBS NewsHour,” New York Times columnist David Brooks stated Democrats must abandon their “assumption that demography’s on our side,” and “get over this idea that they are the emerging majority party.” Brooks said, “I think the Democrats need to get
On Friday’s “PBS NewsHour,” New York Times columnist David Brooks stated that Republicans “should really focus all their attention on, what can we do for people without college degrees of all groups?” And “can see the potential of a future party as
On Friday’s “PBS NewsHour,” New York Times columnist David Brooks stated that 2020 Democratic presidential nominee former Vice President Joe Biden has “run a unity campaign,” and that he has “never seen a campaign that has so studiously avoided wedge issues.” Brooks
On Friday’s “PBS NewsHour,” New York Times columnist David Brooks said that people are “underplaying” the political impact 2020 Democratic presidential nominee former Vice President Joe Biden’s statement about transitioning away from the oil industry during Thursday’s debate and that the statement
On Friday’s “PBS NewsHour,” New York Times columnist David Brooks said that it’s “entirely possible” that Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell (R-KY) will decide to “stonewall confirming Cabinet appointments” if Joe Biden is elected president and Republicans hold the majority in the
On Friday’s “PBS NewsHour,” New York Times columnist David Brooks said that he is worried “about how a lot of people will react” if President Donald Trump loses the 2020 election because “They’ll be completely flummoxed that this happened, and I don’t
