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PBS News Hour - Brooks and Capehart

Brooks and Capehart on Biden getting his message out, GOP primary poll

PBS News Hour - Brooks and Capehart

PBS NewsHour

News, Politics

4.51.2K Ratings

🗓️ 10 February 2023

⏱️ 11 minutes

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Summary

New York Times columnist David Brooks and Washington Post associate editor Jonathan Capehart join Amna Nawaz to discuss the week in politics, including President Biden taking his message on the road after the State of the Union address and a new poll has an early look at the Republican primary. PBS NewsHour is supported by - https://www.pbs.org/newshour/about/funders

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0:00.0

After his State of the Union address, President Biden is taking his message on the road,

0:05.9

making stops in battleground states and outlining his plans for the upcoming political season.

0:11.3

For analysis on this and more of the week's political news, it's time for Brooks and

0:15.4

K-PART.

0:16.4

That is, New York Times, columnist David Brooks and Jonathan K-PART, associate editor

0:20.3

for The Washington Post.

0:21.3

Good to see you, Bo.

0:22.3

I am.

0:23.3

Nice to see you.

0:24.3

So, we spent some time together watching the State of the Union on Tuesday.

0:27.9

We talked about this on the night as well, Jonathan.

0:30.1

The president focused a lot on the economy and a lot of specifics, things like junk fees,

0:35.3

credit card fees, right?

0:36.7

Bringing down the cost of prescription drugs.

0:39.2

He is now working in a divided Congress.

0:41.4

He made a lot of pledges that night.

0:43.8

How many of those pledges can he see through legislatively?

0:47.8

That remains to be seen.

0:49.4

I mean, we know why.

0:51.8

Speaker McCarthy isn't and his caucus.

0:54.2

They're not terribly interested in accomplishments that will make the president look good.

0:59.6

But what I think the president was doing by looking at all these seemingly narrow things

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