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PBS News Hour - Brooks and Capehart

Brooks and Capehart on Biden's budget, Trump's legal trouble, the GOP's presidential field

PBS News Hour - Brooks and Capehart

PBS NewsHour

News, Politics

4.51.2K Ratings

🗓️ 10 March 2023

⏱️ 10 minutes

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Summary

New York Times columnist David Brooks and Washington Post associate editor Jonathan Capehart join Geoff Bennett to discuss the week in politics, including the impact of former President Trump potential testimony before a New York grand jury, how President Biden's budget is a preview of his reelection platform and Republican's 2024 presidential field. PBS NewsHour is supported by - https://www.pbs.org/newshour/about/funders

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0:00.0

Court Watchers anticipate charges against former President Donald Trump.

0:04.6

President Biden previews his 2024 re-election platform in dollars and cents, and Fox fights

0:10.5

a legal battle over its lies about the 2020 election.

0:14.1

At the end of this week full of political developments, it's time for the analysis of Brooks

0:19.0

and K-Part, that's New York Times columnist David Brooks, and Jonathan K-Part, associate

0:23.7

editor for The Washington Post.

0:25.5

With a welcome to you both on this Friday evening, Jonathan will start with you.

0:29.1

On this interview we just heard with former Arkansas governor Asa Hutchinson, he said

0:33.9

that serious times call for problem solvers.

0:36.7

I'm going to ask him about gun violence, about social security, solvency, about trans

0:41.2

issues.

0:42.2

What did you make of the solutions that he offered?

0:44.5

Well, let's start with with crime, because that's the one that really peaked my interest

0:49.3

because he went immediately to violent crime in our inner cities, and it made me think

0:55.2

of a study from third way, the Democratic-leaning think tank third way here in Washington that

1:01.9

put out a report last March, almost a year ago, March 2022, that showed that the top 10

1:07.8

homicide rates in the United States, eight of the 10 states with the highest homicide

1:13.0

rates per capita in 2020 were states that voted for Donald Trump.

1:19.4

The number nine state is Arkansas, with 10.3 murders per capita, the ninth most homicides

1:28.2

in the country.

1:29.2

And so my question for the governor would be, why is that so high in your state?

1:34.6

What did you do when it came to that kind of crime?

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