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Brooks and Capehart on campus protests and Trump's vision for a 2nd term

PBS News Hour - Segments

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🗓️ 3 May 2024

⏱️ 10 minutes

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New York Times columnist David Brooks and Washington Post associate editor Jonathan Capehart join William Brangham to discuss the week in politics, including protests against the war in Gaza growing on college campuses and Donald Trump gives the clearest vision yet for what he would do with a second term. PBS NewsHour is supported by - https://www.pbs.org/newshour/about/funders

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0:00.0

As protests against the war in Gaza grew on college campuses this week, we also got the

0:06.1

clearest vision yet for what former President Trump might do with a second term.

0:11.6

That brings us to the analysis of Brooks and Kapart. That's New York Times

0:15.2

columnist David Brooks and Jonathan Kapart, associate editor for the Washington Post.

0:20.8

Gentlemen, so good to have you both here.

0:23.2

David, joining us from Chicago, sorry to see you stuck in a television set over there.

0:28.8

Jonathan, to you first, on these protests that we saw growing and on cross college campuses around the country

0:36.0

calls for divestment some clashes police being sent in in some cases what do you make of

0:42.2

this growing protest movement?

0:44.0

Well, one, what we're seeing is the passion of the students and the passion of the

0:50.2

community around these universities over the issue of what's happening in Gaza.

0:55.4

Remember these protests started happening because of the humanitarian crisis there in Gaza.

1:01.6

My big question is will these demonstrations and these protests continue after

1:08.0

graduation and after school is out? What I'm looking at is, you know, colleges are convening spaces. But what happens when you lose

1:16.5

your convening space? Will these demonstrations happen once all the students go back home.

1:22.6

That's the one thing that I'm wondering.

1:25.0

Also, we've seen a proliferation of these demonstrations

1:28.0

in the last week, and I wonder if it's because a lot of the students,

1:32.0

a lot of the demonstrators that are in campuses who haven't gone on record,

1:36.5

they're going on record to show, no, we have something to say about this. We're taking a stand.

1:42.0

And so maybe by this time next week. this

1:43.4

we're taking a stand and so maybe by this time next week or in a couple of weeks I wonder if we're

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