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PBS News Hour - Brooks and Capehart

Brooks and Capehart on gun policy debate after Maine mass shooting and new House speaker

PBS News Hour - Brooks and Capehart

PBS NewsHour

News, Politics

4.51.2K Ratings

🗓️ 27 October 2023

⏱️ 12 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 this week's shooting in Maine that has put another spotlight on America's gun violence epidemic and new House Speaker Mike Johnson. PBS NewsHour is supported by - https://www.pbs.org/newshour/about/funders

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0:00.0

This week's shooting in Maine has put another spotlight on America's gun violence epidemic.

0:05.7

On that and more, we turn now to the analysis of Brooks and Kapart.

0:09.8

That's New York Times columnist David Brooks and Jonathan Kapart, associate editor for the Washington Post.

0:15.4

Welcome to you both gentlemen.

0:17.0

Good to see you.

0:18.0

So Louis and Maine.

0:19.0

Now, the latest community to suffer mass gun violence.

0:23.2

The question, the conversation we always have,

0:25.7

what will this change?

0:26.6

What changes now?

0:27.4

We did see one lawmaker come out

0:29.5

with a remarkable reversal.

0:30.9

I want to play for anyone who missed this piece of sound from Democratic Republican. remarkable reversal

0:35.0

I want to play for anyone who missed this piece of sound from Democratic Republican Jared Golden who reversed his position on assault weapons bans right after the shooting.

0:40.0

Take a listen. I have opposed efforts to ban deadly weapons of war like the assault rightfully used to carry out this crime.

0:48.0

The time has now come for me to take responsibility for this failure.

0:53.0

Which is why I now call on the United States Congress

0:55.7

to ban assault rifles like the one used by the sick

0:59.5

perpetrator of this mask killing in my hometown of Lewis and Man. Jonathan, this was a

1:05.0

was a remarkable reversal and very fast. Why do you think we saw that?

1:10.0

I think we saw that because that congressman now has a situation in his hometown, in his backyard, that communities around the country have been dealing with for years now.

1:25.0

I don't know if his one lone voice is going to be

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