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PBS News Hour - Brooks and Capehart

Brooks and Capehart on if Democrats will save Johnson's speakership

PBS News Hour - Brooks and Capehart

PBS NewsHour

News, Politics

4.51.2K Ratings

🗓️ 19 April 2024

⏱️ 13 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 Democrats helping Speaker Johnson get a foreign aid package through the House as he faces backlash from far-right members of his caucus and President Biden's role in easing tensions between Israel and Iran. PBS NewsHour is supported by - https://www.pbs.org/newshour/about/funders

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slash everywhere.

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As Lisa just reported, Democrats helped Speaker Johnson

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get a foreign aid package over a key

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hurdle, but he still faces backlash from far right members in his own conference.

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On that and the other political stories shaping this week, we turn to the analysis of Brooks and

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Kapart.

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That is New York Times columnist David Brooks and Jonathan Kapart, associate editor for the

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Washington Post.

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Gentlemen, so nice to see you both.

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Thanks for being here.

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David, if someone had arrived in Washington today

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from outside the Beltway

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and they had seen what went down,

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which is a bipartisan group of people voting on

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something that they all agreed upon and that thing moving forward they would

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think that's ostensibly what

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is governing looks like but here it's viewed as this unbelievably unusual thing like what do you make

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