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PBS News Hour - Brooks and Capehart

Brooks and Capehart on immigration action, third-party candidates

PBS News Hour - Brooks and Capehart

PBS NewsHour

News, Politics

4.51.2K Ratings

🗓️ 15 March 2024

⏱️ 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 whether President Biden should act on his own on immigration, Senate Majority Leader Chuck Schumer's call for political change in Israel, plus the appetite for third-party candidates in the upcoming presidential election. PBS NewsHour is supported by - https://www.pbs.org/newshour/about/funders

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0:23.2

For more on immigration, how it could affect the race for the White House and other political issues

0:27.8

shaping the week, we turn to the analysis of Brooks and Cape Heart.

0:31.9

That is New York Times columnist David Brooks and

0:34.1

Jonathan K-Part, Associate Editor for the Washington Post. Good as always to

0:38.7

see you both, happy Friday. Well let's begin with the conversation I just had with Secretary

0:43.6

Mayorkis and this issue of immigration. It's top on voters mind. We know

0:47.4

Republicans want to continue to make it an election issue.

0:50.3

Jonathan, President Biden could take executive action.

0:54.5

There are options available to him to issue harsh restrictions,

0:57.9

potentially be challenged in the courts over them.

1:00.0

But as you heard Secretary America say,

1:01.8

they won't do that.

1:02.5

They want Congress to act.

1:04.3

Should President Biden take that action

1:06.4

and take the issue off the table?

1:07.9

But it depends on whether you want the president to engage in theater or you want the president to actually do

1:15.0

something that can help solve the problem. Theater would be signing executive

1:19.7

action, knowing full well that it will lots of people are going to sue it will get enjoined

1:26.3

probably by the same the same federal judge who enjoined the the Trump

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