Brooks and Capehart on the U.S. retaliation against Iran-backed militants

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🗓️ 2 February 2024

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New York Times columnist David Brooks and Washington Post associate editor Jonathan Capehart join Geoff Bennett to discuss the week in politics, including the U.S. striking back against Iran-backed militias, congressional gridlock on issues like immigration and taxes, its impact on the 2024 presidential race and how conspiracy theories and falsehoods spread online. PBS NewsHour is supported by - https://www.pbs.org/newshour/about/funders

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0:23.0	Congressional gridlock on key issues like immigration and taxes are being affected by the
0:28.3	2024 presidential race.
0:30.4	For all of this and more, we turn to the analysis tonight of Brooks and Kapart.
0:34.0	That's New York Times columnist David Brooks, and Jonathan Kapart, associate editor for the
0:38.0	Washington Post.
0:39.0	Good to see you both as always.
0:40.0	So I want to start with your reaction to the US tonight starting a series of military
0:44.5	strikes against Iran-backed militias in Iraq and Syria. This response we should
0:50.0	say is expected to be just the beginning of a longer response.
0:54.6	David, you first.
0:55.6	I think it was proportionate.
0:56.8	You know, we've got to do, I think, be strong and show resolve, establish
1:01.7	deterrence, establish defense freedom of the seas, but you don't want to soak
1:05.8	chaos.
1:06.8	And so I think what the administration done is hit the Iranian-backed militias without hitting Iran
1:10.6	itself, which Lindsey Graham and a lot of other Republicans, I'm sure
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