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PBS News Hour - Segments

Brooks and Capehart on what voters think about Trump’s first 100 days

PBS News Hour - Segments

PBS NewsHour

News, Daily News

41K Ratings

🗓️ 2 May 2025

⏱️ 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 what voters think about President Trump's performance in his first 100 days in office, the issues Democrats are leaning into to counter the administration and Trump's order threatening federal funds for public media. PBS News is supported by - https://www.pbs.org/newshour/about/funders

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0:00.0

The week began with President Trump marking 100 days in office and closed with his calling for an end to federal funds for public media.

0:08.7

To discuss those events and more from the week, we're joined once again by our friends Brooks and K. Part.

0:13.9

That is New York Times columnist David Brooks and Jonathan Kepart, associate editor for the Washington Post.

0:19.8

Man, is it good to see you both at the end of this week?

0:22.7

Let's jump right in. Guys, in the first hundred days, we've now seen the first major shakeup in the administration with the ouster of Mike Walts.

0:29.6

He's been moved from National Security Advisor to the United Nations. But before that, we had a PBS News, NPR Marist poll that took the temperature of Americans.

0:38.2

They had to say this. On President Trump's job performance overall, they gave him a 42% approval,

0:43.7

53% disapproval. On his two biggest issues, on immigration, he's underwater, 44% approving,

0:50.3

52% disapproving. And on the economy, 39% approving, 55% disapproving.

0:57.0

More importantly, when people were asked to give him a report card,

1:00.0

that give him a grade, more than half,

1:03.2

half of respondents responded with an F.

1:06.9

Jonathan, this is a president who moved fast, got a lot done.

1:10.0

What do you make of how Americans are taking it all in?

1:12.9

Well, that last chart you showed shows that the American people, I mean, F, that's serious.

1:18.2

People are not happy.

1:19.6

The PBS poll shows it, and the raft of other polls that came out last week also show it.

1:25.5

The American people are not happy with the president. They're not happy

1:28.8

with what he's doing, how he's doing it. The one thing, my, the one thing, a caution, though,

1:36.4

is that from Trump's first time as president, I learned he couldn't care less about the overall

1:43.1

numbers. He cares about the Republicans.

1:46.5

Where do Republicans stand when it comes to him?

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