Washington Post associate editor Jonathan Capehart and New York Times columnist David Brooks had an actual debate on Friday’s PBS News Hour. However, it was more of an inside-the-family argument about the best way for Democrats to stand up to President Donald Trump. Capehart argued that, after Senate Democrats declined to shut down the government, the party needs to grow “a spine,” while Brooks argued Minority Leader Chuck Schumer did the right thing by not making a bad situation worse by allowing Trump to further “decimate” the country.
Host Amna Nawaz began with Capehart, “Democrats who previously said shutdowns are dangerous and they are harmful now saying they’d rather have a shutdown than vote for this bill. What’s going on in the party?”
Capehart began by not answering the question:
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