The weekly gathering of Washington Post associate editor Jonathan Capehart and New York Times columnist David Brooks on PBS News Hour was extra animated this Friday as the duo decried DOGE’s “cruelty,” claimed “democracy is teetering,” and labeled President Trump an “extortionist.”
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Nawaz then moved to other topics, “We saw President Trump going after institutions, including Big Law, right, including universities, as you mentioned, where many of these guys went to school.”
Turning to Capehart, she asked, “And this week, we saw two big institutions take steps to comply with the demands of the Trump administration. We saw Paul Weiss agree to a settlement, essentially, that says they're going to provide $40 million in pro bono legal services. Columbia University agreed to a list of demands so they don't lose hundreds of millions of dollars in funding. Jonathan, what does this moment, these steps from these institutions say to you?”
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