Shields and Brooks on Trump’s legal troubles, House chaplain politics
Syndicated columnist Mark Shields and New York Times columnist David Brooks join John Yang to discuss the week's news, including the media blitz by Trump ...
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JOHN YANG: But first: A lot can happen in a week. The president can again shake up his legal team, and then have one of those new lawyers contradict him, and a fired congressional chaplain can get his job back. Mirabile dictu. That's for you, David. (LAUGHTER) JOHN YANG: Here to make sense of it all, the analysis of Shields and Brooks. That's syndicated columnist Mark Shields and New York Times columnist David Brooks. We should explain, David Brooks just back from Italy, so a little Latin. DAVID BROOKS: Apparently, where you have been studying Sir Thomas Aquinas, apparently. JOHN YANG: Exactly. MARK SHIELDS: I thought he had been to Latin America. (LAUGHTER) JOHN YANG: We have had this spectacle this week or the scene this week of the president getting a new lawyer, the star of h...
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JOHN YANG: But first: A lot can happen in a week. The president can again shake up his legal team, and then have one of those new lawyers contradict him, and a fired congressional chaplain can get his job back. Mirabile dictu. That's for you, David. (LAUGHTER) JOHN YANG: Here to make sense of it all, the analysis of Shields and Brooks. That's syndicated columnist Mark Shields and New York Times columnist David Brooks. We should explain, David Brooks just back from Italy, so a little Latin. DAVID BROOKS: Apparently, where you have been studying Sir Thomas Aquinas, apparently. JOHN YANG: Exactly. MARK SHIELDS: I thought he had been to Latin America. (LAUGHTER) JOHN YANG: We have had this spectacle this week or the scene this week of the president getting a new lawyer, the star of h...
