Topic: James Brooks

Jonathan Capehart and David Brooks discussed the failed bipartisan border bill on PBS NewsHour. Capehart struggled to remember Senator James Lankford's name and later admitted he would need to call the White House to understand the President's authority on executive actions. The hosts characterize the segment as a humiliation for Capehart and a demonstration of media acting as a mouthpiece for the administration.

Film director Francis Ford Coppola expressed an optimistic view of the presidency, describing Donald Trump as imaginative and results-oriented. In contrast, producer James Brooks and other Hollywood figures are noted for their more critical and "eloquent" denunciations of the President-elect.