PBS NEWSHOUR: New York Times columnist David Brooks and Washington Post associate editor Jonathan Capehart join Amna Nawaz to discuss the week in politics, including the federal response to the flooding disaster in Texas, another round of tariff threats from President Trump and reflections on the life and career of David Gergen.

JONATHAN CAPEHART, WASHINGTON POST: I don’t understand what the president’s doing here with – he’s taken his 20th century view of tariffs from the 1980s, trying to apply it to a 21st century world. No one knows what any of this means. And David’s talking about inflation, higher prices. We just don’t know. Economists say that the American people are going to get hammered, that the president telling everyone that we’re getting screwed by these other nations and that they’re going to pay the tariffs, that just isn’t true. And so the thing I keep coming back to on a whole lot of things that the president does, I’m asking the question, why are we not talking about his mental acuity in the way we would if President Biden had been saying and doing a lot of these erratic things? And we’re not. And I think we need to start having that conversation. Why is he going down this road on tariffs? You might ask me about Brazil. I’m going to just jump in and talk about this. AMNA NAWAZ, PBS NEWSHOUR: Please do. CAPEHART: So what he’s doing with Brazil has nothing to do with economic policy and everything to do with retribution against trying to go after the judge in the case involving the former president. NAWAZ: That’s right, who’s an ally of his, we should point out. CAPEHART: And who’s an – right, who is an ally of his. That should not be the basis of American foreign policy or American economic policy. And yet here we are.

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