Leave your feedback Share Copy URL https://www.pbs.org/newshour/show/shields-and-brooks-first-debate-focused-on-details Email Facebook Twitter LinkedIn Pinterest Tumblr Share on Facebook Share on Twitter Story Transcript Judy Woodruff, Gwen Ifill and Christina Bellantoni discuss the candidates’ performances in the first debate with NewsHour’s political analysts David Brooks and Mark Shields. For Shields and Brooks, the most interesting part of the debate were the topics the candidates did not bring up and the comments that went unchallenged. Read the Full Transcript Notice: Transcripts are machine and human generated and lightly edited for accuracy. They may contain errors.