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Shields and Brooks on which convention was more successful

Clip: 7/29/2016 | 12m 3s

David Brooks and Mark Shields join Judy Woodruff for a look at the conventions.

New York Times columnist David Brooks and syndicated columnist Mark Shields sit down with Judy Woodruff for a look at the conventions and agree the Democrats were more successful — even if Hillary Clinton failed to connect emotionally. “If we are in some Hobbesian state of nature, in which we want a strongman who has no compassion,” then Trump comes out ahead, says Brooks.

07/29/2016 | Rating NR

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