Jonathan Capehart

On Thursday's The 11th Hour show, MSNBC host Stephanie Ruhle lamented that Republicans had distracted the country with "nonsense" and prevented Americans from getting to know newly appointed Supreme Court Justice Ketanji Brown Jackson.

Columnists Jonathan Capehart and David Brooks joined PBS NewsHour host Judy Woodruff on Friday for their weekly panel discussion to recap Judge Ketanji Brown Jackson’s Supreme Court confirmation hearings. Together, the duo would accuse Republicans of putting her through hell so that they could get on Fox.

On his MSNBC show this morning, after playing a clip of Tucker Carlson calling for Keanji Brown Jackson's LSAT score to be disclosed, Jonathan Capehart said: "Senator Hirano, I'm not going to curse because it's Sunday and I'd get fired. Can you talk about why what Tucker Carlson just said is so repugnant?" 

Math and logic were in short supply on the Friday edition of PBS NewsHour as Washington Post columnist Jonathan Capehart accused 31 Republican senators “playing games” with aid for Ukraine because they voted against a spending bill in which less than one percent of the money was for Ukrainian aid.

Washington Post columnist Jonathan Capehart joined PBS NewsHour host Judy Woodruff on Friday to launch all sorts of strawman attacks against the “hideous” and “horrendous” agenda coming from Republican governors and state legislators across the country.

On The Sunday Show with Jonathan Capehart on MSNBC, Fordham law professor Christina Greer uncorked a Pants On Fire claim that the resumes of Brett Kavanaugh and Amy Coney Barrett were "abysmal and embarrassing" compared to the long, long list of qualifications of Biden's nominee Ketanji Brown Jackson. 

Naturally, the PBS NewsHour was delighted with President Biden's nomination of radical Judge Ketanji Brown Jackson to the Supreme Court on Friday night. David Brooks put her in the mainstream….of the Democrats. That might be correct, but the Democrats are far to the left! Jonathan Capehart then misquoted Brooks as saying she's "in the mainstream" of America.

On the PBS NewsHour on Friday night, Washington Post columnist Jonathan Capehart insisted "no one serious out there wants to defund the police." But his own newspaper came out with a big serious editorial in June 2020 lauding the whole movement as an idealistic reimagining of public safety. Capehart promoted it on Twitter! 

On Jonathan Capehart's MSNBC show, Chicago Mayor Lori Lightfoot says "we have to invest our way" out of crime. She also describes adult criminals as being "under-resourced."

On Friday's PBS NewsHour, Washington Post columnist and MSNBC host Jonathan Capehart was angry enough at his fellow panelist David Brooks that he claimed that President Biden's still-unknown Supreme Court nominee would probably be "more brilliant than the folks who have come in before her" because she had to overcome all the racism that defines America. 

On Jonathan Capehart's MSNBC show, Howard Dean scolds Democrats for not fighting "neo-fascist" Republicans. Dean says there are "similarities" between Hitler and Trump. Capehart says that Dean said "exactly what I'm thinking."

Many, including some prominent Democrats, have criticized Joe Biden's inflammatory speech this past week in Atlanta in which he accused those who oppose undoing the Senate's filibuster rules to push through his federal takeover of elections as being on the side of George Wallace, Bull Connor, and Jefferson Davis. But Biden, even at his most outrageous, can always count on MSNBC to have his…

On his MSNBC show, Jonathan Capehart highlights a Canadian newspaper headline about the possibility of Canada intervening in the US if Trumpism wins and the US is seen as "hurtling toward possible violence and autocracy." And guest Fiona Hill describes Canadian concerns that many Americans will try to cross the border into Canada as "refugees" in 2024.

On the occasion of the approaching anniversary of the January 6th Capitol riot, MSNBC host Jonathan Capehart gets verklempt on his MSNBC show as he agonized over the alleged threat to American democracy posed by Donald Trump and his supporters.