David Brooks: Criticism of Obama over Baseball Game and the Tango Are ‘Unfounded’

The New York Times's David Brooks has come to the defense of President Obama, who has faced backlash after enjoying a baseball game in Cuba and tangoing in Argentina during the aftermath of the Brussels terror attacks. Brooks called such criticism "unfounded."

"If the president had skipped the baseball game and gone home, what more could he have done?" Brooks rhetorically asked on PBS's News Hour. "He has a telephone, he can make decisions, he can attend meetings. It’s my basic principle that’s just political point-scoring. It’s my most fundamental basic principle."

"There’s never a good reason to miss a baseball game," he continued. "And so his decision to do that, I fully support that."