cold and turn to turn the chilly millennium hotel in china you can seal it to your sensor told michael brooks who told mike caro granted he told her told mcconnell it would be sure marco results will result in the salty dog. who would result from a cold beverly plaza hotel mcconnell revealing he told the crowd sutro told me. you're watching all cities great to have you with us a quick check of the headlines. fighting the forces of nature a state of emergency is declared in thirteen regions across russia as emergency services and the army hold raging wildfires in a heatwave with no end in sight. israel's government is the country's most discriminatory according to civil rights groups in the country they allege that new north specifically targeted arabs and other ethnic minorities taking people's lives into a data struggle. wasn't crying king of the pressure the glass has impose new sanctions against iran on a weekend warning that false remains an option they have tehran doesn't stop its uranium enrichment program but russia says current if you want sanctions and resolutions and iran did not al

michael brooks from one yard out 89-yard drive and 7-0 raiders.re had two rushes, one of them was right here. rushing deep and still struggling but they not with convert. second quarter, philip adams, back to field the punt. seventh round pick, she gone. an 83-yard return and 10-7. raiders on the ensuing possession, travis beats henderson around the left edge and nearly takes campbell's head off. he would leave the game with a stinger. alex smith scrambles, finds josh morgan, 1 they are up 19-7. a dart to lewis murphy, 74 yards to pay dirt. niners prevail in this one, 28-24. >> in the heat of the battle, thank god. i don't think it's going to be really serious but it's something we have to take care of before the season starts. >> we're very fortunate to come out with a win. our guys know that. i thought we played hard. we did not play very smart. >> if you are a contender you can't lose two out of three to the second to the worst team in the league. giants did that with arizona. here is a backhand. that is how you do it but this is not how you do

that's syndicated columnist mark shields and "washington post" columnist michael gerson. david brooks is off tonight. michael, there's been much commentary this week about the political problems of president obama. from you and others. >> right. >> lehrer: and you had a column today which said the heart of it is quote a gap between aspiration and reality. explain your premise. >> well, i think we saw some of that in the mosque controversy where the president first set out a very clear and ringing principles and then retreated from it significantly. but i think it applies more broadly. i mean this is a president who campaigned to change washington, and we have even more bitter polarization. a candidate who was supposed to be beyond partisan division. 57% of americans believe he's too liberal. and the reality is you know, all politicians don't live up to their initial image. but that initial image for obama was a dramatic change, was supposed to be a dramatic change. and we just haven't seen those changes. so i think it hurts him more than most in a certain way because hopes were so hig

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michael gerson. mark shields and david brooks are both away. thank you both for being here. >> thank you. >> let's talk first about these unemployment numbers today. 130,000 jobs, michael lost this month. the late stayed the same and then we just saw that very disturbing report from paul solman about the long-term unemployed. but what is the political impact of this? >> well, the reality hear is that it makes this report makes the democrats worst problem even worse. you know, right now they're trying to change the narrative on the employee. -- economy and haven't been able to do that. this report says that job growth has been stagnant for about seven months. that's not likely to improve in the reports. the three reports between now and november although it could. and i think it's a serious problem for the democrats right now. >> ruth, in fact, just two more jobs reports before the midterm elections. >> i think it doesn't necessarily make the democrats worse problem even worse because it's already pretty bad . and because even a fantastic jobs re

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we are not going to go to the brookings institution [captions copyright national cable satellite corp. 2010] the panelists include steve coll, vali nasr, michael fellow andenior director of research at the brookings institution of foreign policy, and general karamat who is retired, and a past chairman of the pakistani joint chiefs of staff. this will be live and should run for about an hour and a half. thank you very much for watching this edition of the "washington journal." see you tomorrow morning again at 7:00 a.m. eastern. >> good morning, ladies and gentlemen, and welcome to the brookings institution. thank you for joining us in the dog days of august. anotherso joined by audience and the next room, so you on closed circuit television, thank you for coming too. today to discuss afghanistan, the great off debate, part iii, as labeled internally. we will discuss, will u.s. strategy succeed? i am martin indyk, the director of the program here at brookings. we have a distinguished and experienced panel to discuss this question, and related ones. i will introduce them all, and then ask each one a very open- ended question to get us going. we