. >> lehrer: mk shields and david brooks present their weekly analysis. >> brown: paul solman wraps up his series on europe's economic woes with a look at spain's unemployment problem. >> lehrer: and ray suarez interviews robert mccrum about how english has become the first worldwide language. >> if you said in say 800 or 900 b.c. in 2010 people would be discussing a global language, they would have looked at you in disbelief. >> lehrer: that's all ahead on tonight's newshour. major funding for the pbs newsur has been provided by:

>> sreenivasan: there's more from david brooks and ruth marcus on the rundown. views on the immigration debate in arizona-- those of an immigrant family and of a talk show host in phoenix. and we check in with steve myers of the poynter institute about the long-term impact of wikileaks on both news organizations and governments. plus on "art beat," jeffrey brown talks to an editor at "publishers weekly" about a recent deal between the wylie literary agency and amazon to sell digital versions of some classic titles, bypassing the usual publisher. all that and more is on our web site, newshour.pbs.org. >> lehrer: and again, to our honor roll of american service personnel killed in the iraq and afghanistan conflicts. we add them as their deaths are made official and photographs become available. here, in silence, are nine more. >> woodruff: and that's the "newshour" for tonight. on monday, we'll look at corruption in afghanistan. i'm judy woodruff. >> lehrer: and i'm jim lehrer. "washington week" can be seen later this evening on most pbs stations. we'll see you on

. >> lehrer: mark shields and david brooks offer their weekly analysis. >> woodruff: and we look at the hype and the fallout from basketball star lebron james's decision to leave the cleveland cavaliers . >> it is very tough and i'm going to take pie talent to the beech and join the miami heat. >> lehrer: ahead on tonight's newshour. major funding for the pbs newshour has been provided by: and with the ongoing support of these institutions and foundations. and... this program was made possible by the corporation for public broadcasting. and by contributions to your pbs station from viewers like you. thank you. >> . >> woodruff: the justice department formally announced completion today of the largest exchange of spies since the end of the cold war. it unfolded at sites across europe. two planes, one from russia, the other from the u.s. arrived within minutes of each other today in vienna, austria. they lined up on the hot tarmac waiting for the swap. then a procession of convicted sleeper agents flown from new york climbed the steps to the russian plane. some had their children with the

. >> woodruff: mark shields and david brooks offer their weekly analysis. >> brown: and we close with remembrances of senator robert byrd from the memorial service held today in charleston, west virginia. >> this is a guy who continued to taste and smell and feel the suffering of the people of his state. he tasted it. >> woodruff: that's all ahead on tonight's newshour. major funding for the pbs newshour has been provided by: and with the ongoing support of these institutions and foundations. and... this program was made possible by the corporation for public broadcasting. and by contributions to your pbs station from viewers like you. thank you. >> brown: the u.s. economy lost jobs overall last month, even as the jobless rate was declining. the numbers were the latest sign that the recovery may be losing momentum. private employers managed to add 83,000 jobs in june, but it wasn't enough-- the economy still recorded a net loss of 125,000 jobs, as the census bureau laid off more of the temporary workers it hired last spring. labor commissioner keith hall offered this perspective at a

. >> brown: we get the weekly analysis of mark shields and david brooks. >> lehrer: and margaret warner reports on what a new early test for alzheimer's disease could mean for treatment. that's all ahead on tonight's newshour. major funding for the pbs newshour has been provided by: and with the ongoing support of these institutions and foundations. and... this program was made possible by the corporation for public broadcasting. and by contributions to your pbs station from viewers like you. thank you. >> lehrer: "so far, so good"-- that was the word from the gulf of mexico today. there were no signs of new leaks a day after that ruptured b.p. well was capped. but engineers kept a sharp watch. newshour correspondent tom bearden filed this report from empire, louisiana. >> reporter: underwater cameras at the wellhead showed a relatively peaceful scene-- clear water with no oil leaking. the online video image was being watched, from the gulf to the white house. president obama sounded a hopeful note as he left for a weekend in maine. >> the new cap is good news. either we will be able to

. >> lehrer: mark shields and david brooks present their weekly analysis. >> brown: paul solman wraps up his series on europe's economic woes with a look at spain's unemployment problem. >> lehrer: and ray suarez interviews robert mccrum about how english has become the first worldwide language. >> if you said in say 800 or 900 b.c. in 2010 people would be discussing a global language, they would have looked at you in disbelief. >> lehrer: that's all ahead on tonight's newshour. major funding for the pbs newshour has been provided by: and with the ongoing support of these institutions and foundations. and... this program was made possible by the corporation for public broadcasting. and by contributions to your pbs station from viewers like you. thank you. >> lehrer: the storm system named bonnie took direct aim today at the oil spill in the gulf of mexico. it lost some strength on the way, but its approach triggered movements at sea and on land. newshour correspondent spencer michels reports from louisiana. >> reporter: bonnie was already churning the waters in the gulf of mexico, wit

with sparking the tea party movement, cnbc's rick santelli and "the new york times" columnist, david brooks and "the washington post" columnist e.j. dionne. >>> good morning. a summer of anxiety over jobs, the economy and government borrowing as new polling shows president obama's job approval rating handling the nation's economy at a new low. on friday i sat down with the the administration's top economic official, treasury secretary tim geithner. mr. secretary, welcome back to the program. thank you for having us down to your office. >> good to see you, david. >> i want to ask but some of the broader economic outlooks that we've heard across the spectrum this week. an important one from the fed chairman, ben bernanke, who said the outlook is unusually uncertain. i wonder if to you, to the president, do you fear that things are going to get worse before they get better? >> i don't think there's anything unusual about the fact that given the severity of this crisis, the recession, how bad it was just 18 months ago, that americans are still living with some caution, some sense of caution abo

. >> charlie: this is a complex bill, 2,300 pages, some say too complex -- david brooks said too much faith in government experts and the ability to use social science, but did you and the administration and the president get most of what you wanted? >> we did. we did. few exceptions -- good to define the exceptions. we on the basic principle i began with want to make sure that people who are providing credit to consumers, families, businesses operate within a simple set of rules and protections and as you saw, auto dealers were largely carved out of the bill. >> charlie: you lost that battle. >> that's a battle we lost. but fundamentally, we got what we -- what we needed to get. i want to go back to the point you made that you attributed to david brooks because it's very important for people to understand you cannot prevent financial crises, and you cannot run a strategy for financial stability based on the hope that you are going to have a bunch of presidentials, bureaucrats in washington sitting at their desks figuring out how to go out and preempt risk-taking in the future, diffus

even its one reliably conservative columnist david brooks is an iconoclast who does not fit any category easily. another person's who looks to be a developing conservative columnist does not fallen to reclassification. but, i think the impact of the editorial and op-ed pages and tend to create an aura that can spread over the paper. it is also true -- "the new york times" is published in new york. over half of the readership is in the tristate area. it is a national newspaper, but it is based in its mindset, which comes out of that world. it is socially more liberal than other parts of the country, for sure. on the weddings pages, there are same-sex couples. there are marriages and unions that are placed right next to heterosexual marriages. they have been for a number of years. the paper does not give serious credence to creationism or intelligent design. i think there is a view of the world that some on what i would call the far-right don't even share before you get the questions of partisan politics. >> you said in one of your columns that it is not the fox news of the left. what did

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david brooks's column -- and little economic realism. if you have been following "washington journal" the past few days we have been doing a series looking at the economic situation in several states were in the red and we ended yesterday with one state that was able to balance its budget, new hampshire. for all of that you can go to our website, c-span.org, go to "washington journal" web page. but david brooks this morning rights at the end of his column -- also on the economy is "the new york times" waiting in on their editorial -- calling for president obama to come up with a trade policy. "usa today" has this piece -- expect lots of layoffs at the state and local level. new haven, connecticut, democrats line. chris, good morning. caller: how are you? i would definitely vote for an independent if it was a way to send a message. for example, here in connecticut, soloro will not need my vote to be reelected so i will vote for an independent if there were one running and i will also e-mail her and explain to her what that vote means, tha

david brooks has talked a little about this like the failure of social institutions. very broad issue in that sense. i also wanted to get you to say on the israel issue, how does this problem with over confidence in the u.s. government's ability, how does that play into our relations with israel and how we dictate our policy with them? guest: two questions there. on the question of government failing, i would say the critical question is do you believe governments inevitably fail? i think the tea party would say the government will always fail, the bureaucracy is stupid and they can never respond to the complexity of the world. or do you believe our regulatory institutions worked pretty well for a large part of the middle of the 20th century until they were dismantled by a series of republican administrations that were hostile to government's role and the fox in the hen house in terms of putting people from industry into a regulatory body after regulatory body whether it was all street or the oil industry in the case of offshore drilling? i think that government alway