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>> rose: welcome to our program, tonight david brooks of "the new york times" on president obama and the political deal in washington. >> with the key thing about this deal is how big it was. now it would have been easy to cut a deal over a couple of things, unemployment insurance or tax rates. but what they conducted and completed a very complicated set of negotiations. and that is not easy or automatic. and the fact that they could do a complicated and very big bill or proposal, that's impressive. and that shows there's some actual guts there, there's some actual ability to work together and create complicated legislation. so that's a significant as what is in it, the fact they really had this complicated negotiations. >> rose: was there essential unit within-- uniti within the republican. >> let's say there is debate in the republican right now. outside the leadership there were certainly a lot of people unhappy with this deal. >> rose: and we conclude this evening with a conversation about music with sting. >> i think the idea is to create a unique signature like a fingerprint. w

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with founding members of the group, several elected officials, and david brooks, this is just under an hour and 25 minutes. >> please welcome nancy jacobson, bill galston, john aslon, and mark mckinnon. [applause] >> it is important, before we began, that a conversation that started a year ago with a handful of people have led to the insured. republicans, democrats, and independence, by word of mouth on lay, brought together and united -- by word-of-mouth only, brought together and united. never give up your label, but put it aside so we can do what government should do and solve problems and find common sense solutions. today, we met the first test. they said it could not be done. they said we did not have a passion. they said you could not bring it together. but today, it is just not true. in my 35 years in politics, i have not seen more interest in a project i have ever worked for. [applause] this is your movement to build and to grow and we are here to help you in every which way. we have the power to build this voice and change behavior in washington. i look for -- i look forward

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mark shields and david brooks are off tonight. welcome to you gentlemen. >> thank you. >> brown: and happy new year. >> happy new year. >> brown: so it is the end of the year, so we're a hawed to think big. not just the week. what defines, what defines this year in politics? >> i don't know, i think it was a year of impatience. the american public -- >> impatience? >> yes, the american public was impatient with the democratic congress that seemed to be, you know, be on every issue except the ones they were concerned about. impatient with a president that didn't seem either as inspiring or effective as he seemed two years ago. impatient with an economy that didn't kick into gear, you know. and i think it was evidenced in the election cycle but americans want results. and that's really a warning to republicans and to democrats. kind of moving forward into the next year. >> were they right to be impatient? >> i think so. you know, i think that they were, it was not just a-- an undifferentiated impatience with the political class. it

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we will hear from david brooks, houston joel brand, -- kirsten gilibrand. this is an hour and 20 minutes. >> it is important, before we began, that a conversation that started a year ago with a handful of people have led to the insured. republicans, democrats, and independence, by word of mouth on lay, brought together and united -- by word-of-mouth only, brought together and united. never give up your label, but put it aside so we can do what government should do and solve problems and find common sense solutions. today, we met the first test. they said it could not be done. they said we did not have a passion. they said you could not bring it together. but today, it is just not true. in my 35 years in politics, i have not seen more interest in a project i have ever worked for. [applause] this is your movement to build and to grow and we are here to help you in every which way. we have the power to build this voice and change behavior in washington. i look -- i look forward to working with all of you. >> nobody sent you here. you sent your cells. nobody pa

at the bottom of the page is david brooks column . this is david brooks, column in the "new york times". next call, go ahead. caller: it is about a week after we were warned what we were getting into here. we were talking about getting a 3% tax cut for people like paris hilton. i think is kind of ridiculous. if we look back on history, in eight years of ronald reagan, we tripled the national debt. then when cheney and bush got in there, cheney made the famous statement that ronald reagan proved that deficits don't matter, and they do matter. if obama would do what reagan did and triple our national debt, i do not think we would exist as a country. i some point, this money has to be paid back. host: thank you. this is an e-mail from paul. chris is a college student in columbia, south carolina. do you go to the university of south carolina? caller: that is correct. host: what are you studying and how are you getting through school -- loans, parents, your own money? caller: i'm studying international trade and i'm paying my way as a i wo

with this me and that's just unsettling a lot of different values surely a conservative leader david brooks has even said that this is demagoguery this is cross the line this is rewriting history going back basically says a third all roosevelt and woodrow wilson who was a racist should be a communist what are we going with this i mean texas are trying to rewrite textbooks we are we going to one with this law and they are trying to write the next book in texas the wrong way they are trying to eliminate a whole lot of american history is the desert going around here is largely about me storing up on there and back just like martin luther king talks about bringing guys back into the process which is all about with me. now is that it's theocracy or i mean are we are you like analog to the ball is now i mean we've got to bring god god is going to run the country just like the arab extremists say our agenda is that we're going to have we have to live rattled is that we have to wrap this up because we are at a time i got to fight back so today but i want to thank you both are very minute like sist

and david brooks once was good now sucks, and msnbc morning host joe scarborough who may or may not beartoon. but the r and db -- r&b rapper 8 con recorded a song. i apologize in advance for the mess. >> so i guess no label strategy is to unite everyone through the universal hatred of akon. what a joke. am i being too mean about this? there is something mean about media types artificially creating an event. this isn't like a grassroots thing. it is a bunch of rich guys sitting around wanting more influence or something. >> because grassroots campaign come out of ideas. getting things done is not an idea. let's be smarter. >> if i care about something, screw you, you weird people. i will kill all of you. i didn't mean that. >> but you proved them wrong. >> jesse, once akon records a song for you, your movement is over, right? or is it just beginning? >> i guess, i don't know. i don't even know who akon is. >> i know who he is. i just -- i think it is a revolutionary concept what they are doing here. i happened to find a quote on the internet. the tierney in the party, a their invented f

thanks to david brooks for what could be it the next preamble to america, which was spectacular.es a hand for that. briefly, i was a democratic congressman from kansas. that is an oxymoron. kansas is the longest-running state that is not elected a democratic senator in a center. i was a democratic congressman curt i went on to the secretary of agriculture. the agriculture department represented in many places some of the most conservative constituencies in america. you learn that you have to have a dialogue with people of different perspectives. then i went not to be the chairman of the motion picture association of america. i used to say the biggest part of the word agriculture was the culture and that was my qualification. in industry that involves human attitude, emotions, and you have to work both sides of the aisle. now i'm at a place that was started by four senators. try to find bipartisan solutions to the nation's problems. we need a grass-roots movement in the country to give credibility and to provide incentives for political leaders to try to do the right thing. when i

we will hear from david brooks, houston joel brand, -- kirsten gilibrand. this is an hour and 20 minutes. >> please welcome our founding leaders. >> it is important, before we began, that a conversation that started a year ago with a handful of people have led to the insured. republicans, democrats, and independence, by word of mouth on lay, brought together and united -- by word-of-mouth only, brought together and united. never give up your label, but put it aside so we can do what government should do and solve problems and find common sense solutions. problems and find common sense solutions. today, we met the first test. they said it could not be done. they said we did not have a passion. they said you could not bring it together. but today, it is just not true. in my 35 years in politics, i have not seen more interest in a project i have ever worked for. [applause] this is your movement to build and to grow and we are here to help you in every which way. we have the power to build this voice and change behavior in washington. i look -- i look forward t

my sense from teaching and i just talked to david brooks about this backstage, a number of us to have been exposed to the younger generation believe that you represent the new hope for the country. you are going to look beyond partisanship. there are a lot of view that will be successful in making change. you have been out working. we have 24 -- people want to go out and work. we have all these military doctors coming back from iraq and afghanistan who are deeply committed to this country. a veryoyal. there is a culture of service coming up in the other generation that will save the country over time. you can bring us back to some sortf greater sense to commitment. we are all in this together. of course, we have sharp differences. at the end of the day, you need to put the country first. that is represented here on the stage. we need a whole flood of young people coming into our politics and into the political arena. if you could do that, you could save the country. [applause] >> the message of no labels has -- has its time come? >> its time has come. this is an example of where the p

. >> host: david brooks this morning in the "new york times". i want your response. the big story of the week is that president obama is returning to fist principles, republishing himself as a network liberal. this is not a move to the center. it's not the clinton model or the truman model or any other stale category people are trying to impose on him. it's standing at one spot in the universe building alliances with people in other spots in the political universe. >> guest: well, i mean, i think the latter part of the statement is true enough. good presidents, and i do think clinton and truman fit this contrary to brooks do now how to reach out in different directions from where they stand to build alliances in different directions. i mentioned that earlier that clinton went one way with nafta and another way with the economic plan even though they were passed within a few months of each other or a few weeks even. you know, brooks, i think, is often interesting. he often, i think, has a tepid sigh to bring in a -- tendency to bring in a lot of social science or scie

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david brooks is off tonight. welcome, gentlemen.ark, the president left town on wednesday proclaiming a season of progress, was he right and if so, how did it happen? >> he was right. it was a season of progress in the sense that level of expectation especially after the 2nd of november's shellacking of the -- was quite low. democratic spirits were low, disheartened. even made further low down by the president's surprise tax deal with mitch mcconnell and then he went from being james buchanan to being a little teddy roosevelt by the end of having past start and stat treaty, don't ask don't tell, there were flashes. it was rather -- >> what a turn around. quite a transformation showing the restraint and measured good judgment of all our colleagues in the press. who over wrote and overreacted. no question that democrats were heartened by the fact that did he not look like he was going to be a push over in the next session. i think as much as anything. >> brown: get back to the press. how did it happen? >> i do think it's mainly an ind

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