david brooks, what does his candidacy mean?e's the front-runner now and it means the republican party was waiting for this guy. if you looked at the 2008 electorate, romney would have been perfectly fine for that electorate right now, but the 2012 electorate is a different electorate. the country as a whole has moved to the right. the republican party has moved vehemently to the right. and what the core message is, we hate washington, we hate the quarter, all those folks who just got hit by the hurricane, but we also have a fear of national decline. the country's losing its vigor. we've got to get back to our hard, sort of pioneer virtues. rick perry personifies that. he's got tons of baggage, but he meets the republican at the moment. >> not just a summer fad, as you wrote in your column. jamie and katty, what's interesting about this is there's got to be a fight within the republican party about what it's going to be for this election cycle. you have mitt romney, who's hunkered down, who does not want to engage. he'll have an

david brooks is away. mark, how did you read last night's debate? >> well, i think first of all, jim, at any debate where the front-runner, acknowledged front-runner if not electrifying front-runner mitt romney goes in, and comes out on the other side unscathed, unharmed, unwounded, has to be a good night for the front-runner. and the others were just sort of subplots. you could see the obvious tension between congresswoman michele bachmann of minnesota and that state's former governor tim pawlenty who are really dualing it out in the saturday caucuses here. it could be a survival test for governor pawlenty who had been regarded quite seriously when he entered-- entered this race and has been eclipsed. and you have newt gingrich and rick santorum trying to break through themselves, each with his own distinct style. gingrich scolding chris wallis for daring to ask him-- chris wallace for asking about the majority of his staff quitting his campaign. and finally the introduction of the mystery man, jon huntsman,the former governor of utah and former am

that is not the primary voter -- the very fact that he was -- "newshour" colleague david brooks says he could be the next president. do you agree? >> absolutely. it could be a fluke, but i think it is deeper than that. brooks is right in his column, that he has a simple message. small government, i made it work, i created jobs. it is what power at the republicans to their astonishing success in 2010. paul ryan without the numbers and the nuance. if he keeps it simple, i think that could be a winning message in the primary and even in the general election. >> we mentioned jon huntsman earlier. he is trying to separate himself from the rest of the pact. how does he win the primaries? >> he doesn't. simple, he is not the person who is going to be the nominee of the republican party. he has to understand that at some point and get out of the way. i looked at rick perry's first week i thought there was weakness there, but the question was how does he respond to it. quite well. unlike mitt romney, rick perry comes across as a warm person, a person you would like to share that year with. >

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david brooks is away tonight.rk, where do today's or the recent economic numbers fit into what passes for government and politics in washington right now? >> i think it was a psychological lift. i don't think it was an economic breakthrough. but at a time of relentlessly bad news, the fact that it was not negative made it very positive. >> lehrer: you're talking about the jobs report. what about the stock market? >> well, the stock market is sobering to say the least. and it is, you know, anybody that's figured out, the stock market to me has just been what do people think is going to happen on the economy and generally speaking people think the economy is bad, and they're notoptimistic about the future. >> lehrer: ross, do you agree with what was said in the earlier discussion that the government doesn't have any silver bullets left to do anything about this thing right now? the economic thing. >> i think in the short term that's definitely true. i think that given the political correlation of forces there's just

mark shields and david brooks are both away. michael, the republican presidential nomination race, rick perry came into it this week. how would you characterize his entrance? >> i think he had a good week. he is a tremendous retail politician which matters in iowa. he went into michele bachmann's home town in a joint appearance and essentially cleaned her clock-- i think that's the right term for it. he also proved he can make errors, quaffs, and he showed that he doesn't really know how to back off of an error or a gaffe. >> lehrer: are we talking specifically-- >> about the federal reserve chairman, intemperate language about the federal reserve chairman. that's a useful political skill to be able to back off of a mistake. he doesn't seem do have it. there are plenty of republicans right now, however, that are discontented with the whole field, people like jeb bush and mitch daniels were encouraging other republicans to get in. they look at romney and perry and they're not happy. so it's a very fluid field right now. >> lehrer

a lot of things actually have come out you know in criticize kerry on this issue in particular david brooks your times you know pretty stinging column about the death penalty related to the new yorker piece that expose this willing him case i think you'll see more of that i think you'll see more people sort of more kind of thoughtful people come out and say this is something that he needs to address and some of the instant fix. post i wrote today and actually it's a column i wrote earlier when i was with reason magazine and there's another case in texas where there's a guy we're d.n.a. testing could confirm his guilt or it could show him to be innocent and there are some significant questions skinner about as well he was hours away from execution and perry. is fighting d.n.a. testing in this case i mean it's really unfathomable to me that a governor would actually fight to you know not to remain out whether a guy is innocent i mean that to me is really sort of unforgivable you know it's one thing to support the death penalty it's the most thing to say we're going to execute this guy and you

the accidental millionaires, and finally david brooks in december. enjoy the rest of your sunday. .. named >> captivating at the time. but it's been lost to history. it's a footnote. a story -- it was a time just after the world changed and then the soldiers that -- here we have just this year in march, the last living soldier of world war i, a man 110 yeald, was buried at arlington national cemetery. there are no more from that era and of course -- >> a sexual revolution going on. you have all the media things. radio course begins to become a very popular medium. eventually becoming the media of the day. tabloid newspapers are still very strong. movies, the film industry had been around for a few years but really reached its -- got its attraction in the 1920s. along with that, the cult of celebrate came long. what andy war -- warhol would describe as 15 minutes of fame, came long later, fort sports figures became famous. against that you had this reaction to that revolution, and it was described in an odd word that was created at the beginning of th

david brooks the only kind of conservative they're happy with they have no sense of moral decency and today the vice president of the united states said they are acting like terrorists. earlier this year, bill, the before the united states said we should all tone it down after the tucson massacre. apparently his only vice president, who has thrown the word terrorist around and his most loyal base in the media never got that memo. >> bill: it's ironic because gabriel giffords, of course, you may have heard, showed up to vote in favor of the compromise today, you are right. look, but i don't take -- maybe i'm wrong here, bernie, but i don't think the metaphor that the far left is using in any kind of a violent capacity. i don't. but what is amusing to me, is that some of the people that we heard and we have discussed, are so radical in their thinking. so radical that the fact that they would call the tea party reactionaries and crazy people, look at krugman and we pointed out in the talking points memo. here is a guy who is demanding more trillions of dollars to be spent by the federal

david brooks the only kind of conservative they're happy with they have no sense of moral decency and today the vice president of the united states said they are acting like terrorists. earlier this year, bill, the before the united states said we should all tone it down after the tucson massacre. apparently his only vice president, who has thrown the word terrorist around and his most loyal base in the media never got that memo. >> bill: it's ironic because gabriel giffords, of course, you may have heard, showed up to vote in favor of the compromise today, you are right. look, but i don't take -- maybe i'm wrong here, bernie, but i don't think the metaphor that the far left is using in any kind of a violent capacity. i don't. but what is amusing to me, is that some of the people that we heard and we have discussed, are so radical in their thinking. so radical that the fact that they would call the tea party reactionaries and crazy people, look at krugman and we pointed out in the talking points memo. here is a guy who is demanding more trillions of dollars to be spent by the federal

i was reading david brooks in the no, times this morning, though don't tell him i read him, and he is that rick perry could actually win not only the nomination but win for president. why shift now? >> well, i think he certainly has shown perry over these last days that he's got a base in this party and he's, you know, his thoughts are finding purchase with these folks on the far riest republican party. i think the question is, how far right can he go before alienating independence on some suburban house wives, soccer moms in the suburbs and ohio and philadelphia and pennsylvania. that is i think really the clael for him. again, he is getting very much an announce many bump and that's what you see now and recognition. he is in this thing and shaking it up. but i think there is a real fear. anyone someone like jeb bush has come out and say, we have to sort of tone it town with the rhetoric against the president. >> we have some gop insiders questioning rick perry. watch this. >> we need to be a broad party with divergeant point of views. but if you are a conservative, you have to persu

for me one of the high points in terms of watching the interviews has been to the interview with david brooks when he was talng about the brain and if god exists it where chemicals turn into emotions, like that. the low point is coming back from paris, wn we went to paris and back to paris all in a week and i got a stomach bug on the plane coming back and i was throwing up for like 12 urs, including in line at passport control and in the backseat of a u-haul with charlie. definitely a low point. my mom said to imagine yourself in his shoes and think about what you would need as charlie, which was really helpful. and that said, and then said just roll with it. >> never compromise. you know, he is a perfectionist and it works. >> rose: thank you for watching. and good luck to josie. see you on monday. captioning sponsored by rose communications captioned by media access group at wgbh access.wgbh.or >> rose: funding for charl rose has been provided by the coca-cola company, supporting this program since 2002. and american express. additional funding provided by these funders. >> and by bloomberg

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. >> apparently david brooks has written that fannie mae is the greatest political scandal since watergate. would you agree with that? [laughter] we competed vigorously for 40 years against them. so now is my chance. i think there is a book out that gretchen has that takes jim johnson who was the head of finney in the early 1990's who built the political machine to task and what they did if you haven't read the book is basically if they were purely a private-sector company and said what is wrong with because everybody else is doing it, you provide the financial support to the campaigns for legislature, legislators, you announce programs in the districts and try to ingratiate yourself with them and fight against stronger regulation of try to get people to leave you alone. you wrap yourself in the mantel of homeownership as the public good and try to preserve the bargaining advantage you have over to slightly lower rate because of the implicit guarantee. if you are a private sector company everybody would say that's what they all do. i think what discourages people that are not happy about f

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historian so he should know because he's a smart guy too and lending a hand, another smart guy, david brooks hailed the incoming add administration as a collection of supersmart egg egghead. if a foreign enny attacks the united states during the harvard yale game over the next four years, we're screwed. [laughter] he was right. over a quart of obama's political appointees had ties to harvard. over 90% had advanced degrees, and yet we're screwed anyway. how did that happen? what kind of supersmart guys all think the same thing? we are governed by conformcrats who live in a self-promoting bubble and cannot see anyone other than a racist, terrorist, or a mentally-ill lunatic like paul williams getting fired from npr, they say, oh, we're just going to send you to the camp and lie here, let the men in white strap you, and you'll soon be feeling better. the "new york times" recruits staff by sending editors to higher people. at the african-american journalist convention, the women's convention, the hispanic, the gay convention, it recruits on the basis of diversity of race, gender, orientation, ev

and lending a hand another smart guy, david brook, the house conservative at "the new york times," hailed the incoming -- hailed the incoming administration as a collection of supersmart eggheads credentialed to the hilt. quote, if a foreign enemy attacks the united states during the harvard/yale game anytime over the next four years, we're screwed, unquote. [laughter] he was right. over a quarter of obama's political appointees had ties the to harvard. over 90% had advanced degrees, and yet we're screwed anyway. how did that happen? what kind of supersmart guys all think the same thing? we are governed by conformocrats who live in a self-reinforcing bubble. we have a ruling class that thinks alike and cannot conceive that anyone other than a racist, a terrorist or a mentally ill lunatic like my sometime-colleague at fox news, poor juan williams when he got fired from npr for accidentally wandering off the reservation for 30 seconds. they do what they do in the soviet union. oh, we're going to send you to the sanitarium, let the men in white strap you down, you'll still be feeling much be

at 10:15, david brooks and his new book "the social animal." that is all on the booktv primetime. >> machiavelli s -- machiavelli has become an adjective. i doubt many people would like to be described as a machiavellian. not too many people would call themselves machiavellian. >> his name is synonymous with cynical scheming and the selfish pursuit of power. sunday night, the argument that machiavelli's theories may have been a response to the corruption are around him. that's at 8:00. >> president obama is likely next week to make a joint session speech before congress about jobs. whether it will be wednesday or thursday or some other date is to be determined. it started this morning with the president requesting from the speaker and senate leader a joint session on wednesday, september 7th. house speaker john boehner replied, asking the president to give his speech on jobs on thursday, september 8th. no word yet on whether a date has been agreed to. also earlier today, the afl-cio president gave remarks on jobs, outlining their plan for enhan

paul ryan and david brooks inaugurated this series with the debate on how much government is good government. in our most recent debate the economist, tyler collin, faced off a philosopher on whether social media destroyed friendships. you can see all of these debates on the website at www.aei.org. the idea behind the debates is to offer a simple provocative question and bring two of the best people together. this is no small task and i'd like to thank and salute my colleague, my a.e.i. colleague who is sitting in the corner whose brainchild this series was and kristen dash who works in the liaison shop for working to make this particular debate a reality. i'm excited to be moderating today because of the poll watcher at a.e.i., the democratic majority is central to the work that i do. there's another reason i'm very happy to be here. i wear another hat at a.e.i., um' the amateur historian of the institute and i watched think tanks grow and change for more than 30 years. think tanks play an important role historically as intermediateating institutions that provide the hard data on which poli

david brooks in the new york times indicates rick perry could be president. >> yeah.ook, i think this seems to be what republican voters want now, a clarity, a toughness and the fact that you are being attacked by the coastal elites and media, supposedly is a virtue for a republican candidate. the republican party operates in opposition to the coastal elite establishment. if you can turn yourself into this crusader against them effectively and use tough language, i think it's a path to success in the republican primary. it doesn't work as well in the general election. perry is going to have to pack. he's well ahead of romney now. >> that clearly is a split between winning the primary and the general for the republicans. there's some tension there. >> nick, i had an interesting thing occur to me a couple days ago. i come out of the supermarket at quarter to 8:00 in the morning. a fellow comes up to me parked alongside in the supermarket parking lot. remember the electrical workers union likes president obama very much, voted for him. he's talking act the economy and th

david brooks.call themselves conservatives and tend to vote republican consider a conservative. in theory they wanted conservative but when they got one live it was quite disturbing in the executive offices so i kept being fired. >> host: thanks for holding. you are on with ann coulter on booktv. >> caller: huge fan even though politically i am solidly a centrist and theologically decidedly a non believe for but that is why i cheered you on fox news when you out of obama have a closet atheist. what about the republicans' side? gary johnson, who on the republican side is going through the motions of the church and pressing because they realize that the presidential level does believe in god is political suicide. >> guest: good question. i did ferociously defense president obama from accusations he is a muslim pointing out like the rest of his party he is an atheist. there probably are some -- there are not many rank-and-file -- like i say. why would you bother being conservative? life is so easy if

people trying to get stuff out of their houses before it is swept away down this brook. >> david, we're looking at this -- >> my mother said she remembers when hurricane andrew came through, she said this has been worse. >> as we watch this water rush through, we can only imagine what it's carrying with it. what preparations did you make? do you think that others there just thought it wasn't going to be this bad? that they didn't get that warning? >> well, honestly, i made some preparations. i got some water. mostly just snacks. we were preparing to stay inside all day for a rainy day. nothing big. some of these people with their houses along that brook, i don't think they could have been prepared for this. nothing could have prepared them for whole houses being swept away down the brook. >> chad, so i understand this this is flash flooding, correct? >> yes. the rivers could go up 12 feet in two hours, and back down 12 feet in two hours. it depends on how rainfalls on the plain, the area north of where you are, or higher elevations to where you are. north, of course, in this city and th