david brooks' column resonated with me.writes along these lines quite frequently about the atomization of society, about how young people coming up today don't have a sense of community, mutual responsibility. and so in that vein, i thought that the david brooks was dead on. i don't view edward snowden as a hero, but i don't view him as a traitor, as well. in order to be ate a traitor, you have to reveal some huge state secret that endangers the country. as walter pinkus in the wost "washington post" pointed out today both the telephone records issue and the sort of data mining issue of the national security agency have both been reported. the former by "usa today" in may 2006 the latter just last march in wired magazine. >> right. jonathan, i want to spare your blushes but is your reaction to mr. snowden in part a function of your own age? >> well, you have to understand i am considerably older than mr. snowden so. >> jonathan, our audience would not believe that for a moment. >> tim, david brooks goes on to list all of th

so david brooks who is exactly five years older than i am -- i found out last night we share a birthday -- but mind sets are generations apart. brooks writes disapprovingly of nsa leak erred ward snowden which in and of itself is fine. there are good and good faith arguments as to whether snowden did a good thing leaking information to g re enwald and the post. brooks makes none of those arguments. like a scooby doo villain he says the problem boils down to these meddling kids. for brooks the problem is a generation that has lost faith in the wisdom of daddy. he writes with distaste of a distinct strand of libertarianism that is in this pragmating age. the hierarchies are suspect and the fervent devotion to transparency. the assumption that preference should be supreme. president obama is saying cynicism is as dangerous as big brother. the president said that less than a week before the irs scandal broke. and now david brooks who assured us we need to send young men and women off to die in iraq because saddam hussein had weapons of mass destruction will lecture us about what he calls a

mark shields, david brooks. and mark and david keep up the talk on the doubleheader, recorded in our newsroom. that will be posted at the top of the rundown later tonight. and don't miss our special, live doubleheader, when the guys will take your questions, on june 21. >> brown: again, the major developments of the day. the obama administration announced the outlook for medicare has improved modestly, and social security is unchanged over a year ago. a separate federal reserve study found some americans are rebounding from the economic recession, but others continue to struggle. and, president obama pressed congress to prevent student loan rates from doubling in a month . >> woodruff: online, sizing up the state of economic inequality. kwame holman has more. >> holman: is the 99% falling even further behind the 1%? one of our readers posed the question, and so we put economics correspondent paul solman on the case. he picks up the discussion on our "making sense" page. all that and more is on our web site, newsh

listening. >> brown: all right, mark shields, david brook, as always, that you can very much. every friday mark and david show a slightly different side, talking about the sport of politics and the politics of sport with hari in our newsroom. tonight they took your questions. here's a sneak preview. here's a sneak preview, a clip where they weigh in on which cities have the best baseball stadiums. best ballpark to watch a baseball game? >> i'm going to be a total heretic here and i should say fenway and camden yards and -- i think the colorado rockies stadium. >> sreenivasan: it's a beautiful stadium. >> it's the best stadium i've ever been in. why? because when you go to the stands to get a coke or hot dog or beer the sight lines are such that you can watch the game while you're there. that to me is as viewer-friendly and fan friendly a place as you'll find. >> i like that stadium. the people are too nice, though. i would like a little tension in the -- (laughter). >> well, the higher you are the nicer you are. >> and the arizona diamond backs have a nation stadium. i'm going

i think that some point you're going to see another david brooks center called it, ross perot. i think something like that, a third-party movement, someone from the common sense center shakes things up enough. probably our only real hope. >> host: what to use each year as stanford? >> guest: the american course for 35 years now. certain seminars. >> host: are your students different today? they ask the same questions? >> yes. now, a small sample of people in a highly effective university, but this is there are not politically -- my senses and people are not politically involved as we work. coming out of vietnam. there was a real reason to be politically concerned during the 60's. i think there is a sense in which dissolution from politics, there is an understanding. one of the things republicans are missing is that obviously you have problems among the young because of social issues. yet i, when i find youngsters i find a sense of openness to new economic policies. they know that the old policies are not working. they realize that they're worried. not too far away. it will not

at some point we are going to see another david brooks had a column that says summer there is a from the common sense senator that shakes things up that is our only hope. spec with duty chair of stanford? >> i've talked about that for 35 years now and that certain seminars. >> are your students different today than they were 30 years ago. the students today are not politically -- my sense is we were coming out of vietnam. there was a reason to be politically concerned in the 60's. i think there is a sense in which they are disillusioned from politics. there is an understanding. one of the things i think republicans are missing is that they have problems among the young and it's because of the social issues and yet when i find the young students might find a sense of openness to the new economic policies they know they aren't working more sustainable. it's not worried, it's too far away but they suspect it won't be here for them and they know medicare is unsustainable in its present form so i think they are open to a new set of economic appeals but the conservative social issues of th

take a look how they both stacked up in the second bush term starting with david brooks. >> everythingow. we're in a crisis. we've got to address this. we've got to solve this now. now when you talk to them it's all long-term. chris: in the old days, the president had his smartest guy next to him, dick cheney. he says let's go ahead and get into baghdad. has he still got that voice? >> i think in the end when the big cards are on the table cheney's voice carries more than any other with the possible exception of condoleeza rice. chris: you think she's a challenger in terms of advice? >> i do. yeah, because i travel with her and i cover this day in and day out. chris: is she a big dog with the president? >> absolutely. i agree entirely within -- i wouldn't call the secretary of state a big dog. she is so close to him. she really has his ears. in the first she deferred more to dick cheney -- >> talk about changings in personality, her personality has changed. when she was on the n.s.e. she was very formal, very controlled, discipline. spoke in full paragraphs. now she's much more confide

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he names david brooks of "the new york times" as an institutionalists, as well as the entire u.s.l as jpmorgan chief executive jamie dimon. david brooks addresses the nsa surveillance leaks writesing, for society to function well there have to be basic levels of trust and cooperation, a respect for institutions and deference to common procedures. by deciding to unilaterally leak secret nsa documents, snowden has betrayed all of these things. snowden, the 29-year-old former nsa analyst, clearly falls in the insurrectionist camp alongside the likes of paul krugman, glenn beck and the man hayes describes as the ultimate insurrectionist, julien assange. "the only way to hold our present elite accountable is to force them to forfeit their authority. which camp you fall into depends on how well you think our institutions are holding up. jeffrey toobin wrote, he wasn't blowing the whistle on anything illegal. he wrote on something that failed to meet his own standards of propriety. in making this argument, he seems to be accepting the legality of a system in which the government can surv

>> there was an interesting piece on friday by david brooks about how the chinese have failed at brandingwhat chinese brand do people want to buy? apparently they're going to buy our brands and sell them back to us. that is the way they're going to deal with it. >> the volvo car company. now it is a chinese company. >> they have not figured out how to sell something they make that we want to buy. >> for those of you out there, i was referring to my co-religion. haves the press won't michele bachmann much longer. >> this decision was not impacted by the recent inquiries into the activities of my former presidential campaign or my staff. announcingbachmann she is not seeking reelection. she says the investigations are not a factor. what do you think? such a memorable moment with the triumphant music in the background and the investigations had nothing to do with it. she was facing a tough reelection. she'll most lost last time the democrat was going to be very well-funded and not to mention the multiple investigations against her right now. >> we are going to miss her because we love to tal

we've seen and yet you've got media outlets like the new york times and commissary by the name of david brooks who justifies these actions is it because he's corrupt is he stupid is he a propaganda meister. how does how does he face absolve seeing this what's good about it yeah i think they've got a prop up the status quo i mean you have to whenever there's a threat to the status quo you have to jump in there if you're one of these guys who's making his living who's making his entire career and everything based on the status quo you have to jump in there and say no no no it's fine it's fine ignore the ignore the man behind the curtain and you know this is this is horrific this this spying scandal because look you could you could believe just suspend disbelief you could believe that obama and congress right now are the last people in the world they're all angels and they all out to help us and give us a better society you can believe that and you can still understand that they have put in place obama and bush and put in place the the easiest system of surveillance infrastructure for a tyrant to

>> david brooks writes another column that is more fun to talk about than to read which is great becausepeople on our panel subscribes to the new york times, and that is just because he loves the sunday style section. and the film maker responsible for the excuse for the benghazi attacks is vowing to finish the film no one knew didn't have an ending because we weren't able to sit through the part of the film he did make. and can you tell me how to get to cell block d?

that's true of president obama and people like tom friedman and david brooks.re all for whistle blowing but not for these guys. if edward snowden was not right putting out this unconstitutional behavior, i wonder what these people would say would be reasonable whistle blowing. you can't get much more of a classic whistle blowing than that. possibly the next step will be the revelation that they're not just looking at meta-data the to, from the data, i feel sure, i can't prove this, i haven't seen the documents, no one has outside of nsa i feel sure that they are keeping collecting and keeping all of the content of all digital communication, all telephone, everything else, that the big brother is collecting absolutely everything. it doesn't make sense otherwise. but we don't have the proof of that yet and i hope we will. it will take another edward snowden. >> cenk: i want to get back to that in just one second. you mentioned something there that triggered a thought in me. do you ever get a sense of when the country went from 50/50 on you to well obviously ellsb

but david brooks raised the question today, this kind of a character, this fellow here, his loyalty to the organization to the country at least institutionally was zero. why wasn't he picked up when they recruited him that he wasn't the kind you have guy to give an oath to? he wasn't going to keep it. >> i think that dana raised the really pertinent question about bradley manning. these are two young men who understood computers and their skills were very much in demand in this world. i mean, these i.t. guys are really needed, especially as intelligence moves from spooks on the ground to electronics in the air. their skills are needed. they're not widely available. >> let's take a look at what boehner -- i'm not with him yet, the speaker was very strong on this. i think this is a more complicated case for me to handle, especially in moral terms. let's watch the speaker. >> he's a traitor. the president outlined last week that these are important national security programs to help keep americans safe. and give us tools to fight the terrorist threat that we face. >> dana, the word traito

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david brooks is off today. welcome to you.i don't know if we can go behind the scenes of the supreme court but let's start there, mark. this momentous week, three major issues in american life really looked at by the court. was there a theme? what jumps out at you generally? >> i think the theme -- if one thinks about american presidential elections in the last generation there have been villains to the conservative side have been liberal do-gooders, child pornographers and activist judges. >> brown: just to pick three category, right? >> i don't think there's any question that activist judges emerged this week. liberals seemed to be pleased that the activist judges repealed an act of congress, doma, which, you know, basically repealed it, i mean, we can go into the legally niceties, marcia understands them a lot better than i, obviously. but at the same time conservatives were delighted that it limited the voting rights act. a lot of conservatives were. so you had to be in an activist court. i do think the part that margaret

david brooks wrote recently in the "new york times" the happiest people these days are those who leave washington and get elected mayor or governor. many of this country's most notable mayors have appeared on this program to talk about the enormous strides at work in today's cities. >> this is the single greatest job i had in public life, i have had great jobs. i just saw president clinton, president obama last week, loved working for both of them. local governments is a government closest to how people live their lives. and if you are's interested in whether it's education, parks, libraries, universities, this is where it affects their lives. >> you have to perform. you have to get things done. you have to make things happen. all of us sitting around this table we see in our various state governments and we look at what goes on in washington. we could never get away with some of the stuff that goes on in those other places. you either fill the pothole or didn't. you either had the swimming pool open or you don't. people respond to 911 or they didn't. you know where we are and hear abo