reform bill once members return from their summer recess. >> brown: later in the program we'll have david brooks and ruth marcus respond to what the president said. between now and then: the u.s. and russia try to warm their frosty relationship; detroit struggles after declaring bankruptcy; brooks and marcus on the week's news and goats in the graveyard. but first, the other news of the day. here's kwame holman. >> holman: american government personnel left lahore, pakistan today because of a specific threat to the consulate there. the u.s. shifted non-essential staff from lahore to the capital, islamabad. embassy officials would not say when the consulate might reopen. the closing came amid a flurry of militant attacks, including one on a mosque in quetta today that killed six people. gunmen opened fire on worshippers as they were leaving. saudi arabia arrested two suspected al qaeda militants in connection with the recent closure of western embassies in the region. they were from yemen and chad. the saudi arabian interior ministry said an investigation found the two were plotting suicide attac

. >> woodruff: and we get the perspectives of "newshour" analysts mark shields and david brooks. >> brown: then, the race to save the centuries-old sequoias at yosemite national park, threatened by wildfires burning just miles away. we have a report from the scene. >> woodruff: we wrap up our look at the legacy of the march on washington, 50 years on. tonight, the long journey of the civil rights movement, and its unfinished business. >> we have this, in my view, race-based partisan gridlock that denies the possibilities that america can do what we proved we could do in the 60s, which is tackle our toughest problem. >> brown: and we remember seamus heaney-- the nobel-prize winning poet who died today in his native ireland. >> woodruff: that's all ahead on tonight's "newshour." >> major funding for the pbs newshour has been provided by: >> support also comes from carnegie corporation of new york, a foundation created to do what andrew carnegie called "real and permanent good." celebrating 100 years of philanthropy at carnegie.org. >> and with the ongoing support of these institutions and f

"new york times" columnist david brooks and washington post columnist ruth marcus. mark shields is off today. welcome to you both. let's go back to the lead story tonight: jobs report. david, 162,000 jobs created in july. they -- that was added, but it'sless than what was expected. what does it tell you about the economy? >> i think there's a consensus growing both on left and right that the structural problems are becoming super obvious. so when this recession start add number of years ago you had 63 out of 100 americans in the labor force, now we're down, fewer than in -- than when the recession started. so that suggests we've got deep structural problems. it probably has a lot to do with technological change, companies are not hiring human beings, they're hire magazines. it probably has to do with a skills shortage, that as technology increases skills have to keep up and skills are not keeping up. it has to do with sociological changes, men dropping out of the labor forces. women, especially young women never entering the labor force and so these are deep structu

. >> brown: mark shields and david brooks analyze the week's news. >> ♪ just wishing i changed my ways. ♪ >> woodruff: and two men from two generations connected by a love of the blues are now collaborators on tour. we profile charlie musslewhite and ben harper. >> this is what the blues are supposed to do.. make you feel good. it's your comforter when you're down and your buddy when you're up. all purpose music. >> woodruff: that's all ahead on tonight's newshour. >> major funding for the pbs newshour has been provided by: >> bnsf railway. >> support also comes from carnegie corporation of new york, a foundation created to do what andrew carnegie called "real and permanent good." celebrating 100 years of philanthropy at carnegie.org. >> growing up in arctic norway, >> and with the ongoing support of these institutions and foundations. and friends of the newshour. >> 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: they called it a "day of rage" in egypt, and it lived up to it

inside analyst from "the washington post's" david ignatius and david brooks of "the new york times". i'm david gregory. all that ahead on "meet the press" this sunday morning, august 11th. >> announcer: from nbc news in washington, the world's longest running television program. this is meet the "weekends with alex witt." >>> the battle to win the hearts and minds of the american people on a range of issues is in full force. the obama administration is finding tough opposition to its agenda, while the gop is divided as well on how to move ahead. friday, president obama announced changes to the u.s. surveillance program so many people are talking about, including a change in how the nsa collects phone records, more transparency by the secret foreign intelligence court, that's the fisa court, and the creation of a task force of private citizens. joining me this morning barton gellman of "the washington post" who has been writing extensively about edward snowden and the nsa, special correspondent for nbc news ted koppel, and the chairman of the house homeland security committee, republic

do you think david brooks is right? >> i think he is. alex rodriguez is in some ways a tragic figure and hard to feel sorry for him thit. he had more natural talent than any other player of his generation but it wasn't enough for him. he had to take that extra step. he was so insecure. and now, you know, he's made $350 million in his career. he's had a very good life but he is headed towards a fall. >> he is not without his supporters. the union is backing him saying bud selig, the baseball commissioner, has not acted fair. they say rodriguez is trying to cement himself as the guy who cleaned up baseball from performance-enhancing drugs. but beyond the next few months, what are the chances alex rodriguez has a future in professional baseball? >> i think he does. i think this suspension by major league baseball was an overreach. he is protected by the union. he is protect by the collective bargaining agreement. i expect the arbitrator to reduce the suspension maybe 50 games or a hundred games. i think we will see alex rodriguez back on th

. >> woodruff: and we get the perspectives of "newshour" analysts mark shields and david brooks. >> brown then, the race to save the centuries-old sequoias at yosemite national park, threatened by wildfires burning

it's looking like the dog days of summer, david brooks.hat there are foreign policy issues, war on terror issues that are not distractions but they seem to be overtaking what the president would like to be talking about, but he also seems stuck on the big things that he wants to do in his second term and the fall with the budget fights coming don't look very promising. >> yeah. i would say the core problem right now he faces is he used to have a bunch of loud personalities who were hard to work with sometimes. larry summers, somebody like that. big ideas. he's opted in the second term to have good team players but who don't have as many big ideas. and so it seems from the outside like they're occupied with the normal daily business of running the government, but there's no sense of urgency about the two or three gigantic things they want to accomplish domestically or on foreign affairs so, from the outside it feels like there's a lack of big projects they want to do right now. >> interesting, ana navarro, the big project they have to get d

. >> brown: mark shields and david brooks analyze the week's news. >> ♪ just wishing i changed my ways and two men from two generations connected by a love of the blues are now collaborators on tour. we profile charlie musslewhite and ben harper. >> this is what the blues are supposed to do.. make you feel good. it's your comforter when you're down and your buddy when you're up. all purpose music. >> woodruff: that's all ahead on tonight's newshour. >> major funding for the pbs newshour has been provided by: >> bnsf railway. >> support also comes from carnegie corporation of new york, a foundation created to do what andrew carnegie called "real and permanent good." celebrating 100 years of philanthropy at carnegie.org. >> growing up in arctic norway, >> and with the ongoing support of these institutions and foundations. and friends of the newshour. >> 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: they called it a "day of rage" in egypt, and it lived up to its name. the bloo

and unique perspective from historian doris kearns goodwin as well as "new york times" columnist david brooksi'm david gregory. all that ahead on "meet the press" this sunday, august 25th. >> announcer: from nbc news in washington, the world's longest-running television show, this is "meet the press." >> good sunday morning. thousands of people gathered here in washington saturday to re-create the march on washington where dr. king gave his famous "i have a dream" speech. and it was exactly 50 years ago today, august 25th, 1963, that dr. king and the executive secretary of the naacp, roy wilkins, appeared right here on "meet the press." many of you either already had the chance or will have the opportunity to see that special program as we have made it -- the original broadcast available to our nbc stations across the country. our roundtable joins us in just a moment. but first joining me now, the only living speaker from the march on washington, congressman john lewis. he spoke yesterday in front of the lincoln memorial. >> you cannot stand by. you cannot sit down. you've got to stand up, sp

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he also is a contributor to fox news david brooks is off today. welcome, gentlemen. so a lot of news to talk about, but let's start with syria. mark, this terrible chemical weapons attack, very strongly linked in damascus to the assad regime. how much pressure does this put on the obama administration to do something? >> well, i think the pressure, first of all, there are different kinds of pressure. there's very little political pressure in this country. >> woodruff: from the american people. >> from the american people. there is very little appetite. call it the vietnam syndrome, the iraqi sin dodger the afghanistan syndrome-- there is no appetite, no enthusiasm for americans to go to war again in the middle east to intervene. there really isn't. surprisingly, the reaction to the tragedy, the human tragedy of 100,000 people being killed and 1 million people being homeless. political pressure, yes. there is some political pressure, absent the public pressure, i don't think it really pushes the president. the president has some self-induced pressure in the sense he--

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we'll see you online and again here tomorrow evening with mark shields and david brooks, among othersks for joining us. good night. >> 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. captioning sponsored by macneil/lehrer productions captioned by media access group at wgbh access.wgbh.org >> welcome to the "journal" on dw. >> thanks for joining us. coming up, a powerful car bomb hits southern beirut. at least or teen are dead in a stronghold of the militant group hezbollah. >> the crisis in egypt. global condemnation as cairo admits more than 500 were killed in the violence. >> politicians remember world war ii.

we'll see you online and again here tomorrow evening with mark shields and david brooks, among othersanks for joining us. good night. >> 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. captioning sponsored by macneil/lehrer productions captioned by media access group at wgbh access.wgbh.org >>> this is nig"nightly busines report" with tyler mathisen and susie gharib brought to you by. >> sailing through the heart of historic cities and landscapes on a river, you get close to iconic landmarks to local life, to cultural treasures, viking river cruises, exploring the world in comfort. >>> getting stronger, the u.s. economy grows faster than expected that gives wall street a chance to breathe and the next question now is does this mean strength the fed has to act on? >> wage rage, fast food workers take to the streets all across the country for higher w

we'll see you online and again here tomorrow evening with mark shields and david brooks, among othersks for joining us. good night. >> 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. captioning sponsored by macneil/lehrer productions captioned by media access group at wgbh access.wgbh.org >> rose: welcome to the program. tonight, larry ellison, the founder of oracle, said to be the third-richest person in the united states with a fortune of more than $43 billion. a very close friend of the late steve jobs and a man who is defending the america's cup. i met with him last week at his home in woodside, california. >> america's cup wasn't racing the fast pest boats and we decided that the americas cup to capture the imagination of the modern world and children who can watch all of these other sports and participate, we had to modernize it, we had to mak