that's syndicated columnist mark shields and new york times columnist david brooks. welcome, gentlemen. and it's valentine's day. and by the way, pink tie, tie with hearts, very nice. so because it's valentine's day, let's start talking about the debt limit. >> nice segue. >> woodruff: we watched this drama play out which ended up in the senate, with senator ted cruz of texas, essential he hanging some of his fellow republicans out to dry. what was he trying to accomplish and did he do it? >> nothing says valentine's day like senator ted cruz, our national aphrodisiac. ( mark laughing ) what he was trying to do, it's unclear. the official explanation was that he wanted republicans to fight. he thinks there's a spending problem in the country, and republicans should fight harder before raising the debt ceiling. they should get some spending reforms. he was going to force a the love republican senators, including mitch mcconnell, that are up, to make them cast an unpleas apt vote which is going to make it harder for them in the primaries. he put a lot of people in a to

and it's friday, mark shields and david brooks are here to analyze the week's news. those are just some of the stories we're covering on tonight's pbs newshour. >> major funding for the pbs newshour has been provided by: >> 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. >> woodruff: this was a day of deepening crisis in crimea, amid growing signs of a possible bid to break away from ukraine. ukrainian leaders accused russia of a military invasion and occupation of crimea. newshour correspondent kwame holman has our report on the day's events. >> reporter: the situation in crimea approached a dangerous pivot point, as ukraine's new government accused russian forces of taking over two airports, a coast guard station and a border post. at a roadblock near one airport, this man said he had no idea who the armed men were, but they quickly set up a security perimeter. >>

it is the russians who have the highest total, david brooks, and highest number of gold, but didn't winmitt romney, you can shave the ice. there are actual home field advantages to hosting the winter games. i, of course, model my life after the x games. >> i know. people don't know -- >> my costume, everything. i thought shaun white's grace in defeat was one of the highlights of the game for me. he's known as a pretty competitive guy in that culture, but he handled it well. anybody can win well. losing well is hard. >> i want to pay tribute to the women athletes. we don't celebrate women's athletics enough in this country. if they're winning or losing, i remember the women's snowboard halfpipe, cakaitlyn farrington. >> i think slope style is a great -- our women did so wonderfully. >> and even -- >> and michaela shiffrin as well. >> christiansen went up in the air, doing all the stuff in the air. way up there and then finally comes down perfectly. like some sports, like baseball, i don't think they get much better every year. football maybe. but definitely the winter sports, these peopl

it is the russians who have the highest total, david brooks, and the highest gold.n it in hockey. >> i once had a conversation with mitt romney. you can shave the ice to favor you. there is there's an actual advantage to hosting the winter games. i of course model my life after the x games. my costume, everything. i thought shaun white's grace in defeat was one of the highlights of the game for me. he is known as a pretty competitive guy in that culture but he handled it well. anybody can win well. losing well is hard. >> judy, did you enjoy these games? >> i want to pay tribute to the women athletes. we don't celebrate women's athletes, i think, enough in this country. whether they're winning or losing, the half pipe, kaitlyn harrington, all the women were supporting each other. >> i'm all slope style. i think slope style is great. our women did so wonderfully. >> even in ice hockey. >> mikeala shiffrin as well. >> i got josh christensen in the air, up in the air, doing all this stuff in the air, and way up there. he finally comes down perfectly. i think some sport

mark shields and david brooks are here to analyze the week's news. those are just some of the stories we're covering on tonight's pbs newshour. >> major funding for the pbs newshour has been provided by: >> 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. >> woodruff: ukraine pulled back from the brink, just a bit, today. the pro-russian president reached agreement with pro- western opposition leaders to limit his power and speed up elections. protesters are supposed to disarm and withdraw, but it's far from clear they will, after scores were killed and hundreds wounded this week. james mates of independent television news filed this report. >> independent square in kiev for once at a stand still. the only signs that chanting increased is the coffins of yesterday's dead hoisting up above the crowd. so many is making it extremely difficult for those who

and it's friday...mark shields and david brooks are here to analyze the week's news. those are just some of the stories we're covering on tonight's pbs newshour. >> major funding for the pbs newshour has been provided by: >> 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. >> woodruff: january's jobs report is raising new questions about the strength of the american economy. the labor department reported today that employers added 113,000 workers, fewer than expected. at the same time, the unemployment rate actually fell again, by a tenth of a point, so it's now 6.6 percent. paul solman sorts out the numbers for us, right after the news summary. >> woodruff: wall street apparently saw some bright spots in the employment data. the dow jones industrial average gained 165 points to close at 15,794. the nasdaq rose more than 68 points to close above 4,125. for the week, both

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even conservative columnist david brooks called that plan insane, because it hasn't worked anywhere elsen the world. today the same guys whose policy got us into the economic mess of five years ago in the first place and then offered nothing to help us get out of except austerity, now we're getting their verdicts on the president's economic actions of the last five years. john boehner said, quote, the stimulus has turned out to be a classic case of big promises and big spending with little results, accept the stock market is up 10,000 points. marco rubio said it clearly failed. let's watch him. >> five years later, underemployment is still too high. the number of people that have dropped out of the workforce is astounding. unemployment remains stubbornly high. and our economy isn't growing fast enough. proof that massive government spending, particularly debt spending is not the solution to our economic growth problems. >> well, ted cruz tweeted, quote, well, five years in, it looks like president obama's stimulus did actually create jobs. unfortunately, they're all in the irs and nsa. w

david brooks from the "new york times," e.j. dionne, as well, andrea mitchell, chief foreign affairs correspondence and this week, mike needham, ceo of the conservative lobbying group heritage action group for america and mona sutphen. andrea, get us started. still a lot of concerning about security as great as the games have been so far. >> a lot of concern about security, not just sochi. primarily not sochi but mostly the area, russia. the fact is that officials here in washington are very concerned. they're on pins and needles. when you talk to them, they are sort of crossing their fingersing that russia has this is under control. this is a very tense situation. it's very close to the terror bases in the caucasus. and they know it's vulnerable and there are a lot of people out there who would like to punish putin who has put so much of his personal stock in these olympics. >> e.j., on the world stage, putin focuses our attention on russia, about his leadership and the poor relationship between the united states and russia. wh

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. >> david brooks was talking about capitalism facing its greatest moral crisis since the great depression writes, facebook agreed to ay a price equal to $345 million per whatsapp employee. meanwhile, the middle 5360% of earners has fallen to 45% since 1970. nela richardson joins us now. what do you think about that, the widening dispar knit >> income inequality has never been greater in this economy. i mean, except before the great depression. it's because the rich, the wealthy, the technology workers are making such high incomes compared to the rest of america, where incomes are stagnating. so it is an issue. >> is there a so-called multiplier from what all those tech types are doing in new york and in silicon valley? >> well, except for buying $57 million penthouses, wealthy people tend to save their money. they tend to invest. they don't tend to spend. so that trickle-down theory doesn't trickle down so much when it's just in savings and not others. >> well, income tends to live hand in mouth in essence -- >> more so, the more income, the more likely you are to spend out of your income

i had the opportunity to have a lovely exchange with david brooks on "meet the press" about the immigrationl and there's a misperception that there's an immigration bill in washington, d.c. that would give america the modern immigration system that it the serves. there's not. there's a corporate cronyism bill in the senate that's masquerading as an immigration bill that was written behind closed doors by this afl-cio and chamber of commerce and it would do a disservice to this to allow a corporate cronyism bill to pass, to make us all feel better about doing immigration reform and miss a chance to modernize the system. we are eager to work on a step-by-step possess to work on immigration reform. unfortunately there's nothing to work with here in washington right now. >> today we're going to hear, i'm certain, a number of conservative ideas, heritage foundation, heritage action has done a great job in advancing them but to get them to become law, what plan do you have to get the senate democrats even to consider them and get them passed -- get them past harry reid or do you plan to take the

i had the opportunity to have a lovely exchange with david brooks on "meet the press" about the immigration bill and there's a misperception that there's an immigration bill in washington, d.c. that would give america the modern immigration system that it the serves. there's not. there's a corporate cronyism bill in the senate that's masquerading as an immigration bill that was written behind closed doors by this afl-cio and chamber of commerce and it would do a disservice to this to allow a corporate cronyism bill to pass, to make us all feel better about doing immigration reform and miss a chance to modernize the system. we are eager to work on a step-by-step possess to work on immigration reform. unfortunately there's nothing to work with here in washington right now. >> today we're going to hear, i'm certain, a number of conservative ideas, heritage foundation, heritage action has done a great job in advancing them but to get them to become law, what plan do you have to get the senate democrats even to consider them and get them passed -- get them past harry reid or do you plan to take

i had the opportunity to have a lovely exchange with david brooks on "meet the press" about the immigration bill and there's a misperception that there's an immigration bill in washington, d.c. that would give america the modern immigration system that it the serves. there's not. there's a corporate cronyism bill in the senate that's masquerading as an immigration bill that was written behind closed doors by this afl-cio and chamber of commerce and it would do a disservice to this to allow a corporate cronyism bill to pass, to make us all feel better about doing immigration reform and miss a chance to modernize the system. we are eager to work on a step-by-step possess to work on immigration reform. unfortunately there's nothing to work with here in washington right now. >> today we're going to hear, i'm certain, a number of conservative ideas, heritage foundation, heritage action has done a great job in advancing them but to get them to become law, what plan do you have to get the senate democrats even to consider them and get them passed -- get them past harry reid or do you plan to take

the natural resources defense council, ross from the national association of manufacturers, david from brookings and sarah from c.s.i.s. you heard this panel pretty much rule congress out legislatively for action and we are just getting started in 2014, what are you most disappointed that we aren't going to see. if congress could move on energy, what would you like them to tackle this year? >> i think it's become so normal to count them out in terms of legislative action. i think what i would like to see from congress is not necessarily anything that will pass but something that passes muster. i think what you see so many times in the debate we have right now is, we get wrapped around the axle on particular issues when the energy industry is fundamentally more dynamic than it has been and very, very long time. we an internationally-oriented think tank people are coming here to find out what is happening what is happening on global climate and on technology. i feel like a lot of time and intelligence is wasted on sort of getting wrapped around the axle on very conventional issues that definitely

david: when bernanke leaves the fed he goes to the brookings institute.rd fisher leaves the fed he will probably join the rodeo. we'll talk about that at the end of this interview. we'll talk more about that, with dallas fed president richard fisher. just one more question on the tapering. >> sure. david: in december you were kind enough to appear here you told us you thought the fed should taper $20 billion a month, twice what they're tapering at, yet he went along, you did not dissent with the vote in january with taper for 10 billion. why didn't you dissent. >> david, each meeting we get a sense what the circumstances are and how the markets feel about things or so on. i did feel back then we could have done twice as much. i'm happy with the direction we're going. we're still providing a great deal of accommodation. we're at 65 billion a month, which is significant on top of the $4 trillion balance sheet we've been building. and as you know we're out on the yield curve. so, 75% of our holdings now are greater than five years. so it is not that we have

david shuster, in for ali velshi. thanks for joining us. >> hi, you are in the stream. dubbed king of the politically incorrect, mel brooksjoin "the stream" in a live and rare interview. he's reflecting on 60 years of pushing the envelope in show business. >> we are bringing all of the live feedback and tonight you are actually checking out something off the bucket list? >> yes, when i went to

>> what it's about, david, is that under this -- the way obama care is actually being implemented is that the middle class is going to end up paying more as well. the brookings institute found that the bottom 20% will get an effective increase of 6% or 7% but the middle class is going to be 1% to 3% poorer for it because of the higher pay, they oar going have pay more premiums for what they get for insurance. it's not just the middle incomers but lower as well. >> we can be very specific when we say middle class about what we mean. $21,000 to $40,000 a year, they'll pay more, $40,000 to $60,000, i think that's solid middle class. >> yeah. it's a little disturbing. the study itself notes there is a whole lot more things left to come, a lot of shoes to drop. they qualified it. then when you take the results of the brookings study and you match it to some of the studies from the cbo study, it gets really confusing because they're directly opposed. guys, like it or not and i know you don't. it's going to be three years until we really begin to know at worked and what didn't. >> the fact is we've already seen stuff happening and it's not good. a lot of people sho

david miranda, friend of glen greenwald has been held lawful. >>> now she was once one of the u.k.'s most powerful media figurers, now the former editor of the news of the world rebecca brooks is on trial for phone hacking, and toney playe tony tr information how to handle the situation. >> these claims that these e-mails came through as the case was summing up. they are said to be conversations over e-mail. in which she said she spoken to tony blair the former british prime minister who also happened to be a friend o. the report reo the inquiry that took place in 2003 following the death of a british scientist. published part one of the report at the same time as the police closes its inquiry and part two when any trials are over. he, relating to tony blair, is available for you. krm, rupert murdoch, and me are but it needs to be between us. those are e-mails that brought up. this is mr. blair simply giving informal advice over the phone. hnow this trial here has been going on since october. there are several people on trial. it shows how big, how complex it is that it has taken four months for the prosecution to get to the case, to get to the point where it is only now ab

david ramsey from the "arkansas times. kbt "thank you and thanks for your reporting. >> thank you, chris. >>> joining me, dr. caviti vatelle. she worked in the obama administration. now a fellow at brookings institution. part of what is frustrating about the situation in arkansas is arkansas was granted a waiver by the white house to institute their own version of the medicaid expansion because the white house was so anxious to get conservative states particularly in the south to take this up. isn't that right? >> that's absolutely right. just remember that the white house never anticipated that this would happen during the writing of this law. it was supposed to be mandatory for the expansion and the supreme court ruling really kind of put a kink into all of that. this was reflection of an effort to find common ground despite criticism from fellow policymakers, democrats and people who study medicaid. >> so what does this mean for the broader push to get medication expansion to happen in the states? we've got this map of the south where the rejection of medicaid has been very intense. you see the border states, arkansas, kentucky and west virginia. they have expanded it, but none of the

brookings institution. not a complete surprise, he had given his final appearance there. davidessel, of "the journal" is there but officially going there and make rain and -- >> did we want bernanke to go to blackstone? no. >> no. i think i like more of the idea of him continuing to -- >> distinguished fellow. >> yes. >> geithner went p/e action. >> le did. geithner, not made the big money. >> wow. >> thus far. >> all about the benjamins even for the treasury. >> being a lot about that, right? geithner in public service, nor or less his career. >> russell wilson making what public service makes. he's going to get the contract. >> russell wilson, not making big money. >> no, but my son was telling me about that, right. >> really. >> could it be as little as 500,000. >> way to go. got it right. >> that's about to change dramatically. >> i think that is going to change. all right. let's move on to a saga we've been covering here. joseph a. banks, in talks to buy eddie bower, the latest in the struggle between joseph a. banks and men's warehouse and both companies having made offer

david m. rubenstein senior fellow and director of the program on energy security and climate change at the council on foreign relations. he was previously nonresident science and technology fellow at the foreign-policy studies at brookings and the director of the federatifederati on of american scientists are teaching security projects. he is the author of the power surge, energy opportunity in the battle for america's future. on nuclear terrorism and the future of arms control. he received a bachelor of science with honors from queens university in kingston in mathematical physics and his ph.d. is from the university of london. treat please join me and walk coming our authors. [applause] >> our format this evening is going to be a little different than usual. i'm going to start by asking a few questions and then we will turn it over to the audience. michael, elizabeth it's nice to have both of this evening. i would like to start by setting the stage for us. why did you read write this particular book a book that looks at china's quest for resources so broadly from the minerals to food and energy insecurity and want her and more? >> first let me thank you heidi for having us this evening and thank the world affairs coun