are we going to see more criticism among foreign affairs. >> this is smart pr for david brooks. he gets atension. it's smart for the media outlet that misrepresent what he says. look at what's happening in ukraine, it's fair. >> i think every time we turn to foreign policy, there will be the criticism from the right that this president's weakness. i don't think americans will care a whole lot about foreign policy. >> they don't. americans traditionally are uninterested in what happens. the middle east could be, you know, an example of where they don't. but i think that it's in our dna or at least in tv watchers' dna not to care whether or not the president is at a state dinner in malaysia. >> or eating great sushi. >> or bowing to a robot. >> this becomes a narrative. the problem is when narratives stick. >> this narrative is over for now. dana milbanks, matt lewis. thank you very much. >>> nbc orders an assessment of david gregory. what's up with that? >>> and later, mariel hemingway, what's it like dealing with the media having been a celebrity since she was 16. >> i have to b

mark shields, david brooks, we thank you both. woodruff: finally tonight, we look at the seminal work and the life of author and nobel laureate gabriel garcia marquez. hari joins us again from our new york studio for this appreciation. >> sreenivasan: his poetic words evoked love and longing, fantasy and fatalism, and worldwide admiration. gabriel garcia marquez was the most popular spanish-language author since miguel de cervantes in the 17th century, outselling all other spanish literature except the bible. his novels and short stories exposed millions to latin american life, and to "magical realism", a style he discussed in an interview some years ago. >> ( translated ): i lived in a supernatural world, a fantastic world where everything was possible, where the most wonderful things were just daily things. >> sreenivasan: garcia marquez first gained fame with the epic novel "one hundred years of solitude," published in 1967. it sold more than 50 million copies worldwide. his birthplace in colombia, the small town of aracataca,

mark shields, david brooks, thank you both. some four centuries after the death of william shakespeare, london's globe theatre is launching a plan to take the playwright's tale of a tormented prince around the world. jeff is back with more on that. >> "to be or not to be, that is the question...." >> brown: famous words, famous play, the most famous playwright in the english language. william shakespeare wrote "hamlet" in the early 17th century, shortly after his acting company, lord chamberlain's men, moved into the globe playhouse. in 1997, a reconstructed theatre opened on the thames river as shakespeare's globe. now, the ambitious plan is to take "hamlet" to every country on earth over the next two years, a project that began in london on wednesday, shakespeare's 450th birthday. i talked earlier today to the globe's artistic director, dominic dromgoole. thanks for joining us. in announcing this, you yourself said it was a "lunatic idea," so the first question, of course, why do it? >> why not? all of the best ideas are a li

we begin this evening with the "new york times" columnist, david brooks. >> if you're a very ambitious guy with russian patriotism who wants to change history, this is going to grab you. so i think he is somewhat motivated by that, not just narrow self-interest and i think the people around him in the country still has that russian idea of history. so i'm not convinced they are a normal country, that they're a country that responds to carrots and sticks, they see themselves driven by a larger purpose. so i fear they get to a place where they can't turn back, even when the incentives are there. >> charlie: also one of the interesting people from silicon valley, ben horowitz from the firm andreessen horowitz. >> when we were entrepreneurs, we always felt that the best companies, including our own, were the ones run by the inventer, the people who started by the company and venture capital, at the time, was set up for the opposite. the inventer would invent and get it to a certain point then you bring in the adults who knew how to build a business. >> charlie: david brooks and ben horowit

. >> woodruff: 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: >> charles schwab, proud supporter of the "pbs newshour." >> and by bnsf railway. >> 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: president obama formally nominated his choice today to be the next u.s. secretary of health and human services. and he praised the woman who's held the job for five years, during the battle over health care reform. >> kathleen will go down in history for serving as the secretary of health and human services when the united states of america finally declared that quality affordable health care is not a privilege, but it is a right for every single citizen of these united states of america. ( cheers and applaus

and if we hear david brooks talking about the president using the term manhood problem.o they have a manhood problem when they haven't done enough to sanction part of the g7. a client state of russia refuses to use her influence to helm in. >> i'm not comfortable with that. the last time person that criticized the manhood problem was george herbert walker bush. and weeks later saddam hussein learned that it was anything but. keep those aside. the real question is how fast and how tough to consider. angela merkel is incredibly cautious. that is the hallmark of her entire career. other have conflicts of interest. about how tough to be in russia. that is a hallmark of the entire cold war with the united states with seeing something they saw as confrontational. so there's very little new under this. i think it's a question of tactic versus strategy, how fast, how hard do you o confront russia. part of the problem here is reading putin. i would simply say all things being equal, the united states are ering on the side of hoping against hope. i would be pushing particularly on

. >> woodruff: 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: >> charles schwab, proud supporter of the "pbs newshour." >> and by bnsf railway. >> and with the ongoing support of these institutions and foundations. and friends of the newshour. 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. >> woodruff: more americans went looking for work in march, and more people found it. the labor department today reported a net gain of 192,000 jobs, although many were in lower-paying industries. revised figures also added 37,000 more jobs in january and february than first estimated. the unemployment rate for march was unchanged at 6.7%. economics correspondent paul solman goes looking for trends inside the numbers in just a moment. on wall street, the jobs report failed to stop a sell-off driven by slumping tech

but -- david brooks. very much. [laughter] >> credibility shot. >> one person who gives me hope at this point is mike lee. who is first of all a senator who doesn't think he's running for president which is just a wonderful thing in american life and very rare. but he's also a person who is shaping a conservative vision that makes a lot of sense to me and i think it would make a lot of sense to a lot of people. >> i think the most important policy innovation coming from conservative politicians right now is on criminal justice. and revisiting the idea that it is a good idea to massively incarcerate people, especially for nonviolent crime. i think there are a number of southern governors who have been doing good things on that, including mississippi and louisiana and north carolina. so, i think -- >> i would say that the most influential writer or politician that we will have in this generation will be the one who makes conservatism accepting of modern society and modern social issues, again leaving abortion aside. m

david brooks, columnist for "the new york times" and radhika jones from "time" magazine who careers included work at paris review and moscow times and david shribman or for the last 11 years as served as the executive editor of the "pittsburgh post-gazette," a big city paper that's thriving in tough times thanks to you, no doubt. no stranger to washington. you have covered national politics for "the new york times," "wall street journal," and "the boston globe." welcome to all of you. david brooks, here is my take on where i see president obama vis-a-vis putin and ukraine. he wants to go quieter in his foreign policy. he wants to get out of the business of drawing red lines. he wants to diffuse conflict and think narrowly of where the united states can have an impact. he got a deal this week, it's already falling apart. he has tougher choices ahead. >> you get the sense he's stepping back from the conversation. it's not what's happening day to day in ukraine they're reacting to. and i think they've decided and i think it's the right decision, it's not that putin is trying to restart the cold

david brooks in the "new york times" "the tiger of the qawsy religious nationalism which putin has been riding may now take control. that will make it very hard for putin to stopping this conflict where a rational calculus will tell him to stop." >> you can certainly get yourselves in these kinds of corners -- >> is that a possibility that's his mindset right now? >> he's a rational guy. there were people early on in this conflict, in this crisis, called him delusional. >> rose: people? it was the chancellor of germany. >> he's not delusional. he knows where his interests lie. but having said, that he has built up this ideological, propaganda-driven approach that is nationalist, as david brooks pointed out. there are some quasi-religious aspects to this. it's almost civilizational but it's mainly about preservation of him and his regime. the one thing i want to add to david's point. this is putinism. by the way, it was not ordained. we worked with the russian federation under medvedev constructively, and in their interest, too. it was in their interest to get into thewt o. it wasn't pre

. >> woodruff: and it's friday-- mark shields and david brooks are here to analyze the week's

but -- david brooks. very much. [laughter] >> credibility shot. >> one person who gives me hope at this point is mike lee. who is first of all a senator who doesn't think he's running for president which is just a wonderful thing in american life and very rare. but he's also a person who is shaping a conservative vision that makes a lot of sense to me and i think it would make a lot of sense

but -- david brooks. very much. [laughter] >> credibility shot. >> one person who gives me hope at this point is mike lee. who is first of all a senator who doesn't think he's running for president which is just a wonderful thing in american life and very rare. but he's also a person who is shaping a conservative vision that makes a lot of sense to me and i think it would make a lot of sense to a lot of people. >> i think the most important policy innovation coming from conservative politicians right now is on criminal justice. and revisiting the idea that it is a good idea to massively incarcerate people, especially for nonviolent crime. i think there are a number of southern governors who have been doing good things on that, including mississippi and ouisiana and north carolina. >> i would say that the most influential writer or politician that we will have in this generation will be the one who makes conservatism accepting of modern society and modern social issues, again leaving abortion aside. maybe that's a po

. >> host: professor ariely, david brooks at "the new york times" blurb your book on the back and outstanding encapsulation of the goodhearted and easy-going moral climate of the age. do we cheat more now than we did 50, 100 years ago? >> guest: i think we do. i don't think it's because people are different. i think it is because of two reasons. first of all, we live in a different world. we live in a world that has more distance. if you think about stopping to interact directly through some derivatives market it easier to cheat. the second thing is that it's really more great skills in the world than they were 15 years ago. i'm a university professor. i think a lot about morality. once the area made the democrats and we discuss off the record things that bother them. so there's all kinds of new things. for example, think about after all. adhd medication. but if you take it it's like 15 cups of coffee. you can basically stay awake all night. it's not supposed to be used for recreational abuse. but the drug companies make it easy to go and say i can't focus in the quickly give you medication.

. >> with david brooks saying that the president has a manhood problem, that has opened the door forial trip abroad that has triggered so little news. >> everyone is wondering where the trade stands. is that one of your main topics. >> the president did make a little news in malaysia. we will talk about that. and we got an interview with m -- including that of her grandfath grandfather. i'm looking forward to that. >> thank you so much. >> the economic report is out next week. it's coming out friday. . i wish. >> the national unemployment rate has held steady at 6.7%. how do we move that needle down? joining me now to talk about jobs is wall street journal chief economics correspondent and marshall arback is director for institutional partnerships. thank you for joining us. let's get to the week ahead. we've got home sales out on monday. the fomc two day federal reserve meeting on interest rates, jobs numbers out on friday, consumer confidence, the list goes on. what's most important to you. >> the fed and jobs clearly. what we have right now is a federal reserve that has been pullin

. >> david brooks is here. he is a columnist at the new york times and a regular contributor to the newshour. recent appearance at the ted talks where he talked about eulogies and resumes. >> i have been thinking about this problem. the thing that helps me think about this is a rabbi who wrote a book called "the lonely road of faith." he says there are two majors. the first is the world the external nature of us. the second is the humble side of our nature. not only to do good, but to be good. to live in a way that honors god, creation, and possibility. adam 1 wants to conquer the world. adam 2 savers and her consistency. nner consistency. he argued that the two sides of our nature are at war with each other. we live in perpetual self confrontation with external success and value. we live in a society that neglects adam 2. animal.ned you into an to become a cold and calculated creature that slips into mediocrity. there is a difference between your desired self and yourself. >> where have you been? >> i have bee

. >> ambassador, i am sure you read the new york times colume david brooks that the president has a manhood problem. sdo do you think the president has an image problem? >> i think the term is a distraction. i think the president is weak fill civically. and a weak lead are. he is indecisive and lives a worlgd of red rick. you can be a strong female leader like margaret thatcher or weak like jimmy carter. his weakness led to declining american influence in the world specifically the middle east. >> we see two leadership styles between president obama and vladimar putin. i want to get your take on the spin tactics that putten is using and not phased by the west. >> it is not my style for an american leader. but the puttin has the strategy and knows what he wants and he wants to re-establish russia in the space of the former soviet union. he is carrying that out. barak obama has no strategy or policy at all and weakens the united states around the world. it is not only an image problem but a fact in terms of decloining military budgets and a president that is follow-uppedmentally disinterested

join me in welcoming the moderator of this evening's discussion, david brooks. [applause] >> thank you, larry. i was thrilled when i was called to ask if i would take part in a panel on the future of conservatism. then it became clear i am actually too old to be a panelist. i used to be one of these people, and now i am no longer on the leading edge. i am just a dying emwe are, fading -- a dying ember, fading on the line. judging by the days when we worked together, he is just waking up. [laughter] it is good that he rolled out of bed in time for this. we are just going to have a bunch of quick questions, and hopefully not too long answers, and hopefully you will cut each other off. what is the problem with conservatism. i am going to mangle conservatism and the republican party together. why are we here? what is the problem? >> i was going to say we don't know how to make an entrance. in the most generally sense i would say that the key problem is conservatism and the republican party are not connecting with the problems of the day, are not speaking to the amer

. >> ann, david brooks on "meet the press," famously, now famously said he thought the president had manhood problem. and i would love to get your thoughts on this point in particular, the macho aspect of these diplomatic negotiations. because vladimir putin is the person photographed riding shirtless on horses and doing jujitsu and so forth. a lot of this power would be related to his own sense of ego and whether or not he's an alpha male, et cetera, et cetera. what did you make of david's comments regarding the president and his ability to exert himself? >> well, alex, far be it to me to comment on the president's manhood but i think what david was getting at there was a question of whether obama was really willing to look tough and swagger a bit on the world stage. and he's got plenty of people urging him to do just that. the problem is, when you're confronting vladimir putin, swagger meets swaer s swagger. and you're not quite sure what happens next. obama has tried a couple of different tactics with putin. he's tried reasoning with him. he's tried to appeal to putin, the say it'

to the conversation and please join me in welcoming the moderator of this evening's discussion, david brooks. [applause] >> thank you, larry. i was thrilled when larry called to ask if i would take part in the panel. then it became clear that i was actually too old to be a panelist. [laughter] i used to be one of these people. now i am no longer on the leading-edge. i am just a dying ember. i am so pleased to be joined by my first research assistant. judging from the days when he and i work together, he is just waking up. it's good that he rolled out of bed in time for this. i am going to start. here are a couple of quick questions. hopefully not too many and we can cut each other off. let's begin with what is the problem and conservatism. -- with conservatism. i am going to mangle conservatism and the republican party together. >> i was going to say we don't know how to make an entrance until he proved me wrong. the problem is that conservatism and the republican party are not connecting to the issues of the day. a lot of people are finishing sentences that other people started in the early

david rode is an investigative reporters for reuters who has twice won the pulitzer prize, and michael hamlin, a fellow at the brookingste. both have recently written on the crisis for "atlantic" and foreign affairs respectively. i'm going to start with you, david, here at the table. what is the status of that deal that reached great fanfare last week on ukraine? >> it seems to be slowly unraveling. there was a checkpoint. that was a bad sign. i think we'll never know who carried it out. clearly the pro-russian groups are not abandoning the buildings they've taken over, and they're basically flaunting, you know, the u.s. and biden's visit saying force us out of these blz. so it's dangerous situation. >> michael, i mean, you are one person who has written advocating that perhaps the united states actually should send a life force to the region, sort of a show of force to try to back russia down. now that you see that there are these military exercises taking place in the region, a, is that a smart idea? are they doing what you suggest they do? b, what would be the next step after that? >> well, my recommendation is very

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but -- david brooks. very much. [laughter] >> credibility shot. >> one person who gives me hope at this point is mike lee. who is first of all a senator who doesn't think he's running for president which is just a wonderful thing in american life and very rare. but he's also a person who is shaping a conservative vision that makes a lot of sense to me and i think it would make a lot of sense to a lot of people. >> i think the most important policy innovation coming from conservative politicians right now is on criminal justice. and revisiting the idea that it is a good idea to massively incarcerate people, especially for nonviolent crime. i think there are a number of southern governors who have been doing good things on that, including mississippi and ouisiana and north carolina. >> i would say that the most influential writer or politician that we will have in this generation will be the one who makes conservatism accepting of modern society and modern social issues, again leaving abortion aside. maybe that's a po

listen to david brooks on "meet the press" yesterday talking about this. >> let's face it, obama whethereservedly or not does have -- i'll say it crudely, but a man hood problem in the middle east. is he tough enough to stand up to someone like putin. there's an assumption he's not tough. >> quite a statement. obviously in syria one can understand where that reputation may come from because there was a concerted push for intervention and it was dropped. in ukraine where he's been sir couple inspect from the start, do you think it is earned? >> i don't think so. i think the president wanted to give russia a chance to deescalate. it looks like russia wants to continue to infiltrate andage state and deceive the world what it's doing in ukraine. it may be very necessary for the administration i think to step up sanctions. the big challenge there is not the administration. the challenge is getting europe on board because sanctions will be much more deeply felt in europe. but i do think it's going to ultimately be necessary. russia doesn't show any intention to pull back its green men, these s

c-span: david brooks. >> guest: conservative journalist, wall street journal in brussels now. c-span: what did he have to do with the book? >> guest: he was a movie reviewer for many years, and i wanted to just check some of my notions of popular culture against him. c-span: jack cuddihy. >> guest: he wrote some very interesting books on jewish assimilation in america. c-span: evan galbraith. >> guest: van galbraith works on wall street and talked me through that. c-span: george gilder. >> guest: well, conservative intellectual, thinks about anything under the sun, so i wanted to pick his brain. c-span: campbell gibson. >> guest: he works with the census bureau. i went to the census bureau in suitland, maryland, to just see what statistics there might be on wasps. it's hard to get them. one problem is the census has no religious information. it is against the law for the census to ask any question about religion. there's ethnic data. you can find how many english people of english descent there are, not religion. c-span: jeffrey hart. >> guest: a colleague of mine, national re

. >> david brooks isn't here. >> we're relying on you. let's get to health care. we'll hear from kathleen sebelius in a few minutes. her first interview since resigning her post. mike murphy, i turn to you. but first ezra klein writing this, obamacare has won, and that's why secretary of health and human services kathleen sebelius can resign. the evidence has piled up in recent weeks that the strategy worked. obamacare's first year despite a horrific start was a success. more than 7 million people looked to have signed up for health insurance through the exchanges. millions more have signed up through medicaid. millions beyond that have signed up for insurance through their employers. so the argument being, hey, good time to step down. >> well, it's a time honored thing in the midst of a disaster to declare victory and try to move on. we'll see. it will be litigated in the midterm elections. the country will cast a judgment on it on election day. we'll see if we still have a democratic senate. the fact is it's not really at this point a republican/democrat thing a

and on this program last week david brooks, columnist for "the new york times," said the following about president obama. he said, let's face it, obama, whether deservedly or not, does have i'll say it crudely, this is him speaking, but a manhood problem in the middle east. is he tough enough to stand up to somebody like assad, somebody like putin? i think a lot of the rap is unfair, but certainly in the middle east there is an assumption that he is not tough. you mentioned syria. the president drew a red line, chemical weapons were used, he did not follow through. you have sectarian violence, you have what could be the verge of a failed state in syria. >> right. but the question is what do you now do about this? we can debate how we got here and as you rightly pointed out there's a huge reaction, not just in america by the way, but in the uk and over our side of the water as well against the concept of intervention. what i'm really saying is, look, if we analyze correctly what the nature of the problem is, in each of these individual countries there are things that we're going to have t