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that's syndicated columnist mark shields and new york times columnist david brooks.me, gentlemen. so let's pick up with the discussion jeff was just having. david, the resignation of eric shinseki, what would you add? why did this have to happen in. >> i hate these blood lettings. it's never obvious to me why one person is the problem. i'm a believer in experience and it's at least possible someone who's been there five years knows the organization and in a better position than the outsider. it should be said government bureaucracy is not microsoft. you can't fire people. >> woodruff: what do you mean you can't fire -- >> you can't do what a corporate turnaround artist can do. if you're in the military or corporate, you have a lot of freedom to get people to drop whole organizations to sell off your company. if you're in a federal agency i can't think of a turnaround. i'm trying to thoif one that's fundamentally been turned around just because the leverage is not there. and that's the problem here. sometimes we bring in business people bring in generals to run agenci

mark shields and david brooks 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: the government of ukraine launched a major military operation today against pro-russian separatists in the east. their target was slovyansk, and ukraine's president reported many insurgents were killed or wounded-- but not without cost. james mates of independent television news is there, and filed this report. >> reporter: helicopters in the dawn sky above the city of slovyansk, the start of the british-ukrainian offensive. crisis again. it was a bad start. the flash, one of their aircraft being hit. the camera tracked it until it crashed. pro-russian fighters cheered as they watched i

mark shields and david brooks are here to analyze the week's news.those are just some of the stories we're covering on aour. >> major funding for the pbs newshour has been provided by: ç ♪ ♪ ♪ ♪ moving our economy for 160 years. bnsf, the engine that connects us.ç >> i've been around long enough to recognize the people who are out there owning it. the ones getting involved, staying engaged.ç they are not afraid to question the path they're on. because the one question they never want to ask is, "how did i end up here?" i started schwab with those people. people who want to take ownership of their investments, like they do in every other aspect of their lives. >> and with the ongoing support of these institutions and foundations.ç >> this program was made possible by the corporation for public broadcasting. and by contributions to your pbs stat[on from viewers like you. thank you. >> sreenivasan: house democrats were divided today on whether to join republicans in investigating the benghazi attacks. it will be the eighth probe of the september 201

tonight, we turn to mark shields and david brooks, for perspective on the trouble at the v.a., secretary shinseki's resignation, and the rest of the week's news. then, pro basketball's push to take the l.a. clippers away from owner donald sterling, as the

david brooks, kathleen parker, a number of them. wrote a blog in which i gave my reasons in an argument about why i was going to vote for obama and not mccain/palin ticket. remember who else was on that ticket. [laughter] >> well, well, well. and then the beast, tina, put that headline on it, sorry dad, i am voting for obama. well my dad died in february and was well past giving a shit who where was voting for. sorry to put it that way but -- and i would not say it would be an exerating to see all hell bloke lose. but the tea pot was made larger when the national review fired me as a columnist which was funny because i was on the board of directors and technically owned 1/7th. and the story sort of took on a life of its own. are you asking me did i regr regret -- i would rank myself among the 41% in obama's current non-approval ratings. i am a little disappointed. and i think at the time, i said, one of the reasons i am going to vote for him is because i think he, as was said of fdr, had a first class temperament. i am not so sure a

i looked up the david brooks column from october 2005, he writes after the investigation is finished that fitzgerald, the special prosecutor did not find evidence to prove there's a broad conspiracy. and yet for this, i think that in some ways, i'm kienled of proud of all of us and the media saying this was a screw up but it was inadvertent. >> it took a reporter to find out it was a screw up. it was scott wilson from the washington post. are you sure you want this on the list? >> i feel for this intelligence officer and for his career and his hard work. >> and his family. >> i also feel for us. we are losing a very valuable intelligence asset, at a time when we need him the most. >> we have another reporter, columnist kim who was on air over the weekend and she was talking about what she called a supposed scandal manual for how the white house is dealing not only the cia situation but also many other things that are on their plate. let's listen to her. >> there's five steps that this administration keeps repeating every time a scandal comes up. step workup, i didn't know about it, s

this is a conversation with david brooks to respond to well, congress won't do that because incumbents want to protect themselves. that means courts are the only refuge. your book you describe that all colleagues agree it violates the constitution, the court has tended to of hold that they are not billed to entertain the challenges. why do they hold that a what do you propose to do to solve the problem? >> guest: first of all, i think it is important no judge, as far as i know, have ever dissented the practice. the basic rule of what is going all right now is quite wrong, and it is not a partisan issue because the democrats are guilty of the same activity in states like maryland and california and so forth. the republicans have been guilty of that activity in pennsylvania and texas, for example. there will be a change to the administration in those states eventually. if the legislature and a master think a long run they will recognize both parties will be better off an alarm wrong by simply getting rid of this practice and letting the election contents work on the merits of their respe

political polarization, and he said eliminate partisan gerrymandering and this was a conversation with david brooks. he responded, congress won't do that because the incumbents want to protect themselves. you describe that although all of your colleagues agree that extreme partisan gerrymandering violates the constitution, the court tended to hold it's not-the-courts are not able to entertain the challenges. why have they held that and what do you propose to do to solve that problem. >> guest: well, first of all, think it's important that no judge, as far as i know, has ever defended the practice. to the basic rule is -- what is going on now is quite wrong. and it's not a partisan issue because the democrats are guilty of the same activity in states like maryland and california and so forth. and the republicans have been guilty of that activity in pennsylvania and texas, for example. but there will be a change of administration in those states eventually, and if the legislatures and the administrators think in the long run, they will recognize that both parties would be better off by simply getting

mid october of the election cycle i, in the company of a number of other conservative writers, david brooksumber roadblock in written answers to my serious -- i give my reasons about why was want to vote for barack obama and not mccain palin. remember who else was on that ticket. well, well, well. and then the beast, teaneck, but that's somewhat mischievous headline. sorry, dad. i am voting for obama. my dad had died in february. well past giving it was voting for. sorry to put it that way, but that would be an innovation to say all hell broke loose, but it was a bit of a tempest in a teapot. the teapot was misled in larger when national review fired me as a columnist, which was even funnier since i was on the board of directors. [laughter] i technically owned 1/7. and anyway, the story's sort of took on a life of its own. now, are you asking me, did i -- qi regret? , it -- no, i don't regret that. i do not regret to not voting for john mccain and sarah palin. yes. i don't know that my current views on president obama or any interest. i am probably, if mitt romney talked about the of 47

this was a conversation with david brooks who responded but congress won't do that because the incumbentincumbent s want to protect themselves. that means the courts are the only refuge in it in your book you describe although all of your colleagues agree that extreme gerrymandering violates the constitution the court has tended to hold that it's not -- the courts are not able to entertain the challenges. why have they held back in what used propose to do to solve the problem? >> guest: first of all i think it's important that no judge as far as i know has ever defended the practice. what is going on now is wrong. it's not a partisan issue because the democrats were given the same activities in maryland and california and so forth and the republicans have been guilty of that in pennsylvania and texas for example. but there will be a change of administration in those states eventually. if the legislature thinks in the long run it will recognize those parties will be better off in the long run by simply getting rid of this practice and in the election contest working on the merits of their respecti

. >> david brooks questioned his manhood. >> this is a scandal. >> it's a scandal. >> but it's a scandalt has been going on for more than a year and a half. >> did you hear sharyl attkisson on this program when she tried to investigate it what happened to her. >> cbs didn't run the story and she quit. >> are you telling me they are not protecting bomber? are you telling me that? >> what i'm telling is you the press is falling down on the job in this case because it is a story that has been kicking around for a long time and this did not crack it open. >> oh, it cracked it open. you got a guy like ben rhodes writing a memo like that and then you have obama sitting with me when he could have said you you know what? we handled that wrong. >> the one thing we ran, bill, this was news and should have gotten more coverage. >> did hillary clinton know about the coverup in benghazi and will that become a presidential issue for her? karl rove with some thoughts. then kareem abdul jabbar on whether the los angeles clippers race deal is over. factor is coming right back. ...it's not caused by a hea

david brooks is away today. >> sreenivasan: let's talk elections. kentucky, georgia had elections.u can biggest takeaway. >> we who cover politics are frustrated sports writers. we love the ease questions in softball or the unfair charts, a cheap shot, and to use tennis jargon that i never played, is saying republicans this year have committed no unforced errors. they have not -- they've put themselves in a position to compete, if not to win in the competitive senate races. they haven't nominated people that they're going to have to run away from who are seen as losers, that is an accomplishment to them. >> i agree with that. i think the republican establishment is not a myth or paper tiger. i think mitch mcconnell is evidence of that. there's something impressive about his utterly bland ruthlessness when it comes to these races and i think it's true, i think republicans have determined they want the senate, they're not going to make stupid mistakes and that, given recent elections, is a huge accomplishment for them. so i think they found, in the shutdown, that tea party groups, th

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i'm not particularly interested in reading the musings of let's say david brooks.i feel like that has been played out so i am really excited i the ways the internet has offered and given platforms to writers. i don't think we word have heard from necessarily this was 10 years ago and some writers that i admire aren't doing necessarily essays or criticism. emilyness bomb writes for "the new yorker." some writers are doing hilarious stuff on twitter. it isn't always in the pages of a magazine or a newspaper. oftentimes it's on people's tumblr or twitter. i don't look at facebook that much so i'm not sure what's going on there but those are some. i think if you look at the list of writers on the table of contents you will see it's pretty reflective of a lot of writers that i admire. >> we have about 10 minutes left and in asking my question so if anyone has a question from the audience just use a microphone in the back for people at home listening. >> could you use the microphone? >> that train has gone by five times. >> how do you think your writing has influenced sa

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david brooks writes about the streamlined life.nts are less sympathetic to having meaning in their lives, but it has become more socially acceptable to present yourself as utilitarian and success oriented. our guest host for the hour is aneesh chopra, former chief technology officer of the united states. you deal with packets that are about results, analytics. there is a sense that you have to have the results to back you up and it does not matter what the ambiguous qualities are that you bring along with the ride. is that the case now? >> quite the opposite. context matters, if you try to scale. >> does data allow for that context when we look at those numbers all the time? >> you want to draw insight from the data with creativity on your hypothesis and how you test it. the bigger point is -- when you take a look at the talent in our society, we have the wrong filter. challenges,prizes, and competition, it opens up the aperture. sir isaac newton could not solve the longitude problem in the 1700s. today you see a similar problem. i

or david brooks in "the new york times," quote, all around the fan rick of peace and order -- the fabric of peace and order is freying. -- the world is disorganized and the superpower is not taking the lead. he went on to say that he intends to argue to president obama that if he doesn't lead, then find a country that will. now, these are not exactly your typical obama bashers. across the spectrum there's concern that under barack obama america is in withdrawl mode. and there's a fear that the president thinks and acts like he can make things happen in the world just by giving a speech. that he can protect america with his rhetoric. now, look, i'm a fan, a big fan of churchill and reagan. i have a lot of appreciation for effective communication. but that communication has to be backed up by something and backed up by someone who is willing to make the tough choices and then defend them. what we say is important, what we do is more important. the president has taken speak softly and carry a big stick and just turned it on its head. more people are coming to realize that, unfortunately, mo

alexis baden mayer and david brooks. welcome back. marion. what what is the relationship. both alexis and david were for and we spoke about i think david most recently about the relationship between g.m.o. zoo and chemistry you know basically chemical companies companies are just used to make solvents and things. what's the relationship between g.m. owes and big. so to start with the relationship between chemical companies and g.m. knows it's really remarkable that the six biggest companies behind g.m.o. those are also producers of past decides and so there is a financial incentive with genetically modified seeds to also be marketing pesticides i think this fits into a larger context where we've moved from a more sustainable form of agriculture during my lifetime to a. very un sustainable form of agriculture and we've been talking about crop agriculture where we're having the greater use of pesticides justified by this idea of feeding the world and similarly in animal agriculture we've moved from family controlled farms to enormous farms we have and they're not even farms t

david brooks wrote in the "new york times," all around the piece of fabric is framed. and a part of that disarray and fraying is the wishful thinking we can wish terrorism and other problems away and go along and the world is not going to bother us. in other words, short-term political messaging is taking press dens over longer term strategic interests. so repealing the curnt authority that helps the military protect us against terrorism without something to take its place is exactly that kind of wishful thinking. i reserve. the chair: the gentleman's time has expired. the gentleman reserves. the gentleman from california is recognized. >> i yield one minute to the congresswoman from california, barbara lee. ms. lee: let me thank congressman schiff for offering this amendment. as this body knows, i have been offering an amendment to repeal the authorization to use military force for many, many years. congressman schiff, this is such an important, a very important amendment, which is critical to stopping this endless war. unfortunately, the rules committee refused to al

david leonhardt, upshot. back in a moment. stay with us. >> rose: rodney brooks is here.n 1990 he co-founded irobot and if you know what the rumba vacuum and what robots are then you know what he does. he's also the former director of m.i.t. computer science and artificial intelligence lab treatment he's currently the founder, chair are and chief technology officer of we think robotics. the company makes industrial robots for small to medium size manufacturers that couldn't otherwise afford them. "time" magazine named its too robot baxter one of 2012's mow innovative inventions. i'm pleased to have rodney brooks at this table. tell me how rea bottle will influence the way we think about technology. >> we're going to so robots in our lives that we can't imagine right now. think back to 1980. you think it's weird because computers are these big things with spinning discs. now the 90's with processors. we have robotic elements in our lives which is going to make the life easier for us as we get older. this whole self driving car thing. what's really happening is cars are tur

freshman congresswoman susan brooks won against david stockdale and, giveagain, she at got 75% there.four-way democratic primary getting 58% of the vote and will take on jackie wilorski in november. and in the northeastern part of the state, they kept a same-sex marriage ban off the ballot until november, a third member who was also targeted for that vote survived. north carolina speaker tom tillis is the new republican nominee for the senate there. mr. tillis, congratulations on your primary victory. >> thank you, chuck. and thanks for the rundown on all the other races. that was very helpful. >> i imagine you've been only focused on what you've been doing and not that. let me just start with a question that i ask a lot of candidate when is they're running against incumbents. what is kay hagan's fireable offense? >> i think really a record that started when she was in the state senate. much watch i've been doing is cleaning up kay hagan's mess in north carolina when she was sitting in the state senate. i think it's a contrast between her adding taxes, adding regulations while we're c

i am not particularly interested in reading the musings of david brooks.u know, i feel like that has been played out. i am really kind of excited by the way of the internet has given platforms to writers of the don't think we would have heard from necessarily of this was ten years ago. she writes for the new yorker. doing hilarious stuff on twitter. it is not always in the pages of a magazine and newspaper. often times it is on people's tumbler's or twitter those are some, but if you look at the list of writers. >> we have about ten minutes left. if anyone has a question in the audience. we just have to use the microphone in the back to be blood on listening. could you use the microphone. >> the writing and florence. >> the mainstream sources the people listening to to cover the issues. >> sometimes i get the sense that it has. i would not say my riding, but the of times in my get the sense that something has been happening. i have no proof of that. i am seeing conversations reflected on television, cable news shows and also scripted narratives, half-hour'

brookings institution. an op-ed columnist. david is a washington bureau chief for the economist magazine. am pleased to have all of them on this program. why did the president feel it necessary to make this speech now and the follow-up speeches as well? what does he believe is necessary for him to accomplish? >> i think the white house felt it was losing grip on a narrative and i think the narrative that they don't want to hear is that obama's foreign andcy is aimless or week that our allies constantly need reassurance that we are not .bandoning them it was really like a state of the union address on foreign policy. it was literally and figuratively all over the map but i think he was trying to signal two different ways at once. a level of deep engagement on issues that he considers primary importance and a little bit of development of a kind of obama doctrine. the amazing thing about the commentary that has come out is that it is all over the place. people are reading this as appeasing russia, other people are reading all kinds of things. these speeches are sometimes like rorschach tests

. >> brook, as an agent, david, i was going to jump in and say as an agent i know that my clients thatd not be interested in playing for an owner like donald sterling. i do think there will be an exodus. >> and other players say it's a job and when you're offered a job with all of those zeros, you play. >> if it's optional and you can go play for another team and you can play for other owners and you can go someplace else, that's going to be your last resort. of course these guys have to provide for their family but the la clippers are going to be the last place anyone wants to play as long as donald sterling owns that team. you're going to shy away from he and that organization as long as he's the owner. >> okay. >> i'm getting fired up here. >> i feel you. i'm going to wrap this up. i wish we had more time but something tells me we'll be talking again in the coming months. thank you thank you thank you for that. coming up, he is the controversial man who is about to lead more than 1 billion people but he's not even allowed into the united states, at least not yet. plus you will see t

police say kenneth middle brooke forced 2 women to drive around the bay area. his victims escaped by outsmarting him. david? >> outsmarting is the right term. he knew he couldn't drive on a suspended license he's now accused of kidnapping a woman here then a second woman in mountain view. it probably didn't count on them knowing how to escape. police say middle brook walked up to a 19-year-old asking if she'd do him a favor. drive him to his father's house. he claimed his license was suspended she agreed to take his car here. they did. they drove to mountain view. >> were they friends? >> no. there was no relationship between the 19-year-old victim and kenneth. >> in good faith the woman drove the nissan to mountain view. but realized she was a kidnap victim she got on the bay shore freeway and intentionally hit another car so she'd have to stop. after the accident, middle dgs brook took off in his car but abandoned it. >> he ended up moving north and went into this residents and did sort of the same thing. forcing a 61-year-old women to her car. >> the second kidnap victim lived in this mobile home park e

brook's first victims. he's known to change his look as you can see in the two different photos. reporter david louie has more from elvis owe where the trouble started. >> the 19-year-old woman bought kevin middle brook's story. he needed someone to drive him to see his father. he couldn't drive his car because his license was suspended. she drove him from one place to the other. police aren't saying what caused her to realize she was a kidnap victim. >> she felt her safety was in danger. that's when she decided not to be a vic fim anymore. convince him she could drive him more and intentionally crashed into another car. >> it happened on the bay shore freeway. when officers arrived, the kidnapper took off in the car. the maxima was abandoned a short distance away. the kidnapper then walked off imt it appears that he jumped the fence or walked into this mobile home park, went to the home of a of 61-year-old woman and kidnapped her. they were on the road for eight hours heading first to berkeley, then to lafayette and then to ioane near stockton. there was an opportunity to escape. >> he left he

brookings institution. jeff goldberg is a columnist for "bloomberg view." and david rennie is bureau chief of the "the economist" magazine. i am pleased to have all of them on the program this evening. i begin with this simple question-- why did the president feel necessary to make this speech now and the follow-up speechedz as well? and what does he believe is necessary for him to accomplish? jeff? >> well, i think the white house felt that it was lose, a grip on a narrative, and i think that the narrative that they don't want to hear is that foreign policy-- obama's foreign policy is aimless and weak and that our allies constantly need reassurance that we're not abandoning them. so i think he wanted to set out-- this was really like a state of the union address on foreign policy. so it was literally and figuratively all over the map. but i think he was trying to signal in two different ways at once. one was a level of deep engage oment issues that he considers primary importance, and also there was a little bit of-- of development of a kind of obama doctrine, neith