mark shields and david brooks are here, to analyze the week's news. plus, director spike lee on his new film tackling urban violence, "chi-raq:" >> we as americans should not be okay with our young people being shot down in the street. >> woodruff: all that and more on tonight's pbs newshour. >> major funding for the pbs newshour has been provided by: ♪ ♪ moving our economy for 160 years. bnsf, the engine that connects us. >> supporting social entrepreneurs and their solutions to the world's most pressing problems-- skollfoundation.org. >> the ford foundation. working with visionaries on the frontlines of social change worldwide. >> and with the ongoing support of these institutions 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: evidence is mounting this evening that the killers in san bernardino, california had become home-grown islamist radicals. but it is not clear they had links to anyone else. those f

that's syndicated columnist mark shields, and new york times columnist david brooks.en. >> thank you,q >> reporter: we heard margaret talking to hari about what may be syrian progress. let's talk about the president. he had a news conference today. look at hisççó record. he said we're making progress, there are still challenges. it says at the end of this yore, how have his policies worked in syria, against i.s.i.s., in iraq, in both countries? >> there are a couple of layers here. he said quite accurately we can't stop all the lone wolves. you had a couple in san bernardino. obviously, we can't stop that. are we making progress? he claims we are. highly disputed. i.s.i.s., sometimes they take and lose ground, it's not clear we're necessarily making progress against him. the third thing in the backdrop, we've had third year exoessential progress in the area. in my view we left iraq too early and destabilized the region. the existential is passivity. he's arguing from a place of weakness because of mistakes made in the past. >> woodruff: a weak position? yeah, reliving

david brooks, mark shields.have a reminder about some programs to come from our pbs colleagues. gwen ifill is preparing f >> ifill: for better or worse, donald trump has transformed the nature of the 2016 presidential campaign. tonight, our roundtable tackles what that means for politics, for policy, and for the way americans see themselves. tonight on washington week. judy? >> woodruff: then, on tomorrow's pbs newshour weekend, how an investment in wind power has helped put denmark on the path to energy independence. and that's the newshour for tonight. on monday, we examine the results of the paris climate talks. i'm judy woodruff. join us on-line, and again here tomorrow evening. for all of us at the pbs newshour, thank you, and good night. >> major funding for the pbs newshour has been provided by: >> lincoln financial-- committed to helping you take charge of your life and become you're own chief life officer. >> and by bnsf railway. >> and the william and flora hewlett foundation, helping people build imme

mark shields and david brooks are here, to analyze the week's news.

mark shields and david brooks are here, to analyze what the president said and the rest of the week'sews. and, we head to the set of "downton abbey" for a look at how the british drama has captivated american audiences. >> one extraordinary difference is that, every word is written by one man. i don't know of any other television show that works that way. and i've to this day find it absolutely mindboggling. >> woodruff: all that and more, on tonight's pbs newshour.

[laughter] >> that is right david brooks are the only people that higher david brooks. and using textbooks the notes will be head to drive out of go. to talk about different cultures would be xenophobia. how to counter that? >> i suppose if you only talk about those who have no right i am not afraid of them. but they are wrecking the country for those of her already here. that racism question in the weight -- the reason they are sensitive because of the legacy of slavery and jim crow. that is why we have affirmative action set aside. to talk about integration. every teach the democrats not to do. but that is all about american blacks not someone who was never set foot in this country. it is kind of shocking as they used to stand at the border to denounce the illegal immigrants. it is chavezes calling them wetbacks. but today you can arrive from the sit-in yesterday. . . here and collect welfare in america and have a nice life here. but were not taking them all. at some point liberals are cutting them off too. they will cut them off as soon as every person they no, who w

>> woodruff: and, it's friday; mark shields and david brooks join us to analyze the week's news.

david brooks.ut this paris meeting in the various different things it brings up, including an op ed about how west virginia is suffering from the closure of es.d tom: we will be in paris on friday to advance the discussion particular with mayors of cities around the world. my people talk to jon ferro's people. i get one board. euro, nowhere near the parity watch. commodities are very fragile. iron ore closing ugly in asia. jonathan: around $40 metric a ton. llar.ooking at euro do up by 40climbing points as the banks leading gains. switch of the board quickly. the bond market, all the headlines. the german two year yield, negative. a fresh all-time -- tom: is there a margin call in copper? we think of the london metals exchange. i have not heard margin calls come up yet. jonathan: there have been some margin calls and commodity fund. tom: he's going nuts on the phone with his commodities broker. jonathan: there has not been a panic that you always going to have the margin calls for some of the playe

and then i got the call saying we will start a magazine with bill crystals and fred barns and david brooks. let's go. i said it sounds great and i went to the "standard" >> c-span: if you are talking to a bunch of young people today could they do what you have done? what kind of life do you have? a family -- do you make enough to make it work? >> guest: that is a good question. i don't really know because the business in the time i have been here has changed utterly because of the introduction to the internet. we started the weekly standard because there was no weekly conservative opinion magazine. there were monthlies like the spectitator. a bi-weekly. but the pace of news accelerated to the point where we would be caught behind if he didn't have something coming out every week to comment on what happened the week before. i look back and it is just a joke. now you are out of date if you, you know, are five hours behind the new crisis of the century that just occurred and you have not read the last 47,000 tweets about it. i thought what i do is done for and there is not an opportunity for

. >> i never read david brooks so i would be curious. >> that's exactly right. actually people at new york times who hired david books. suggested that donald trump was using textbook in order to drive out the vote and he suggested that any antiimmigrant rhetoric in talking about different cultures that are not as good as western civilization -- >> well, i supposed if you're not talking about people that have no right a to live here. i'm not afraid of them. they are wrecking the country for people already here. the racism question which i talk a lot in my book, no, no, the reason americans are sensitive to the race issue is because of the legacy of slavery and jim crowe. that's why we have civil rights laws, that's why we have affirmative actions and then suddenly one day, people talk about integration all of the time, it was integration, don't discriminate against black people which you had to spend 100 years teaching the democrats what to do. it's not about someone who has never set foot in the country. liberals are all racist, you are all brown, we are going to

i think david brooks wrote an interesting column in the "new york times" where he said i went rug shopping. i like the bright one but when it came to buying one that's not the one i bought. he came to ohio and had a big crowd. thousands of people and ten minutes into it, you know, the crowd was leaving. about half the crowd by the end of his experience. i think people are very concerned about the current state of affairs. they want change. they absolutely want somebody that is going to shake it up, which i've done all of my life by balancing the federal budget and the budget in ohio. but they also want somebody that has a real plan to move this country forward economically and, of course, in the area of national security and foreign policy. so do i believe them? no, i don't necessarily believe what i see because it's not a poll on likely voters. i just can tell you what i see in new hampshire. i'm in new hampshire constantly. and i am convinced at the end they are going to opt for somebody who's got the experience. i think it will happen throughout the country. >> i want to ask you about s

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david brooks is away. gentlemen, welcome to you both at this christmas week.alk first about the democratic debate, mark, of last weekend. did it change in any way the arc of this democratic contest? >> not apparently and not obviously, at least to me. i thought all three candidates had respectively the best debate show they have been showing so far -- excellent presentations, command of the facts, seemed comfortable. but is hillary clinton entered as the dominant national leader according to every survey and she emerged as the dominant national leader among democrats. one question i don't know is it affected something in new hampshire that will fester, or iowa, but those are the only two contests now. >> woodruff: did you see anything i in the debate to chae where things, are mikele? >> no, it confirmed the arc but it's an interesting arc. i think bernie sanders is not going to be the nominee but i think he's affected the debate in the discussion. he's pulled hillary clinton toward the progressive side on a number of issues. she was not distinguishing herself

but at the end, when people go into vote, like david brooks said, he went in and looked at this rug andtty but when time came to buy, he wouldn't buy it. folks in new hampshire will not -- >> so they -- >> they just don't think he'll win. and i don't know about new hampshire. i can't predict that. but he's not going to be the nominee. i don't believe it. >> what -- do you think it's important that more republican leaders speak out against trump, or is this a danger that the more you attack him, the stronger he gets? >> i have been attacking -- >> you have been attacking him a lot. >> and it's not attacking him. i don't want to attack the person. it's what he says, you know? all this dividing. whether it's hispanics or muslims or women or, you know, or registries or whatever the heck it is, it's not the way i think we can strengthen our country. i think our country is strong when we come together and we're unified, not by attacking one another. so that's why i speak out. and i have been. and now other people are starting to do it. and perhaps i made it safer to say things. i don't know.

i wrote a speech that, on education, woke up the next day to a david brooks column titled a speech about nothing. [laughter] you know, there are plenty of other speeches where you just, you would write this thing, deliver it and just get hammered on the news. so you sort of, it comes with the territory. disappointment, acceleration, just part of the deal. >> a way to avoid awful things like that happen are, the president was going to a drug summit in colombia i think it was, very dangerous the first half of the speech was on reducing supply. second half of the speech was on reducing demand. and the guy who wrote it had this habit which was a great habit of walking the hall and reading the speech out loud in order to catch some twisters, you know, problems. mary kate, we walked him home with me and listen to my speech and see if there's anything in there? sure. it through the supply part. segue since between the two was, and big busts are not enough last night and he keeps -- not enough. [laughter] and he keeps on going. wait, back up. i don't think that's a good segue since there, mark.

one need look no further than renowned republican -- republican columnist, "the new york times" david brooks. here's what he wrote -- i'm sorry to take so much time in reading something that was written by this man who is a republican columnist. i repeat, for "the new york times." here's what he said: regardless of what the republican leader may claim, the affordable care act continues to work. it is increasingly -- it is increasing quality health coverage, improving care, and there's no question about that. now, brooks noted health care costs are rising at their lowest rate in years. he said -- and i quote -- "the good news is that recently health care inflation has been at historic lows. as the chairman of the president's council of economic advisors put it in a speech, the hamilton project last month, health care prices have grown at an annual rate of 1.6% since the affordable care act was enacted in march 2010, the slowest rate for such a period in five decades. 50 years. and those prices have grown at an even slower 1.1% rate over the 12 months ending august 2015. continuing the quote,

and also that the david brooks article that i referenced be added to my remarks. the presiding officer: without objection. mr. whitehouse: i appreciate it. and i yield again. a senator: madam president? the presiding officer: the senator from kansas. a senator: madam president, thank you. i would ask unanimous consent to address the senate as if in morning business. the presiding officer: the senate is in morning business. mr. moran: thank you, madam president. i rise to visit a moment with my colleagues, both republican and democrat, about an ongoing debate that we are having over the appropriateness to have policy issues decided -- debated and then decided in appropriation bills. we're now at the stage in our legislative process in which it looks like we're going to complete our work on the final spending bill for the fiscal year that ended a few months ago and that by december 11 when the continuing resolution concludes, that we very well may have an appropriation bill that takes us into the new year completed. there are some in the senate who have argued that

david brooks columns, paul krugman columns. so to put something like that on their front page as the -- as the head of "the new york times" is saying, to stoke conversation -- >> but it's the theme of the thing. it's your fault. two chakos from a foreign country come and murder a bunch of innocent people, you did it, because our a bigot, you have guns, you like the nra, whatever you did, it's your fault. >> let us know what you think about all this this morning. we have much more to talk about this morning. e-mail us friends@foxnews.com. >> let's go to the headlines. we're starting with a fox news alert. oh, terror in london. a man wielding a knife shouts this is for syria before stabbing three people at a train station. [ bleep ] law enforcement officials were saying uk was next. witnesses say the man was waving around a three inch or so knife as people ran out of the station. obviously horrified. police tased him six times before arresting him. right away, investigators calling it an act of terror. right away. by the way. the

david: joining me now, peter brookes, heritage foundation senior fellow and former deputy assistant secretaryefense and bo dietl former nypd detective. peter, are these probes or hoaxes? >> we don't know, david, that's the problem. we have to keep our vigilance up. we can't be complacent about the threat even though it disrupts our daily lives considering what we've seen in the last few months and the threat that emanates from isis. very important obviously for investigations to move forward as quickly and quality way as possible because we need to know whether these are a hoax or probes. very important for us to understand or not. david: bo, if it's a probe, there is a question how much we give away when we react to it the way the l.a. school system did the other day. they went whole hog for it. folks here in new york, police commissioner and everybody said, hey, they went too far. what do you think? >> i think the one that makes the decision on that should be someone from law enforcement or security. with all respect to the person that heads up the school board over there, that is one thing

speaker, my distinguished colleagues, guests and our special guest today, senator edward brooke and his family. henry david, a the famous writer and poet from concorde, massachusetts, once wrote, if one advances confidently in the direction of his dreams and endeavors to live the life which he has imagined, he will meet his success unexpected in champion hours. during warmed wor ii, ed brooke answered the call of his nation. he served with distinction in the italian campaign. but before that, he had the duty of depending young black soldiers who were subjected to the rank mistreatment of segregation. ed brooke became a soldier's lawyer and those experiences shaped and inspired him to the call of public service. the commonwealth of massachusetts and the entire nation has benefited from ed brooke's service. he has shown bravery, commitment and wisdom in his whole life and we honor him today for that lifetime of achievement. ed brooke's life and service to america are greatly appreciated. by ending decades of exclusion, at some of the highest levels of our government, ed brooke helped reignite a spirit of hop

brookings team. and thank you moshe david and your team in israel. paris, beirut, isis, duma, houthis, libya, russian airliner, alnusra front. al qaeda, hezbollah, boko haram, sinai, assad, hamas, and many more. all the name, places and organizations i just mentioned are united by a common theme. this theme can be summarized in two words -- chaos and confrontation. everywhere we look around the world there is mayhem. and no one -- no one -- is better positioned to address these challenges and to speak with us about them tonight than the israeli minister of defense, moshe yaalon, also known to his friend as boogie. a little background on boogie. he's been israel's minister of defense since march of 2013 after serving as vice premier and minister of strategic affairs. before entering his political life, he was chief of staff of the israel defense forces between 2002 and 2005 at the peak of the second intefadeh. throughout his career he's played an instrumental role in keeping israel secure and in strengthening the ongoing security and military cooperat

the household budgets of average americans, we turn to: david wessel, director of the hutchins center on fiscal and monetary policy at the brookingstitution, a non-partisan research center, and contributing correspondent to the "wall street journal;" and tara siegel-bernard, personal finance reporter at the "new york times." david, welcome. so, tell me -- we have been talking about this for a long time and as you heard her talk about the long expansion, what took so long for them to finally make such an incremental move? >> i think the fed thought interest rates needed to be slow for a long time because the economy was slow to recover from a devastating recession and because of their strategy is to get inflation to a 2% target and they're still not there. so there was no reason to rush and now they've decided the economy is healthy enough for them to just to begin to lift their foot gradually off the accelerator. >> ifill: you mentioned inflation. she put in a caveat that if things were to beginning to look southward, she would consider going back down again? >> people want to know what's the fed going to do next. that's what matt

. >> this is like, you see, you see the mel brooks thing when larry david was on and they said, we've got to kill. we've got to kill this thing. and larry david goes out and is it so bad that people are absolutely fascinated by it. this is the political equivalent of springtime for hitler. this is the producers. well, no, that's not a reference -- that -- >> he's owe going to be on talking about his documentary and looks at every angle of why this is working and why this is frightening and why this is touching a cord that has been created by washington itself. we'll talk to him a little later about that. a little bit more than him trying to lose. but i know what you're saying. it looks like it. >> he says things that are so outrageous. disqualify anyone else. >> that's why hillary clinton is probably attacking him now probably trying to get rid of him because no way she should want to run against him. that "saturday night live" episode was good until they started celebrating at the end because that way way wrong. no celebration. >> creed's manager knew and william f buckley said you d

david: to stephanie's point, to avoid any antitrust levels. brookemplex deal and you have to bet on the government willing to say they will split it up and there will be request for remedies that we have not seen how extensive they will be. soybean season is a huge in the u.s. and they'll be looking at those markets. the stc may look at this and say, that is ok, but maybe the s&p 500 wants to look at them combined. eu books that deals little -- with set deals little bit differently than the u.s. does, so this is not an easy walk in the park because of the complexity. in it. , each of the three units could be viable and it could not dominate the businesses but dominate sales and they could be acquisition targets. rook: that is something -- brooke: that is something to look at. is that something they would want to pick up. have egg ono they their suits? it was not until we stop an activist stepping to both of the companies that we are all saying, it makes perfect sense, look at all the synergies. where were they 1.5 years ago? i think the investors mov

david: tomorrow, we will be joined by alan patrick, the ceo of brooks brothers, julian emmanuel.new york, .nd 11:00 a.m. in hong kong that's 11:00 p.m. in hong kong. welcome to bloomberg market. ♪ from bloomberg world headquarters here in new york, good morning. i am betty liu. oil is falling. new york's low with close in more than six years after opec crude rose to a three-year high and november. why it will continue. watch out loyal -- lower oil prices. companies and crisis management mode. plus, a new strategy from glencore. sending shares skyrocketing. volkswagen ceo talk to bloomberg as they struggle with cleansing sales. a lot happening on this thursday morning. have an hour into the trading session so far. we're

speaker, my distinguished colleagues, guests and our special guest today, senator edward brooke and his family. henry davida the famous writer and poet from concorde, massachusetts, once wrote, if one advances confidently in the direction of his dreams and endeavors to live the life which he has imagined, he will meet his success unexpected in champion hours. during warmed wor ii, ed brooke answered the call of his nation. he served with distinction in the italian campaign. but before that, he had the duty of depending young black soldiers who were subjected to the rank mistreatment of segregation. ed brooke became a soldier's lawyer and those experiences shaped and inspired him to the call of public service. the commonwealth of massachusetts and the entire nation has benefited from ed brooke's service. he has shown bravery, commitment and wisdom in his whole life and we honor him today for that lifetime of achievement. ed brooke's life and service to america are greatly appreciated. by ending decades of exclusion, at some of the highest levels of our government, ed brooke helped reignite a spirit of hope

he is drawn to comedy, telling noah brooks that "a farce, or comedy, is best played; a tragedy is best read at home." a last-minute meeting with lewis powell, davidld and george atzerodt has just concluded. the coordinated attack that booth outlined on april 13th is to go into effect immediately. at 10:15 lewis powell is to kill secretary of state seward in his home on lafayette square. david herold will guide powell out of the city via the navy yard bridge. george atzerodt is to kill vice president johnson at the kirkwood house hotel. the only change in the plan is that booth will not be attending "aladdin" at grover's! harry ford: hello, john. tom hanks: he will kill lincoln at ford's theater. murcott: i am harmless except to myself. florence trenchard: speak on, sir. i hear you. tom hanks: it is still early in act two. booth has calculated that the appointed time of 10:15 will fall at the beginning of act three of "our american cousin" and there will be an intermission between the acts. booth retrieves his horse from pumphrey's stable. [knock at door]. john wilkes booth: mister spangler, hold this mare for me 10 or 15 minutes. mind you, she's

begin with in our system, brooke, if one of these failed candidates would then be able to take him down from outside that system. that doesn't seem to be a plausible outcome. >> david, we're days away from las vegas for a massive republican debate. i'm curious of everyone on the stage who has the most to lose? >> oh, man. that's a good question. obviously if you're the dominant front-runner like donald trump you have the most to lose because he's holding the most chairs right now. i think the stakes are high for many of them because remember, this is now so close to the voting, the debate will be six weeks away from the voting and entirely new shifted landscape avenues environment post-terrorist, post-san bernardino. is this a commander-in-chief test. i think the stakes will be incredibly high for everyone on that stage. >> agreed. thank you both so much. again, a reminder. we are days away, five days away from that next republican debate. the stakes are huge. final republican debate of the year. tuesday, december 15th, 9:00 eastern right here on cnn. >>> also today we have some breaking news as we're learning the national office for the muslim group cair has been

brookings team. and thank you moshe david and your team in israel.paris, beirut, isis, duma, houthis, libya, russian airli r airliner, alnusra front. al qaeda, sinai, assad, hamas, and many more. all the name, places and organizations i just mentioned are united by a common theme. this theme can be summarized in two words -- chaos and confrontation. everywhere we look around the world there is mayhem. and no one -- no one -- is better positioned to address these challenges and to speak with us about them tonight than the israeli minister of defense, moshe yaalon also known to his friend as boogie. a little background on boogie. he's been israel's minister of defense since march of 2013 after serving as vice premier and minister of strategic affairs. before entering his political life he was chief of staff of the israel defense forces between 2002 and 2005 at the peak of the second intefadeh. throughout his career he's played an instrumental role in keeping israel secure and in strengthening the ongoing security and military cooperation between israel

david geiger had the opportunity to talk to the new administrator, mark hague. he's not new to the region. hague grew up in missouri and was the deputy to the former administrator karl brooks. david asked hague what his goals are for the region and iowa in particular. "really want to build that relationship, continue some of the work that's been done, to build good rapport, communication, i'm the kind of person that likes to meet with people face to face, hear their issues, concerns and a chance to talk about what epa's doing." hague says, "my perception is iowa's been a real leader in the nutrient reduction effort and they've had a good aggressive nutrient reduction strategy. we've been supportive of that movement. moving forward we want to be a partner with them and other federal agencies, academic institutions, state partners, and stakeholders." the iowa nutrient reduction strategy is a plan led by iowa state university, the iowa dnr and iowa department of agriculture. its goal is to reduce nutrients from point and non-point sources to iowa waters and the gulf of mexico through voluntary hague says he was encouraged about farmer practices at the iowa state fair this yea