that's syndicated columnist mark shields and "new york times" columnist david brooks.emen, great report from william brangham from michigan. david, a lot of these voters still like donald trump. it's been a rough two months but they're looking past that. >> yeah, he's still got 80% approval rating among republicans, and the senate and the house face if they face donald trump, they are in trouble at home. he's popular in republican circles. 35%, 40% national approval. >> woodruff: what did you make of that? >> i think it was a terrific piece. we have to understand, having missed that story last november myself, that donald trump -- >> woodruff: most of us did. -- donald trump felt the pain of these people, that's what he communicated to them. he acknowledged their existence, what they had been through, and that, while the great big numbers in the country were great, the stock market, the unemployment, that these were people. who themselves and experienced being left behind and said i would stand up for you. and they are giving him the benefit of the doubt. >> imagine ho

mark shields and david brooks are here to analyze the week's news. 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. >> 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: north korea issued a new warning today to the united states. it came amid signs that the north might be getting ready for another nuclear test. the vice foreign minister charged that the trump administration is "more vicious and more aggressive" than president obama's. >> ( translated ): we are taking into account the most aggressive and dangerous option that the u.s. might come up with, and we have also got our options, our countermeasures ready in our hands, which mean

mark shields and david brooks take on this week's news, including what a rule change in the senate means for the ability of the two parties to work together. all that and more, on tonight's pbs newshour. >> major funding for the pbs newshour has been provided by: q1 ♪ ♪ moving our economy for 160 years. bnsf, the engine that connects us. >> 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: the white house says president trump has sent a strong signal to the world with last night's cruise missile strike on syria. the attack drew widespread support today from american allies, and condemnation from the syrians and their allies. a flash of light and the roar of jet engines lit up the pre-dawn in the eastern mediterranean. two u.s. navy destroyers fired off 59 tomahawk cruise missiles. ( explosion ) amateu

that's syndicated columnist mark shields, and "new york times" columnist david brooks.come gentlemen. we're just one day away david from the hundred day mark of the new administration. what are we thinking right now? >> a hundred days is a stupid marker. 9 days i 9 days is much better. it's not a success. what's striking is we've had obvious failures. i think what's striking makes me remain curious about the next four years is the change. i mean just rapid change, we've never seen a president change this much from being a populist to being a corporatist, a process around him. i'd say there's some improvements. he's never going to be a deep thinker, he's never going to have an overall strategy but the left of flexibility is to me one of the more striking and maybe hopeful. >> woodruff: some improvement, mark. >> there's an old formula in washington. when someone changes in moves in your direction, that person has grown. when he moves in the other direction, of course he's benedict honor. he's a -- arnold. he's a traitor. donald trump has a constituency. his point is righ

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and david brooks david brooks calls it essential reading.is the story some say of a struggle between two traditions. philip: it is a struggle between three rival traditions thinking about the meaning of the american project. charlie: what do you mean by the american project? guest: what do i mean? that is exactly what is at issue. and so, three different visions. one that sees the united states as a christian nation, another that sees it as a secular democracy, and the third, the one i'm defending, which sees it as a combination of sacred and secular values. charlie: as you have pointed out, this is not a third way? this is different than the conversation that took place at the time in britain with the coming of tony blair and somewhat in terms of the political direction that bill clinton took in america? philip: i don't think it is a third way. i think it has been the central way all along which the american project has proceeded for much of our history. i don't think there is a mushy middle, an averaging out of two different positions, but

a lot to digest, rich lowrie, helene cooper, danielle plet ka and david brooks.tart with the basics here. what did we learn about donald trump this week in syria? >> we're debating him like this is winston churchill in the world of war. making some big strategic decision. i'm afraid he did one thing and it will have no consequences if there was no strategic thinking behind it and no big strategic shift. i do think one promising thing is we're never going to be in the business of regime change anytime soon. we should be in the business of defending some basic norms of civilization. 100 years ago, the u.s. entered world war i, thousands were gassed to death. we can be against gassing and so in that sense this action was a useful action and we should just be in the business of trying to make sure when people fight, they behave with some basic level of human decency. so we had a little thing in this, but i'm not sure a big shift in any way. >> is it the doctrine of flexibility? >> flexibility, we were all over president obama when he told president putin he would be

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we have david brooks, columnist for the "new york times." let's start with the basics here, what did we learn about donald trump this week. i'm afraid it is no consequences, no strategic thinking behind it. i think the promising thing is that we're not in the regime change any time soon. 100 years ago in world war i, we can at least all be against gassing. we want to make sure that when people fight they behave with level of human decency. >> is it a doctrine of flexibility? >> we were all over president balm. i don't think we know. we don't know it was a tactical strike or a strategic move. and we have nikki hailey saying things have changed. >> rich, i want you to respond to this. it is a similar thought that jonah goldberg rights. a positive interpretation of the situations is that trump is able to change opinion. >> clearly things he said for years on twitter and campaign at the rallies were not well considered. i think he has adjusted. the strikes are usually too weak and symbolic to make a dirchlgs. th -- difference. what it happening

david brooks calls it essential reading. i am pleased to have him at the table. welcome. story, some say, of a struggle between two traditions. philip: it is a struggle between even three rival traditions for thinking about the meaning of the american project. charlie: what do you mean by the american project? philip: that's exactly what's at issue. three different visions. one that sees the united states as a christian nation, another that sees it as a secular democracy, and a third, the one that i'm defending here, a combination of sacred and secular values. charlie: and this is, as you have pointed out, it is not like a third way, it is different than the confrontation -- conversation that took place with tony blair or bill clinton in america. philip: i think it is an essential way in which the american project has proceeded for most of our history, and i don't think there is a mushy middle, and averaging out of two different positions. but it has its own logic and coherence. charlie: tell me about religious nationalism. philip: religious nationalism is the idea that t

david brooks refers to donald trump as a political pond skater.hewitt says he has a lot to celebrate. now look at the first 100 days in the totality. ♪ >> i do knnald john trump. >> this was the largest audience to witness an inauguration period. >> sean spicer gave alternative facts. >> i think we can disagree with the facts. >> 3 to 5 million people voting illegally? >> we will see where we go from here. >> we are going to get the bad ones out. >> president of mexico cancelling the visit to the united states. >> banning muslims. >> no ban. no wall. >> we put the seven countries initially in the executive order. >> the justice department would not defend the new trump muslim ban. >> donald trump fired the interim attorney general. >> we had a monday night massacre. sally yates. >> would not defend the trump administration travel ban. >> nominating judge neil gorsuch. >> we are officially putting iran on notice. >> the new president attacked the australian prime minister. >> good robard's decision puts a halt to the kpoiexecutive order. >> this is

a oh, yeah, i met david brooks. all the homeless people are that way and the golf course is that way. he makes fun of the whole enterprise. but what is interesting about this particular place and what is true broadly of a lot of greater appalachia and even into west texas, where i'm from that the poor parts of the southwest, nothing happened. there wasn't some great industry there that went away. there wasn't some factory that closed down. there wasn't some -- anything like that. now if you go further east, there was some coal mining but it's always been poor. it stagnated while the rest of the country changes and becomes more and more dra mat nick contrast ease the rest of the country gets wealthier and it stays where it's always been. my view about the political end of this is maybe different from those people. i read a lot about economics but i don't think it's an economic question. i think that what happen said we are really paying the wages of these so-called sexual revolution that most men in the world and ave

david brooks is away. welcome to you, gentlemen.re was a special congressional election this week, mark shields, in georgia, the sixth district. >> really? >> woodruff: really. my question is the democrats fell just short. lessons learned, wider implications, what did you see? >> yes, i saw all of them. the democrat, a 30-year-old rookie with experience in public life of being a congressional aide on capitol hill managed to raise over $8 million from activists around the country who were committed and his own support and managed to get, judy, more votes than the first five republicans in a district mitt romney won by 20 points that has been electing nothing but republicans to congress including dr. tom price, secretary of h.h.s., and newt gingrich by substantial margins, but he didn't get the magic 50%, which in the jungle primary of georgia where everybody's in it, is the magic number. but i would say it was impressive. after kansas, what it means -- >> woodruff: where they had another special election. >> another special election

david brooks the "new york times" columnist calls it essential reading for this moment. i am pleased to have philip gorski at this table. welcome. >> thank you. >> rose: tell me what -- this is a story, some say, of a struggle between two traditions. >> it's a struggle between even three rival traditions for thinking about the meaning of the american project. >> rose: what do you mean by "the american project." >> what do i mean by "the american project"? >> rose: yeah. that's exactly what's at issue. three different visions, one that sees the united states as a christian nation, another that sees it as a secular democracy, and a third, the one i'm defending here, which sees it as a combination of sacred and secular values. >> rose: and this is, as you ever certainly pointed -- as you have certainly pointed out, this is not like a third way. this is different than the conversation that took place at the time sterling in britain and the coming of tony blair and some of the political direction that bill clinton took in america. >> yeah, i don't think it's the third way. i

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almost everyone of the new york times or nick kristof on the centerleft and they don't write or david brooks in the middle, they don't write things they believed to be objectivelyh false. political facts thought i was saying falsely about obamacare it was in a desk file. it is in a death spiral they can disagree but it's not objectively false for me to say that. it's my opinion based on facts and projections of what is happening. fake news would be for someoneur to come on right now and say to you, usc doesn't grant degrees. objectively, i know that's not true, i'm trying to communicate that to people, it's a joke. we had a cabinet in term that limit the propaganda outlets like russian news. >> host: mary and strongsville ohio. hi mary. you're on with author hugh hewitt. >> caller: hi hugh.. i'm a longtime fan of used yours i like these ideas in your book. to me they go hand-in-hand with another book by a good friend of yours i believe, michael med badge, his book about america somehow being a blast by the god of history. your love of america does comech through. it's a cautious optimism for

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op-ed page contributors at "the new york times" that kristof on the centerleft, they don't -- or david brooksin the middle. they don't write things objectively false. they write things like political fact that i was falsely seen obamacare is in a death spiral. they can disagree with me but it's not objectively false for me to say that. is my opinion based on facts and projections of what's happening in the bankruptcy system and the people uninsured. fakeness to be for someone to come on right now if i were to say to you, usc doesn't grant it. objectively i know that's not true. i was trying to communicate that to people. that would be fakeness went to cap and not turn the mixture with a minute to propaganda outlets like russian tv. >> host: next is mehran strongsville, ohio. you are on with author hugh hewitt. >> caller: yes, hi, hugh appeared on the long-time fan of yours. i really like these ideas in your book. to me, that kind of go hand in hand with another book by a good friend of yours i believe, matt clement back. his book about america somehow been left by the god of history and your

join us online and again here tomorrow evening with mark shields and david brooks.shour, thank you and see you soon. >> major funding for the pbs newshour has been provided by: >> our tradition has been to take care of mother earth, because it's that that gives us water, gives us life. the land is here for everyone. >> and with the ongoing support of these institutions >> this program was made possible by the corporation for public broadcasting. and by contributions to your pbs station from viewers like you. thank you. captioning sponsored by newshour productions, llc captioned by media access group at wgbh access.wgbh.org . >> rose: welcome to the program, we begin this evening with another look at the trump administration and a conversation with jennifer jacobs of bloomberg news. >> i was told by three administration officials that his authority in the white has not changed, his influence with the president trump has not changed and if you look at all of the members of the inner circle no one is closer to trump and doing more with president trump than steve bannon

joining me for inside an analysis are david brooks, columnist for the "new york times." danielle pletka, rich lowry of the national review and helene cooper. welcome this sunday morning. it's "meet the press." good sunday morning. this breaking news before we get to the serious story. there were attacks on two egyptian christian churches this morning. a bomb exploded in a church packed with palm sunday worshippers north of cairo. it killed more than two dozen people, wounding scores of others, according to health officials. hours later a suicide bomber killed at least 11 people in front of a church in alexandria. isis has claimed responsibility for both of those attacks. now we move to syria. this week president trump became the seventh consecutive american president to launch a military action against a country in the middle east. of course, the first one in that seven consecutive streak was a failed attempt to rescue in iran. missiles launched in the mediterranean is what the trump administration called a proportionate response to last week's chemical attack that kille

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david, nice to see you. >> hi, brooke. >> the president is in florida and who is with him? who is with him on this? >> all presidents say during a time of crisis that the apparatus travels with you. the president did not take a number of senior aides who have been with him on previous trips. reince priebus left last night. the president has been briefed. he can be briefed by officials at the pentagon and at intelligence agencies through a secure video conference. he's at the golf course now. we don't know that he's actually playing but he seems to be able to juggle both of these things. it's an alarming situation. the rhetoric from kim jong-un is to be expected. this is what they do when they feel threatened. obviously, this is a new president. how he reacts is very unknown and signaled that the u.s. is willing to handle north korea on its own but it's not clear how that would manifest itself, clearly. >> it seems to me that some of this rhetoric or maybe even some of the president's tweets are getting to kim jong-un. let me read this one tweet. "north korea is looking for

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david of course is the director of the hutchins center on fiscal and monetary policy at brookings. after three decades at the "wall street journal" where he was economics editor and chair, two pulitzer prizes. david thank you for being here. , we have the president and ceo of cato, the senior fellow at the bipartisan policy center, ruth marcus, famous columnist from the "washington post" and the executive director of the independent women's forum. david and panelists, welcome. david: if this is politically balanced, i must be the bernie sanders delegate here. [laughter] congressman walker was saying that the 100 day threshold is meaningless and when the gingrich revolution came in 1994, they made the 100 day target for the contract for america and regretted it. what struck me is that it has only been 100 days. it seems like a decade already. [laughter] i think this panel will flow nicely from the last one and i thought i would start by asking each of you if we look back on the first 100 days of the trump presidency, a couple of years from now, what is the one thing that has happened

david of course is the director of the hutchins center on fiscal and monetary policy at brookings. after three decades at the "wall street journal" where he was economic editor and shared two pulitzer prizes, david, thank you for being here. we have peter goettler, ruth marcus, famous columnist from "the washington post," and sabrina schaeffer. david and panelists, welcome. >> thank you very much. i guess if this is politically balanced, i must be the bernie sanders sedelegate here. congressman walker was telling a couple of us that, a, the 100 days thresholds is meaning less, and, b, when the gingrich revolution in 1994 came, they made the 100 day target contract for america and they regretted it. so what struck me is my, god, it's only be 100 days. it seems like a decade already. so i think this panel will flow nicely from the last one, and i thought i'd start by asking each of you if we look back on the first 100 days of the trump presidency a couple years from now, what is the one thing you think that has happened that we will still -- that we will consider noteworthy since the

brook silvebraga on the changes announced today. >> no, i'm not going. >> reporter: passengers like dr. david dao will no longer be forced off united flights once seated. it is one of the changes they are making in response to worldwide outcry over the violent removal of him from united flight 3411 earlier this month. >> disturbance. charlie 3 on the aircraft. the flight was overbooked. >> reporter: united says it will now only use law enforcement for safety and security issues. it will offer passengers up to $10,000 in compensation if they are willing to be bumped from a flight. and has reduced the amount of overbooking on their flights. >> united realized that its policies, its technology and training were all inadequate and they have taken steps to correct that. >> reporter: united ceo oscar munoz once again apologized. >> it happened because policies were placed ahead of our shared values and procedures got in the way of what we know is right. >> reporter: united promises more employee training and more creative solutions. like, flying passengers to nearby airports and then driving them t

the chief designer, david keith lucas, planned the sherpa on his drawing board and no test pilot tom brook. we are delighted it is part of the ulster aviation collection because it is a unique research aircraft and your grandfather was responsible for that. thank you so much for showing me this little bit of my family history. for now we will be leaving these historic aircraft, later we're heading back to belfast international airport for more on modern day aviation. now to events in southern hemisphere summer and this from peru. if ever you need proof of the force of flood water it is here. look how the driver of this truck manages to get outjust it is swept away. and again as this hotel collapses into a flooded river. dozens of people had died in peru since the start of the year. here is another lucky escape as a mudslide churns up the debris of what was once someone's home, a woman emerges. slowly she is able to find her feet and step to safety. the rain has been blamed on an unusually warm sea water off the coast of peru, but notjust peru has suffered. disaster in colombia, torrential