mark shieldsnd david brooks take on another busy week of news. and, hip-hop culture where you don't often see it: in a museum. but first, wildfires are burning across a big section of the country and have been for weeks. fires are a problem, as we know, most summers, but the severity and scope of what is happening in the west and southwest this year is posing big problems for officials, for residents and for firefighters on the line. and as miles o'brien reports, climate change may be magnifying the problem in california and elsewhere. >> o'brien: firefighters are battling rapidly expanding wildfires across california, facing high winds and triple digit temperatures as authorities race against the clock, while mass evacuations are underway in some areas. anchors at a local television in wrthern california were evacuated on the ale reporting on the fires. >> we've been here live, and right now, we are be evacuated. that why we are kind of closing out right now. we are going to leave the statiobecause it is now unsafe to be here. >> o'brien: one bi

i thsyndicated columnist mark shields, and "new york bmes" columnist david brooks. it is so good to sh of you together! >> thank you. >> woodruff: sometime in the summer -- >> i have been here, judy. i haven't en missing. (laughter) >> woodruff: so, david, we're going to start with you, because you have been away with the economy, our lead story tonight, blockbuster numbers for the past second quarter of the year, growth off the charts. the president said today several times that he deserves theed for this, his policies have led to a turnaund in e american economy. does he deserve the credit? what's the significance for them? ieval would be back in med economy if not for donald trump. (laughter) no, it's just a truism that presidents get the blame when it's going down and the credit when it's going up, but their affect on the economy is generally in the long term, not sht term or a quarter by quarter thing. if you look at the economic data, there is a lot of consumer spending and tat probably is because to have the tax cuts, as david wessel said earn the program. i

david brooks, thank you for bringing that up. sherrilyn, thank youngor enga we'll come back to this. thank you both. >> thank you, judy. >> yang: you can find all of the stories in ourrace matters" series on our website, www.pbs.org/newshour. >> yang: now, jeffrey brown has the latest entry on the ewshour bookshelf." >> martha nussbaum teachesed at the law school and the dependent of philosophy. after numerous books examinpg aspects ofitical and everyday life, the latest is "the monarchy of fear" it was written to better understand the election of 2016 one insight, the political is always emotional. that's something you havefo written aboua long time. explain your terms. what does emotional mean? what does fear mean? >> well, okay. emions are not just joalgts of electricity but they involve thoughts abniout what's hap to us, what's good and bad. and fear connects us to the bad. it's the thought that theris terrible, bad stuff out there and we're not entirely in controof warding it off. fear is something philosophies have talked a

david brooks, ezra klein. thank you both. >> thank you. >> woodruff: finally tonight, a visit with comedian dave chappelle, and how he's returned in a major way this past year. jeffrey brown has a look at how chappelle's standup shows on netflix are getting lots of attention, but are also the subject of criticism in a way that is different from the past. >> brown: ask dave chappelle about the "job" of being a comedian, he says this: >> i don think people pay money to see a guy speak precisely and carefully. i don't think they want to pay to see somebody worried about the repercussions of what they say. they just want to see someone try to get at something honest, or may something relatable, or have some fun with something. don't you think it suspicious, just a little bit suspicious, that every dead black person police find has crack sprinkled on them? i mean, come on. >> brown: beginning in the mid- '90s, in tv specials... >> good evening and welcome to the first, and mbe only, racial draft in new york city. >

david brooks and ezra klein are here to tackle the president's short list of possible supreme court nominees. plus: ( newshour theme song ) >> woodruff: comiciming.

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mark shields and david brooks are here to take on another full week of news.lus, hip-hop on display. curating decades of local culture, and the musical impact of oakland's hip-hop scene.f >> for those who are part of the first generation of hip-hop artists, i don't think any of us ever imagiit

and david brooks isway. we welcome both of you. what a week, mark.'s start with the special counsel returning these indictments today, sweeping indictment saying the russians were behind a conspiracy to not only hack into the computers of hillary clinton's campaign, the democratic national committee, but to go into state voting systems. how significant is this? >>dyt's quite significant, and traces it right back to the russian government. i know we're talking aut 12 12 intelligence agents on russian espionage associated with the russian military with g.r.u., their official agency. i talk about a witch hunt anything of the sort. it turns out that monday in helsinki will be a campaign reunion of sorts for donald trump and his favorite absentee reter. i don't think ths any question of russian involvement has grown as a real likelihood, just not a possibility. >> woodruff: how serious should the american people takth . >> very seriously. one problem, however, is we really need to get to theottom of this is an independent commission. after the 9/11 terror

david brooks is away.we ome to both of you. mark, it has been a turb length turmoilish week from nato to great britain, to the meeting with vladimir putin, back to washington. what are we left with? >> we're left with, judy, a week of i think a blw to the united states of america. i don't think there's any queson about it, to our leadership. the frang of the relations with our long time allies, a dismissal of disparagement by the america of democrati leaders and the messy problems with democracy requires. an adulation, a sucking sound by e russian dtator. a writer on politics in america wrote when the setting calls for a show of sphren end resved trump offers differencance, offensiveness equivocation and weakness and i think that'sfa . >> woodruff: do you have an assessment. >> i thinkis think its helpful o take you are spective. donaldumrs meeting with kin jung unis a brutadictator. trud had very warm words for him. some weeks ter mie mom palm may owe the secretary of state met with the north korean regime and they sprawnded t

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and in doing so, the church would stand apart from what david brooks calls the arena culture in which people shorn of transcendent meaning seek for such meaning in such venues as sports and politics. sports and politics are, of course, worth while endeavors and they can be done to the glory of god. they cannot, however, bear the load of providing an ultimate sense of identity and purpose. this is increasingly poignant in a globalizing, mechanic anizing economy in which manufacture the younger generations believe that they will never achieve the success which they're parents groomed and educated them. even those that seem to be the winners as defind by ian rand can find themselves suddenly obsolete at midlife. if many i job title or income bracket is who i am, this is nothing short of a threat to personal identity. evangelicalism though ought to bring a different perspective. we ought not to see people categorized as with us or against us, winners and losers, my tribe versus your tribe or my ethnicity versus your ethnicity or my nation versus your nation. those in the latter category a

and in doing so, the church would stand apart from what david brooks calls the arena culture in which people shorn of transcendent meaning seek for such meaning in venues as sports and politics. sports and politics are worthwhile endeavors and can be done to the glory of god. they cannot, however, bear the load of providing the ultimate sense of identity and purpose. neither can the pursuit of economic security and career ambition. this is increasingly poignant and important in a globalizing, mechanicizing economy in which many of the younger generations believe they will never achieve the success for which their parents groomed and educated them. and which even those who seem to be the winners as defined by i am can find themselves suddenly obsolete at midlife. if my job title or my income bracket is who i am, this is nothing short of an existential threat to personal identity. evangelicalism though ought to bring a different perspective. we ought not to see people categorized as with us or against us, winners and losers, my tribe versus your tribe or my ethnicity versus your ethnici

david: carless, thank you so much. that is carlos gutierrez. up next, the man who is responsible for china. we will talk with brookings' david dollar.is bloomberg. ♪ this is bloomberg markets balance of power. now,ing the majors right you can see they are all up. dow jones s&p and nasdaq. s&p up over 20 points. the markets are turning up. that's enough. in washington the federal reserve will release the minutes of its policy meeting at 2:00 afternoon. the pace of interest rate hikes is expected to be under scrutiny. a stronger dollar and the flattening yield curve. asked fbi informant is suing puerto rico for twice rejecting his application to open a bank there. he believes part of the reason he is being denied a license is because a disparaging remarks he made about the department of justice in a bloomberg story. he says his free state speech is being violated. ministern interior saysts migrants to arrive they will be sent back to where they first entered the eu primarily greece and italy. issue a problem for all of europe. so she opposes turning europe into a fourth fortress against refugees. she called for the eu to uphold its hu

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brooke burke called her split with david charvet a "necessary decision" and "positive change." wedding's" nia vardalos and ian gomez said, "our relationship became a friendship." and after her split from anderson east, miranda lambert says, i am who i am. i cuss. i drink. i get divorced. and get my heart broken. ♪ i'm giving you on love, 'cause love's given. on me ♪ >> as for what miranda did the first time she was asked about blake shelton's new love, gwen? she hung up on the reporter. it was a rough year for some of our hollywood favorites, but for prince harry and meghan markle? well, they're still in the honeymoon phase. >> cam, they'll never be out of the honeymoon phase. they're so in love. it will last forever. we know meghan has immersed herself in royal life. but what everyone's debating today, well, does that include a new british accent? >> thank you, i appreciate that. >> a fan posted this video on twitter. from the duchess' solo trip with the queen last month. markle was talking about her may 19th wedding day. so, does meghan appear to have a british accent? >> we

president trump's election, he just could not get his head around. >> tell me more, david, on what you learned. >> brooke, what we simply did in this story is piece together known facts that we have. the meeting took place at trump tower on january 6, two weeks before the president, then president-elect was inaugurated. it was well known, reported at that time. at that time the u.s. intelligence services under appointees of president obama, issued that same day their conclusion that vladimir putin had personally instructed that these attacks on the u.s. electoral system happened. what happened inside the room as we later reconstructed is that they showed the president the evidence. there were three versions of the report, a public one, one for congress with slightly more sourcing, and then one that president obama and his top aides had seen which they shared with then president-elect trump that showed that there were specific human sources who had attributed to president putin his role in ordering this, in addition to all of the electronic intercepts. that was then later reported earlier this year in two

david: you can tell us about that when that happens. julia: i'm sure at some point we will understand this. brooke sutherland of bloomberg opinion. his is bloomberg. ♪ david: steady as she goes. china dictate central bank underscores it will not use the yuan as a tool to deal with trade conflict. this comes after a vow to keep the currency stable. president trump says he is not ready to pull out of the wto, at least not yet. so much money, so little time. the ask your market was stronger in the first half of 2018 then in four years -- 2018 than in four years. what is in store for the second half. welcome back. for steel is off in boston fireworks, music, everything you could want. julia: anywhere on bloomberg, you can find it. as you mentioned earlier, i will be watching. david: england against columbia. julia: 20 years ago, the last match, we won. apparently england is not one man knocked out in a major tournament since 2006 -- has not won a knockout in a major tournament since 2006. we have all the optimism in the world that we're going to win. david: theresa may could use some good news. julia: all the good news she could get.

david miller, thank you so much. >> thank you, brooke. >>> and coming up, shocking allegations to gete former head of hr at fema. he is accused of trading jobs for sex. so we'll talk to the woman who broke the story wide open. >>> also breaking this hour, a jury has been seated in the first federal trial for former trump campaign chairman paul manafort. the first high-profile test for the special counsel, robert mueller. we'll take you just outside the courtroom coming up. with tripadvisor, finding your perfect hotel at the lowest price... is as easy as dates, deals, done! simply enter your destination and dates... and see all the hotels for your stay! tripadvisor searches over 200 booking sites... to show you the lowest prices... so you can get the best deal on the right hotel for you. dates, deals, done! tripadvisor. visit tripadvisor.com when we switched our auto and home insurance. with liberty, we could afford a real babysitter instead of your brother. hey! oh, that's my robe. is it? when you switch to liberty mutual, you could save $782 on auto and home insurance. and still get

david: joining us now is brooke sutherland, bloomberg opinion columnist.ision coming out of the administration? brooke: the u.s. centers for medicare and medicaid service is citing a court ruling that they need to suspend payments into this risk adjustment program and the way this works is insurers who end up with healthier less expensive groups of patients pay money into this pool that gets redistributed to those stuck with costlier patients. it's important to note the government is not paying any money here. they are saying they need to suspend these payments and it's hard not to read politics at play here. there are ways they can change this regulation in order to comply with that federal court ruling. they have done so for 2019. the fact that they are suspending these payments is throwing another curveball at health insurers who have seen a number of actions on the part of this administration to try to disrupt these health care exchanges and is just adding another element of uncertainty. is arats are saying this big issue with the supreme court nominat

brook. have you here. >> thank you. davidto this back between the white house and mary borough. they were best of friends for a while. >> they were and the president as happy to tout g.m. on twitter when they announced jobs, albeit jobs that would be in some cases they were jobs that were maintained. necessarily new additions. the tide is turning. and you are seeing the ex-boyfriend type of reaction from the president saying i gave you so much. tax cut and now ou are announcing the move in production. david: it was also fuel efficiency. can help general motors, because they can sell more s.u.v.s.and >> they were corporation and looking out what is best for the company. the tax cut was great. fuel efficiency, but the trade bad for the bottom line. that's the in the one interest. piece, a lot of times shareholders drive the making. julia: profit maximisers the be nesses, and they have to vit m. it's surprising the fact that they came out. a p.r. element to it. harley davidson was the same way. lobbying behind the scene. vocal a

brooke. >> got it. sara gam on, you are all over it. thank you so much for that. i have about 60 seconds left. davidn, does this mean another battle? >> it could. at some point the president wants to put forward a new person for that, that would open up a big cabinet confirmation battle. i would be surprised if he wants to do that this fall, in the midst of the supreme court nomination battle, and the midterm election. wheeler seems to be in good stead, as sara was saying. so perhaps that will be avoided this fall. this also obviously is going to have huge rm cages, brooke, for scott pruitt future. this was a guy interested in political career of his own, maybe running for federal office from oklahoma one day. this sort of being dismissed, i understand he resigned. but no longer being required to work in the trump administration is going to be a bad marker on his record politically as he tries to piece together his future. >> david chalian, thank you so much. we call him the former chief scott pruitt. make sure you stick with us on cnn. special coverage continues. i'm brooke baldwin in new york. tha

brooke, believe it is the u.s. government's responsibility to reunify these families. >> david, thank you. >>> coming up next, president no matter what impact new tariffs have another u.s. economy, we won't be seeing a change in the trump administration's tariffs. we'll discuss what that means for your money. and also two mayors assassinated over the last 48 hours in the philippines. details on the attacks and the manhunt ahead. can we do whatever it takes to fight cancer. these are the specialists we're proud to call our own. experts from all over the world, working closely together to deliver truly personalized cancer care. expert medicine works here. learn more at cancercenter.com at crowne plaza, we know business travel isn't just business. there's this. a bit of this. why not? your hotel should make it easy to do all the things you do. which is what we do. crowne plaza. we're all business, mostly. for yealike me, someed dogs for tof these dogs have seen many tours of duty. and for the past 15 years i've been a navy federal member. thanks to their fast approval process, when it came time to buy a new car, we got ev

now change or the whole time all over brooks it has drawn media attention away from a second alleged case of no poisoning in the u.k. a political commentator david vons says that won't last though given london's obsession with the so-called russia threat. this to resume a government seems to have a bit of a obsession a bird trying to blame such incidents such as the previous one for example on russia well i think that's the kind of a distraction and i think at this point in time theresa may would rather talk about it anything anything other than her leadership so we can be surprised that this nova. incident does get hyped up and talked up by the british government on a day in which is quite conceivable by tomorrow morning this prime minister could be gone possibly discussing it nobody is it's almost a welcome distraction from for the beleaguered mayor ministration. after years under the control of islamic state terrorists the syrian city of rock was liberated back in twenty seventeen they were paid a heavy price for liberation even now streets on strewn with bodies but i guess dia looks at how rocket has been devastated. raca was a thriving city

david: there is also another difference. the president may be disrupting trade relations on the one hand and he is out there selling f-35's. brookeors don't necessarily think that way. they are looking ahead to 2020 and are democrats going to retake the white house and rethink how much money are we going to spend on defense? there is a lot of money going to defense now, but is not going to last? -- but is that going to last? part of that is just the nature of being in the defense companies is that these dynamics tend to shift every now and then. alix: thank you very much, good to see you brooke sutherland. coming up, jeff currie, goldman sachs global head of commodities research is talking oil. ♪ this isn't just any moving day. this is moving day with the best in-home wifi experience and millions of wifi hotspots to help you stay connected. and this is moving day with reliable service appointments in a two-hour window so you're up and running in no time. show me decorating shows. this is staying connected with xfinity to make moving... simple. easy. awesome. stay connected while you move with the best wifi experience and two-hour

brook reports. i wouldn't believe this story if someone else were telling it, but it's true. the focus of the documentary three identical strangers is on triplets robert, david tells the story of these three brothers, separated at birth. they were raised by completely different families who had no idea of each other‘s existence, and sort of carried on through life like that to the age of 19 without knowing anything about each other, and then by coincidence met at the age of 19. the film relies on re—enactment to tell some aspects of the story, including the moment when two of the triplets were reunited in 1980. and, as i reach out and knocked on the door, it opens, and there i am. his eyes are my eyes, and my eyes are his eyes. when all three were reunited, it was indeed a joyous occasion. everything was a celebration. it was the first time we were swimming in the ocean together. it was the first time we went on a rollercoaster together. it was the first time for everything we did together. everything was new, so it was a lot of fun, and we really just had a blast together. you guys have been on the front page of every newspaper in the world. in unison: true

david chalian. i know you have to run through some, they seem common when it comes to dilemmas of his own making. >> without a doubt, brookou get when your governing style is from the hip. we've seen a few occasions he has reversed course. he initiated that zero tolerance policy. what was the fallout? children were being separated from their families. so much pressure from republicans, democrats, from the public. he signed an order saying we're going to keep families together. there are still separated families that have not yet been reunified. how about when he wednesday overseas and met with theresa may. he undermines her on her brexit plan, on her politics. and then what does he do the next day at the press conference? he tells the story he apologized to her and was nothing but deferential to her. a character trait we don't see with donald trump. then of course on the trade issue you mentioned, not that long ago, brooke, he was calling the eu a foe. some of our oldest and closest allies, america's closest and oldest allies are in the eu. he calls the eu a foe. after a ton of pressure from his base voters in farm countr

brookings institution. >> did he actually say blow it up? >> yeah. >> i'll have to look that tape up. >> there are juicy ones out there. >> david gergen always happyhave you. >> thanks very much. >> chris cuomo at the top of the hour. >> first, i like our black man going, but you would be the guy who makes this look good. >> i don't have a pocket square. >> i have to have someone to distinguish myself. tonight is going to be a big night my friend. we have breaking news, a scoop that could change the perspective on the mueller probe. what somebody who is very close to the president is willing to tell mueller about a material aspect of the investigation. i'm being vague for a reason. >> wow. >> you'll get the news right at the top of the show. >> so i have to stay tuned. not even a commercial break. >> dam straight. especially you have all people i'll tell you last, wearing the same outfit looking better than me. you get nothing from me. >> nine minutes i'll be watching. appreciate it. >> thank you. >> if i have to come back at midnight because of what you'll be broadcasting i'll be annoyed. more breaking news tonight, upwards 700 kids talking about

. ♪ david: caterpillar announced second-quarter earnings, and it eat expectations on earnings and revenue. shares rising in premarket. welcome back brookss from bloomberg opinion. was it just last quarter that we had that high watermark? sounds like it was not right. brooke: they blew past that number in the second quarter and percent higher profit per share than in the first quarter. they raised their guidance again, at which i cannot know the people were expected because caterpillar is exposed to commodity costs. i think a lot of people were expecting a dampening of enthusiasm on caterpillar's part. instead, they raised guidance to prove differs quarter was not the high water mark for the year. people ahat is giving lot of optimism. they should see the shares up significantly. alix: and it shows what the impact will be in the back half of the year, so they were going to raise the prices. that was a surprising statement. brooke: there on the high end from what we have seen in industrial companies. a lot of multi-investors have said the index will be negligible for 2018 numbers. caterpillar thinks it can offset price increases and opera

. ♪ david: boeing and brazilian embraer have reached a preliminary agreement for a joint venture. let's welcome back our bloomberg esteemed columnist. remind us with this deal is, brookembraer is viewed as this brazilian champion, so the government did have a say and how this still turned out. they have come up with a joint venture for the commercial aviation part of embraer. the company will continue to have a defense operation and executive aviation. but the commercial part is what boeing really wanted. that is what they are getting out of this. the transaction valued at this part of embraer at about $4.75 billion, a significant premium and you consider the whole company is valued at less than that right now. controlled boeing the venture? brooke: they will own 80%. fillare really looking to regionalor these small planes. the existence of this became apparent when we saw the tie up between airbus and by barnier -- bombardier. boeing said it was questionable but are mimicking it on a much grander scale. with airbus, that came about because of boeing's trade spat with bombardier. boeing never had the plane that competed with bombardier, and we're seeing evidence of th