that's syndicated columnist mark shields, and "new york times" columnist david brooks. so, gentlemen, you just heard -- you were sitting here, mark, nilis to mark salter remember his good friend john what are you thinking right now? >> well, i mean, ma salter was more than a wordsmith or evenn alter ego, he was john mccain. they were inseparable ithought and word, and i thought he expressed it well. si mean, i an outpouring on the part of the nation, judy, that is beyond presidential in its admiration, its affection and sympathy. you know, i think it giveevs ybody in politics, in life pause. i mean, what is it that this man had that allowed him t touch so many people? david and i have been lucky enough to spend our company -- our timen the company of people who run for office, most of whom we like, and i can tell thu what everyone is going througr mind right now, whether they are democrats, republicans, liberals or conservatives, is they look at this outpouring of affection and that, is damn it, i'll never have a funeral like this. it is just remarkable. >> woodruff: an

david brooks, mark shields. thank you both. >> thanks, judy. >> woodruff: next, we turn to a special installment of our weekly "brief but spectacular" series featuring one our most popular profiles, flossie lewis. tonight, it is not so brief, but we wanted to show therpt of a documentary that will be screened next weesday at the commonwealth club in san francio. a former teachet >>ng old is a state of mind. now, i'm 91, i'm badly crippled. but i still think i'm 15. will this go viral? >> this? we hope so. >> accepting the fact that the y dy is going to go but the personalesn't have to go and that thing which ithe hardest to admit is that character doesn't have to go. i'm flossie lewis and this is my brief but spectacular take on growing old. >> goldbloom: welcome to this special episode of brief b'm spectacular,teve goldbloom. the clip you just saw of flossie lewis first aired on pbs newshour in 2016 and, as she predicted, it did indeed go viral. more than seven-million viewers watched her take on growing old an

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it's friday david brooks and ezra klein are here we analyze the ek's news. plus, exploring lives of today'a eighth graders new movie by comedian bo burnham digs into the awkward and online-obsessed teenage experience. >> attention is kind of currency nowadays. people want to feel seen and want to know that they have people who are actively caring about them. >> woodruff: all that and more on tonight's pbs newshour. >> major funding for the pbs newshour has been provided by: >> babbel. a language app that teaches real-life conversations in a new language. >> consur cellular. ♪ ♪ >> supporting social entrepreneurs and their solutions to the world's most pressing problems-- skollfoundation.org. >> the william and flora hewlett foundation, helping people build immeasurably better lives. >> and with the ongoing support of these institutions: and friends of the newshour. >> this program was made possible by the corporation fost public broadg. and by contributions to your pbs station from viewers like you. thank you. >> woodruff: u.s. employers have slowed their pa

david brooks and ezra klein weigh in on the crimes committed by trump associates. an much more. >> woodruff: awe reported earlier, allen weisselberg, the chief financial offir of the trump business organization, has struck a legal immunity agreement with federal prosecutors. it is the second dayn a row a man with close ties to president trump has made a deal. weisselberg is reportedly testifying to a grand jury about more than $400,000 in reimbursement payments that he helped arrange to trump's former attorney, michael con. cohen pleaded guilty earlier this week to eight felonies. among other things, he told the judge that mr. trump directed him to pay hush money towo women in exchange for their silence about alleged affairs. yesterday, another long-time friend of the president, david pecker, who runs the company that owns the "national enquirer," struck his own immunity agreement. president trump has railed against "flipping"-- people who turn maover infon on former confidants. sthe told fox news it, "al ought to be illegal."pl to help n what we know s out the tru

shields and david brooks analyze the president's decision or revoke the former c.i.a. dire security clearance, plus the rest of the week's news. all that and more on tonight's pbs newshour. >> major funding for the pbs newshour has been provided by: >> consumer cellular believes that wireless plans should reflect the amount of talk, text and data that you use. we offer a variety of no- contract wireless plans for people who use their phone a little, a lot, or anything in between. to learn more, go to consumercellular.tv >> financial services firm raymond james. tbbel he ford foundation. working with visionaries on the tlines of social change worldwide. >> and with the ongoing support of these institutions: and friends of the newshour. >> this program was made rppossible by the ation for utblic broadcasting. and by contrns to your pbs station from viewers like you. thank you. >> woodruff: president trump says a current u.s. justice ndepartment official may t to lose his security clearance. bruce ohr had contacts with a former british agent who compiled a dossier on mr.

kristen welker and "new york times" columnist david brooks. david, where do you do from here?onald trump/omarosa. >> everybody is dirty here that's what strikes me. it's the snake pit in the white house, as she said, everybody is lying to each other. everybody behaving kind of despicably. firing people in whatever manner. trump delegating. it's just a lowering thing to hear about the way that this white house works. we have heard it over and over again and to me the dangerous thing it gets -- it's all intermixed with the most sensitive subject in american history which is race. >> yeah. >> and so you combine poisonous politics with racial bigotry and unfairness, and it could get very ugly. if this tape exists and it comes out in october, that will put race in the middle of the election in an explosive way. the one thing i take away from this, a lot of my friends are trump supporters, i don't pay attention to the nonsense, i like the policies. nobody remembers where george wallace stood on tax reform and that's what matters. >> kristen, was her description of her time in the wh

david brooks, thank you for bringing that up. sherrilyn, thank you for engaging. we'll come back to this. thank you both. >>k thu, judy. >> yang: you can find all of the stories in our "race matters" series on our website, www.pbs.org/newshour. >> yang: now, jeffrey brown has the latest entry on the "newshour bookshelf." >> martha nussbaum teachesed at the law school and the dependent of philosophy. after numerous books examining aspects of peritical and ay 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. thatng's somet you have written about for a long time. explain your terms. what does otional mean? what does fear mean? >> well, okay. emotions are not just joalgtsof electricity but they involve thoughts about what's happeniha to us,s good and bad. and fear connects us to the bad. it's the thought that there is terrible, bad stuff out there and we're noentirely in control of warding it off. fear is something philosophies have talked about ever since the it's alway

mark shields and david brooks analyze the president's decision to revoke the former c.i.a. director's security clearance, plus the rest of the week's news. all that and more on tonight's pbs newshour.

it's friday david brooks and ezra klein are here we analyze the ek's news.lus, exploring lives of today'a eighth graders new movie by comedian bo burnham digs into the awkward and online-obsessed teenage experience. >> attention is kind of currency nowadays. people want to

it's friday-- david brooks and ezra klein are here to analyzes.he week's newus plexploring lives of today's eighth graders-- a new movie by comedian bo burnham digs into the awkward and onlinee bsessed teenperience. >> attention is kind of currency nowadays.

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david brooks and ezra klein break down the stunning week in politics, as evidence of criminal wrongdoing gets closer to the oval office. >> woodruff: plus, a festival in egon pushes the boundaries of shakespearean theater, with an aim toward diversity. >> just the representation of me, as a latino, playinggl henry v, an h king. if i had seen it, that would've affected me, if i was in high school. >> woodruff: all that and more,

we're founded on that premises and you should see david brooks jump out of a cake. we do this together sometimes. we're founded on a premises that we're all created equal and yet the man who wrote that was a slave holder and it took us 90 years to adjudicate that and in my native region in the last half century we've lived under legalized apartheid. women have not yet voted for 100 years in this country. 2020 will be the centennial. 50 years ago, african-americans couldn't vote in my native region. three years ago gay americans couldn't marry. three years ago. people say the issue on gay rights is moving so fast. i've never heard a single gay person say it's moving too fast. never. so the journey is one that is difficult but has taken place, winston churchhill once said the journey is toward the bright sun lit uplands. and i think that ultimately you have to have intellectually honest parties who are willing to call them as they see them as opposed to reflexively taking a position one way or the other. you have to have a free press, free opinion, but also people who

. >> david brooks of the new york times. john hook of the salvation army. >> reporter: the more orthodox conservative positions he took helped him in a remarkable come back, and he secured the nomination, cummin eighting in his accept's -- culminating in his acceptance speech at the republican convention in minneapolis. mccain lost the election. john mccain was also famous for impatience and a quick temper, angering many democrats and republicans, earning him the label maverick. >> i am still an abraham lincoln, theodore roosevelt, ronald reagan republican. those are my principles and believes. >> reporter: he was always on the move, whether it was off to a campaign meeting or an interview, he was always someone who set a pace few could think the most important thing is to make the most of every moment you have. teddy roosevelt used to call it his crowded hour. >> reporter: his crowded our i hour was interrupted in 2017 when he was diagnosed with an aggressive form of brain cancer. among the thousands of positives sent were

fort lauderdale david welcome back thanks for being with us what's your take on this this thing david. brooks once said it's good to be the king you know i can have final say in this and you know this is a father son issue the crown prince wanted to bring saudi into a more progressive and international form had the idea of putting the five percent out in the long run you know as a business owner and that's what the can really looks at himself as is that why do you want to ever allow to have anybody look underneath the scar kind of say oh you know on the need the books and you know the real question is is what does this really do for saudi in general i don't really think it affects it that much i'm so i'm sure the crown prince has many other ideas that will do to bring new money into saudi and they do have the bank behind them so it's going to be interesting to see how it plays out m.b.a.'s has this twenty thirty plan and i guess they need some lender money now because they were hoping to get some of this money i guess from the aramco i.p.o. and by the way for our viewers who don't know i mean

join us online and again here tomorrowvening with mark shields and david brooks.for all of us at the pbs wshour, thank you and see you soon. >> major funding for the pbs newshour has been provided by: >> kevin. >> kevin! >> kevin. >> advice for life. life well-planned. learn more at raymondjames.com. >> babbel. a language app that aches al-life conversations in a new language, like spanish, french, german, italian, and more. babbel's 10-15 minute lessons are available as an app, or online. more information on babbel.com. >> and with the ongoing support of these institutions >> this program was made possible by the corporation for public broadcasting. d by contributions to your pbs station from viewers like you. thank you. >> woodruff: does it givd you some kin comfort that your critics are coming from both sides? >> no, because i could still be wrong. >> this is not how border crossings, how people come into the u.s. seeking asylum what it usually looks like, but, look, i think this may be her bt chance to get past these guards right now. >> mr. trump won the cong

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and you assume that you can have an intelligence conversation about the latest david brooks column or whatever. and not everyone is doing that which is my point about the russia investigation. and so when you throw all of this very high level government speak at people, it can be very confusing. no judgment to people. i understand that. we try to dumb things down and make it digestible. i would go one step further and say the media has to stop giving a platform to people who will echo his lies. i don't want to see kellyanne conway on tv ever again. i think the press should stop going to the press briefings. these are all lies and i think sometimes people in the media take the misstep of saying if i say it is raining outside anden into else says it ntd iisn't, we to get people on tv to talk about it. no, you don't. show the rain or the sunshine, but don't give liar the platform. >> all right. up next, a new report suggests trump international hotel received over a half million dollars in rental credit from the federal government. 1 th is that legit? and wearing signs with the letter q.

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. >> he is mentally unfit, that is something i heard david brooks write, quoting some unnamed senators saying donald trump sounded liked someone in early stage alzheimer's because of the pace with which he repeated himself. you don't hear a lot of this. people who know him have speculated, but it's dangerous business to be diagnosing somebody on television, which is why we don't see him. but when people see him in and out of the white house raise questions about fitness, it reminds me of the ronny jackson chapter of this never dull presidency where he stood out and sort of held up a mental exam given in the early stages of diagnosies, any sort of dementia, we all know ronny jackson didn't last very long. what is the reaction to the president's inner circle for someone who saw him and known him a long time, pointing out and making sharp critiques about a decline in the president's mental sharpness? >> you're right. it is dangerous for anyone other than the president's doctor who has actually done a real physical rigorous, thorough physical examination. >> which we don't know ronny jacks

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been talking about how john mccain was unique among his peers in washington, and i wonder too and david brooksoo, i saw one or two people remembering john mccain talking about his raw ambition. i never saw that in john mccain. i saw raw anger a lot, but it seemed to me that he was of all the great political figures certainly of my lifetime, he was probably the least calculated. i mean, john mccain could have made his life a hell a lot easier in washington, d.c. if he had a raw hunger for power, but the guy, the guy was following ideals and a higher calling, wasn't he? >> yeah. yeah. i mean he may have been calculating once or twice or something but he couldn't stick to his calculations. he wanted to be useful. he wanted to do important things. he wanted to fight for things he believed in. you know, he was never good with a script. you could never -- we used to laugh about message discipline with him. it was pointless. to try to encourage him. but he did want to do big things. he had ambition. you know he got pretty far in life for a guy always stood fifth from the bottom of the class at the na

david: what is going on with facebook? brookea number of people bought facebook and people who sold their positions. you had george soros, d. e. shaw, all building holdings of facebook in the second quarter, and it seems those hedge funds that were buying came in after the cambric analytic a scandal, maybe saw the low point as an opportunity. if you bought on the earlier end, you may still be in the green. jonathan: the trade spat with the united states takes its toll. the euro zone, growing faster than initially reported in the second quarter. what is going on with chinese economy, and what is in their control and out of their control? tom: people talk about china being buffeted by 20 sharks. deleveraging at home and trade war being imposed on them in washington, d.c. when we look at the week data out of china for july, it is the deleveraging which is the real driving force for the weakness. trade war is a risk, but the tariffs in place so far are too limited and have been in place for too short a period of time to really start

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we're founded on that premises and you should see david brooks jump out of a cake. we do this together sometimes. we're founded on a premises that we're all created equal and yet the man who wrote that was a slave holder and it took us 90 years to adjudicate that and in my native region in the last half century we've lived under legalized apartheid. women have not yet voted for 100 years in this country. 2020 will be the centennial. 50 years ago, african-americans couldn't vote in my native region. three years ago gay americans couldn't marry. three years ago. people say the issue on gay rights is moving so fast. i've never heard a single gay person say it's moving too fast. never. so the journey is one that is difficult but has taken place, winston churchhill once said the journey is toward the bright sun lit uplands. and i think that ultimately you have to have intellectually honest parties who are willing to call them as they see them as opposed to reflexively taking a position one way or the other. you have to have a free press, free opinion, but also people who

david: proxy fight? brooke: they are willing to consider options.y quick response to an activist coming in here. alix: we will see how long. brooke sutherland, thank you. coming up, the fed's preferred inflation gauge, july pce. dana peterson of citigroup will join us. this is bloomberg. ♪ pce: moments away from data. welcome to "bloomberg daybreak." i am alix steel. up by about 4%. dax down. potentially the eu will consider no tariffs with the u.s. on autos. the dollar is kind of flat on the day but the euro is weaker as inflation data disappointed for eurozone, as well as germany. in the u.s., core pce -- wow, pretty much in line with estimates. year on year coming in at 2% on a month on month basis. line with estimates, and grinding higher, up .1% month on month from the previous read. personal spending also pretty solid.. income missing on estimates, up by .3%. spending coming in in line, .4%. steady as she goes. this will not rock any boats. david: you can say it is grinding higher, which is right. this of the target was 2%, and they are at 2%.