i apologize to david brooks. tonight brooks and capehart is mostly just capehart.jonathan, good to be with you, as always. >> great to see you. thanks. >> nawaz: even as the pandemic shows some signs of easing in the united states, the number of deaths does continue to climb, even if slower than before. each friday, we've been honoring some of the incredible lives lost during this pandemic. here tonight are five more stories. bob costello served as fire chief for the fast-growing city of buckeye, arizona for more than a dozen years. as the city expanded, the department-- with bob at the helm-- expanded with it. even then, a coworker said, the 62-year-old was always keen to connect with colleagues and residents in person, whether it was to field their questions, or just say hello bob was also a car buff, a passion that began early in life. and, he was quick to reach out to friends when they were going througstruggles, his wife told us. he'd always take the time to make sure they were okay. there were three things that defined the life of 64-year-old bernita elaine r

david brooks.-- capehart. ♪ judy: well this week did bring hopeful signs with the end of pandemic and easing of restrictions hundreds of thousands of families are still feeling the loss of a loved one over the past 15 months. we pause again to remember some of their stories. ♪ to some in carrollton, texas, he was coach mathews, while to others, he was mr. mathews, or even school board president mathews. 73-year-old john mathews served his local school district for more than half a century whether it wass a teacher, administrator, coach, or stadium announcer. he was so well-known in the community it was as if more people knew him then did not. his wife said. he was always a happy guy, and loved to meet people. 51-year-old syvie robertson brought her take charge spirit every day to her work as a licensed practical nurse, her daughter told us. the virginian and grandmother of four was one of several family members who worked in the medical field. it was work that she loved, her daughter added even tho

jonathan capehart, david brook, have a good weekend. >> thank, judy, you too. >> see you david. >> woodruffe do each friday evening, we pause to remember just a few of the more than 580,000 americs who have lost their lives to covid-19. darrel eason was a mainstay of st. louis radio for decades. >> 15 minutes after 6:00, on a wednesday, january 10... >> woodruff: a friend said it was because of his smooth voice and charisma-- and the fact that the 58-year-old gave "his very, very best every time he turned on that mic." he also poured himself into charitable causes, his family said. when he died, he had been working with his sons to launch a scholarship, to help promising high school student-athletes attend college. peggy furniss lee's love of music touched many facets of her life. the 71-year-old from utah had made her living as a piano teacher, volunteered as an organist at church, and made sure to pass on her piano skills to her eight children. she "made every occasion a family celebration," her daughter said, whether it meant getting halloween and valentine's gifts for her 33 grandchildr

david brooks and jonathan capehart consider the rift in the g.o.p.ative response to a massive spill of nike sneakers. plus, much more. >> woodruff: in many states, fully vaccinated americans can now resume many activities without wearing a mask. the new guidance announced yesterday by the c.d.c. was met with jubilation in many quarters. but, there are concerns the changes for indoor masking are happening too quickly. lisa desjardins follows up on those questions. >> desjardins: judy, some of those concerns are tied to the country's vaccination rates. more than half of all adults in the country are not yet fully vaccinated, and when you add americans under 18 years old, the nation is at just 36% fully vaccinated. me states, cities, and businesses may not be ready to ditch their masking requirements yet. we look at these concerns with dr. ranit mishori. she is a professor of family medicine at georgetown university and senior medical adviser to physicians for human rights. for the record, she's also an adviser to our parent company, weta. ranit, thank

amna: i believe we have lost the connection with david brooks, but we will try to get him back.time, jonathan, you have read this column. long assessment of where president biden is an faces this criticism of no longer being a moderate incrementalist, what do you make of it? jonathan: david's column was terrific in being able to sit down with the president, particularly this president who wears everything on his sleeve. i have been on a phone call between the president and opinion writers, including david, so i can imagine how that conversation went. i think president biden is sort of the president who is meeting the moment. a lot of people wonder whether progressives have pulled the party further to the left, or pushing the party further to the left and i counter that. i think that president biden doing what he is doing, it is that the party is catching up to the country. you take off any issue and ask where the american people are, let's just take raising the minimum wage to $15 an hour, the american peoplwant that done, the democratic party has been pushing for that for a lon

david brooks and jonathan capehart analyze the failure to investigate the insurrection and the presiden't's budget. 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. >> fidelity wealth management. >> consumer cellular. >> johnson & johnson. >> financial services firm raymond james. >> the john s. and james l. knight foundation. fostering informed and engaged communities. more at kf.org. >> and with the ongoing support of tse institutions: and friends of the newshour. >> this program was made possible by the corporation for public broadcasting. and by contributionso your pbs station from viewers like you. thank you. >> woodruff: at the site of a deadly riot, republican senators block an investigation into the attack on january 6. the push to create a commission, like the one established after 9/11, failed today after g.o.p. leadership used special deying tactics for the first time thi year. lisa desjardins is here to explain what happened. llo, lisa, i know you r

johnson capehart, david brooks. thank you. dy: as we do at the end of every week, we take a moment now to honor some of the extraordinary lives that have been lost to the pandemic. ♪ it did not matter if he was singing rock, blues or country, dave robinette was most in his element when he was on stage. the 67-year-old musician gravitated to guitar early in life. he played gigs all over the western u.s. and eventually got to perform one of his original songs at "the grand ole opry." he met the love of his life, tymilynn after one of his shows. she plans on seeing through a project that dave was close to finishing when he died. a 12 track album of his original songs. 70-year-old charlie was a charismatic presence wherever he went. it was part of what made the restaurants he owned so popular. his daughter said, he left thailand for the u.s. in the 1970's. eventually, he and his wife launched restaurants of their own in manhattan and atlanta. charlie's warmth made it easy to build a rapport with colleagues and guests, and many beca

. >> joe biden just spoke with david brooks of the "new york times" and that really gets at his worldnversation. the risk is not trying to go big. if you stay small, i don't know how we change our international status and competitive capacity. i read this because you have pointed out, david, this conversation that biden has here really gets at what we are talking about. >> biden's popularity right now, kate, is because he is doing popular things. obviously nothing is more successful for him than defeating the coronavirus and getting the vaccine out. that is giving him a lift no doubt about it. but, also, his economic program getting stimulus checks out to people. that was a popular thing. even pieces of his infrastructure plan in the american jobs act and the american family plan, they're popular, broadly, with the american people. so doing popular things but in this conversation with david brooks i think we've got insight into what is driving that which is that joe biden sees it as a mission critical to deal with some of the long held inequities in the american economy and trying to

i was really interested in -- i'm pulling it up now -- in what president biden said to david brooks fl the column today, talking generally speaking but i think it applies to israel. he said progress he was don't like me because i'm not prepared to take what i would say as a socialist agenda. i mean, wow! . those are some words that i think are going to have staying power for this president and his party. >> i agree. he just went there. you know in that interview with david brooks where he used that language that could be seen as provocative. leading us to the korean peninsula. he is meeting with the president of south korea and had the medal of honor event at the white house today. i have to assume his take on north korea and kim jong un will be quite different than his predecessors. there won't be love letters and they won't fall in love with each other, as president trump said he felt about the dictator. what is the approach going to be? it's all about china. everything -- you know, which is what was interesting about the last nine, ten days with the middle east, of course every pres

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ready of powers. permit new york times political columnist, david brooks and former jerusalem bureau chief, ethan bronner. both of them american have had sons in the israeli army. and on the broadcast side, there's news anchor splits. his bio on cnn site is sick with details on the stories. he's covered, the interviews. he's conducted the honorary degrees. he's received. not one mention though, of his former journalist that you're at the biggest, the most influential pro israel lobby group of them all. 8. there's a strong israel today, a vibrant israel that is not going to disappear for a pack of destroy the 2 state solution. back in the eighty's and story, i always wanted to know this guy forgiven his resume. i think that let's understand that his job is not his job is to get a range of opinion and that he feels a responsibility then wait a minute is the same for he's now in gaza. you're there. you're and i witnessed just of emily wilder. the very young person who had done good work in college, i'm sure it was going to be strenuously trying to do her job as a double standard isn't n

and a prison torrijos for its treatment of power. current, new york times political columnists, david brooks and former jerusalem bureau chief, ethan bronner, both of them american have had sons in the israeli army. and on the broadcast side, there's news anchor leaflets. his bio on cnn site is sick with details on the stories. he's covered, the interviews. he's conducted the honorary degrees. he's received not one mention though, of his former journalistic. you're at the biggest, most influential pro israel lobby group of them all. 8 times. there's a strong israel today, a vibrant israel that is not going to disappear for a pass, destroyed tuesday solution back in the eighty's and story. i always wanted to know this guy forgiven his resume. i think that sort of understand that his job is not just his job is to get a range of opinion and then that he feels responsibility to stuff. then wait a minute on the scene for he's now in gaza. you're there. you're and i witness just to emily wilder, the very young person who had done good work in college. i'm sure it was going to be strenuously trying

the president spoke with david brooks of "the new york times" with pushing back -- >> jonathan, you are pointing out in your new reporting where the white house is in trying to get this infrastructure package through. is there any hope left of a bipartisan vote? >> that's right, andrea. certainly the president is a big government democrat. he has looked to fdr and lbj as his role models. he will push back against the term progressive. there are many on his staff, parties who say this is the moment to go big. he frames this media will take care of matters at home, everything from voting rights to infrastructure to prove democracy still works with rising countries like china. they want to see if there can be progress and done in a bipartisan fashion. their support has cooled. there is a meeting set up with republicans to have the next round of discussions but disappointment that the republicans haven't come up from their original offer which is $600 billion, but nowhere near what the white house wants. there is hope they can have a hard infrastructure compromise like internet and broadban

host: let me ask you about an opinion piece by david brooks in the new york times about early education. he says when it comes to parenting, there is no one-size-fits-all all solution. whether a child is harmed by a childcare experience depends on the nature of a particular child, the care center, and the parents. these are circumstances that only the parents can know so parents should be given maximum power and flexibility to make decisions. we will start with you kerry mcdonald. under this proposal, do you think this gives parents -- certainly the funding, but does it give them the maximum flexibility to make the decision for their kids? guest: it is similar to the head start program where the government is involved in these preschool programs in terms of deciding what the curriculum is, deciding what the student-teacher ratio is, making expectations around teacher certification. that does limit family choices. a lot of families might say i don't need my three-year-old being taught by someone with a bachelors degree and maybe i don't even want my three-year-old taught academic skills

david brooks interviews the president, who says this.oint at history. he says we're experiencing a fourth industrial revolution which encompasses developments rising from the age of information technology to the rise of the chinese super state to shifts in the global competitive environment. in this context, biden sees the greatest risk in incrementalism. the risk is not trying to go big, booinld said. if we stay small, i don't know how we change our international status and competitive capacity. this is the case they're making, and with a 60% approval rating with the agenda items and the legislative pieces and pushes even more popular than the president himself, they do have this window to do something so transformational with the role of government in american life, and i wonder if you expect that we'll hear more of this, that it's about competition with china, it's about america's place in the world. that's why we need these big and expensive government programs. >> yes, i thought it was a super revealing and interesting interview. th

in a new interview with david brooks, he said this.e said, i think circumstances have changed drastically. we're at a genuine inflection point in history. then he adds, we've gotten to a point where i think our economic competence has a gigantic influence on our international influence and capacity. joe biden is not progressive in the way that aoc is progressive, but help us understand his embrace of policy. >> he's been a legislative mechanic all these years, 16 years in the senate, eight years as vice president. he's never gone for the grand vision kind of deal. he was the guy that tried to make things happen and get through tomorrow and make as much progress as he could while doing so. suddenly in office, he seems transformed. it's not that he didn't support these policies, he supported these policies for years, it's the scale that's so different. he says he sees himself as having a mission in history that he hadn't previously seemed to articulate. he sees that a once in a lifetime moment make big progress on things he spent his lif

something that does get a lot of president biden's attention, he said this in an interview with david brooks a place where the rest of the world is beginning to look to china. the most devastating comment made after i was elected, wasn't so much about me, but it was by the prime minister of ireland, america can't lead, can't get their arms around covid. he views the mission of of his presidency, when it comes to the world stage, of reestablishing, you know, a stronger america because of the threat from china. how? >> we can become stronger and should become stronger, a smart immigration policy would help. obviously getting covid under control. that's a massive accomplishment. getting the economy back on track, improving infrastructure, education, all sorts of ways we can get america more competitive with china. we can have a bigger foreign aid and trade policy, something we haven't done. but there's one other thing here, we need chinese help if we are going to put any pressure on north korea. 90% of north korea's trade goes in and out through china, one of the reasons that we also need to ha

this is from one of the full quotes from the interview with the president in the david brooks column in "the new york times." biden says the progressives don't like me because i'm not prepared to take on what i would say and they would say is a socialist agenda. i found that quote fascinating. "a," points for candor. "b," it kind of deweaponizes one of the leading republican talking points when they talk about the left and the democratic party. does the president, susan, have a real or perceived problem with the left flank of this party? >> you know, i think the remarkable thing for these first what 122 days of this presidency is how much the progressives have held with biden and really been very pleased by the size of the big rescue and recovery packages he's unveiled. you saw the biggest split so far on the middle east issue, by the desire of many in the democratic left and some not by the left in the democratic party to take a more confrontational approach to israel to try to do more to help the palestinians. but with that exception they've really pretty much hung together in a wa

. >> biden recently spoke with the "new york times'" david brooks who writes a biden quote.way, failing to invest enough in research and development. we're eating our seed corn, biden continued, quoting corporate executives who talked about how the private sector was not looking to the long term, eating our seed corn, that's relatable for gen-z. what does biden's world view tell you about how he approaches foreign policy? >> look, what biden is representative of, an idea in american politics that genzy is not going to understand either, jake, and that is the modern american liberal tradition. he came out of world war ii. he came out of sort of the big government expansion of modern american liberalism in the 1960s and framed his growing up and his experience. that's a big-government approach to solving problems where government has a pronounced role in the lives of individuals and in shaping domestic policy, foreign policy, but it is distinct from the progressive trends in the democratic party as well. i mean, emblematic of this there's a fight about infrastructure and joe b

something that president biden said in an interview this week with "new york times" columnist david brooks. he said, quote, the progressives don't like me because i'm not prepared to take on what i would say and they would say is a socialist agenda. the president is saying the progressive agenda is socialist. really? >> no, i don't think that's what he's saying. what i will say is that the president passed $1.9 trillion bill that reduced child poverty by 50%, black poverty by 34%, hispanic poverty by 38%. and aapi poverty by 22%. that is progressive, bold and transformational. i think the president is always talking about what he has done, what he can get done. and he's not a president that walks around talking about labels. he's a president that just meets the challenges he's faced with and keeps the promises he has made. >> he's not somebody who generally talks about labels, which is why this really stood out. i will say again, this is his quote. i'm not prepared to take on what i would say and they would say is a socialist agenda. those are his words. >> well, look, i don't think that t

david brooks asks the question, has biden changed. can i ask it to you? what do you think?nched over from a mostly moderate ideology? >> i think joe biden has always had a very fine instinct for the moving center of his party. in the '90s, when crime was a big issue, when the new democrats were on the rise, he gravitated toward tough on crime legislation. you know, when the iraq war fell out of favor in the late 2000s, he moved to join that part of the party. i think he has traditionally managed to find sort of the consensus middle part of his party. it doesn't always make him popular with those on the left who wish he were more progressive or those on the more moderate side who sometimes think he goes too far. he's taking policies he's always supported, but it's the scale of what he's doing that's probably more surprising than anything else, $6 trillion worth he spending in the first few months of his presidency for big things he probably always supported but wouldn't have necessarily either had the power, obviously, or maybe the moment of opportunity to kind of push them

we just heard a minute ago president biden talking to david brooks saying, this is the moment to go bige covid relief package, now he's trying to get a $2.25 trillion bill through. republicans say it's too much. we don't need it at this point. the economy is coming back on its own. what's your read about where we are in our economy and how big president biden really should go here? >> president biden should go really big. what the pandemic showed us is structural inequality in our labor market, in our service provision. so it's really important that we take stock of what we've just been through. there are millions of women who have left the workforce. why? because child care is a problem. we need to think about federal support for child care. so what the pandemic has shown us is this economy has never worked for all of us. and what president biden is trying to do is to make sure the economy does work for all of us and is inclusive. >> so, professor, let me ask you about inflation, following up on steve rattner. it's obviously a balancing act. and i'm curious how you balance it in your m

host: let me ask you about an opinion piece by david brooks in the new york times about early educationays when it comes to parenting, there is no one-size-fits-all all solution. whether a child is harmed by a childcare experience depends on the nature of a particular child, the care center, and the parents. these are circumstances that only the parents can know so parents should be given maximum power and flexibility to make decisions. we will start with you kerry mcdonald. under this proposal, do you think this gives parents -- certainly the funding, but does it give them the maximum flexibility to make the decision for their kids? guest: it is similar to the head start program where the government is involved in these preschool programs in terms of deciding what the curriculum is, deciding what the student-teacher ratio is, making expectations around teacher certification. that does limit family choices. a lot of families might say i don't need my three-year-old being taught by someone with a bachelors degree and maybe i don't even want my three-year-old taught academic skills anyway

sibley telhami from the brookings institution, and aaron david miller from the carnegie endownment forernational peace, i'm sure we'll hae more opportunities in the days ahead. >> woodruff: the nation's largest fuel pipeline has slowly resumed service. that's the start of some good news. but no one's celebrating just yet. a new report from bloomberg said colonial pipeline paid five million dollars in ransom last week. the company has denied paying ransom. and it will take time before things return to normal. william brangham has a look at all of this, beginning with the gas crunch some states are facing. >> brangham: judy, panic has set in across the south east even though that major pipeline is restarting operations after being shut down for six days. long lines formed outside of stations across parts of the u.s. as fears and frustration about gas shortages grew at least 17,000 stations reported being completely empty in the south eastern u.s., which helped push gas prices to the highest levels in six years. as of this morning, 55% of stations in virginia were without gasoline, 49% of

tom: david wilson will be back on tomorrow talking brooks & dunn.quadros is with us now to save the show, with brean capital, their senior economic advisor. what is the tendency of a gdp gas right now? are you guessing -- gdp gas right -- gdp guess right now? conrad: over the next couple of days, we are getting a lot of important information on that. today's durable goods orders report gives us a first look at capital spending at the start of the second quarter, and then tomorrow we get the consumer spending numbers. it is looking like the second quarter could be a double-digit gain in gdp, particularly because of the strength of the consumer. consumer spending has been extremely strong. that brings us to where do we stand in the economy relative to where we were pre-covid, and it looks like the gdp gap may have completely closed by the second quarter. if not, definitely by the third quarter. the production side of the economy has been extremely strong. jonathan: given where the year has gone so far, what was your view on 2022 compared to where it i

brooks, thank you for joining us spirit good is here. i'm liz macdonald and have a happy including life, liberty, etc. davida moment, house lawmakers introducing two bipartisan bills aimed at china, one establishing a commission investigating the origins of the pandemic. we'll talk with mercedes schlapp, former white house strategic communications director this hour. plus, nascar paying tribute to heroes who gave it all for our nation as north carolina prepares to host the largest gathering in the state since the pandemic began. professional nascar driver weighs in. an out of this world sighting,