jonathan capehart, david brooks, so good to see you both. >> brooks: you too. >> nawaz: well, the tokyoympic games kicked off this past tuesday with-- for the first time-- a prime-time slot on american network television. as william brangham reports, it's part of the increasing interest and growth in these games. >> brangham: that's right. in addition to tv coverage, the games have the largest number of athletes competing, including record numbers of women and l.g.b.t.q. athletes. at the opening ceremony, the refugee paralympic team led the parade of over 4,400 athletes. but, like at the olympic games earlier this month, because of the pandemic, there were no spectators allowed in the stands. motoko rich is the "new york times" bureau chief, and she joins me now. motoko rich, great to have you on the newshour. tokyo just shifted from hosting the olympic games to now the paralympic games, and as i was describing, there does seem to be this growing interest in these games in particular. do you have a sense of why that is? what-- what do you attribute that to? >> i think it's a lot of thin

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david brooks and jonathan k part on the fallout from the kabul attack.and athletes to watch at the tokyo paralympics. plus, much more. ♪ >> this is the pbs newshour, from w eta studios in washington, and in the west from the walter cronkite school of journalism. amna: the supreme court has ended the biden administration's ban on evictions, siding with landlords who said the eviction moratorium puts them at risk of irreparable harm. congress authorized $46 billion in rental assistance in separate release -- relief packages. but only a fraction has been riveted and now many renters may be in trouble. >> just about 11% of that federal aid actually has been distributed by state and local governments months after congress approved it. and people need that aid. as many as 1.2 million households say they are very likely to face eviction in the next two months. overall, more than 8 million people say they are behind on their rent. kristin randall has a first-hand view of all of this as a court mandated officer tasked with enforcing evictions in tucson, arizona.

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why when you go outside the echo chamber we don't find that people focus on the moderates like david brooksthe centrist people. know they focus on ted cruz and what he said the other day and even the enthusiastic parts to become polarized in just a month of exposure so there is no simple fix now we get toet the macro we can just flip a switch. that would be great but it's a two-part process it is emergent phenomenon so it creates that incentive structure but we are also participatingal in it even though we all know we are not changing each other's mind. by the way nobody thinks were are weg line so what doing? >> for two signaling. exactly. >> everyone underlined this point in the book and it is a point that is so much of our politics the gradual change from ideas or interest to identity a theme of the 21st century it's a lots of the way it is summarized. political parties used to be coalitions and interest groups and industries and then you can compromise we will trade this for that but after that was passed once we get these parties the people in the other party really are different. they

david brooks is on vacation. good to see you. thank you for being here.ant to start with afghanistan. you heard the ambassador saying the sense is that they feel abandoned by the biden administration, by e american government more broadly. the taliban has near complete control of the country. what you make of all of this? jonathan: it is horrifying, what we are seeing. to wake up to the news that taliban has basically retaken southern afghanistan and most of the country in a matter of days is shocking. what is happening to the afghan people is shocking. what is happening to the afghan people who helped the u.s. and afghan forces is horrific. i entered one person this morning andsked if she was surprised about how messy and chaotic this. she said, listen, whether the united states would have gotten out two years ago, 10 years ago, 15 years ago, 18 years ago, it wabound to be messy and chaotic, but i don't know if anybody realized or anticipated it would look like this. william: michael, we are simply talking about the tiframe here? could this departure bee

i mean david brooks makes this great point about workhorses, and he put some workhorses in the columnn agenda. but people like rob portman were some of the most disappointing people. i mentioned him before. he knew better in terms of what was going on, so the fact that there is no republican party in terms of idea or agenda or even valuing the democracy is of their own making. what do you think they do over the biden presidency? >> we have to watch, you know. the party has clawed its way to the bottom and i feel like i'm out on an island. to sort of go back on your points and brooks's points as well, i mean it is just so comforting and reassuring and lucky for the country that joe biden was elected. first of all, i'm not sure any other nominee would have given the outcome, but also just the tone and the kind of just temperament of the administration in biden is just what we need right now. he is more like a doctor than a president. it is like he is putting a thermometer in our mouth and saying, let's just lower the temperature here. my dad hated people who bragged and danced around to

and few first few chapters in the book, we don't find that people focus on the moderates like david brooksor these kind of interest, know the focus on ted cruz or whatever crazy thing ted cruz said the other day. even for unenthusiastic persons, we can see they can become polarized in just a month of exposure. so we need to think about, and no simple fix and no would never getting to macro don't just get into facebook's into the switch. that would be great. but we need to if it is too far process, emergence and micro interacting with a macro. as for the macros creating the structure, that is misaligned but were also precipitating in it. wwe are not even though we all know for not changing each other's mice which by the way we dress people, you think you're changing anybody's mind, nobody thinks that but someone will be doing. >> were signaling exactly. okay so everyone underlying this point. it is a point that affects a much more politics, the gradual change from ideas or interests are mentally her interest to identity. the theme of the 31st century. why we are polarized and we done a lot

david brooks is on vacation. gentlemen, very good to see you. thank you for being here.han, i want to start first with afghanistan. you heard the ambassador from afghanistan saying the sense is they feel abandoned by the biden administration, by the american government more broadly. the taliban has basically gal lopped to complete near complete control of that country. what do you make of all of this? >> well, it's horrifying what we're seeing. i can't speak for anyone but myself but to wake up to the news that the taliban has basically retaken southern afghanistan and most of the country in a manner of days is shocking. what's happening to the afghan people is shocking. what's happening to the afghan people who helped the united states and the allied forces is horrific. i interviewed former congresswoman donna edwards of maryland this morning and i asked her was he surprised by how messy and cotic this is, and she said, listen, whether the united states had gotten out two years ago, ten years ago, 15 years ago, 18 years ago, it was bound to be messy and chaotic, but i d

david brooks' latest piece is entitled the biden approach is working.om the green new deal and freedom caucus show horses and lodged it with congressional workhorse, people like republican rob portman and democratic mark warner who are in no danger of becoming social media stars. we've come a long way since the aoc glory days of 2019. biden won the presidential nomination not bernie sanders. progressive excesses like defund the police cost democrats dearly downballot. there have been races in primaries recently, the party regs have won all of them. the problem with the progressive base mobilization strategy is that progressives think they're the base but a faction that keeps losing primaries can't be the base. joe biden is the base and they want to make the system work, american politics is in god awful shape but we're seeing an attempt to build it back better. eugene robinson, your reaction to the column that the biden approach is working and progressives in some ways are being marginalized? >> look, the establishment of the democratic party is certain

. >> good morning, i'm david wessel, director of the hutchens? are at fiscal policy at brookings institution. i'm very pleased to welcome mark carney. extraordinary is an overused word, but mark carney's resume', you must think he's 90 years old. and he's from canada and motto is perseverance. he has a ph.d. from oxford, 13 years at goldman sachs, a decade in the canadian government, five years in the central bank of canada during the global financial crisis and because that wasn't challenging enough he became governor of the bank of england from 2013 to 2020 during the whole brexit mess. he's now an advisor to the british prime minister on climate finance, the u.n. special invite for climate action and finance, vice chair of brookfield asset management, the future prime minister of canada and only 56 and i'm not going to deal with his collegiate hockey career. mark must have decided he would only write one book in his life. so his new one, "values, building a better world for all" is a really several box in one. it's a discuss of money, what mark can and can't do well, a primer

. >> first of all thank you david and thanks for having me and thanks tube brookings for putting on thisevent and all the great work that you do. i'm a huge consumer of years and beneficiary and expect to over decades. we read the g7 communiquÉ and i'm not sure if anyone else did that many people will be affected by what's in that communiquÉ. thank you for going straight to the title because the parentheses is there because the values between -- goes in both. on the one hand you have circumstance and i'm simplifying but in the run-up to the financial crisis, the underlying values that's a part free market functioning and this goes back to adam smith and political philosophers and in the end it was recognize that there's a role for regulation but there's a rule for other institutions which are customs and rules. we have lost some of that. that is one of the contributory factors to the financial crisis. this relationship between value and values is what i described to michael pinto which is the market with aspects of societies of the efforts to bring in certain elements of activity where t

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>> first, thank you, david and thanks for having me, thanks to brookings for putting on this event but really for all the great work that you do. i've been a huge consumer over the years and beneficiary and expect over the coming decades. you and i read the g7 communiqÉ communiquÉ, and i'm not sure anyone else did but many people will be affected by what's in that communiquÉ. i'm sure we'll get to that. in terms of -- thank you for going straight to the town because the parentheses is the to get across in the book is the causality between value and values goes in both directions. on the one hand, you have circumstance which and i'm simplifying but in the run up to the financial crisis some of the underlying values that support good market functioning and this is the point that goes back to adam smith and i think most political philosophers and political economist i should say, and in the end most market participants would recognize there's a role for regulation but also a role for other institutions in the sense of douglas north which are customs and rules that support good market func

. >> good morning, i'm david wessel, director of the hutchens? are at fiscal policy at brookingstitution. i'm very pleased to welcome mark carney. extraordinary is an overused wo