jim lehrer was anchor on pbs for many years but he's also been the author of a number of best-sellings. his latest starts with a premise that's true, lehrer was there on the day president kennedy was assassinated

hour with jim lehrer.”ting is that in the job you have, people do not appreciate how much the questioner sets the frame of the conversation. it is so important. people in 12 or 14 minute segments, some people have questions written down and they will ask you questions no matter what you say. some people, the questions go in a circle. lehrer, he could listen and take out the words that were the most important and give them to mark. i would say, that is utterly ridiculous and give a bunch of reasons and he would turn to mark and say, utterly ridiculous? that is a rare skill. brian lamb: what about her other point -- she made many but sit still and focus? david brooks: that is a problem for a lot of us. that is why i say we have lost the ability to have patience. we are in a world -- there is so much talk about technology and what it is doing to us and i think most of it is wrong. but i do think it is shortening attention spans. we have been in the studio for 30 minutes and i guarantee this is the longest peri

judy woodruff, jim lehrer, raising a topic in the presidential debate, you better be ready. so the media start saying what is this all about. is china really doing these things to us? we will get the presidential candidates to come engage with the topics. only two of them have really talked about it. elizabeth warren has a comment online, where she was talking about losing jobs the middle-class, how china invests deeply in infrastructure and she gives a percentage of gdp and she's kind of admiring the chinese model that only america can be like that and that's the title of a book, we used to be like that. there's a similar book by the council of foreign relations president called on policy begins at home about competing with china. the idea is there but it's not yet a presidential issue because there's so much complacency. because the narrative today is that china is going to collapse, they're stupid, you can look down on them. and besides, we opened up china and we are the ones responsible for this. at that narrative is all wrong in my view. i tried to show with new evidenc

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>> guest: well, i didn't--we didn't have an agent, and i had talked to jim and kate lehrer. jim writes books all the time, and i asked him one time, `how in the world can you be so busy and write those books, one right after another?' and he said, `well, i try to write at least two pages every day of my life.' and i said, `how can you do that?' he said, `well, if i'm on an airplane, i do it on the airplane. if i'm at home, i do it there. if i'm at my office, i do it there.' and he said, `you can do that. you can--anybody can squeeze out time to do that.' and i took that to heart. and then i talked to kate. kate has also published two or three books. and i said, `well, kate, who have you used as an editor? who--who--what do you--do you recommend somebody?' and she said, `yes, there's this woman at random house that i think you'd like. why don't you call her?' and i did. and it was kate medina. and she came to visit me, and we talked about the possibilities. and, frankly, i wasn't sure that it would work. i wasn't sure that what emerged would be of sufficient quality that i wou

if everybody knows gwen ifill and judy woodruff and jim lehrer raised the presidential presidential debates they better be ready. so if the media starts to say what is this all about? is china really doing these things and are we so naÏve and gullible we will get our presidential candidates to become engaged in the topic. so far only two of them have really talked about it. elizabeth warren has a comment on one of her speeches, elizabeth warren is talking about losing jobs and middle-class and how china invests deeply and infrastructure as he gives the percentage of gdp. so she's kind of admiring the chinese model that only america could be like that. that is the title of a book by tom friedman which is quite good. i think it is roughly what he used to be like that. there is a similar book by richard fox the council of foreign relations called the foreign policy begins at home with a big section on competing with china. so the idea is there but it's not yet a presidential issue because there's so much complacency. the media today china is going to collapse, it's a very backward they are kin