joining me nbc's tom brokaw, peggy noonan, and bloomberg news jeffrey goldberg also of "the atlantic" magazine. an emotional week for boston and for the country as we were all on high alert and as we search for meaning in it all, we'll get the first draft of history through the eyes of the one and only doris kearns goodwin, herself a bostonian. >>> given the big events of the week there was a lot of material out there you might have missed. we put together a list of some of my must reads and must see surrounding the boston tragedy including a piece called "the culprit." with more of the back story on the two bombing suspects. you can find it on our press pass blog. as always you can follow me all weeklong on twitte twitter @davidgregory. here is something not to miss this copping week. tune in to nbc news thursday as all five living former presidents gather for the dedication of the george w. bush library and museum. i will be down there and on "today" matt lauer will have is a live interview with the former president and mrs. bush. coming up here after the break, our special edition

peggy noonan, this issue of abortion, as gay marriage falls as an issue that maybe it's now splittinglittle bit, you can see jeff flake was uncomfortable just talking about the issue. abortion and the life movement could be what motivates evangelicals again, could it t not? >> i don't know. actually that's not my question. here is the thing. this issue will not go away, abortion. it is a constant agitating of the american soul. you mentioned the legal move that was made in one of the states to cut off abortion after six weeks. the real story this week is the haunting and disturbing story of this doctor in philadelphia who is being tried this week. and if you wanted to watch the testimony, it was hard to find, but if you wanted to have a sense what was happening, you could find it on the internet or in the local papers. this was a man who had an abortion mill that was, in fact, a death mill for babies essentially born. being tried now we'll see how it goes. this is a story that is haunting about the implications of decisions made by courts. the abortion issue will not go away if you th

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boston from cbs investigators john miller and bob orr, and analysis on all that and more from peggy noonan of the "wall street journal." harvard university's david gergen. cbs this morning cohost norah o'donnell. foreign correspondent clarissa ward, just back from sirpia. and political director john dickerson. plus the highlights will of last night's correspondents' dinner. it's all next on "face the nation." captioning sponsored by cbs from cbs news in washington, "face the nation" with bob schieffer. >> schieffer: and good morning, again. south carolina republican lindsey graham is in cottonwood, arizona, this morning. and, senator, thanks for coming. i want to start with the-- some of these details, more details now coming out on the russian bombers and their family. it now turns out not only was one of them on a u.s. terror watch list, but also his mother as well. what do you make of this? and where are we on all of this? >> well, i don't know if his mother was on the watch list, but the warning letters the f.b.i. received in march of 2011 and the c.i.a. i think in november 2011, inclu

even as one of my favorite columnists peggy noonan hailed him as the fear monger in chief.he vast majority took the president seriously when he warned of chaos and gigantic layoffs. think about it, are you going to apply for a loan to start a new business if you know there are going to be layoffs that could rival those of 2007 to 2009? are you going to hire more aggressively even as the federal government is firing more aggressively? is this the time to hire more salespeople for a technology company when the government -- a huge customer has to cut back on its orders? do you want to be in the travel business when the transportation secretary says the lines at airports will be so huge that it clearly discourages travel? i don't talk to just business people, although to a person they were scared. i own an inn in summit, new jersey. when i heard the warnings, well there goes our numbers. i guess we'll be empty like everybody else. any town that relies on the military's largesse had to be hit hard. the richmond fed which deals around washington, d.c. came out with data that sai

peggy noonan in a new york times article, she nailed it on the head, the president doesn't know and havehe inclination on how to use the power of the president. >> chip, who are you for right now regarding 2016? >> we got a lot of candidates. i hope my former boss governor mike huckabee would consider rung again. i think he's exactly what the party needs. he's a wonderful communicator. >> he's a great man. he's making too much money as a tv and radio personality, chip. >> well, that's what, i hope he knows for the greater good of this country he should probably run for president one more time. i think he could be successful. >> how about after huckabee, your second spot? >> i got a lot of friends, jasons that same problem. marco rubio was our state chairman in florida. i'm friends with rand paul. i'm friends with governor haslem in tennessee. i don't know governor christie. there is a lot of postives things you can say about him. the good news is we have a deep bren bench. they will go through the primaries, i think we will come back with the best candidate not to unite our party but the

question of how they executed this, pete, in terms of resourcing, there seem to be some questions and peggy noonan raised some in today's "wall street journal," about where these guys were getting the money to buy the instruments with which they made the bombs. to have the lifestyle that they did we know that tamerlan tsarnaev had a fancy car, i think it was a mercedes c class. you know, their parents were in russia, they were divorced, they were not a family of considerable means. do we have any more intelligence on how they might have procured the funds to do all this? >> well that's one of the many questions they'll be looking into. every time i ask for information like that, somebody always says, that's why we call this an investigation. that's one of the many things they'll be looking at. this he don't have all the answers yet. >> pete williams, american hero and msnbc reporter. >>> the question i have is how much the country will want to see things changed as a response to this kind of the answer we give the country for the horror that's been inflicted on the people of boston. >> i think as

last week wall street journal columnist peggy noonan dedicated her column to the vixary leader who created modern singapore. in describing the book, her words, she said he is bullish about america's immediate prospect but concerned about the long-term prospect and greatly concerned about the prevailing culture. and to quote him, a major problem is the day to day violence that people are exposed to on television. i'm concerned, madame secretary, what you think is the linkage in our culture between violence and our kids, and young adults, particularly troubled young adults. are you concerned about the pervasive violence in our culture and entertainment industry? >> well, mr. chairman, i am concerned certainly about the pervasive culture of violence both throughout media, in the entertainment industry, movies, on tv, video games, but also on our street corners. the number of children who live in extraordinary violence day in and day out -- they don't have to turn on the tv. they have to walk outside. i think we have a culture of violence in this country that is alarming. it clearly has differ

remember, we had peggy noonan on.dent did make people feel everything is going to shut down in the country because of the sequester. ceos were scared, the small business people held back, bankers would tell you that. only ben bernanke, fed chief, got this right. he seemed to understand that the country's hiring is really coming back down. >> but why? is it the sequester? >> yes. it was fear that the sequester would cause massive layoffs. go back in time. a month ago, what was the rhetoric of the white house? it was, look, this is a really big deal. everyone has to just stop and consider how bad this is going to be for the economy. the ceos have considered it and said, you know what, we have to hold back. >> right. so mats whatting with the consumer? we know that the housing market is doing better. we know the stock market is going gangbusters. you look at those three things, what's holding back the animal spirit of economic recovery? >> i think a lot of what we're worried about is just the sense that if we spend any m

peggy noonan is on every sunday on one of these shows.political ideologically right-wing journalists dominating the show. the extends beyond john mccain and the elected political leaders. >> you expect it from 230ks fox. fox news sunday, if you watch and i think chris wallace does an excellent job by the way. but if you tune in to fox news sunday, you expect to get a right-wing slant on the day's news. right? but on "this week" or on face the nation or meet the press. >> yeah. it's not what you expect. >> they have a reputation for being fair and right down -- right down the middle. right? they are not by either way. % what you are saying is, in fact, they are. >> that's right. in terms of the guests that are getting on the show. >> right. >> we are not getting a balance. this study here we are talking about goes back to the beginning of the year but media matters looked at this several years ago and found the same thing. so this isn't a new issue. this is something going back five years ago, the data tells the same story, that it's conse

does have a guaranteed benefit and -- >> madam secretary, last week wall street journal columnist peggy noonan dedicated the column to the wisdom of the visionary leader who really created singapore, and in describing his book on the inside in china in the united states in her words, he is bullish on america's immediate prospect but concerned about the long-term future, and she noted he's greatly concerned about the prevailing culture, and to quote him, a major problem is the day-to-day images of the violence that we expose people to through television. and, madam secretary, i've worked on the mental health issues and i am curious what your thoughts are in the linkage between violence and the culture on tv and the movies and video games and mental health for kids and young adults particularly troubled young adults and are you concerned about the pervasive violence in our culture and entertainment industry? >> mr. chairman, i am concerned certainly about the pervasive culture of the violence, both through the media in the entertainment industry and movies and tv and video games, but also on the