. >> woodruff: and it's friday, david brooks and ruth marcus are here, to analyze the week's news. those are some of the stories we're covering 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. >> lincoln financial-- committed to helping you take charge of your life and become you're own chief life officer. >> supporting social entrepreneurs and their solutions to the worlds most pressing problems-- skollfoundation.org. >> and with the ongoing support of these institutions and... >> this program was made possible by the corporation for public broadcasting. and by contributions to your pbs station from viewers like you. thank you. >> woodruff: the u.s. job market showed signs of rebounding last month, after a dismal start to the year. the labor department reported today that employers added 22,000 jobs in april, up from just 85,000 in march. that means the economy averaged 190,000 new jobs a month in the first quarter, well below last year's average. still, the unemploymen

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fix, chris eless afounder of "washington post" fix blog and "washington post" editorial columnist ruth marcus. chris, chris, on immigration, she is taking a much more aggressive stance than barack obama and certainly any of the republicans. it was resonating already. of course, members of the -- activists and dreamer community want to see more they want to see how she's going do it. but she's the only one out there outlining a policy that would include parents and would address some of the other issues that they view as inequities, the three in ten rules, where people have to go back to their countries for ten years to line up to come back. rules that are now breaking up families. >> i think she's going further than barack obama in many ways because she can. there is a luxury in not being the sitting president of the united states. she can sort of support things that my guess, would be if barack obama was a candidate for president now, he also would support. i think it's very smart of her. there's virtually no downside. this helps with hispanic who she did quite well with in 2008. it makes it

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he's rusty, getting flak from people like ruth marcus in the "washington post." >> liberal. >> saying is he doing? he certainly lost his touch. >> hillary put herself in the presidential protection program, underground, not to be seen unless you can get the big moment with the iphone with her and the prom. bill clinton on the other hand is attempting a defense. we saw him yesterday try to come out. i don't know what he was saying. it was tough to follow quite honestly. today he came out to defend her on the clinton cash book and this is what he said. >> even the guy that wrote the book apparently had to admit under questioning that he didn't have a shred of evidence for this. he just sort of thought he'd throw it out there and see if it would fly. >> not a shred of evidence. and we're supposed to say that's good enough. >> when you're describing action in the clinton household shred might not be the word you want to use. okay? the reason her poll numbers are taking a hit on trustworthiness, which is the most important factor in a presidential election if you ask the expert at fox news

ruth marcus, and jonathan capehart.'t that something that a mother -- it isn't about right and wrong, it's basic survival skills we're talking here. >> it is. moms are -- they're the front line between their children and the rest of the world. and when they feel threatened, when they see the world coming at them in a way that is not consistent with their values and how they're raising their kids, you see moments like that, and when the kids sort of break the line and want to get out into the world the wrong way, moms are there to stop it. and i think, you know, she really reflect, i think, a lot of mothers, as you spoke with the congresswoman, about the piece she wrote. that is so true. what i would like to hear and see are the fathers. and i don't care what shape they're in, i don't care what their condition is. if they have a child, if they have a son, especially, their voices are equally important at times like this. >> how do you speak to a son in this, anybody hear, speak to a son when you have to tell them, look o

this is ruth marcus's column shiny new baguettes, she says this about the last part, that you heard fromhe former president. " oh, my, god," as if the former president had not reagan more than $100 million on the speaking service. -- not rate in. host: that is ruth marcus'piece. an independent, what do you think about the field of candidates? caller: good morning. i would love to see donald trump run for president. i look forward to watching him on monday mornings on fox news, because he is so intelligent. he knows what is going on in the world. he knows how to straighten out this country and he knows what to do about isis. i would love to see him run. if he does not run, i will probably go for ted cruz. host: why is that? caller: i like the way he thinks, he is a libertarian. he believes in smaller government. we need fresh faces. these politicians that have been on for years and years and years , they just follow the same path. we need a new. host: savannah, tennessee, a republican keith. caller: i think ben carson would be the one. he has a lot of common sense intelligence, and not ju