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tonight david brooks, "the new york times" columnist return returns for another conversation about his take on politics and culture. >> one of the issues of these days is how much leadership matters, and how much society matters. you know, tolstoy in war and peace had a scene where they are fighting the battle and the generals are are up there on the hill and the men go down into a valley to fight and they go into a fog and the generals can't see. and the battle is just chaos. and the joke is on the generals, they think they're running society but they're not. i sometimes feel one of those moments where the president is trying to do stuff but basically the social organism is more important than the president. and the social organism is changing now. changing as we mentioned away from materialism, but maybe also in ways that are deeply disturbing of people in well educated people are not going into industry, they are going into finance and law and the media, things maybe that aren't as productive for the country. and so there is all sorts of changes in the social organism that for that
tonight david brooks, "the new york times" columnist return returns for another conversation about his take on politics and culture. >> one of the issues of these days is how much leadership matters, and how much society matters. you know, tolstoy in war and peace had a scene where they are fighting the battle and the generals are are up there on the hill and the men go down into a valley to fight and they go into a fog and the generals can't see. and the battle is just chaos....
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. >> rose: david brooks is here, he is a columnist for "the new york times". he writes about american politics, culture, ideas, science. above all he are reflects on the challenges and trends that confront america and the world. "new york" magazine recently said that brooks is better than anyone at crystallizing the questions we face, ones for which there are often no good answer as. he's also work on a book about the unconscious and the brain. i am pleased to have him back at this table. welcome. >> good to see you. >> rose: tell me where you have gone since the last time we talked, because as you said to me, it precipitated a larger response than any television appearance or for the most part, and half of it was about what we said in the last ten minutes of the interview. >> right. >> rose: which was about the brain. >> well, we are in the middle of a revolution of consciousness which you have been covering, which newspapers have been covering efing ree day. there a new story about something, this and that in brain research. and so i'm trying to figure out w
. >> rose: david brooks is here, he is a columnist for "the new york times". he writes about american politics, culture, ideas, science. above all he are reflects on the challenges and trends that confront america and the world. "new york" magazine recently said that brooks is better than anyone at crystallizing the questions we face, ones for which there are often no good answer as. he's also work on a book about the unconscious and the brain. i am pleased to have him...
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lots of them including david brooks on this program. to go for health care? >> look, at some point the health care system needed to change. >> charlie: did it need to be changed at a time of economic kris swris there's never a convenient time. i'm not going to argue whether... the other point that i think is worth making here is folks say you should have just focused on jobs. what in particular? >> charlie: the question is what should you have done that you didn't do? >> what specifically, you know, especially the irony, that complaint is often coming from folks who are worried that the administration was already too active in other dimensions anyway. it's mostly a question of what could congress have been doing and that comes back to the fact i think you had max out what congress was willing to do with regard to stimulus. what else did you want them doing in that time. >> charlie: david brooks argues this. i'll give credit where credit is due. he felt there was a perception in the country that the administration did so much that there was some unease and it
lots of them including david brooks on this program. to go for health care? >> look, at some point the health care system needed to change. >> charlie: did it need to be changed at a time of economic kris swris there's never a convenient time. i'm not going to argue whether... the other point that i think is worth making here is folks say you should have just focused on jobs. what in particular? >> charlie: the question is what should you have done that you didn't do? >>...
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as bad as that recession was, -- i was reading david brooks on friday. people have this idea -- my father was a plumber. i have a white-collar job. i want my kid to be the next step up. that may be an unrealistic idea. your kid could make more as a plumber, but most people do not want to be plumbers. we do not make much in the country anymore -- actually, we make a lot, but not as much as before. there is incredible unease about the future. other countries are making much more stuff than we are. >> why would a company make things in the united states when they could make it for a fraction in china? >> they cannot figure a way out. >> this is very much germane to what we are talking about. that is the underlying, fundamental restructuring of our economy. we are not going to be able to produce because of the cost of production. china, a major exporter, is now seeing competition from bangladesh. they can do in even cheaper. we are going through a transformation. the job for obama, it seems to me, this to be able to explain these things to the american peopl
as bad as that recession was, -- i was reading david brooks on friday. people have this idea -- my father was a plumber. i have a white-collar job. i want my kid to be the next step up. that may be an unrealistic idea. your kid could make more as a plumber, but most people do not want to be plumbers. we do not make much in the country anymore -- actually, we make a lot, but not as much as before. there is incredible unease about the future. other countries are making much more stuff than we...
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syndicated columnist mark shields, "new york times" columnist david brooks. david, you said going in that the president had to walk several fine lines. to be kind of, yes, we did it but don't go too far. how do you think he walked the lines. >> he rose above the lines. i thought the speech was a little too much more generality. i thought it lacked the concreteness of individual experiences, the concreteness of exactly what we're going to do. i would say it's a speech that succeeded is not offending anybody and had some effect in unifying the country. i'm not sure you knew exactly what was happening or why we were gathered here. i thought it was a speech that, you know, did not pick any fights but it didn't settle any issues or give you a clear road map for where we're headed. >> lehrer: mark, looking back on it, do you think it was a speech that the president felt he had to give tonight? >> i mean, .... >> lehrer: i mean outside events. in other words it was expected he would speak to the nation on this particular day. to coincide with the end of combat opera
syndicated columnist mark shields, "new york times" columnist david brooks. david, you said going in that the president had to walk several fine lines. to be kind of, yes, we did it but don't go too far. how do you think he walked the lines. >> he rose above the lines. i thought the speech was a little too much more generality. i thought it lacked the concreteness of individual experiences, the concreteness of exactly what we're going to do. i would say it's a speech that...
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thank you for coming. >> thank you. >> rose: david brooks for the hour. thank you for joining us. see you next time. on the next charlie rose a conversation about law, the supreme court and the constitution. with associate justice of the supreme court steven bryer. join us. >> with its's up to others to say whether decisions are liberal or conservative. it is up to me to try to get the decision as best i can, a correct decision. and if you want to know this isn't meant to be necessarily about me but i think the easiest way for me to try to get other people to understand what we do on the court is for me to go back over my decisions as i've done, and say are there some general approachs that explain how i have reached decisions in different areas. and that's what i have set down and i think a person who reads that will come to the conclusion. >> i'll get that out of this book. >> i hope. >> i will get a sense of the framework in which you have come to make the decisions. >> yes. >> which isn't the only possible
thank you for coming. >> thank you. >> rose: david brooks for the hour. thank you for joining us. see you next time. on the next charlie rose a conversation about law, the supreme court and the constitution. with associate justice of the supreme court steven bryer. join us. >> with its's up to others to say whether decisions are liberal or conservative. it is up to me to try to get the decision as best i can, a correct decision. and if you want to know this isn't meant to be...
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-- syndicated columnist mark shields, "new york times" columnist david brooks. mark, we just heard margaret's, another of her superb reports, the last of her superb reports from iraq. and of course there is also middle east peace this week, the end of combat operations in iraq. is president bush... president bush... i i'll get this right in a moment. president obama, does he get big points on the international front this week? >> may get big points, jim. they don't translate immediately into political advantage at home where the economy remains the dominant issue. but i-- . >> lehrer: it just doesn't matter that much. >> i think that the middle east peace deserves credit for it. i am cautiousloptimistic, probably more cautious than optimistic. i think there are things going on this time in part because the reality of mr. netanyahu is in a far stronger position than he ud barack in 2008 at home to sell it. i think it is an imperative nurtured by both king abdullah of jordan and president mubarak of egypt and the other sunni countries that are interested in contai
-- syndicated columnist mark shields, "new york times" columnist david brooks. mark, we just heard margaret's, another of her superb reports, the last of her superb reports from iraq. and of course there is also middle east peace this week, the end of combat operations in iraq. is president bush... president bush... i i'll get this right in a moment. president obama, does he get big points on the international front this week? >> may get big points, jim. they don't translate...
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mark shields. >> i'm david brooks. we approve this app. >> now the question is what will you do with the pbs newshour app? >> ifill: what's not to like about that? get it now. and i'm gwen ifill. we'll see you online, and again here tomorrow evening. thank you, and good night. major funding for the pbs newshour has been provided by: and with the ongoing support of these institutions and foundations. 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. captioning sponsored by macneil/lehrer productions captioned by media access group at wgbh access.wgbh.org as wide as his body and as high as the flagpole in virginia city." [ narrator ] nathanial p. langford, the washburn expedition, 1870.
mark shields. >> i'm david brooks. we approve this app. >> now the question is what will you do with the pbs newshour app? >> ifill: what's not to like about that? get it now. and i'm gwen ifill. we'll see you online, and again here tomorrow evening. thank you, and good night. major funding for the pbs newshour has been provided by: and with the ongoing support of these institutions and foundations. and... this program was made possible by the corporation for public...
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. >> lehrer: and mark shields and david brooks provide their weekly analysis. that's all ahead on tonight's newshour. major funding for the pbs newshour has been provided by: and with the ongoing support of these institutions and foundations. 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: one of wall street's leading critics, elizabeth warren, will now fashion a new oversight agency. the president announced the appointment today, but he steered clear of a confirmation fight with the senate. ( applause ) just two months ago, the president signed the financial reform bill that authorized a new consumer financial protection bureau. today, in the white house rose garden, he said the job of turning the concept into reality will go to "one of the country's fiercest advocates for the middle class." >> the consumer financial protection bureau will be a watchdog for the american consumer, charged with enforcing the toughest financial protections in
. >> lehrer: and mark shields and david brooks provide their weekly analysis. that's all ahead on tonight's newshour. major funding for the pbs newshour has been provided by: and with the ongoing support of these institutions and foundations. 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: one of wall street's leading critics, elizabeth warren, will now fashion a...
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david brooks is off tonight. good to see you both, thank you for being here. let's talk about the bush era tax cuts am we just heard alan greenspan with the argument about why they should be allowed to laps. but let's first talk about what is going on in the congress. democrats, mark, in the senate they're saying let's postpone a vote. but in the house we don't knows what's going to happen. what's the back story here? >> the story of the house is that the house could pass the tax cut extension for those under 250,000. but you have to understand, judy, that democrats who are in tough races across the country, many of whom are defending seats that interest traditionally republicans, they won in 2006 or 2008 are very much on the defensive. they're on the defensive because of the economy, first of all, the reality of the me. but they're on the defensive explaining all sorts of votes they've cast. they want to get back and just go, complete against their opponent. they don't want a nationalized this race any more. they want to localize it. and the house democrats h
david brooks is off tonight. good to see you both, thank you for being here. let's talk about the bush era tax cuts am we just heard alan greenspan with the argument about why they should be allowed to laps. but let's first talk about what is going on in the congress. democrats, mark, in the senate they're saying let's postpone a vote. but in the house we don't knows what's going to happen. what's the back story here? >> the story of the house is that the house could pass the tax cut...
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mark shields. >> i'm david brooks. we approve this app. >> now the question is what will you do with the pbs newshour app? >> ifill: what's not to like about that? get it now. and i'm gwen ifill. we'll see you online, and again here tomorrow evening. thank you, and good night. major funding for the pbs newshour has been provided by: and with the ongoing support of these institutions and foundations. 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. captioning sponsored by macneil/lehrer productions captioned by media access group at wgbh access.wgbh.org wan o >> holmes!o, committed to provig service to its auto insurance customers for over 70 years. more information on auto insurance at geico.com or 1-800-947-auto any time of the day or night. howard bryant: this was the strike where i think people had had enough. george will: this was the face that baseball needed. mike barnicle: there's always a surprise in base
mark shields. >> i'm david brooks. we approve this app. >> now the question is what will you do with the pbs newshour app? >> ifill: what's not to like about that? get it now. and i'm gwen ifill. we'll see you online, and again here tomorrow evening. thank you, and good night. major funding for the pbs newshour has been provided by: and with the ongoing support of these institutions and foundations. and... this program was made possible by the corporation for public...
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mark shields. >> i'm david brooks. we approve this app. >> now the question is what will you do with the pbs newshour app? >> ifill: what's not to like about that? get it now. and i'm gwen ifill. we'll see you online, and again here tomorrow evening. thank you, and good night. major funding for the pbs newshour has been provided by: and with the ongoing support of these institutions and foundations. 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. captioning sponsored by macneil/lehrer productions captioned by media access group at wgbh access.wgbh.org - beaches resorts is a proud sponsor of "the electric company," connecting bright ideas and countless outlets for high-energy excitement. announcer: find your voice and share it. american greetings-- proud sponsor of "the electric company." from the u.s. department of education's ready to learn grant, and... - so, here are your 5 words. a partner is someone you're
mark shields. >> i'm david brooks. we approve this app. >> now the question is what will you do with the pbs newshour app? >> ifill: what's not to like about that? get it now. and i'm gwen ifill. we'll see you online, and again here tomorrow evening. thank you, and good night. major funding for the pbs newshour has been provided by: and with the ongoing support of these institutions and foundations. and... this program was made possible by the corporation for public...
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. >> lehrer: and mark shields and david brooks provide their analysis of the news. that's all ahead on tonight's newshour. major funding for the pbs newshour has been provided by: and with the ongoing support of these institutions and foundations. 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. >> lehrer: president obama held a televised news conference this morning at the white house. the east room back and forth included questions about the economy, the middle east, and religious tensions. newshour correspondent kwame holman reports. >> holman: it was the first formal news conference since may, and from start to finish, the session lasted an hour and 17 minutes. first up-- a question about mr. obama's comment earlier this week that democrats would suffer at the polls in november if the election was a referendum on the economy. >> what i said was that, if it was just a referendum on whether we've made the kind of progress that we need to, then people around
. >> lehrer: and mark shields and david brooks provide their analysis of the news. that's all ahead on tonight's newshour. major funding for the pbs newshour has been provided by: and with the ongoing support of these institutions and foundations. 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. >> lehrer: president obama held a televised news conference this morning at the...