dionne and david brooks on the penn state scandal. so you heard the governor on the program saying that laws have to be changed. what he's talking about are reporting laws. most states require anybody who finds out about a sexual crime to report it to the police or department of child services. in this case, if you were in joe paterno's case, all you have to do is go up to the head of your department, and it's their responsibility. and we all know, i mean, in this situation, there was nobody more powerful than joe paterno. not the president of the university was more powerful than him. is this the script you're talking about, in part? more robust state law? >> well, thing they obviously need to make the law more robust, but we can't rely on law and rules. it's up to personal discretion. we've taken a lot of moral decisions and tried to make them all legal-based. but there has to be a sense of personal responsibility regardless of what the rules are, here's what you do to stop it. if you try to make everything a matter of legalism and

dionne and david brooks on the penn state scandal. so you heard the governor on the program saying that laws have to be changed. what he's talking about are reporting laws. most states require anybody who finds out about a sexual crime to report it to the police or department of child services. this case, if you were in joe paterno's case, all you have to do is go up to the head of your department, and it's their responsibility. and we all know, i mean, in this situation, there was nobody more powerful than joe paterno. not the president of the university was more powerful than him. is this the script you're talking about, in part? more robust state law? >> well, i think they obviously, you can make the law more robust. but we can't rely on law and rules. it's up to personal discretion. we've taken a lot of moral decisions and tried to make them all legal-based. but there has to be a sense of personal responsibility regardless of what the rules are, here's what you do to stop it. if you try to make everything legalism and rules you're

-- syndicated columnist mark shields, "new york times" columnist david brooks. welcome, so i am tempted to ask you both, what would charles darwin think if he handed in the middle of our political and economic conundrum that we're in. >> i-- social darwinism was a very right wing, laissez-faire idea in the 19th century and now bob is using social darwinism or a form of darwinism to push a more left wing agenda. i'm not sure i know which side is right. i'm a little dubious about taking evolutionary ideas and transposing them to the realm of economics because unlike animals, we have cognition, we have will,my and we are able to do things. one thing he is absolutely right b andçó this has moved in the evolutionary thinking is that we are n only fierce individualists we are supercooperaters, a guy named jonathan height at the university of virginia said we are the giraffes of cooperation. we are really good at cooperating. and soes's right to emphasize the collective. i'm just dubious about taking darwin and trying to make politics out of it. >> woodruff: we didn

mark shields and david brooks, thanks a lot. lawyer >> warner: now, a japanese fishing port struggles to come back after the march tsunami devastated the town and its fleet. independent television news correspondent alex thomson reports from kesennuma on the northeastern coast of japan, the center of the destruction. just a moment by con, cast off. dawn and the fishing boat is being made ready to work. fishing, the life blood of the tsunami coast, is slowly going back to business. harvesting the rich markeral and salmon shoals off the coast at this time of year. is here, perhaps more than anywhere else on the planet, the ocean gives but the ocean takes away. they're once again the provider of a rich living, the salmon being landed at dawn here, just a few months after the saw naw nawmy-- tsunami destroyed the towns the fishermen come from. at least they can get back to work, unlike so many people with land-based jobs in towns obliterated by the sea. >> ( translated ): everyone is in the same situation. just because we get back o

dionne and "the new york times" columnist david brooks. >>> good morning. on the subje of foreign policy, the republican presidential candidates met last night for their tenth debate, and leveled more attacks against president obama than against each other. >> look, one thing you can know, and that is if we re-elect barack obama, iran will have a nuclear weapon. and if we elect mitt romney, if you elect me as the next president, they will not have a nuclear weapon. >> and if there's anything that we know, president obama has been more than willing to stand with occupy wall street, but he hasn't been willing to stand with israel. >> there are a number of ways to be smart about iran, and relatively few ways to be dumb. and the administration skipped all the ways to be short. >> me on that in just a couple of moments. but first this morning, the child sexual abuse scandal at penn state. after 46 years on the sidelines, head coach joe paterno was not at yesterday's penn state/nebrka game. there was, instead, a subdued mood in happy valley. > the nebraska and pe

david brooks david brooks on noon eastern on c-span2. [applause] >> house minority whip steny hoyer held this town hall meeting yesterday focused on economic issues. in it, the maryland congressman outlines some of his budget proposals including raising the retirement age. he also takes questions on college tuition and foreign policy. from the university of maryland in college park, this is just over an hour. >> next we have our town hall meeting with the congressman. and for those who don't know what a town hall is, i'll give you a little sense of what to expect. first, the congressman will make some remarks and then he will take questions. now, one of the key aspects of a town hall meeting is the question. so as the professor, i'm here to remind you of what a question is. [laughter] >> a question is a short statement of inquiry that ends with the expectation of a response. the keywords, response. some of you may be tempted to play the role of a professor and give a lecture or a speech and that's not inappropriate. we'll have a few word

. >> lehrer: and mark shields and david brooks analyze the week's news. tt's all ahead on tonight's newshour. major funding for the pbs newshour has been provided by: >> oil companies have changed my >> oil companies make huge profits. >> last year, chevron made a lot of money. >> where does it go? >> every penny and more went into bringing energy to the world. >> the economy is tough right now, everywhere. >> we pumped $21 billion into local economies, into small businesses, communities, equipment, materials. >> that money could make a big difference to a lot of people. >> computing surrounds us. sometimes it's obvious and sometimes it's very surprising where you find it. soon, computing intelligence in unexpected places will change our lives in truly profound ways. technology can provide customized experiences, tailored to individual consumer preferences, igniting a world of possibilities from the inside out. sponsoring tomorrow starts today. >> and by bnsf railway. >> and the william and flora hewlett foundation, working to solve social and environment

. >> lehrer: and mark shields and david brooks analyze the week's news. that's all ahead on tonight's newshour. major funding for the pbs newshour has been provided by: >> oil companies have changed my >> oil companies make huge profits. >> last year, chevron made a lot of money. >> where does it go? >> every penny and more went into bringing energy to the world. >> the economy is tough right now, everywhere. >> we pumped $21 billion into local economies, into small businesses, communities, equipment, materials. >> that money could make a big difference to a lot of people. >> computing surrounds us. sometimes it's obvious and sometimes it's very surprising where you find it. soon, computing intelligence in unexpected places will change our lives in truly profound ways. technology can provide customized experiences, tailored to individual consumer preferences, igniting a world of possibilities from the inside out. sponsoring tomorrow starts today. >> and by bnsf railway. >> and the william and flora hewlett foundation, working to solve social and environme

but, countering that, meanwhile, conservative comments from the "new york times" david brooks was on "charlie rose" last night. let's hear what he had to say. >> we usually have a governing party. in the '30s, democrats. '80s, republicans. now we don't have a majority party. we have two minority parties. the elections we've had over the last couple of years. we've had this whole shift. basically what happens is they're not positive elections. people are not given mandates to do anything positive. negative elections. 2008 we really didn't like the republicans. in 010 we didn't like the democrats. >> is that the issue, that everybody is calling for a mandate,ç supposedly 2010 was mandate, 2008 was a mandate. really these aren't mandates. maybe these are just reactionary electoral results. >> i think that is the issue. if you get to mort's point about reaction to europe, they don't like it when there's no effort to deal with the crisis. they want to see a plan and competent government. it's worth thinking for a moment about the uk because by golly the uk has done so many things wrong

-- syndicated columnist mark shields, "new york times" columnist david brooks. mark, how do you see the occupy movement now? >> i think the message, which is people say is unclear is a log lott stronger than the messenger. certainly not mayor adams of portland, but i think some of the critics and opponents of the movement itself have tried to discredit the movement by focusing attention on the exotic, eccentric, erratic behavior of some of the occupiers. but this past week, when this question was put, the current economic structure of the country is out of balance and favors a small proportion of the rich over the rest of the country, america needs to reduce the power of major banks and corporationing." 76% of americans, "wall street journal" poll, agree with that. 60% strongly agree with that. it cuts across partisan, religious, racial, age divisions. so i think that is a direct consequence of the movement. i think the movement, the message has been very effective in getting across. i doubt if it would have been that strong three months ago. >> that's exactly w

mark shields and david brooks, thanks a lot. lawyer >> warner: now, a japanese fishing port struggles to come back after the march tsunami devastated the town and its fleet. independent television news correspondent alex thomson reports from kesennuma on the northeastern coast of japan, the center of the destruction. just a moment by con, cast off. dawn and the fishing boat is being made ready to work. fishing, the life blood of the tsunami coast, is slowly going back to business. harvesting the rich markeral and salmon shoals off the coast at this time of year. is here, perhaps more than anywhere else on the planet, the ocean gives but the ocean takes away. they're once again the provider of a rich living, the salmon being landed at dawn here, just a few months after the saw naw nawmy-- tsunami destroyed the towns the fishermen come from. at least they can get back to work, unlike so many people with land-based jobs in towns obliterated by the sea. >> ( translated ): everyone is in the same situation. just because we get back o

to want, david brooks, a columnist in at the "new york times". >> so we've got two separate political yup verses and you can put the greatest people on nert the supercommittee, these two parties are not going to come together. we're going to havea bad decade. >> rose: we conclude with dovsideman, his book is called "how. why how we do anything means everything." >> one day a historian will look back at the last 20 years through the lens of the ideas that permeated society a these ideas will have been amoral ideas. ust do it." "it's just business." oo big to fail." "ged is good." "man is rational so let's give him carrots and sticks to extract performance out of him." those ideas maybe did their job when we wanted scale and growth any which way, but today we need to go from "greed is good "to "good is good." from "gist do it" to "just d it right." from "mans rational" to "man is in search of goodness and meaning." captioning sponsored by rose communications from our studios in new york city, this is charlie rose. >> rose: we begin tonight with a look at politics. today, the deficit red

>>ose: david brooks said everybody is looking for the election to somehow sort this out. but the election ast stands now, the competition between republicans and democrats and the great issues will not be solved by this election. >> we saw this in the 2008 cycle is that it was a change election. the 2010 cycle was also a change ecti. what it shows is there's real dissatisfaction amongst the electorate in solutions, and they're oscillating wildly. david brook's piece he put out this week was the idea that you really have two minority parties now existing. and if we look at that the polling playing ( applause ) that out. 44% of amerans self-identify as independence. althose individuals when it comecomes to how wpick our lders for the most part are left out in the cold. we need to reimagine the way we elect leaders and democracy. >> rose: your strategist is doug shoal. he suppted llary clinton in the 2008 primary system election. he is now calling for-- or has suggested that perhaps the president should step aside for hillary clinton to be the nominee. >> i think what he's t

>>ose: david brooks said everybody is looking for the election to somehow sort this out. but the election ast stands now, the competition between republicans and democrats and the great issues will not be solved by this election. >> we saw this in the 2008 cycle is that it was a change election. the 2010 cycle was also a change ecti. what it shows is there's real dissatisfaction amongst the electorate in solutions, and they're oscillating wildly. david brook's piece he put out this week was the idea that you really have two minority parties now existing. and if we look at that the polling playing ( applause ) that out. 44% of americans self-identify as independence. all those individuals when it comecomes to how we pick our lds for the most part are left out in the cold. we need to reimagine the way we elect leaders and democracy. >> rose: your strategist is doug shoal. he suppted llary clinton in the 2008 primary system election. he is now calling for-- or has suggested that perhaps the president should step aside for hillary clinton to be the nominee. >> i think what he