Leave your feedback Share Copy URL https://www.pbs.org/newshour/show/clinton-gaffe-mccain-health-records-top-campaign-news Email Facebook Twitter LinkedIn Pinterest Tumblr Share on Facebook Share on Twitter Transcript As Sen. Hillary Clinton apologized for citing the 1968 assassination of Robert Kennedy as a rationale for staying in the race, Sens. John McCain and Barack Obama took harder punches at one another in the presidential contest. Mark Shields and David Brooks consider the news from the trail. Read the Full Transcript Notice: Transcripts are machine and human generated and lightly edited for accuracy. They may contain errors. RAY SUAREZ: And to the analysis of Shields and Brooks, syndicated columnists Mark Shields and New York Times columnist David Brooks.And as we heard Hillary Clinton just earlier today, just before show time, in fact, she was talking to the editorial board of the Argus about how late, historically, primary contests have run. She referenced, first, the fact that her husband didn't wrap it up until June of '92, and then added, "We all remember Bobby Kennedy was assassinated in June in California," as if to say, yes, June, when there was still a campaign on.But the blowback has been — and in a very short time, a strikingly short time — tremendous. What's this about? DAVID BROOKS, Columnist, New York Times: Well, what a country we live in when we have our events of the day — we have McCain distancing himself from some lunatic preacher; we have Obama pandering to the Jews, "I really love your Woody Allen movies"; and then we've got Hillary Clinton with the RFK thing.And my own personal belief is she didn't mean it. She was talking about June. She stumbled into the assassination thing. She didn't mean anything by it. You know, she says 100,000 words a day like all the candidates.I basically think there's nothing to it, doesn't reflect any real views of any of the three what happened today.