Leave your feedback Share Copy URL https://www.pbs.org/newshour/show/shields-brooks-mull-democratic-race-mccain-media-flap Email Facebook Twitter LinkedIn Pinterest Tumblr Share on Facebook Share on Twitter Transcript This week, Democratic candidates Hillary Clinton and Barack Obama debated in Texas before the state's primary, questions surfaced in the New York Times about presumptive GOP nominee John McCain's ties to a lobbyist and Cuban leader Fidel Castro stepped down. Analysts Mark Shields and David Brooks discuss the week's news. Read the Full Transcript Notice: Transcripts are machine and human generated and lightly edited for accuracy. They may contain errors. JIM LEHRER: And to the analysis of Shields and Brooks, syndicated columnist Mark Shields, New York Times columnist David Brooks.Mark, did anything happen in that debate last night to change anything in the race substantially? MARK SHIELDS, Syndicated Columnist: Probably not, Jim. I thought that last moment of Hillary Clinton's may have been her best moment in any debate. I thought her debate performance last night was as good as it has been at any time in this entire campaign, in some 19 debates.But he's gotten better, as well, so there was no game-breaker. If you accept the fact that he's ahead going in, that she's got to catch him, and to do so he's got to stumble, he did not do so. JIM LEHRER: How do you see it, no game-breaker? DAVID BROOKS, Columnist, New York Times: I agree, and she didn't really take any risks. When a candidate is losing and sort of sliding away, I always expect them to take risks, do something to try to change the momentum.And 99 percent of the time when I have these expectations, they are dashed. The candidates do the same thing they've always done.And she did the same thing she's always done, which, as Mark says, was a pretty good performance, but she's had good performances pretty much in 19 straight debates and it hasn't helped her.