captioning sponsored by newshour productions, llc >> woodruff: good eveng. i'm judy woodruff. on the newshour night: to the streets. a dual look at global unrest, as che and lebanon erupt in days of massive protests. it's friday. mark shields and david brooks are here to analyze the attorney general's criminal probe into the origins of the russia investigation, and the latest vement in the impeachment inquiry. plus, julie andrews, legendary star of stage and screen, and now the author of a new memoir, about raising a family while in the hollywood spotlight. >> i couldn't sit through the itsound of music for yearsut weeping because anytime i saw my mother cry on a film, i burstys into tearsf. >> yes she'd suddenly say, i'm just going out for a little bit.

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admitted its electrical equipment could have sparked one of those fires in sonoma county. but the official cause has yet to be determined. william brangham has the latest. >> brangham: once again, thousands of california firefighters are battling fast moving blazes across the state. driven by strong winds and dry conditions, the fires areg forcns of thousands to evacuate their homes. hundreds of schools were closed due to pooair quality and closed highways. the kincaid fire, in northern california's sonoma county, doubled in size in less than 24 hours. it's already destroyed at least or49 structures and burned than 21,000 acres. it's just 5% contained.so >> we tely are up against the clock. the winds that are predicted over the currently expected to be worse than what we had just the other night. ou>> brangham: 400 miles s,

just north of los angeles, the tick fire has burned more than 4,000 acres and several subdivisions.ot officials say r 10,000 structures are threatened. it too is just 5% contained. two weeks ago, pacific gas and electric shut off power to hundreds of thousands of residents, trying to prevent high winds from knocking over power lines and sparking fires. investigators believe that's what caused last year's deadly camp fire that killed 85y,eople. yesterg&e said a transmission tower malfunctioned near the site where the kincaid fire began... across northern california'sr wine country. california's governor,emocrat gavin newsom, blasted the utility company yesterday. >> is about decades of mismanagement. it's about focusing on shareholders and dividends over you and members of the public. it's a story about greed. and they need to be held accountable.

>> brangham: pg&e warns they'll have to cut power to more homes throughout the weekend. and if high winds continue, it could turn into the largestbl kout yet for californians, yet another new normal for a state grapplg with the growing impacts of climate change. for the pbs newshour, i'm william brangham. >> woodruff: a federal judge washington today ruled the house impeachment process is legal and ordered e department of stice to give house investigators secret grand jury testimony from the mueller report meanwhile, is been widely reported the justice department's review of the russia probe's origins h now evolved into a criminal investigation. president trump told reporters he anticipates the findings will shed new light on the now-sp concludeial counsel's investigation. >> i think you're going to see a lot of really bad things and a lot of people think that, and

they know they have oblems because they were very dishonest, and again i leave it all up to the attorney general and i leave it all up to the people that are working with the attorney general, who i don't but i will say thihink you'll see things that nobody would've believed. >> woodruff: prosecutors will now have greater authority to issue subpoenas and file criminal charges. the trump corporate organization acknowledged today that it's looking into whether to sell its washington hotel. that comes amid ethics complaints and lawsuits that accuse mr. trump of profiting off his presidency. the trump hotel, located just blocks from the white house, ha- a ar lease on the historic building. revenue last year.lion in a federal judge in california has held u.s. education secrary betsy devos in contempt of court for violating an order related to student loans. the rulingaid devos continued

to collect loans from students who attended corinian colleges, a now-defunct chain of for-profit colleges, deste being ordered to stop. the federal education department s also fined $100,000. more children were separated from their families at the u.s. mexico border than previously known. that's according to a new count the trump administration submitted to the american civil liberties union. immigration authorities separated more than 1,500 additional children from their parents between july 2017 and june 2018 when a federal judge ordered an end to the practice. that brings the overall number of children separated since july 17 to more than 5,400. in iraq, securi fces clashed with anti-govement protesters in baghdad and across several southern provinces today,ll kig at least 23 people.

thousands of demonstrators took to the streets of the capital city to protest the country's corruption and struggling economy. l police firede rounds, rubber bullets, and tear gas to try to disperse the crowd. we'll take a closer look at antiovernment protests in tw other countries, lebanon and chile, later in the program. despite president trump's recent decision to pull u.s. troops ou of northria, the u.s. will strengthen its military presence in one area, in order to block islamic state fighters from accessing oil fields. defense secretary mark eer confirmed plans to deploy u.s. troops and armored vehicles bu he did not offer specifics. esper spoke to reporters after meeting with the turkish defense minister today in brussels. >> we are now taking some actions-- i am not going to get into the details-- to strengthen our position at deir al-zor to ensure that we can deny isis access to the oil fields because we want to make sure that they

don't have access to the resources that may allow them to strike within the region, to strike europe, to strike the united states. >> woodruff: meanwhile, russia's defense ministry said it's sent about 300 additional military police to patrol the turkey- syria border. they'll help oversee the pullout of syrian kurdish fighters. the european union agreed today torrant the u.k.'s request another extension to the brexit deadline. but it won't decide just how long that delay should be until next week. britain was scheduled to leaveur the bloc next ay. the move gives a divided british parliament time to decide on prime minister boris johnson's oll for an early election break the deadlock over brexit. back in is country, the federal budget deficit for 2019 soared to over $984 billion, its highest level in sev years.

that's also a $205 bil or 25% increase over last year. the treasury department reportee thfigure included lost revenue from president trump's tax cuts, as well as increased spending for the military and domestic program members of the united auto workers union ratified a newh contract wneral motors today, bringing an end to their 40-day strike. about 49,000 auto workers had walked off the job since mid- september. that halted production at more than 30 u.s. factories. stocks still managed to rally on wall street today. the dow jones industrial average gained 152 points to close at 26,958. the nasdaq rose 57 points, and the s&p-500 added 12. and, the late maryland congressman and civil rights leader elijah cummings was remembered today at a l in baltimore.of thousandourners, including carmer presidents barack obama and bill clinton to pay

their final respects to the democrat who served in the u.s. house of representator 23 ars. the final sendoff for congressman cummings began early today in his hometown of baltimore. ♪ ♪ a wall of sound from organ and choir filling the 4,000-seat "new psalmist" baptist church, where cummings himself worshipped for 40 years. >> we prepare now for the requiem of a public servant, the honorable elijah eugene cummings. >> woodruff: a military honor guard covered the congressman's casket with an american flag. ♪ ♪ >> woodruff: a favorite of cummings, singer bebe winans, remembered him with the song "stand." and political leaders, democrats and republicans alike, sat with

members of the baltimore community whom cummings served for more than two decades.re former sry of state hillary clinton likened him to the biblical prophet whose name bore. >> like the prophet, our elijah coulcall down fire from heaven. but he also prayed and worked for healing. he weathered storms and earthquakes but never lost his faith. >> woodruff: she was followed by the house speaker, nancy pelosi, who remembered cummings welcoming to everyone he encountered. >> our elijah always made a seat at the table for other for even new membersf congress so that he could mentor them, for all who wanted to be pt of the american dream. >> woodruff: long-time friend and former u.s. congressman kweisi mfume spoke of cummgs

as a faith-filled man as profound as he was funny. >> i would go on later that year to get elected to th council, winning by three votes. and elijah, who had met my grandmother, thoht it was funny they came to me and said now "kwiesi, as long as you are black." which meant the rest of my life? ( laughs ) you just remember that those three votes were the father, the son, and the holy ghost and you can't go wrong. >> woodruff: cummings's daughter jennifer thanked him for life lessons and shared her memories his famous voice. >> thank you for loving me unconditionally and teaching mel whe and leadership are by your example. i will miss your smile, your great big smile that could light up a room. i will miss your booming voice that would firmly sound "jennifer" when i knew i was in trouble. >> woodruff: and his wife maya, ato chairs maryland's demo

party, called her husband a public servant of integrity, and a "walng miracle." >> he was gin six months to live more than 25 years ago and he kept going, he ptighting, he kept standing, he kept working! >> woodruff: at the service were two former presidents, billan clintobarack obama. both urged those gathered to remember lessons left by cummings >> we should hear him now in the morning when we nerage.d in the when we get discouraged and we don't know if we can believe ymore we should hear him >> his life validates the things we tell ourselves about what's possible in this country-- not guaranteed, but possible. we have the capacity, the nation, to root ourselves ins a

good soil.uf >> woo and the eulogy summed up cummings as a man of devout faith who did what he could to bring together a divided nation. that portrait came from the long-time pastor of cummings' church, bishop walter thomas. >> he never wanted to lose what was grounded in him and i thinkb ught you to church because too many in our country are >> woodruff: the organ sounded as the service csed, while pallbearers wheeled cummnigs casket out for final burial. elijah cummings was 68 years old. oustill to come on the new lebanon and chile erupt in protest. what's driving two waves of unrest a world apart? filling the bench.

a close look at the new federal judges the white houses ushering to lifetime apintments. mark shields and david brooks break down a dizzying week of impeachment news. a conversation with julieings: andrews. in dozens of countries,orld protesters have takeno the streets. the demands in each country may be unique but demonstrators are united in despetion wit economic disparity and unrealized expectations. inebanon, jane ferguson reports anger at the governmentl divides. >> reporter: in lebanon, defying

religious divisions is a revolutionary act in and of itself. this protest movement,ess than ten days old, aims to overcome decades of deep sectariani that have led to a corrupt government and devastating economic crisis. corrtion and bad leadership have made lebanon the second most indebted country in the world. it may default on its debts if it doesn't balance its annual budget. the government has tried to claw its way out of the financial disaster by promising reforms, but demanding more taxes. these people have had enough. >> reporter: this group of young men are angry that there is no future here for em. >> reporter: lebanon'solitical system is based on the country's

sectarian divisions, with top government posts being shared out between sunni mu shia, druze and christians. it is designed to keep the peace, but leads to constant deadlock and corruption. ose sectarian leaders, in place since the 15-year civil war ended in 1990, have beme entrenched. all sides exploit sectarian fears to shore up their positions and stay in power, where they enrich themselves. wsami nader is an economi has been predicting these protests for months. >> there is no separation between business and politics, and the politician either is doing business directly or, now, if it's so obvious, he has around him circles who get the big contracts. it's the case in the electricity sector, it's the case in the waste sectors, ithe telecoms

sectors. >> reporter: a state department official voiced american support for the protesters, telling saudi channel al arabiya, "the people of lebanon are rightly frustrated with their government's inability to prioritize reform. the protests have shaken the country's political elite, with prime minister saad hariri appearing on television four days ago to offer the protestere rms. slatedr): these decisions are not for bartering, they are not to ask you to stop protesting or expressing anger. this is something that you decide. and we are not giving you a deadline, and i will not allow mianyone to threaten or inte >> reporter: the protesters rejected his offer, and instead demand all political leaders resign. hariri is a sunni muslim but his rival, hassan nasrallah, from the shia hezbollah movement is also rattled by the protests. ust a militaryot force here, but a political one, just as he was dueeak in a televised address today, several hundred of his supporters

arrived at the protests, bringing loudspeakers to blast his words over the sounds of the protesters calling for his resignation. >> ( translated ): we are scared for the country. we are scared that there might be someone who wants to take lebanon and create social, security and political tensions that would lead to civil war. >> reporter: nasrallah, whose movement is largely funded and supported by iran, also claimed the protest movement was an international conspiracy. >> ( translated ): information and data, the data we got fromff ent sources, tell that now the situation in lebanon has entered the target of political instrumentalization internationally and regionally, that involves internal actors. >> reporter: "all of you, all of you" has become a common chantll here, g the hezbollah t supportershat their leader,ow too, should stn. the riot police here are separating the different protesters. the main protest overe are

those who are calling thr the fall ogovernment and all political elites. and, just behind the thick layer of riot supporters who have come down and caused quite a bit of tension here today. when we crossed the police line and headed othr to speak to , they told us the protesters should go home. them to move on ind, and theld angry crowd threw sticks and water bottles as they were shoved out of the street they put up some resistance to p the police before givingd going home. the protesters know that sectarian leaders will not give up their grip on power here easily. you think the current system e ies to divide and rule? >> exactly, becaey are benefiting. >> reporter: as night comes, beirut's city center reclaims the carnival atmosphere that has characterized these protests from the beginning. across the country, music and dancing have been used by

protesters to defy religious divisions and call for elites to step aside. keeping their movement peaceful and united will be just as great a challenge as creating real political change. for the pbs newshour, i'm janebe ferguson in ut, lebanon. >> i'm nick scfrin with a look protests 8,0 miles away in chile. for the past week chileans have filled the streets for a movement calling for fund meant el forms,g struggl feed their families, pots become instruments of frustration they protest healthcare, low pensions, and what they describe as agovernment that's who's legitimacy. >> this doesn't is unjprust. the of grass and electricity go up, and no respect for the people, only business and gornment.

>> chile has been one of africa's most stable countries, touted as a regional success. in the '90s and 2000s, prosperity expand bud it has one of the world's largest wealth gaps. >> people who were were poor in the past could not tink about protesting, now have a whole host of rising expectations. so it's a crisis in the nse of rising expectations not fulfilled in the part of many people. >> arturo valenzuela was the eirector of georgetown's latin american studyer and a former senior state departmental offiho tracked the country as it modernized and grew. rich >> people became aware of the large gaps between people going to private schools, people who live i likely well-off neighborhoods and so on and so forth, so the inequality issue,a and cerly chile has become far more unqual. >> aat this week theeling of inequality exploded not only into peaceful protests, but also

deadly clashes between government and the governed. at least 17 protesters have been killed and hubsf police injured in running battles thata paralyzed thital santiago. billionaire president announced increased pensions, minimum wages, increased honkon increasd althcare. >> we have heard cloud and clear the voice of the people who have expressed their problems, pains, shortages, their dreams and their hopor a better life. >> reporter: also at thedpli the military that targeotd presters and enforced a curfew with batons and smoke grenades. it's the first time that happened since the dictatorshipg ofeneral aw augusto when imprisoned and the fear is some those dark days are returning.

on monday, miguel sofia filmed as 9,000 soldiers took over the protesters unaphrase of violence or the curfew. >> the social discontent is not just about the fare rides for the subway. the thing the government does is criminalize the situation that in truth they have dragged on for so long.mi now thitary are using the same strateg they use durdiing ctatorship making fun of people and shooting pele in many regions. >> suddenly ann umarked car screeched toward them. >> (bleep) shooting man! >> reporter: the reporter andd franklin screaey were pressed. >> what's that, what's that. (speaking in foreign language) >> reporter: the car mde a u-turn and fired a few final shots. >> started shooting indiscriminately at people.

we had to hide behind the tree. the bark off here, the shotgun you can see different pieces of the tree blown away. we were fortunately behind the tree but they were shooting at people. more coming, more coming. >> reporter: they could have been unmarked police or provocateurs. this kind of violence in chile hasn't been seen in decades and it's not going to stop. o>> i'm not in favof violence at all. in fact, i have never liked it, but i think it is the nly way that they will listen to us. >> many citizens are probably going to say, look, we need to take care of the violent elemen here, but, on the other hand, it's quite clear there is an opening here for significant abuses on human rightsn to part of authorities when a protest is repressed in that way. >> reporte the u.n. vows to inveigate reports of human rights violations and proteers say the government's concetoions aro little too late. that's the same message from 34 protesters around the world, not only in chle and lebanon, but

also in iraq. in haiti. and in ecuador. all these protests have local causes and local politics, but they're all organized online, and protesters object to widespread economic disparity and increase bud unrealized expectations and the unerlying problems they demand be fixed are not easy for any government to der. for the "pbs newshour," i'm nick schifrin. >> woodruff: amid the constant swirl of news around the white house, there has been one constant in the trump administration: the steady stream of the president's judicial nominees to federal courts across the country. li desjardins explains how this little-noticed effort could have an impact on the presidential election next year

and on the courts for decades to >> desjardins: vote by vote... >> are there any senators in the chamber? s desjardins: ...republic are quietly reshaping federal courts. >> the yeas are 50, nays 41. the nomination is confirs:d. >> desjardith this vote yesterday, the republican senate confirmed justin walker as thein 157th trump ape to get on the federal bench. more on him in a minute. first, about that number. 157 federal judges confirmed. that is on par with presidents clinton and bush at this point in their term, but is a whopping 50% more than president obama confirmed by this time. this is a rally cry for prest p. >> we'll have a record number of judges by the time our term is over.f

>> desjardins:, it will be thanks to republican senate leader mitch mcconnell, whose chamber decides the fate of nominees. and he is playing the long game. >> i've always believed the single most powerful way the u.s. senate can positively impact the country's future is through our role in confirming lifetime appointments to the federal courts.ir >> desjardins:, mcconnell blocked president obama's nsminees toward the end of his term, leaving dof vacancies for the next president. and then this spring, mcconnell changed senate rules to cut 30 hours each to jo hours.s from esince the rules change, senate is now a nomination factory. it is the body's main function. >> the nomination is confirmed. >> the n >> the nomination is confirmed. >> it makes things go so much fast within the senate. >> desjardins: jacqueline thomsen covers judicial nominations and the federal courts for the "national law journal," and sees a breakne pace. >> it's just happening so fast that there just isn't even time

for anybody to take a step back d think about the nomine that they're voting for, on the scale that they were able to before. not yet tree years into his presidency, already nearly one-quarter of all appeals court judges are trump appointees and those courts dece idousands of schedule courts have determined the face of immigrant families federal courts have determined the fates of immigrant families and abortion policy, and regularly rule on laws about schools and workplaces alike. now, republicans are not just focusing on numbers of judges, bt on confirming much younger ones. again, the "national law journal's" jaqueline thomsen. >> we're seeing people in their 40s, not theirmi0s, getting ted. so that means that they're goint to be on the cor a while, that they're really going to be able to shape the law in a way that lasts for far beye time that they are even on the

bench. >> desjains: this brings us back to justin walker, confirmed as a federal district judge yesterday. walk is just 37 years old, a law professor at the university of louisville. he is admired by republicans, but as democrats point out, he has never tried a case as a lawyer. >> have you ever presented an argument before a federal jury? >>ghenator, i have not, alth again... >> desjardins: that lackf courtroom experience drew an automatic "not qualified" rating from the non-partisan american bar association, something that derailed nominees in the past-- but no more. walker is the fifth trump nominee to get on the federal bench despite being rated "unqualified" by the a.b.a. and, the senate is poised to vote on a sixth soon. to republicans, the a.b.a. is outdated, and not the point. mcconnell sees each new conservative judge as a

political win which will outlive him, this president and presidents after that. and this is an issue that fires up republican voters, something the trump campaign is counting on next year. four more years mean mo judges. >> they'reble to say, "we took an entire branch of the federal govement, and we reshaped it values.e, to reflect our today and tomorrow.do it for we did it for your children and your children's children." >> desjardins: mcconnell and the senate show no sign of slowing. it's set to vote on another group of president trump's nominees as soon as next week. for the pbs newshour, i'.lisa desjardi >> woodruff: the top u.s. diplomat f ukraine told congress the president withheld military aid for personal

political gain. republican congressmembers stormed a secure room, when many already had access, to dispute the impeachment process but not the substance. the department of justice is investigatinthe f.b.i. for looking into russia's interference in the 2016 election. amidst all this news, the white house pl cancel all federal government subscriptions to "the new york times" and "the washington post." here to make sense of it all: shields and brooks. that's syndicated columnist mark shields and new york timest ublumnvid brooks. so, david, thoseriptions to the white house from your newspaper -- >> explains why i have been get fog insight >> woodruff: but you will soldiern o. let's pick up with lisa's trump has been able to nominate and get successfully confirmedge more juthan any of his

predecessors. what's the real significance of this? >> when you talk to conservative voters why they support trump, the number one answer is the courts he's having an effect. republican federalist society judges. they're not populists. i'not sure i see quite the same transformatn on the circuit court revel. of the 13 appellate courts only one may flip. you see democratic districts staying democratic, republicans getting redder, but no transformation from a more liberal court to a more c conservatiurt, and his impact on future nominations are going down because democratic waiting and hoping there's ae democrat. so there's expected relatively few openings in the coming years than previous. >> woodruff: so, mark, not transformational? transformational, judy.

in lisa's piece, made the pointi that tue fired up republican voters. she's absolutely right. in the exit polls in 2016 when 23,000 actl voters were polled and they asked what the most important issue that you areci ng on, a full one out of five voters answered that the supreme court nomination and judicial nominations, an they broke for donald trump overwhelming donald trump overwhelmingly, almost 3 to 2. thoswho just consider it an important issue or not an important issue all vote for hirktd. hillary clinton. this was a key vote, pro made and delivered. as david pointed ou his appointments have come from the federalist society. the other factor is playing the actuarial charts. i mean, they're younger.

neil gorsuch was 49 when he was nominated, brett kavanaugh was 53, most recently a 35-year-old. so it's a real chnge, and it's a promise made, promise delivered, much to the consternation of a lot oftimes. >> woodruff: we know it flies under trader and that's why thought it was so important to take a look at it and we are grateful to have lisa's reporting.ac iment, david, there is virtually a development every day about that. we jst learned today a federal judge said the impchment inquiry in the house in his view legal and that means the department of justice is going to have to turn over grand ju material from the mueller investigation, but this follows a week of testimony behind closed doors, some made public by one dim pt figure after another especially william taylor who served as armamentsne to ukr what else it adding up to at this point?

>> when we first learned about the phone call, you would say well, it was trump being trump, a reckless phone call and sort of e elbowing the guy. we've learned this was not th case. it was a coordinated campaign to lp trump's reelection bid. it was detailed, methodical. it was quid pro quo, and order coming from the president told p aid unless ukraine did this. so that seals the al, i think, and i think at least the republican establishment has to feel just beaten, and the question is how do they find a way to stick with them? but i think the republican mood was, wow, this is bad, wow, this is b id. think the key thing is to look for sort of an emotional crumbling where they say we can't sit by along this. i don't thk we're at that place. how republican sensee thisted

guy. >> woodruff: because at this point the vast majority of republicans say they still don'o see the slid evidence. >> no, those who make public statements. those who don't, don't say that. i think the silence does speak, if not volumes, at lea chapters. ambassador taylor's testimony was not a smoking gun, it was a smokingor arm it was specific, factual, compelling. what i found most revealing about this is i went through, michael atkinson with e inspector general, michael mckinley, 37 years of sevice at the state department, ambassador taylor, marie yovanovitch, laura cooper, 163 years of public service, no hedge funds, no high-tech buyouts or whatever else. ese are people who devoted

themselves -- and i think ambassador taylor was the house, he really was. the w i mean, 49 years of publicro service ht back in after retirement at the insistence of the secret state, and he cannot go unmentioned that mike pompeo is violating every rule to have the united state military, responsibility of an office to his men and those undehim. he has totally abandoned and not stood up for any ofhe people -- >> woodruff: secretary of state. - secretary of state, and these professionals who have come forward at considerable cost and risk to their own careers and certainly their peace of mind, and i think hs silence is a telling indictment of him and his lack of character. woodruff: but as we see, david, the white house continues to say, and the president is raging about this -- we heard it again today -- he's saying these people have n credibility, and

he was saying yesterday they're part of the so-called deep state, and using a lot woe language than that. >> and, so far, that's holding -- impeament is popular in the country but it's very popular on the coastal parts of the country. amy walter pointed out this week that, in the swing states, its favorability rating. for democrats to think they can have to get the swing states and sell the message. so far, they have secret don't learn anything in a public hearing, they have to lern what happened, so you have to gete away from cameras for that, but eventually they will have to have pubrilic heas in order to persuade the country and whether they can do that in a month or two or wh were that happens, we'll see. >> woodruff: some reporting it mahappen in just a couple of weeks. separate from this, mark, but

some pehiople tnk related, you have this revelation reporting yesterdayhat the department of jtice which had been overseeing a probe into the origins of the russia investigation, what the russian did to affect the6 2ection, that was an inquiry, is now a criminal investigation, criminal probe, and the question -- which raises all kinds of questions. how did it become that? we don't know. but i just want to show for all ofs, this is a comment from senator mark warner who is vic chair of the senate intelligence committee, said they wrapped up a threee bipartisan investigation, we have found nothing remotely justifying this. he said will barr's investigation has already jeopardized see international intelligence partnerships. he needs to come before congresi and exhimself. how much does this matter that this has become a criminal probe? >> i think it does matter starting with the mark warner

point.oc in aan of roiling, rancid partisanip, the senate intelligence committee has been an island of collegiality andio cooper so i don't know if he is speaking just for himself as the ranking democrat and coe chair of that committee, withe th acquiescence of senator burr, nthe chairman, i don'tw, but it certainly is serious. you have to come to the conclusion, judiny, tha bill bar, donald trump final got the attorney general he wanted. jeff sessions didn't deliver for him. jeff sessions reced himself. hurling around the globe from australia to flit pursuit of informion to somehow rationalize, justify that donald trump didn't lose in 2016 and obama administratis somehowe

behind, some spying on him. k and, yow, mike warner's point is, after a three-year investigation by that committee, there is absolutely nothing that s come to support that, and i don't know what the answer is. david, pehaps, does. >> i, of course, know the answer. having thoroughly put aside the state department, you have too under the presumption they're trng to politici the department of justice. the guy selected to do the investigation, john do you remember who was appointed by both parties, has a gold and sterling reputation, so we can rest in trust with him. this goes to what mark was saying, the whole question for the last three years, what do our institutions hold. testimonies last week and whatever durham does, i think the institutions are holding and the result is a president who does not go by institutional logic or obey institutional

rles y the institutions are >> woodruff:king at thees. 2020 field, mark. there are 18 still in the race. we had tim ryan, congressman from ohio, drop out yesterday, but 18 still running. there is reporting, you've seen it, some democrats are getting anxious because they're worried they still don't have a horse mp.t can beat donald tru how widespread do you think that worry is? >> i would say it's a livelyan ety, the cause or defects of the top cor candidates on ideological grounds, democrats senator warren and sanders, they're vying sort of a libal sliver of the electorate right now that vicide prt biden may not be the joe biden that we come to know and love in previous years and that pete buttigieg is a mayor of a very

small city with a male partner and married to is maybe 37, just a little bit more than the country is ready for, and especially in an election where they want the referendum to be on a flawed, damaged, manifestly perfect incumbent. so i think wheth it's michelle obama or whoever else, democrats are casting around looking. i think the key qestion democrats have to face, judy, there are 206s countrack obama carried twice that donald trump carried in 2016, and p the democrats can go back and carry these counties, i think that's the question, can the democrats do that and is thaoft the kin candidate and campaign they want to run. >> two years ago, i thought the strongest were tch landrieu and former governor deval

patrick of massachusetts who are not in the race. if you're unhappy with the top fourdemocrats, look at th bottom 14. they're perctly good candidates in my opinion. so look around, try out others if you're unhappy with the top four. >> woodruff: one of thech lenges they have is just getting attention with all the focus in washington on impeachment d everything else, it's hard for them to get air time, shl we say. one thing we want to note at the end of the program is tht, as we near the end of the program, is that the "newshour" announced today that we are - we will be hosting, moderating a democratic presidential debate toward the end of december, december 19. >> terrific. >> woodruff: so we are looking forward to th opportunity. >> wonderful. >> woodruf with that, mark shields, david brooks, have a great weekend. >> thank you.

>> woodruff: finally tonight, julie andrews.of she's onhose legendary entertainers everyone seems to know. next year, andrews will receive her latest accolade: the american film institute's life achievement award. john yang sat down with 84-year- old andrews and her daughter emma walton hamilton to talk about their new book, which reveals some stories people don't know about arews from her time in hollywood. this is part of our ongoing arts and culture series, "canvas." >> yang: both "sound of music" and "mary poppins" were touchstones in my-- >> --in your youth. s. actually, they were in mine too! yeah. ( laughs ) re yang: then talking to my colleagues, theyhowing their children. >> yes. isn't that phenomenal? i mean, th's a bonus and that and that you just don't expect, but those timeless good musicals and they were so beautifully made.

>> yang: andrews' legendary career includes the stage, movies, tv, rdncerts and regs. she's a dame commander of the british empire and has six golden globes, three grammys, two emmys, an oscar and ace kenneder honor. andrews and hamilton, a professional writer and arts educator, have written more than 30 books for children and young adults. they wrote, "home work: a memoir of my hollywood years," as a team. emma, as you were growing ov, were theres or projects of your mothers that were particular favorites? >> i was pretty much there most of theime on set for most of the films. i couldn't sit through "the sound of music" for years without weeping because anytime i iw my mother cry on a fil burst into tears myself. >> yes she'd suddenly say, i'm just going out for a little bit. blinking very furiously. but i have to say, probably now, among my favorites of her

films is hawaii. i think her performance in it is so different than many of her other films, they're so strong. >> americanization of emily, one of your favorites. >> it's the virtue of it, not war. it's the valor and self-sacrifice and the goodness of war that needs exposing. i s a very timely theme, more than ever maybe, about the folly and excess of war and the edlessness of it. >> reporter: writing about your early days involved, you tab talked abouhe tontrast and the glamorous appearance oft life in the ne and the shabby reality of it backstage. >> yes. snoo and you give us examples in your movie-making particularly of the wonderfully opening scene of sound of music. the camera discovered you on a mountainto ♪ the hills are alive with the sound of music ♪ >> yes, but, actually, being

photographed by a cameraman hanging from the side of a helicopter, i kept being dashed to the ground by the down draft from the jet engines. but every ti i came up with grass and hay all over me. ♪ the hills fill my heart with the sounof music ♪ >> reporter: one lyric in the .ovie you never quite got >> there's just one tiny line i didn't know how to sing, and i just thought the best thing to, ince out in the wild and so on, just sing through the night like a lark and carry on very fast after that. ♪ like a lark who is learning play ♪ >> yang: for her very first film, "mary poppins," she won the oscar.

♪ ♪ >> i know, a stunning surprise. i didn't eect to and i really thought for a while that maybe it was given to me as a kind of welcome to hollywood gesture. and what a lucky, lucky moment in my life. >> yang: the book focuses on the importance ofamily. emma, the child of her first marriage to theater director tony walton, two step children- -jennifer and gefrey--from her second marriage to noted film director/writer/producer blake edwards and the two daughters she and edwards adopted, amelia and joanna. edwards, who died in 2010, directed andrews in seven movies, including "10" and" victor/victoria." ♪ ♪ >> i love the unity that it provides and working with blake i felt so very safe in his

embrace, so to speak. i knew that i didn't have to worry about a thing, but i'm on camera. but just sticking together, traveling together, being together. it's why home in "home work" is there, because making a home, keeping family together means so much to me. >> there's a sweet story in the book of when she fleo surprise me for my 15th birthday weeks prior to go back to work in europe. i came home from school and discovered her sitting on my bed completely wrapped in wrapping crepe paper, i guess. and then i burst io tears. happy tears. >> thank god yes. >> yang: yet, not all the memoriesre happy. >> blake was a very, a depressive personality and yet devastatingly funny. but when he was in a bad way, it was very sad. >> yang: you felt the need to make things better, to make people happy. >> well, it's sort of my job in a way, john, if you think about

it, being on stage all mlife, it's about hopefully giving joy and i love to do it. >> reporter: in her next book, andrews also expects to deal with the emotional impact of losing her singing voice afterro th surgery in 199 procedure itsel.'t discuss the >> unfortunately, i can't talk about it since it was part of my reement in a settlement where i gave all the settlement to charity and so on, but it was a devastating time in my life. welcome! >> reporter: she's stil working, recently appearing in julie's green room on netflix. >> to the stage! >> reporter: the children's show is about puppets aging their own musical under the watchful eye of andrews, a grandmother of ten and great grandmother of three. for the "pbs wshour," i'm john

yang in new york. >> woodruff: on the newshour online right now, some u.s. allies areeft wondering what the u.s. decision to pull out of we examine how three countries. may be feeling. that's on our website www.pbs.org/newshour. tune in later tonight. robert costa explores the democrats strategy for open hearings going forward. our amna nawaz joins "washingtoa week" for an iment roundup. on pbs newshour weekend saturday, a look at miami's fordable housing crisis and how the city plans to create anthat's the newfor 2024. tonight. i'm judy woodruff. join us online and again here monday evening. for all of us nd the pbs newshour,

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