captioning sponsored by wnet >> thompson: on this edition for mber 9: the latest on the impeachment inquiry as republicans release their witness wish list; in oursi ature segment, rock and roll hall-of-famer graham nash; and marie kondo with a tidyingfo adventurkids. next on pbs newshour weekend. >> pbs newshour weekend is made possible by: bernard and irene schwartz. sue and edgar wachenheim iii. the cheryl and philip milstein faly. rosalind p. walter, in memory of george o'neil.

barbara hopeuckerberg. corporate funding is provided by mutual of america, signing customized individual and group retirent products. that's why we're your retirement company. additional support has been provided by: and by the corporation for public broadcasting, a private corporation funded by the american people. and by contributions to your pbs station from viewers like you. thank you. the tisch wnet studios lincoln center in new york, megan thompson. >> thompson: good evening, and thank you for joining us. public hearings in the impeachment inquiry begin this wednesday, and today republicans would like to testify.ple they in a letter to house intelligence committee chairman democrat adam schiff, republicans listed aleast eight people they believe should be compelled to publicly testify. the list includes hunt v biden, forme president joe

biden's son, who served on the board of ukranian energy company burisma holdings. publicans are also asking for the anonymous whistleblower, whose complaint initthe impeachment inquiry, to testify, as well anyone the whistleblower relied on in drafting the complnt. under the rules passed by the house last week, democrats leading the inquiry ha to approve all witnesses, and it's almost certain they will reject many of these requests. on his way to tuscaloosa to attend the alabama/l.s.u. football game, president trump told reporters no one should testify in the impeachment inquiry. mr. trump also said he may release the transcript of a second call with ukrnian president volodymyr zelenskiy later this week. the president of ukraine. with so, you'll read the second call, and you'll tell me if you think there's anything wrong with it. but, never in history has anybody gone through this. it's a witch hunt, and it should never happen to another president. >> thompson: german and eastern

european leaders gathered ini ben today to mark the 30th anniversary of the fall of the berlin wall. the ceremony was held on a street where one of the last parts of the barrier that separated the communist-ruled eastrothe capitalist west for 28 years still remains. germanr chancelgela merkel commemorated those killed for trying to flee from east to west and said that the fight for freedom around the world continues. germany was reunified only one year after the toppling of the berlin wall, one of the most powerful cold war symbols. four people we killed and 108 others were injured today during ongoing anti-government protests in iraq. three people died when ey were shot, and the fourth died after tear gas canister securitya forces cleared three main bridges over the tigris river. demonstr cationsling for an overhaul of iraq's government began last month and have grown increasingly violent. said that wildfire the eastls

coast have killed three people, injured dozens more, and destroyed more than 150 homes. firefighters are battling more than 70 fires across new sou wales, australia's most populous state, during a severe drought. australia's annual fire season started eaterly this year an unusually dry and warm winter. pfleeing the "camp" fire, a huge wildfire that killed 85 people, destroyed 95% of the town of paradise, and burned more than 150,000 acres. >> we bin to heal. >> thompson: yesterday, residents and officials marked the ann ceremony and 85 seconds of silence, one for each victim of the fire, in a town that is still struggling to recover. "san francisco chronicl reporter lizzie johnson joins us now from rase, california. so, lizzie, i understand that you've been actually living part-time in paradise for the last year doing yoll reporting. s, what's it like there now, one year later? >> the big emphasis is on

rebuildi. sowhen you drive around town, it's not just burnt-down lots and homes and buildi it's a blank slate. it's driving past, you know, what looks like an entire field of empty dirt. >> thompson: do we have aense of how many people are planning to return? >> so, there'so exact data, but he town manager did say that the town of paradise has received about 500 rebuilding permits since last year. so, that's the best estimate they have. and since last november, 15 houses have been rebuilt. and keep in mind, that's out of 14,000 that were burned down. >> thompson: what are the people who are staying or returning, what arehey saying? i mean, how are they feeling? at the ceremony yesterday, officials were talking about how the amount of debris in paradise after the camp fire was 2.5 times what came down in new york city after the 9/11 attacks. so, the fact that they've gotten rid of most of the debris and have a place to rebuild. i've talked with, they'rele that

frustrated by how long it takes. they just want to get back to their old lives. >> thomps: i wanted to ask about whether they're rebuilding in a different wayren order to enhat buildings and houses are built maybe in a more safe >> so, when it comes to building, the town has made some pretty major changes, things like having the siding raised off the creeps up, it doesn'te automatically break up the wall. mobile homes have to have been built within t at the time of the camp fire, most homes were abt 30 years ol, so very flammable. you know, one house caug on fire, and that caused the entire blocked to catch on fire. >> thompson: you talabout frusration over how long things were taking. i mean, what kind of help and aid is the town getti from the state and federal government? >> there have been a lot of fema, from the state, from the north valley community foundation-- grants to help people rebuild, to get loans to rebuild. but in the wake of a disaster ke this, the need is just

massive. >> thziompson: all right, l johnson of the "san francisco chronicle," thank you so much. >> thank you. >> thompson: to read more about the republicans' request for testimony in the ongoing impeachment inquiry, visit www.pbs.org/newshour. >> thompson: two-time rock and roll hall-of-famer graham nash is famous for writing and performing classic rock staples like "teach your children" and "our house" with the band crosby, stills, nash & young. but he recently played a set of shows centerearound some music he's far less known for. newshour weekend's tom casciato has more >> reporter: it's not just his fans whoppreciate that graham nash is still going strong at 77. >> nice to be back. >> reporter: so does aham nash. >> at my age, it's nice to be anywhere. ( laughorr ) >> rr: but some of his rece shows might seem curious to those who know him only for his hits. live and learn t you're still learning. ♪ >> reporter: he has decades' awrth of chart-toppers to from...

>> ♪ e iving me to rport. ♪ >> reporter: ...but he recently did shs featuring his lesser- known first two solo albums in wonder why.ety, and you have to there are certainly artists of your generation who go back and revisit their finest commercial moment if not their finest artistic moment. >> i want to be as real as possible. i'm coming to the end of my life. i'm 77 years old right now. how much longer can ts go on? i hope to be around for at least the next 30, 40 years, but i might drop dead in the middle of this conversation. >> reporter: with no time like the present to do it, nash kicks off the show with the opener from his first album, "songs for beginners." >> ♪ in an upstairs room in blkpool. ♪ >> reporter: it starts with his birth in the midst of world war ii iblapool, england. >> ♪ the har my father and my mother was having me. ♪

>> reporter: and what were you doing in blackpool, urich was not ometown? >> no, i lived in salford, which is a small part of manchester in the north of england. and manchester was being bombed heavily, and pregnant ladies were evacuated out of the bombing area. ♪ military madness was killing my country. ♪ >> reporter: "military madness" was an anti-war anthem withoo social protested in childhoomemories, but it had the kind of engaging melody nash was known for and even a kind of sing-along feel to it. ♪ you and a lot of your peers of that era were anti-war, but not all of them came upon that having grown up around bomb craters. >> we were playing in buildings that could have collapsed on us at any moment. and if my parents would have

found out, i would've been in big trouble. ♪ >> reporter: the album came out in 1971, nash joining a list of on the charts at the momentters their genre hit the cover of "time" as the hot new thing. it followed the breakup of cros, stills, nash & young and another breakup with his live-in lo mve, jochell. but on "songs for beginners," ev ren lost love coue along on a tuneful wave that took a bit of the sting out. >> l ♪ and in my be at night i miss you. ♪ came across as an affirmative, idealistic affair. >> ♪ we can change the world we can change. ♪ released in early 1974, was something else again. it aherrived at a moment among nash's peers-- on the radio, at least-- confessional songwriting had given way to

polished pop balladry. >> ♪ and when i go away i ow mheart can stay with my love. ♪ >> reporter: "my love" by paul mccartney. were." seisand, "the way we you knew how to write love songs, and you knew how to write hits. and yet, with "wild tales," you what was on the radio at thef time. what was on your mind?ll >> a the stuff that's in "wild tales." >> reporter: nash wasn't going for the gloss of pop-friendly radio. >> ol♪ don't the wind blow c when you're hanging your soul on the line? ♪ rter: again, he mined hi childhood for inspiration, but the memories hurt this time. my father was an engineer. my mother had to look after three kids, of course, but she had toork also. we were veryoor, but my father had bought a camera from a

friend of his at work. and one day, the police came to our door. they wanted to know where my k ther had bought the camera because they that a camera had been stolen. and, well, in t north of england at that point--s nd i'm su ie same all over the world-- you didn't... you don't rat on your friends.d so, my father would... wouldn't tell them, and he actually spent a year in jail. >> reporter: and what did that do to your dad? and what did that do to you? >> i think it broke his heart. he felt ashamed that the police had t come door. and he died at 46. ♪ one day, a friend took me aside ♪ and said i'll have to leave you ♪ for buying something from a friend they say i've done wrong. ♪

>> experience to a plea for prison reform long before such sentimentsit the mainstream. >> ♪ so now i'm bidding you fare fwe much too long ♪ aa nd here'ng to sing for . every man insi♪ >> reporter: meanwhile, the trooe ps had left vietnam ar before, but that didn't stop nash from writing a song called >> scott camil was one of the in the vietnam war-- many, many medals for absolute bravery. gung-ho, into it. ♪ oh, camil tell me hodo you feel? ♪ and then, he had a... i guess a come-to-jesus meeting with himself where he realized that what he had been doing all these years was wrong.

♪ will you tell all the people out the people you killed ♪ not for god but for country and war. ♪ >> reporter: nash was inspired by camil's having testified in a war crimes forum sponsored by against the war.m veterans >> and if people were in the villages yelling and screaming, didn't help them. we just burned the houses as we went. it wasn't like they were humans. like, we were... you know, we were cnditioned to believe that, you know, this was for the... the good of the nation, the good of our country, and that anything we did wa ookay. >> ♪h, camil, tell me what did youmoer say ♪ whent you lose people out in the fields ♪ g rotting alth the hay? >> report: unlike his earlier anti-war song, "oh! camil" was no sing-along. >> ♪ did you show her your guns? did you show her the ears that you wore? ♪ >> reporter: "did you show them the ears that you wore?

i didn't know what that meant when i first heard that song. >> casome amesoldiers in the vietnam war were gung-ho enough to... when they killed their enemies, that they would cuoff thir ears and make a bracelet of them to wear. ♪ will you tell all the people about the people that stand up ♪ for god not for country and war. ♪ >> reporter: his lost love, joni mitchell, made an expressive painting of nash for the album's back cover. and it was her haunting, wordless vocals that broughthe record to a close on a tune called "another sleep song." ♪ itsods like you're writing about being flat-out depressed... >> yes. >> reporter: ...in that song. >> i am. i... i was avoiding the day. i was avoiding sunlight.

i was almost like a... almost like a vampire. ♪ all i need is someone to awaken me ♪ much of me has gone to sleep. ♪ >> reporter: the melodies were there and the words were deeply feltbut "wild tales" was graham nash's first commercial-- though not tistic-- failure. you made an album where you had sympathy for incarc people, where you wrote vidly about war crimes, and you ended the record with a song about being thoroughly and utterly depressed. looking back, can you see why it might not have been one of your big hits? >> i i definitely understand. i was dressed, you know? and the music shows it. b tt's all i've ever written about is what's happening to me. i've got money, and i've got fame.

and i've got all those other hings, you know, that i never wanted in the first place. but i'm still this person that feels very deeply about many things. ♪ we can heed the call we can trip and fall. ♪ >> reporter: which brings us bk to why he's singing these songs at this moment-- to be, in his words, as real as possible with no time like the present. > a> ♪ let tes fall upon us all no♪ oat all it's in us all. ♪ >> thompson: if you've never used the tidying advice of mari kondo, chane pretty high that you know someone who has used her techniques to discard mounds of person stuff. this week, kondo launched her

latest proje, a book aimed at children. i spoke with her earlier this week here in new york. >> hello. i'm marie kond >> thompson: home-organizing guru marie kondo says she's ways loved keeping tidy, but she actually found getting rid of things really stressful. until she realized this: >> ( translated ): what's important in tidying up is not u row away but what yo keep. in other words, it would work if i kept things that me me happy in my home, things that i love, the things that i cherish. >> thompson: and it's this idea-- of only keeping things that "spark joy," as she says-- that's made her a major celebrity. diher books, inc the 2014 blockbuster "the life-changing magic of tidying up," have sold more than 12 million copies. she was named one of "time" magazine's most influential people in 2015. r and earlyear, there waa hit television show on netflix.

in books, on tv or in-person, if h you're lucky enoug be one of her actual clients, kondo teaches her unique approach to keeping tidy. it's called the "konmari method." it's part practical, part spiritual. when kondo enters a home-- or, in this case, the room in which wede fier interview-- she performs a short ritual to greet the space. >> ( translated ): it's like giving a small introduction a bbout myself, or it cou gratitude for letting me be here today at thislace. >> thompson: and then, the tidying begins. >> ( translated ): there are three points in the "konmari method." the first is to organize by categories. >> thompson: rather than tidy by roo kondo advises clients a fans to gather every single book or item of clotng in one spot so they can see the totality of what they own. >> ( translated ): and the most mportant thing is that when you are tidying up by categories like that, keepnly what sparks joy in you. >> thompson: and you have to actually pick it up and look at it. is that right?

>> ( translated ): that's right. when you hold it in your hand, it would be good for you to senf seur body kind of feels something triggered, like your senses are waking up, whether it s joy or not >> thompson: and if it doesn't spark joy, what should i do with it? >> ( translated ): if it does hnot spark joy,say, "thank you for your service," and let it go. >> thompson: for the objects you edo , kondo has systems of organizing and storing, like her famous mof folding shirts in a compact way so they can stinand uprigh drawer. your books have been hugely popular. yo ou've sold milliothem. you have a tv show. i mean, people seem desperate for this. what do you think that's about? >): i think it is because there are really many people in the world who own many things, but their hearts are not fulfilled. and they are suffering from that. >> thompson: kondo says she's been interested in tidying and organizing sinfi she was just years old, inspired by her mother, who seemed to really joy doing housework. so, when did you realize that this could situally be a ess? >> ( translated ): this was when i was in the second yr of college.

i always loved tidying up, so my hobby was to help my fries tidy up their houses. as i continued doinit, the rumor started going around that their houses would become neat if i visited. and from that point on, i started receiving requests to do it for money. >> please welcome marie kondo! >> thompson: and the kondo empire began. this week, kondo released her first book for children, called "kiki and jax: the life-changing magic of friendship." it's a story about jax the owl, who is called a "sorter." kiki the squirrel, she's, well, a little messy. kiki miss ay dates because she can't find her ball, then her swimsuit. at the end, jax helps kiki bring order to her life by sorting through l her stuff. the book even includes illustrations for kids on how to fold a shirt the "konmari" way. why write a children's book? >> ( translated ): both of our daughters love to read, and they love to implement w rt they've jud. when i saw them do that, i thought, ldah, it we nice if you could learn tidying up in a

fun manner from a picture book. >> thompson: kondo ss she believes children as young as one-- yes, one-- can start to learn her methods. now, i know that my three-year-old is going to say yes to ery single thing. he loves all of his toys. so, how do you explain to a child so young that we can't keep everything? >> ( translated ): if that's the case, i think it's very important to verbally explain to a child that the space in your house is limited, and this is the storage place you can put your toys right now. >> thompson: another kondo tip: rather than asking your chi if an item sparks joy, ask them to order tir toys according to what they like best, then eliminate their least favorite items. >> ( translated ): so, for me, what's most important abouthis book is that it teaches children that tidying can be so much fun. youto tend hink of dying up as something you must do, something burdensome. buto you can learnerish your belongings even more. and i hope that even small chdren could learn such things. >> i'm done. i'm done!

>> this is pbs newshour weekend, saturday. >> thompson: as we just saw, maria kondo has become famous in part for her folding techniques. and with her new children's book out,e ked her to give us a few of her tips, specifically for kids clothing. >> this is how you fold chilren's clothes. it's different from the normal thes.ou fold adult c with small clothes it helps if you reduce the amount of times you fold it. then fold it to one-third of the side. here, done. and clothes for the children who are a little older, basically, you can use the same way to fold as adults.

you make a rectangle with the body part garment and a center. then fold the sleeves inside. do the same for the other side. in a child's clothes, if it's a small one like this one, about one-third of the body size of the garment. and a collared shirt. you can basically use the same way of folding for this kind of shirt. maectangle with the body part of the garment and a center. what you have to prote here is the collar part. you make it a little bigger than the collar. fold the slees, and fold it into one-thirds so that it won't get wrinkley. by folding vertically like this, when you open the drawer you can see at a glance wha in it.

>> thompson: we will have more on the upcoming public impeachmeninquiry hearings online and on our broadcast tomorrow. jowshour correspondent lisa desjardins wil us with the latest from washington, d.c., and a look ahead to the congressional commtee hearings. that's all for this edition of pbs newshour weekend. i'm megan thompson. thanks for watching. have a good night. captioning sponsored by wnet captioned by media access group at wgbh access.wgbh.org >> pbs newshour weekend is made possible by:

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