Ruled earlier this week that for the bad to stand in must be formally resubmitted and accompanied by public hearings the new ban regulation will be filed meant that Massachusetts secretary of state Bill Galvin on Monday Boston Mary Martin Walsh is responding to city councillor Michel whose call to abolish the Boston Planning and Development Agency Walsh is defending the agency's telling news that his administration is more dedicated to city planning than has a pretty awesome planning and development agency describes it as planning and developing in the city of Boston we have increased our planning efforts in the city of Boston we've increased the planning department inside the agency where we have 16 different planning processes going on now in the city of Austin Walsh formed the b b t a as a successor agency in 2016 and what he said was an effort to increase city planning and make the development process more open to residents Patriots quarterback Tom Brady is looking ahead to Sunday's game against the Cleveland Browns but he says he's pleased to be working with the team's newest wide receiver Mohamed Sahnoun who it's been a good week because we could spend you know finally getting on a washout for a long time and impressed by his ability he says attitude son who joins the team is wide receiver Josh Gordon has 2 injured reserve meantime kick off his Gillette is at $425.00 on Sunday and other sports game 3 of the World Series is tonight in Washington d.c. 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Once again thousands of California firefighters are battling fast moving blazes across the state driven by strong winds and dry conditions the fires are forcing tens of thousands to evacuate their homes hundreds of schools were closed due to poor air quality and closed highways the Kinkaid fire in northern California Sonoma County doubled in size in less than 20. For hours. It's already destroyed at least $49.00 structures and burned more than $21000.00 acres it's just 5 percent contained. At the clock the ones that are predicted over the next couple days are currently expected to be worse than what we had just the other day 400 miles south just north of Los Angeles the tick fire has burned more than $4000.00 acres and several subdivisions officials say another $10000.00 structures are threatened it too is just 5 percent contained 2 weeks ago the California utility 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 85 yesterday p.g. And e. Said a transmission tower malfunctioned near the site where the king keyed fire began a blaze which continues to roar across Northern California's wine country thank everybody California's governor Democrat Gavin Newsome blasted the utility company yesterday it's 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 p.g. And e. Warns they'll have to cut power to more homes throughout the weekend and if high winds continue it could turn into the largest blackout yet for Californians yet another new normal for a state grappling with the growing impacts of climate change for the p.b.s. News Hour I'm William Branham. A federal judge in Washington today ruled that the House impeachment inquiry is illegal and ordered the Department of Justice to give House investigators secret grand jury testimony from the Mallo report House Democrats also issued 3 more subpoenas as part of that inquiry to 2 top White House budget officials and a State Department official meanwhile it was widely reported that the Justice Department's review of the Russia investigations origins has now evolved into a criminal probe President Trump said he anticipates the findings will shed new light on the special counsel's investigation. I think you can see a lot of really bad things and a lot of people think that they know they are problems 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 why I don't know but I will say this I think you'll see things that nobody would believe prosecutors will now have greater authority to issue subpoenas and to 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 as a 100 year lease on the historic building it took in $41000000.00 in revenue last year a federal judge in California has held u.s. Secretary of Education Betsy device in contempt of court for violating an order related to student loans the ruling said that Vos continued to collect loans from students who attended Corinthian Colleges that is a now defunct chain of for profit colleges despite being ordered to stop the Federal Education Department was also find $100000.00 more children were separated from their families at the Us Mexico border than previously known that is according to a new count the trumpet ministration submitted to the American Civil Liberties Union immigration authority separated or than 1500 additional children from their parents between July 2017 and June 28th when a federal judge ordered an end to the practice that brings the overall number of children separated since July 2017 to more than 5400 in Iraq security forces clashed with anti government protesters in Baghdad. And across several southern provinces today killing at least 30 people thousands of demonstrators took to the streets of the capital city to protest the country's corruption and struggling economy police fired live rounds rubber bullets and tear gas to try to disperse the crowd will take a closer look at anti-government protests in 2 other countries Lebanon and Chile later in the program despite President Trump's recent decision to pull u.s. Troops out of northern Syria 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 asked for confirmed plans to deploy u.s. Troops in armored vehicles but he did not offer specifics as for spoke to reporters after meeting with Turkey's defense minister today in Brussels we are now taking some actions I'm not going to get into the details to strengthen our position at Dora's are to ensure that we can deny the deny I says 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 Meanwhile Russia's defense ministry said that it has sent about $300.00 additional military police to patrol the Turkey Syria border they will help oversee the pullout of Syrian Kurdish fighters the European Union agreed today to grant the U.K.'s request for another extension to the BRICs it deadline but it won't decide just how long that delay should be until next week Britain was scheduled to leave the Bloc next Thursday the move gives a divided British Parliament time to decide on Prime Minister Boris Johnson's call for an early election to break the deadlock over Bracks it back in this country the federal budget deficit 429000 soared to over $984000000000.00 That is its highest level. All in 7 years and also that is a $205000000000.00 or 25 percent increase over just last year the Treasury Department reported the new figure included lost revenue from president trumps tax cuts as well as increased spending for the military and domestic programs members of the United Auto Workers Union ratified a new contract with General Motors today bringing an end to their 40 day strike about 49000 auto workers had walked off the job since mid September that halted production at more than 30 u.s. Factories stocks rallied on Wall Street today the Dow Jones Industrial Average gained 152 points to close at 26958 The Nasdaq rose 57 points and the s. And p. 500 added 12 and the late Marilyn congressman and civil rights leader illogic Cummings was remembered today at a funeral in Baltimore thousands of mourners including former presidents Barack Obama and Bill Clinton came to pay their final respects to the Democrat who served in the u.s. House of Representatives for 23 years. The final sendoff for Congressman Cummings began early today in his hometown of Baltimore. Sound from Oregon Enquirer filling the 4000 seat new Somas Baptist Church where Cummings himself worship for 40 years we prepare. For the requiem of a public service its 1st Armored. Company it's a military honor guard covered the congressman's casket with an American flag for. Favorite singer and. Remember him with the songs. And political leaders Democrats and Republicans alike sat with members of the both or more. Coming summer for more than 2 decades former Secretary of State Hillary Clinton likened him to the biblical prophet whose name. Like the prophet our allies could all fire from heaven. But he also prayed and work for healing. He weather storms and 1st quakes but never lost his faith. She was followed by the House speaker Nancy Pelosi member Cummings is welcoming to everyone who encountered our allies show always made a seat at the table for others for you to new members of Congress so that he could mentor them for all who wanted to be part of the American dream. Time former u.s. Congressman. Spoke of Cummings as a man as profound as he was funny I would go on later that year to get elected to a city council winning by 3 votes and a larger good met my grandmother thought it was funny they came to me he said now so you see as long as you're black which meant the rest of my life. You just remember those 3 votes for the Father the Son and the Holy Ghost and you can't go wrong. Cummings daughter Jennifer thank him for life lessons and shared her memories of his famous voice thank you for loving me unconditionally and teaching me what love and leadership are by your example. I will miss your smile your great big smile backed up by the upper room I will miss your booming voice that would firmly sound Jennifer but I knew I was in trouble. Thank is my my chairs Maryland's Democratic Party called her husband a public servant of integrity and a walking miracle he was given. At the service where 2 former presidents Bill Clinton and Barack Obama both urged those gathered to remember lessons left by Cummings we should hear him. In the quiet times at night and in the morning when we need courage. When we get it we don't know if we can believe the war we should hear. His life validates the things. We tell ourselves about what's possible in this country not guarantee. But possible we have the capacity the chance. As individuals and as a nation to rule ourselves. In a good sort the eulogy summed up Cummings is a man of devout think who did what he could to bring together a divided nation that portrait came from a long time pastor of Cummings Church Bishop Walter Thomas. And thank you to church because to many in our country. Where they. Are. The organ sound it is the service. Cummings casket out for final burial. Elijah Cummings a 68 years old still to come on the news our lead. Up to protest what is driving 2 waves of a world apart. A close look at the new federal judges the White House as lifetime appointments Mark Shields and David Brooks break down a dizzying wake of impeachment and one of our favorite things a conversation. This is the p.b.s. News Hour from w.e.t.a. Studios in Washington in the West from the Walter Cronkite School of Journalism at Arizona State University. Across the world in dozens of countries protesters have taken to the streets the demands in each country may be unique but demonstrators are united in frustration with economic disparity and unrealized economic expectations we begin an 11 where as Special Correspondent Jane Ferguson reports anger at the government crosses religious and political divide. In Lebanon defining religious divisions is a revolutionary act in and of itself this protest movement less than 10 days old aims to overcome decades of deep sectarianism that have led to a corrupt government and devastating economic crisis corruption and bad leadership have made Lebanon the 2nd 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. To exclude nothing for up the budget of. This group of young men are angry that there's no future here for that. Very high there's a large group of people you don't think so either best for you but here's the. Lebanon's political system is based on the country's sectarian divisions with top government posts being shared out between Sunni Muslims Shia Druze and Christians it is designed to keep the peace but leads to constant deadlock and corruption those sectarian leaders in place since the 15 year civil war ended in 1990 have become entrenched. All sides exploit sectarian fears to shore up their positions and stay. In power where they enrich themselves 70 natter is an economist who has been predicting these protests for months. Between business and. Business. Its. Contracts it's. A State Department official voiced American support for the protesters telling Saudi channel. The people of Lebanon are rightly frustrated with their government's inability to prioritize reform these protests have shaken the country's political elite with Prime Minister sad Hariri appearing on television 4 days ago offered the protesters reforms. These decisions are not for barter they're not to ask you to stop protesting or expressing anger this is something that you. And I will not allow and. I the protesters rejected his offer and instead demanded all political leaders resign how riri is a Sunni Muslim but his rival has son Nasrallah from the Shia Hizbollah movement is also rattled by the protests has become a is not just a military force here but a political one too. Just as he was due to speak in a televised address today several 100 supporters arrived at the protests bringing loudspeakers to blast his words over the sounds of the protesters calling for his resignation. We're scared for the country we're scared. To take create social security. Whose movement is largely funded and supported by Iran also claimed the protest movement was an internet. Conspiracy. Information. From different sources that now. Instrumental ization. Internal. Telling the supporters that their leader should step down. But the police eventually told them to move on instead and the Angry. They put up some resistance to. Giving up. The protesters. Will not surrender their grip. Across the country music have been used. To define religious divisions. Keeping their movement peaceful and. For the p.b.s. News Hour. For the past week have also filled city streets to create a new leader list spontaneous movement calling for fundamental reforms struggling to feed their families pots become instruments of frustration they protest on affordable health care low pensions and what they describe as a government that's lost legitimacy in. This country isn't just the price of gas and electricity go up and there is no respect for the people only enriching business and the government Chile has been one of Latin America's most stable countries touted as a model of regional success in the ninety's in 2000 prosperity expanded but it also has one of the world's largest wealth gaps people are very very poor in the past we could not think about protesting now have a whole host of rising expectations and so it's a crisis in a sense of rising expectations that are not fulfilled on the part of many many people. Was the director of Georgetown's Latin American Studies Center and a former senior State Department official who's tracked the country as it modernized and grew richer people become much more aware of the enormous gaps between the people who are going to private schools and. Well off neighborhoods and so on and so forth and so the inequality issue and certainly Chile has become far more unequal. And this week that feeling of inequality exploded not only into peaceful protest. But also deadly clashes between government and the government at least 17 protesters have been killed and hundreds of police injured in running battles that paralyze the capital Santiago billionaire President Sebastian Pinera announced increased pensions and minimum wages improve health care and reverse the public transit price hike that helps spark the protests. Flick that we have heard loud and clear the voice of the people of the. Peacefully express their problems their pains their shortages their dreams and their hopes for a better life but he also deployed the military that's targeted protesters. And enforced a curfew with baton and smoke grenades. It's the 1st time that's happened since the dictatorship of General Pinochet when $40000.00 were killed tortured or imprisoned and the fear is some of those dark days are returning. On Monday Miguel Sophia filmed as $9000.00 soldiers took over Santiago streets and he talked to protesters unafraid of violence for the curfew. The social discontent is not just about the fair rise for the subway the only thing the government does is criminalize a situation that in truth they have dragged on for so long now the military are using the same strategy during the dictatorship making fun of people and shooting people in. Suddenly an unmarked car screeched. Sophia and reporter Jonathan Franklin scream that they were press. No bread. But in the car made a u. Turn and fired a few final shots. Discovered. By the street a bar near shotgun blast. Away. But they were shooting at people. They could have been on marked police or provocateurs but this kind of violence in Chile hasn't been seen in decades and it's not going to stop. I'm not in favor of violence at all in fact I have never liked it but I think it is the only way that they will listen to us. Many citizens are going to say well look you know we need to take care of the violent elements right here but on the other hand it's quite clear that there is an opening right here for significant abuses of human rights on the part of the authorities when a protest is repressed in that way the u.n. Vows to investigate reports of human rights violations and protesters say the government's concessions are too little too late that's the same message for many protesters around the world not only in Chile in Lebannon I but also in Iraq. And 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 an increase but unrealized expectations and the underlying problems they demand fixed are not easy for any government to deliver. The constant swirl of news around the White House there has been one constant in the Trump administration a steady stream of the president's judicial nominees to federal courts from one end of the country to the other they said they explained how this little noticed effort could have an impact on the presidential election next year and on the courts for decades to come. Mr Kennedy. Vote by vote are there any senators in the chamber which Republicans are quietly reshaping federal courts Yaser 50 and nays are 41 the nominations confirmed with this vote yesterday there are public and Senate confirmed Justin Walker as the 100 and 57th trumpet appointee to get a lifetime position on the federal bench more on him in a minute 1st about that number 157 federal judges confirmed that is on par with figures for the 2 modern record holders Presidents Clinton and George w. Bush at this point in their terms but it's at least 40 percent more than President Obama Confirmed by this time according to analysis by the Brookings Institution this is a rally cry for President Trump well of a record number of jobs if so 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 a single most powerful way the u.s. Senate and positively impact a country's future. Role in confirming life appointed to the federal court 1st McConnell bloc to President Obama's nominees toward the end of his term leaving dozens of vacancies for the next president and then this spring McConnell changed Senate rules to cut debate time for most judges from 30 hours each to just 2 hours since that rules change the Senate is now a nomination factory it is the body's main function the nomination is confirmed nominations confirmed the nomination is confirmed it makes things go so much faster than the Senate Jacqueline Thompson covers judicial nominations and the federal courts for the National Law Journal and sees a breakneck pace but such as happening so fast that there just isn't even time for anybody to take a step back and think about the nominee that they're voting for on the scale that they were able to before. Or where President Trump particularly has crushed all other modern presidents is at the appeals court level a level below the Supreme Court not yet 3 years into his presidency already nearly one quarter of all appeals court judges are trial appointees and those courts decide thousands of pivotal cases. The federal courts have determined the fates of immigrant families and abortion policy. And regularly rule on laws about our schools and workplaces own like now Republicans are not just focusing on the numbers of judges but also on confirming much younger ones again the National Law Journal Jacqueline Thomson we're seeing people in their forty's not their sixty's getting nominated so that means that they're going to be on the court for a while and that they're really going to be able to shape the law in a way that lasts for far beyond the time that they are even on the bench Senator I feel lucky that this brings us back to Justin longer confirmed as a federal district judge yesterday Walker is just 37 years old a law professor at the University of Louisville he said mired 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 Senator I have not although again that lack of courtroom experience drew an automatic not qualified rating from the nonpartisan American Bar Association that's something that derailed nominees in the past but no more Walker is the 5th 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 6th such nominee 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 the president and presidents after that. And this is an issue that fires up Republican voters something the truck campaign is counting on next year Campbell or years means more judges. Able to save me took an entire branch of the federal government and green reshaped in our image for flecked our values and we didn't just do it for today and tomorrow we did it for your children and your children's children from fans McConnell and the Senate show no signs of slowing it's set to vote on another group of president trumps nominees as soon as next week for the p.b.s. News Hour I'm Lisa Desjardin. And this week alone the top u.s. Diplomat diplomat for Ukraine told Congress that the president withheld military aid for personal political game Republican Congress members stormed a secure room at the Capitol or many already had access to dispute the impeachment process but not the substance and we have learned of the Department of Justice is investigating its own f.b.i. For looking into Russia's interference in the 2016 election amidst all this the White House announced that the president has ordered the cancellation of all Federal Government subscriptions to the New York Times and The Washington Post that makes it a perfect moment to hear the analysis of Shields and brooks that is syndicated column as Mark Shields and New York Times columnist David Brooks So David no subscriptions to the White House from your newspaper explains why beginning no one fights but you'll soldier on but let's let's pick up 1st with Lisa's reporting on these federal judges that Trump has been able to nominate and get successfully confirmed more judges than any of his predecessors what's the real significance of this well when you talk to conservative voters why they support. That's the number one answer of the courts and so he is having in effect he's he's nominating conventional Republican Federales to study judges they're not populists I'm not sure I see that quite the transformation on the circuit court level of level just on the Supreme Court of the 13 appellate courts only 1 May flip so you've got a Democratic seat staying Democratic district saying Democratic Republican is getting a little redder but you haven't seen a transformation from a more liberal court to more conservative court and his impact on future nominations may go down because Democratic judges are not retiring they're waiting and hoping there's a Democrat so there it's expected they'll be relatively fewer openings over the next couple years than there were previous So Mark maybe not transformational. I think it I think it approaches transformational Judy I just point out in Lisa's page she made the point that these were fired up this issue fired up Republican voters make no mistake about it she's absolutely right the exit polls in 2016 when 23000 actual voters were polled and they asked What's the most important issue that you're deciding on a full one of the 5 voters. That the Supreme Court nominations and judicial nominations and they broke for Gunnell Trump overwhelmingly I mean almost 3 to 2 and those who just considered it an important issue are not as important as you judicial. The Hillary Clinton and this was this was a turning and key vote a promise made promise delivered he is totally David pointed out this is appointments have come from the the Federalist Society and the other factor is that playing the actuarial charts I mean they're younger. Neeleman they're searching the needle goes it for example is 49 when he was nominated captain I was 53 right most recently there. So. It's a real change and it's a promise made promise deliberate much to the consternation of a lot of Democrats and we know it flies under the radar and that's what we thought was so important to take a look at it and we're grateful for Lisa's reporting impeachment David there was virtually a development every day about that we just learned today that a federal judge has said that the impeachment inquiry in the house in his view is legal and that means that the Department of Justice is going to have to turn over a grand jury material from the mall or investigation but this follows a week of testimony behind closed doors some of it though made public by one public servant or diplomatic figure after another including especially William Taylor who served as the ambassador to Ukraine what is it adding up to at this point you know when we 1st learned of the phone call you could say Well that was just from the Trump reckless phone call and he was sort of the guy now that that's not the case I think we've learned this was a 3 month coordinated campaign with a whole series of meetings a lot of people involved to try to get Ukraine to trump reelection bid and so the teletext one in particular was detailed methodical It was the smoking gun it was queer quid pro quo and order coming from the president hold up aid unless Ukraine did this and so that seals the deal I think and I think Republicans at least the Republican establishment has to feel just beaten and the question is how do they find a way to stick with it but but it I think the Republican mood was wow this is bad wow this is bad and so I think the key thing is to look for sort of an emotional crumbling where they just say we have to we we can't survive along this I don't think we're at that place but it was certainly a week that affected Republican senators see this guy because I mean David's right Mark at this point Republicans or most of them the vast majority of them. Are saying they still don't see the solid evidence. They that's the those who make public statements those who don't don't say that I mean and I think that the silence does speak if not volumes at least chapters. Invested tale as testimony was not a smoking gun it was a smoking armory I mean it really did it were David's right it was specific was factual it was compelling and what I found most revealing about this is I went through Michael Atkinson who is the the Inspector General Michael McKinley 37 years of service at the State Department. Bassinet Taylor. On a bitch Cooper Fiona Hill 163 he is of public service no hedge funds no high tech buyouts or whatever else I mean these people were devoted themselves and I think. Ambassador Taylor was was the witness from hell for the way it really was I mean 49 years of public service brought back in after retirement at the insistence of the secretary of state and he cannot go unmentioned that. Might pump a 0 is violating every rule of the United States military the responsibility of an officer to his men and to those under he he has totally abandoned had not stood up for any of the people he's appointed Terry has said a journey of state and these professionals who have come forward at considerable cost and risk their own careers in many instances certainly that peace of mind and I think his silence is a compelling telling indictment of him and his lack of character but is as we see David the White House continues to say and the president is a raging about this we heard it again today he's saying these people have no credibility and he was saying yesterday they're part of the so-called deep state and using a lot worse language than you know so far that's holding to impeach what 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 it's favor ability rating is 10 points lower than unfavorable people are against impeachment in Wisconsin it's minus 7 and so for Democrats to think that they can swing Republican senators they have to get those swing states and they have to tell the message and so far they have secret hearings which I understand you don't learn anything in public hearing they have to learn what happened and so they have to get away from t.v. Cameras for them but eventually they're going to turn to public hearings in order to try to persuade the country and whether they can do that in a month or 2 whenever that happens. That well we'll see some reporting that it may happen in just a couple of weeks is separate from this mark but some people think related you had this revelation reporting yesterday that the Department of Justice which had been overseeing a probe into the origins of the Russian investigation what the Russians did to affect the 2016 election that was an inquiry is now a criminal invest. A criminal probe. And the question which raises all kinds of questions I mean how did it become that we don't know but I just want to show for for all of us this is a comment from Senator Mark Warner who's the vice chair of the Senate Intelligence Committee he said Senate Intel wrapping up a 3 year bipartisan investigation we have found nothing remotely justifying this is said Mr Barr referring to the attorney general's investigation has already jeopardized key international intelligence partnerships in needs to come before Congress and explain himself what's this what how much does this matter that this has become a criminal probe Well I think it does matter starting with the Mark Warner point I mean. Ocean boy Lee. Said partisanship the Senate Intelligence Committee has been an island of collegiality and cooperation so I don't know if he is speaking just for himself as the ranking Democrat chair of that committee with the acquiescence of Senator Senator Burr the chairman I don't know but it certainly is a serious and I mean you have to come to the conclusion Judy that in Bill Barr Donald Trump finally got the attorney general he wanted. He Jeff Sessions didn't deliver a farm Jeff Sessions recused himself and then is Bill Barr is at taxpayer expense. Going around the globe from Australia to Italy in pursuit of information to somehow rationalize justify that Donald Trump didn't lose in in 2016 and that the Obama campaign Obama administration was somehow behind some spying on him and you know Mark Mark Warner's point is I mean after a 3 year investigation by that committee there's absolutely nothing that has come to support that and I don't know what the answer is David of course will be and I know that it's you know you have to. Having thoroughly politicized the State Department you have to go into sumption Trump was trying to politicize the Department of Justice and then you have to go in prejudging against that the one mitigating factor is the guy that selected to do the investigation is John Durham who has been appointed by both parties it was done who has a Goal a sterling reputation so at least we can rest I think in trust with him and that's that's really discussed what Mark was saying the whole question for the last 2 years what our institutions hold and I've said given the testimony the last week and whatever term does I think the institutions are sort of holding and the result is this impeachment a guy who had a president who does not go by any institutional logic does not obey institutional rules and yet the institutions are sort of standing up for the couple of minutes and they took a look at the 2020 field Mark there are 18 still in the race we had Tim Ryan the congressman from Ohio dropped out just just yesterday but 18 still running and there is reporting out there you've seen it that some Democrats are getting anxious because they're worried they still don't have a horse that can beat Donald Trump How widespread do you think that worry is among I'd say it's a lively anxiety I mean the flaws of the defects of the top 4 candidates I mean it is a logical grounds fear of Democrats with Senator Warner and Senator Sanders that their part to the left that they have by sort of a liberal sliver of the electorate right now that Vice President Biden may not be the Joe Biden that we know with while the previous year is the go to Judge as mayor of a very small city with a male partner married to that maybe $37.00 just a little bit more than the country is ready for and especially in an election where they want the referendum to be on the flawed damaged manifestly imperfect incumbent so. You know I think there whether it's Michelle Obama whatever else I mean Democrats are kind of casting around looking but I think the key question Democrats have to face is this Judy there are $206.00 counties that Barack Obama carried twice that going to trump Kerry in 2016 and then if the Democrats can go back and carry those counties again these are people you could call it would be a racist and I think that's the question can Democrats do that is that the kind of candidate campaigned they want to run both 2 years ago I thought the 2 strongest Democratic candidates were much Landrieu former New Orleans of Deval Patrick former governor of Massachusetts and they're not in the race either $1.00 and $1.00 in the race so I do see the sense of being Zaya the but I would say to Democrats if you're unhappy with the top 4 look at the bottom 14 because the perfectly serviceable good candidates there are in my opinion Amy Klobuchar Michael Bennett Cory Booker come ours and so did Bill and Steve Bullock So I think you know look around like try try out some others if you have unhappy at the time for one of the one of the challenges they have is just getting attention with all the focus in Washington on impeachment and on everything else it's hard for them to to to get air time shall we say one thing we want to note at the beginning at the end of the program is that as we near the end of the program is that the News Hour announced today that we are we will be hosting moderating a Democratic presidential debate toward the end of December December 9th I think so we are looking forward to that opportunity wonderful and with that Mark Shields or David Brooks have a great weekend thank you. Finally tonight Julie Andrews she's one of those legendary entertainers everyone seems to know next year Andrews will receive her latest accolade the American Film Institute's lifetime achievement award John Yang sat down with 80. 4 year old Andrews and her daughter Emma Walton Hamilton to talk about their new book which reveals some stories people don't know about Andrews from her time in Hollywood this is part of our ongoing Arts and Culture series canvas both Sound of Music and Mary Poppins were touchstones of my. Youth actually they were. I don't I was well they're talking to my colleagues their children their children. That phenomenal I mean that's a bonus and. That you just don't expect but there was time this good musicals and they were so beautifully made Andrew's legendary career includes the stage movies t.v. Concerts and recordings she's a demon commander of the British Empire and has 6 Golden Globes 3 Grammys 2 Emmys an Oscar and a Kennedy Center Honor Andrews in Hamilton a professional writer an arch educator have written more than 30 books for children and young adults they wrote homework a memoir of my Hollywood years as a team as you were growing up were there movies or projects of your mother's that were particular favorites Well I was pretty much there most of the time on set for most of the films I couldn't sit through the sound of music for years without weeping because any time I saw my mother cry on a film I burst into tears myself to say I'm just going out for a little bit and thinking very few. But but I have to say. Probably now among my favorites of her films is. To make the point. I think her performance in it is so different than many of her other films and a strong Of the 3 early ones you made Americanization of Emily one of your favorites is the virtue of. Good new support. It's a very timely more than ever maybe about the folly and excess of war and the needlessness of it writing about your early days and you talked about the contrast between the glamorous appearance of wife in the theatre and the rather shabby reality of it backstage and you give us a lot of examples in your movie making. A wonderful opening scene of Sound of Music camera discovered. On a mountaintop. But actually being photographed by a camera man hanging from the side of a helicopter I kept being dashed to the ground by the downdraft from the jet engines but every time I came up with grass and a hold over me. But you never quite there was. That I really didn't know how to sing and I just thought the best thing to do since I'm out in the wild and so on. Just say you know sing through the night like a lock was learning to pray I. Carry on very fast stuff that. Very 1st drill. I know I. Didn't expect and I really thought for a while that maybe it was given to me as a kind of welcome to Hollywood and what a lucky lucky moment in my life the book focuses on the importance of family. Her 1st marriage to theatre director Tony Walton 2 stepchildren Jennifer and Jeffery from her 2nd marriage to noted film director writer producer Blake Edwards and the 2 daughters Sheehan Edwards adopted Amelia enjoy Edwards who died in 2010 directed Andrews in 7 movies including Tim and Victor Victoria. And love the unity that it provides and working with Blake I'm very safe in his embrace so to speak and I knew that I didn't have to worry about a thing but on camera but just sticking together travelling together being together it's why I am in home work is they have because making a home keeping family together means so much to me there's a sweet story in the book of when she flew in to surprise me for my 15th birthday and she only left about 2 weeks prior to go back to work and Europe and I came home from school and discovered her sitting on my bed completely wrapped wrapped in quite paper I guess yes and I burst into tears happy tears Yes thank God this yet not all the memories are happy Blake was a very depressed if this analogy and yet devastatingly funny but when he was in a bad way it was very sad 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 my life it's about hopefully giving joy and I love to do it in her next book Andrews also expects to deal with the emotional impact of losing her singing voice after throat surgery in 1997 though she says she. We have discussed the procedure itself I'm a Fortunately talk about it since it was part of my agreement in the settlement but I. Gave all the settlement charity and so on but it was a devastating time in my life. She still recently creating appearing in green room on Netflix. The children series produced with the Jim Henson Company years about puppets staging their own musical under the watchful eye of Andrews now or sell for grandmother of 10 and great grandmother of 3 for the p.b.s. News Hour I'm John Yang. On the news hour online right now some u.s. Allies are left wondering what the u.s. Decision to pull out of North a Syrian means for them we examine how 3 countries may be feeling that's on our Web site p.b.s. Dot org slash News Hour. 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