Studio to discuss his latest album, covers of songs from broadway. Theres the goosebump thing when the melody just gets you and you dont know why. Sometimes, its in a genre you didnt think you liked and it just gets you and you just feel the hairs on the back of your neck. I love this song. Sreenivasan all that and more on tonights pbs newshour. Major funding for the pbs newshour has been provided by moving our economy for 160 years. Bnsf, the engine that connects us. Supported by the john d. And catherine t. Macarthur foundation. Committed to building a more just, verdant and peaceful world. More information at macfound. Org and with the ongoing support of these institutions this program was made possible by the corporation for public broadcasting. And by contributions to your pbs station from viewers like you. Thank you. Sreenivasan in a moment, judys and gwens headline interviews with Hillary Clinton and bill and melinda gates. But first, the days news, starting with clintons decision to oppose the transpacific trade agreement. Its her biggest break yet with president obama, but she says the deal does too much for Big Drug Companies and not enough to create jobs. Russia sharply escalated its military campaign in syria today, adding missile might to an aerial assault. It came in conjunction with a new ground offensive. They launched from russian warships in the caspian sea, as seen in Russian Military video 26 mediumrange cruise missiles streaking toward syria. Russian animation showed the missiles flew more than 900 miles, crossing iran and iraq, aimed at targets in raqqa and aleppo provinces, plus Idlib Province to the northwest. Amateur video appeared to show some of the missile strikes, timed to coincide with a Syrian Ground assault in idlib and hama provinces. From moscow, meeting with his defense minister, president Vladimir Putin praised the results. translated the fact that we have performed strikes with precision weapons from the caspian sea area to the distance of 1,500 kilometres and hit all the planned targets, means good advance preparation of the military industrial sector and good training of the staff. Sreenivasan but plenty of questions remained about whos taking the brunt of russias air campaign. Turkish leaders claimed again today the real targets are moderate rebels fighting the assad government. translated these air strikes are not carried out against the Islamic State. Russian air forces carried out 57 air strikes and, according to the information we received, only two of these air strikes are against Islamic State. Sreenivasan the head of one americantrained rebel faction confirmed that russian planes have bombed his weapons depots in aleppo and homs. And in italy, u. S. Defense secretary ash carter echoed the complaint. They continue to hit targets that are not isil. We believe this is a fundamental mistake. Despite what the russians say, we have not agreed to cooperate with russia so long as they continue to pursue a mistaken strategy and hit these targets. Sreenivasan meanwhile, russias military buildup in the Eastern Mediterranean has escalated over the last week. Now including ten navy ships, a number described by n. A. T. O. Officials as out of the ordinary. A rebel group supported by the u. S. Says russian soldiers are taking part in the Syrian Ground offensive. The russians deny sending in any ground troops. Theres word the f. B. I. Has foiled repeated attempts in Eastern Europe to smuggle Radioactive Material to middle eastern extremists. The Associated Press reported the findings today. It cited four incidents in the past five years the latest in february involving gangs with suspected russian ties. In that case, a smuggler sought a buyer from the Islamic State group. President obama apologized today for a deadly air strike in kunduz, afghanistan. Last fridays attack killed at least 22 people at a hospital run by Doctors Without Borders. Mr. Obama telephoned the groups president today. He believed that it was appropriate for the United States to do what we have done before. Which is to acknowledge that a mistake had been made, to offer an apology, to do so in a transparent way, to own up to our mistakes and to vow to carry out a full investigation of to the bottom of exactly what happened so that we can learn from this incident. Sreenivasan Doctors Without Borders has called for an independent investigation, but the white house says the president did not directly address that demand today. A defense bill worth 612 billion is headed to the president s desk despite a veto threat. The Senate Approved it today, 70 to 27, enough to override a veto. It already passed the house. The president objects to the way congress provided the money by padding a warfighting account and denying new money for domestic agencies. France and germany joined forces today, urging the European Union not to fracture under the strain of debt and refugees. French president Francois Holland and german chancellor Angela Merkel appeared before the european parliament, and hollande warned against returning to goitalone nationalism. translated focusing on sovereign interest is a road to decline and its also dangerous not to give a people hope, not to build anything together but to turn in on each other, without any future. Faced with these trials, i am convinced that if we dont go further, it will be the end of the european project. Sreenivasan for her part, merkel said europe faces a test of historic proportions. The Flood Disaster in South Carolina surged toward the coast today. One swollen river crested at record levels in kingstree, and conway and georgetown braced for bad news as well. Back around columbia, crews worked to shore up the 52year old beaver dam. But the governor rejected criticism that many of the states dams have fallen into disrepair. Youve got a thousand year flood. And out of thousands of dams, right now were watching 62 of them. 13 of them have failed. Look at the proportion of that. And even of the ones were working on, when you have floods of this magnitude, it is really amazing that we have not had more issues than weve had. Sreenivasan more than 400 roads and bridges are also being checked, and remain closed for now. Long distance traffic on part of interstate 95 is having to make a 170mile detour. Authorities in roseburg, oregon have issued a detailed new account of how a gunman died after killing nine people at a Community College. They say Christopher Harper mercer was wounded by police, then shot himself in a classroom in front of his dead and wounded victims. Meanwhile, People Magazine is publishing the names and phone numbers of every member of congress in a effort to encourage action to decrease gun violence. The nobel prize for chemistry was presented today to three scientists who discovered how the human body repairs its own d. N. A. The honorees are Tomas Lindahl of sweden, aziz sancar of turkey and american paul modrich. Nobel Officials Say their research is leading to new treatments for cancer and other diseases. It is based on the idea that cancer cells already have kind of weakened d. N. A. Repair systems. So then, if you can come in with a drug that makes the d. N. A. Repair systems even less functional, the cancer cells will really go bad because they cannot repair their d. N. A. At all anymore. Very quickly this will degrade the d. N. A. And the cancer cells cannot survive. Sreenivasan scientists estimate human d. N. A. Is damaged daily by everything from solar radiation to cigarette smoke to pollution. On wall street, the Dow Jones Industrial average gained more than 120 points to close at 16,912. The nasdaq rose more than 40 points, and the s p 500 added 16. And theres more fallout from claims of Insider Trading at Fantasy Sports websites. The industry leaders, fanduel and draft kings, said today they are banning all employees from playing any such daily games for money. Thereve been allegations that an employee at draft kings had unfair access to special data, before winning 350,000 in a fanduel contest. Still to come on the newshour judys interview with Hillary Clinton. Gwens discussions with bill and melinda gates. Recording artist josh groban on his latest album. And much more. Woodruff the clintons have had a tough time in iowa over the years. Candidate bill clinton lost the democratic caucuses here in 1992 and Hillary Clinton lost to barack obama here in 2008. This time around, shes spending a lot of time in the hawkeye state, today holding a town hall meeting at Cornell College in mt. Vernon, where i caught up with her this afternoon. Secretary Hillary Clinton, thank you for talking with us. Thanks so much, judy. Im glad to see you. Woodruff lets start with the big announcement from president obama this week about a trade deal, a transpacific partnership, u. S. And 11 other countries covering 40 of the global economy, 800 million consumers. Its already started a big battle between people who love free trade and people who care more about protectionism. Where do you come down . I have said from the very beginning that we had to have a trade agreement that would create Good American jobs, raise wages and advance our national security, and i still believe thats the high bar we have to meet. I have been trying to learn as much as i can about the agreement, but im worried. Im worried about currency manipulation not being part of the agreement. Weve lost american jobs to the manipulation countries particularly in asia have engaged in. Im worried the pharmaceutical Companies May have gotten more benefits and patients and consumers fewer. I think there are still a lot of unanswered questions. Sometimes they look great on paper. I know when president obama came into office, he inherited a trade agreement with south korea. I, along with other members of the cabinet, pushed hard to get a better agreement. We think we made improvements. Now looking back on it, it doesnt have the results we thought it would have in terms of access to the markets, more exploits, et cetera. Woodruff so youre saying as of today this is not something you could support . What i know about it, as of today, i am not in favor of what i have learned about it. Woodruff so is president obama wrong . He is vigorously defending. This he says it protects jobs. He says when it comes to worrying about jobs, auto medication and technology are more responsible than the trade agreement. Look, i think the president has been extraordinarily effective in making as strong a case as could be made. But i worry we have an equation here. How do we raise incomes in america . Woodruff if this is rejected, asia experts says it will decrease the influence of the u. S. In asia, it is going to give a boost to china which is trying to become more dominant, and doesnt it conflict with your pivot to asia when you were secretary of state . I dont think so because the best way we can exercise influence in asia is to remain the worlds strongest economy here at home, and that means we have to have more middle class jobs, more people being in the middle class, more people being able to get into the middle class, and we havent looked at this from a competitive perspective because the republicans have stood in the way. Woodruff you said youd favor middle class tax cuts. My question is would yours be bigger or smaller than what the republicans put out there . Donald trump is out there with a plan. Jeb bush is out there with a plan. What would yours look like . Well, i want to have families be able to invest in what they tell me they care about. How do they pay for childcare . How do they pay for college . How do they pay the daily expenses of healthcare and the other things that are really straining the Family Budget . Ive looked at the plans produced on the other side by donald trump, jeb bush and others. Theyd ex flowed deficit and, once again, they are so tilted toward the rich, its embarrassing and we know that doesnt work. So when i roll out my tax plan, it is very much focused and targeted on the middle class. Woodruff your private email server. The Washington Post fact checker gwen kessler wrote this weekend that when you speak publicly about how you handle the disclosure requests you dont include the fact that the first request came just to you from the state department based on the congressional inquiry. Well, my understanding of what happened is that the state department had emails that they gave to the committee that was formed, we now know, to politically, in a partisan way, go after me, not investigate what happened in benghazi, and that we already provided those emails because theyre already on the state. Gov system. Woodruff but the first request came to you alone in response to the committee and i guess kesslers point is this is the indication that the state department did not realize before that that you were conducting government business on your solely on your private server. I emailed with hundreds of people in the state department across the government, some even in the congress, so that is just not credible. Woodruff why wouldnt it have been better at the very beginning of all this to simply say, i did this, i wanted a private server because i have been through this kind of thing before, i didnt want republican congressmen rifling through my personal emails, done away with the controversy, done away with people now saying they dont trust you. All i can tell you, judy is thats not what happened. I did not give any thought to it. I had used my own email. I got into the state departments. It was allowed. I did it for convenience. My husband already had a system and i just add on the system. Thats what happened. Woodruff you commented on what Kevin Mccarthy commented about the political nature of. This what do you expect when the hearings get underway on october 22 . I dont know what to expect. I know this was set up to be a political partisan attack on me. Of course, thats probably something we could have concluded earlier since there had already been seven investigations. Now we see the Congress Setting up a special committee to look into planned parenthood. Its really sad to me that whether its Womens Health or, in this case, the death of four americans serving our country, that the republicans in congress try to partisannize and exploit these events. Woodruff Something Else in Foreign Policy syria, you came out and said you would favor the idea of setting up a nofly zone to protect refugees and others. But in talking to experts, they say in order to do that you would have to take out syrias air defenses, most or much of which are in urban areas. In other words, you would have to go into an area with huge civilian casualties in order to set up this nofly zone. Is that something youre prepared to take on . There are different parts of the countries with Different Levels remaining of air defense. I want to see if we cant get a coalition of all the countries that have a stake in this including the russians to agree on three things one, we have to do as much as possible toned the conflict, we have to stop the refugee flow by helping people have a safe space to stay in and to get supplies, medical, food and other things, and they have to begin the process of a political transition. Woodruff would you be prepared to shoot down russian planes if they flew into this nofly zone . No. The point is to have the leverage of this discussion. The russians have already invaded turkey airspace. Turkey is a n. A. T. O. Allied. They are now on notice if they invade the airspace of a n. A. T. O. Ally, actions will be taken. This is in the absence of nofly zone. Woodruff what do you mean . They have been put on notice, as i understand it, from n. A. T. O. Turkey sent up fighters, a pretty strong sense of notice, that russia get out of our airspace. So we need to send a clear message to russia, they are going after those opposed to assad under the guise of going after those who oppose i. S. I. S. Who is a common enemy of everyone and we need to push back so they dont engage in behavior that invades turkish airspace and i think its imsecretary kerry begin immediate talks with everybody at the table to, as they say, deconflict the airspace and put the russians on notice. Woodruff you dealt president putin and favored the reset with russia in 2009. My question, is did you and others in the administration misread putin and underestimate what he was capable of doing . Remember, when president obama came into office, medvedev was president and he turned out to be a good partner. Woodruff but putin was in the background. He was, but he was letting medvedev make the decisioned backed by him. When putin decided in fall of 2011 that he wanted to be president and basically announced it, we knew we were going to have a lot tougherrer time because he was taking back the presidency to assert himself and, therefore, russia. Woodruff doesnt that add up to misreading what was going on . No, i dont think so at all. When we dealt in 2009, 2010 and the first part of 2011 with the russian government sitting across of medvedev in many meetings, we got results. Putin comes back, of course you have to readjust because hes coming back with an agenda. Its an ongoing challenge because of the way he behaves and how he basically wants to,