Woodruff and its friday. Mark shields and david brooks analyze this full week of news. 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. Xq institute. Lincoln financial committed to helping you take charge of your financial future. Md anderson cancer center. Making cancer history. Supporting social entrepreneurs and their solutions to the worlds most pressing problems skollfoundation. Org. The ford foundation. Working with visionaries on the frontlines of social change worldwide. And with the ongoing support of these institutions and friends of the newshour. This program was made possible by the corporation for public broadcasting. And by contributions to your pbs station from viewers like you. Thank you. Woodruff this has been a day of great tragedy in a city that has known great tragedy before. Last nights sniper ambush in dallas left five Police Officers dead the worst loss for american Law Enforcement since 9 11. It happened just blocks from where president kennedy was assassinated in 1963. Hari sreenivasan begins our coverage, from dallas. gunfire sirens sreenivasan a barrage of gunfire the wail of police sirens; signals that Downtown Dallas had morphed into a combat zone. The shooting sent hundreds of people running for their lives. Theyd been peacefully marching against Fatal Police Shootings in minnesota and louisiana. They just started going off. I mean just, pow, pow, pow, pow, pow. And then everybody started running, everywhere. As we were leaving, we heard the automatic fire. Danananana the backtoback fire. It just was wild. Somebodys really armed to the t sreenivasan the horror, seen on cellphone video, was quickly up on social media, for the world to see. A gunman was spotted, shooting a rifle at police from behind a pillar. gunfire later, officers cornered a suspect in a nearby parking garage. After four hours of failed negotiations, police detonated a bomb on a robotic vehicle, killing the man. Dallas police chief david brown he said he was upset about the recent Police Shootings. The suspect said he was upset at white people. The suspect stated he wanted to kill white people, especially white officers. Sreenivasan investigators identified him as Micah Johnson of mesquite, texas. He had served six years in the army reserve, with one tour in afghanistan. He told police he acted alone, and organizers of the dallas protest said they had never heard of him. The black lives Matter Movement issued a statement on its main twitter page, saying it advocates dignity, justice and freedom. Not murder. Authorities initially said three suspects were in custody. They gave no other details as the day went on. Meanwhile, much of Downtown Dallas was cordoned off as a crime scene, although officials did allow a prayer vigil. And, police chief brown appealed for support, and unity. All i know is that this must stop. This divisiveness between our police and our citizens. We dont feel much support most days. Lets not make today most days. Sreenivasan until last night, the Dallas Police department had the fewest number of officerrelated shootings of any large city in america this year. But the city thats home to nearly 1. 3 Million People is now rattled, and many are wondering what comes next. Some of those concerned residents were at elaines kitchen in south dallas. You never know what kind of police is going to pull behind you. And the same way, you know, i dont know whats on the mind of anybody that wants to cause harm to a police officer. For some people, they see things whats going on in the world and think, i guess, they can take it into their own hands or retaliate, but of course violence isnt the answer. Sreenivasan dallas mayor Mike Rawlings called for calm today, and he vowed greater protection for police in the future. The dallas killings echoed around the world, as well. President obama got the news in poland, at a nato summit there is no possible justification for these kinds of attacks or any violence against Law Enforcement. The f. B. I. Is already in touch with the Dallas Police, and anyone involved in these senseless murders will be held fully accountable. Sreenivasan in washington, Democrat John lewis of georgia, and the congressional black caucus, made an appeal for reconciliation i really believe that we must come to that point in our country where we respect the dignity and worth of every human being. We can do it. The leaders must lead. Sreenivasan and, attorney general Loretta Lynch also sought to reassure the country, after the tumult of recent days. Do not let this week precipitate a new normal in this country. I ask you to turn to each other, not against each other, as we move forward. Sreenivasan elsewhere, protesters did stand united last night, marching peacefully in new york city, chicago, and philadelphia to demand justice for black victims killed by police. There was even one in washington, d. C. Last night before we headed home and streamed on facebook live. Woodruff hari, i know you have been learning more this evening about this sniper, this gunman. What have you been able to learn . Sreenivasan we knew the 25yearold had been in the army reserve. We know during the day he had a tour in afghanistan. What worry also learning is, according to police, he had been plotting this for quite some time at his home they found a detailed combat journal, bombmaking material, ammunition, rifles. This is according to the police chief today. Again, they dont think there are any known ties to International Organizations or even black nationalist organizations, but this is a picture that will unfold more in the next couple of days. I know youve only been there today but how is your sense of how the community is dealing with this and what are you learning about the relations between the people and the police force . Sreenivasan you know, i used to live here for a few years back when i worked for another network, but one of the things that was interesting is this was a Police Department thats actually made significant strides in trying to enforce Community Policing, trying to get in touch with their communities. Over the last several years, they decreased the number of officerrelated incidents of violence, they decreased the number of arrests, they decreased the number of complaints of use of force. This is, by all measures throughout the country, this is a force thats trying to do things right. There is actually a greater deal of trust between the Dallas Police department and the citizens here than there was ten years ago. Woodruff which is what makes it so ironic. Hari sreenivasan reporting for us from dallas. We thank you. Police also reported attacks in three states after the dallas ambush. They said a suspect in valdosta, georgia ambushed an officer who answered a 911 call. Both were wounded. A suburban st. Louis man critically wounded a policeman during a traffic stop; and in bristol, tennessee, officers wounded a suspect after he fired at them. The events in dallas drew quick reactions from the president ial candidates. Republican donald trump said, in a statement it is a coordinated, premeditated assault on the men and women who keep us safe. We must restore law and order. And Democrat Hillary Clinton said in a tweet i mourn for the officers shot while doing their sacred duty to protect peaceful protesters. Well have an interview with secretary clinton, right after the news summary. A sitting member of the u. S. House has been indicted on fraud charges. Florida democrat Corrine Brown and her chief of staff were charged today. The indictment says they used funds from a Fraudulent Charity to line their own pockets. The money was supposed to Fund Scholarships for poor students. Economic news, meanwhile, was positive. Hiring in the u. S. Surged in june, after two months of sub par results. The Labor Department reports employers added a net 287,000 jobs, the most since last october. The Unemployment Rate rose. 2, to 4. 9 , as more people started looking for work. The jobs news helped wall street finish recovering from the brexit selloff. The Dow Jones Industrial average gained 250 points to close at 18,146. The nasdaq rose nearly 80 points, and the s p 500 added 32. In iraq, Prime MinisterHaider Alabadi fired baghdads security chief and accepted the interior ministers resignation, after a wave of Islamic State attacks. At least 186 people died sunday in a baghdad car bombing, and an attack last night in balad killed 37 more at a shiite shrine. A suicide bomber blew himself up at the shrines entrance, allowing other attackers to push inside. Iraqs top shiite cleric blamed poor security. translated at the beginning of this week, at the end of the holy month of ramadan, isis targeted innocent people and killed hundreds of them. Last night, the terrorists targeted the holy shrine. So, if the authorities wont live up to their responsibilities and put an end to such security violations, the terrorists will continue committing crimes against iraqi people. Woodruff the attacks come as isis has been losing territory elsewhere in iraq. The number of asylumseekers in germany dropped sharply in the first half of the year. Berlin says 222,000 people have registered so far. The number for all of last year topped one million. Since then, balkan nations have largely shut off overland migration, and turkey has curbed crossing of the aegean, in a deal with the european union. And, back in this country, the house passed lastminute legislation to stem the surge in drug abuse deaths, and sent it to the senate. Nearly 50,000 people died of drug overdoses in the u. S. Last year, double the figure from 2000. More than half are caused by heroin and opioids. Still to come on the newshour Hillary Clinton on the Dallas Police shooting and Race Relations in the u. S. ; natos Largest Military buildup in europe since the end of the cold war, and much more. Woodruff we return to the events in dallas and the violence involving Police Across the country this week. And we get the perspective of the Presumptive Democratic nominee, Hillary Clinton. We also invited donald trump. He declined, but we hope to talk with him soon. I spoke with the secretary clinton a short time ago. Welcome, secretary clinton. As i talked to you, were hearing about still more attacks on the police in this country. Why do you think it is more than 50 years after the height of the Civil Rights Movement that were seeing events in this country like what weve witnessed this week . Judy, i wish i could answer that question. I have thought so much about it, and im not sure of all the reasons why we are witnessing this kind of violence, and weve got to look at it broadly. What happened in dallas, whats happening to other Police Officers in our country is absolutely outrageous. Weve got to do much more to protect and respect the police, and we have to do much more to make sure that citizens in our country, particularly africanamericans, feel respected and protected by the police. I think weve got to listen to each other. We need a conversation. White people need to be listening to africanamericans about what it feels like to live with, you know, fear and anxiety, to be profiled, to worry about what will happen to their children when they go out to play or out on a date or go for a drive. We have to listen to the fears of our Police Officers who get up every day and do a dangerous job like the police in dallas who ran toward the shooting when it broke out after a peaceful protest. Im going to do everything i can in this campaign to try to find common ground, bring people together, and ive got specific ideas about what we can do for criminal justice reform. We need National Guidelines about the use of force, particularly lethal force. We need to work with the 18,000 Police Departments in our country, some of whom are real models and others should be learning from about how they deescalate tension rather than turning a routine traffic stop into a killing, and, of course, we need to investigate the implicit bias that unfortunately too many of us still have. When its impcit bias in a police officer, it can lead to an escalating situation. So weve got work to do. Certainly our elected officials, our leaders in our communities, but really all of us as americans have a stake in trying to listen respectfully to each other and, you know, likely try to find ways we can contribute to ending this violence that is stalking our nation. Woodruff so are you saying you think you could make more progress on this than an africanamerican president who has made improving Race Relations a priority of his administration . Well, i think president obama has done an extraordinary job in trying to explain and provide information to anyone whos willing to listen about the inequities and the difficulties that are being confronted by so many of our fellow americans. His policing commission that he put together after ferguson, missouri, has excellent recommendations, but not enough Police Departments have followed them, and i want to put money in the budget when im president to make it possible for every Police Department to implement these important reforms. I think, too, there is got to be a national conversation. It cant be just elected officials. We need people in communities talking to each other. You know, during the primary campaign in kentucky, i had a wonderful experience one sunday morning going to an africanamerican church, and it just so happened the day i was there, they were being visited by a white church. So you had a mixed choir. You had both preachers addressing the congregation. You had people shaking hands and exchanging views and talking about their lives. You know, that may sound easy, but its hard in lots of places in our country, and it needs to happen, not just on sunday. It needs to happen every day. As a white person, i want to make clear that whites have to listen. We have to recognize, you know, many of the fears and anxieties that our africanamerican, our latino and others in our society feel we saw the terrible shooting at the pulse nightclub in orlando, our lgbt friends i mean, this cuts across so many of the divides in our country, and it should send a clarion call to every single one of us. We do not want to live like this. We dont want any american living in fear. We dont want our Police Living in fear. If we want to end that, were going to have to work together. Woodruff madam secretary, we also want to ask you about the f. B. I. Report that came out this week. We heard the director james comey say they were not going to recommend criminal charges against you, but he said that you and your colleagues at the state department were, if his n his words, extremely careless in the handling of very sensitive, highly classified information. Do you believe you benefited from a double standard that ordinary Government Employees experience one sort of treatment and a different one for you . No, not at all. In fact, i think director comey made exactly the opposite point in his long testimony yesterday that those who somehow hoped that action would be taken are the ones who were hoping for a double standard. He made very clear there was no basis for going forward. He also clarified what we said in his what he said in his statement. You know, with respect to the handling of classified material, i take it very seriously, and the 300 or so people with whom i emailed on the course of my time in the state department do as well. These are experienced diplomats. They have expertise in handling classified material. They were not careless, and the material that they sent to me, they did not believe was classified. The very, very few examples that director comey pointed to have also been clarified, as he accounted yesterday. The state Department Said two of the three h he had pointed to were human error, they were not to be classified. So im very proud of the work we did over four years, and im very proud of our diplomats and other professionals who have to act in real time. They are responding to heads of state, to press inquiries and they are doing the best they can. I do not believe they were careless. I do not believe that they sent material that they thought was classified and certainly no finding of anything intentional was made after this investigation. Woodruff last question. Do you think director comey erred in says it was extremely careless . I ask that because one of the arguments you make in your comparison with donald trump is that you as a president would be more competent than he would be in the white house. Well, i think there is a lot of evidence to that based on eight years as a senator handling a lot of classified material, based on four years as a secretary of state, handling classified material which, in my view, did not include what was sent on an unclassified system and certainly was the judgment of the hundreds of people with experience and expertise who dealt with me. But, look, i am grateful for the professionalism, the f. B. I. And the department of justice, and i repeat