Theres this sense ofns machismo in the mexicanxi cultural, and machismo is the belief that you need to be a ma being a man is providing for your family. Ifill all that and more on tonights pbs newshour. Major funding for the pbs newshour has been provided by lincoln financial committed to helping you take charge of your financial futuren 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. Td thank you. Ifill Hillary Clinton is still on the sick list tonight, but shes gotten a political shot in the arm. It came today from the man she once battled for the presidencyt and now hopes to succeed in the white house. An hes the biggest surrogate an ailing Hillary Clinton could have called on, at a moment the candidate most needed it. Obama obama ifill in philadelphia todaya president obama offered a rousing defense of his former secretary of state. Shes been accused of everything you can imagine. And has been subjected to more scrutiny, and what i believe is more unfair criticism, than anybody out here. We take for granted, sometimes, what is steady and true. And Hillary Clintons steady. And she is true. Ifill clinton remained sidelined with pneumonia today. But she called in to cnn last night, to discuss her collapse on sunday, and the delay in publicly acknowledging her illness. D why not just say on friday as you said apparently to senator schumer on sunday, you know, isc have pneumonia, folks, im going to power through it . Why keep it a secret . Well, i just didnt think it was going to be that big a deal. Ifill Republican Donald Trump was on the road today, stopping in iowa, ready, he said, with a plan to ease the financial burden of child care. A we have to start taking care of each other, which were not doing. Ve tonight im going ot roll out aa plan to help our mothers and our families get affordable, Quality Childcare for their children. Ifill trumps allies stuck to a different topic condemning clinton for putting half of his supporters into what she called a basket of deplorables. Sh donald trump jr. Posted a photou showing an overflowing trump rally, with the line, looks like we are going to need a bigger basket. But trump and running mate mikee pence faced new pressure for refusing to say former ku klux klan leader david duke is, to use clintons critique, deplorable. Pence huddled with House Republicans at the u. S. Capitol today. Trump and i have denounced david duke repeatedly. We have said we do not want his support, do not want support of people who think like him. The simple fact is im not in the namecalling business. Im not going to validate language that clinton used toto describe american people. Le ifill a Campaign Official says trump will visit flint, michigan tomorrow. Hes said he would have prevented the citys water crisis, if hed been president. V clinton is unlikely to return to the campaign trail before friday, as she recovers at home in new york. Well be back later in the program with a look at questions about Donald Trumps foundation and his charitable giving. Woodruff in the days other news, the ceasefire in syria appears to be holding for the most part, despite reports of scattered violations. In the ravaged city of aleppo, streets and skies were quiet, and some people ventured out. The u. N. Special envoy for syria confirmed the change, from geneva. Sources on the ground, which do matter, including inside aleppo city, said the situation has dramatically improved withsi no air strikes. Comparing, the bottom line, to previous days, there is no doubt significant drop in violence. Woodruff two groups of aid trucks were able to cross today into syria from turkey. But its unclear when theyll be allowed into aleppo. Ifill meanwhile, rebels in Eastern Ukraine announced a unilateral ceasefire. Theyre backed by russia, andey its the first time theyve taken that step. It came as ukraines president Petro Poroshenko said parliament will vote soon on granting autonomy to eastern provinces. The fighting there has killed more than 9,500 people since 2014. Woodruff former israeli president and Prime Minister shimon peres suffered a stroke today, and was hospitalized outside tel aviv. The hospital director said the 93yearold suffered extensive bleeding in the brain, and is now sedated and breathing on a respirator. Peres has held nearly every top office in israel, serving in 12 separate cabinets. He won the Nobel Peace Prize in 1994 for negotiating interim94 peace accords with the palestinians. Ifill the philippines new leader sent more mixed signals today about his countrys alliance with the united states. President Rodrigo Duterte called yesterday for American Military advisors to leave the southern philippines. But today, he said there would be no change in ties, while also rejecting joint patrols with the u. S. In the south china sea. We will not join any expedition or patrolling the seas. I will not allow it because i do not want my country to be involved in a hostile act. Ifill that appeared to contradict an agreement for patrols with u. S. Forces reached last april. N woodruff back in thisk country, the governing body for College Sports has put new pressure on north carolina. Last night, the n. C. A. A. Said its pulling all championship events out of the state. It cited a state law barring special protections for transgender people and others. A a spokesman for the governor called the decision so absurd, its almost comical. Ifill easy come, easy go on wall street today. Yesterdays gains mostly evaporated after oil prices slumped, and took the rest of the market down. The Dow Jones Industrial average lost 258 points to close ats 18,066. The nasdaq fell 56 points, and the s p 500 gave up 32. Woodruff still to come on the newshour, why many people arent feeling the benefits of rising incomes. Questions arise around Donald Trumps charity. An italian farm claims to employ migrants, but somethings missing. In and much more. Ifill this campaign hasis often focused on the question of economic growth, jobs and wages, particularly for the middle class. Well today, there was some good news on that front, as well as for lowerincome households. Lisa desjardins looks at those latest numbers, and why so Many Americans say they dont square with their own experiences. Reporter it is a triplehit of good Economic News newt census data shows that last year, Median Income rose 5. 2 . E the number of americans living in poverty shrank by 3. 5 million people, and the percentage of uninsured americans dropped. President obama, campaigning for Hillary Clinton in pennsylvaniag crowed. Its important to understand this is a big deal more americans are working, more have health insurance, incomes are rising, poverty has fallen. Ri reporter but behind each of these numbers, there is more going on. Lets start with paychecks. That increase is historic. The largest percentage jump in at least five decades, and Median Incomes rose for every age group. Now, plenty of folks may say wait a second, it definitely doesnt feel like i got a big pay raise. And they have a point. Median income in america started plummeting in 2008. Then, as we learned today, Median Income rose last year, by 2,800 dollars. The problem . Le that is still below what americans were making in 2007. This economic angst is a driving force on the campaign trail. Inequality is too high, wages are too low, it is still too hard for too many to get ahead. But what has happened is, we have people in the audience, in 18 years, theyre making lesski money now than they made 18 years ago, in real wages, 18. Ar and in many cases theyrer working two and three jobs. Reporter the two candidates have spent less time focused one another number out today the poverty rate. It fell, from over 10 to about 9 , the biggest drop since at least the 1960s. Even so, 43 million americans remain in poverty, andma disproportionately those americans are blacks, hispanics and children of all races. Now to the third figure out today health insurance. Obamacare is clearly covering more people. Four million more americans were covered last year and more than 90 of documented americans were insured. But obamacare raises other concerns. A lot of people, 29 million, still have no insurance. Il for those who are on obamacare exchanges, premiums, outof pocket costs are rising. And their choices are shrinking forecasts estimate that in a third of all counties, the exchange will offer just afe single insurer to chose from. So, for americans, a day of historic bright news, but after climbing out of a long recession and while grappling with still unsolved issues like income inequality, they may not feel the sunshine yet. For the pbs newshour, im lisa desjardins. Y woodruff recently, Hillary Clinton has come under fire foru allegedly giving special access to Clinton Foundation donors when she served as secretary ofo state. E. But now donald trump is catching heat for how his foundation has functioned. Im joined by David Fahrenthold of the Washington Post who has spent the past few months digging into the republican nominees history of charitable donations and his lack of personal contributions to thee Trump Foundation. Dave fahrenthold, thank you for talking with us. Tell us first a little bit about the foundation. Ah how is it set up . How is it different from other foundations . Its quite a small foundation. Trump started it in 1987. In contrast to other people that have as much money as trump has, it doesnt have much money at all. The most money it ever has was 3. 3 million in 1989. The most it has now is 1 million total. Theres in paid staff. The p board is just four trump, donald, donald, jr. , and ivan camp they work with no pay for half an hour a week. The most unusual thing is not that its small but whose money is in it. Donald trump hasnt put anyy money in his own foundation until 2008. Donald trump gives other peoples money away 20 people under the impression theyrey getting Donald Trumps money. Woodruff when you sayyo other people have put money in, who are we talking about . A a lot dont want to talk. The biggest donation is from vince and linda mcmahon, the wwe moguls. In 2009, the mcmahons gave a total of 5 million. That was not trumps payment for wrestlemania, they got paid separately, but at the same time they made this donation. Another big donor is richard e berta highend ticket broker. Every year he gives 450,000 to 600,000 always in odd amounts. He also didnt want to talk about this. Another is nbc universal, which televised the celebrityce apprentice. Trump used his Foundation Money to give what he said weree personal gifts out of his own pocket on the show. Nbc gave him a 500,000 gift, which served to cover the cost of those personal donations. Woodruff what about what the foundation has given money to . Is there a pattern, a mission, a particular cause donald trumpic has been interested in . D thats interesting, as well. A lot of times you see rich people started their own private foundations, an abiding cause. They give to their alma mater, cancer research, Something Likei that. With trump there is no such abiding cause. The money is giving out in relatively small amount, between 5,000 and 50,000 to a smattering of groups. Often hes buying a table at a gala. The biggest correlation you finl is with trumps own personal and business interests. He lives in impeach palm beach part of the year and he runs a club in palm beach that depends on being rented out by charities who can pay as much as 275,000 a night. ,0 so he gives to those charities that do business with him. And this enables him to give to those groups without using his own money. Woodruff you also wrote, dave fahrenthold, that the Trump Foundation gave money in one instance, actually in several instance, to political causes or political candidates. Well, theres one face in particular. So giving to a Political Group is against the law. If youre a anyone profit, you cant give money to a politicalo group. In 2013, they did that. They gave to this group called and justice for all, a Political Campaign committee helping Florida Attorney general pamey bondi, who at the time happenedp to be considering, her officefi was considering, whether to pursue an investigation againsts trump university. After the money came, in they decided not to pursue that investigation. Trump paid that money out ofat e Trump Foundation, which isio against the law, and this year, after we pointed it out, he paid a penalty tax to the i. R. S. Of 2,500, which is 10 of the donation. Woodruff so theyre not under any legal cloud at this point . Well, whats interesting is there is another side to that gift, which is not only did the Trump Foundation make that prohibited political gift, butic they also sent files to the i. R. S. Which contained an error that served to cover up the illegal gift that they made. They said that error was inadvertent, but it was a great continues dense the same year they made a 25,000 gift this group they shouldnt have, theyh told the i. R. S. They gave 25,000 to another group, whichi would have been legal if they had sent them any money. Thats something the i. R. S. Om could investigate. We dont know if it is. Woodruff we have to point out that the trump campaign, mr. Trump himself, says hes given away millions of dollars over the years. What do we know about that in any form . Youre right. Hess said over the years hes h given the proceeds to a varietye of things, books, tv shows, too charity. It adds up to millions. He said he gives millions. Over the last few months ive looked for evidence that those gifts exists. Im in the trying the find all of them. But im trying to find some evidence theyre out there. So far ive called 326 charities, these are charities closest trump, hes spoken positively of these, gone to their galas. Ive called 326 looking looking for personal gifts from trump out of his pocket. Mp between 2008 and this may, i fouled one out of his own pocket in 2009 for less than 10,000. Woodruff when you ask the campaign, what do they say . When youve asked them for evidence of the giving . Theyve been very slippery. They t last couple they said trump gives tens of millions away, but that answer includes gifts from the foundation, gifts of free rounds of golf from his golf club to local charities and even implies it might include just the salaries he gives to his workers, hes helping people by paying them to go work for them some they havent broken down how much trump gives out of his pocket, and they seem to be determined not to do that. Woodruff i know you will continue to be reporting onbe this. Dave fahrenthold of theh Washington Post, thanks very much. Ifill stay with us, coming up on the newshour the sugar industrys influence over its link to heart disease. Rethinking college to includecl more latino men. And acclaimed author Ann Patchetts foray into something closer to home. But first, the European Union has set aside nearly 630 million for italy to cope with the thousands of migrants coming across the mediterranean from africa. With so much public money available, opportunities to profit from the migrant crisis are substantial, as, it appears, is the potential for fraud. In june, special correspondent Malcolm Brabant reported on thec italian mafias use of Refugee Reception Centers in sicily to cheat the state out of more than four billion dollars. The e. U. Is now working with the italians to try to end that. As part of that effort, on the italian island of sardinia, authorities are now checking into a scheme in which unused and neglected land was supposedly given to migrant african farmers so they could become self sufficient. From platamona in northern sardinia, Malcolm Brabant and producer alessandra maggiorani a report. Reporter its just before sunrise, its the start of theis working week and were heading out the land where these 50 or so african farmers are supposed to be working. This is the time of the day when most farmers in the mediterranean start working its cooler, they can get more done before the heat of the day really kicks in. K weve been told these farmers work from monday to thursday, so lets go and see if theyre, there. In the late summer heat, crops need attention. But dawn came and went in platamona with no sign ofn activity. Right, well, its just after 8 00, weve been waiting here for more than an hour and its clear that nobody is going toit turn up. Were going to go for breakfast because i have a feeling its going to be a long day. S and then were going to come back afterwards and see if they are here. T and if theyre not, were going to try and find them and seeot whats going on. We came back nearly two hours later. Nothing. At this small vineyard next to the african workers, cooperative supposed location, we found a policeman and his father who did not wish to be identified. translated i live in porto torres and i go to sassarn for work, so i would have seen the migrants. And the old chapth you see down here is my father. And if he had something he would have been alarmed and would have asked me whats going happening . translated i would have noticed them. Theres no cultivation going on there and no livestock. No reporter at another vineyarr opposite the farm, we talked to an agricultural worker whod a known the owners family for