Really scared. 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 by the alfred p. Sloan foundation. Fr supporting science, technology, and improved economic, performance and financialc literacy in the 21st century. Supported by the rockefeller foundation. Promoting the wellbeing ofro humanity around the world by building resilience and inclusive economies. E more at rockefellerfoundation. Org Carnegie Corporation of new york. Supporting innovations in education, democratic engagement, and the advancement of International Peace and security. At carnegie. Org. Ovra, er and with the ongoing support of these institutions and individuals. This program was made possible by the corporation for public broadcasting. And by contributions to your pbs station from viewers like you. Thank you. Wae ad ifill for Hillary Clinton, its the first day back. The democratic president ial nominee returned to campaigning today after recuperating from illness. Re she looked rested and recovered, as she boarded her flight toli north carolina, and headed welcome back to stronger together. How are you doing . I am doing great, thank you so much. Ifill clinton had last been seen sunday in new york, nearly collapsing from pneumonia in nep york. Today, she appeared back in the with an event in greensboro. Im not great at taking eight easy even under ordinary circumstances, but with just two months to go until election day. Sitting at home was pretty much the last placech i want toan ifill clintons aides released a letter from her h doctor on wednesday. It rated the 68yearold candidate healthy and fit toar serve as president. She explained later to reporters. Im going to close my campaign focused on opportunities for kids and fairness for families thatsie been the cause of my life, itt will be the passion of my presidency. Were offering ideas, not insults. Ifill republican donald trump, who is 70, publicly released this letter today from his longtime doctor. It said trump is also healthy, that he takes cholesterol medication and a low dose of aspirin. Trump discussed his medicalp status in an interview, airing today on the dr. Oz show. If elected at age 70, you would be oldest person to ever enter the oval office. Yeah, just about the same age as Ronald Reagan and hillary is a year behind me. I would say just based on my life, i feel as good today as i did when i was 30. Ifill the g. O. P. Nominee also talked today of cutting greatly improved growth, at the Economic Club of new york. Over the next 10 years, our Economic Team estimates thatth under our plan, the economy will average 3. 5 growth and created a total of 25 million new jobs. H you can visit our website. Just look at the math. It works. Ifill meanwhile, more evidence the race is tightening, with a cbs newsnew york times poll giving clinton just a two point lead. Le it also suggests an Enthusiasm Gap 51 of Trump Supporters say theyre very enthusiastic about voting. While only 43 of clinton supporters say the same. As of today, the candidates have 54 days until election day, and just 11 days until their first, scheduled debate. Well look at how the president ial race is shaping up in the critical state of ohio,ng later in the program. Woodruff in the days other news, the United Nations blamed syrian president Bashar Alassad for delays in getting humanitarian aid into the a country, despite the new cease fire. U. N. Officials want to send convoys into aleppo from turkey, but they say syria isnt providing permits. In geneva today, u. N. Specialia envoy steffan de mistura complained that valuable time is being wasted. These are days which we should have used for convoys to move with the permit to go because there is no fighting. The Russian Federation is agreeing with us about this. This is something that requires to take place immediately. Woodruff meanwhile, in syria, amateur video purported to show Government Air strikes on rebel groups in homs and idlib, in violation of the ceasefire. Syrias main ally, russia, reported 45 rebel violations, in the last 24 hours. Ifill a selfdescribed hit man in the philippines now says president Rodrigo Duterte personally ordered killings by death squads. Edgar matobato says it happened when duterte was mayor of the Southern City of davao. He testified today at a senate investigation. Its looking into killings of 3,000 drug suspects, since duterte became president. Woodruff back in this country, president obama todayy, created the First National sanctuary in the Atlantic Ocean the marine monument encompasses 5,000 square miles off new england, and includes underwater canyons and mountains. The designation means a ban on commercial fishing, mining andn drilling. Ifill the head of the i. R. S. Will avoid a congressional impeachment vote, for now. Instead, John Koskinen has agreed to testify at a house hearing next week. Republican conservatives accuses him of impeding an investigatioi into tax treatment of tea party groups. Koskinen has denied it. Woodruff and, wall street headed back up, with Tech Companies leading the way. The Dow Jones Industrial average gained 177 points to close at 18,212. The nasdaq rose nearly 76 points, and the s p 500 added 21. Ifill still to come on thee newshour, the rise in computer hacks against political playersa a g. O. P. Stronghold in ohio up for grabs. The changing economy, where big businesses employ far fewer people, and much more. Woodruff this years Political Campaign has a new and different wrinkle cyber hacking has led to regular public releases of documents and private emails involving the Political Parties and key players. Maca democrats are the most frequent targets. But its not only them. O the list of electionseason cyberattacks is growing. The latest target former secretary of state colin powell. A trove of his emails appeared online this week after his personal account was hacked. In one referring to g. O. P. Nominee donald trump and blacke voters, powell wrote, he takes us for idiots. Another referred to Democrat Hillary Clinton as greedy, not transformational. The messages were posted on a site thats reportedly an outley for hackers tied to russia. Clinton, today, did blame the russians. The white house wasnt saying we dont necessarily want to reveal sources and methods that the fbi uses to conduct these kinds of investigations. Woodruff all of this follows the july release of thousands of Democratic National committee e mails. They were published on wikileaks just before the democratic convention. Wikileaks tweeted a link to more d. N. C. Files. The web sites founder Julian Assange, claimed in an interview with the newshour last month, that its done in the public interest. And that performs an ongoing role leading to great works in investigative journalism,ea successful court cases, civil, litigation, criminal process, and, of course, also contributes to public understanding during woodruff meanwhile, politico reports hackers are also targeting state democratic officials. R and congressman michael mccaul, chair of the house homeland h security committee, says republican operatives have been hacked as well. Om still, in washington yesterday, the president s Homeland Security advisor, lisa monaco, played down any threat to the integrity of the election. But added but the efforts of malicious actors to intrude upon voterou registration databases and other elements of our critical infrastructure, as well as our voting infrastructure, is of concern. Woodruff the white house says if there is a response to the hacking, it may not be announced in advance, or ever. For a deeper look at the actors and the politics behind the hacks, we turn to dmitri alperovitch, cofounder and chief Technology Officer atch crowdstrike, the cyber securityr firm that investigated online breaches of the democratic partt over the summer, and david sanger, chief washington correspondent for the new yorker times. And we welcome both of you to the program. Dimitri, let me start with you. How does this cyber hacking of the democrats and others this year compared to what weve seen in previous elections . Well, its really fascinating right now not in the sense that Election Officials are getting hacked, Election Officials are getting hacked weve seen it in other countries over the course of the last couple years in ukraine where the russians have been aggressive in trying to disrupt the president ialdi election if Parliament Tree elections in ukraine. On whats important is its happening in the united states. That weve never seen before and speaks frankly to the boldness of these adversary easies are dg this to all advocates. Woodruff the administration is not naming th russians so how strong is the evidence is that who is it, the russians. The likes like were the ones brought in to investigate the dnc and the Democratic Congressional contain committee hacks and protecting a number of organizations across the political spectrum. Li now i can tell you based on our investigations were very confident russian intelligencege operatives were behind thosee intrusions. Woodruff david sanger,f what is known about the motivehe of the russians . Its not entirely clear, judy, what their motives are, may be. Be this could have started as a generalist peen ahmadinejad operation and of course espionage operation and itser considered fair game by espionage by foreign intelligence groups, includinglu by the nsa and the cia. We do this in our efforts to understand whats happening in russia, china and other places. But what is different as dimitri said is taking that information and in the lingo of the industry, weaponnizing it. Ng in other words releasing this in public. And that is something we havene seen much against american officials. We got a first taste of it when phone conversations betweenen victoria muland, a Senior State Department official and an american embass du dur in ukraie were material was stolenl probably a long ago up to a year ago perhaps earlier this yearis and then released this summer just before as you said the Democratic National convention. N so the timing seemed designed to disturb the election. The big fear of course, and we wrote about this in the timess this morning, is that were only at the beginning end of this and the next step might be the election vote itself. El woodruff how much damage, before we talk about whats ahead, dimitri, how much damageg has been done snls it possible to quantity and whats coming. Certainly the impact of various official not just at the president ial level but at the sort of local and state levels whose private dossiers and other Campaign Information is being released. Its hard to tell whether itset going to impact specifically but theres no question its impacting this race and weve already seen some resignation of Senior Democratic Party officials as a result of these leak. Woodruff back to you david, we heard julian awe assae in this case theres no question he carries a series hard strong feelings against Hillary Clinton because shes critical of him during that huge dump of state Department Cables back in 2010. Do we believe that it is between the russians and Julian Assange and anybody else involved, wikiw leak that the democrats are going to continue to be the main target here . They could well be, though the leaks from secretary powells emails were obviously highly critical of donald trump as well. So that doesnt quite fit the narrative. But Julian Assange has made no secretsecret of his distaste of Hillary Clinton and neither is vladimir putin. Vl its important to remember, judy, in putins mind and secretary clinton personally intervened in the 2011 parliamentary election. Mrs. Clinton denounced as a rigged election. And putin believes that encouraged three protests against him and his party. So he protested that at the time and in his mind, this may simply be returning a favor. Woodruff well im going to ask both of you about something and david you wrote w about this today, you just raised it. Dimitri, how vulnerable are u. S. Election systems, how possible is it, how likely is it that outside actors could interferen with voting the election in november. Theres certainly no question there are vulnerabilities in our election system. We have electronic votingin machines in certain counties that dont use paper ballots. So if theyre hacked, theres actually no way to tell what the original vote intention would have been. Ha if theres a back up paper ballot thats printed out thene you can always go back and recount the vote manually. In though cases it would certainly be safe against hacking. I think it depends how close the elections going to be. If its going to comeel down lie 2000 to a few hundred votes and certain counties theres certainly potential for manipulation that could occur. If its not even close and its a land slide its not going to have any effect. What i worry more than the manipulation of the vote is the shadow cast on the integrity of the process. Even if there is proclamations by the attackers that they attacked the election or manipulated the vote whethere they had actually done it or not, lets going to convince some voters if their cam date lost that their candidate lost that their election was rigged and the person they were voting for should have won. Woodruff david you did a great deal of reporting on thiss what did you find. Judy, the Voting Machines themselves are pretty hard to hack because they are off line. As dimitri points out in five states, theres basically no paper trail, and i think thats pretty dangerous. Secondly, while they may not be able to manipulate the vote itself, it could cause a lot of disruption that could make the clearings in 2000 hanging in florida look like a comparatively small problem. They could, for example, alter data on Voter Registration rolls so people can show up to vote and their names would be missing. They probably do a provisional ballot but it would take a while to sort that out. Theres question about the safety of the systems in which their votes once tallied on election eve are once transmitted in the state once thats encrypted or not. Several states do it differentle and the fact they do it differently is a little source of protection. Finally judy theres the system we all use to report the election results. R so you know, when the newshour and others report results on election night, youll be getting early tallies from the ap. If somebody got into that reporting system and you had false numbers or slightly altered numbers, then there would be a discu discrepancy ben what we heard on tv at night and the numbers as they came in for the actual vote count. And that would also as dimitri points out, create some doubts about the system. Even if its only the real vote count that matters. Woodruff disturbing and i know it merits furthermore reporting on it. Rt dimitri alperovitch, david sanger, thank you both. Thank you. Thank you. Bo ifill in ohio, donald trump and Hillary Clinton appear to bl in a dead heat. But the stakes are higher for trump. The Buckeye State has voted for the winning candidate in every election since 1964, and no republican has ever won the white house without it. Tonight, we begin a twopart look at two counties that tell the tale. E john yang starts our reportingar in a suburb outside of columbus. Yang september in delaware, ohio, means the annual allhorse parade, the biggest event of itf kind east of the mississippi. Is among those gathered along the parade route, we found enthusiastic supporters on both sides in the president ial horser race. Retired educator Gail Carpenter is voting for donald trump. We need a bull in a china shop to break things up. Its not working. The economys bad. Im very worried about iran and north korea. A. I feel like he will do what he needs to do to keep us safe. Yang Jen Villanueva henkle,u who works with children, backs Hillary Clinton. Shes done a lot for women and children and People Living in poverty for the entire history of her career. We support her and were excited to see her be our nextnd president. Yang but there were also folks like julie lamb. T l its been a crazy ride for the last year. Im republican, so thats probably the way im gonna go,o, but not necessarily that crazy about that candidate. Yang and here in the most republican county in ohio, that could spell trouble for trump. Polls in the state show him locked in a tight contest with clinton. No republican has won the white house without winning this state. Wi both campaigns have opened field offices here within the pastfi week. This is ohios wealthiest and fastestgrowing county. Farmland is quickly giving way to manicured lawns and big houses. Republican president ial candidates have won this county every election, since before this diner opened in 1932. Thats where we met kyle kondikh of the university of Virginia Center for politics. Hes written a book on ohios role in picking president s, the bellwether. What a republican needs to