And its two fridays before the election. Mark shields and david brooks analyze a 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. Lincoln financial is committed to helping you take charge of your future. 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 call it an october surprise todays f. B. I. Statement about Hillary Clintons emails roiled the president ial race, just 11 days before the election. Donald trump pounced. The clinton camp demanded more information. Lisa desjardins begins our coverage. Reporter Hillary Clinton landed in cedar rapids, iowa to campaign, but was greeted by the news that the f. B. I. Is reviewing newly found emails linked the private server she used as secretary of state. In a letter to congressional chairmen, f. B. I. Director james comey said an unrelated investigation turned up emails that appear pertinent to the clinton case. He said he agreed with his team to allow investigators to review the emails and determine whether they contain classified information, as well as assess their importance. The candidate herself did not respond to shouted questions, and did not address it at her rally, sticking with her stump speech. Everyone working across the state are going to make sure that we win iowa. Reporter Clintons Campaign chairman did send out a statement this afternoon calling the timing of the announcement extraordinary and urging the f. B. I. To give more details about the emails in question stressing that its not clear if these emails are significant. But in manchester, New Hampshire. I just heard this ten minutes ago. Reporter the news was certainly significant to donald trump. We must not let her take her are criminal scheme into the oval office. I have Great Respect for the fact that the f. B. I. And the department of justice are now willing to have the courage to right the horrible mistake that they made. Reporter this, the same day that clinton hoped to focus on other areas like debuting a new Television Ad featuring president obama. Last eight years was on the ballot. And the Clinton Campaign reporter and the clinton camp had good news on the fundraising front, as donald trump faced new money questions, especially about repeated pledges like this from two days ago. Ill have over 100 million in the campaign. And im prepared to go much more than that. Reporter but new fundraising reports show the total trump personally donated to the campaign was 56 million as of just over a week ago. His contributions dropped in october to a total of 31,000 for the first three weeks of this month. What might matter more is how much Trumps Campaign has on hand its 16 million according to the report. That compares with 62 million in Hillary Clintons war chest. Today, trump said he is writing a 10 million check to his campaign that is a big boost but still leaves a more than two to one money gap. Meanwhile, Key Senate Races are winding up with a contentious New HampshireSenate Debate last night. And a headlinemaking faceoff in illinois. Democratic congresswoman and iraq war veteran Tammy Duckworth had spoken of her familys history of military service, going back to the revolutionary war. That prompted this from incumbent republican mark kirk i had forgotten that your parents came all the way from thailand to serve george washington. Reporter duckworths mother is a thai immigrant. Her fathers family does go back to the nations founding. Kirk later apologized. With a week and a half left, the twists and turns of campaign 2016 keep coming. For the pbs newshour, im lisa desjardins. Woodruff in the days other news the u. S. Supreme Court Announced today it will take up the issue of transgender rights, for the first time. The justices accepted a case from virginia. It involves a transgender teen who was barred from using the boys bathroom at a high school. A lower court has ordered the school board to accommodate the student. The secretary of the interior says shes profoundly disappointed with the acquittals in oregons wildlife refuge takeover. Secretary sally jewell says shes concerned it will damage the security and management of public lands. Seven defendants were charged with conspiracy after they occupied the refuge for 41 days. They say yesterdays verdict vindicates their claims of federal overreach we have to say we are so grateful for the patriots and for those jurors who spent their time. And we know its a great sacrifice, and we are so grateful. We are in tears because we were so happy that they heard the truth and they werent intimidated enough that they did come back with the right judgment. Woodruff the groups leader ammon bundy is being held on other charges from a 2014 nevada standoff. His lawyer also faces charges after yelling at the judge yesterday to release bundy. U. S. Marshals used a stun gun to subdue him in court. The u. S. Economy surged ahead in the years Third Quarter by the most in two years. Commerce department numbers today show the Gross Domestic Product increased at an annual rate of 2. 9 . Thats twice the growth rate in the second quarter. In syria opposition fighters launched a new offensive today, pushing back against the governments siege of the city of aleppo. The rebels including some islamist militants attacked the western half of the city, the side controlled by government troops. State media said the military repelled the attack. Later, the office of russian president Vladimir Putin said he has decided against resuming air strikes on aleppo. The war in yemen may be taking a sharp, new turn. Overnight, shiite rebels fired a Ballistic Missile deep into neighboring saudi arabia, which backs the yemeni government. Saudi Officials Say the missile was intercepted about 40 miles outside the holy muslim city of mecca. The rebels claim the actual target was the International Airport at jiddah northwest of mecca. The United Nations warns that Islamic State fighters in iraq are using tens of thousands of civilians as human shields in the battle for mosul. Iraqi troops have been closing in on the city. And, u. N. Officials said today that as the militants retreat, theyre forcing men, women and children to go with them. Isils depraved cowardly strategy is to attempt to use the presence of civilian hostages to render certain points, areas or military forces immune from military operations, effectively using tens of thousands of women, men and children as human shields. Many of those who refused to comply were shot on the spot. Woodruff the u. N. Estimates isis killed more than 200 civilians on wednesday alone. There is new unrest in pakistan antigovernment protesters fought with police today in islamabad and other cities. Crowds threw rocks, and officers answered with batons and tear gas. Several people were arrested, but the street clashes eased at nightfall. The protesters are demanding that Prime Minister nawaz sharif step down over corruption charges. It is the deadliest incident yet in the philippines drug war. Police in a Southern Province killed a mayor and nine of his men in a shootout today. Hours earlier, outspoken president Rodrigo Duterte declared thousands more may die in the drug war. He also said hes going to stop swearing because god spoke to him, and warned him to mend his ways. Back in this country the death of a twostar u. S. Army general, just two days before he was to assume command of the space and Missile Defense command, has been ruled a suicide. Major general john rossi was found dead at his home at redstone arsenal, alabama in july. Hes the first general officer to take his own life since Record Keeping began in 2000. Military suicides have risen in recent years, but an Army Statement today shed no light on rossis motive. On wall street the Dow Jones Industrial average lost eight points to close at 18,161. The nasdaq fell nearly 26 points, and the s p 500 fell six. For the week, the dow gained a faction, the nasdaq fell more than 1 , and the s p 500 dropped seventhtenths of a percent. And, bob dylan will accept the nobel prize for literature, after all. He had not been heard from since the prize was announced, two weeks ago. But today, the Nobel Foundation said dylan has now called to say he appreciates the honor, and accepts. No word yet on whether hell attend the Award Ceremony in december. Still to come on the newshour the f. B. I. s review of new emails linked to Hillary Clinton, the tight race for president in unexpected battleground states, efforts to stop rape kits from being destroyed, and much more. Woodruff we return to todays revelation that the f. B. I will review newly discovered emails connected to Hillary Clintons handling of classified information. To help us unpack what we know is Devlin Barrett of the wall street journal. Devlin, welcome back to the newshour. So where did these emails come from . Im told that these emails were found on a personal laptop that was shared by a key clinton aid and her then husband, now separated, Anthony Weiner who is a former congressman. The back story is mr. Wiener is under investigation for allegedly sexting with potentially an underaged girl and they looked at that laptop as part of the investigation and found a whole slew of emails, some of which im told includes ms. Aberdeens work sessions on emails and they have to go through the emails to see if any may contain classified or other information that the investigators were consider constructive to the email investigation. Woodruff thousands of emails . Thousands on the laptop,ip told, but they have to go through to find out how many are her work discussions and that number im told hasnt been calculated yet. Woodruff but this investigation into Hillary Clintons confidential emails has been going on for some time. Theyre just now looking at this particular laptop . Right. Im told investigators in the original clinton email investigation were not aware of this device being used for any state Department Work discussions at the time they did that investigation. Im told that the f. B. I. Essentially only realized that they had possession of these work discussions, these email work discussions earlier this week. So theres been, frankly, a bit of a scramble in the f. B. I. In the last few days, to one, figure out what they have and then figure out what the to do about it. Woodruff so this happens 11 days before the president ial election . This has to do with one of the two nominees for president. Did the f. B. I. Say anything to you about the timing of this and whether that affected their decision . Theyre not saying anything publicly. What im told is they considered the possibility of just reviewing the material and then telling congress later. I think the decision they came to, though, was that theyd rather take whatever grief theyre going to take for saying this now than be accused after the election of having held it back and sat on something important and wait until the election was over to tell people. Woodruff so we have the chairman of Hillary Clintons campaign and a number of others saying we want to see what that is, its not fair. Right. Woodruff that youre doing this without letting us see whats there. What do they say to that . Right. I think the challenge for both campaigns is they get to talk to this without knowing what the underlying facts are. Its my understanding the f. B. I. Dont know the underlying facts. Thats what theyre trying to figure out. I think it will be a political football for the rest of the time and its obviously politically a very big deal. What no one knows is the a big deal legally, does it have a legal consequence . It almost certainly will have a political consequence but its not clear at all if this will have a legal consequence. Woodruff how long do they think this will take to go through the emails . There are two steps. First you have to find the universe of working emails and then you have to figure out is any of the information classified. Classification reviews can take weeks or months. If there are things that are potentially classified, we may not know that for months. Woodruff that you have already begin the process of going through whats on this laptop. Right. Woodruff and whos doing the work . Well, its the f. B. I. Investigators, its the folks who did the original email investigation and theyre now going through and one thing they dont know is how many of the emails on that laptop are possibly copies of emails theyve already seen earlier in the investigation. Woodruff that she may have cop idea herself. Right, if there is emails between two people, they normally exist on two computers, so they have to figure out about the copies. Woodruff it opens up new questions closer to election day. Devlin barrett, thank you. Thank you. Woodruff while its too soon to tell what the impact of todays revelation will be on the president ial race, there are plenty of other dynamics to drill down on. Here to discuss how the campaign is playing out in some of the states where it matters most, were joined by andra gillespie, a professor of Political Science at Emory University in atlanta, emily ramshaw, shes editorinchief of the Texas Tribune in austin, and paul steinhauser, political director for n. H. One in manchester, New Hampshire. Woodruff we we canal all of you to the program. Im going to start with you emily by asking where the race stands in the state of texas. Im doing that because i cant believe texas is actually in play in this Election Year because mitt romney won four years ago by how many points . Close to 18 percentage points. Its really a fascinating case now. We are in theory within the margin of error. Polling shows Hillary Clinton is trailing donald trump here by 3 percentage points. Early voting turnout has been through the roof in almost every major county. For the first time in my career covering texas, texas is actually in theory in play for democrats. Woodruff andra gillespie, weve asked you to look at three states for us that are in play. Where you are now, georgia, which is a place, again, you wouldnt expect democrats would have a shot. What does it look like right now in georgia . So right now the polls have donald trump ahead, but his lead is within the statistical margin of error. Again, this is something nobody would have expected in a normal president ial Election Year but this year has been anything but normal. Woodruff what about florida, which youre also looking at . So in florida, its also statistically died. Its a little mixed. Going into this week a lot of prognosticator put florida in the lead clint category, but a couple of polls but donald trump up. But these are narrow leads and statistically within the margin of error, so we can say nothing about the fact that theyre tied now. Woodruff we hear today Hillary Clinton will spend much of the weekend in florida, in Daytona Beach and miami. Andra, North Carolina, thats where both contestants have been living in the last weeks. This is a hotly contested state. Were talking about razor then margins of error. Right now people are looking at North Carolina as the mustwin state for donald trump as he hopes to be able to amass 270 Electoral College voters and, for that reason, Hillary Clinton yesterday brought Michelle Obama in to shore up support there to make sure she keeps that in the lean clinton category. Again, its statistically too close to call. Woodruff paul steinhauser, you are in New Hampshirey trump was today. Hows it looking there . Well, i think you could say donald trump is one happy dude today. He broke the news about the email investigation by the f. B. I. At the rally. Tighter in New Hampshire. 3. 8 for clinton. If you average the polls in the last week only 5 points for clinton. One reason you see donald trump back three times this month, seven times since the republican convention, judy. Woodruff lets talk about why the rails are shaping up the way they are. Emily ramshaw, in texas, what is driving voters . Im sure youve talked to some, your reporters have talked to them. What is motivating them this year . The polarization of this race. Youre seeing huge turnouts in communities with large latino populations, a lot of women turning out to the polls saying theyre outraged by Donald Trumps comments about women. At the same time youre seeing record turnout in strong republican parts of the state where folks are determined to ensure that