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And by contributions to your pbs station from viewers like you. Thank you. Woodruff were down to the last seven days, and some polls are tightening in the president ial race. With that in mind, the two major candidates hit each other hard today, on policy and morality. Lisa desjardins begins our coverage. Reporter one week to go. Three new elements today, in pennsylvania, to the look and feel of Donald Trumps sprint to election day. His running mate mike pence was there. Congressional supporters were there. And his address was all policy, especially health care, as he pounded away at obamacare and its rising costs. When we win on november 8, and elect a Republican Congress, we will be able, immediately be able to repeal and replace obamacare. Have to do it. I will ask congress to convene a special session so we can repeal and replace. Reporter trumps keystone state visit is part of a final week push in states that voted twice for barack obama, including wisconsin, where he is tonight. And the Campaign Just announced new ad buys in usually dark blue michigan, and in new mexico, which may be a late swing state. Hillary clinton is also airing new ads in both those states, and shes getting back on the air in colorado, where she had not advertised since july. Today, she was east, in florida the biggest electoral jewel of all the battlegrounds. And her focus trumps character. She stumped with a former miss universe, alicia machado, who says trump berated her for her weight. He thinks belittling women makes him a bigger man. Reporter and Clintons Campaign coupled that with a new antitrump tv ad. She ate like a pig. A person whos flatchested is very hard to be a 10. So you treat women with respect . Uhhh, i cant say that either. Reporter all this, as a flurry of new headlines swirled around the president ial race. The New York Times reported trump, back in the 1990s, used a tax scheme that his own lawyers questioned, to save tens of millions of dollars. Nbc news reported the f. B. I. Is conducting a preliminary inquiry into paul manafort, the former Trump Campaign chair, and his foreign business connections. He was ousted from the campaign in august, over amid possible ties to russia. And cnbc was first to report that f. B. I. Director james comey had argued against naming russia as the prime suspect in political hacking. He argued it was too close to the election. Clintons campaign called that a double standard, given that comey last week revealed an investigation into more emails related to her use of a private server. Overall, a wild president ial contest is ending with a storm of news and battleground campaigning. For the pbs newshour, im lisa desjardins. Woodruff in the days other news, iraqi troops battled to make headway on the eastern edge of mosul, two years after being driven out. The military said special forces advanced and took a state television building, despite fierce resistance from Islamic State fighters. Well get a report from the frontlines, later in the program. In pakistan, the opposition leader, imran khan, backed off today from his call for mass protests in islamabad. The demonstrations were meant to lock down the capital, and force embattled Prime Minister nawaz sharif to resign. Hes under fire over his familys offshore bank holdings. Supporters rallied at khans home today after pakistans highest court said itll look into sharifs finances. translated today, i was overjoyed that the Supreme Court decided that from day after tomorrow, Nawaz Sharifs accountability will soon begin we have decided that tomorrow we will thank god and celebrate a day of thanks at islamabads parade ground. Tomorrow, god willing, we will gather a million people. Woodruff in recent days, police have used batons and tear gas to enforce a ban on rallies in islamabad. The government of turkey today rejected criticism from europe over its crackdown on an opposition newspaper. Police arrested 13 top staffers of the paper yesterday, and the u. S. And the European Union condemned the move. Today, the newspaper ran a defiant headline we will not surrender. But the turkish Prime Minister shrugged it all off, in a televised address. translated today, somebody from the European Parliament says the detention of journalists from that newspaper is a red line. Brother, we dont care about your red line. Its the people who draw the red line. What importance does your line have . Woodruff the paper rejects government claims that its employees were supporting terror during last summers coup attempt. Back in this country, philadelphias Public Transit workers went on strike after failing to reach a contract deal. That brought bus, trolley, and Subway Service to a halt, affecting hundreds of thousands of riders. Workers took to the picket lines to demand better pensions, health care and shift scheduling. No new talks have been scheduled. And on wall street, stocks slipped over disappointing earnings and concerns about the president ial race. The Dow Jones Industrial average lost 105 points to close at 18,037. The nasdaq fell 35 points, and the s p 500 slid 14. Still to come on the newshour, what we still dont know about the candidates one week before election day. Iraqi forces push into the isis held city of mosul. The debate over providing bilingual education in public schools, and much more. Woodruff we return now to the race for the white house. Its november 1, and voters who havent already made a Firm Decision about what theyre going to do, or even if theyre going to show up at the polls, may be looking around for new information. Meanwhile, new reports have raised questions about Donald Trumps ties to russia and his business dealings. And of course, Hillary Clintons email controversy continues to unfold. Which raises the question what is known and what isnt, about both candidates . And even if we learn more now, will it make a difference . Were joined by susan page, Washington Bureau chief for usa today. And karen tumulty, National Political correspondent for the washington post. And welcome back to both of you. Were glad to see you as the clock is ticking toward this election. Susan, this is an unconventional race. Its been that way from the beginning. As we get close to election day, how much is known and not known about these two candidates . How different are they in that regard . Well, lets talk about donald trump. I think a lot o americans feel like they know him pretty well because hes been a reality tv star. Theyve seen him. Theyve seen stories about him and his three wives and his children. But hes opaque in many of the ways in which we have usually expected president ial candidates to be transparent. One is on his medical history. He would be the oldest president ever elected in our history. We have not seen the traditional medical releases that weve seen from other president ial contenders in modern times. And on his finances. Hes First Major Party nominee in 40 years not to release his tax returns. So there are things about charitable contributions or the degree to which he is in debt to russian interests that we dont know about. Woodruff karen, there are Big Questions still out there, and were not likely to know the answers to all of these by next tuesday. No, were not, but there have been leaked developments that have spoken to the fact that we dont have this information or that people have doubts about this information. Just today the New York Times getting another leak of some partial tax documents. Theres a big story where they did a deep dive into the tax law and did a story about how hard donald trump was pushing some of the tax breaks that were available to the point where his own financial and legal adviseddors were warning him he was risking audits, using parts of the tax law that were later changed, things that he did that would be illegal now. All of that i think, though, is going to be read by democrats, by clinton supporters as just reinforcing what they already thought they knew about, you know, his supposed malfeasance and among his own supporters just further proof that hes a financial genius. Woodruff and susan, a story like that comes out, but it does remind us, we dont have the tax story. This took a lot of digging just to come up with a little bit of information from the 1990s. And about a very complicated equityfordebt swap. Dont ask me to describe it any more than that that trump used. Its almost as though we side with Hillary Clinton because with her we know a lot about her. Shes been in the public eye for decades. We know about her finances. Shes been pretty public, reasonably open about her health. But her own people argue that we dont know that much about her, that her personality that they describe as warm and engaging is not something a lot of voters have had a glimpse of. Its like theres a reverse when you look at the two of them. Woodruff thats right, karen, we may know a lot about her, we have her tax return, for example, but there is still the private Hillary Clinton. This is this is a week wheree Clinton Campaign had planned to make a big, aggressive, positive case for her and for her vision. And instead what they have found themselves involved in is yet another revival of the email controversy. This one not involving Hillary Clinton herself directly, involving her aide huma abedin and the fact that some more of her emails were found in the most unfortunate place, her husbands laptop while hes under investigation for sexting a minor. But what that does, we dont know whats in those email, but what it does is stir up doubts, stir up reservations that people had already had about Hillary Clinton and also republicans are telling us, you know, reminding us this is what the next four to eight years are going to look like if shes elected. Woodruff meanwhile, susan, the f. B. I. Today surprisingly out of the blue released documents about their investigation back in 2000 when bill clinton was leaving office about pardoning mark rich, a controversial sentence. Its as if everywhere you turn theres a little bit of this and a little bit of that. And there are longterm consequences to the very messy end we see to this campaign. The f. B. I. , for instance, releasing these documents. They say they were responding to a freedom of information act request, and maybe thats correct, but it feeds the impression that the f. B. I. Is becoming a very political institution, as we get to the end of this election, that they have talked. The f. B. I. Director james comey last friday talked about the investigation into Hillary Clintons emails that is damaging to her and curtailed her momentum in the way we were talking about the campaign a week ago at this time but not talking the same way about Donald Trumps ties to financial institutions. Woodruff we havent talked about Donald Trumps connections to russia, his former Campaign Manager paul manafort. At this stage in the campaign historically, how much are voters susceptible to either changing their mind, deciding not to vote . What is the information . At this point over 20 million voters have already voted. So their votes are in the bank. But of that small population of people who have not yet made up their minds between these two candidates or whether they are even going to vote at all, history would suggest that these people are particularly susceptible to swinging with new development, swinging with, you know, whats hitting them hour by hour. You know, Trump Supporters are pretty enthusiastic about him. Even if you get stories today about donald trump, i think theyre unlikely to be discouraged. Hillary clinton, she has some very enthuse imrassic supporters, but she has some that are not as enthusiastic about her, which would include African Americans that are not as warm to her as barack obama and also millennial voters who have not been very reliable voters but were an important part of the obama coalition. I think the risk for Hillary Clinton isnt that theyll decide to vote for donald trump. Its that theyll decide not to vote at all. And just as important down the ballot, too. A week ago it looked like the democrats were in very good shape to take back the senate. Now some of those races are sort of getting closer, back in play, in part because the republicans are making the argument, we need a Republican Congress as a check on Hillary Clinton, not just on her agenda, but on her administrations behavior. Woodruff so its not so much whether these new stories change anything, but they can raise or suppress peoples inteest in turning out. This has kept Hillary Clinton from having the positive close she thought she could have. It can also have longterm consequences as the whether she can have a mandate. Woodruff whoever wins this election, how much of mandate do they have . How much support do they have in the country . Karen tumulty with the washington post. Susan page with usa today. Thank you both. Thank you. Woodruff in our election coverage online, we visit the suburbs long a republican stronghold, but now trending democratic, and explore what the transformation means for american politics. Thats at pbs. Org newshour. Woodruff now, lets turn to an election story at the state level. There are important Ballot Initiatives all around the country. Tonight, we look at one of those battles over bilingual education in california. More than nine percent of all students in the u. S. Dont speak english fluently. They struggle more in school, trailing behind in every academic measure and at every grade. In california, thats true for nearly one in every four children or almost 1. 5 million kids. Special correspondent Kavitha Cardoza with our partner Education Week visited california, where voters will soon decide how to best teach these children, part of our weekly series, making the grade. Reporter at a Farmers Market in San Francisco, signs of multiculturalism are everywhere a good place to convince citizens to vote in favor of allowing bilingual education in california schools. Hi were here with information about proposition 58 thats going to be on the ballot this november. What proposition 58 will do really is put the Decision Making back into the hands of the people closest to the students, the parents and the schools. Reporter almost 20 years ago, californians overwhelmingly voted in favor of doing exactly the opposite, voting for a proposition which required students who didnt speak english fluently to be taught only in english. Most bilingual programs closed. A Silicon ValleySoftware Developer was the architect of the successful englishonly proposition back then. Ron unz remains opposed today. Youre not a parent or a teacher or a researcher, how did this become your issue . I come from a little bit of an immigrant background myself, in that my mother was born in los angeles but grew up not speaking a word of english. She learned english very quickly and easily when she started kindergarten and that was the same case with many other people she knew. Reporter unz says learning english quickly is key to assimilating in the u. S. Bilingual education doesnt work now, its never worked in the past and despite its advocates extreme ideological commitment to that policy, its just totally unsuccessful. Reporter california state senator ricardo lara agrees that learning english is key. He disagrees on how to get there. Among his five siblings, he and his sister did well in an englishonly environment. His other three siblings struggled. Until they switched to bilingual schools, then they began to excel academically. Kids learn differently and we all know that thats a fact now so why are we going to have a one cookie cutter, one size fits all approach to learning english in california, which is one of the most diverse states . Reporter state senator lara is sponsoring proposition 58 which will make it easier for individual School Districts to expand bilingual programs. He says theres been a broader cultural shift in the past 20 years. Globalization has made knowing more than one language a benefit, rather than a burden. Adelante Spanish Immersion School