Sreenivasan all that and more, on tonights pbs newshouru major funding for the pbs newshour has been provided by xq institute. Bnsf railway. Lincoln financial committed to helping you take charge of your financial future. 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. Ik thank you. Woodruff six days to go, and the candidates are trying toes navigate a president ial election map thats still shifting. That had donald trump trying today to nail down one mustwin state, while Hillary Clinton tries to deny him another. My second home, you know that, im here all the time. Woodruff that was donald trump today, back in voterich florida, a state hes visited often in recent weeks. Today, in miami, he sounded newly confident the polls have just come up, were way up in florida i shouldnt say that, because i want you to go vote applause well pretend were down, right . Well pretend were down nah, we gotta win, we gotta win big. Woodruff the race in florida is, in fact, neckandneck, and Hillary Clinton started off her day less than an hours drive away, visiting an early polling site in fort lauderdale. Clinton, afterward, flew west ta campaign in nevada. And tonight, shes in arizona in past years, a republican stronghold. Her running mate tim kaine and his wife, anne holton are on the hustings, too, of course, as are president obama and Vice President biden, former president bill clinton and daughter chelsea, plus senators Bernie Sanders and elizabeth warren. Theyre fanning out to election battlegrounds from ohio to nevada. If hillary wins North Carolina, she wins. Woodruff the most prominent surrogate of them all spent his time campaigning for clinton in chapel hill, North Carolina. When i said the fate of the republic rests onn you, i wasnt joking. Young people here, its not often that you know your voice will have an impact. M dont let it slip away. Dont give away your power. Woodruff earlier, on the social media platform now thisi news, the president called Hillary Clintons use of a private email server as secretary of state an honest mistake. He also addressed the f. B. I. so review of newly discovered emails. He did not directly criticize director james comey, but he did say i do think that there is a norm that, when there are investigations, we dont operata on innuendo, we dont operate on incomplete information, we donn operate on leaks. We operate based on concrete decisions that are made. Ci woodruff meanwhile, donald trump is devoting his whole day to florida, while his surrogates spread across the electoral map as well running mate mike pence; trumps children, donald jr. , ivanka, tiffany and eric with his wife lara; former new york mayor rudy giuliani; and former House Speaker newt gingrich. Pence was dispatched to arizona, ahead of clintons visit there tonight, trying to keep the state in the republican column, where its been 11 of the last 12 president ial election years. C sreenivasan in the days other news, investigators around des moines, iowa, are lookingok for a motive in the ambush killings of two policemen early today. The 46yearold suspect, Scott Michael greene, was arrestedee hours later. Authorities say both officersic were sitting in their police cars when they were shot toli death. The killings happened less than two miles apart. What we can tell by looking at the scene, is that it doesnt appear that either officer had an opportunity to interact withn the suspect. It doesnt look like there was an exchange of conversation. It doesnt look like there was an opportunity there definitely wasnt an opportunit for these officers to defend themselves in response to the attack. Sreenivasan police say they believe the gunman acted alone. Woodruff South African president jacob zuma faced increasing public pressure to step down today. A state watchdog report found signs of corruption at top levels of the government. The report came out after zuma abandoned efforts to block it. He also faced thousands of protesters in the streets of pretoria, demanding he resign. They pointed to a series of scandals, including spending millions in state funds on zumas rural home. Zu he is under siege now even from his own quarters. The a. N. C. Is speaking out loud against him and society, iso think, has come to realize thatt we have come to the end of the road for him. Woodruff the corruption report also calls for a judicial inquiry into new allegationseg that zuma engaged in influence peddling. Sreenivasan back in this country, the Federal Reserve finished its latest meeting, with no change in shortterm interest rates. Instead, policymakers said they want to see further gains in the job market and economic activity. They hinted a rate hike could come at their next meeting, in december. Woodruff on wall street today, election jitters and ad drop in oil prices sent stocks lower again. The Dow Jones Industrial averago lost 77 points to close at 17,959. The nasdaq fell 48, and the s p 500 gave up 13. Sreenivasan its doordie tonight for the chicago cubs and the cleveland indians, in gamet seven of the world series. Fans in both cities are hopingie their teams put an end to e decades of waiting. The cubs havent won a world series since 1908, and the indians last claimed a title in 1948. Woodruff and theres a new king in the world series poker. Qui nguyen won the tournaments main event early today in las vegas, after nine hours and 364 hands. Hes a native of vietnam, whos applied for u. S. Citizenship. He says he plans to donate a portion of his 8 million in winnings to poor families inn vietnam, and the Wounded Warrior project. Sreenivasan still to come on the newshour which president ias candidate appeals most to voters with disabilities; from marijuana to the Death Penalty, key ballot issues in next weeks election; turkeys growing crackdown on journalists, and much more. Woodruff no matter who winst next weeks president ial election, the party that controls the balance of power in the u. S. House and senate will play a Critical Role inl determining what gets done in congress. Key issues such as healthcare, immigration, trade and the makeup of the federal courts will all be affected. We explore that now with gerald seib, the Washington Bureau chief for the wall street journal; and norman ornstein, resident scholar at the American Enterprise institute. And we welcome both of you back to the program. So, jerry, im going to start with you. Ou there are, what, six or seven senate seats that are literally up for grabs right now. Where are those races how do they look . Y its interesting, a couple of weeks ago the democrats got fairly confident they wereey pulling away and were going to have the margin and several of those races have narrowed downe in the last couple of weeks, sort of like the president ial race, and not by coincidence. O so if the democrats can hang on in nevada, where harry reid is retiring, which is a little iffy, and if they pick up a seat in illinois, which seems likely, then theyre going to have to find three or four seats in indiana, missouri, North Carolina, new hampshire,ne pennsylvania and wisconsin. Ia in each of those states, the republicans trying to hang ong have done a little better than donald trump in their states,t which is why republicans have some hope that they can hang on. To me the most interesting one in the laste few days has been wisconsin, which looked as itit was kind of moving away from ron johnson, the republican incumbent. Now its tightening up, and all of a sudden theres money pouring in from both parties into wisconsin. Woodruff we could seein changes but the point is, its hanging in the balance. We dont know. No its hanging in the balance. The democrats, if hillaryf clinton wins the white house, need four seats. If they win four its a tied senate, and the Vice President casts the tiebreaking vote. One caveat here is that if thatt does happen and theres a tie, the seat in virginia, whichhi would be advocated by the thenVice President elect tim kaine, would be filled by Governor Terry mcauliffe. It would be a democrat. D but only for a year. Ea then theres a special election, and the majoort would be in jeopardy if that happened. Woodruff and were off to the races again. Well, were here to talk about, jerry what, difference does it make whether lets start out assuming Hillary Clinton expwins well talk in a minute aboutut donald trump. M if she wins and she does not have a senate in her party with the majority democrats, whatwh does that mean for what she wants to do . S well, you know, at some level, if somebody is in control of the senate by 51 to 49 seatsa nobody is in control of the senate. Nobody has a working majority. Ma it does matter who has the 51. You form the committees. You name the committee chairman, you set agenda. You decide what gets considered and what doesnt. And however that mix works out, i think one of the things thatgs happened that would be problematic for a president Hillary Clinton, many of thef republicans who hang on are going to hang on because theyve gone to the voters and said, vote for me because i will be a check on Hillary Clinton. Ry harry going to come to town and their manitate is going to be blockto the new president clint, and not work with the president clinton. Whatever the math, is i thinkhe thats a serious problem for her. Woodruff norm what, arer the initiatives . Lets talk about the most important element and why winning the senate is absolutely crucial fore her for governing, and that is the senates unique power to advise and consent on executive and judicial comominations. Thats where vehicle the 50 or 51 matters the most. If getting to jerrys pointn if theres a republican majority, the republicans from mitch mcconnell, the leader, on down have, made clear that theyre not going to confirm her judges and weve now had a number of senators includingg richard burr in North Carolinah whose one of the seats that is in jeopardy, and ted cruz and others say we wont confirm a Supreme Court justice for four years, for the entire term. They can keep a vote from even taking place. Ac now, in the democrats have the majority, even by a narrow margin, all the judgeship bez low the Supreme Court level cann be confirmed without a filibuster with 50 votes, and you could change the rules, if need be, to deal with the Supreme Court. Other than that, were not going to see much legislation going through, jeweledy, because evenn if they have the senate they, dont have the house. But having that initiative, having the ability to frame an agenda, to bring up an infrastructure bill, which woulw be a top priority, to bring up a fix to the health care plan, h thats critical if Hillary Clinton is going to make any progress through the normalno process, the regular order, the slef process. Ro woodruff jerry what happens say the democrats do eke out a majority in the senate. What is she then able to do, if shes elected . Well, you know, i think, as norm says, the first thing is you can get your people in place to run the government. Th and thats not a small thing. Before we even get to that stage, one of the things the clinton team would really like is merrick garland, the Supremer Court nominee, to be confirmed woodruff who president re obama has nominated. Whose nomination is sitting there. They would like that out of the way soth it doesnt take all the oxygen out of the room. Then i think you could move on to at least attempting a few basic things and i think the number one thing on the agenda would be to get a bill that spends a bun of money on infrastructure in this country. T that is actually a bipartisan idea. Donald trump has proposedse spending more than can hill on infrastructure. Business likes it. Republicans like it. Republican governors in the t country would like that infrastructure money. O maybe theres a path, even in this partisan environment, in this divided world were talking about, to get Something Like that done. But i agree with norm. Rm its not going to be an ambitious agenda, least at first. Woodruff were not talkingfi so much about the house of representatives, norm, becauseiv we assume, given what were seeing out there that it will not change hands. It will remain in republican control. Democrats need 30 seats to win the house and that is a steeply, steeply uphill climb. Our expectation is theyll pick up seats and reduce the republican majority. Ri it might go down to even 10 seats expect that will, by the way, be an enormous challenge to paul ryan if he decides to try to continue as speaker because leadership advocates, those who are loyal to him, are going to be reduced in number, and with a smaller number, those who are antithetical to him, the Freedom Caucus from his radical right, are going to be stronger. Thats a challenge to him and its a challenge to her if she wins the presidency. Woodruff lets quickly, jerry, talk about donald trump, if he wins, were assuming the senate and house would remain republicans. What could he get done . Well, in that case, the presumption that republicans in congress have is that theyreca going to step forward and fill a policy gap that trump president ial campaign has beenn policy light. Cy i think they believe the policy making for the Republican Party would move down pennsylvanialv avenue to the capitol, to the, congress and im not sure donald trump will agree with that. Ha i think the problems are key issues, immigration and trade, being chief among them, where the republicans in congress are not in agreement with donald trump the president ial candidate. I dont know how they resolve that. So we know the one thing they can all agree on which is a great big tax cut, particularly for the rich. Republicans in congress and donald trump have that in common. Almost nothing else will move very far in part because democrats will filibuster almost all of the initiatives. He the most interesting one, though, jeweledy is the health care. You know, theres talk of repeal and replace. Ep they dont have a replace plan. If they all take the majority, it will be like the dog take the bus who catches it. What do you do then. H woodruff ift looks likeuf there are a lot of questionti marks of what can be done. Gerald seib, norman ornstein, we thank youn, woodruff we turn now to an often overlooked, but growing, political constituency people with disabilities. Politics werent much of a discussion at the breaux household in fairfax, virginia, until i was upstairs, and he was in i was upstairs, and he was in the basement with a very trusted therapist, and i hear him screaming. And i came down and i was like, what . And i look, and trump was on the television, and he he has this guttural scream. And i grabbed the boards and i said what is going on . And thats when he actually said seeing this actually gives makes my stomach hurt. Woodruff he is saras son, ben breaux, a 16yearold with nonverbal autism. Ben cant speak out loud so he communicates by spelling out his thoughts, letter by letter. I saw i saw . Woodruff after seeing a lot of donald trump on tv, many of those thoughts are now about the president ial election. T. I saw t r u. Woodruff a minute later i saw trump on tv, and it really u p s e t. And it really upset. And it really upset me. Woodruff what was it that he said, or that he did . H e. He s a i d. He said he said things that were so mean and disrespectful to so many. Woodruff ben is too young to cast a vote this year, but hes part of a growing demographic. More than 35 million americans with disabilities will be eligible to vote, accounting for almost onesixth of the electorate. All told, almost 63 million voters either have a disability or live with someone who does. Thats a quarter of all eligible voters. And those figures are only projected to grow, as the population ages. In the past, a third of people with disabilities have been democrats, and a third have been republicans, and a third have been independents. So were the ultimate swing voter group. Woodruff Jennifer Laszlo mizrahi runs respect ability, a nonprofit that promotes disability rights and employment. She says voters with disabilities arent a monolithic group, but there is Common Ground on one issue inclusion. People with disabilities dont want anybody to look down at us. We want, really, these opportunities to be included fully, and we want to be included in school, we want to be included in our faith community, we want to be included in everything, including in Political Campaigns. Woodruff unlike in past president ial contests, disability is something both campaigns have addressed this cycle even if inadvertently. Last fall, trump drew outrage from the Disability Community and beyond when he mocked a News Reporter with a congenital condition. You ought to see the guy uh, i dont know what i said. I dont remember. Woodruff Hillary Clintons campaign quickly seized on the moment, with National Tv Ads like this one donald trump doesnt see people like me. He just sees disability. I honestly feel bad for someone with so much hate in his heart. Woodruff clinton had already addressed people with disabilities in her campaign platform, calling for more job opportunities, and tax credits for their caregivers. Weve got to build an inclusive economy that welcomes people with disabilities, values their work, treats them with respect. Woodruff trump does not address disability issues in detail on his website. He discusses the issue mostly through the lens of military veterans and p. T. S. D. A shocking 20