captioning sponsored by newshour productions, llc >> woodruff: good evening, i'm judy woodruff. >> ifill: and i'm gwen ifill. >> woodruff: we bring you the. newshour tonight from the wells fargo center in philadelphia, site of this week's democratic national convention. >> ifill: it's the convention's final day, the climax of a week of friction, politics and excitement, as democrats prepare to hear tonight from their nominee, hillary clinton. >> woodruff: plus, as the glass ceiling shatters, a look at the ways hidden sexism is playing out this election among some male voters. >> benevolent sexism which from a male point of view encourages men to be supportive of women who are in traditional roles-- traditional gender roles-- but when women step out of that, men tend to look at them worse.

>> sreenivasan: also ahead, a shocking update on what began as an economic cinderella story: in a depressed corner of vermont, job growth funded by a green card program ends in large scale fraud. >> ifill: all that and more on tonight's pbs newshour. >> major funding for the pbs newshour has been provided by: >> lincoln financial--

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>> this program was made possible by the corporation for public broadcasting. and by contributions to your pbs station from viewers like you. thank you.>>th bo >> ifill: it's the night they've been building toward all week. in just a few hours, hillary clinton takes center stage, picking up the baton handed to her last night by presidentde obama. correspondent john yang begins our coverage. >> yang: inside the wells fargo center in philadelphia, the stage is set for tonight's big moment-- hillary clinton's acceptance speech. campaign officials say she'll highlight the gathering's theme: "stronger together." >> this is a moment of reckoning for america, and we have two paths that we can take. one that seeks division. one that gives into forces that we are facing whether they are

economic or social that could divide us, versus a path that in working together is going to i make america stronger not just >> yang: even though clinton's been in the public eye for more than two decades, tonight's speech will be an introduction to the american people. campaign officials call her thes most famous unknown person in america. she'll be introduced by her daughter, chelsea. it won't be her first time on the convention stage this week. last night, she made a surprise appearance, just after president obama gave her a rousing 45- minute endorsement. >> i can say with confidence there has never been a man or a woman, not me, not bill, nobody, more qualified than hillary clinton to serve as president of the united states of america. (applause) i hope you don't mind, bill, but

i was just telling the truth, man. d >> yang: today, clinton'sg: running mate, virginia senator tim kaine, spoke to delegates from his childhood home of missouri.po >> we have a chance to make history and when hillary clinton is elected, that's going to be historic. but what's really going to be historic is it's going to open up the accessibility of a whole different class of successors, just like when president obama was elected.ec >> yang: meanwhile, republican donald trump continues to campaign, holding rallies in iowa.mp earlier, in a fox news interview, trump was in damage t control mode after yesterday's suggestion that russia find tens of thousands of missing e-mails from clinton's private server. >> of course i'm being sarcastic. but you have 33,000 emails deleted. the real problem is what was said on those emails from the democratic national committee. you take a look at what was sait on those emails, it's disgraceful. >> yang: back in philadelphia, as the convention reaches its climax, police remain on alert. protests have been mostly

peaceful, with only a small number of arrests. for the pbs newshour, i'm john yang in philadelphia. >> woodruff: one thing has been clear this week in philadelphia, just as the republicans have taken aim at hillary clinton, democrats are now anxious to take on donald trump. the convention's most high- profile speakers have each taken their turn.puaimo.th >> don't let anyone ever tell you that this country isn't great, that somehow we need to't make it great again because this, right now, is the greatest country on earth. >> p if you don't believe that this election is important, if you think you can sit it out,u take a moment to think about the supreme court justices thatth donald trump would nominate. >> bottom line is trump is a risky, reckless and radicalca choice, and we can't afford to

make that choice. >> folks, you cannot believe one word that comes out of donald trump's mouth! >> his cynicism is unbounded. his lack of empathy and compassion can be summed up in the phrase i suspect he's most proud of having made famous -- "you're fired ." how can there be pleasure in saying "you're fired"? he tells us he cares about the middle class.la give me a break. that's a bunch of malarkey. >> we don't look to be ruled. (cheers and applause) our power -- our power comes from those immortal declarations first put to paper right here in

philadelphia all those years ago. we hold these truths to be self-evident that all men are created equal, that we the people can form a more perfect union! >> ifill: and now we turn to hillary clinton's strategist >> ifill: joining us now on the biggest night of hillary clinton's political life is the campaign's senior strategist,gh joel benenson. tell us about now that thisno campaign is over as you launch into the general election, telle us what the key expectations are. >> tonight or going forward?rw >> ifill: going forward. think we're in the home stretch. you have about 100 days to go. the convention is the last time you get four days to deliver your message unfiltered without interference largely from your opponent, although trump kind of tried a little bit yesterday.te i think he created for interference for himself.in i think what you want going forward is tonight you will see hillary clinton lay out a very clear choice of two visions for america, one that is optimistic, one that is rooted in the beliefs we've always been

stronger together as a countrynt from the time our founders struggle to come together in philadelphia to this city to create this nation up and through today, and with the challenges we face, that's how we'll live up to our values and be at best, vs. a very dark, divisive vision donald trump laid out.mp you have to think about how to create a economy that works for everyone, not just those at the top, draw a clear contrast on who can keep america safe.f i think donald trump proved he couldn't do that with erratic statements like inviting russia to start hacking computers. you have to do that from here on out, consistently show people p the differences about where youy will take the country, what your values are that will drive you and shape your presidency.e >> woodruff: joel benenson, are you trying to be as negative toward donald trump as the t republicans are toward hillaryto clinton? >> no, i h said you have to lay out a choice and do some contrast.

they're doing only contrast.n donald trump said i alone can fix it.. he has no real prescriptions or plans to create a single job or raise wages in america or educate a single child. what hillary clinton has to doas in balance is show people the positive, affirmative, upliftin vision she has, her belief in the way we solve our problems is by working together, having each other's backs, lifting each other up and not tearing each other apart. i think you lean very heavily towards the positive but you have to call out your differences particularly as you've gotrt someone at you're hearing at this convention whomh even democrats are calling a demagogue, who are turning away from their party. people like michael bloomberg saying we have to put our country ahead of our party.r >> ifill: you're banking on talking about the positive and personalizing this toward donald trump will outbalance this nervousness among a lot of individual americans that you're notal listening, that their livs

are not doing so well.ll >> ifill: i don't think i said that at all. i think i said you have to have an affirmative vision on how to create an economy that works for everyone. that's not being personal aboutl donald trump. when donald trump says to americans wages are too high, you're not going to create an economy that works for everyones when you do that, you have the do things that will help people get ahead in their lives and the bulk of what we have been talking about in our primaries is how to put the plans in place to do that. one thing hillary clinton will be doing in this speech and going forward is laying out very specific plans. she said in one of the speeches she gave a couple of weeks ago, i've got this old-fashioned idea when you're running for president, you've got to tell people what you're going to do, how you're going to get it done and how you're going to pay for it. when you go back to the republican national convention,v if you ask what specific idea that donald trump put on the o table for the american people other than he was going to build a wall. >> woodruff: we keep hearing

one of hillary clinton's biggest problems are white male voterst who have had not had a college education. how do you reach them?uc >> i think the number one way you reach them is by showing you understand the lives, the struggles they have been feeling in many parts to have the country. many of the votersto feel like they have been left out of a new and changing economy. by the same token, we put together a coalition, democratsn in general, this has been a stronger bloc for republicans for a while.r we've talked about them, president clinton talked aboutlk them and addressing their economic concerns and how they can have good-paying jobs in the future, around hillary clinton is the only candidate in this rairks you have to remember, who is really talking about creating good-paying jobs and doing it not just the old ways, by investments that will help our country grow and grow fairer. it's about modernizing our schools, modernizing our power grid, investing in clean energy

for the future, which is where we're going to create the jobs of the future, using technologyc tto be the clean energy super power of the 21st century. >> congratulations on your bigyo night. >> it's the country's big nightg hillary clinton is nominee for president, breaking barriersrs like the two women we have sitting here. >> , i like that.. >> woodruff: we'll be watching. >> woodruff: next we head downt to the convention floor and back to our john yang.ck john, you've been talking to the clinton campaign. what's the message they want to convey tonight?yan >> well, essentially, the words of one i spoke to today, they're trying to get her to answer the question what swhe's all about. she and the campaign realizes aa lot of people don't understandan what motivates her and what'st' behind the causes and issues she cares about. it's also going to be a way to talk about the trust issue, although they'll say they arear not going to explicitly talkp

about it in that way. she'll make an appeal to independent voters, to people who are not democrats, to try to come over and support her in this fall's election. they're going to do all this by trying to build on everything these delegates have seen and heard over the past three nights. some of the real people who came here and gave testimony and support of hillary clintonon talking about the things she has done for them in her career as a senator, in her career as first lady and as secretary of state, she's going to talk about those people, and some of them will actually be here in the hall tonight. >> woodruff: john yang -- >> ifill:ion >> ifill: john, we know you have been on the floor. the floor looks a littlele different tonight. i'm curious why that might be. what are we seeing? >> exactly, gwen. can't see it quite behind me. they built out the stage a little bit and they've cleared out an area and i'm led to

believe -- i don't know for sure, but i'm led to believe there will be special guests in that area, perhaps even the clinton family and perhaps even the kaine family. >> ifill: we heard them rehearsing what they were calling a opportunity for tonight. we'll see what that's going to be. >> woodruff: we love suspense. we go to the team of analysts in the >> woodruff: from there we go to our team of analysts here in the booth who will be with us all evening, david brooks of the "new york times," syndicated columnist mark shields, and amy walter of the "cook political report." amy, i'm going to start with you. if you're able to hear some of what the clinton people want to get done, what do you think the need to get done tonight especially with hillary clinton's speech? >> this is her chance to -- she got it all teed up these last few days. they set the table and now it's time for her to finish what they started. she's got to make the case for herself nobody else can make, and for voters to see somebody

who looks more three-dmengsle, that's not simply a caricaturer that's been a part of the american dialogue for the pastt 25 years, to fill in some of the meat we have been talking abouti in the last few days on specific policies. it doesn't need to be deep and a 65-point plan, but just to give some concrete examples of how this economy is going to work for the people that feel rightl now is not working for them and to get to central tension of the campaign, where americans warrant to see change and she is the status quo, how can she be both status quo and change. >> woodruff: what does she have to do? >> it's a great victory, she made history. the single worse campaign slogan, i'm with her, it means nothing to anybody.y >> ifill: maybe if you say i'm with "her."

>> i mean, get over it. it's about appealing and says knotsing about anybody's life or the country.th i was thinking tonight of great speeches given by presidents on such occasions and the measure of our progress is not whether we add more to those who have abundance who have much or provide enough to those who have too little. joel benenson was coming down to there had to be some economic message and hope for those left out of the prosperity that thetimes celebrated you have -- you have to know this will make the difference in her presidency. >> woodruff: david brooks, you and mark agreed for most to have the campaign that you haven't heard from hillary clinton theai rationale for her candidacy.da after all these months, do you

agree with mark, it's still not there. >> i agree i'm with her, it's about "i," though.ou >> woodruff: i thought it was stronger together. >> i would like to see an animating passion. tim kaine actually had a good line, what animated you before you got into politics. she actually does have a story to tell about children. drawing that animating passion will do good.g she has to hit the safety pointn they have really neglected the i.s.i.s. point.i. if there is a drum beat of i.s.i.s. attacks in the next few months, she has to establish herself on that issue. and finally the motion that. the 65 policy points we know to the extent they exist, but is she willing to be vulnerable, funny, authoritative but also real? so less what she says than the emotional tone she sets, and it takes a lot of confidence to be a vulnerable speaker on this stage, and sometimes she hasn't always projected the confidence it takes to be in some ways weak, but i think that's what

people were looking for, that moment of human connection.n >> ifill: let's take this beyond this arena tonight because they leave eke koas off 1992 a bus tour and drively ohio and pennsylvania, what are they setting themselves up for now as they go forward?th >> it is interesting they are going to all kinds of places in these two states. they're going to columbus, ohio you have a quintessential suburban mom battleground. but also going to western pennsylvania. they're not seeding that territory to donald trump -- they're not ceding thata territory to donald trump. the basic arc of the convention is we're going to diversify the vote and reach oute and grab soe republicans. you know, this is what did not happen at the republican convention. the republican convention wasan about doubling and tripling down on people that are already a

part of our party and rile them up to get them to turn out. o this is about, yes, encouraging the obama coalition, but alsos there was so much time spent yesterday and today to those disaffected, independent republicans to come over and they've got to make the case that they're worthy of their vote. >> woodruff: so, mark shields, does that mean they can count on their base including the bernie supporters to be on board enthusiastically for hillary clinton? >> richard nixon said it best, makes no difference whether they hold your nose or go through a wall to vote of you, it counts the same. i think some of the bernie sanders are not enthusiastic, they will vote for hillary clinton. there were a few die-hazard, no question about it. but i don't think it's that base she's got to worry about. the idea of going to franklin county, ohio, which is columbus,

surrounded by satellite communities all upscale where donald trump ran third in the primary as opposed to northeastern ohio, the real blue-collar, youngstown county where donald trump rolled up the score and crushed john kasich and democrats are nervous. so when you fight for ohio, it's a message in western p pennsylvania you have a problema with blue-collar workers. he's made inroad, an appeal, seen as the guy who's going to take on the people who "got you." whether that's fair, we can argue about it, but he's the first candidate that's done that really in memory since the collapse to have the steel industry in this country. so i think that's her job is that she's going to try and get those disaffected republicansed who are not -- don't feel comfortable with donald trump.e >> ifill: as we sit here, there's a sing-along happeningg

on the convention floor, carrole king saying -- singing "you've got a friend." is it possible to make her better known at this point? >> in theory. it's not like she burst on the sing like a fresh new face.c carole king has been around forr a while. >> ifill: but still makes you warm and fuzzy when you hear her. >> just like hillary clinton. but i'd love to see something daring, some side of clinton that we haven't seen that the people talk about in private, some risk taken.k i mean, the big undercurrent of this campaign is this is not a normal year. by normal year standards, donald trump should be in free fall, and he's not, he's hanging right in there. so this is a year to do something unusual, and i would love the see her surprise us with something tonight. >> woodruff: davidon brooks, mark shields, amy walter, we'll be spending a lot of time with

all of you tonight. and tune in when we do that for our comoint pbs >> woodruff: tune in later tonight for our joint pbs newshour and npr coverage of thb democratic national convention starting right here at 8:00 p.m. eastern. now back to hari sreenivasan in washington. twa >> sreenivasan: in the day's d other news, baton rouge, louisiana held a vigil to honor three police officers who were killed earlier this month. they were ambushed by a gunman, who was later killed by a swat team member. today, hundreds of people paid tribute to the officers,bu including vice president joe biden and u.s. attorney generalj loretta lynch. >> in the face of division i people who sought to come into a beautiful town and tear it apart, in the face of that desire to sow hatred we come together in love. baton rouge has chosen that. the state has seen it. the country has seen it. you are the example for city's who are facing these problems. >> sreenivasan: the attack on the officers came during s tensions over the death of a black man in a struggle with white police.

in syria, the government and its russian allies offered to open humanitarian corridors out of the embattled city of aleppo. some 300,000 people are trappedr in the eastern part of the cityt held by rebels. government troops have encircled the area, after intensens fighting, and the army dropped leaflets about the safe-exit plan. a special u.n. envoy saysu. conditions are desperate. >> there is probably we heard, two to three weeks of supply, and in view of the bombing of the warehouses, medical facilities, bakeries, and the are being hit, the humanitarian situation is getting more and more concerning. >> sreenivasan: also today, syria's president, bashar al- assad, offered general amnesty- for rebels who give up their weapons and surrender over the next three months.ho back in this country, wall street turned in another so-so day.n t the dow jones industrial averagi lost 15 points to close at 18,456. the nasdaq rose 15 points, and the s&p 500 added three. and, a light show over parts of

the western u.s. last night, turned out to be a chinesene rocket, burning up in the atmosphere. social media users captured an object flaring up, and leaving streaks of flames behind it. sightings were reported from california to utah. it's unclear if the rocket posed any danger to those on the ground. gr >> sreenivasan: the u.s. food and drug administration today asked blood centers in two t florida counties to suspend blood donations, until each unit can be screened for the zika virus. this comes as state health c officials investigate four nonat travel related cases of zika which may mean the first cases of local zika virus transmission by mosquitoes in the united states. for an update on all this, i u spoke earlier this evening withh dr. anthony fauci, director of the national institute ofti allergy and infectious diseases. i'm joined by dr. anthony faucii director of the national

institute of allergy and infectious diseases at thee n.i.h.i. thanks for joining us. >> good to be with you.e >> sreenivasan: first of all, this change in status almost,m what does this warning in florida mean? >> the warning from the f.d.a. is saying in the regions in miami-dade and broward county you have what looks like cases that are not travel related and don't appear to be sexually transmitted and very likely toy be mosquito transmitted locally because those people never left the continental united states sd they did not get infected elsewhere, given that, what the f.d.a. is doing is saying there may be more cases out there soso in order to protect the blood supply and keep it safe, theyhe are suspended the collection of blood from those two areas untii they can implement either testing of the units as they are

donated or decontaminating of any potential units that might be potentially contaminated. so they want to be quite safe about it and very prudent so that we don't get contamination of the blood supply. that's what their particular order is regarding collection of bloods. >> halting the collection of blood is an extreme step. that has to affect local hospitals, other places that use blood. is there some evidence you would base a significant move like this on, an idea there are local mosquitoes there that would be carrying zeke a? >> no doubt the mosquitoes capable of transmitting zika is in that area.a. this is the mosquito that's extensively seen in the gulf coast states and in part of thee east coast and a little towards the west, but certainly alongo the gulf coastal states. we know we have now more thanha

1,600 travel-related cases,la which is the reason why one would have predicted that, sooner or later, you're going to see some local transmission, and the local transmission that we're seeing now is the kind of thing that makes one want to make sure we do what we can to prevent that local transmissiona from becoming sustained and disseminated, and the answer toe that is by very aggressive mosquito control. >> sreenivasan: if the f.d.a. thinks this is a good step in the miami area, or dade, broward county area, why not the other southern half of the united states where these mosquitoes could be traveling? >> you don't want to overreact. at this point, what the very local in two areas, two to four cases under investigation, i think that is prudent enough to do what they did because experience with other viruses is

when you do get local spread like this, it tends to stay well contained, particularly if youou do adequate and aggressive mosquito control. so there is not a prediction that it will be widespread throughout the area.ar so they're taking the prudent step of saying, for the time being until we learn otherwise, we're going to hold off on the collection of blood that would supply this particular two areas in florida. >> sreenivasan: should there be a screen on blood donations throughout larger regions? the f.d.a. came up for a test with that a couple of months ago, right? >> right, they came up with a test, and what's being done is essentially what's being done right now in puerto rico.ue so puerto rico has a very extensive outbreak that's getting worse and worse as the weeks go by.we there is so much transmission in puerto rico that, right now, they're actually doing the

screening of the blood supply that we're talking about.. but when you have just a couple of cases here and there without the evidence of any massive spread, the prudent decision was to just let's just hold off on collection of blood, and if it gets any worse or it gets to the point where it's more disseminated, then we'll do other things. but right now they're going to ultimately test the blood supply there. >> sreenivasan: anthony fauci joining us from the nationale institutes of health tonight.in thank you so much. >> thank you.al >> sreenivasan: now, an update to a story we first reported last year about an economict development project thatat promised to bring jobs to rural vermont and green cards tove foreign investors. now it's at the center of federal fraud allegations.

economics correspondent paul solman has the story. it's part of our series, "making sense," which airs thursdays on the newshour. >> reporter: just four miles from the canadian border, surf's up, however improbably-- or was up at the jay peak resort when we visited last fall.th the resort is part of a half- billion dollar development project designed to transform the economically depressed northeast kingdom, as this corner of vermont is called, with foreign investment. the developer: bill stenger. >> in the last seven years, we have constructed three different hotels, a beautiful indoor water park, ice arena, conference center, wedding facility, and we have had a tremendous impact onm our local economy regionally as well. >> reporter: a local economy that, for most of vermont's history, has been at the very bottom, but was suddenly leadinu the state in job creation. so the story seemed to be win- s win-win: northeast kingdom wins, tourists win, and so do the

foreign investors-- not only with a promised return on their investment, but-- and here's the novel incentive of the so-called "eb-5" visa program-- with green cards: permanent resident visas for the investors and their families, in exchange for forking over $500,000 to privat$ companies to create at least 10 jobs in areas of deepof unemployment. do you think it's fair that rich people get to come to the united states when there are so many truly desperate, emigres from a place like syria, say, out there on the water as we speak? >> i'm seeking capital from a legal source that's been in existence since 1990, that is i promoted by our government, helps us. >> reporter: well, they certainly seemed to be improving life in and around jay peak. before the eb-5 funded renovation and expansion began in 2008, this was a ski slope going downhill. when we visited last year it was

a year-round resort attracting a million customers annually to its rides, rinks, restaurants. dining revenues alone topped ten million dollars a year, double what the entire resort took ink pre-eb-5. >> to do something like this fog this area is immense, is priceless. >> reporter: for chef mikeke eldred and his assistant, bob mcquarry, economic growth had meant career growth as well. >> it gives me an opportunity where i can become a supervisor, i can keep moving up. >> reporter: growth that even benefited the local quilting bee, whose membership has quadrupled in their new digs. helen short is a nurse from nearby enosburg falls. >> i voluntarily went up and spoke to bill stenger because i wanted to thank him. a lot of the farms were going out of business, there wasn't much opportunity for the youth in this area, and now you come here and it is like this big enterprise and there is building and construction going on. and students are employed in high school. >> reporter: ...as lifeguards,

ski patrols, desk clerks. no wonder that in neighboring newport, bill stenger was celebrated as man of the year,he if not of the millennium. newport was where stenger and his partner, ariel quiros, had half a dozen new eb-5 projects pending, most ambitiously, somel said delusionally, a stem cell manufacturing facility affiliated with a south korean biotech firm.bi >> we also will co-develop and manufacture various kinds of artificial organs, such as artificial kidney, heart andal liver. >> reporter: skeptical yet? back in december, investors like tons sutton in england were complaining they had been scammed, and gotten no return at all on their investment. >> they gave us all i.o.u.'s. and if you look at the company that the i.o.u.'s are drawn against, our research suggests that that company has no assets, no income, and no way of servicing the i.o.u.'s for anyth of the investors.

>> reporter: so you don't think you'll ever get your capital back?o >> no, not from jay peak. >> reporter: meanwhile, developer stenger was all innocence, claiming to be stung by any suspicions. >> hundreds of families are relying on me and my team to implement what we do and do it right. >> reporter: look, relying on him they were. but the reason for this update is that in april, the securities and exchange commission charged bill stenger and ariel quiros with 52 counts of federal a securities violations, alleging they'd misused more than $200 million in investor funds, ofr $350 million total. and that quiros had personally stolen over $55 million to buy, among other things, a four million dollar condo on new york's fifth avenue, and a two and a half million dollar place overlooking the hudson river. the state and f.b.i. are also investigating for criminal violations.

so it turned out to be even worse than you thought? t >> it did indeed. >> reporter: investigative reporter anne galloway has been covering jay peak, and uncovering questionable practices there, for years. but even she is shocked by thehe extent of the alleged fraud. >> it took me a while to wrap my head around it; the scale of itf >> reporter: it was a byzantine scheme, says the s.e.c.he instead of using eb-5 funds asf required by law. stenger and quiros wove a tangled web of diversion and deception. >> they used margin loans, treasury bills, they used 100 different bank accounts and many different banks. quiros is fighting the charges. stenger, who declined our request for an interview, is trying to settle with the s.e.c. and keep the boat afloat. >> he goes in every day, under the supervision of the receiver michael goldberg, to keep the resort operating smoothly. >> reporter: galloway quotes goldberg saying that, unlike

quiros, stenger did not siphon money from the fraud.t and the receiver is working on behalf of the people who've lost their money to try to recover as much of it as possible. >> that's right. but keeping it open is a challenge. and they have 700 investors who have been hurt by this and that's a very tough problem to solve. >> reporter: some investors, like tony sutton, who put his money in the fully built tram haus lodge, at least got their green cards. but more than half did not, and probably never will, because their unfinished projects will not have created the necessary ten jobs per investor. and of the 400 or so investors who may never get permanent green cards, how many will get their money back? >> at this point, it's not clear that any of them are going to get all of their money back. >> reporter: and thus the largest eb-5 project in vermont may become the largest fraud in

vermont's, and eb-5's, history, and a key prompt to reform america's cash-for-visas program. this is economics correspondent paul solman, reporting from northeast kingdom, vermont. >> sreenivasan: we like to think that when we step into the voting booth, we make rational decisions when casting our votes.ti we pick one candidate over another because of their policies, or their positions on the issues.po but there's a growing body of evidence indicating that otherev factors might also be at play. b william brangham has more on that. >> brangham: hillary clinton secured the democratic nomination in large part by racking up large numbers with women voters, black voters andrs latino voters. but she did worst among one particular demographic: white males. why is that? is it her policies? or is it that she's a woman?

the newshour's daniel bush has just written a fascinating pieci exploring what might be going o in voters' minds and what this means for the coming election,th now that we have the first woman ever at the top of a major w political party. daniel joins me now. i wonder, what was it you were really trying to get at with this piece? >> there was an interesting gender gap that played out in the primaries. we saw that in more diversendreg states, especially in the south, clinton did very well with men-- african americans, latinos. but once we got up into thebu midwest, the rust belt, a different story played out. bernie sanders carried the male vote by 29 points in wisconsin, by 19 points in west virginia, and the list goes on and on and on. and there's obviously a lot ofsl factors why white men might not want to vote for hillary clinton in the general election, also ih the primaries, but gender is obviously sort of an underlying current in this election. >> brangham: in your piece, you introduced me to a term i'dtr never heard about before. it's called "ambivalent sexism.e what is that? >> so researchers who study these issues-- who study bias

and stereotyping-- for a long time thought that stereotypingpi was basically uniformly negative. but what researchers who focus on gender specifically, in the 1990's and on, have realized is that gender bias takes different forms. so there's what they call hostile sexism, sort of overtly negative views of women, what we typically associate with gender discrimination, right. then there's also ambivalent or benevolent sexism which is from the male point of view, encourages men to be supportive of women who are in traditional roles, traditional gender roles. but when women step out of that- - when they seek power, when they seek to enter male- dominated fields, men tend to look at them worse.or and obviously we're seeing that play out with hillary clinton. >> brangham: for this piece, you talked with a lot of white maley voters in ohio and pennsylvania. obviously when someone is asked, they're going to say, "i'm not a sexist; i don't have those feelings."ot so how did you see this play ouh in the men that you talked to? >> so i talked to a lot of voters who said, "yes, i feel comfortable voting for a woman, but just not hillary clinton.

she's not the right one." and then they went on to list a number of reasons: she's too shrill, she's too loud, she's not trustworthy. and while they may feel that about clinton, sort of generallf speaking, on a personal level without realizing that it has to do with gender, all of the t signifiers that they used to describe a woman in power or running for a top position in government, sort of come into play and are connected to the way that researchers look at gender bias and discrimination. >> brangham: how do we know with some of the other men that you talked to, or just men more broadly, that their beef with hillary clinton might be about her policies or her positions-- i mean, how do we know that it's overtly about the fact that she's a woman?it >> on an individual case by case basis, it's difficult to say, yes, this voter in particular doesn't like hillary clinton only because she is a woman.s and of course there are millions of voters across the country, in the primaries and there will ber in the general, who have legitimate policy disagreements right with clinton, whether it's

about healthcare, whether it's about taxes, and so on. but when you really start talking to men, and in the story in particular with white men,in you'll find that we're talking in particular to white men, you'll see that gender is anu' underlying sort of current in the way that they think about hillary clinton.nge >> brangham: so going forward, we have an election with trump against hillary. how do you foresee this particular conversation playing out? >> the people that i spoke to for this piece compared it a little to the change in dialogue on race relations after president obama was elected. and we might see a similar thing play out here where, whether clinton wins or loses, there's going to be sort of a more, af greater public consciousness about gender, about gender roles, about the way that men and women hold power in the country. and it might be ugly, it might be divisive, we can certainly expect that in the general election campaign. but hopefully at least, it'll get people talking about it and thinking about it as well. >> brangham: alright, the newshour's daniel bush.ht thanks for this. great reporting. >> thanks for having me. >> sreenivasan: for more on the gender gap and the future of the

democratic party we go back to gwen and judy in philadelphia. >> woodruff: thanks, hari. we pick up on the challenges clinton faces, especially with white male voters in this election with richard trumka, president of the afl-cio, the largest organization of labor unions in the country. and senator corey booker of new jersey. we welcome you both to the program. richard trumka, pick up on what you just heard from our reporter dan bush. what do you know about your rank-and-file union members who are hearing donald trump saying i'll be your voice if you feel forgotten and how does that square with whether it's latent or another form of sexism that may be going on? >> well, i think he's successfully tapped into the frustration and anger across the white males and working people in general, but when you give them the facts about his policies that he thinks our wages are too high and supports

right to work, they come back across the bridge. b the last election we had the same problem with barack obama,m it was about race and not sex or gender at that point. talking to our member-to-member program, there was a 56-point difference between union white males and the white males of the general population because we gave them the facts, talked to them member-to-member stuff and we'll be able to do the same thing in this election. >> smart burke, given what we know about donald trump and hillary clinton's strengths and weaknesses, who and who are not the clinton voters? who's not worth going after?f >> i think we have to play the full court and get every votere we can.an there is naturally a base for every democratic party and every democrat running is trying to get the obama coalition which is an increasingly diverse voter base, young folks, minorities as well as white women, but i don't think we as a party can afford to alienate and not speak to the

kerns, fears, inspirations and aspiration of whitemen, weti should not give up that ground. >> ifill: how does she do that? >> about talking about the issues, where people are, what they're struggling with, whether it's the high cost of college education, whether the fact they're working harder than their parents and making less money, talking to them about expanding opportunity through infrastructure investment andre the things that grow solidd mostly cloudy jobs.ud so i'm a competitor and i don't want to say just because this person is a woman or a minority they're not going to get the white male vote. we want everybody to think about what's in their interests and i believe our party platform has a better vision and pathway for white americans and black americans, latino americans, women, so forth, to be successful. >> woodruff: rich trumka, howho do you know describing whatib hillary clinton wants to do iso going to be enough against what's almost a siren song coming from donald trump that i'll be there for you, we live in a fearful time, it's a

dangerous time and we need somebody to protect us and ii will be there and create jobs and build a wall and i'll do all the rest of it? >> judy, your forget that we face a campaign of fear and division every day at the workplace or every time we try to organize a work site. we're able to get through that by talking through the facts and having people join together. look, donald trump, i'll say three things about donald trump, one, he's unfit to be president, two, he would make it much more difficult for working people to make ends meet and, three, he would tear our country apart. when you talk to them about those three things, they really do understand. they're very thoughtful. working people really amaze me. when you give them all the facts, they make the right decision every single time.e. >> ifill: given what we've seen on the coskedz floor, isn't trade policy, couldn't that be a breaking point, a weak point? >> it's exceptionally important.

t.p.p. is a very bad agreement. covers 40% of the world's' economy and it will cost us jobs. it's not well drafted. it's an agreement, an investment agreement that will benefit wall street a lot but not working people.wo hillary clinton has the sameha exact position. she's against t.p.p.p she will be against t.p.p. >> ifill: that's all it takes. let's talk about what's a responsible legislator.eg you can be dogmatic like donaldk trump and say don't tell me any of the facts, i've made up my mind, i don't want to hear anything, or you can say, look, trade can be good or it can be bad, depending on the rules. when she saw the rules that were drafted, she said, this doesn't make it, just' like we did, and, so, she was against it. that's responsible legislating. i wish more legislators would do exactly that.ex >> woodruff: senator booker, w pick up on that because we havee a chorus of bernie sanders supporters there who over the

last three nights have been holding up signs -- essentially, their argument is hillary clinton was late to this position, she took this position for political reasons, we're hearing the same thing from donald trump. >> as somebody who voted against t.p.a. and has suspicions about t.p.p. and are reflected in concerns about what's hurting the american economy and opportunity to grow, i like a person like hillary clinton who is willing to analyze the factsc i have met no one smarter than her in politics.l some of my conversations in the last few weeks made me go home and start studying because i wanted to keep up on a policy issue so i'm happy that she came to a conclusion after studying this that resonates what mr. trumka was saying.sa i believe more than ever if you are a work class american, don't care if you're white, back, what your ethnic background, is if you look at the two-party platforms, especially a union member, the t.p.p., even the right to organize yiewnous is being assaulted by the republican party, we see it on a

continual basis, so things that built this country, strong middle class jobs, and what the republicans are advocating is giving incentives for the rich to move jobs overseas. what i don't want to see my party do is talk down towards white men as if their concerns are not legitimate and we shouldn't be listening to their hopes and aspirations as well.ll >> ifill: senator booker, eight years ago we saw the breakthrough with president obama and the americans had to adjust their thinking in order to elect the first black president. what is necessary for americans to elect the first woman president, more or less difficult? >> well, i think that we have an honest conversation in this country and this idea that somehow we're beyond sexism and racism is just wrong, and this is where having an honest conversation with white men about their issues and concerns

and having conversations about experiences african-americans are still having despite who's the president of the unitedes states and the criminal justice system we see in sentencing and policing and a lot of these issues. gender bias is real.a i was an earl lier obama supporter and i was shocked the way the media treated senator obama and senator clinton. questions about what she was wearing and her hair were never ascribed to the president. we live in a gender bias where she was the first mom to make high ranks in i.b.m. and the stories she heard around the kitchen table. the night when hillary clinton accepts the nomination, i thinko it will be steps for down to heal from the past and grow towards the future that's more inclusive and accepting and realizing every american has values and discrimination has no place in politics or the workplace or anywhere at all.at

>> woodruff: richard drum cars, coming back to the first question we talked about, based on our earlier reporting, are you or your associates having honest conversations, as senator booker just said, about what is sexism that still exists among men? >> we started after ferguson, i appointed a race commission in the afl-cio, and we went around the country talking first to our members outside the spotlight, not public conversations but private conversations, and it was amazing to see the difference. it takes about an hour and a half for people in a room to start trusting each other enough to start being able to really tell what's in their heart and sharing it with one another,o they don't feel they will be attacked. the same is true about sex gender. look, we had this conversationve when hillary ran againsta president obama. we had that conversation. we had a twofer at that time.

i would say if you're not voting for barack obama because he's black you're wrong and if you're not voting for hillary clinton because she's a woman you're wrong. i think we're further along with that conversation with the person worker than race. i think race is sort of more hidden and difficult to pull out and get people to confront and talk about. >> the signs when you have the head of the f.b.i. republican comey talking about implicit racial bias, how to deal with it, our country is having more constructive conversations and i have tremendous hope. >> ifill: a conversation we'll have to continue at another time. cory booker, richard trumka, thank you both.. >> thanks for having us on. >> ifill: and finally tonight, a different view of the convention floor. curators from the smithsoniansm museum of american history are on hand tonight, and were in cleveland last week for theer republican convention. c it's a decades-long tradition,

and a mission to preserve political history. we caught up with a couple of the curators. we are the world's biggest trollers for objects. we walk up to people andor say,, hi, i really like that hat you're wearing. don't suppose you would like it to be part of the national collection, would you?yo i'm lissa graddy, a curator at the smithsonian museum of american history. the smithsonian has been collecting since 1960 so we're here to interact with delegates and pick up material from thenchts people love the smith smithsonian. that's a great conversationsa starter. i'm a curator at the museum museum. it's a lot of being nice to t people, handing out cards, complimenting people's objects they brought and trying to at the end oft the week get them to give or donate it to us. >> one of the most significant things about the election is it's a first time a woman will

be running as a major party's's candidate. >> we will be looking for thingn that show women's support of hillary clinton as a woman candidate. >> i was up in a higher level and saw a woman on the floor wearing minnie mouse ears with a hillary clinton button in the middle of the bow. i successfully located her in the florida delegation and she'' going to send me her minnie mouse ears. >> in other things we look for objects that say 2016, hillary, trump, or immigration issues of the day so in the future you can use the objects to understand the past. >> something that's yours and you treat with a little cavalier fashion. once we get it to a museum, it becomes a museum object and we wear white gloves and give it a specific number so we can track it for the rest of its life in the collection.ll >> with these collections that go back for campaigning throughout american history from william henry harrison in 1840 to lincoln in 1860.6 >> we have ike girl dresses andd we have hats and buttons. things we now look at and thinki

isn't that funny, these buttons and hats, but in a hundred years' time will also be national treasures.u >> i may have some of those buttons. from philadelphia, that's the "newshour" for tonight but stay with us. >> ifill: from philadelphia that's the newshour for tonight. but stay with us.h we'll be back right here at 8:00 p.m. eastern with full coverage of the fourth and final night of the democratic convention, when hillary clinton willnv officially accept her party's nomination for president. i'm gwen ifill. >> woodruff: and i'm judy woodruff. join us online throughout the night and again here tomorrow evening with mark shields and david brooks. for all of us at the pbs newshour, thank you and we'll see you back here shortly. wods >> major funding for the pbs newshour has been provided by: >> lincoln financial--

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