captioning sponsored by wnet >> stewart: on this edition for saturday, october 29: ten days to election day-- as clinton and trump barnstorm battleground states, will the latest f.b.i. probe of clinton's emails tighten the race? and in our signature segment, luring manufacturing jobs back to the united states. how well do they pay? next on pbs newshour weekend. >> pbs newshour weekend is made possible by: bernard and irene schwartz. judy and josh weston. the cheryl and philip milstein family. the citi foundation. the john and helen glessner family trust. supporting trustworthy journalism that informs and inspires. sue and edgar wachenheim, iii. barbara hope zuckerberg.

corporate funding is provided by mutual of america-- designing customized individual and group retirement products. that's why we are your retirement company. additional support has been provided by: and by the corporation for public broadcasting, and by contributions to your pbs station from viewers like you. thank you. from the tisch wnet studios at lincoln center in new york, alison stewart. >> stewart: good evening, and thanks for joining us. hillary clinton's campaign is calling on the f.b.i. to reveal all it knows about a recently discovered batch of emails related to the once-dormant investigation into clinton's private email servers she used while secretary of state. clinton campaign chairman john podesta told reporters on a conference call today the letter from f.b.i. director james comey informing congress yesterday of the emails was" long on innuendo and short on facts." podesta and clinton campaign

manager robby mook say comey owes the public "the full stor"" before election day, and they want to know how many emails are duplicates from 30,000 reviewed in the case closed in july. >> stewart: f.b.i. agents discovered the emails while investigating the estranged husband of clinton aide huma abedin, former congressman anthony weiner, for allegedly texting an underage woman. the emails were on a computer used at home by weiner and abedin. mook says she has completely and voluntarily cooperated with investigators. hillary clinton talked to reporters last night in iowa. >> we don't know what to believe, and i'm sure there will be even more rumors. that's why it is incumbent upon the f.b.i. to tell us what they're talking about, jeff,

because right now your guess is as good as mine, and i don't think that's good enough. >> stewart: campaigning today in the denver suburbs, republican nominee donald trump said the renewed f.b.i. attention was deserved. >> hillary set up an illegal server for the obvious purpose of shielding her criminal conduct from public disclosure and exposure. >> stewart: in july, f.b.i. director comey said clinton had sent or received 110 emails containing classified information on her private servers and called her conduct careless but not criminal. for more on the f.b.i's extended inquiry into clinton server emails, i am joined from washington by one of the reporters following the story, "politico" investigative reporter ken vogel. so ken, the "washington post" and the "new york times" report senior justice department officials told comey not to do this. can you fill this in for me? >> sure. there's a feeling comey kind of

painted himself into a corner a little bit by, in july, when he announced not bringing charges, going into great detail about the investigation, about his rationale for not bringing charges. this in many ways flies in the face of typical f.b.i. procedure where you don't comment on an ongoing investigation-- you don't even acknowledge the existence of an investigation if the existence is independently corroborated, you don't comment on it. and, you know, the clinton folks praised him for coming out and announcing he wasn't pressing charges. but in so doing, he basically set stage for this type of ?awr ye where if new information did arise, that he would feel obligated to present it at least to congress who, of course, quickly turned around and leaked it to the public, with the idea being that if he didn't do it before the election, he would come under criticism for potentially revealing new information after the election. it was a little bit of damned if you do, damned if you don't in this case. >> stewart: i want to focus on the word "obligation" because that's the word he used in an

internal memo to the f.b.i. he said, "given that we don't know the significance of this newly discovered collection of e-mails, i don't want to create a misleading impression." he said it was his obligation to tell congress about these e-mails. two questions: one, was it, indeed, an obligation? and, two, didn't he create a misleading impression? >> well, certainly there was no formal obligation. he did in july, when he was asked about this by congress, when he testified before congress he was asked specifically would he reopen the investigation or look into additional information if it came forward after they decided not to press charges? he said that he would look into it. so here we are. as to whether it creates a misleading impression, certainly that's the argument among the clinton folks and without knowing really anything about these e-mails. >> stewart: there's one prosecutor in new york who described his actions as inappropriate because these are e-mails that haven't even been reviewed, correct? >> well, certainly, there are people in the f.b.i. new york office who are pursuing the investigation into anthony

weaner who have looked at these investigations -- look at these e-mails, rather, and at least on a cursory basis determined they could be pertinent. they flagged it up the food chain and director comey said he wanted to seek access to these. that means gets a subpoena, because these-- this case, this investigation into the clinton e-mails and the handling of classified information is, of course, unrelated to this investigation into anthony weiner. >> stewart: are the me ask you a little bit about the clinton campaign's reactions. previously, about the e-mails they kind of had a wait and see to see if the smoke came into a full flame. they came right back at this immediately it in a way we hadn't seen throughout the campaign, really. why do you think that was? >> what my sources around the campaign tell me that they are worried about is give moment towm donald trump and allow him to lean heavily on his voters to get them out to vote with the idea that the system was rigged or that hillary clinton is corrupt, and they're concerned that this gives him the ammunition to do so without any additional information about

what these e-mails say, that they believe will exonerate her and huma abedin in this case. >> stewart: what happens next? does any of this get resolved before november 8? >> director comey has encourage createdded a situation situation where he is under pressure now, he has created pressure on himself to release additional information. the clinton campaign is pressuring him. republicans are pressuring him. so i think we haven't heard the last from him before the election. but i don't think he'll come out with anything approximate anything kind of findings in in th investigation. >> stewart: ken vogel from politico, thanks for sharing your reporting. >> pleasure. >> stewart: when gallup pollsters ask voters what their top issues are this election season, the answer: the economy and jobs. while unemployment has stabilized at 5% during the past year, many americans still long for the days when manufacturing

jobs were plentiful and could provide the basis of a solid middle class life. one state held up as a model for developing new manufacturing jobs is south carolina. however, there are critics who say that reputation has come at the expense of workers. in tonight's signature segment, newshour weekend special correspondent patricia sabga traveled to the palmetto state to report on the issues surrounding job creation and job quality. this report is part of "chasing the dream," our series on poverty and economic opportunity in america. >> reporter: that's the sound of manufacturing jobs on the way-- 2,000 of them expected within two years, when this 500-acre plant near ridgeville, south carolina, starts rolling out vehicles for swedish auto giant volvo. >> this is our very first factory on the american continent. we're going to have a full- fledged plant where you can build cars from scratch, basically.

>> reporter: katarina fjording is the company vice president overseeing the new facility. newshour weekend was given a first look at the construction site, which is already boosting the economy. >> anywhere we can, we use services and companies that are as local as possible. >> reporter: when the factory opens in 2018, the production line will be filled with high- skilled workers, many trained at one of south carolina's 16 technical colleges through the state-sponsored program ready south carolina, or ready s.c. >> the state has lined up different ways of supporting this project and bringing us here. and one key factor was ready s.c., where they actually do pre-hiring, and pre-, pre- staging, pre-screening and pre- training. >> reporter: the program is part of the state's economic revival strategy that's lured other big global manufacturers like b.m.w., honda, mercedes and michelin. manufacturers are coveted not only for the jobs they create on

the factory floor. they have what's called a multiplier effect, spawning more jobs from producers and services that want to do business with the factory and its workers. and economists estimate that one auto job in south carolina creates as many as four in turn. once heavily dependent on textiles, south carolina saw its traditional manufacturing base decimated by automation and globalization, forces that since 1990 caused roughly 150,000 factory jobs to disappear or migrate to countries where workers are typically paid far less. but south carolina has been clawing back manufacturing jobs, adding more than 30,000 of them since the great recession thanks to a combination of economic incentives, robust supply chains, trading infrastructure. there's also an abundance of cheap labor, due in part to the lowest union membership in the country.

>> 25 years ago, we were what i call a "three t" state-- that's textiles, tobacco and tourism. >> reporter: bobby hitt is south carolina's commerce secretary. >> now, we're an aerospace and automobile manufacturing state, which gives us a broader base with the big supply chains and more succ... a more successful operation, manufacturing-wise. >> reporter: u.s. aerospace behemoth boeing started assembling its 787 dreamliner in south carolina five years ago. >> about 30 miles of wiring in that airplane. >> reporter: joan robinson berry is vice president of boeing south carolina, which currently employs 7,500 full-time workers in north charleston. >> there's a lot of good reasons for being here. it's that ecosystem-- government, community, supply base. but more importantly, an... a skilled and motivated workforce. >> reporter: but labor organizer mike evans, with the international association of machinists and aerospace

workers, says boeing is building that industry on the backs of non-union workers who are getting a raw deal compared to workers in the company's unionized flagship plant in everett, washington. what kind of deal does a boeing worker in south carolina get, compared to their unionized counterparts in washington state? >> their counterparts' experience is a lot different. having a union contract, the wages and benefits are much better than what they're experiencing here in south carolina. >> reporter: according to the union's calculations, after six years on the job, assembler mechanics in washington state make roughly $39 an hour while their non-unionized counterparts in south carolina makes around $23. >> i don't know the facts on that, but here's what i do know is that both the union and boeing evaluate pay based on regions and market. >> what they'll tell you is that it's all about this being south carolina, the cost of living is cheaper and so forth. but we've done our research on that, and it's very minimal. >> reporter: boeing opposes a

union for its south carolina workers because it says it will make the plant less nimble and therefore less competitive. >> boeing here in south carolina would not benefit from having a union organized here. the entire strategy around advanced manufacturing's changing. we're bringing new and innovative things together. it's not the same skill set every day, and then it's going to be static. and that's kind of the union environment. >> reporter: and south carolina is attracting investment from all over the world. >> in the last eight years, there've been ten automobile plants announced on this continent. eight of them went to mexico, two of them came to south carolina. the world is looking at us in the united states in a slightly different way. i think the ones that win are the ones that are flexible, one that understand what a company

needs. >> reporter: but labor activists say south carolina is lowering the bar nationwide. >> i moved here in 1996, and one of the first activist things that i did was we protested outside a convention. >> reporter: erin mckee is president of the south carolina a.f.l.-c.i.o. >> back in 1996, the signs sai"" south carolina: last stop before mexico." >> reporter: and do you think that still holds true? >> yes. i think we are the race to the bottom. >> how can we be racing to the bottom when our employment is down, our manufacturing involvement is up, our growth overall in our economy is steaming along, and we're attracting companies from all over the world? >> just because jobs are created-- unless they're good jobs where people can actually pay their bills and not just live on credit, and have retirement and health insurance, and can plan for the future-- it's not really a good job. >> reporter: manufacturing conjures images of the golden era of america's middle classes, a time when factories provided blue collar workers with steady jobs that paid significantly higher than the u.s. average.

a typical manufacturing worker earned around $21 an hour in september, $5 less than the average for all workers. >> i previously worked at honda south carolina. like every job, it had its ups and downs. >> reporter: the downside for dominick white was working between 2010 and 2012 as a so- called perma-temp. that's a worker hired through a temp agency who puts in full- time hours but often without benefits and for lower pay than full-time direct employees of a company. how did your compensation and sort of experience differ from the full-time employees on the shop floor? >> basically, i was a temp for the first two years. i didn't get any raises. i made $9.65. >> reporter: later, when he was hired by honda full-time, white earned more than $18 an hour. >> being a temp kind of sucked because you do the same or more than someone that would be considered full-time, but you

basically make half what they did. >> reporter: hard numbers on perma-temps are hard to come by because the u.s. department of labor does not count them as part of the manufacturing workforce, but researchers say a bad deal for perma-temps can negatively impact full time workers. >> those depressed wages for temp agency workers come back and drag the wages of all workers down in those occupations and in those industries where temp workers are used. >> perform workers can did manned higher wages and better conditions and more of a voice when they know their jobs are the next to go, the next to be converted, perhaps, to temp agency work. >> a job is better than no job, and that's why a lot of people don't complain or don't, you

know, come forward, what other people may say about the unfairness of the job they are on. >> reporter: boeing also uses pesma-temp it calls contractors. >> how we use our contract labor is really based on ebbs and flows. when we're in a development side of our business, we'll bring in more contract labor. and as we get into a production environment tslows down. >> we understand is there needs to be flexibility built in. we just don't upon to see it get abused. >> reporter: how does the iewfs pesma-temp or full-time temporary workers differ in south carolina, versus a unionized boeing plant in washington. >> our plant doesn't allow temporary works, or the production line. >> reporter: but south carolina officials are loathe to dictate pesma-temp time limits to employers. >> there has to be flexibility in the workplace. that lack of flexibility is what has been destructive to manufacturing in the united states in the past. >> reporter: and the newest big manufacturer to land in the palmetto state, volvo, may import some changes.

do you have a policy on pesma-temps for how long you'll keep somebody as a pesma-temp before matriculating thoam becoming a full-time employee? >> we don't have an official policy and we normally only use them to fluctuate when people are on sick leave or vacation, et cetera. maybe we're talking 90 days or a maximum six months. >> reporter: and state officials are confident the market will deliver for workers. >> we have remarkable employers here. we have more coming. the employers are going to have to be tiebl hold those workforces. >> reporter: a workforce with less security than generations past, but working, nonetheless. >> stewart: for the first time in a presidential election, nine more states are enforcing new laws requiring eligible voters to present a government-issued photo id at the polls. that includes new hampshire,

virginia, wisconsin and texas. the laws, which have been controversial, were ostensibly put in place to thwart voting irregularities, but voter identity isn't the only issue in the spotlight this election season. to help us delve into these questions, i am joined here in the studio by wendy weiser. she directs the democracy program at the brennan center for justice at new york university law school. let's talk about north carolina and the voter i.d. laws there. do people have to show photo i.d.? >> absolutely not. that was struck down, along with the rest of the new restrictive voting laws in north carolina. and i do want to make it clear to your listeners and watchers that even though there there have been new voting restrictions put in place in states across the country and even though some of them have not been struck down by the courts, people should not worry. for most people they are not going to experience barriers voting. it is still relatively easy to vote and they should check their voter registration status, make a plan and get out there and

vote. >> stewart: let me talk to you about texas. texas had what some called a strict voter i.d. law but the court said you have to make accommodations for those who don't have a photo i.d. have those accommodations been met? >> you should not have to show say foapto i.d. to vote in texas right now. if you face some kind of burden, reasonable impediment tow obtaining an i.d. under the law and under a court victory right now, voters have another process where they can go through where they sign an affidavit explaining what their difficulty is obtaining that i.d., and they should be able to cast a regular ballot that will count just like everybody else. >> stewart: even if somebody tells you something else or you see an outdated poster. >> yes. early voting has started in texas as well last week, and there were more than a dozen county where's there was incorrect signage, incorrectly telling people they must show a photo i.d. to vote. there were places like in harris county, texas, where there were election officials walking up and down the line telling people they need a photo i.d.

in none of these cases did they tell people about the other process that's available in you don't have these i.d.s. >> stewart: let's talk about the physical act of voting. i know the brennan center has been talking about investigating the actual physical machines which in many states are a decade old. >> one problem that we are concerned about this year and really going forward is that in 42 states, we found, states are using machines that are 10 or more years old, and that is close to or passed the projected life span of those machines. and what we expect to see-- and i think we're already seeing-- are breakdowns, malfunctions, like vote flipping, where you try to press a vote for one candidate and it appears for another candidate. you know, we hope that now and having encouraged election officials to be prepared, so that if there are these kinds of problems, the machines can can be immediately decommissioned, replaced with other machines. there are backup paper ballots or other processes in place. but this is a big problem tawe're concerned about and

something we really do need to address right after election day. >> stewart: quick question-- is hacking an issue? hack of voting machines? ere were reports of hackers actually obtaining access to voter registration databases in 20 states earlier, and that's made people really worried. but we are able to detect those. there was no tampering. but more importantly, voter registration databases are connected to the internet. voting machines should never be, which means that no one sitting in a basement in moscow or anyone else should be able to access your voting machine. so this is not something that security experts think is a credible threat to our election integrity right now. >> stewart: wendy weiser, thank you so much. >> thank you for having me. >> stewart: women make up about a quarter of all state legislative seats in the united states. see how your state ranks by using our interactive map at www.pbs.org/newshour.

>> this is pbs newshour weekend, saturday. >> stewart: a member of the jury that acquitted seven people who occupied a federal wildlife sanctuary in rural oregon in january says the verdict this week was not an endorsement of the defendants' actions. in an e-mail to "the oregonian"" the government's case:ion ofsaid "regarding the various failures of the prosecution to prove 'conspiracy' in the count itself and not any form of affirmation of the defense's various beliefs, actions or aspirations." the national transportation safety board is investigating two separate incidents of planes catching fire yesterday. at chicago's o'hare airport, an american airlines passenger jet bound for miami experienced an engine failure that caused the plane to catch on fire. the pilots aborted the takeoff

and evacuated all 170 passengers and crew on board. in florida, a fedex cargo jet caught fire after landing in fort lauderdale last night. pilots believe the landing gear collapsed on the runway. no one was hurt. iraqi troops and their allies advanced closer to mosul from two directions today in a military offensive to oust isis from iraq's second biggest city. iraqi officials say troops moved into the town of shura, south of mosul, following u.s.-led air strikes against isis positions inside the town. most isis fighters had escaped using civilians as human shields. hundreds of families have fled towns surrounding mosul, taking shelter in a newly established refugee camp. to the west of mosul, anti-isis militia forces say they recaptured ten villages today and are now heading south to tal afar to cut off a potential line of escape by isis militants into syria. on pbs newshour weekend sunday, how will millennials impact the election in a key swing state? >> will they turn out?

will they lean as heavily democrat as they have in the last two elections, where president obama was a candidate? shura >> stewart: returning to the 2016 campaign, at a rally late today in florida hillary clinton said it's, "strange that f.b.i. director james comey informed congress yesterday, 11 days before election day, that he plans to review newly discovered e-mails." >> in fact, it's not just strange. it's unprecedented and it is deeply troubling because voters deserve to get full and complete facts. >> stewart: and finally, the state department tonight ordered families of all personnel at the u.s. consulate in turkey's largest city, istanbul, to leave the country, citing aggressive efforts by extremist groups to attack americans. that's all for this edition of "pbs newshour weekend." i'm alison stewart. good night.

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