tonight, john yang reports from a county in northeastern ohio that's a democratic stronghold but wherese of the sluggish economy, republicans are hoping to make inroads. this story is also part of our ongoing reporting initiative "chasing the dream; poverty and opportunity in america." >> reporter: in the moore household in newton falls, ohio donald trump's approval rating is just about 100%. three generations of voters-- including a longtime democrat who's never voted republican-- enthusiastically backing the new york millionaire. you might call 21-year-old danny moore a "trump scholar." he wrote a college paper about his nomination. >> "it is about the desire to be part of the movement to return america to its greatness and dominance in the world. the dominance of donald trump leads his supporters to believe he can and will do this for america." >> reporter: he got an "a." danny gave trump's book, "the art of the deal," to his father, dan. a self-described swing voter who says he was on the obama bandwagon in 2008 and 2012. and now? who are you voting for this fall? >> absolutely don

for the pbs newshour, i'm john yang in delaware county, ohio.ti >> ifill: tomorrow, john yang crosses the state to report from a traditional democratic stronghold, where donald trump is hoping to make inroads.mo >> woodruff: but first, big companies today are not creatin nearly as many middle-class jobs as they once did, and that'sare- been one of the concerns in thih campaign. economics correspondent paul solman went to detroit where ideas for spurring a new era of local manufacturing are taking shape. it's part of his weekly series, "making sense." >> reporter: a must-see stop on the grand tour of decaying detroit: the plant that, for decades, clanked out auto chassis for g.m. >> general motors at its height had 900,000 employees, career ladders galore, they were providing a lot of benefits, creating good middle-class jobs. g.m. today has about 220,000 employees around the world. it's about as many as it had ino 1928. >> reporter: but sociologist jerry davis says the g.m.'s of yesteryear, though models of productivity and even economic equality, are history. >> what happened to gene

john yang reports. >> yang: in pittsburgh this morning, donald trump made the unrest in charlotte his prime topic, and he added his own twist.arc, >> the people who will suffer the most as a result of these riots are law-abiding african- american residents who live in these communities where the crime is so rampant. drugs are a very, very big factor in what you're watching on television at night. he said his tough law and orrd agenda which includes stop andst frisk a practice a federal judge said discriminated against minorities would benefit black americans. >> our job is not to make life more comfortable for the violent disruptor, but to make life more comfortable for the african- american parent trying to raise their kids in peace. tr >> world peace with was a topic of a letter from 75 retiredof career diplomats slamming trump as entirely unqualified to serve as president. most of the diplomats who signed the letter haven't been publicly associated with politics. meanwhile, a politico aroundcies of campaign finance reportspo found the trump campaign has said trump's businesses $8.2

john yang reports. a warning: it includeswa language that may be offensive. >> reporter: donald trump-- the self-proclaimed "law and order"f candidate-- raised questions today about the actions of a white police officer whoseli shooting of an unarmed black man last week is being investigated by the justice department. >> i must tell you, i watchedhe the shooting, in particular in tulsa, and that man was handswa up. that man went to the car, hands up, put his hand on the car. i mean, to me, it looked like he did everything you're supposedou to do. and he looked like a really goo and this young officer, i don't know what she was thinking-- i don't know what she wasas thinking-- but i'm very, very troubled by that. >> reporter: trump was speaking during a conference of pastors at a black church in a cleveland suburb. he was introduced by boxing promoter don king. king recalled counseling michael jackson about the realities of how blacks are viewed in america, and appeared to accidentally use the "n"-word.

john yang went to find out why, despite changes and repeated calls for new action, violencevi there istough to rein in. >> reporter: on this busy street corner in englewood-- one of the hardest hit neighborhoods on the city's troubled south side-- it looks like a party. kids are playing. the grill is fired up. in the past though, 75th and stewart felt like a war zone. >> this corner is a corner where a man was killed. well, several men. a woman was killed, and a child was killed-- a nine-year-oldar girl was killed washing her dog in broad daylight. and if men and women and a >> reporter: but for two summers, mothers against senseless killing, known aswn "mask," led by tamar manasseh, has been out on this corner and there hasn't been a single shooting. volunteer laura lambert comes from nearby hyde park. and 91-year-old edwina knight crosses the street every day from the house she's lived in for 57 years. >> show up, grab a lawn chair>> and pair of sunglasses and you can do this. you can change the world with that. >> reporter: but the moms of r "mask" are only on one corner, in a city

john yang begins our coverage, with this report. >> yang: 12 hours after stepping off the debate stage, hillary clinton was back on her campaign plane sounding upbeat. >> well, we had a great, great time last night. the real point is about temperament and fitness and qualifications to hold the most important, hardest job in the world, and i think people saw last night some very clear differences between us. >> yang: clinton said some of donald trump's debate statements were demonstrably untrue and dismissed one of his grievances about their face-off. >> anybody who complains about the microphone is not having a good night. >> yang: trump told reporters after the debate his mic was defective and suggested it was on purpose. he also claimed moderator lester holt of nbc news was tougher on him than on clinton. trump insists he came out ahead anyway. >> i was asked about my tax return, which i've told about 500 times. i think i did really well in answering those questions, but those questions are not answerable in a positive light. >> yang: last night clinton opened up a new front in the b

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john yang has our report. >> yang: it was donald trump's turn to bring the campaign to a college, just as hillary clinton he spoke at high point university in north carolina, and again decried clinton's criticism that he's aiding and abetting isis.n' >> her claim that my opposition to radical islamic terrorism is as. recruiting tool. why? because i'm tough it's a recruiting tool? t it demonstrates a level of ignorance about the terror theft. >> reporter: it came amid more questions about the charitable trump foundation. the "washington post" reported it paid moree than $250,000 to settle lawsuits involving his businesses. >> the trump campaign didn't respond, and social media became a battleground over donald trump, jr.'s, tweet likening syrian refugees to a tainted bowl of skittles. a clinton campaign spokesman called it "disgusting," and a former obama speechwriter tweeted a picture that had earlier gone viral saying, this syrian boy is one of the millions of children youu compared to a poison skittle. clinton made no public appearances today, but there was word she may get the vote

john yang has our report. >> yang: this morning, hillary clinton didn't even wait for her first campaign stop of the day-- attacking donald trump before boarding her plane. >> last night was yet another test, and donald trump failed yet again. we saw more evidence that he is temperamentally unfit and totally unqualified to be commander in chief. >> yang: it was in response to the candidates' back-to-back appearances last night on an nbc news military forum. trump was asked about russian president vladimir putin's praise for him. >> if he says great things about me, i'm going to say great things about him. i've already said, he is really very much of a leader. i mean, you can say, oh, isn't that a terrible thing, the man has very strong control over a country. now, it's a very different system, and i don't happen to like the system. but certainly, in that system, he's been a leader, far more than our president has been a leader. >> yang: today, that brought clinton's strongest rebuke. >> that's not just unpatriotic and insulting for the people of our country as well as to our commander-in

captioning sponsored by newshour productions, llc >> yang: good evening, i'm john yang. gwen ifill and judy woodruff are away.d on the newshour this labor day, the presidential candidates hiti the campaign trail in full force, beginning the finale, sprint to election day. also ahead, world leaders gathered in china for the g-20 summit. what they agreed to and the issues that still divide them.m. plus, a young black man's journey into adulthood overshadowed by racially-charged politics. >> walking through racism is important, but how are we dealing with talking about patriarchy, ma song any, homophony, mentalness?e we're not including these in the narrative around young black men.

john yang reports. >> reporter: with terror threats suddenly center stage, hillary clinton used her yearscretary of state to say she's ready to handle national security. >> i have sat at that table in the situation room. i've analyzed the threats. i've contributed to actions that have neutralized our enemies. i know how to do this, and i >> reporter: donald trump used this weekend's attacks to underscore a defining theme in his campaign. >> we have seen how failures to screen who is entering the united states puts all of our citizens-- everyone in this room-- at danger. so let me state very, very clearly: immigration security is national security. >> reporter: both candidates also tried to highlight their foreign policy credentials: clinton, by meeting with ukrainian president petro poroshenko and japanese prime minister shinzo abe on the sidelines of the u.n. general u assembly in new york. she and trump are also to meet separately with egyptian president abdel-fattah el-sisi.b meanwhile, clinton and running make tim kaine campaigned separately on college campuses. young voters were a ke

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john yang takes it from there. >> reporter: hillary clinton's opponents have said that her presidency been described by her opponent as an extension of the obama agenda. but what would the early days of a hillary clinton white housein look like? what might she propose and what could she actually get done? for this, we turn to my colleague lisa desjardins. and amie parnes, who's in neww york, she's the co-author of "h.r.c.," and senior white house correspondent for "the hill." welcome to you both. amie, you literally wrote thet t book on hillary clinton. what do you think her prioritier would be in the first days in i the white house? >> well, she's mentioned as muc on the campaign trail repeatedly, she said she wants to push a major infrastructure bill to fix roads and bridges and highways across the country. she also wants to do a whole immigration overhaul, and that's something that she says is at the very top of her list. she also wants to get done campaign finance reform, and i think, also, she's going to have to deal with the supreme court and whether or not she picks up obama's

john yang is there, and begins our coverage. >> reporter: at hofstra university, the stage is set.lier, stand-ins for donald trump and hillary clinton helpem technicians work out the final details. the showdown comes as polls show the two locked in a very tight race. clinton running mate tim kaine predicted tonight would be a big test for trump. f >> well tonight, 90 minutes on stage. you know, there's gonna be a great opportunity for theop american public to see if this guy can tell the truth.he i mean-- or maybe, if he recognizes the truth. both sides are trying to managen expectations: trump calling the moderators unfair, clinton saying the moderator should fact-check.fa this morning, trump campaign manager kellyanne conway pushed back. >> what bothers us, mark, is the very public and very coordinated attempt to game the refs. >> reporter: between them, theep nominees have participated in more than a dozen primary debates. but those were nothing like tonight. anita dunn is a former obama aide who helped prep him for the 2012 debates. >> secretary clinton is a disciplined, experi

. >> ifill: john yang is at hofstra university at the site of thehe debate. i'm wondering what the scene ise like there, john, how it's going over? >> i tell you the people are just coming out i'm in front of the donald trump holding room youna can see them coming by he. the the senator came by she's obviously supporter of secretary clinton. she was telling me that she felt, this is sort of the line coming out of their clinton room tonight that donald trump onceal again, they say, showed that he wasn't prepared to be president. they say that this was -- they say came right from the top, secretary was able to give what they -- they're saying wass coherent policy about providingr jobs in america. but he wasn't. governor christie went by, wouldn't stop.wo i'm trying to see if i can get g someone from the trump campaign to get their reaction, so far that's whaten so far. >> ifill: we'll let you keep searching for people in the room to talk. we'll get back to you. >> woodruff: mark, i want to come to you, was there any -- david was saying that donald trump did bett

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john slattery and nathan lane are very different kinds of actors. one is charming and smooth and very naturalistic. and nathan is hugely theatrical and bombastic and just brilliant. they're together like -- >> yin and yang. >> how does everyone get along >> they cast everybody in the show as a team player. and a lot of people are playing parts they wouldn't normally play just to be in this ensemble. >> directed by jack o'brien. >> directed by jack o'brien who most of us have worked for. >> such a great producer. >> only scott rudin would have the guts to do a play that costs this much to produce. >> he can afford it, he's doing well. >> it was also a limited run. >> 19 weeks. >> it was fun on the emmys watching your shout-ou sarah paulson. >> first of all, that whole emmy night was thrilling. she's done six roles, different parts, different characters in five years, been nominated for every one of them. for marcia clark, she has to win or the earth is going to tilt on its freaking axle. then she shouted out to me. i didn't know she was going to do that. the thing about sarah is, long before she was a brilliant actress, which she is. person of great quality, and she stands on the right side of history. >

yang is a reason why this market does nothing. here's the bottom line. there's just enough competition to keep stock in check. but when competition lessens, with stocks that jump and jump high. john in florida. john. >> caller: thank you for taking my call. >> of course. >> caller: let's talk about the dow and dupont merger. you gave a little strategy regarding walgreens and rite aid. what if the government doesn't approve the merger, and queson before that, should you employ some type of put strategy? >> no, you don't want to employ a put strategy. you do want to own dow, nice yield. dupont's, i like them both, but dow is the one you should own. gary in illinois. >> caller: boo-yah, jim from the >> caller: my question is regarding jm smucker. sjm. and i know we like fundamentals around here, but my question is not about fundamentals. fundamentally, this is a company i want to own for my portfolio. >> for the long term. short term wasn't up because of pet food fighting. the main problem with smucker is that the pet food business had a lot of competition, and guess what happened, the numbers went down. i think at 140 makes sense. i'm sorry i talked over. dave? >> caller: since rep

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