karen tumulty is national political correspondent for the "washington post." and gwen covered the jesse jackson presidential campaign together in 1988. and reverend william lamar iv is pastor of the metropolitan african methodist episcopal church in washington. he has known the ifill family going back decades. and yamiche alcindor of the "new york times." gwen was a mentor to her. pastor lamar, i want to start with you. you knew gwen in a way none of us at the table did. besides church every weekend, coming up through the church, the ifill name meant something. >> indeed. gwen's farther was the secretary general of our denomination. so all initial denomination literature and statistical reports carried his name. so i don't remember a time not seeing or knowing the ifill name. as i came through the ranks of ordained ministry, her brother is a tremendous voice and leader in our denomination. so when i had the privilege of pastoring her, i knew her pedigree and ancestry. >> sreenivasan: she was a woman of deep faith. >> she was there every week, generous, a mento

karen tumulty with the "washington post." susan page with "usa today."hank you both. >> thank you. >> woodruff: in our election coverage online, we visit the suburbs-- long a republican stronghold, but now trending democratic, and explore what the transformation means for american politics. that's at pbs.org/newshour. >> woodruff: now, let's turn to an election story at the state level. there are important ballot initiatives all around the country. tonight, we look at one of those battles: over bilingual education in california. more than nine percent of all students in the u.s. don't speak english fluently. they struggle more in school, trailing behind in every academic measure and at every grade. in california, that's true for nearly one in every four children or almost 1.5 million kids. special correspondent kavitha cardoza with our partner "education week" visited california, where voters will soon decide how to best teach these children, part of our weekly series, "making the grade." >> reporter: at a farmer's market in san francisco, signs of multi

with me now, steve cortez, served on trump's hispanic advisory council on the trump campaign, karen tumulty is back with us, and cnn political commentator angela rye, a former executive director of the congressional black caucus. welcome to all of you. karen, let me begin with you, let's start with tom price as a pick for hhs secretary. there's been criticism on republicans, they want to repeal, repeal and replace obama but there's been a lack of specifics on how and what to replace it with. tom price is the guy who has an alternative, correct? >> that's right and you know it would certainly be a big disruption for the current system. but he is someone -- he's also a physician, someone who's given a lot of thought to this issue so it's certainly not what i think a lot of supporters of the affordable care act would like to see. this is going to be somebody who is actually going to dig in and try to do this. >> let's talk a bit, steve, just as a trump supporter, karen is right, he's an m.d., an orthopedic surgeon, he knows where the money comes from because he's the chair of the house budget

karen tumulty to you. what item want dot with all of you, for forkes watching tonight wondering what question find out early enough, that the polling places that close on the earlier end, you have georgia, virginia, ohio, north carolina. start with virginia. just not to far from where we're sitting. what factors will you be looking for when it comes to exit polls in that state? >> virginia has always, at least for the last few cycles, had a huge gender gap nap is going to be one early indicator of that. but until very, very recently, hillary clinton had a really big lead in virginia. >> chose tim kaine. that helped her. >> right's in now polls have closed i still think even a lot of republicans i talked to don't think this is one donald trump can pull out, but he may bring it down within three percentage points, four percentage points, in which case it suggests there's a lot of traction for him not just in virginia but in a lot of places. >> rnc decide add couple weeks ago to throw some money into virginia

michael oreskes, lynn sweet, a bureau chief for the chicago sun times, karen tumulty, for the "washington post," and jeffrey goldberg, editor and chief of the atlantic magazine. we all have to start with the security scare in reno last night. donald trump being rushed off the stage by security because a trump protester, a republican against trump, was holding up a sign creating a motion in the audience. now, we saw on twitter after this happened, after trump returned to stage and all went well, one of trump's advisers called this an assassination attempt. then a couple people close to donald trump, like his son, retweeted that message, creating this narrative there was an assassination attempt against mr. trump. jeffrey, what are the consequences of this kind of blizzard of misinformation after a security scare? >> well, bad information moves faster than good information, right? we have seen this over and over again in this race. traditional media, meaning people who try to deal in fact-based observations, can't keep up with the torrent, the blizzard, whatever you want to call it. can't k

karen tumulty of the washington post shared this 1971 memo from president richard nixon's papers whenou are talking to zeeb bow skally and klein, that his first appearance where i played the good sport role the reporters were considerably more bad mannered and vicious than usual. this bears out my theory that treating them with considerably more contempt is in the long run a more productive policy. >> that didn't work out really well for president nixon. >> ultimately. >> true, true. thank you. >> you're welcome. >> i'm not bored. no, but, you know, look, trump has had -- i think what people really struggle with along the way was his access to the media and his ability to pick up the phone and call. on our show we always said, anyone else want to call in, do it. lindsey graham, hillary clinton never called in, everyone was closed up and always thinking what they were going to say. i think people really liked that he was just willing to spout off. whether that's right or wrong. >> but he understood something about contemporary culture that the other candidates didn't obviously, which i