Corporate funding is provided by mutual of america designing customized individual and Group Retirement products. Thats 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 Clintons Campaign is calling on the f. B. I. To reveal all it knows about a recently discovered batch of emails related to the oncedormant investigation into clintons 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 dont know what to believe, and im sure there will be even more rumors. Thats why it is incumbent upon the f. B. I. To tell us what theyre talking about, jeff, because right now your guess is as good as mine, and i dont think thats 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. Is 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. Theres 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 dont comment on an Ongoing Investigation you dont even acknowledge the existence of an investigation if the existence is independently corroborated, you dont comment on it. And, you know, the clinton folks praised him for coming out and announcing he wasnt 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 didnt 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 dont in this case. Stewart i want to focus on the word obligation because thats the word he used in an internal memo to the f. B. I. He said, given that we dont know the significance of this newly discovered collection of emails, i dont want to create a misleading impression. He said it was his obligation to Tell Congress about these emails. Two questions one, was it, indeed, an obligation . And, two, didnt 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 thats the argument among the clinton folks and without knowing really anything about these emails. Stewart theres one prosecutor in new york who described his actions as inappropriate because these are emails that havent 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 emails, 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 Emails 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 Campaigns reactions. Previously, about the emails 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 hadnt 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 theyre concerned that this gives him the ammunition to do so without any Additional Information about what these emails 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 havent heard the last from him before the election. But i dont think hell 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 tonights 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 thats the sound of manufacturing jobs on the way 2,000 of them expected within two years, when this 500acre plant near ridgeville, South Carolina, starts rolling out vehicles for swedish auto giant volvo. This is our very First Factory on the american continent. Were 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 Carolinas 16 technical colleges through the statesponsored 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 prehiring, and pre, pre staging, prescreening and pre training. Reporter the program is part of the States Economic revival strategy thats 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 whats 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. Theres 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 thats textiles, tobacco and tourism. Reporter bobby hitt is South Carolinas commerce secretary. Now, were an aerospace and automobile manufacturing state, which gives us a broader base with the big supply chains and more succ. A more successful operation, manufacturingwise. 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 fulltime workers in north charleston. Theres a lot of good reasons for being here. Its 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 nonunion workers who are getting a raw deal compared to workers in the companys 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 theyre experiencing here in South Carolina. Reporter according to the unions calculations, after six years on the job, assembler mechanics in Washington State make roughly 39 an hour while their nonunionized counterparts in South Carolina makes around 23. I dont know the facts on that, but heres what i do know is that both the union and boeing evaluate pay based on regions and market. What theyll tell you is that its all about this being South Carolina, the cost of living is cheaper and so forth. But weve done our research on that, and its 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 manufacturings changing. Were bringing new and innovative things together. Its not the same skill set every day, and then its going to be static. And thats kind of the union environment. Reporter and South Carolina is attracting investment from all over the world. In the last eight years, thereve 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 were attracting companies from all over the world . Just because jobs are created unless theyre 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 its not really a good job. Reporter manufacturing conjures images of the golden era of americas 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 permatemp. Thats a worker hired through a temp agency who puts in full time hours but often without benefits and for lower pay than fulltime direct employees of a company. How did your compensation and sort of experience differ from the fulltime employees on the shop floor . Basically, i was a temp for the first two years. I didnt get any raises. I made 9. 65. Reporter later, when he was hired by honda fulltime, 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 fulltime, but you basically make half what they did. Reporter hard numbers on permatemps 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 permatemps 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 thats why a lot of people dont complain or dont, you know, come forward, what other people may say about the unfairness of the job they are on. Reporter boeing also uses pesmatemp it calls contractors. How we use our Contract Labor is really based on ebbs and flows. When were in a Development Side of our business, well 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 dont upon to see it get abused. Reporter how does the iewfs pesmatemp or fulltime temporary workers differ in South Carolina, versus a unionized boeing plant in washington. Our plant doesnt allow temporary works, or the production line. Reporter but South Carolina officials are loathe to dictate pesmatemp 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 pesmatemps for how long youll keep somebody as a pesmatemp before matriculating thoam becoming a fulltime employee . We dont have an official policy and we normally only use them to fluctuate when people are on sick leave or vacation, et cetera. Maybe were 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 president ial election, nine more states are enforcing new laws requiring eligible voters to present a governmentissued 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 isnt 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. Lets 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 dont 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 wheres 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 thats available in you dont have these i. D. S. Stewart lets 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 were 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 tawere 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 thats 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 email to the oregonian the governments 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 defenses various beliefs, actions or aspirations. The National Transportation safety board is investigating two separate incidents of planes catching fire yesterday. At chicagos ohare 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 iraqs 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, antiisis 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 its, strange that f. B. I. Director james comey informed congress yesterday, 11 days before election day, that he plans to review newly discovered emails. In fact, its not just strange. Its 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 turkeys largest city, istanbul, to leave the country, citing aggressive efforts by extremist groups to attack americans. Thats all for this edition of pbs newshour weekend. Im alison stewart. Good night. Captioning sponsored by wnet captioned by Media Access Group at wgbh access. Wgbh. Org pbs newshour weekend is made possible by bernard and irene schwartz. Judy and josh weston. The cheryl and Philip Milstein family. 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. Thats 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. 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