Slow the construction of an Oil Pipeline Near a reservation, but the fight is far from over. When that oil spills, whos going to come save us . Were indian people. Were expendable. Who is going to come . Who is going to come and give us water . Woodruff and its friday. Mark shields and david brooks analyze a full week of news. All that and more on tonights pbs newshour. Major funding for the pbs newshour has been provided by moving our economy for 160 years. Bnsf, the engine that connects us. Lincoln financial is committed to helping you take charge of your future. The ford foundation. Working with visionaries on the frontlines of social change worldwide. And with the ongoing support of these institutions and friends of the newshour. This program was made possible by the corporation for public broadcasting. And by contributions to your pbs station from viewers like you. Thank you. Woodruff the president ial campaign took a sudden detour today back to president obamas origins. For the first time, donald trump said publicly the president is indeed, american by birth. But, in the process, he stirred up a new storm of criticism. Reporter for the president ial opponents both Holding Events within blocks of the white house the day was a battle over truths. His aides had said recently, but for the first time, donald trump himself acknowledged president obama is a naturalborn american citizen. President barack obama was born in the United States. Period. Now we all want to get back to making america strong and great again. Reporter it was a complete reversal for the man who spent years stoking the socalled birther controversy. This is on the today show in 2011. You are not allowed to be president if you are not born in this country. He may not have been born in this country. Reporter when the white house made the president s birth certificate public two weeks later, trump questioned if the document was real. And even as a president ial candidate, in january of this year, trump refused to acknowledge the president was indeed born in hawaii. Was he a naturalborn citizen . Who knows, who knows, who cares right now . Reporter today, clearly Hillary Clinton cared, even before trump spoke. For five years he has lead the Birther Movement to delegitimize our first black president. His campaign was founded on this outrageous lie. There is no erasing it in history. Reporter there was more outrage from members of the Congressional Black Caucus who said trump is unrepentant and an opportunist. By any definition, donald trump is a disgusting fraud. Reporter at the white house today, president obama declined to respond to trumps public change on the issue. I was pretty confident about where i was born; i think most people were as well. And my hope would be that the president ial election reflects more serious issues than that. Reporter but trump today raised another birther controversy he alleged clinton is to blame. Hillary clinton and her campaign of 2008 started the birther controversy. I finished it. Reporter there is no evidence of that. Factchecks proving it to be false abound. Clintons 2008 campaign did fight tooth and nail with president obama, but she never questioned his birth place. There was one more geographic story today where trump chose to hold his event his new d. C. Hotel. When trump took cameras on a hotel tour but did not allow producers who would ask questions all of the Major Networks refused to use the footage, seeing it as a publicity stunt. For the pbs newshour, im lisa desjardin. Woodruff and, donald trump and Hillary Clinton will be the only candidates at the first president ial debate in ten days. The commission on president ial debates said today that libertarian candidate gary johnson and Green Party Nominee jill stein dont have high enough standings in Public Opinion polls, to qualify. In the days other news a suicide bomber killed at least 24 worshippers and injured dozens more at a sunni mosque in northwest pakistan. The attacker struck at the village of ambar, in a tribal region near the afghan border. Despite this, security in pakistan has actually improved since 2013, with attacks dropping by nearly half. President obama made a new push today for the transpacific trade deal. Its been roundly denounced by both democrats and republicans during this campaign season. The president blamed that on misinformation. If youre frustrated about rules of trade that disadvantage america, if youre frustrated about jobs being shipped overseas, then you want to get this thing passed, you want to get this thing done. Woodruff republican Governor John Kasich of ohio was among political and Business Leaders meeting with the president , and urging congress to approve the deal. But, Senate Republican leader Mitch Mcconnell says there wont be a vote before mr. Obama leaves office. On wall street today, dropping oil prices were a factor as the Dow Jones Industrial average lost 88 points to close at 18,123. The nasdaq fell five and the s p 500 dropped eight. For the week, the nasdaq rose 2 . The dow and the s p gained a fraction. And, as of today, beer began flowing beneath the streets of a medieval belgian city. After five months of construction, a brewery in bruges opened a twomilelong underground pipeline to pump beer to a suburban bottling plant. It replaces heavy trucks rolling down narrow, cobblestoned streets. We have up to four to five of these tanker trucks a day sometimes, and thats really becoming difficult for environmental reasons. But also, just in general, the livability of the inner center of bruges is sometimes threatened by that. Woodruff the pipeline was partially financed through a crowdfunding appeal. Top contributors receive a bottle of beer every day for the rest of their lives. Still to come on the newshour a desperate need for aid in syria despite the mostly holding ceasefire, Donald Trumps appeal in one of ohios democratic strongholds, the ongoing battle over the dakota oil pipeline, and much more. Woodruff last friday, the u. S. And russia announced a deal to resume a tenuous ceasefire in syria, in order to get much needed humanitarian aid to badlydeprived civilians throughout the country. It went into effect monday evening, and thus far, the results are mixed. Chief Foreign Affairs correspondent Margaret Warner begins our coverage. Reporter the day began with claims of progress in the four day old ceasefire. Syrian state television showed bulldozers apparently clearing the castello road into war ravaged aleppo. Thats the crucial link for humanitarian aid convoys to enter aleppo from turkey. The russians also announced that Syrian Army Units had pulled out of the area. But within hours, all that changed. translated opposition groups have not started pulling armor and weapons from castello road. As a result, Syrian Military vehicles and Government Troops were returned to the positions they occupied earlier. Reporter rebel fighters denied that, and said Government Forces never left in the first place. translated we are currently around a mile away from castello road. Cars are travelling through normally, nothing has changed for them, its only us who have been forced to retreat. Reporter the fingerpointing left u. N. Convoys stuck at the Turkish Border for another day without Syrian Government permission to enter. We are as ready to go as we can possibly be. The modalities for ensuring safe passage have not yet been cleared, and given to us so that we can move. Reporter secretary of state john kerry and Russian Foreign minister Sergey Lavrov had negotiated the ceasefire in geneva last weekend. They spoke by phone today, and according to the state department, kerry said the delays on opening access for humanitarian aid were unacceptable. The white house went further blaming the russians. They are the ones that have made a commitment to use their influence with the assad regime, to reduce the violence, and allow humanitarian access. And either the russians are unable to live up to the agreement maybe they dont have the juice and influence they claim to have, and we all thought they had or maybe theyre just unwilling. Reporter meanwhile, there are other signs the ceasefire is fraying heavy fighting was reported today around the capital damascus. And, tensions have cropped up within the u. S. Backed coalition battling the Islamic State in syria. This amateur video today was said to show americans possibly special forces leaving a Syrian Border town after rebels protested their presence. Woodruff and margaret joins me now. Woodruff and margaret joins me now. Looks like the deal is not holding up well. Is anything going right . One thing thats going right is you dont have heavy bombing of civilians. You cant lose sight of that. People are allowed to shop in aleppo if theres anything to buy. But whats not shown is humanitarian aid is not getting through. Its the russians job to make sure president assad would let the cop voice in and theyre not getting in. If both were satisfied they would set up the joint Operation Center where the u. S. And russians would Work Together to target the Islamic State and the al quaida link which is to be called the nusra front but the white house made clear today unless the other two checks are satisfied theyre not going to get to the joint Integration Center or operational center. Woodruff now, the russians are saying though, that the United States bears some of the responsibility. Well, you know, they have a point. The u. S. s responsibility was to lean on its clients, which are the u. S. Vetted or c. I. A. Vetted rebels, the socalled moderate opposition, and they have been in many areas, really entangled with this al quaidalinked group, not ideologically, but simply because they fight more effectively together. I have been told by people who have spoke on the military commanders of these groups that many are very suspicious. They say, well, if we have to disentangledle from the nusra fighters, the most effective ones, that means we have to fall back and i. S. I. S. Will come take the territory. Woodruff explain the apparent division between the state department and the pentagon over working with the russians. Its interesting, judy because not that you dont always have this kind of friction or often but to have it burst into the open like this. The other day, i was at a conference in which the new head of centcom was speaking and he said, look, theres a trust deficit with the russians, we dont kn what their objectives are, they will say one thing, dont follow up, and thats particularly true in the ukraine over the years the ukraine conflict where the russians would promise to do one thing and they would do something else. There are also specific risks. They wont operate together. Theyre supposed to share intelligence. Here are the nusra fighters and the i. S. I. S. Fighters. What the americans are afraid of is the russians will take the information that intelligence has, either use the information to bomb the u. S. Backed rebels or pass the info on to the assad forces, one colonel suggested that to me and then also its hard to tell the russians what we know about indicating how we know it. So the secretary of Defense Ash Carter spoke out, and the other interesting i heard is this debate is being used bioponents of this deal in moscow to say, well, if the American Military isnt even going to obey the order, why should we do anything . Woodruff is this the last gasp of information on syria and if thats the case, what happens after that . Im afraid. So secretary kerry keeps saying we want to get to this political transition, these talks where there will be a discussion of a process and president assad will slowly fade away. But i went to the very first talks back in, you know switzerland almost three years ago. I dont think its moved at all. And at this point, that is a distant dream. If they could only get at least an end to a lot of the carnage on the ground, in other words they car kerry and lavrov are now negotiating over a fifth of a loaf, and that now even appears in doubt. Woodruff tough, tough story to follow. Very. Yeah. Woodruff Margaret Warner we thank you. Woodruff now, part two of our ontheground report from ohio, one of the crucial swing states in this president ial election. Tonight, john yang reports from a county in northeastern ohio thats a democratic stronghold but where because 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 TrumpsApproval Rating is just about 100 . Three generations of voters including a longtime democrat whos never voted republican enthusiastically backing the new york millionaire. You might call 21yearold 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 trumps book, the art of the deal, to his father, dan. A selfdescribed swing voter who says he was on the obama bandwagon in 2008 and 2012. And now . Who are you voting for this fall . Absolutely donald trump. With him being a Real Estate Developer and being involved in the construction industry, he had to be a good problemsolver. Hes going to build the wall and theyre going to pay for it. Reporter dans 75yearold motherinlaw, Frances Kimpton was a lifelong democrat who switched parties to vote for trump in the ohio primary. I would go in and id vote straight down the ticket everything democrat. But now im gonna do everything republican. And i cant wait to do it. Reporter Trumbull County is one of ohios most reliably democratic counties, delivering majorities around 60 to the partys nominees since 1996. But trump is trying to narrow that gap here and across northeastern ohio. Hes visited the region five times since august with a message about the economy. Were going to bring jobs back to ohio reporter its an appeal tailormade for Trumbull County one out of every four jobs that was here 15 years ago is gone 26,000 in all, including more than 1,000 that disappeared when this steel mill closed in 2012. Dan moore, a member of the united Steel Workers union, has watched the industrys slow painful decline. Working class families were being hurt. Theyre losing their homes theyre losing their cars. One day youre middle class or upper middle class, and the next day youre poverty class. Reporter he blames trade deals like nafta, championed by president bill clinton. I believe that donald trump can do something to help, you know, make it a fairer playing board. Hes been very clear about his position on nafta. I believe that a Trump Presidency will take a close look at nafta and that they language of that agreement, if it cant be reformed, hes on record saying well walk away from it. Reporter like her sonin law, Frances Kimpton doesnt think president obama has done enough. When obama was running, i voted for him. And then i found out he didnt live up to what he said he was gonna do. I voted for him twice, and i couldnt believe how the situation is now. Reporter trade has been an issue in Trumbull County since native son William Mckinley was president. It was at his memorial in niles that we spoke with kyle kondik of the university of Virginia Center for politics. He wrote a book about ohios significance in president ial elections the bellwether. These are areas where anti free trade populism has been popular for a very long time. This is generally a region that feels like maybe it has not benefited from trade agreements such as nafta. Trumbull county was actually trumps second best county in the whole state in terms of the primary and theres some thought that that will translate to the general election as well. Reporter but trumps message doesnt resonate with other democrats here even though they see the same economic conditions. At Hillary Clintons local field office, marie yancey, is a retired auto worker, was making phone calls. With obama saving our jobs shes going to continue on. If they had let the Auto Industry fail, how many jobs around here would we not have . So thats why she has my vote. Reporter what does she think of the idea that trump would revitalize the county . I dont understand where their thinking comes from. I just dont trust trump. I think trump thinks this presidency is like running the apprentice. You cant just say, youre hired. Reporter jim roan is a retired banker. I dont really see anything concrete about what hes talking about. Its fine to say, this has got to change, and im going to change it, but unless hes superman which i dont think he