Hillary and Donald: Hillary Clinton, who hasn’t had an actual press conference in months and has kept reporters on a separate airplane, got a new jet and flew with the gaggle on board yesterday. ‘‘I am so happy to have all of you with me,’’ Clinton said, which didn’t improve her reputation for truthfulness.

Clinton had her most extensive give and take with reporters in a long time, in one exchange expressing alarm over “the credible reports about Russian government interference in our elections.” The Russian have been accused of hacking Democratic databases.

Donald Trump also altered course and flew with a small representative group of reporters on his jet. He took the opportunity to reinforce his position that all illegal immigrants will have to leave and come back if they want a shot at citizenship. Trump said, “you are going to have to go out and come back in through the process. You’re going to have to go out and get in line.”

Anger Management: Charlie Cook writes in The Cook Political Report that, “Arguably the biggest political story of the past year has been the breadth and depth of the anger and alienation among Republican voters—not just toward President Obama, Hillary Clinton, and the Democratic Party, but also against their own party’s leaders.”

Cook continues, “The Republican base has gotten so exotic in their views that it is little wonder that they are becoming isolated from the broader electorate and have picked someone who is trailing a very weak Democratic nominee. Given how much voters know about Hillary Clinton and how horrible a person most Republicans passionately believe she is, how do they explain why she’s ahead? As flawed as she may be, the product of the Republican nomination process appears to be even more so.”

Sticks and Stones: President Obama cancelled a scheduled meeting with Philippine President Rodrigo Duterte, who referred to him in a press conference as “son of a bitch.”

Duterte had been asked how he would respond if Obama talks to him about the government’s campaign of killing drug dealers. About 2,000 have been gunned down in the past several months with no attempt to arrest or prosecute.

Duterte responded to the reporter that he would tell Obama, “Who does he think he is? I am no American puppet.” And he said he would tell Obama “Son of a bitch, I will swear at you.” Duterte now says he regrets what he said.

DeeeFense: Speaking in China yesterday, President Obama defended the right of San Francisco 49ers QB Colin Kaepernick to refuse to recognize the national anthem. “I think he cares about some real, legitimate issues that have to be talked about.” Kaepernick has said he’s not going to stand for the anthem until he sees a significant improvement in the treatment of minorities.

The Obit Page: Phyllis Schlafly, the pearl-wearing anti-feminist who fought communism, abortion, and the Equal Rights Amendment that would have banned sexual discrimination, has died at age 91. She was the moralizing housewife in a 50s hairdo who founded the “pro-family” Eagle Forum. “The claim that American women are downtrodden and unfairly treated is the fraud of the century,” she wrote in her 1977 book “The Power of the Positive Woman.”

>Namon Hoggle, one of three white men acquitted of murdering a white Boston minister who had marched with the Rev. Martin Luther King on the Edmund Pettus Bridge in 1965, is reported to have died Aug. 30 at age 81.

The bludgeoning murder of the Rev. James J. Reeb, a 38-year-old white Unitarian Universalist minister was a turning point in the civil rights movement. Sadly, it was the death of a white man that got attention, but Hoggle, his brother, and another man were let go by an all-white jury.

>The tall, handsome actor Hugh O’Brian, who played the legendary lawman Wyatt Earp on television in the 1950s, has died at age 91. O’Brian took the job so seriously that he spent hundreds of hours practicing quick-drawing his revolver until he was fast enough to make it real for the cameras.

Triple Word: Brett Smitheram, 37, from east London, won the world Scarbble championship at the  Grand Palais in Lille, with “Braconid,” which is a small parasitic wasp. 176 points and game over.

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