the latest polls on the republican presidential race are doing nothing to contradict donald trump's assertion, here

on special report last night that he's in it to win it chief political correspondent carl cameron looks at the numbers? >> in iowa, touting the lead in the latest polls, donald trump earned security to go easy on hecklers. >> don't hurt them, don't hurt them. >> instead of his frequent derision of rivals, offered rare praise. >> jeb bush announced, he's a nice person. >> the governor of ohio is a quality guy. doing a nice job. marco rubio. another nice person. >> the insult-free rhetoric comes as polls in three key battleground states still ahead but burdened by high negatives. marco rubio has passed jeb bush. the others are in single digits. in pennsylvania, only rubio makes double digits. trump leads and carson is closest in ohio, where governor john kasich is third and ted cruz and carly fiorina has

traction, in swing states, a third of republicans say they would not support trump. his rivals signaling they fear trump less are dispersing their fire. on a three-day swing in iowa to ramp up emphasis on the first caucus state bush dismissed trump as a lightning rod for anger. >> you can't be the large voice in the room disparaging people and dividing people and calling people idiots. >> he zeroed in on rubio for missing senate votes, including an important one in the pentagon yesterday. >> they should vote when there's a reauthorization of the defense bill when they're gutting the military. they should be there and voting for this because it's important. the military men and women need our support right now. >> rubio, who trump before called weak and lazy. toured a business in new hampshire and defended his absenteeism. >> i'm running for president, when you run for president, you're going to miss votes and miss time as other candidates have had to do in the past. >> rubio has missed more votes that are his fellow senators running for president. rand paul missed the least.

he's running for senate snultly. ted cruz missed some votes but he announced being the first in the race to have organizers working in all 171 counties in the first four states to vote next february. that's a significant benchmark. >> ground game is the game. >> ground game is the name of the game. >> carl, thank you. coming up shortly, kentucky senator and republican presidential candidate rand paul, in our center seat. if you have a question for the senator, now is the time. you can write it in facebook.com/brett baier or on twitter at brett baier and use the #specialreport. we may use the question. other candidates are now weighing in tonight on donald trump's comment on this program last night, about eminent domain. the practice of government taking private property with what the government determines is fair compensation. chief washington correspondent james rosen shows us. >> on the campaign trail, donald trump's full-throated defense of eminent domain is drawing fire. >> constitutional amendment.

>> keeps development like donald trump from using the power of eminent domain to take private property away from an owner. >> likewise jeb bush recently invoked vera coken, the new jersey woman who once refused to sell her modest dmak city property to trump and prevailed in court. >> one of the candidates for president tried to use the police powers to garner property from a widow that did not want to sell to build a casino i don't know if you know which one i'm talking about now. >> and it's wrong. >> eminent domain cases typically involve the government deciding fair market value for a piece of real estate and forcing the owner to accept it. so the property can be seized for some other use. in kilo versus city of new london in 2005, a mostly liberal majority on the supreme court held the practice constitutional. provided it advances a compelling public interest. >> was the court overdoing it with that decision? >> well it's sort of not a good one for me to say i notice every

article written about it saying will donald trump take over your home. i happen to agree with it 100%. >> most conservatives regard kilo as a hallmark of government overreach. a license to confiscate property. trump still disagrees, arguing that job creation and other social benefits can outweigh the interests of an individual. >> just so you understand, you're not taking the house, you're taking house and paying much more -- no, no, you're paying much more than it's worth. >> even if they don't want to sell. >> it depends on what, to build another house for somebody else who has more money, absolutely not. >> justice anthony kennedy. a nominee of ronald reagan joined the majority in kilo. one of kennedy's clerks from the following terms says eminent domain cuts across ideological lines. >> i think it's not necessarily incompatible with conservatism to say one is in favor of states and cities having relatively wide leeway to use eminent

domain powers for what they determine to be in the public use. >> eminent domain is one of numerous issues in which donald trump diverges from conservative orthodoxy. so far such heresies don't seem to be hurting him in the polls with gop primary voters. brett? >> thank you. you can see the full discussion with donald trump about eminent domain on my blog, the daily brett. go through the special report home page or going through the daily brett.com. blowing the whistle on cooking the books, you'll be shocked to learn how foreign countries are getting financial information about you. first, a very special happy birthday tonight. fox news channel launched 19 years ago today. october 7th, 1996. led by rupert murdoch and roger ailes. i came on as a reporter 17 years ago. to everyone past and present at fox news, happy birthday.

tomorrow house republicans will meet to select their nominee for speaker. current majority leader, kevin mccarthy considered the front-runner and has the support of outgoing speaker john boehner. jason chaffetz and daniel webster are also running. webster was endorsed by the house freedom caucus. the full house vote will happen october 29th. we'll have full coverage tomorrow. the senate has passed a $612 billion defense policy bill. the president obama has promised to veto. president is unhappy with the measure increases defense funding while congress refuses to add to the domestic spending

budget. foreign countries are getting important information about people living here in the u.s. maybe even you. but it is not from hackers. it is from the irs. correspondent rich edison tells us how that works. >> the internal revenue service is sharing u.s. taxpayers' personal information with other governments. at least 34 countries like kab canada, mexico and india. says a "wall street journal" analysis. the irs is mostly sharing information of foreigners with accounts in u.s. banks. those says it could also divulge the information of americans living abroad to those countries. conservatives say this is a dangerous practice. >> what we're doing is we're putting the tax collection cart ahead of the national interest horse. we need to rethink whether or not it's a good idea for purposes of bad tax policy, to have these international agreements. >> opponents question whether our countries can safe guard this information.

the u.s. government has fallen victim to hackers accessing personal information of hundreds of thousands of citizens. they point out one data leak could compromise taxpayers, especially foreigners to extortion or kidnapping or ransom demands if foreigners acquire their information. >> all it is is one rogue employee, one rogue anybody and somebody's life potentially at risk. >> the irs claims the data is secure. in a statement the agency says before exchanging with a particular jurisdiction, the united states conducted detailed reviews of that jurisdiction's laws and infrastructure concerning the use and protection of taxpayer data. cybersecurity capabilities, as well as security practices and procedures. >> the reason for all this -- a newly implemented law called faca, designed to address tax evasion, it requires foreign banks to provide to the federal government information about their account holders, who are u.s. citizens. many countries have agreed to do so, as long as the irs offers them the same information about their citizens and residents.

essentially the u.s. is giving information to get it. brett? >> rich, thank you. stocks were up today, the dow gained 122. the s&p 500 finished ahead 16, the nasdaq picked up 43. a federal law enforcement official confirms to fox news the justice department will begin the early release of 6,000 convicted drug criminals, later this month. last year, the federal sentencing commission decided that close to 50,000 inmates would be eligible for the reduced sentences and official says the majority of those released will be transferred to halfway houses and drug rehab centers and a third will be handed over to immigration for possible deportation. meantime an intelligence bombshell. an examination of allegations from a whistle blower who says his bosses told him to soft-pedal bad news about the world's most dangerous neighborhood. senior correspondent adam housely has the story. >> for several years, starting in 2010, form centcom analyst

william says he and his colleagues were told not to report certain facts on terrorism in the middle east. >> it didn't fit the narrative, it didn't fit the current operating theme is that al qaeda is decimating. >> a narrative that meant some significant terrorist activity was downplayed and wouldn't always make it into reports. instead replaced by information about the local economy or even the environment. information that does very little to help paint an accurate security situation for leaders and troops on the ground. >> we were seeing attacks left out of reports. that's what we were seeing and when i would go to the section and talk to them about it, or confront them or put it up through the command, it wasn't being followed through with. so they were just being left out of these reports, which is not giving the commander the proper picture. >> after several years trying to use the chain of command. coatle expressed his concerns to the c.i.a. c.i.a. days later had a security clearance polled. he was instructed to drive to

work each day, but was not permitted to get out of his car. he was assigned to cleaning and trash duty. >> it was a violation of the rules and in now 39 years or 29 years of practicing, military justice. i have yet to see the treatment that was afforded sergeant first class coatle down at centcom, it was horrific. >> coatle was court-martialed last year in what he says were fabricated charges, the most serious, pornography on his computer. he was acquitted on four, one dismiss and he received an honorable discharge. the concern is two-fold. the manipulation of a central intelligence report and the crackdown on a whistle blower. >> this is not surprise me that somebody who is being a patriot, trying to raise some serious issues, raise issues that could actually cost americans their lives, now he's being retaliated against. >> we're supposed to dot right thing and the command is supposed to support that. no matter what.

but in this command climate, you do the right thing and you're going to pay the piper. right now i paid the piper and i'm going to continue to pay the piper. >> the military says it won't comment on the case, due to privacy concerns, but sergeant coatle was interviewed by the inspector general this week. there are two congressional committees looking into his claims, brett? >> adam. thank you. no grapevine tonight, when we come back, kentucky senator and republican presidential candidate rand paul in our center spotlight.

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welcome back to "special report." republican presidential candidate and kentucky isn't that correct rand paul in our senator seat tonight. senator, the latest average polls has you at 2.3%. if you look at the state-by-state polls today, florida you're at 2%, ohio at 3%, pennsylvania at 1%. how do you turn that around and what do you tell supporters who say we're just not seeing it? >> you know, i'm thinking about

going to joke school or something. maybe i need better jokes. i've been told i need better hair, i need to be taller, i need better clothes. you know how many people tell you you have to do something different to bring your polls in. but i'll keep saying what i believe in and that is government is too big, debt is too big and we have to do something. really the problem is not just the liberals, not just the democrats, it's the right and left spending too much money. i'm the only one saying that, that it's really an unholy alliance of both sides. some republicans and some democrats getting together to bust the budget. >> but you're running for president but also running for senator at the same time. >> i'm doing better in that race. >> there will be a decision at some point. when do you think that will come? >> i'm going to let people vote. i think the polls don't accurately represent our organizational strength in iowa. we have chairmen in all 99 counties in iowa, hundreds of precinct chairmen. we have hundreds of students rallying for us. i would hate to give up and say

the students aren't going to get a chance to vote for someone who truly thinks you shouldn't be putting somebody in jail for marijuana, that really we shouldn't be at war everywhere around the world all the time and really that there isn't another way, that there isn't a third way. >> laura. >> transpacific partnership, i know you voted against the trade promotion authority. donald trump is against it. hillary clinton comes out today and is against it. what is your position on the super secret document that nobody has seen? >> i can promise you once i take a final position, i'm only going to take one. hillary has been on both sides of this issue. i don't like tpa giving special authority to the president. i think we have too much power going to the executive branch and away from congress. absolutely i didn't want to give this special power or special pathway for it to come through. i was also very annoyed that the trade agreement was classified. >> why was it classified? >> i have no idea why a trade treaty would be classified. i'm still complaining. when i meet leadership in the hallways of congress, i'm saying

why in the heck do you classify -- >> they don't want people to see what's in it. >> there was some staff members and we spent an hour, hour and a half in there and i'm not so sure i was even given the final copy because the final copy has come out recently. i like to read things so i'm going to read it first. i'm in general for trade. for trade because i think trade enriches us all but i don't like the organization of international bodies controlling our trade. >> three political operatives very close to your operation are about to face trial for alleged pay for endorsement scheme. are they innocent? >> i don't really know innocence or guilt or the law. the law is really complicated. this is sort of campaign finance regulations. and a lot of it is how you report things, whether you report things. in fact many things can be all legal and then someone tries to say they're illegal. and so i really don't know the details of the case. they didn't work for me, by the way. none of these people worked for me. >> isn't this kind of --

>> people going after them? >> are they going after them or are they possibly guilty? >> well, it took four years for people to charge them. the person charging them is in the obama justice department. and i believe the person who's in charge of the investigation testified before congress and when asked 30 times whether he knew anything about lois lerner and all of the other e-mails that were missing answered 30 times that he wasn't going to respond, that he didn't recall. so when someone has been investigated for malfeasance, i wonder whether it is politically motivated. >> senator, thank you. that is it for the panel. stay tuned to see hollywood's consistent take on the 2016

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