- period. protein shots from 5-hour energy. great taste. 100 calories. 21 grams of protein. good evening, welcome to washington. this is a fox news alert. i'm bret baier. tonight, new details about what president obama was saying publicly about hillary clinton's private e-mail server and how the people inside clinton's inner circle reacted to it. plus, fresh questions tonight about hillary clinton's health. all coming from e-mails the clinton campaign never intended you to see. we start with the private server e-mail revelations with chief national correspondent, ed henry. good evening, ed. >> good evening, bret. tonight white house spokesman josh ernest is stressing the president never said he did not trade e-mails with hillary clinton, he just did not know the details about her server as the fallout continues over what even john podesta is now calling

a hot mess. as hillary clinton's e-mail scandal first exploded in the spring of 2015, her top advisers were not just scrambling to do damage control over her actions, they were also privately worried president obama had not told the whole truth. >> mr. president, when did you first learn that hillary clinton used an e-mail system outside the u.s. government for official business, while she was secretary of state? >> the same time everybody else learned it through news reports. >> reporter: cheryl mills, clinton's chief of staff at the state department, knew the president had received work e-mails from clinton's personal e-mail address. mills writing on march 7th, 2015, "we need to clean this up. he has e-mails from her. they do not say state.gov." after mills sounded those alarm bells, two days later white house press secretary, john ernest, tried to clarify. >> the president was not aware of the fact this was a personal e-mail server, and that this was the e-mail address that she was

using exclusively for all her business. >> reporter: a previous wikileaks dump revealed on march 4th, 2015, after a subpoena had been issued by republican trey gowdy, chair of the select committee probing benghazi for clinton to preserve all e-mail, mills received a note from campaign chairman john podesta marked special category, writing, "think we should hold e-mails to and from the president? that's the heart of his executive privilege." today we learned on march 9 the th, 2015, days after the existence of the server was reviewed and goudy's subpoena was issued clinton aides were feuding over leaks that the former secretary of state was about to address the media about her server for the first time. an adviser wrote the leaks were infuriating clinton, "i'm sure this isn't news but this is creating trust problems on her end." communication director jennifer

palmeri e-mails just podesta, "i'm telling you right now if there's any hint of trust issues with me, i am not taking this job. see below e-mail from philippe, saying the leaks are creating trust issues for hrc." chill, podesta said," "remember the source of the e-mail got us in this hot mess." telling podesta, this is a cheryl special, why didn't they get this stuff out 18 months ago? so crazy." podesta says "unbelievable." tanden concludes "they wanted to get away it." >> some pointed to e-mails raising possible questions about hillary clinton's health. >> remember, she had a concussion a few years ago. when she was preparing for the first democratic debate in fall 2015, john podesta wrote this e-mail, how bad is her head?" she wrote, "i don't know, houma left here a bit ago.

i just pinged again to ask about prep, haven't heard back." did she have a head cold? we found another e-mail exchange, after clinton launched the campaign in spring of 2015, talking about responding to an attack from jeb bush's superpac, huma abedin writes "she's going to stick to notes a little closer this a.m. still not perfect in her head." now, did she mean the talking points were still not perfect in her head, she's going to use notes, was there something else going on? there have been conspiracies out there, we don't want to give them any credence, but hillary clinton a couple months ago fell down, her health became an issue, these e-mails are out there and the clinton camp as you know is taking this stance, they're not going to push back against individual e-mails. so they just won't say. >> yeah, they want to point to russia. >> stealing the e-mails. >> okay. thank you. right now, millions of americans who get their health insurance through obamacare are wondering what they're going to do. huge premium spikes, average of about 25%, but much higher in some places, will go into effect

next year. even with government subsidies, that could price some people out of the market. defeating the stated purpose of the affordable care act. the administration insists increasing subsidies will cover the premium increases. republicans as you u ccan imagi are on the warpath with the confirmation of what they've been talking about for years coming two weeks before election day. the president and democrats in tight races are trying to explain or running for cover. we get that story tonight from correspondent kevin corke at the white house. >> reporter: sticker shock. that's how critics are describing the massive hike in premiums facing those who get their health coverage under the affordable care act. obamacare. the government's own study showing that prices will go up dramatically in 2017. in some cases not by single, not by double, but by triple digits in the coming year. online, on air, even on facebook. white house officials eager to tamp down the furor were out in force today. still trying to sell the merits

of the law. >> and one of the things that we think going forward that we should do to improve our health insurance is to offer a deeper subsidy to young people, to encourage them to go into the marketplace. >> reporter: while the hikes will vary from state to state, consumers in arizona, for example, are expected to get hit with a whopping 145% increase in premiums. >> part of this is because arizona is one of those states that had really low average premi premiums, among the lowest in the country, so now insurance companies basically are trying to catch up. >> reporter: that was president obama's explanation for the pending spike last week, but today his administration was forced to concede while the law is covering millions more people, it's also costing more. the fed says average premium coverage will rise about 25% nationwide compared to 2016. that's about $302 a month on average up from $242. health and human services officials still say most people won't be affected by the increase. 72% of consumers, they say,

should be able to find priemium that cost less than $75 a month. >> even in arizona where 75% of the folks actually have subsidies that will help them so that they're insulated from those changes. >> reporter: house speaker paul ryan wasn't buying it. in a statement he quipped "the president recently compared obamacare to a samsung galaxy note 7 and he's right. this disastrous law is blowing up but at least you can return the phone." critics say the rate hikes were predictable if not outright planned. >> the democrats instituted obamacare. why? because they knew it eventually would fall on its own and move to a single-payer system. now if you like the department of motor vehicles, you're going to love a single-payer system. >> reporter: even worse for the president's own pear, backing his signature health care law will now come at an increasingly higher political price. forcing even staunch advocates to consider when it comes to obamacare whether it's time to fix it, or forget it. bret, as you pointed out and a lot of members of gop are

unimpressed of what they heard lately about obamacare. let me share what arkansas senator tom cotton had to say today. he said "obamacare is in a death spiral and we must take action before things get worse." obviously much worse for those middle class families who no doubt have to bear the brunt of the sharp price increases. bret? >> kevin corke live on the north lawn. thank you. major flaws in obamacare are no surprise to people who have studied the law, both sides talking about it needs to be fixed. back in 2010, i asked president obama about many of these issues at the white house. here's part of that conversation. >> what the american people care about is the fact that their premiums are going up 25%, 40%, 60%. and are we going to do something about it, bret? the core of this bill is going to be affecting every american people. if you have insurance, you're going to be able to keep it. if you don't have insurance, you're going to be able to buy into a pool like members of

congress have. we're going to make sure that we've got delivery system reforms that strengthen medicare, that are going to make sure that doctors and hospitals are providing better service and better care. and this is going to reduce the deficit. >> do you guarantee they're going to be able to keep their doctors? >> bret, you got to let me finish my answers. what we can't do is perpetuate a system in which millions of people day in and day out are having an enormously tough time and small businesses are sending me letters constantly saying that they are seeing their premiums increase 40%, 50%. >> mr. president, you said monday and you praised the congressional budget office numerous times. you also said this. "this proposal makes medicare stronger," you just said is to me here. "makes coverage better, makes finances more secure and anyone who says otherwise is misinformed o r trying to misinform you. the cbo said specifically the $500 billion you say you're going to save from medicare is not being spent in medicare. that this bill spends it elsewhere.

outside of medicare. so you can't have both. you either spend it on expenditures or you make medicare more solvent. so which is it? >> here's what it does. on the one hand, what you're doing is eliminating insurance subsidies within medicare not making anybody healthier but fattening the profits in insurance companies. that money goes back into medicare, both to fix the doughnut hole, lower premiums. all those things are important, but what's also happening is each year, we're spending less on medicare overall, and as a consequence, that lengthens the trust fund and its availability for seniors. >> your chief actuary for medicare said this, cuts in medicare "can not be simultaneously used to finance other federal outlays and extend the trust fund." that's your guy. >> no, and what is absolutely true is that this will not solve our whole medicare problem. we're still going to have to fix medicare over the long term.

>> $38 trillion in the hole. >> that's the reason i put forward a fiscal commission based on republican and democratic proposals to make sure that we have a long-term fix for the system. the key is that this proposal doesn't weaken medicare. it makes it stronger for seniors currently who are receiving it. >> so you don't buy, the cbo or the actuary, you can't have it both ways? >> no, what is absolutely true, what i do agree with, is that you can't say that you are saving on medicare and then spend the money twice. >> and just an update, the medicare hospital trust fund will have sufficient funds to cover it, its obligations until 2028, according to officials, two years sooner than projected last year. more on this with the panel. donald trump is is trying to make hay of the obamacare news. he's in florida again tonight. trying to capture a state that's absolutely vital to his presidential hopes.

chief political correspondent carl cameron is at a trump rally in tallahassee. >> reporter: with two weeks left, donald trump has a new closing argument and it comes straight from the obama administration. campaigning in florida, donald trump seized on news that obamacare premiums are going up next year. >> just been announced that americans are going to experience another massive double-digit hike. now, they said 25%. forget -- you'll take 25%. it's going to be 60%, 70%, 80%, 90%. in the great state of arizona, it's over 100%. it is crazy. repealing obamacare and stopping hillary's health care takeover is one of the single most important reasons that we must win on november 8th. >> reporter: trump's showing final sprint discipline, bashing obamacare at his events. this morning at his dural resort, he promised to get rid

of it. >> obamacare has to be repealed and replaced and it has to be replaced with something much less expensive for the people. >> reporter: he called into rush limbaugh and fox news. >> we will have plans that are so good and plans that people aren't even thinking about right now. they'll be tailor made, they'll be phenomenal and much less expensive. >> reporter: touting his employees at dural this morning, trump misspoke when he said this. >> i can say all of my employees are having a tremendous problem with obamacare. you folks, this is another group. is that a correct statement? i mean, you look at what they're going through, what they're going through with their health care is horrible because of obamacare. >> reporter: in fact, 95% of trump's employees have employer provided health care, not obamacare. polls showing him behind in key battleground states. >> i think i'm winning in florida which i have to win. i think i'm winning in north carolina from what i hear. i'm polling very well in ohio. in fact, i'm going to win ohio. we're doing phenomenally well in

iowa. yeah, i think -- i think we're either winning or tied. it's going to be very, very close. >> reporter: trump denies plans to start his own cable news network if we loses but launched a newscast on facebook last night with campaign advisers and contributor from glenn beck's web show "the blaze." row, d trump is in another north carolina, and visiting washington, d.c., for the official opening of his new hotel on pennsylvania avenue. do you think obamacare premium hikes will have any effect on this election? let me know on twitter @bret fair. tonight we take you to texas, traditionally about as red as any state you kind. but the gop dominance is in jeopardy right now two weeks from election day. correspondent casey steagall tells us why from dallas tonight. >> reporter: in a year of political firsts, add this to the list.

for the first time since 1976, texas is a tossup state. a recent poll conducted by the university of houston shows just a three-point margin between trump and secretary hillary clinton. plus, the real clear state average has trump up just six points. significant, explains cal jilson, political science professor at southern methodist university because republican presidential candidates usually enjoy double-digit leads and wins here. >> that means a lot of republicans are uncomfortable, they're dumbfounded, they're deeply concerned. >> reporter: and early clues from early voting gives democrats even more reason to be optimistic. a line spilling out the door at an early voting location in harris county near houston. >> this is a pretlittle unusual >> reporter: four years ago president obama narrowly won this slice of texas and voter turnout was among the highest in history. this time around, new records have already been shattered.

in the first full day of early voting in harris county, more than 67,000 people cast a ballot. roughly 20,000 more than day one in 2012. in dallas, different county, same story. an 80% hike as been recorded with first-day voting totals. in and around austin, almost a 100% jump. jillson adds many establishment texas republicans just can't get behind this gop nominee. >> there's real reluctance and some of that reluctance will show itself in people staying home, leaving the top of the ticket blank. >> reporter: state democrats see this as a golden opportunity. >> being this close is a huge accomplishment for this party. and it's getting people excited because, you know, in a state like this that always has traditionally gone republican. >> reporter: analysts predict donald trump will still win texas by six or seven points but that's nowhere close to romney's

sweep of 16 points 4 years ago. bret? >> casey steagall in texas tonight. like donald trump, hillary clinton is also in florida to y today, she does not need that state to win but knows trump does and she's going for the bloc there. fox news correspondent jennifer griffin is in coconut creek where clinton held a rally earlier this afternoon. >> reporter: in an ongoing effort to reach hispanics who make up 27% of all florida voters, tim kaine laid the groundwork for hillary clinton's return to the sunshine state. >> i feel good, but boy, i'm not taking anything for granted. >> reporter: early voting began monday in florida, and already latino voters are turning out in unprecedented numbers. 133,000 of them cast ballots,99% increase from the same point in 2012. absentee ballot requests up 30% among african-american voters compared to this point in 2012, but the campaign's efforts to turn out minority communities

may be compromised by embarrassing wikileak e-mails that show how it used quotas to structure the campaign in its early days. one from february 2015 between her former chief of staff, cheryl mills, and chairman john podes podesta, shows campaign manager robby mook's desire for, quote, a hispanic woman as political director. poc, two black, one asian, one hispanic, four women, six white men, 33% didiverse, 33% women, % white men. another e-mail showed the campaign's concern when officials noted stories of, quote, huge discrepepy ppisies pay between the sexes at clinton foundation and noticed it wouldn't be surprising if the press, quote, went here next. today bill clinton was campaigning in north carolina. >> when you meet people who are supporting hillary's opponent, do not greet them with the anger they often display toward us. love them to death.

look at them and say, we need you. >> reporter: rising poll numbers may favor hillary clinton right now, but rising obamacare premiums do not. the campaign recognizes that they have a problem and they released a statement tonight talking about how hillary clinton plans to fix the controversial health care plan. bret? >> jennifer griffin with the clinton team. jennifer, thank you. up next, live team coverage of the battle for mosul and the fight over what happens after isis is defeated in iraq. first here's what's some fox affiliates around the country are covering tonight. fox 5 in new york, team of agents and lawyers investigating the death of eric garner has been replaced. "the new york times" reports the changes could jump-start the long-stalled civil rights probe. garner died after being taken down by police outside a staten island convenience store in 2014. fox 2 in san francisco, as a flight from the airport there to london is diverted after the crew becomes ill. the plane landed in vancouver.

officials there said the cause of the illness was smoke inhalation. and this is a live look, rather, outside the progressive field in cleveland. site of tonight's game one of the world series. pretty exciting. big story for fox 8 tonight. the indians and the cubs. cleveland has not won the world series since 1948. the cubs have not won since 1908. coverage on the big fox, fox broadcast network, begins with the pregame show at 7:30 eastern time. that's tonight's look outside the beltway. from "special report," we'll be right back. ♪

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says the u.s.-led coalition is laying groundwork for the start of the operation to take the syrian city of raqqah from isis terrorists. this comes early in the second week of fighting for mosul, iraq's second largest city. we have fox team coverage tonight, lucas tomlinson at the pentagon tells us exactly who is doing the fighting on the ground. and we start with correspondent benjamin hall in erbil, iraq, tonight, with what's happening under the ground. hello, benjamin. >> reporter: bret, one of the things we see every day on the ground here, the countless ways in which isis tries to outsmart the vastly superior military forces attacking it. many of its methods are effective, but they are still being pushed back. troops in iraq today began preparing to liberate the last major town east of mosul after days of heavier than expected resistance. despite the feierce fighting, though, the progress has been steady with dozens of villages said to have been liberated and hundreds of isis fighters

killed. today secretary of defense ash carter at a meeting of defense ministers in paris reiterated u.s. support for the mission. >> the iraqis are fighting with skill and commitment and courage enabled by the coalition. >> reporter: isis are experts at asymmetric warfare. the villages they occupy are covered with a network of tunnels which allows them to stay one step ahead. we got exclusive access to one. pree recently recaptured by kurdish forces. many people wondered how isis was able to withstand and hide from the u.s.-led air strikes. this is how. they've dug deep underground. these tunnels are a key element of isis military strategy and cover every town, every village that isis held. these tunnels are used as storerooms, dormitories, bomb shelters and living quarters. they can be over 300 feet long and 30 feet deep. often with multiple entrances and built by local villagers. paid $2 a day. they crisscross the land allowing isis fighters to move unseen from one location to the

next. launching attacks from hidden positions. outside, the villages are littered with ieds such as this one. it's these that make it painstakingly slow. this one seen, dodges rpgs and machine gun fire before finally being destroyed and the militants have been setting fire to trucks and boils of oil, in an attempt to blunt the effectiveness of the coal liitis air power, without success. they've also launched counterattacks such as this one in kirkuk which left at least 80 dead, as they seek to divert attention and resources away from the battle, itself. but despite all these various tactics, they just haven't been able to stand up to the firepower, 90,000 strong army, coalition air force that's bombing them on a regular basis. that might change when they get to the city of mosul, itself,

but for the moment, it's slow but it's steady. bret? >> benjamin hall live, early wednesday morning. benjamin, thank you. turkey is itching for a fight. that nation desperately wants to be part of the action in defeating isis and filling the power vacuum left behind in iraq. tonight pentagon producer lucas tomlinson looks at the roster of the players in the fight for mosul. >> reporter: it's a battle, isis from mosul, but is a proxy war between the turks and iranians. from the outskirts of mosul, up to 800 turkish troops are training kurdish and sunni fighters against the wishes of the iraqi government. turkey wants to insert influence amidst fears that shia. backed fighters will establish a foot hold in mosul. >> turkey has interest in trying to limit what the kurds can do own trying to roll back potentially some of iran's power in iraq. basically they have their own interest in this whole battle and the u.s. is not really calculated that or taken that into account in trying to put

together defenses. >> reporter: one week into the iraqi-led operation to take back mosul from isis, defense secretary ash carter traveled to work out and agreement between neighboring nations. iraq rejected the plan. >> translator: i know the turks want to participate. we tell them thank you. we want to tell them this battle will be settled by iraqis. >> reporter: a average ago it was more evidence isis erased iraq's borders. turkey deployed forces to northern iraq to protect the sunni operation against shia power iran and shia militias. former head of forces in iraq foresees a free for all once is yn is is defeated in mosul. >> the real issue is the issue of post-islamic state governance. in the capital of which is mosul, a city of nearly 2 million people, this is the most complex human terrain in all of iraq. >> reporter: complicating matters are photos showing

shadowy iranian kuds force commander outside mosul. a top officer said he's responsible for killing 500 american troops in the last decade. >> just because turkey is a posed to iranian influence in some way doesn't mean turkey is a good actor. on the sunni side, turkey has dealings with extremists and al qaeda and is willing to work with them. it's a very complex web here. the idea you can basically side with one extremist action over another is foolhardy. >> reporter: pentagon officials say they're supporting iraq's plan to retake mosul from isis. but the nearly 200 u.s. special operation forces on the ground working with iraqi and kurdish fighters are close to iranian-backed militimilitias, o see america as an enemy, bret? >> lucas tomlinson live at the pentagon, thank you. terrorists wearing suicide vests stormed a pakistani police academy overnight killing 61 people, during a four-hour gun battle. 123 others were injured. most of the victims were police cadets and recruits. all three of the attackers died.

isis is claiming responsibility tonight, but so is a lesser known terror group there. back in the country, the future of the u.s. supreme court. whoever wins may get the chance to shape the bench for a generation. tonight, outgoing senate minority leader harry reid is doing everything he can to try to stop the republicans from stopping hillary clinton if she's elected. chief washington correspondent james rosen is here to explain how. good evening, james. >> reporter: bret, good evening. lots of ifs here. if hillary clinton wins, if the democrats reclaim the senate, if republicans would block any supreme court nominee she names, what would the new democratic majority do about it? republican senator john mccain of arizona who leads his democratic challenger in the polls predicted in a radio interview the gop would unify against any clinton scotus nominee, senate minority leader harry reid, the nevada democrat who is retiring at term's end, shot back that he is laying the

groundwork for democrats next term to circumvent such tactics. >> i think in the case of sotomayor, they were able to convince some republicans, i promise you, we will be united against any supreme court nominee that hillary clinton, if she were president, would put up. >> reporter: i really do believe that i have set the senate, so when i leave, reid told a liberal website, talking points memo, we're going to be able to get judges done with majority. only takes a simple majority anymore. it's clear to me if the republicans try to filibuster another circuit court judge, especially a supreme court justice, i told the democrats how, i've done it, no just talking about it, i did it in changing the rules of the senate. it will have to be done again." as of now supreme court nominations require a 60-vote majority. if a democratic majority reinterpreted senate rules to use the nuclear option for scotus nominees, a tactic that reid as majority leader deployed in 2013 for lower court nominations, it would reduce the threshold to 51 votes.

reid's successor senator chuck schumer of new york declined to comment today and said elsewhere only he intends to figure this all out. the question schumer must weigh is whether democrats want to be subjected to the nuclear option if and when the republicans reclaim the white house. republicans this year refused to act on president obama's nomination of merrick garland. >> james, thank you. more on this with the panel. stocks were down today. the dow lost 54. s&p 500 was off 8. the nasdaq dropped 26. californians are voting on to legalize recreational marijua marijuana. with that comes the problem, stoned driving, how to define it and how to detect it. our correspondent looks at some of the possible solutions. >> reporter: with medical marijuana legal in half the u.s., and recreational pot allowed in four states, plus washington, d.c., and on the ballot this november in five

other states, police are counting on the tech sector to develop tools that can detect whether a driver is stoned. >> right now there's really not a good tool for officers to measure if someone has been consuming marijuana. >> reporter: but tyler schultz and fellow researchers at stanford university are working to change that and demonstrated their prototype spit test that just needs a swab of saliva. >> we just plunge this into the well that holds the chip. >> reporter: the device uses magnetic bio sensors previously used to screen for cancer to detect the presence of thc, potent ingredient in marijuana that can impair a driver's reaction time. >> we believe that this will save lives of innocent people and the drivers, themselves. >> you blow into this? >> reporter: at a startup in oakland, ceo mike lynn demos a breathalyzer that measures the amount of thc in a person's breath. >> by measuring thc in breath where it only stays for a few hours at the very most, we can

identify drivers who are actually stoned at the time that they're pulled over. >> reporter: as opposed to someone whose car may smell like pot but who isn't actually high. however, the results of any thc test are meaningless under the law. unlike blood alcohol levels that identify drunk drivers, there's no national standard that correlates thc levels to stoned drivers. law enforcement and policymakers are working on it. >> marijuana affects drivers differently. that's why it's very difficult to come up with fair and consistent guidelines regarding use. >> reporter: for now, researchers are forging ahead and conducting field tests so that by the time a legal impairment level is established, a roadside thc test will be standard police equipment. bret? >> claudia, thank you. following up now on a story we brought you last night, defense secretary carter says the pentagon will resolve a dispute over government attempts to make some veterans repay their overseas service bonuses. it involves members of the

california national guard. the issue has been going on for a decade. house speaker paul ryan is urging the defense department to stop its efforts to recover the funds which it says were wrongly paid. we are just two weeks away from election day. can donald trump capitalize on the bad news about obamacare? will it change the current electoral trend seeming to benefit hillary clinton? we'll ask the panel after a quick break.

they said 25%, forget, you'll take 25%. it's going to be 60%, 70%, 80%, 90%. i'm going to repeal it and replace it. she's going to expand it and it's going to get more and more expensive. >> the costs have gone up too much so we're going to really tackle that. we can do that without ripping away the insurance that people now have. that's the plan of my opponent.

take everything away, give it all back to the insurance companies and if you think costs have gone up with, you know, the recent week, it will just skyrocket. >> by the way, that music was from rick party in the afternoon. that was not our added undermusic. these are the health care plan rate hikes. the premium rate hikes, per state. arizona, average premium increase for a benchmark eventual plan, 116%. study this map. there are a number of states here. tennessee, 63%. pennsylvania, average premium increase, 53%. north carolina, premium increase, benchmark plan about 40%. bottom line is that this information comes exactly two weeks before election day. how much does it affect this upcoming election for some of these tight races and also the presidential race? let's bring in the panel. steve hayes, senior write fr fo "weekly standard." charles lane for the "washington post," and charles hurt,

political columnist for the "washington times" okay, steve, it's not a shock, not a surprise. republicans and others have been saying this was going to happen, it's just this is a confirmation. >> i was re-reading this book "why obama compacare is wrong f america" published in 2011, lays out these argue themememenargum this. more plans have deductibles associated with them, fewer choices. basically everything republicans warned about in advance of the passage of this law is happening right now. i think it's a much better political issue for senate candidates, senate republicans than it is likely in the presidential race. that's not to say if i were advising donald trump i wouldn't tell him to hit it every single day. i would. >> he hit it hard today. >> he hit it hard today. he should hit it hard every single day between now and election day. the problem with donald trump, in the republican primaries he was basically defending, theoretical theoretically, single payer health care, talking about how it works in scotland, canada. he's an imperfect messenger --

>> so was romney. >> absolutely an imperfect messenger on this. in the senate, however, many of these candidates, virtually all the candidates voted against this, opposed to strongly ever since, voted in favor of repealing it. hay got a much better argument, i think. >> chuck? >> i agree with steve, part of the political -- what's remarkable about it politically, you would think a bombshell announcement like this, a couple of weeks before the election, we'd all be talking about how it's a game change fer r tr for outcome. it's probably not. so much damage done to donald trump in other respects and because trump fumbled away this issue long ago as a spokesman. it isn't probably a game changer for the election. what it does make very interesting is in the case of a hillary clinton presidency, which does seem likely right now, what will she really be able to do to fix it? because the way to fix this is going to be to adjust the incentives so that more people start -- the reason the rates are going up is that not enough people are enrolling. >> right. their solution when you ask them that is the public option.

>> or more subsidies as valerie jarrett was saying, and another thing they don't talk about -- >> which by the way, subsidies are coming from the federal government. >> correct. >> paid by taxpayer money. >> correct. subsidies are also why these rate increases will not necessarily translate into a hit at the pocketbook who are going to pay them. it's just more the taxpayers are going to have to pay. what i'm trying to say is all of that can nnot be done without republican cooperation. may change the filibuster, but it's going to be there for any legislation to do with obamacare and the republic chance cans may retain control of the senate. the first year of her presidency if she gets in, she'd have to have a huge either conflict or negotiation with the republicans over all these issues. >> yeah. all right. here's an evolution of president obama on the key issues of obamacare. >> if you've got health insurance, if your employer is doing the right thing, we're

going to help that employer save $2,500 her family per year. what the american people care about is the fact that their premiums are going up 25%, 40%, 60%, are we going to do something about it? one of these companies comes out with a new smartphone, it has a few bugs. what do they do? they fix it. they upgrade it. unless it catches fire then they just -- then they pull it off the market. but you don't go back to using a rotary phone. you don't say, well, we're repealing smartphones. >> that's the last argument he made, was the samsung comparison there. which phones that are -- >> blowing up in people's pockets. >> yeah, you can't bring them on a plane. is this something we may not be seeing, this is part of the angst and anger about washington in these states? >> yeah, i mean, if, and this is a big if, we do a lot of big ifs lately, if, you know, something -- the secret trump vote out there manages to prove

all of these polls to be wrong today, and that is a big if, if that were to happen, this would absolutely probably be one of the biggest issues because, you know, driving that. because, of course, you know, the numbers look bad. the news is bad. what really stinks is when people at home are opening up these -- realizing they're going to actually have to pay out of pocket. in any other election, this would be the october surprise. but because of -- and to think of -- you know, president obama, i mean, it's amazing, his popularity right now is as high as anybody we have -- you know, anybody leaving office after eight years that we've seen in a very long time. and it's -- it's all because everyone's focused on all these other stories. >> all right. quickly, just some people writing in, james, yes, absolutely, makes a difference, very concerned that more of our money will pay for health insurance than to retirement savings. christina, no, because we have trump. charles says, it would have --

if republicans had nominated a normal candidate, but here we are. brian say, how can it not? this was shoved down our throats by balobama and a democratic congress, it was all a lie. just some reaction there. steve, for somebody like senator kelly ayotte in new hampshire, we're heading up there tomorrow. new hampshire's one of the states where they're really, specially by the number of insurers available. does that change the trajectory in some of those races, the senate races? >> i think it could. every democratic candidate is going to be asked whether he or she supports this, supported it in the past, still something to celebrate or not. i think in many cases they're going to want to back away fr w it because if you're explaining, you're losing. it adds to the broader sense that washington is just broken. listen to the argument donald trump has made on the stump and really made from the beginning, it's an argument that nobody can do anything right in washington, you played the clips of the president repeatedly making

promises we now have seen broken in the most obvious and predictable ways. and i think that does feed the general sense, things -- washington's just incompetent. >> the administration says the subsidies are going to increase along with these increasing premiums, but chuck, very quickly, i don't think there's a family out there who saved $2,500 per year per family. >> no, but there is some good news out of obamacare, the number of uninsured is way down. so i think 9% of the population, he can brag about that legitimately. secondly, health care costs because of obamacare or other things have been growing much more slowly than people forecast so it's not as if this last eight years on health care is all -- >> it's mostly a crummy economy. i mean, people saying health care costs are growing more slowly because the economy's been stagnant. i wouldn't necessarily go bragging about that. >> some cost containment provisions in obamacare that played a role. next up -- >> paying a hefty price to get those other people insurance.

>> bill clinton calls it crazy for small businesses. all right. that's all in there. next up, latest with wikileaks, what's happening, what the president knew, what he didn't know, next.

mr. president, when did you first learn that hillary clinton used an email system outside the u.s. government for official business while she was secretary of state? >> the same time everybody else learned it through news reports. >> did you know about hillary clinton's use of a private email server? >> no. >> while she was secretary of state? >> no. >> the president was note of ths was a personal email server and that this was the email address that she was using exclusively for all her business. >> well, some new emails

shedding some light from the wikileaks emails on all of this. a back and forth before this. first, obama knowing about hillary clinton's server. you probably have more on this but it looks like poet tuesday, president of the united states just said he found out hillary clinton was using her personal email when he saw it in the news. cheryl mills, we need to clean this up. he has emails from her. they do not say state.gov. and also tanden a progressive group i highly recommend this is a cheryl especially i know you love her this is achilles heel or kryptonite. she just can't say no to this bleap. why didn't they get this stuff out like 18 months ago. so crazy. i guess you know the answer they wanted to get away with it. back with the panel? steve? >> i mean, irony is abound

in this exchange. first of all, the president of the united states apparently lied about whether he knew that hillary clinton was using unsecure email. the white house will defend the president by saying well, he might have known that it was a non-state email but he didn't know necessarily that was unsecure to which the response is so the president of the united states was emailing with his secretary of defense about official business on a non-state email with the assumption that it was secure? that's probably not a good idea. but you go to the clean-up of this and the clinton people are angry with the obama white house because the president has gone out and said he learned about this on the news. which, on its face, seems to be untrue how ironic is that in the whole reason that the president of the united states is in this bind to begin with is that hillary clinton set up a private server. they are frustrated with the white house. the white house is frustrated with hillary clinton. nobody looks good in it and pretty much everybody seems to have been dishonest about it. >> chuck? >> well, i'm disappointed in

neera tanden for misspelling the word heel. two es. >> they don't know how to spell english. in all seriousness, there is kind of a back story which i'm thinking about here. long standing love-hate frenemy kind of relationship between the obama white house, the president himself and hillary's team and you kind of get the sense that the president, i think legitimately felt like he had been put on the spot by hillary doing this. now, he obviously seems to have found out about it after the fact in the sense that he did see these emails that didn't say state.gov. it wasn't as if hillary went to him and cleared it ahead of time, to the contrary. i'm sure he didn't feel too great about all the, you know, bad exposure that this created for his administration. i must say this shows that back behind the scenes, the clinton team from a very early point recognized that this was political dynamite and they were doing their best to diffuse it but to

this day they haven't succeeded. >> i should point out i was joking about the russian thing that is what the clinton team says all the time but they have not disputed the authenticity of any of these email exchanges. >> one of the more spurious claims that the clinton campaign makes about these oh we are not confirming them. oh, okay point to one that's not, please, or stop using the excuse. whether the president lied about it or not, when he, you know, should have known or not, it's clear that the entire campaign has been lying. there is no shocker there. but it's almost, i mean, if you step back and look at this, i it is almost shakespearian in quadruple and tragedy of it all. you have the most secretive campaign in modern history. and it has been exposed to a degree no campaign has ever been exposed. and then you find out they are so corrupt and they are so dishonest. it really is it's an amazing thing to behold. >> see, the thing about the president emailing, you any,

you had jim comey, fbi director up testifying on capitol hill saying that hillary clinton's private server was less secure than average g mail account. now, john podesta's g mail was hacked. this is the president of the united states whose interchanging we don't know about what. >> right. with the secretary of state on this server. >> it's incredible irony and i would add one more. we can't see this stuff. the clinton team and the administration has decided that the president's emails with hillary clinton are not going to be disclosed publicly, citing executive privilege. we can't see them. it's highly likely that foreign governments, including enemies, perhaps the russians have read those emails. no what's in them. but the american public can't see them. >> that is it for the panel. but we will take a look at governor mike pence's world series pick and how he made it when we come back. why do protein drinks taste chalky? then get worse?

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... politics baseball finally tonight. governor mike pence might be the one unlucky cubs fan today. his team made it to the world series for the first time in his life he spent the whole day meantime rallying for votes in ohio, home of the cleveland i understand i don't knows. well members of the media on his plane decided to press him while he was in ohio which team he would be rooting for and it was interesting way rolling a baseball back to pick the

team. let's see his answer. [ laughter ] >> hey. two great teams going to be a great world series dot dot dot go cubs go. mike pence live long cubs fan. >> very diplomatic, two great teams going to be great -- i will say almost took out the flight attendant there thanks for inviting us into your home. that's it for "special report," fair, balanced and unafraid. "on the record" with brit hume >> it is wednesday, october 26th. hot on the trail. donald trump and hillary clinton barn storm the battle ground state as obamacare takes center stage in the race for the white

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