carl cameron in washington covering it all. thanks, carl. >> as usual the presidential race expected to come down to a battle for key swing states. shift in voter demographics could shake things up. jonah goldberg, senior editor at "national review" and fox news contributor. lynn sweet, washington bureau chief for the "chicago sun-times." thanks for joining us. >> thank you. >> we heard a great interview with carl cameron. he went through a is are of all candidates we'll possibly seeing. people start to jump in the next six months or so once 2015 gets here. who do you think will jump in? when they do, who has the best chance at this point in time, lynn? >> i think mitt romney is one who will not jump in. i know what carl just said and i agree with him. to the degree that mitt romney implied he will get in if the field is cleared and you saw those names. no one will back down just to give somebody a free shot. so i think the ones who are maybe marginal are not even going to be dissuaded because, as we all know. running for presid

carl cameron has the latest on the presidential sweeps stakes. >> reporter: the president said he would decide if he would run by the end of the year. joeb bush put his indecision on display at the meeting last night. >> can i do it where the sacrifice for my family is tolerable? but there's a level under which i would never subject my family because that's my organizing principle. >> fierce for someone who's father and brother were both presidents, bush makes no secret that if he runs it will be as a pragmatist and not as a combative conservative it log. >> it needs to be the much more willing to be practical now in the washington wofld. >> reporter: conservatives think bush is too moderate and compare him to mitt romney and john mccain, the last two losing republican nominees. >> loose the primary to win the general without violating your principles. it's not an easy task. >> ohio senator rob portman has passed on another presidential run saying he didn't think he could be an effective senator while running for the white house. rand paul sees no such conflict. despite a state law in k

carl cameron. much more on the republican candidates for 2016 coming up here tonight. among other places in my commentary. we're coming right back. stay with us. >>> the most political ag goes grandiose on a stage once dominated by civil rights icon dr. martin luther king. civil rights activist and niece of . lou: disrupting the work and lives of millions this afternoon. a major cable failure as the utilities put, it knocked out power creating an absolute nightmare forcing all of detroit's public schools to close early, stranding countless numbers of people on elevators and passengers on the detroit people mover. multiple government buildings and fire stations affected. local power has been restored to about a third of the customers affected. six years after he took office and weeks after announcing his resignation, attorney general eric holder now claims he has a plan to end racial profiling. >> in the coming days, i will announce updated justice department guidance regarding profiling by federal law enforcement. this will institute rigorous new standards and robust s

chief political correspondent carl cameron is live in washington with the latest look at all of these polls. then we hear that governor pataki, former governor of new york may step in. a lot going on, carl. >> sure a lot of names will be thrown out there and jeb bush announcing yesterday he is creating a pac to explore presidential run already stirred things up. it is worth noting there are awful lot of candidates out there, and if you take a mitt romney out of the poll, a awful lot of polls say jeb bush if not is the frontrunner. hours after he made his announcement yesterday, kentucky senator rand paul on kelly file launched 30 second broadside against the fell governor who is unapologized snorter of common core. they have come particularly during the obama administration, a federal curriculum instead of standards and undermines state and local education authority. >> ronald reagan ran on the platform of getting rid of the department of education. we always believed in decentralized education. so for jeb bush to run in the primary will be very, very difficult because if you're going

campaign carl cameron. don't call him that for nothing.d to see you. >>> now let's bring in another cameron, cameron joseph, staff write are for "the hill" newspaper. thank you for joining us. >> thank you for having me. >> i don't know if you could hear or watch carl but he brought up a lot of names. if jeb bush decides to formally announce, does that thwart anybody else on the republican side from throwing their hat in the ring. >> won't stop somebody running but makes more difficult for those candidates. the donor class are looking for an executive for somebody they feel can help with their business interests, that has shown he can run a large state, and someone like chris christie, a lot of his donors in new york, new jersey, east coast, and jeb bush will eat into a lot of them. a lot of those folks are former backers of his brother. someone like scott walker, bobby jindal, rick perry, those folks have to kind of flank to the center right business coalition, conservative but not the tea party conservative brand, and a lot of them are g

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gerald i said because he refused to be answered how much taxpayer money he made in compensation and carl cameron has our report. >> house government has succeeded jonathan gruber for all documents into indications of a federal state or local employees related to aspects of his word with the health care loss gimmicky testified voluntarily and was slammed by both parties that passing obamacare concealed his applause from the ignorant public. >> it is a political advantage and the stupidity of the american voter or whatever but that was critical to get things passed. >> i sincerely apologize for conjecturing in such a disparaging fashion. i knew better and i know better and i am sorry. >> he said he was not the artists of their architect but old videos like this keep leveraging to raise doubts. >> told disclaimer i will be objective but i was involved to write the legislation so there is some bias involved to meiji had contracts with 12 states from california and maine between 2009 and 2014 with as much as $5 million now he says he does not believe there were actual attempts so investigators want t

chief political correspondent carl cameron live in washington. carl. >> hi, molly.erything is coming a lot faster than expected by forming an exploratory pass. you're right. he is cutting his consulting ties with barclays. that's the big international british bank. in addition to that, he is quitting the pro-obama care board of tenant health care, a major hospital enterprise that operates in 14 states. they have about 80 hospitals and a couple of hundred urgent care facilities. he has 250,000 emails from his time as governor of florida. he has been an avid e-mailer for decades and says he will have the best digital campaign in the business. his emphasis on transparency to a lot of folks amounts to sort of a bank shot at new jersey governor chris christie. christie is waiting on the feds to wrap up the george washington bridgegate scandal investigation. in the meantime, he has been building a team and stepping up his policy briefings. he is also sending a major message himself, not to be outdone. he says he will attend the very first candidate cattle call of 2015. th

chief political correspondent carl cameron life with all the details. mean for the race

carl cameron are our report. >> with die ins popping up, and turning violent over the weekend in berkeley. attorney general eric holder today expanded the bush administration's guidelines to also recollide profileing -- pro collide profiling based on gender, and orientation. >> we can't afford to profile do law enforcement on basis of stereo types, it undermines public trust but also makes us not good at what we need to do. >> reporter: civil rights groups agree but complain that measures s palm short because specific agents within the homeland security, southern border and air traveler not included. >> the guideance does not go as far as we would like, exempts customs and border patrol, and taeuts days, thostsa these havea lot of racial profiling complaints. >> reporter: they have no force of the law, and apply only to feds. >> it has no legal effect with respect to them, and no affect with respect to state and local law enforcement. >> reporter: white house spokesman concedeing that more must be done on race. >> federal government does not condone racial profiling, it is the policy of t

carl cameron is here tonight with the latest on the campaign. carl, tell us why is he doing this this early? >> well, in part to set the pace, and to some degree to set the tone to the race as well. since announcing a presidential exploratory pac, jeb bush has his ties to barkley, that's the british international bank. now he's ending his relationship -- he's also releasing 250,000 e-mails from his time as florida governor, lots to mine in there for scrutiny and he's been an e-mailer all of his life and he says he's going to have the best digital cam pain in the business, so releasing it isn't just about being trance parns, it's also a bit of a shot against scott walker and chris christie of new jersey whose e-mails have been involved in scandals in both states. he's been building a team and talking about hiring people, but he has now announced that he will attend the first cattle call of the 2016 race which is in 2015, in fact it's in less than a month in iowa. home of the leadoff presidential cauc caucuses. including christie, you'll have rick

could have a dramatic effect however on the 2016 field as fox news chief political correspondent carl cameron now reports. >> congratulations, you made it. >> jeb bush delivered today's commencement address at university of south carolina a state with 2016's first southern primary after sending strong signals this weekend in florida tv interview he is likely to run, plans a e-book heavy on policy and major data dump of correspondence at his time as governor. >> sometime early next year i will release the 250,000 emails. this was, i was, i was digital before digital was cool. >> also immediately creates contrasts with potential rivals including new jersey governor chris christie and wisconsin scott walker, whose correspondence became part of politically charged investigations into their states. >> part of serving or running, both of them is transparency, to be totally transparent. i will let people make up their mind. >> he is transparent about his support for come con core education standards and path to legal status for certain unauthorized immigrants although many conservatives who decide g

and carl cameron is live in washington with more on that. hi, carl. >> reporter: there is movement on capitol hill, shocking it would so many, republicans are indicating that they are ready to post the language of the spending bill this afternoon. it means they will have to debate it tomorrow and vote on it in thursday. thursday in midnight is the deadline for the current funding law to expire. it doesn't leave a lot of time for the senate to get its work done, the greatest debating body in the world will want to debate and vote on it. and it curtails all of this. and the bigger question is whether or not the gop will block the immigration actions and avoid a shutdown. there are disputes over epa holding things up. and they have finally gotten them resolved. house speaker john pone bone is pushing a two track approach. funding the entire government through next september and carve out the department of homeland security which overseas immigration enforcement and there would be a separate resolution to freeze the funds at current levels in feb

correspondent carl cameron looks at bush's uncommon gop dance on common core. >> hours after announcingitical action committee to explore a presidential run, jeb bush got slammed for supporting common core education standards. >> ronald reagan ran on the platform of getting rid of the department of education. we have always ran on the platform of decentralizing education. >> reporter: while kentucky senator rand paul went after bush on the kelly file, bob jindal stirred things up at a political -- >> if he decides to run, i think he'll have a great opportunity to make his case directly to voters. if i . >> reporter: for years common core was a bring partisan -- for english and math standards. supporters say it ran off the rails five years ago when president obama offered temporary stimulus money for a new program of his called race to the top. >> it left conservatives rightly so, upset. but that doesn't mean it's a federal program. that funding has ran out and it's no longer in existence. >> reporter: critics say common core makes schools accountable to the government not to -- >> based

tonight chief political correspondent carl cameron looks of the what's getting the attention in gop circles. >> reporter: florida's governor jeb bush rereesed -- will debate vulnerable incumbent mary landrieu tonight for the last time before saturday's runoff election of 2014. bush is steadily raising his profile and plans a major speech this month in south carolina, hometown of the first presidential primary in 2016, he's had a deadline all year on whether he can run a positive campaign. it's now within weeks. >> at the end of the year, i'll make a decision, and it will be based on those two simple things. >> reporter: conservatives think bush is too moderate on education, because he backs common core educational standards. bush has criticized president obama's unilateral action to make up to 5 million undocumented aliens legal. but it pales by comparison to texas senator ted cruz's combative approach. >> republicans in congress to use every single congressional tool we have to defend the rule of law, to rein in a president so that the president does not become an unelected monarch. >> rep

chief political correspondent carl cameron told the president said taublted the -- >> when members ofss questioned whether i have the authority to do this, i want to answer yes and pass a bill. >> president obama chose the red state of tennessee. >> since to the president's program is self funding through the collection of fees, the gop approaches a practical matter will not halt it and some conservatives are balking. >> the speaker's office called the president an emp emperor. >> gop leaders will at once come under fire from the right. to give the senate time to pass the measure, the house will also likely approve a separate two or three-day continuing resolution or cr to extent the deadline. combining the cr is now budget -- senate democratic leader harry reid will be minority leader next year painted a dire picture of prevailing grit lock. >> american people certainly should been facing another government shutdown, but i guess that's what we're facing. no one wins with these cliffhanger fights that we're having. mitch mcconnell will be the majority leader next year. will get done b

depending on your outlook, the obama administration is tieing to make -- chief political correspondent carl cameronks at the new guide lines for profiling. >> reporter: with die in protests popping up and turning violent over the local police killings in ferguson, missouri and staten island, new york. attorney general eric holder expanded president bush's 2003 -- to now also preclude profiling based on national origin, religion, gender, jernder orientation. >> we can't afford to profile, to do law enforcement on the basis of stereotypes. it undermines the public trust ultimately. >> civil rights groups agree, but complain the measures fall short because specific agencies within the department of homeland security responsible for securing to the nation's ports, southern border and air travel are not included. >> the guidance doesn't go as far as we would like it to go, it exempts the customs and border patrol, it also exempts tsa and those have been the root of a lot of racial profiling complaints. >> reporter: what's more the new guidelines have no the force of law and apply only to the feds. >> th

here's chief political correspondent carl cameron. >> jeb bush delivered today's commencement address at the university of south carolina after sending strong signals in a florida tv interview that he's likely to run, plans of e-books and -- >> sometime early next year, i'll release the 250,000 e-mails. i was digital before digital was cool. >> reporter: it also immediately creates contrast with potential rivals including new jersey governor chris christie and wisconsin governor cot walker who became targets of investigations in their states. >> prior to serving or running, part of it is to be totally transparent. >> reporter: he's transparent about his support for common core education standards and a path to legal status for illegal imgrants. >> i would try to persuade people, i'm not going to change what i believe, and my beliefs are good, solid, main stream conservative thoughts. winning with purpose, winning with meaning, winning with your integrity is what i'm trying to talk about. >> bush getting in could squeeze out senator marco rubio, both who are from florida share politica

carl cameron join us tonight. >> elizabeth warren is testing how much juice she's got. she's making herself a major player and she's been doing it all week. it is gutsy for a senator to tell house members how to vote but that's exactly what she's done all week. she's been fiesty and populist. it looks like she's taken a page from gop senator ted cruz's playbook. he pushed house republicans to shut down the government and now he's actively positioning for a white house run. so this isn't a bad move politically for elizabeth warren and she's holding sway at least at this hour. >> warren says, though, she's not running for president. >> yeah, but an awful lot of liberals, a, don't want to believe that. b, they are looking for an alternative to hillary clinton and, c, they think warren might be coy and bieding her time. ready for warren is organizing in states and this beak they got a big boost. two major grassroots groups have joined the warren bandwagon, moveon.org. has 8 million members and is donating a million bucks to move on warren. it has to gall clinton. now, the o

chief political correspondent carl cameron life with all the details. what does this mean for the race and the message that it sent out because it was kind of like sort of kind of thinking about running for president. >> first, he said before the end of this year, which he has not done, but in the last month or so he has been suggesting that it might have spilled into next year, which it obviously has want. he formed an exploratory committee. you mentioned his post on facebook. hanukkah good wishes. it went on to say quite a bit. you talked about the fact that he had been having deep discussions with his family about it, and he writes, "as a result of these conversations, meaning with his family and advisors, and thoughtful about the strong leadership i think america needs, i decided to actively explore the possibility of running for president of the united states. in january i also plan to establish a leadership pack that will help me facilitate conversation with citizens across america to discuss the most critical challenges facing our exceptional nat

here's chief political correspondent carl cameron. >> john ellis bush, jeb for short is florida's first two-term governor, announcing on facebook that he's forming a political action committee and filing an exploratory -- a brand-new fox news national poll of registered voters shows mitt romney who says he's not running with 19%. beneficiary starts exploring at 10%. with romney out of the running, the real clear politics poll shows that bush is leading the pac by 12 points. that also invites earlier and increasingly intense scrutiny, bush calling himself a social and fiscal conservative, though he backed his father's tax hooirk in 1990. he's a pro-life catholic who backs traditional marriage, he backs state education standards and a path to legal status for certain illegal immigrants. >> i'm not going to change what i believe. and most of what i believe are solid political main stream thoughts. >> on the democratic side, the fox poll shows hillary clinton at 62%, a 50 point lead over elizabeth warren who has a two-point edge on vice president joe biden. former virginia u.s. senator and

think again, says carl cameron.o take shape with news from former florida governor jeb bush. >> jeb bush has stepped down as the pro obama care tenant health care concern and has released a quarter million e-mails for the public to scrutinize. in less than a month, he will attend the first candidate cattle call of 2016 candidates. it will take place january 24th in des moines, iowa, it's called the freedom summit, and of course, iowa is the home of the first presidential caucuses. others attending will include texas governor rick perry, fire brand texas senator ted cruz. rick santorum from pennsylvania who won the iowa caucuses in 2012, mike huckabee who won them in 2008, and dr. ben carson. donald trump and sarah pacarson are attending too. with jeb bush making all these moves, it's interesting to see all the supporters who have been whispering about mitt romney perhaps making a third run, have suddenly been quiet. and lastly, as the calendar turns in a couple more years, we can expect an avalanche of new books com

chief political correspondent carl cameron has more of the details of this facebook announcement thishey, carl. >> reporter: hi, martha. well, jeb bush has been saying all year he would let the world know before the end of the year. in the last month or so, he began to say, well, maybe next year, so a lot of us thought perhaps he was postponing it. but over the course of this weekend he really made it clear he's quite serious. in fact, this weekend mr. bush gave an interview talking at some length about his campaign. he is going to both raise and spend money in the pursuit of a possible presidential campaign. at 7:00 this morning, he mailed christmas and hanukkah bushes to supporters, friends and reporters, and in it, it said, quote: >> r >> reporter: bush goes on to say the pac's purpose will be to support leaders, ideas and policies that will expand prosper by for all americans, and then he promises in the coming months i hoeven to visit with -- i hope to visit with many of you. yesterday bush gave the commencement address at the university of south carolina in south carolina. the p