cruz is the only one so far aggressively organizing in states beyond them. >> carl cameron live in memphis. carl, thank you. >>> this is a fox news alert. we could have a massive development tonight in the hillary clinton e-mail scandal. it involves the former secretary of state's possible use of personal e-mail in dealing with highly classified information. senior political correspondent mike emanuel is here with the breaking details. >> reporter: bret, good evening. there are breaking reports this hour that two of four classified e-mail that is were found on hillary clinton's personal server have been classified top secret, more damaging, more sensitive than previously known. this is clinton's attempts to move past this e-mail scandal. >> i think we do have to look -- >> reporter: trying to put the e-mail scandal from her time as secretary of state aside, hillary clinton signed this sworn statement declaring under risk of perjury that she directed all the work-related e-mail that is were on her personal server while she was secretary to be provided to the state department. >> we received

lou: carl cameron. >>> a stunning statistic for you now. associated press study finds one-third of all campaign donations so far this season come from 60 wealthy individuals. already the 2016 campaign approached the half billion dollar mark and we're nowhere near the primaries. president obama planning to deliver what is termed by the white house a major speech tomorrow to make the case for his nuclear deal with iran. ahead of his speech at american university, the president met with american jewish leaders, some of whom oppose the deal and some for it. congress roughly midway through a 60-day review of the agreement, and they are expected to vote next month whether to accept or reject it. fox news white house correspondent kevin corke with our report. >> reporter: the president spent part of his 54th birthday welcoming u.n. secretary-general ban ki-moon to the oval office, climate change, syria, isis among the topics of conversation, hours later focus shifted to the iran nuclear agreement as he welcomed jewish leaders to the white house to

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joining us now from washington, d.c., carl cameron, so, carl, trump is out there moguling everybody.t monday -- alpha maling everybody. what kind of affect is this having on the republican primary? >> the republican party is eager to build the g.o.p. the audience he was part of was probably in part because of him. the republicans see an opportunity to perhaps attract new voters. having said that, it's drawing the rest of the republican field to distraction. there are a handful who have been trying to avoid him, a handful trying to beat him up. and a couple are waiting to sort of co-op his supporters should he flame out. they know donald trump is a major force. it's annoying some of them. >> is donald trump invincible? what is the line of attack against donald trump? we saw marco rubio take a shot at trump's motto. he says i think america is already great. you saw jeb say he's been a democrat longer than he's been a republican. are these lines of attack effective? >> they're reflective of what each candidate thinks is his strength. marco rubio can appeal to latinos the idea is a fresh

tom: thank you, carl cameron, thank you very much.ther great moment in the event in south carolina to tell you about. the donald getting independent confirmation he doesn't wear a toupee. >> the man of the toupee is on the front page of the "new york times." i don't wear a toupee. it's my hair. i swear! come here. come here. come here. come here. we're going to settle this. say it, please. >> yes, i believe it is. >> thank you. >> and have i ever met you before? no. you are very nice, thank you. tom: this is what america wants to know. more bad news for hillary's campaign, a new quinnipiac poll out today shows that clinton's once staggering lead over bernie sanders has been cut now by another 10 points, and when voters were asked to describe mrs. clinton the most common response, whoa, was liar. followed by dishonest. you see the rest of them there, pretty staggering. clinton's support dwindling at campaign events in cleveland today. hillary drew just 2500 people. a much smaller crowd than the 20,000 person rally of rival bernie sande

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carl cameron with the seemingly unstoppable trump machine despite the one-word adjective he most inspires. but we begin with ed henry in cleveland, ohio, covering a clinton campaign trying to deal with trust issues. hi, ed. >> reporter: good evening, bret. clinton came here to ohio because democrats delivered a mainly victory for her in 2008. she said today they lifted her when she was down. well, she's falling down again. so tonight she's lashing out. >> dealing with an e-mail flap she can't shake, hillary clinton today tried to revive talk of a republican war on women by attacking marco rubio on abortion and jeb bush on planned parenthood. comparing the gop candidates to terrorists. >> extreme views about women, we expect that from some of the terrorist groups. we expect that from people who don't want to live in the modern world. but it's a little hard to take coming from republicans who want to be the president of the united states. >> reporter: the republican national committee charged that attack was quote a new low for her flailing campaign. she should apologize immediately for her

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to carl cameron to break it all down for us. carl. >> reporter: hi, charles.d out of first place in iowa. so he's trying to torque up his rhetoric and acknowledge his midwestern low-key tone tends to get drowned out by trump is offering his plan to repeal and replace obama care. he took on both his image and gop colleagues today in washington. >> i may not be the flashiest of the folks. may not have the pizzazz of the people on east of the west coast but i hope you see in minnesota and across america i think like you think. i'm willing to stand up against everyone, including members of my own party. willing to stand up against anyone to get the job done. we're not intimidated. >> reporter: he would replace obama care with a variety of popular gop alternatives. tax credits for private health insurance. black aiding medicaid back to the states. allowing people to shop for insurance across state lines and save money. he would pay for it with medicaid savings, insurance tax reform and by eliminating trillions of dollars in taxes. louisiana governor bobby jindal tr

carl cameron is covering the 2016 race and following marco rubio in detroit. hello, carl. >> reporter: hi. well, marco rubio's big speech to the detroit economic club has been joe shadowed as a consequence of the battle between donald trump and jeb bush. this is the first time last night and today that jeb bush fired back and then some. on the stump today he continued his defense and went on offense against jeb bush -- excuse me -- against donald trump and made a point of making a list of some of mr. trump's political history. watch. >> i'm a proven conservative with a record. he isn't. cut taxes every year help proposed the largest tax increase in mankind's history. i have been consistently pro life. he until recently was for partial about abortion. never met a person that thought that was a good idea. >> and the list went on. bush is making it clear he is not going to take anymore from donald trump, and it's not just the rhetorical aspect of the personal nature of criticisms. it has a lot to do with the political polls. the new quinnipiac poll shows that dona

our chief political correspondent carl cameron is live in memphis, tennessee.us how cruz' approach is different from the other candidates and the way they're campaigning. >> reporter: welcome to mississippi. he was earlier in tupelo today. he started the trip four days ago in south carolina and is barn-storming by bus all the way to oklahoma. what trues is doied cruz is try ahead of the pack where he has been campaigning aggressively all along and taking his advantage in cash and his opportunity to come to the south and court conservatives and build the equivalent of a national organization that will sustain him for the long haul, particularly into next march when about half of the delegates will be selected and the battle could get really tough. a short while ago they got acquainted with another fire marshal. standing remotely in a heck of a lot of enthusiasm. he made it very clear, bluntly stating he is counting on the south to put him in the oval office. watch. >> i view the role of the southern states, together we're going to ensure that the next republican

with us now carl cameron fox news chief political correspondent.ruch is out there moguling everybody monopolizing the news cycle. he is on cnn more than the missing plane. he's totally alpha maling everybody. what kind of effect is this having on the republican primary? >> he is having a different effect on the campaign than it is on a lot of voters. the republican party is eager to build the gop and donald trump has clearly shown his ability to attract lots of attention. the record setting debate audience that he was a part of was probably in part because of him. the republicans see an opportunity to attract new voters. having said that it is driving the rest of the republican field. there are a handful trying to avoid him, a handful trying to beat him up. there is a few trying to follow in his foot steps but a couple co opting supporters should they flameout. he is a major force it is annoying some of them and distracting others. he is part of the landscape and he has momentum. he is not going away. >> is donald trump invincible? what is the line

we begin with carl cameron live in des moines. hello campaign carl. >> reporter: the fair started on wednesday and goes ten days. tomorrow is going to be jammed. they expect a crowd of about 120,000 about an average to put that into perspective the republican caucuses have about 120,000 people in it that will be a record. it explains why for these 17 candidates there is such a huge scramble for caucus supporters. tomorrow donald trump will be arriving here at 12:30. and when he does it will be a certain spectacle. the media front will be huge. the opportunity to interact will be a big deal. it is important to note beyond his rhetoric he has hired a very successful iowa organizer who helped rick santorum win here in 2012. beyond that you have also coming is ben carson who not only had a great debate and is surging in the polls but also has people organizing in all 99 counties as well as half precincts in there. behind that you have carly fiorina. it takes about 30,000 to potentially win in a field this big. look for john kasich who

chief political correspondent carl cameron is in cedar rapids, iowa, with what some of the others are doing to attract attention. >> reporter: in remote alcatur, iowa, former republican governor mike huckabee held a breakfast meet and greet and shaufd off the huge crowds following donald trump. >> the way you win iowa is not by how many minutes of tv time. you win iowa by having people who show up and caucus for you on that cold february night. >> reporter: with crowds in the thousands, trumps brought new attention to outsider candidates but mocked his '16 rivals when it comes to their turnout. >> they make a speech in front of 21 people. >> reporter: trump's not the only candidate who's never held political offers. business leader carly fiorina has been steadily rising in the polls and has the added distinction of being the only woman in the gop field >> it is my single greatest asset. i've never held public office. people are sick of politics. they're sick of politicians. >> reporter: another political newcomer, retired neurosurgeon ben carson, also draws big crowds. his team boasts

carl cameron outside the queue. thank you. >>> we are less than 24 hours from the first of two debates tomorrow. the opener begins as we said at 5:00 eastern. coverage of the primetime event starts at 8:50. >>> self-described socialist bernie sanders has pulled even sort of with hillary clinton. in the latest survey of new hampshire voters and that's just one of the things clinton has to worry about this evening. the other, fbi agents digging around trying to learn more about her private e-mail server. here's chief white house correspondent ed henry. >> reporter: when your team has to again stress technically you're not under criminal investigation as hillary clinton's allies did today for the second time in three weeks, it's a sign your campaign has hit major turbulence. clinton's self-inflicted wound are helping socialist democratic senator bernie sanders. he vaulted to within six points of clinton in new hampshire. in a new wumur survey. since the margin of error is 5.9 points the station's pollster declared it's

and carl cameron has the latest. now we know who they are. >> it's been weeks of speculation and bare knuckle sk scrambling. there's no surprise for some candidates. donald trump has been leading the polls for a couple of weeks. jeb bush and scott walker, are the only other candidates who have been consistently in double digits. walker has slipped a bit in some recent polls. mike huckabee and ben carson have been steadily in the middle of the top ten. often even tied. usually just right over about halfway, six, seven points a piece. ted cruz, marco rubio, rand paul, and chris christie, have been shifting around in the single digits. now we know the tenth slot. there's been a battle for this. it goes to john kasich. a lot of these candidates are virtually tied with one another given the polls' margins of error. kasich announced three weeks ago tonight. he shot from the back of the pack to the top ten. the debate of his home state of ohio. he could have a good cheering section. donald trump is not only leading national

henry with what could be the biggest challenge so far to the clinton campaign, but we begin with carl cameron in a look at the numbers and trends on the republican side. >> a lot of movement in the polls. it shows this is a very, very tense race for a lot of the republicans and here we go. donald trump leads with 26%. higher than any other republican in the fox poll this year. jeb bush runs second. the only other candidate in double digits at 15. scott walker is at 9%. he's lost six points since our june poll. ben carson is fourth with seven. mark rubio and rand paul are tied at five. chris christie and john kasich are both are 3%. christie is down playing. >> every take a deep breath. it's summer. nobody is voting for seven months. >> rounding out the field, rick perry and bobby jindal are both at 1%. trump's got an 11-point edge over bush and he's trying to lower debate expectations against the political pros. >> every night they go into debate with somebody. i haven't done that, but i think i'll do fine and i look forward to it actually. >> reporter: he slammed five candidates for attendin

carl cameron has our report stick donald trump really lead to a 26% higher than any republican this year jeb bush second the only other with double digit at 15 and scott walker has lost six points since june and then cars and cruz sand rubio and rand paul. the kasich campaign is less than three weeks of moving into the middle of the pack. >> everybody take ted deep breath it is summer. >> carly fiorina tied with 2% george pataki and linseed gramm are lower than 1 percent per coach rob has 11.edge he tries to lower the debate expectation. >> every night database somebody but i think i will be fine and i look forward to that. >> he was not invited to the that the g.o.p. is selling about i wish good luck to all republican candidates to travel to california for the coke brothers jeb bush ted cruz carly fiorina and scott walker took part. >> to wish the whole world could see what goes on. tried to frame the immigration issue to frame his priorities for border patrol and electronic surveillance and deport those to violate their visa and crack down on century city. ben carson said his candidacy

carl cameron on the importance of this astronaut. st want to say that huckabee is hoping that he strikes here because he has always polled well here. one candidate who's skipping out is hillary clinton. we've got political reporter caitlin huey burns on that. i'm always wondering, to be fair, caitlin, she has been on record saying a lot of these traditional iowa events she would not be part of. i guess the argument was neither was barack obama. having said that, barack obama won this state eight years ago, and i'm wondering whether she would just be making sure something like that doesn't happen. >> right. iowa is a critical state for hillary clinton this time around. bernie sanders isn't catching up to her lead as he is in new hampshire, but still she has to win this state and has to win it big in the primary. she is going to the state fair, she'll be walking around talking to people. we'll see if she, you know, eats some of the food. we saw barack obama play bumper cars with his kids that time around, but she's not speaking on that

henry with what could be the biggest challenge so far to the clinton campaign but we begin with carl cameronn a look at the numbers and trends on the republican side. >> a lot of movement in the polls. it shows this is a very

here's chief political correspondent carl cameron on the republicans. >> reporter: focusing on national security, gop rivals warned that donald trump's insults and threats put the world at risk. jeb bush with veterans near norfolk, virginia's n station. >> i think it's politically counter productive to say someone's stupid or an idiot and all this stuff we now hear in the political discourse. it has no relevance to the challenges we face. >> reporter: fear that trump may literally go nuclear has emerged in town halls. >> the guy in the red hat. an obvious jerk. i won't mention any names. but anyway, it seems, i don't want him answering that phone at 3:00 in the morning. >> reporter: bush trashes trump for having backed abortion rights and universal health care in the past. but -- >> he's tapped into this anger and angst washington is not working. i totally respect it. this is the guy the frontrunner. >> reporter: at a military college in south carolina, scott walker delivered his first foreign policy speech. >> the retreat is over. american leadership is back. american leadership is bac

henry with what could be the biggest challenge so far to the clinton campaign but we begin with carl cameronlook at the numbers and trends on the republican side. >> a lot of movement in the polls. it shows this is a very ver

henry with what could be the biggest challenge so far to the clinton campaign but we begin with carl cameron in a look at the numbers and trends on the republican side. >> a lot of movement in the polls. it shows this is a very very tense race for a lot of the republicans and here we go. donald trump leads with 26%. higher than any other republican in the fox poll this year. jeb bush runs second. the only other candidate in double digits at 15. scott walker is at 9%. he's lost six points since our june poll. ben carson is fourth with seven. mark rubio and rand paul are tied at five. chris christie and john kasich are both are 3%. christie is down playing. >> every take a deep breath. it's summer. nobody is voting for seven months. >> rounding out the field, rick perry and bobby jindal are both at 1%. trump's got an 11-point edge over bush and he's trying to lower debate expectations against the political pros. >> every night they go into debate with somebody. i haven't done that but i think i'll do fine and i look forward to it actually. >> reporter: he slammed five candidates for attending

we begin with carl cameron live on the campaign trail with donald trump in iowa. >> reporter: it was dramatic. i was about four seats down when that whole thing unfolded. mr. trump was clearly irritated. jorge is a tough reporter and has had a reputation for throwing fast balls and tries to. trump was clearly having absolutely none of it. while it may have looked uncomfortable on some level it's also true that when a presidential candidate takes on the press and tells them to sit down and shutup a lot of folks at home think we kind of agree because sometimes the media annoys them as much as the politicians do. in this particular case trump had to wave to security guys to assist. some of the reporters started asking questions about whether or not trump regretted what happened. he said he doesn't mind if he comes back in the room. at the news conference i asked the first question which was about what trump was able to do with politics against rick perry. rick perry's co-chair left the perry campaign a couple of days ago. today he joined on with trump as the national campaign co-chairma

. >>> carl cameron has tonight's republican wrapup. >> reporter: jeb bush went to the u.s.-mexico border for a security briefing to address his conservative approach to immigration reform. >> mr. trump's plans are not grounded in conservative principles. it is not realistic. it won't be implemented. we need border security in order to get this country back on track. >> reporter: trump calls politicians stupid and bush weak. >> he has no clue. he's never going to be able to do anything. >> reporter: trump has pointed out that the bush's wife is from mexico. >> i think he'll now find out it is not an act of love. he says people that are crossing or crossing as an act of love. >> reporter: bush was ready and planned the event to go after trump's policy of immigration. >> it will create friction with our third largest trading partner, which is not necessary. i think he is wrong about this. >> reporter: at the iowa state fair last week, he said he absolutely supported trump's call to end birthright citizenship going forward, but backtracked yesterday. >> we need to enforce the l

carl cameron was there and feeling the energy in the spin room last night. there is a difference when you watch it on television and you are there live in person to sense the feel after the debate, how would you describe that. >> reporter: it was a great debate. the questions were tough and the answers were revealing. donald trump was booed as the only one who would not rule out running as a independent. and then he got testy with megyn kelliy when she asked about the way he referred to women in the past. >> you called women you don't like fat pigs, dogs, slobs and disgusting animals. >> what i say and oftentimes it is fun and kidding and we have a good time. what i say is what i say, and honestly megyn, if approximate you don't like it, i'm sorry. i have been nice to it me although i have been nice to you. >> some of the moderators had a number of lines that the supporters had to be pleased about. he called politicians stupid and done make any major gaffes. ohio kasich got a hometown welcome. and he's only been in the race three and half weeks. and another

fox news chief political correspondent carl cameron has our report. >> reporter: focusing on national security, gop rivals warned that donald trump's insults and threats put the world at risk. jeb bush with veterans near norfolk, virginia's naval stations. >> politically counterproductive to say that someone's stupid or someone's an idiot or all the stuff we hear in the political discourse. this has no relevance to the challenges we face. >> reporter: fear that trump may go nuclear has emerged in town halls. >> the guy in the red hat, an obvious jerk. i won't mention any names, but it seems, i don't want him answering that phone at 3:00 in the morning. >> reporter: bush bashes trump for backing abortion rights and universal health care in the past and acknowledges the millionaire's message. >> i totally get it. and i respect the fact that look, this is a guy who's the front-runner. >> reporter: at the citadel military college scott walker delivered first foreign policy speech. >> the retreat is over. american leadership is back. american leadership is back and together with our allies

carl cameron with the seemingly unstoppable trump machine despite the one-word adjective he most inspireswe begin with ed henry

donald trump came in, took the first question from carl cameron of fox news then jorge ramos stood uptarted asking him about -- trying to ask him about the 11 million undocumented immigrants in this country. trump immediately felt like he did not want to answer that question. he felt sandbagged by having ramos there and he felt threatened and kept saying "sit down, sit down." at one point he looked at his body man and giving him just a look to say "get this guy out of here" and that's when he was escorted out. it was a tense moment within the room but i think everybody in there knew it was coming because they had seen jorge there and they knew he was trying to get an interview with him for quite some time. >> katy, in all the time you have been covering this presidential campaign this year, seeing mr. trump at these events, obviously he's getting big crowds and lots of reporters. have you ever seen him have a confrontation like that before today? >> no, that was maybe the strongest confrontation he has had. he usually gets into a scuffle with reporters during the press conferences. he

. >> carl cameron live in detroit, thank you. >>> apparently the server wasn't the only thing hillary clinton decided to buy herself. the state department now says clinton's blackberry was not government issue, either. and therefore not government encrypted. chief intelligence correspondent kathryn herridge tells us it's all part of evidence in a lawsuit involving the democratic frontrunner. >> reporter: in a d.c. federal court, lawyers for the state department argued that they couldn't do more to search for hillary clinton's records or those of aides huma abedin and cheryl mills because the fbi now has custody of the server and thumb drives. the government was not persuaded. >> the government has conceded they have an affirmative obligation to go back to the fbi, to look at these records and those devices. >> reporter: buried in a recent court filing is the admission that the black betters used by abedin and mills were like i destroyed and mrs. clinton was never issued one nor did she use government computers. >> how did the state department think that mrs. clinton as secretary of st

ed henry; first carl cameron is live in washington. feels like this changed. feels like something is different today. something is very different now isn't it? >> well, the heat is on for all the field. as you say the determines of who gets to be in the 9:00 p.m. primary debate, the primetime debate, is going to be from an average of five polls. this monmoth may or may not about one of them. this poll shows kashich is in ten inch place and could make the debate, he only announced a month ago and was at the very back of the pack and now finds himself perhaps at tenth. donald trump remains the front runner absolutely outright. and he slammed five candidates yesterday in a tweet at a koch brothers forum for big donors, and he said they are potential puppets attending the koch brothers' summit in california, which sounds a lot like the kind of accusations democrats have been making about republicans for selling out to the kochs jeb bush and four others takenned the koch summit. today he outlined immigration priority including border security before any illegal imm

chief political correspondent carl cameron tells us tonight from washington the methods of preparation vary. >> reporter: the southern baptist convention nation's large echt gathering of christian conservatives, invited the entire 2016 gop field. only two took part. jeb bush appeared in person and won applause when asked about planned parenthood's sale of body parts from aborted fetuses. >> the next president should defund planned parenthood. >> reporter: marco rubee pretaped a satellite interview. two others were no shows. john kasich turned questions about thursday's fox debate in his home state of ohio back to granite state voters. >> these debates matter. but these elections are won in the trenches. they're won with the folks out here. >> reporter: most of the field took part in a high-speed new hampshire cattle call with five interviews last night. donald trump skipped it telling the newspaper he didn't expect their endorsement. his absence focused on bush. to knock bush's economic goal of 4% growth as p too focused on the well off. >> i think it's very important that with economi

carl cameron is with us now in washington. carl, the interesting thing to me is i had not been reporting this because i did not know this but i've been watching on other channels all day that say that should this tie be statistical, should it be so close there could be 11 people on the stage instead of ten. is this a true thing? >> it was something that was talked about early on that i overheard. who knows what the decision will ultimately be. this is a length i process and there's a tremendous amount of work going into it. we hope to get the final tally later tonight. the fact is these candidates have been working real hard themselves prepping for this debate. jeb bush's aides say he's been intensive tively working at it donald trump's aides say he hasn't been working on it at all. there's the southern baptist convention under way in nashville, one of the biggest gatherings of christian conservatives in the country and often they settle the early caucuses in iowa. both marco rubio and jeb bush are going to go there, principall

chief political correspondent carl cameron has a recap. >> reporter: the day after 2016's first gop debate, jeb bush was at a popular lobster house on the coast of new hampshire with little to say about what some critics called a tepid performance. >> if the cumulative effect of shaping people's opinion about who you are that matters over the long haul. >> reporter: but donald trump made headlines from the outset, getting booed and interrupted as he explained being the only candidate unwilling to rule out running as an independent if someone else wins the gop nomination. >> you can say not say tonight you can make that pledge? >> i have to respect the person if it's not me the person that wins. >> this is what's wrong. he buys and sells politicians of all stripes. >> dr. paul. >> look. look. he's already hedging his bet on the clip tons. >> trump praised universal health care in other countries, otherwise mentioning few policies specifics while railing against both parties. >> because our leaders are stupid. our politicians are stupid. >> reporter: hoping to co-opt some of trump's feisty s

here's chief political correspondent carl cameron on the republicans. >> reporter: focusing on national security, gop rivals warned that donald trump's insults and threats put the world at risk. jeb bush with veterans near norfolk, virginia's naval station. >> i think it's politically counter productive to say someone's stupid or an idiot and all this stuff we now hear in the political discourse. it has no relevance to the challenges we face. >> reporter: fear that trump may literally go nuclear has emerged in town halls. >> the guy in the red hat. an obvious jerk. i won't mention any names. but anyway, it seems, i don't want him answering that phone at 3:00 in the morning. >> reporter: bush trashes trump for having backed abortion rights and universal health care in the past. but -- >> he's tapped into this anger and angst washington is not working. i totally respect it. this is the guy the frontrunner. >> reporter: at a military college in south carolina, scott walker delivered his first foreign policy speech. >> the retreat is over. american leadership is back. american leadership is