Transcripts For FOXNEWSW Special Report With Bret Baier 2015

FOXNEWSW Special Report With Bret Baier August 18, 2015



>> reporter: overshadowed by donald trump and slipping in the polls, wisconsin governor scott walker unveiled his freedom plan to replace the affordable care act. >> on my very first day as president of the united states i will send legislation to the congress to once and for all repeal obama care entirely. >> reporter: walker would replace it with several popular gop alternatives and reforms. tax credits for private health insurance, block granting medicaid to the states, letting people shop for insurance across state lines and more. he'd pay for it with medicaid savings and by eliminating $1 trillion in taxes. >> i may not be the flashiest of the folks. i may not have the pizzazz of people on the east and west coast. i hope you see not just here in minnesota but across america i think like you think. i'm willing to stand up against anyone to get the job done. we're not intimidated. >> reporter: louisiana governor bobby jindal accused walker of embracing medicare by tying it to age "it is frankly shocking that a republican candidate for president would author a cradle to grave plan like this." marco rubio put his health care goals in a "washington post" op ed yesterday and attacked president obama. >> we have to repeal it and replace it with something that gives every american the opportunity to akwiert health insurance they want with their own pre-tax money from any company in america across state lines that will sell it to them. >> reporter: the latest poll that is trump in the 20s, jeb bush in the teens, and dr. ben carson leading the single digits pack at 9. he's under fire from the left suggesting planned parenthood is a racist conspiracy. >> one of the reason you find most in black neighborhoods so you can find a way to control that population. and i think people go back and read about margaret sanger who founded this place. a woman who hillary clinton by the way says she admires. look and see what many people in naught said germany thought about her. >> reporter: one day after donald trump trashed jeb bush's immigration plan as impractical he con flatd him with mrs. clinton or awarded him with a cabinet level title. >> he takes advantage to be able to have a sit down conversation and have a detailed conversation. >> reporter: meanwhile john kasich is getting bashed by democrats as for the iraq war before he was against it for this. >> well, look, i would never have committed ourselves to iraq. >> reporter: in november of 2002, the former congressman said quote we should go to war with iraq. it's not likely that saddam hussein will give up his weapons." but back then, most members of congress believed saddam hussein had weapons of mass destruction in both parties. so in fact, hillary clinton was quote for invieding iraq before she was against it too, shannon. >> yeah. we remember. carl, thank you. good to see you. coming up later in the show, my one-on-one with governor walker. we're going to talk more about his health care plan that carl outlined and also his presidential campaign. with the scandal-plagued campaign that looks less and less like a sure thing every day, hillary clinton is trying to turn around her fortunes tonight in las vegas. in fact, both clinton and her main rival are in sin city trying to convince democrats that theirs is the safest roll of the dice for the party. chief white house correspondent ed henry is also in vegas tonight. >> reporter: on the eve of her summer vacation in the hamptons, hillary clinton tried to stay focused on her middle class message at a town hall in las vegas while continuing to dismiss the fbi's investigation of her e-mail server as a partisan attack. >> we have turned over the server. they can do whatever they want to with the server to figure out what's there or what's not there. that's for the people investigating it to try to figure out. but we turned over everything that was work-related. every single thing. >> reporter: if the mainstream media keeps rejecting clinton's explanations. she was hammered today by liberal "washington post" columnist eugene robinson declaring the candidate is her own worst enemy because she was quote stonewalled for long. adding i wish hillary clinton would be respectful enough to say i'm sorry. i was wrong. i wish she would not insult our intelligence by claiming she only did what other secretaries of state had done. none of her predecessors, after all, went to the trouble and expense of a private e-mail server. and we're learning new details what the fbi may be looking at in terms of the security of clinton's e-mail. the daily mail reported today the i.t. company that maintained clinton's private e-mail account, platt river networks, was run out of an loft apartment in denver. that company's servers were kept in a bathroom closet. hardly the type of secure place for the secretary of state's e-mail. >> i feel she's in serious trouble and doesn't recognize it. the team of fbi investigators and federal propers that are pursuing her is the highest and best in the justice department. >> reporter: beyond her e-mail troubles, clinton is also facing heat from democratic socialist senator bernie sanders who continues to rise in the polls and shadowed her today in las vegas as they both addressed the convention of the afl-cio at the luxor hotel. >> i think it's fair to say, and i don't mean to be self-serving here. but i think it is fair to say that there is a lot of excitement in the bernie sanders campaign right now. >> that pressure continues to push clinton to the left. today she officially broke with president obama's decision to give shell a permit to tap oil and gas bearing zones in alaska, tweeting quote the arctic is a unique treasure. given what we know, it's not worth the risk of drilling. now clinton just wrapped up an extraordinary news conference here. she said this controversy has nothing to do with me, it's about the process. she was saying it was intel agencies fighting. there's nothing new here. i pressed her isn't it also about you leaking classified information? she said that's not clear. the state department has not determined that. now, nbc news is reporting tonight that the fbi is confidek confident they can restore data on clinton's server even though they think somebody tried to wipe the entire server clean. i pressed clinton on whether she tried to wipe the server. she would not directly answer that question, shannon. >> we know you'll stay on that, ed, live on the campaign trail. thank you so much. while clinton continues blame her e-mail scandal on republicans playing politics, the man who was perhaps the most ven rated political journalist of our time is likening her situation to the epic washington scandal he helped uncover. tonight chief washington correspondent and watergate historian james rosen reports on bob woodward's comparison of e-mailgate and watergate. >> reporter: as president, richard nixon recorded 3700 hours of tapes, of which 18 1/2 minutes, less than 1% of the total, were erased by a culprit never identified. as secretary of state, hillary clinton sent or received on her private server 63,000 e-mails, of which she tells us she herself erased 30,000, nearly half the total. the comparisons come now from individuals not typically associated with vast right wing conspiracies. >> you've got a massive amount of data in a way reminds me of the nixon tapes. thousands of hours of secretly recorded conversations that nixon thought were exclusively his. >> it's an interesting analogy. because president nixon acted as if he was never in trouble. he was never going to be investigated. he was never going to be caught. and oh, p.s., those tapes they belong to me. they don't belong to the government. does that sound familiar? >> reporter: as a young lay lawyer, clinton served on the house judiciary committee that recommended the im350e67ment of president nixon. clinton has talked about hissing to the so-called tape of tapes on which nixon is commenting on earlier taups. it's likely clinton made no recordings when she reviewed her own e-mails and deleted half of them. >> i'm not a crook. >> i will do my part to provide transparency to americans. >> reporter: political cartoonists are finding the comparison irresistible. yet the outside the cartoon panel they are will ask whether mrs. clinton shouldn't aspire to be compared to mr. nixon and mr. nixon's two historical presidencies. to capture the white house after a highly polarizing 20-yearatio. evan thomas is the author of ""being nixon". >> she's not richard nixon but she has some of the same problems. she hides things. she's secretive. that's her nature. it was nixon's nature. >> reporter: she hasn't been charged with committing any crimes, but the controversy over her e-mails and finances of the clinton foundation have take an heavy toll on her poll numbers for honesty and trustworthiness. >> thank you so much, james. up next, want another reason not to trust iran? but first here's what some of our fox affiliates around the country are covering tonight. fox 59 in indianapolis with the former face of subway expected to plead guilty to child porn charges. jared fogle became famous as his massive weight loss as a college student on a diet solely subway sandwiches. his home was raided as part of a child porn investigation. fox 32 in chicago where michael jordan took the stand in a lawsuit over the unauthorized use of his name in an ad for a now defunct supermarket. jordan's camp says the former basketball star lost millions in endorsement revenues. lawyers for dominic's say that vastly overstates the damage done. and this is a live look at seattle from q 13 fox. the big story there tonight, not your ordinary traffic stop. >> come on, baby. there you go. there you go. >> officer anthony reynolds pulled over that car for speeding and the driver said his wife was in labor. that baby was not going to wait. the officer helped clear the newborn girl's airway and she started breathing on her own. you can see the father gave those officers some grateful hugs. the baby girl, too. that is tonight's live look outside the beltway from "special report." we will be right back. did you know that meeting your daily protein needs actually helps to support your muscle health? boost® high protein nutritional drink can help you get the protein you need. each serving has 15 grams of protein to help maintain muscle, plus 26 vitamins and minerals including calcium and vitamin d to support strong bones. boost® high protein is the #1 selling high protein complete nutritional drink and it has a great taste-guaranteed! help get the nutrition you need everyday with boost® high protein. join the club at brandpower.com. investigators in thailand say a man seen in a security video is the bomber who killed 20 and injured more than 100 in bangkok yesterday. the man in the yellow shirt is seen taking off a backpack and walking away. the blast occurred at a religious shrine in an upscale area filled with shoppers and office workers. the government says it does not know of any americans involved. a second explosion went off at a ferry near bangkok today but no one was hurt. another major democrat is coming out against president obama's nuclear deal with iran. at the same time, iran's leaders are giving the plan's opponents even more reason not to trust them. correspondent kevin corke reports from the presidential vacation compound on martha's vineyard. >> reporter: it's the deal the obama administration saw coming but still couldn't stop. iran and russia agreeing to a plan that will send tehran four advanced s 300 air defense systems, which can engage multiple aircraft and ballistic missiles at ranges up to 186 miles away. a move hailed by iranian leaders who accuse the u.s. of trying to use the nuclear deal to control them. >> translator: they thought this deal would open up iran to their influence. we blocked this pact and will definitely block it in the future." >> reporter: a pentagon spo spokesman said we have long expressed our concern about this sale." it could call into question russia's willingness to abide by the same nuclear deal it helped to create. meanwhile, another day, another rejection and a big one. >> if iran is to acquire a nuclear bomb, it will not have my name on it. >> reporter: former chairman of the foreign relations committee, new jersey senator bob menendez, joined fellow democrat new york senator chuck schumer in rejecting the agreement and pledging to vote against it in september. part of a growing list of lawmakers opposing the president, including arizona senator jeff flake, the last-known republican to consider siding with the white house. >> the agreement ties the hands of congress and future administrations by saying that we can't impose new or similar sanctions to what is there already. >> reporter: the 60-day congressional review period ends september 17th. republicans need six democrats by then to overcome a filibuster, and 13 to override a presidential veto. something the white house says simply won't happen. >> i think about seven democrats in the last week have come out in the senate to support the deal. and that's why we remain confident that we'll have the support we need in order to withstand a veto if necessary. >> reporter: and to bolster that argument, two more democrats tonight, both rhode island senators jack reid and sheldon white house announced they are backing the deal. shannon? >> we're going to talk about that with the panel coming up. kevin, thank you very much. the military is being called in to help fight some of the almost 100 wildfires out west. tourists are fleeing the cascade mountain resort of chelan after the destruction of 75 miles and 155 square miles. mandatory evacuate orders remain in effect for almost 3,000 people in that area. the army says two women have passed its ranger school, becoming the first females to complete the grueling combat training program. the women and 94 men passed the 62-day course that tests their ability to overcome fatigue, hunger and stress during combat operations. they will graduate friday at fort benning, georgia. still ahead, the search for the key to unlocking the female sex drive. a small company may be about to hit the jackpot. but first, i talk one in one with republican presidential candidate and wisconsin governor scott walker about his plan to replace obama care and replace president obama, too. bring us your aching and sleep deprived. bring us those who want to feel well rested. aleve pm. the only one to combine a safe sleep aid... plus the 12 hour pain relieving strength of aleve. be a morning person again with aleve pm. everyone loves the picture i posted of you. at&t reminds you it can wait. at the top of the program we told you about a new plan to replace obama care from wisconsin governor and republican presidential candidate scott walker. tonight we go in depth with the governor from st. paul, minnesota as he fights for traction in a gop contest that has been turned upside down by donald trump. governor, welcome. good to have you with us tonight. >> glad to be with you. thanks for having me on. >> all right. you have talked about starting baseline repealing obama care that is agenda item number one. it's been attempted many times on capitol hill. but you say as president walker you would have an executive order that would make sure that congress would not be exempt, would be fully under all the contours of obama care. do you think that would give them the needed motivation to repeal? how would that work? >> well, i think it would fight a fire underneath congress. president obama gave them an opt out from the provisions of what everybody else has had to live with under obama care. this would ultimately get rid of that. and force congress to live under the same provisions as everybody else who lives under obama care. so this would executive action remove the actions president obama took on as part of this package. and i think there's a lot of great reformers. i've talked to paul ryan, congressman price, i've talked to senator lee and others out there who really are eager to push forward reform. just as it was in my state years ago when there were some republicans who didn't want to challenge the status quo. i think the same thing's true in the congress. this would actually force action early on in our term. so once and for all we could repeal obama care and replace it with something to put patients and families back in charge of their health care decisions. >> not surprising that the chief democratic rival on the other side of the ticket, former secretary of state hillary clinton, is opposed to your plan. she tweets this 16 million americans have gained health insurance from the affordable care act. we need to protect it not repeal it. there are young adults up to age 26 on their parents plan. how do you do it better? >> of course hillary clinton says this. she put in place the plan hillary care more than two decades before obama care. she would make it even worse for every problem america has with the so-called affordable care act driving up premiums, dumping people off their employer-sponsored plans. all the other problems we see out there. those are things that would only get worse under hillary clinton. remember how bad it was. we were told by the president himself if you like your health care plan, if you like your doctor you can keep that. that was politifact's lie of the year. we've seen people lose their benefits from employer-based system, seen premiums go through the roof. i'm here in minnesota talking to the speaker of the house here earlier. he talked about the huge increases people are experiencing in the state. it's been anything but affordable. we need to have a better plan that gives people -- gives patients and their families the freedom to make the choices them self. we have a way to help people get access to affordable and accessible health care no. through a government mandate. that's a better plan than we're offering than people like hillary clinton are pushing. >> there's criticism coming from within your party. one of your fellow 2016 gop rivals, bobby jindal out of louisiana says this is setting up an entitlement and would give every single american human being from the time they're born to grow old and entitled to medicare a new entitlement. how do you respond? >> he must be looking at somebody else's plan. the bottom line is we provide tax credits to allow people to go out connection to their income. we apply tax credits out there so people can go out in the market themselves and buy health insurance if they don't have access through their employer. on top op that give people ability to save in health savings accounts. it would cut the tax increases, get rid of the mandate, put power back in the hands of individual patients. for those who have families it would empower them and their families to make decision and really control their money and their health care decisions. this is something that's really about not just the market, more important lit individual patient. makes it better, more afforda e affordable, more accessible, more choice. that's why we call it the patient freedom plan. >> governor, you are used to facing down your opponents. it happened at the iowa state fair on the campaign trail. we want to play a little bit of this as it played out as you were speaking there earlier just days ago. >> we start by repealing obama care around putting patient and families back in charge of their health care going forward. [ cheers ] [ audience boos ] >> i am not intimidated by you, sir, or anyone else out there. i will fight for the american people over and over and over and over again! >> i feel like i saw a little bit of a smile on your face there, governor. do you welcome the critics, the chance to engage with them?

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