when he got a difficult issue like subsidies for biofuels in iowa, he fudged. he was, i m not going to talk about certain issues. he was sitting on a lead which was very early lead in one state. it all hinged on iowa. martha: bring in chris stirewalt, fox news digital politics editor. good to see you. good morning to you. martha: let s show the precipitous slide for scott walker because it was dramatic. back in july he was at 22%. looked like he would walk away with iowa at that point and here is a look where he was yesterday in the big roundup at less than 1%. what happened here? well, now that is just one cnn poll but, what happened there was the trump nets occurred and to take some point of disagreement respectfully submitted with dr. krauthamer is this. scott walker had a fundamental misunderstanding of, maybe what george w. bush would call a misunderestimatemation of the state of the republican party
the season. 10 candidates make the prime time cut as donald trump in the center as top ranking person in the polls. that is where he gets to sit or stand, rather. welcome brand new hour of america s newsroom. i m martha maccallum. bill: i m bill hemmer. after all of this, trump is there in the middle. excitement in cleveland. fox revealed 10 candidates at 5:00 eastern based on seven national polls. seven other candidates appear at earlier debate time at 5:00 eastern in cleveland as well. martha: chris stirewalt, fox news digital politics editor. he joins me now. good morning here in cleveland. good to see you there chris. talk about the top 10. what will you be watching tomorrow night? everybody has different priorities. if you re donald trump you need to look presidential. you need to say i have a big boom in the polls you i need to do more than that i can do more than talk tough. if you re jeb bush, you need to show you have fire this bellly, you re engaged.
presidential nomination. i m lindsey graham and i m running for president of the united states. graham announcing his presidential bid today in the small town where he grew up. the three-term senator mostly known for his work in foreign policy told the crowd that he wants to be president to defeat the enemies trying to kill us. before being elected to the senate in 2002 graham spent eight years in the house of representatives. so time now for our 2016 power index where we look at who s up and who s down in the race for the white house. when it comes to the gop, jeb bush scott walker and marco rubio round out the top three. but there was some major movement this week. chris stirewalt, fox news digital politics editor and author of foxt joins me now. you have john kasich up two but the big shakeup, rand paul down one. did the nsa fight have anything to do with that? it is a hard one to score because it might yield dividends for rand paul. we don t know.
function of the fact we have virtually no good intelligence on the ground. therefore, they go to the least intrusive method also the least accurate method of direction drones. reporter: others defend the program ecfamphasizing it s taken out the senior al qaeda leadership in pakistan and the agency is reluctant to relinquish the reins of a program that it feels has been so effective. but this high standard for an imminent threat to the u.s. has also frustrated efforts by the cia to target isis in libya. fox news has previously reported that more than a dozen isis operatives are known to the u.s. intelligence community in libya but there is no authorization to strike their locations, even on this lower standard of pattern of lies. very interesting. catherine, thank you so much. time now for 2016 power index where we look at who s up who s down in the race for the white house. chris stirewalt, fox news digital politics editor and
restrained by the constitution. [ cheers and applause ] too often when republicans have won we ve squandered our victory by becoming part of the washington machine. that s not who i am. today, i announce with god s help, with the help of liberty lovers everywhere that i am putting myself forward as a candidate for president of the united states of america. [ cheers and applause ] chris stirewalt is our fox news digital politics editor and kirsten powers is a fox news political analyst and usa today columnist. welcome to you both. chris, where do we stand now with cruz and paul officially in this race? well, liberty lovers that s kind of a nice phrase right there. i m a liberty lover. i m a liberty lover. everybody loves liberty.