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• First in Fox News First: Walker PAC rolls out first ad
• Pleading insanity: Hillary’s campaign woes mount
• Baier Tracks: Hey, Joe…
• High stakes poker at Trump Tower
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FIRST IN FOX NEWS FIRST: WALKER PAC ROLLS OUT FIRST AD
The super PAC backing the candidacy of Wisconsin Gov. Scott Walker debuts today its first ad for its multi-million-dollar Iowa ad barrage.

The spot from Unintimidated PAC touts the governor’s “decisive action” in Wisconsin taking on big labor in 2011 as an example of Walker’s ability to “fight and win.” “Our big bold reforms here in Wisconsin,” Walker says in the ad, “Took the power out of the hands of the big government special interests and put them firmly into the hands of the hard-working taxpayers. Now more than ever America needs a president who will fight and win for America”

The ad is part of a $7 million Iowa buy and will begin airing Tuesday.

Betting big on South Carolina - Unintimidated PAC plans to spend a total of more than $9 million boosting Walker in South Carolina, New Hampshire and Nevada before nominating contests in each state, WSJ reports. “The super PAC is devoting the bulk of the new spending, more than $8 million, to advertising in South Carolina.”

PLEADING INSANITY: HILLARY’S CAMPAIGN WOES MOUNT
Imagine that it’s the day of Hillary Clinton’s defiant March press conference at the United Nations in which she dismissed any claims of mishandling sensitive material or taking any undue risks.

If we had told you then that the biggest story six months later would be her IT guy invoking his right to not incriminate himself in an ongoing FBI probe into her sketchy server, what would you have said?

How about “Yikes!”

You would have figured that her candidacy had sustained tremendous, perhaps irreparable damage. And you would have been right.

The substance here matters. People here say the Clintons always survive because of her husband’s multiple near-death political experiences. But those things were about the pleasures of the flesh and his own weaknesses. What got him out of trouble as a candidate and in his impeachment was that Democrats could say that Republicans are sex-obsessed weirdos, and do so with a wink and a nudge.

The Clinton mojo only worked because of the underlying subject.

A senior aide invoking his constitutional right against self-incrimination is a big deal no matter what – just imagine if this were Jeb Bush’s or Scott Walker’s IT guy. But it’s consequence grows exponentially when the underlying substance involves potential for criminal charges for the mishandling of state secrets and exposing them to our enemies abroad because of Hillary Clinton’s desire to keep her own communications secret from her political enemies here at home.

That’s not something that a campaign can wave away as prurient or misplaced.

We add to that the allegations of payola, reinforced today by the discovery of emails from Clinton pushing to help a company that would hire her husband months later and pay him more than $16 million.

Clinton’s campaign has been saying for months that the damage from these ongoing scandals will abate once Republicans are judged to be overplaying their hands. On national security and corruption, the table limits are pretty high.

Clinton with her brazen response in March that she destroyed evidence she claims would clear her name certainly looks like the one who has done the overplaying here.

Emails show Hillary helping firm that paid Bubba big bucks - Inside Higher Ed: “On the campaign trail Hillary Clinton has been critical of for-profit colleges and has called for tougher regulation of the sector. During her first year as secretary of state, however, Clinton pushed for the inclusion of a large for-profit education company at a higher education policy dinner hosted at the U.S. Department of State. Clinton wrote in an email to a top aide that she wanted to add Laureate Education to the guest list for the event. Describing Laureate as ‘the fastest growing college network in the world,’ Clinton said the company was ‘started by Doug Becker who Bill likes a lot.’ "It's a for-profit model that should be represented," she added in the August 2009 email. A senior vice president at Laureate was added to the guest list, a separate email shows. Former President Bill Clinton several months later became an honorary chancellor for Laureate International Universities, a role for which he was paid $16.5 million between 2010 and 2014. Clinton stepped down from the position earlier this year.”

BAIER TRACKS: HEY, JOE…
“When one of your aides decides to plead the Fifth to avoid answering questions about setting up your personal computer server that is now in FBI custody, it’s not the best news for your political campaign.

When your main ally on the Benghazi committee that is investigating you offers this explanation to the Washington Post – ‘ranking Democrat, Rep. Elijah Cummings (D-Md.), said about the Clinton aide’s decision, ‘Although multiple legal experts agree there is no evidence of criminal activity, it is certainly understandable that this witness’s attorneys advised him to assert his Fifth Amendment rights, especially given the onslaught of wild and unsubstantiated accusations by Republican presidential candidates, members of Congress and others based on false leaks about the investigation’ – you know there is an issue.

And when every day seems to bring another