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Where no one has been prosecuted for actually giving the order for the burglars to break into the democratic national convention june 17th. even what they were doing there remains relatively the subject of a different competing theories. its normally short handed bugging operation but it seems just as possible they were in there trying to uncover blackmail material either on the democrats or to figure out what the democrats had on richard nixon. >> its so interesting you say that. if you were to...

Released. >> putting it polightly. >> and illegal. >> if its illegal -- >> mcconnell was right, his enemy as are out to get him. liberal group called progress kentucky. >> a local democrat says two people from progress, kentucky, one of the people from that group resigned admitting to taping this from a hallway or door that was partially open. this was a bugging operation. >> indeed, it was. >> it totally got glossed over. were not glossing over it. "reliable sources." >> what was interesting, t...

Minutes of the two hour meeting. >> this is what was given to us and its what i -- its what we worked with. >> mcconnell believes he was the victim of a bugging operation, masterminded by political opponents. >> they also unbow knownst to us they were bugging our headquarters, a nixonian move. this is what you get from the political left in america these days. >> that was nbcs chuck todd reporting. we turn our attention to texas. a 20-year-old is under arrest this morning after police say went...

A leftwing group in kentucky and then apparently they also bugged my headquarters. quite a nixonian move. >> richard nixon was, of course, a republican. chuck todd reports that the mcconnell campaign hired a security firm to search their headquarters for a bug, so they say. they found nothing. mother jones editor david corn that released that tape today told msnbc this. >> we did not make the tape. we were provided the tape and that it is our understanding the tape was not part of any watergate ...

Chuck todd reports that the mcconnell campaign hired a security firm to search their headquarters for a bug, so they say. they found nothing. mother jones editor david corn that released that tape today told msnbc this. >> we did not make the tape. we were provided the tape and that it is our understanding the tape was not part of any watergate style bugging operation as mitch mcconnell has claimed it to be. >> mitch mcconnell is the most unpopular senator in america according to public policy p...

China. absurdity, of course. the liberal group issued apologies and removed the tweets. mccain campaign aid jesse bent echoed mcconnells message today saying, weve always said the left would stop at nothing to attack senator mcconnell. but nixonian tactics to bug campaign headquarters is above and beyond. "as the story makes clear, we were recently provided the tape by a source who wished to be anonymous. we werent involved in the making of the tape but published the story on the tape due to its...

Apologies and removed the tweets. saying "weve always said the left would stop at nothing to attack senator mcconnell but nixonian tactics to bug campaign headquarters is above and beyond." "as the story makes clear, we were recently provided the tape by a source who wished to be anonymous. we werent involved in the making of the tape but published the story on the tape due to its obvious newsworthiness. its our understanding the tape was not a product of a watergate-style bugging operation. we ...

Tweet by the liberal group, progress kentucky, the tweet implied that his wifes asian heritage may have something to do with kentucky jobs moving to china. absurdity, of course. the liberal group issued apologies and removed the tweets. mccain campaign aid jesse bent echoed mcconnells message today saying, weve always said the left would stop at nothing to attack senator mcconnell. but nixonian tactics to bug campaign headquarters is above and beyond. "as the story makes clear, we were recently ...

It for two months. howard? >> i think thats a good question, chris. and i talked to david corn today, and he stressed, again, that this was not, to his understanding -- he did a lot of reporting on this, himself. all he can say is it was not a watergate-style bugging operation. im sure hes right about that. what else is involved, i do not know. but what i would say is this. that mitch mcconnell has been around for a long, long time. democrats have tried to take him out again and again. theyve co...

Ashley judd. >> i assume most of you have played the game whac-a-mole? this is the whac-a-mole period of the campaign. when anybody sticks their head up, do them out. >> we bring in the man responsible for sharing this tape with us, "mother jones" washington bureau chief, the great david corn. hello, david. >> hello, martin. >> i want to play for you reaction to this story from senator mcconnell. i know youre not going to disclose how you obtained the audio recording. that would come under your ...