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A state lawmaker, a republican named chip limehouse has asked state police to investigate how mr. greene, who, as we know, was unemployed and in the position as of late last year to need a public defender after this felony charge paid the $10,000 filing fee. is the issue being missed intentionally or unintentionally by republicans like mr. graham and joe wilson, that this isnt about the democrats not liking the outcome of an election or not liking alvin greene? >> keith, do you think they would ...

A plant. >> i saw in the democratic primary elephant dunning all over the place, so i knew something was wrong in that primary. >> reporter: on nbcs "meet the press "s a the presidents top stat gist sound mystified. >> how he won the primary, is not known. >> reporter: some background. greene is unemployed, faces felony importantography charges, claims to be destitute and came up with a $10 thousand filing fee. he won without campaigning. he is not your typical interview, either. >> the election...

>> probably it was own overwhelming electoral. they are onto something with this $10,400 but they might want to look into their own party to see who would create their own mischief. jane: who would do this within their own party to make their own party look bad. >> if you come to south carolina and watch electoral primaries they are odd things. right now there was somebody named rawl who nobody knew, and alvin greene that nobody knew, i found it interesting that nobody cried foul when he paid hi...

>> jane, lets unpack some of the things that happened and it rounds a circus-type atmosphere here in south carolina. senator clyburn is using the weakest argument that there was something wrong with the voting machines. i would contend he had a 50,000 to 5,000 vote in his congressional district so i guess there was nothing wrong with the voting machines there. alvin greene there is a question of where he found $10,400 and my advice to the democrat party would be to go look within their party and...

I have a feeling that this will end up in a court of law because im not sure the democratic party has the authority to do all those things. shannon: its a mess. we heard so much talk about him. but where is alvin greene in the middle of all this? >> reporter: hes out there. but im sure if i were his lawyer, i would tell him to shut up. where did he get the $10,000 for the filing fee when hes unemployed and he swore under oath to a court he was so broke he could not afford an attorney for his own...

Moment? >> no. just -- im okay. >> greene wont comment on his felony charges but where did he get the money to run? >> my personal money. from the army. >> the other democratic candidate is contesting the election though he was barely visible either. his only ads were these web videos. >> i am a south carolinian. >> theories abound. >> ive always been a democrat and i am the best candidate for united states senate in south carolina. >> reporter: some say voters just picked the candidate with the...

>> some background? green is unemployed. he faces felony pornography charges. he claims to be destitute and yet he came up with a $10,000 filing fee. oh, and he won without ever campaigning. hes not your typical interview either. >> the election was certified as of 3:00 p.m. eastern standard time yesterday. so im on the ballot from here on out. im in all the way. im the best candidate for the united states senate in this race. in south carolina. >> okay. okay. are you always this soft spoken? ar...

In political science. those are all things that hes said and theyre all things that are true. and we know that he came up with $10,400 to pay for a filing fee to run for this senate race, even though he is unemployed and lives at home with his father. >> do we know where he got the money? >> well, there is the big question in south carolina right now. its made all the more complicated by the fact that he was charged last november with obscenity here in south carolina. he is accused of showing so...

Candidate in this race get nominated and have this fellow drop out. but, you know, look, he won the election. if he doesnt want to drop out, the deals done. the trouble with this, alex, is two-fold. first of all, where did he get the $10,400 for the filing fee. how did he end up getting on there. the second point i think, which is really a tough one on this, is no one really knew either of the two candidates. the fact is, my understanding is that when you have this spelling of the name greene wi...

Prominent role in wilsons campaign. lets bring in now as promised, former democratic party chairman in south carolina thanks for your time tonight, sir. >> thank you. >> first, this review, if these results are as bizarre as they seem, what might account for that, do you think? >> well, in terms of the election results, theres no telling. ive sampled some of them. some of them make perfect sense, some of them as you have seen dont. what concerns me is we have a guy spending $10,400 to file for t...