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By playing this up. by saying there is an evil left out there, crawling through the ceiling. >> works for him. >> this group progress kentucky had a racist ad against -- >> this is the second time they basically help the guy theyre trying to hurt. he is married to an asian american from taiwan and they did a racist ad. >> right. thats the point. there is hypocrisy all the time on this kind of stuff. so had somebody on the right said something racial you can bet -- well people condemned it. i jus...

Same thing that they told me was discussed, i put two and two together. >> as it turns out the same group named by done way was singled out by mcconnell at a news conference tuesday. >> last month my wifes ethnicity was attacked by a left wing group in kentucky and then parentally they also bugged my headquarters. >> reporter: in response to the mcconnell campaigns allegation that the headquarters was bugged, the fbi has launched an investigation. a source close to the campaign says agents pulle...

That they had no trouble not only hearing it but recording it. >> reporter: conway says he believe the two activists used a smart phone to make the recording, not a bug. >> this is not watergate as our senior senator described it. >> as for progress, cnn tried to contact the group. the mcconnell campaign says its disturbed by the allegations of the groups involvement but have no further comment. and democratic party officials in louisville insist they have nothing to do with the recording. erin?...

Minority leader mitch mcconnells headquarters in february. >> they were there. they overheard this salacious conversation and decided to record it. >> reporter: conway tells cnn he is not sure why members from the group were there in the first place but told him they were right outside the room. he adds their account of what was revealed matches the recording released by left leaning magazine "mother jones." >> i assume most of you have played the game. >> the recording features mcconnell and hi...

Men. >> erin this is certainly not the first time this has happened to the group who calls itself women of the wall. they have been trying for more than two decades to be able to go down to the western wall, the holiest site for jews to pray, and pray the way they want to pray. they say this is about the discrimination. but the israeli courts in 2003, stuck by the side of traditionalists. now what the courts had decided in 2003 is the women could go somewhere on the property and pray the way the...

Conference and decided to record it. >> jacob conway tells cnn hes not sure why members in the group were there in the first place but he told them they were right outside the room. he adds that their account of what they heard matches the recording revealed by left leaning magazine "mother jones." >> i assume most of you have played the game whack a mole. >> the recording features mcconnell and his campaign team going through the research on potential opponents including actress ashley judd who...

Attempt by these local democratic officials to throw their liberal progressive cronies under the bus and groups like this superpac, progress kentucky, at the federal level you look at how incestuous the links are between partisan democrats and these operatives who have been tied to very sordid activities. i mean, in the past, very recent past, as senator mcconnell mentioned, this group progress kentucky has been named as the same smear mongers who went after his wife, the distinguished former go...

Tape it was the exact same things that they told me was discussed. i put two and two together. >> as it turns out the same group named by conway was singled out by mcconnell at a news conference tuesday. >> well, as you know, last month my wifes ethnicity was attacked by a left wing group in kentucky and apparently they also bugged my headquarters. >> reporter: in response to the mcconnell campaigns allegation the headquarters was bugged the fbi launched an investigation. a source close to the c...

Kentucky says who did it. >> our reaction, well let the investigation take its course and we would never condone a secret taping of this type. i dont know the person who you interviewed and neither do you and i dont know the people he named and neither do you. i think that we should let the investigation take its course. it would have been nice yesterday if the nrsd and the mcconnell people, and team wouldnt have accused the dnc and dncc of being involved without letting the investigation take i...

Have they volunteered to take lie detector tests or-- >> wed do anything that the fbi wants, to be prf100% not th case, but these are people who have been about mitch a long time and everybody loves mitch mcconnell and everybody loves him, a great guy. >> megyn: well, clearly not everybody loves him. is there any chance that one of these ten people has had a change of heart. used to love him, not so much anymore. >> absolutely zero, megyn. >> megyn: do you know these two guys, riley, shaun riley...