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But now in the face of the scrutiny that early state front-runner status brings, congressman ron paul has come up with a totally different explanation for what's in his old racist ron paul newsletters. >> you know, i didn't write them. and i don't endorse those views. and i've explained it many times. >> so you read them but you didn't do anything about it at the time? >> i never read that stuff. i've never read it. i was probably aware of it ten years after it was written. and it's been going on 20 years that people have pestered me about this. >> in 1996 ron paul defended the black men are f...

He responded essentially by defending those nakedly racist passages. and that was not enough to kill ron paul's political career. quite to the contrary. he won the election that year in '96. he went back to congress, and he has been there ever since. and right now ron paul is having the biggest political surge of his career. he's the front-runner in most of the iowa polling. there's a reasonable chance he could win the iowa caucuses in a week and a half. but now in the face of the scrutiny that early state front-runner status brings, congressman ron paul has come up with a totally different ex...

The iowa polling. there's a reasonable chance he could win the iowa caucuses in a week and a half. but now in the face of the scrutiny that early state front-runner status brings, congressman ron paul has come up with a totally different explanation for what's in his old racist ron paul newsletters. >> you know, i didn't write them. and i don't endorse those views. and i've explained it many times. >> so you read them but you didn't do anything about it at the time? >> i never read that stuff. i've never read it. i was probably aware of it ten years after it was written. and it's been going on...