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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. it's 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. >> it's so interesting you say that. if you were to ask 30 people in washington what the genesis of it was, they would tell you an answer and that it...

Released. >> putting it polightly. >> and illegal. >> if it's 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. we're not glossing over it. "reliable sources." >> what was interesting, the gentleman who resigned from progress, kentucky, was, himself, a journalist. and he was fired be...

Minutes of the two hour meeting. >> this is what was given to us and it's what i -- it's 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 nbc's chuck todd reporting. we turn our attention to texas. a 20-year-old is under arrest this morning after police say went on a stabbing spree on his community college campus yesterday. prosecutors charged dylan quick w...

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 style bugging operation as mitch mcconnell has claimed it to be. >> mitch mcconnell is the most unpo...

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 polling. only 36 approve of his job performance, 54% disapprove. joining me, karen finney that will s...