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In a conference call with reporters, an unknown caller lit into cochran. >> black people are harvesting cotton, why do you think it's okay to harvest their votes. >> reporter: the mcdaniel camp condemned the racial tone, bus his supporters were accused of strange behavior earlier in the race. mark mayfield, for example, was suspected in a plot to break into a nursing home and photograph cochran's wife, who suffers from dementia. police arrested mayfield and he died, an aapparently suicide. now comes the latest twist. mcdaniel is offering a $1,000 bounty to anyone who can prove that some people...

>> the club for growth congratulated cochrane when he won. they want this to be over. >> he could have won that race had it not been for that break-in at rose cochrane's nursing home. so i mean, he was definitely in good position before that happened. >> but you know what happens when you get the second most number of votes? you lose. and this it is what happened. >> is that what happened? oh, okay. >> yeah. it's just ridiculous. >> here is a statement that the mcdaniel camp put out today. i'll read it. regardless of recent allegations made against his character, mark mayfield was a fine crist...

Electorate, cochran campaign has apparently made the strategic decision to woo african-american voters to state's open primary. a white republican courting black voters in mississippi. further evidence the race is completely bonkers. "times" record the last week a super pac supporting cochran is paying african-american leaders to lift black turnout. over the weekend a mysterious robo call went out in mississippi which appeared to target black voters. >> hello, neighbors. the time has come to make a stand and say no to the tea party. no to their obstruction. no to their disrespectful treatment ...

Black voters in mississippi. further evidence the race is completely bonkers. "times" record the last week a super pac supporting cochran is paying african-american leaders to lift black turnout. over the weekend a mysterious robo call went out in mississippi which appeared to target black voters. >> hello, neighbors. the time has come to make a stand and say no to the tea party. no to their obstruction. no to their disrespectful treatment of the first african-american president. >> in response, mcdaniel supporters are predictably apoplectic. conservatives seized on allegations that an operati...

Over cochran. and now the mcdaniel camp is preparing to send in poll watchers, a tact republicans used to intimidate black voters in the south for decades. the justice department will be monitoring the situation. the united states has reached a key legal agreement with iraq to protect the 300 special operations forces currently deployed there. the pentagon announced monday that the military advisers would not be prosecuted under iraqi law. as part of the deal, the advisers would be protected by diplomatic immunity, similar to what embassy staff are entitled to. as the crisis escalates, here ...