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CHRIS CHRISTIE'S RE-ELECTION
CAMPAIGN.
MEANWHILE, BACK IN WASHINGTON
TODAY, SENATOR RAND PAUL,
REPUBLICAN OF KENTUCKY, ANOTHER
POSSIBLE 2016 PRESIDENTIAL
HOPEFUL, ANNOUNCED HE IS
RESTRUCTURING HIS OFFICE AND
HE'S NOT TALKING ABOUT MOVING
THE FURNITURE IN THAT CASE.
THE CHANGES TO HIS STAFFING COME
AFTER YET ANOTHER ACCUSATION OF
PLAGIARISM AS BUZZ FEED.COM
REPORTS, HE ALLEGEDLY LIFTED
LINES FROM THIS PIECE WRITTEN BY
DAN STEWART WHO BACK IN
SEPTEMBER WROTE AN OP-ED THAT
CONTAINED SENTENCES SUCH AS
QUOTE, BY DESIGN, MANDATORY
SENTENCING LAWS TAKE DISCRETION
AWAY FROM PROSECUTORS AND JUDGES
SO AS TO IMPOSE HARSH SENTENCES
REGARDLESS OF CIRCUMSTANCES.
THOSE EXACT SAME WORDS WITH THE
EXACT SAME PUNCTUATION WERE THEN
PUBLISHED UNDER RAND PAUL'S NAME
JUST SIX DAYS LATER.
I WANT TO BRING IN BUZZ FEED
POLITICAL REPORTER ANDREW
KOZINSKI WHO SPOTTED THIS
DUPLICATION AS WELL AS SOME
OTHERS.
THANKS FOR COMING IN.
CONGRATULATIONS ON THE SCOOPS.
PAUL SAYS HE'S RESTRUCTURING HIS
OFFICE AS A RESULT OF THESE
ALLEGATIONS AND OTHERS.
THAT WOULD LEAD ONE TO BELIEVE
THAT HE'S POSSIBLY BLAMING
STAFFERS FOR THESE INSTANCES OF
ALLEGED PLAGIARISM AS OPPOSED TO
BLAMING HIMSELF.
IS THAT YOUR READ OF THAT?
>> I THINK HE'S ACTUALLY SORT OF
MAYBE PROTECTING HIS STAFFERS.
HE SAID BEFORE ON THIS WEEK THAT
A LOT OF PEOPLE AND A LOT OF
DIFFERENT VOICES WENT INTO ALL
THE SPEECHES SO I THINK HE'S
SORT OF DEFENDING HIS OFFICE AND
IT DOESN'T LOOK LIKE ANYONE'S
GOING TO BE LET GO.
>> HOW MANY ALLEGATIONS ARE WE
NOW TALKING ABOUT?
I KNOW YOU'VE REPORTED ON AT
LEAST, AT LEAST TWO.
HOW MANY ARE THERE?
RACHEL MADDOW DID ANOTHER.
HOW MANY IN TOTAL?
>> RACHEL MADDOW REPORTED ON HIM
COPYING LINES FROM A MOVIE.
WE REPORTED ON HIM COPYING FROM
"STAND AND DELIVERED" AND THREE
OCCASIONS FROM A HERITAGE
REPORT.
HE HAD PLAGIARIZED IN THE OP-ED
YOU HAD TALKED ABOUT AND WE ALSO
REPORTED HE PLAGIARIZED JUST
THIS MORNING IN A FORBES
ARTICLE.
>> SO WE SAW ACCUSATIONS OF
PLAGIARISM REALLY, REALLY HURT
VICE PRESIDENT JOE BIDEN'S RUN
FOR THE WHITE HOUSE BACK IN
1988.
YOU MIGHT BE TOO YOUNG TO
REMEMBER THAT.
BUT I REMEMBER IT VERY VIVIDLY.
HE GOT HAMMERED.
HE WAS CHASED OUT OF THE RACE IN
2008.
HOWEVER, THEN SENATOR OBAMA
FACED ACCUSATIONS OF LIFTING
LINES FROM MASSACHUSETTS
GOVERNOR DUVAL PATRICK.
DO YOU THINK PAUL IS GOING TO BE
ABLE TO BOUNCE BACK AS OBAMA
DID, OR IS THIS GOING TO HURT
HIM LIKE IT HURT BIDEN?
>> YOU KNOW, WE CAN'T REALLY
REMEMBER ANYTHING THAT HAPPENED
TWO MINUTES AGO IN POLITICS, LET
ALONE THREE YEARS FROM NOW IN
THE 2016 ELECTION.
I DON'T REALLY THINK THIS IS
GOING TO HURT PAUL, ESPECIALLY
BECAUSE WE'RE NOT REALLY SEEING,
YOU KNOW, GETTING FLAK FROM
REPUBLICANS FOR THIS.
DEMOCRATS AND JOURNALISTS
NOTICED HE HAS BEEN PLAGIARIZING
BUT I DON'T THINK HE WILL REALLY
HAVE TO ANSWER FOR THIS FULLY
UNTIL YOU HAVE SORT OF THE
REPUBLICAN BASE MAKING AN ISSUE
WITH PAUL.
AND MAYBE PEOPLE WILL DO THAT IN
A REPUBLICAN PRIMARY BUT RIGHT
NOW, PAUL HAS SORT OF EITHER
SIDE-STEPPED THE ISSUE -- HE
HASN'T TOTALLY TAKEN
ACCOUNTABILITY JUST YET.
>> NO, HE'S BLAMED IT ON HACKS
AND HATERS.
HACKS AND HATERS HE SAID TO
GEORGE STEPHANOPOULOS.
>> AHE CHALLENGED ME TO A DUEL,
HYPOTHETICALLY.
>> DO YOU THINK YOU WOULD BE
ABLE TO WIN SUCH A DUEL?
ARE YOU HANDY WITH A MUSKET?
>> I NEVER MISS.
>> HOW EASY IS IT TO SPOT
REPETITION LIKE THIS?
>> IT'S NOT REALLY THAT HARD,
WHEN YOU SEARCH THROUGH THE
SPEECHES.
THERE IS THE PATTERN OF WRITING
THAT'S SORT OF IN PAUL'S VOICE
AND THEN YOU'LL SEE WHEN THEY
ARE MAYBE WRITING ABOUT
SOMETHING THAT -- USING LIKE
FACTS OR MAYBE THE TONE HAS
CHANGED A LITTLE BIT AND IT'S
PRETTY EASY TO SEARCH THAT AND
COME UP WITH SOMETHING ELSE.
>> DO YOU THINK PAUL'S WHOLE
BODY OF WORK IS GOING TO BE
SIFTED THROUGH FOR ANY
SIMILARITIES TO OTHER PEOPLE'S?
>> YOU KNOW, I THINK THE BOOK IS
PRETTY SERIOUS BUT THE PUBLISHER
DIDN'T CARE.
THE PUBLISHER SAID, HE SAID IN
THE BACK THAT HE DIDN'T, YOU
KNOW, HE DIDN'T INDIVIDUALLY
RESEARCH EACH CASE AND I THINK
WITH THE OP-EDS, IF WE FIND IT
IN HIS OP-EDS, IT'S GOING TO BE
AN INSTANCE WHERE THESE OUTLETS
ARE GOING TO SAY -- ARE GOING TO
BE UPSET THAT PAUL PLAGIARIZED
AND WROTE IN THEIR OUTLET.
I THINK PEOPLE ARE GOING TO LOOK
THROUGH THE WHOLE BODY OF WORK,