here. reporter: the parade walk backfired. the twitterverse lit up with comments like hog-tied. it s outrageous. i ve never seen a political candidate who has wanted to have such little contact with people. reporter: the director of communications for the clinton campaign tried to explain away the rope in a tv appearance this morning. she provoked edd edd edd laughter. she said it was a compromise. it can be in the way of her ability to campaign. we don t have all the vehicles in the campaigns of today. we could have had them preset along the way, but that would be
sense. and the interesting thing about the paul ryan pick is the sense there was romney had made a build or buy decision and he decided he wanted to buy a set of policies rather than build some from scratch. but once they got paul ryan on the ticket they didn t want to talk about his policies because they re toxic. so ryan has become like the pandering romney. jeb bush probably could have made a better run at this than mitt romney. but what he understood and what a lot of more legitimate republican candidates understood was this is not the time you want to be leading this party because you re hog-tied. you have to cue against everything that obama has said and done and you have to play to that. it doesn t leave any room to maneuver. i think jeb bush recognized that. i m only going to interrupt you to insert yet another
challengers were rick santorum. a more skilled candidate could have put some ideas forward in the primary that would have made sense. and the interesting thing about the paul ryan pick is the sense there was romney had made a build or buy decision and he decided he wanted to buy a set of policies rather than build some from scratch. but once they got paul ryan on the ticket they didn t want to talk about his policies because they re toxic. so ryan has become like the pandering romney. jeb bush probably could have made a better run at this than mitt romney. but what he understood and what a lot of more legitimate republican candidates understood was this is not the time you want to be leading this party because you re hog-tied. you have to cue against everything that obama has said and done and you have to play to that. it doesn t leave any room to
jury here. it was 18 years ago here where the bodies of three 8-year-old boys were found. they were hog-tied. one had been beaten to death the other two drowned. the west memphis three were arrested and convicted of those murders. but now as you just said, they have been released, but despite that the district attorney said they did get the right people and the case is closed. the men known as the west memphis three in court almost two decades after juries found them guilty of the horrific murders of three cub scouts. they each pled guilty while professing their innocence. your honor, i am innocent of these charges. reporter: then they were set free. this was not justice. reporter: in an exclusive interview with today , just released jason baldwin claimed law enforcement pinned the case on them in part because of how
early evening may, 1993, west memphis, arkansas. three cub scouts go missing. steve branch, chris buy buyers and michael moore. the search lasted 24 hours and their bodies are found in a ditch in the woods. they are stripped naked, hog tied, and mutilated. within weeks the police have their target. a trio of suspects. 18-year-old damion he can kel. 16-year-old jason baldwin, and 17-year-old jesse miss kelly jr. who is mentally disabled. the three are believed to be members of a satanic cult and during police interrogation miss kelly cracks and confesses implicating all three in the murders. an animal like that needs to be locked up and put together.