is this something from the standpoint of the other campaigns, is it something they feel they need to pounce on, they need to point out? do they think this was something that will be noticed by voters, that will bother them? what do they make of carson and policy? it was pointed out to me actually after the debate by a rival campaign, that in this particular instance, and of course this is an opponent so this is what they re going to say, that you saw, given the format of the debate, they really had to know their policy. they had to come out. you saw some people do that pretty successfully. people touting cruz or rubio. that s not something you necessarily saw from ben carson. that said, steve, look at how he s performed in the prior debates too. he hasn t been somebody who has necessarily come out and surged and stood out and had some big
passing out the knnock commercial tosh discredit biden. that s true. the whole story was put out by a rival campaign. at the time, no one knew whose campaign was responsible for putting that tape out. but once the story was out, once that is piece aired on nbc, once maureen dowd s story ran in the new york times it, had a life of its own. reporters started looking into joe biden s other peach speeches, all of his writing. there were more instances of passages apparently lifted from other politicians including it seemed robert kennedy. biden was forced to admit he plagiarized a law review article during his first year of law school. the entire thing snowballed into a giant immediate scandal and in a remarkably short 11 days, it was all over. the presidential campaign claims another victim as senator joseph biden drops out of the race. nbc nightly news with tom brokaw.
they didn t get what we had because they didn t have the talent or the strength or the endurance or the commitment, of course not. it was because there was no platform upon which they could stand. aides to biden say another democratic campaign is passing out the kinnock commercial to discredit biden. that s true. they also say it wasn t conscious plagiarism that he s been under great pressure preparing for bork hearings and that night he was just on automatic pilot. september 12th, 1987, did you catch an toward the end from ken bode, the nbc news correspondent? he said aides to biden say another democratic campaign is passing out the kinnock commercials to discredit biden. that s true. the whole story was put out by a rival campaign. at the time, no one knew whose campaign was responsible for
we have no idea. joining me now, news deputy director mark murray. there those who are speculating that a contender may have leaked this story orç in association with the wannabes may have leaked the story. will we know where the story came from? we don t know where it s come from. so far i haven t heard any of that type that came from a rival campaign. there had been some chatter here in washington that there was a story about herman cain. politico broke the news on sunday night. instead of whether or not who came up with the story, the biggest story for herman cain is does another shoe drop. he pretty much came up with the case yesterday and it evolved over last night he never sexually harassed anyone and somebody falsely thought it was