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Racy Text Messages Suggest Detroit Mayor Lied

Detroit Mayor Kwame Kilpatrick and his chief of staff testified in a police whistle-blower trial last summer that they didn't have an affair. Now romantic and sexually explicit text messages suggest they lied under oath.

Madeleine Brand talks to ML Elrick, one of the Detroit Free Press reporters who broke the story.

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