Theres a political tint to this whole issue.

Melanias immigrant experience and love for America shone through in her speech, which made it such a success.

In an interview with CBS on Tuesday,Manafort echoed those sentiments.

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There are not that many similarities.

There are a couple of phrases.

Its basically fragment of words.

She spoke in front of 35 million people yesterday, she knew what she was doing.

She never cribbed from another speech without acknowledging that she was quoting somebody else, he said.

Manafort later added, Were talking about words like compassion, love of family, respect.

These are not words that belong to the Obamas.