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Your ability to govern. >> the press conference, mark, it just -- it went from bad to worse, i think. i just want to play a little bit more of that, when he talks about dressing up as michael jackson. >> do you have to? >> just for people who missed it. >> terrible, terrible. >> i had the shoes. i had a glove. i used a little bit of shoe polish to put under my -- or on my cheeks. the reason i used a very little bit is because -- i dont know if anybody tried that, but you cant get shoe polish off...

Defiant. virginia governor ralph northam staying put for now after a racist photo showing someone in blackface with someone in a kkk hood was seen on his yearbook page. hes behind closed doors with his cabinet as we speak. democrats seem to draw a clear and resounding line. there is no place for this in public servant. plus, it depends. thats what president trump answered when he was asked about whether the results of robert muellers investigation should be made public. what does it depend on?...

Candidates. more importantly, its a milepost for how well americans understand our own history of racism and how we address those symbols of racism, how they define where we are as a country. a lot of moving parts to this story at this hour. ralph northam meeting with his cabinet. governor northame police iie iic politically isol he can get. the controversy stemming from the photos printed under his name in the graduate yearbook. one man in blackface. another in a kkk robe. northam originally ap...

About politics. it should be about doing the decent thing, the right thing. he never -- he doesnt seem to understand exactly what he did and why that photo, even if he is in the photo or not, it is on his yearbook page. he doesnt seem to grasp why that is so offensive, why that is so horrendous. he goes out and has a press conference. he denies what he said 24 hours prior. then he makes this weird comment and talks about how he wore blackface, he couldnt take the shine off his face, how hard it ...

>> probably. >> i can continue to go about the business i was elected for. >> thats a possibility. or what im concerned about is, quite frankly, is there an aversion to stepping aside, to actually allow an african-american to take the position? in other words, is he not only blackface in costume but blackface in practice? you know, you dont go out and start the game if youre injured. you give it to the man that can go out and finish the job. justin fairfax is a person to finish the job. hed go a...

Hullabaloo of was it me, not me, and the confession he did michael jackson, and even what i consider a further confession, he knows exactly how much polish to put on his face so he can still get it off. that suggests to me maybe the michael jackson incident wasnt the first time hed done that. the question is, can he lead? dont forget, this is the 400th anniversary of africans coming to the shores of jamestown in chains. well have a commemorative ceremony on that later this year. does virginia wa...

Charlotte ville episodcha charlottesville episode. we have to step up as americans and do better around the question of race, or were going to continue to repeat these unfortunate episodes. >> one of the things i think it really does show us, mark, lets take the man at his word. he said it was only a few years ago that he understood the implications of blackface. we certainly had that incident on our own network here. i dont want to call this a teachable moment because that seems dismissive, but...

Years after the passage of the voting rights act, much was in transition. by the mid 70s, many of the public schools became even more segregated with the establishment of private segregated academies. you had many individuals across the south still longing for the uprise of a confederacy. i can only imagine that the governor was a part of that cultural backdrop. thats why you would have a medical school yearbook with blackface and klan uniform. unfortunately, there was no denouncing of this acti...