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>> if democrats are playing by their own rules in virginia, all three of the top democrats should resign and step aside. they violated all the rules that theyve held republicans falsely accountable for. he said he has white privilege and therefore he understands and can be empathetic. which is quite ironic considering he refused to step aside for an african-american lieutenant governor, refused to step aside. i would say that is white privilege. all of a sudden these sexual claims from ten years...

Democratic party who have said thats it, if hes apologetic, thats fine, but he can be apologetic outside of the governors mansion. were not going to go forward with somebody who has acknowledged, regardless of the yearbook photo, acknowledged wearing black face. this is just not something that aligns with our values, they say, and pretty much theyre voting him off the island, if you will. jon: yeah. and he doesnt seem to have any supporters in high places. the head of the democratic national com...

Election, but a recall process where the people of virginia could petition a court to actually try to remove him. and there is impeachment provisions too in virginia law for a governor. so the one thing that remains is him just simply stepping down, and if you believe what he said today, hes not going to be doing that, although that remains to be seen. jon: heres one of those calls from a fellow democrat. this is dan kildee, a michigan congressman. listen. >> obviously, its a distraction that we...

Text, that is a joke. is there a recall process for united states senators from wisconsin? because people, not only around this country, but our enemies across the world heard a sitting united states senator say that he believed that there was a secret society inside the federal bureau of investigation that was planning a coup detat against the united states president. this -- >> thats big news. >> its going to be very easy for us this morning to laugh at the stupidity of it all. theres nothing ...

Talked to and everything we can see is that the mayor will not resign, that the first opportunity to get him out of office will be if he runs fo for, -- there could also be a recall process. there want any recall process in the state of illinois before 2010 when a referendum approved a recall for the governments over after the governor blagojevich conviction. >> thank you very much. i want to bring in ari melber

To do that. and everyone i talk to say its not likely to happen. the next time as things stand now the next time voters will be able to express their judgment on emanuel will be in 2019 if he runs for re-election. but in the state legislature in springfield there are bills being introduced to create for the first time a recall process, set up a system for a recall election for the mayor of chicago. they would require a lot of signatures to be gathered on petitions. it will not be an easy task, b...

Incognito and teammate jonathan martin who blew up the nfl by accusing mr. incognito of bullying him. i mean, give me a break. these are guys who spend all day sunday taunting, whooping and whacking each other nearly sense lens. bullying? a miss. >> this is a miss for the toronto mayor ford who admitted to smoking crack cocaine while in office, yet he refuses to resign. he says his heavy drinking drove him to smoke crack which for some of us is a second reason. >> yes, thats reassuring. >> in an...

Diego. doesnt he look like richie incognito? >> yes. and the guy behind him is his brother. >> does he do that stuff, too? >> rob thinks maybe -- doug thinks rob needs to get it a little bit under control. when youre drinking, do it at home. not out in public. the toronto folks are embarrassed. >> really? why dont they do a recall. >> they want him to walk away. they cant throw him out of office under ontario law. >> they dont have a recall process. >> no. he as to be convicted or if he doesnt s...

>> he should be mayor of san diego. doesnt he look like richie incognito? >> yes. and the guy behind him is his brother. >> does he do that stuff, too? >> rob thinks maybe -- doug thinks rob needs to get it a little bit under control. when youre drinking, do it at home. not out in public. the toronto folks are embarrassed. >> really? why dont they do a recall. >> they want him to walk away. they cant throw him out of office under ontario law. >> they dont have a recall process. >> no. he as to b...

Any leverage to negotiate? >> it appears his leverage was resignation. he doesnt have much else to negotiate with but he can say, hey, listen, if i dont resign, you have to go through this recall process and its going to take a long time and its going to be drawn out but i could resign right now and in turn if you give me some of the things that im looking for, we can start to bring this to a conclusion. so that is the assumption of what happened behind the closed doors this week. but we will fi...