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A spokesman for manafort says its 100 false to suggest this meeting including any discussion of contributions to the Trump Campaign or the Republican Party. When donald trump jr. Talked about the meeting he called it nothing and manafort said he was on his phone most of the time. The whole contact took how long . 20 minutes or so. 20 minutes. And jared left after five or ten. Yes. Like she said and paul manafort. On his phone. The whole time. Like i said it was pretty apparent this is not what w...

Fairfax. once, a reliably republican suburb. again, 45% of the estimated vote. lets watch throughout the night because you get some of the early voting, then you get the day-of voting. but terry mcauliffe jumping to an early lead. you look at that and you think okay thats good for the democrat. you go back in time to the last governors race, though, and you see ralph northam winning the governors race four years ago had a bigger margin there and if you look at the 2020 presidential race, click i...

So it is on both sides of the aisle towards donald trump. but how much did donald trump influence joe bidens decision to run in 2020? >> the book starts on election night 2016 with obama and biden each watching trump win and reacting to it. biden had been skeptical hillary clinton could win, but he thought trump cant win. he said i am not running. he looked at reporters in the back of the room in 2017 i am not running. then he would say to people privately, if im walking, im running. and what ha...

Even sworn into office. >> reporter: that was the deputy press secretary to the white house, hogan gidley just moments ago. the president, as you saw this morning, tweeted comparing himself to the victims of lynchi lynchings. today you heard hogan gidley tell you thats not at all what he did. your eyes tell you the real truth. this was a stunning claim on this day, its inflamed racial tensions for a president who has told congresswomen of color to go back where they came from. his charlottesvill...

It. you would have to have something as ridiculous as that and its not going to happen. >> a lot of people are wondering what he can say. >> lets bring in mark, the former mayor of new orleans. thank you for being here. >> thank you. >> you were one of the first to tweet out late last night that he should resign. >> so i thought about this and lets think about the context. this is 1984, 85 doug wilder was running for lieutenant governor, jesse jackson had just run for president. your 20 years af...

Back to back you run the risk, if you put in fairfax you have a governor succeeding himself can finish out northams term and run again. when i lived down, we dealt with this before. remember when george allen hand, so virginia has been through this, and its really embarrassing to go through it again. northam should do the right thing and step aside. >> jonathan, one of the things that is in the ether and atmosphere as we talk about this is charlottesville, which was so jarring for the entire cou...

Brown, whatever, as to the contributions of african-americans in history. my son is a baseball player and all ive ever taught him about was hank aaron and jackie robinson. we celebrated jackie robinsons 100 birthday. for a child to know the legacy of jackie robinson and think he gave his life and body to end this and then see in 2e9 019 to know nothing has changed and its the same thing. >> i have to tell you, peoples whose hearts were broken in florida and georgia saw candidates run openly supp...

Lot of other things happening here. they do a robert e. lee day, the friday before martin luther king, jr. day in the same state in virginia that the lieutenant governor justin fairfax actually in protest sat out of. hes supposed to lead the senate. he refused to take part in it. charlottesville happen which was over whether or not to leave up statutes of robert e. lee, the still pining for the confederacy is happening, an the outfit that is practicing this kind of revenge kind of politics, righ...

Was a birther and won and there is a challenge that is bigger than northam? >> oh, youre absolutely right. the only thing i would add is in order to take on those challenges the party with the most diverse base has to step out in front. >> right. >> take the moral authority and show that we will not tolerate -- we cant call trump out on charlottesville if theyre able to do the both sides -- >> were expecting ralph northam to speak. we thought he was going to speak already. well keep waiting for ...

How does that race go? pure toss up. then you get to the 5th district, which is charlottesville, but its also rural south side virginia. its an open seat. its a generic ballot test between a republican who, by the way, is a big foot enthusiast, and a democrat who -- >> he believes in big foot. >> i cant unsee some of the pictures that were part of his book. the democrat is also very progressive, former investigative journalist, happens to be olivia wilds mom. shes winning, watch out. >> lets tal...