Issues they care about and the issues they dont care about. First, lets talk. Its been another crazy week of head spinning, headlines from blackface to black hamaiblackma. You have jeff bezos saying the National Enquirer is trying to blackmail and extort. Hes probably the wrong guy to be messing with. You have the state of virginia in disarray because of blackface. We had a polarizing state of the union speech from our republican president and an equally proposal from our congressional democrats. You got a lot happening all at once. Its easy to get overwhelmed, get triggered and go to our corners. Im as guilty of this as anybody else most days. We got to remember a very important word from our school days. That word is knew answnuance. We have to learn stuff together. This word socialism, that immediately sends people running to that you are corners especially older voters who remember the cold war, the iron curtain, the soviet union. Thats not what these Younger Voters are talking abo
In the New York Times, the trump tower, the crown jewel of trumps sprawling empire. Its name em blazened in gold was built on the backs of polish workers, many underpaid, overworked and undocumented. It was from the same marbled skyscraper that donald trump would launch his president ial bid and promise to build a wall peppering his speech and many others after with the antiimmigrant rhetoric that electrified his base. When mexico sends its people, they are not sending their best. They are bringing drugs. They are bringing clubs. Theyre rapists. You wouldnt believe how bad these people are. These arent people. These are animals. We have some bad hombres here and we are going to get them out. Tolerance for illegal immigration is not compassionate. It is actually very cruel. Trump is still selling the Illegal Immigrants boogeyman. Ramping it up even more as he gears up for the 2020 election, backed by the relentless drum beat of antiimmigrant rhetoric on fox news. A the Washington Post r
Including from democratic president ial candidate Julian Castro who reacted in retime to the new developments. Last night, he seemed to he offered an apology, basically took responsibility for this. And then this morning, at least we believe if we believe these news reports, he seems to be saying thats not him in the photo. Something about all of that doesnt add up. And im not sure at this point after his apology that he should even be given the benefit of the doubt if hes saying that its not him. A lot to get to on all this. First Mike Viqueira is right outside the Governors Mansion. This new wrinkle here, his denial, whats happening now . Whats thede tenor of things ase await his News Conference . Allem, its hard to believe less than 24 hours ago, none of this hadgo been known to the public. It was published online about 4 00 in richmond and washington yesterday afternoon. Since then, Governor Ralph Northam besieged by calls, nationaleg democrats, local and state democrats for his re
Person i am today or the way that i have conducted myself as a soldier, a doctor, and a public servant. I am deeply sorry. I cannot change the decisions i made nor can i undo the harm my behavior caused then and today. Lets start with cnns jessica dean in richmond, virginia, right outside of the Governors Mansion. So what is expected today at 2 30 when he is scheduled to speak . Reporter well, fredericka, we are certainly not expecting to hear him resign. Thats pretty much the one thing we do know. Other than that, its kind of anybodys guess what exactly hes going to say once we get in there. You really walked everybody through this giant flipflop that has happened within less than 24 hours. Yesterday he was apologizing, he was taking responsibility. Today hes now, through sources were hearing, telling people he doesnt believe that that photo is him and that he is going to stay in the Governors Mansion and remain as governor. All of this is happening as the infrastructure around him, t
Hes working during executive time and he uses that as a cover to hide certain meetings hes having that he doesnt want officials to know about for fear that theyll leak. And good day, everyone. Im Andrea Mitchell in washington. Ralph northam has been in crisis meetings all day with his cabinet after digging in despite a tsunami of calls from fellow democrats for him to resign. Hes been in the eye of the storm after a racist picture after his medical yearbook school page was leaked friday after first acknowledging being in a picture his story changed. The governor says he does not think he was one of the two people pictured and never saw the yearbook until last week. At the same time he said he hadnt worn black face that year to portray Michael Jackson in a dance contest in 1984. It is because my memory of that episode is so vivid that i truly do not believe that i am in the picture in my yearbook. I used a little bit of shoe polish to put it on my cheeks and the reason i used a very lit