What the secret service does to hold these people accountable. Very important reporting zach cohen john, thanks very much. And to our viewers, thanks very much for watching erin burnett outfront starts right now on. This friday, republicans bailing on the trumpbacked candidate exposed by cnn's k file as trump is radio silent on mark robinson tonight, new reporting on how the harris campaign plans to seize this moment. Also breaking right now, harris scoring a major endorsement, several local teamsters unions now backing the biden this president, vice president at large at the teamsters union, which refused to endorse, is my guest. And unmasking most right now, he's on track to be come the world's first trillionaire. Even as he's pushing wild conspiracy theories online, online. So what is elon musk's ultimate end game? let's go outfront erin burnett outfront tonight. The breaking news we're republicans leave trump's candidate high and dry. A major fundraiser for the trumpbacked gop candidate for north carolina governor canceled canceled because of kfile's reporting on mark robinson the chair of the republican governors association, nixing next week's event that was scheduled to be for harris, who is about to speak at a rally in wisconsin at this moment, these are live images is taking full advantage of the shocking revelations about robinson today. Billboards like this just popping like this one. It features trump alongside robinson and a picture plastered across north carolina. Obviously north carolina for trump is a mustwin state. He's actually going to be there in less than 24 hours. He knows he has to win. The billboard reads it, puts quotes around it. We have to cherish mark. He's an outstanding person, an incredible gentleman. So he said, okay, it's democratic god, we got to check these quotes, make sure to tom really say those specific that a cherished robinson well, areas to cherish marquee to stop, you have to show it's like a fine line because that's what you have. You have a fine wine he isn't outstanding person they could have put he's like a fine wine on there. I mean, you know, you already said it now, robinson, of course, the one to cherish the fine wine, the outstanding gentlemen, according to kfile's reporting, once praised slavery, railed against martin luther king, called himself a black nazi, said he watched transgender born in excruciatingly disgusting detail, despite calling transgender people demonic and talked about spying on women as they showered. He called himself a perv well, i guess well, my maybe, you know, there's a level of selfawareness there. I don't know. It's on top of his long list of controversial statements which the harris campaign is also highlighting and a new north carolina ad trying trump and robinson at the top about killing the child because you weren't responsible enough to keep your skirt down. I did with him a lot i've gotten to know him and his outstanding donald trump and mark robinson. They're both wrong for north carolina right? so democrats, you know, all that monday we talk about this massive fundraising advantage over trump. This is what happens when you have that. You can just throw money at it the next day, blanket entire state with billboards and ads the close connection between trump and robinson does have republicans biting their nails. So j. D. Vance was out and about today, he was out walking to the doctor's office on capitol hill. And here's what happened some new reaction to my province son news. Senator vance so he said he was he was going to the doctor's office that's why didn't have a comment. We'll have more on that in a moment. But what is really important here is trump has said nothing thus far. And when it comes to north carolina, as i said for trump, it is mustwin. Harris actually has several paths with without north carolina, but for trump, he has to win it. And he wanted by only just about one percentage point a little bit more than that in 2020 his narrower margin of victory anywhere and polls show the race extremely close. And now republicans are distancing themselves from robinson on the same day, the first absentee ballots were mailed out by robinson's name is on them. So even if you've gotten out last night, which he didn't, his name is still going to be on the ballot. The question tonight is whether robinson's baggage we'll open a path for harris in a state that has voted republican in ten of the last 11 presidential contests. Eva mckend is outfront. She is in madison, wisconsin, where as i mentioned, kamala harris is about to state the stage any moment right behind where you are, eva. And i know you've been talking to your sources in the harris campaign about the robinson news. What are they telling you episode is allowing the campaign to make this broad argument that they have been planning i'm running to make that mark robinson and by extension, former president donald trump in the mantle lng of the republican party are two trains, carolina they always have you drop in sin as an especially candidate but now ever more so. And what's interesting erin, about the strategy is that they're not so much focusing on comments that robinson made as revealed in the kfile report, but his policy position on abortion, trying to link robinson and trump on that policy let's see, manner because they believe that that is where the former president is most week and most vulnerable. But listen not only north carolina, they're focusing on their also focusing on dana county right here in wisconsin. That is because of a population boom that this area has seen in recent years, more people, more voters, they feel as though they have there's an organizing advantage in this state 200 staffers on the ground, they just opened their 50th field office. In the state this week. Erin all right. Even thank you very much. And as i said, the vice president is going to be speaking where he bears any moment we're going to monitor that. Should there be anything that you should hear? of course, we're going to bring it to you so andrew k. File the fallout continues from your reporting as we were just linked, some of that there and you've got some new information that you're learning tonight. What are you learning now? but that's right. We learned that yesterday shortly after our hours after our story was published all of robinson post that he made on that pornographic firm where he made these comments that we reported on i had been removed. Now, we have reached out to robinson's campaign. We haven't heard back. We actually also reached out to the administrator of that porn forum to ask, did you delete this did robinson delete this? we haven't heard back from either of them. So right now, all we know is those posts that we reported on yesterday, those controversial posts, everything he said has been removed and just to be clear, you reported on some of them and there were some that were just frankly disgusting to put out publicly. But from what they were all removed as far as you could tell, all of the salacious posted. I looked into that some of which cnn didn't choose to report on those that have been removed as well. All right. Which is very significant, phillip, i mean, that they went and remove them even though he said but he didn't know anything about them the harris campaign is obviously not going to let this go. As i said, they got the money and they threw it behind it today, the billboards go up, the ads go out. The polling context of north carolina is an incredibly close race. The ballots mailin have been sent out. Do you think that this actually could be a deciding factor in the presidential race in north carolina yeah, i mean, it certainly couldn't, especially when we're talking about something that is this close, right? i mean, so we see the first blush ad from the campaign focuses on abortion. There's a very obvious reason for that, which is that the entire media is talking about robinson's comments right now. The harris campaign doesn't need to reinforce that everyone's hearing about it on cnn and never else, right? right. So what they're looking at then is as november approaches, if we are assuming this is going to be a one or two point contest, they are going to do everything in our power to turn out there, folks and amplify anything which they hope is going to get trump's people to not be enthusiastic about coming out and vote. That's really the question here, right? if this is a razor thin race, are there going to be republican voters who really like trump, but then they're like, well, i don't really like robinson i'm really worth end up staying home as a result of it. So as we get closer to election day, look for the harris campaign to do more highlighting of the really gross things are robinson had said in an effort to try and have that, right? and they do the gross things and then that we make the thing about cherishing to trump has said really good things about robinson. Now he hasn't said anything. I since this all came out but he's got to go to north carolina whole lot, but he's got to when he is going to be there next week. So he's got a big decision to make about how to handle this. He cannot just avoid it, won't listen. He hasn't said anything in the last 24 hours, but i think we all know that this guy can't exactly keep his mouth closed. And when prodded, right, he's going there, he's going to see all these bull bore billboards. They're gonna be protesters out there outside of his rallies holding up signs at some point, i suspect that he's going to do what he always does and he's going to just boil over and have to address it and say something ridiculous. So excited about that, i just want to remind us all though, that in 2008, barack obama won north carolina and it is not completely impossible for a democrat who can galvanize a diverse coalition in the way that we saw last night with kamala harris in oprah winfrey, that had so many people from all walks of life across america coming together in support of a kamala harris that, that democrats can win the state. First of all, second of all? well, there are so many people in north carolina who are just over the nastiness, the bullying they care about abortion and they might have voted republican last time around. But this gives them an excuse and an opportunity not to do that again in a gopher, kamala's, so it's really great that she's continuing to amplify this and look if they had a strong gop gubernatorial candidate, they might feel very differently. I'm just going to be honest here. They have a bad candidate. They they have a problem and governor the harris campaign is also touting the video, that i played just a moment ago of j. D. Vance when he ignored that question about robinson today, i just want to play it again for you, governor pawlenty some action. Robinson news senator vance alright, so he didn't say anything there, governor, he did tweet in response. I was walking to the doctor because one of my kids gave me the plague and attempted humor there. But then he said my comment on mark robinson is kamala harris cast the deciding vote on the inflation explosion act and became because of that, a lot of americans can't afford groceries, just trying to turn the issue altogether governor, the reality of it is though was trump's going to be in north carolina. He's eventually going to have to address this directly, whether it's because he boils over as i used to say, or just because it's going to happen because he's in the state are you dreading that moment well, i have to agree with aisha on one point and that is he's not gonna be able to avoid it j. D. Vance isn't gonna be able to avoid it. So in the coming days, they're going to have to respond to this for all the reasons that have been noted. I'm sure they're trying to figure out what to say about it, and they're in a very difficult spot for obvious reasons, these comments, you know, if true by the way, we should at least know that robinson is denying them that those aren't his words, those aren't his comments. So good, we should at least note that, but if they are true and there's allegations against him are credible, those comments are disqualifying. But as you've noted, the ballots mailin ballots as well as the overseas and military ballots, have been mail. And so even if that's just two, 3% of the vote, that really matters. It certainly does. Andrew. I had a question for you, but just because governor pawlenty raises that he denies them, governor plenty doesn't. But if mark robinson dies, i just want to give you a chance again for anybody who didn't get to hear what you laid out last night the excruciating detail with which you did this reporting to know that these are indeed mark robertson's posts? yeah, that's right. I think the most compelling evidence is i mean, besides his his emails on the site name is on the site. It says the user's name is mark robinson. He offered biographical details that matched him exactly the year he was married. His age his location that his mother worked in hbcu. We match that same username, minisoldr to use it on youtube, pinterest, black planet, the forum discuss. He used it previously on twitter we found that he used that same email on several other websites as well. So the evidence we found there with pretty compelling and a lot of people actually were drawn to something we found where there were all these unique phrases that nobody has heard. Anyone said that we found that robinson used on nude africa and then he also use on facebook. So there was just so many different breadcrumbs that we found pointing this to mark robinson and mark robinson only, which i think is just really important because i've gotten a raise it for you for you to be able to lay that out. We got a statement tonight and do from out to outfront from the former wake county, north carolina republican party chair steve berkshire. He says, quote, we expected some bombshells, but not to this devastating extent. Mark robinson supporters love his history of confronting issues head on, but he owes it to his supporters to come out swinging and knocked down these allegations, which would be the reaction of an innocent man lieutenant governor robinson, we are waiting and you just heard what governor plenty said that this would be disqualifying if if true. And as you lay out, of course, you've done, you have the receipts on that but it seems like the gop was really thrown by your reporting yeah. What's interesting is we've reached out to his campaign. Okay tuesday and i want to say 9:00 a. M. We gave them until thursday at 10:00 a. M. To respond to us the deadline comes, we get a call, we talk to experts versus and he asked us to push it back so we can interview lieutenant governor robinson, which we do and we played some of that last night on your show but while that story is, we're getting to interview them details of that story start to leak comments, particularly the black nazi comments started going around twitter. And cnn didn't leak that. We didn't tell anybody abo