Tonight on all in let's all choose kamala harris! the return of oprah winfrey. For what we are hoping is going to be one great big, giant voter rally. Tonight the harris campaign event in a crucial swing state. Plus i think you are better than martin luther king. I think your martin luther king times two. Stunning new reporting on the trump endorsed candidate in north carolina. Robinson made dozens of very disturbing comments on a porn site, claiming he is, quote, a black nazi and wishing they would bring slavery back. Denials from the candidate ahead of tonight's deadline for republicans to replace them. And evidence donald trump can't get away from project 2025. I haven't read it and i don't want to read it, purposely. When all in starts now. Good evening from new york, i am chris hayes. We have a big night tonight for big stars in both parties. Any minute now vice president kamala harris will be appearing with the one and only oprah winfrey for an event in michigan. We will bring that to you as soon as we get it. We begin tonight in a different battleground state, the state of north carolina, where republicans are positively freaking out. You see the deadline to withdraw from the states gubernatorial election is four hours from now. The state republican party really wants candidate, mark robinson, to drop out. Even by donald trump's standards, mark robinson is a uniquely terrible candidate. He has a history of rank anti semitism along with other bigoted statements. He has made grotesque antiabortion ants accusing women of not being responsible enough to keep your skirt down. Two weeks ago he had to deny a report that he was once a five nights a week at indy at multiple porn shops, where he often brought a pizza with him. All of that was a known quantity and yet this afternoon we started to hear this chatter that republicans including members of the trump campaign had suddenly decided it was time for robinson to go and then we learned why. Around 3:30 p. M. Cnn dropped report that robinson made a series of inflammatory comments on a pornography website message board more than a decade ago in which he referred to himself as, quote, a black nazi and expressed support for slavery. The extensive and thorough report by the reporters at cnn provides overwhelming evidence that mark robinson was indeed the one making the comments on the website, nude africa. Including the fact that he signed up for an account using his actual name, mark robinson. He used the same username and email address for accounts on multiple other websites and in the report robinson says he wants to own slaves and calls himself a nazi. Wrote that he preferred the former leader of nazi germany over the leadership of barack obama. Also robinson graphically described his own sexual arousal as an adult with a memory of secretly peeping on women in public gym showers as a 14yearold. Robinson recounted the stories and said he still fantasized about it. He said he enjoyed transgender pornography and messages revealed he also referred to himself as, quote, perv. It is our position strongly on this program that consenting adults should be free to produce and consume any pornography should they want to, transgender pornography included. It does produce a stark contrast from what robinson says now about lgbtq folks. There is no reason for anyone in america to talk about homosexuality, any of that filth and yes i called it filth. He does seem to be a bit of a health expert. In an interview robinson denied that any of the messages belonged to him. These are not our words and not anything that is characteristic how do you explain the matching details on this profile, the profile lists your full name as mark robinson. The email listed on the account is an email that you have used elsewhere on the internet, including with your photo. You have used that name on multiple social media accounts including twitter, pinterest, blackplanet and youtube. How can you deny with all these matching details that this is you? look, i'm not going to get into the minutia of some one manufacturing lines. We should also note that the report covered language used, uncommon phrases. Under head. And i don't give two shakes of it. They were used by the account on nude africa and by mark robinson on his personal facebook page. Also according to the report, robinson spoke admirably about the kkk. Made disparaging remarks about martin luther king jr. More than a bit ironic considering what trump likes to say about his good friend mark robinson. I said to this man and when he endorsed me he gave a speech and i said your doctor martin luther king on steroids, that is how good you are. You are unbelievable as a speaker and he got up and he is doing fantastically well in north carolina and i think he's going to be the next governor of north carolina, mark robinson. I don't know if i would put money on that bet right now. Donald trump and his family said a lot of nice things about the man who called himself a black nazi and reportedly praised hitler. Thanks to one of the hottest politicians in the united states of america and he has become a friend of mine. Lieutenant governor mark robinson. You have to be very careful. You have to cherish mark. He is historic. Like a fine wine, because that is what you have. A fine wine. An outstanding person. I got to know him so well and fairly quickly. He is fighting and we know he is a fighter. The next governor of north carolina, mark robinson. Thanks, mark. We know them, we know mark very well. Amazing, amazing, amazing guy, but you know mark is a wonderful person, wonderful guy. A person i have gotten to know very well and i think that only are we going to win the state, i think he's going to win the state. Now it seems as donald trump might be trying to distance himself according to the carolina journal. Robinson is under pressure from staff and members of the trump campaign to withdraw from the governor's race and earlier leaders of the trump campaign told robinson he was not welcome and rallies for trump or j. D. Vance. He was slated to speak on wednesday, but his office announced robinson had tested positive for covid. Robinson is pretty far down the polls, while the top of the ticket is locked in a tie and to be clear the deadline to withdraw is today. He has less than four hours as of now. The candidate can pull out of the race until absentee ballots start to go out for overseas servicemembers. Those go out tomorrow. Robinson's name is already on them, but according to robinson it does not matter because he is not going anywhere. Let me reassure you the things you will see in that story, those are not the words of mark robinson. Clarence thomas famously once said he was the victim of a hightech lynching. It looks like mark robinson's, too. We are staying in this race, we are in it to win it and we know with your help we will. I, for one, feel reassured. Maybe mark robinson is the most extreme version of the maga candidate, but is he really that much more extreme than j. D. Vance who spent the last two weeks spreading libel about haitian residents of his home state? and what about donald trump who also bragged about peeping on women while they undressed, to say nothing of posting of sexual assault and then getting found liable of sexual abuse by a jury. The guy who broke bread at his home with a man who praised hitler. This is the republican party under donald trump. North carolina republicans, a little hard to return your candidate now. You broke it, you bought it. Mark robinson is your guy. Michael steele is a former chair of the rnc and is now the cohost of the weekend. Tara previously worked as a republican communications director on capitol hill. A super pac to court moderate women for kamala harris and they join me now. Well, well, well michael, let me start with you. Of course. Who could've possibly seen it coming? this i thought of the way more race in alabama, because obviously he was a zealot who had no business being anywhere near a senate seat and he won the primary because donald trump liked him and backed him and it never should have been close and then these revelations that he was essentially hitting on underage women outside the courthouse and stalking them in high school and he lost the senate race, but it is like a, there were 1 billion red flags. You chosen because donald trump liked him and now here we are again in north carolina. I had a moment of zen when the story started breaking because i was thinking back to 2010 and the worst i had was a candidate who had to declare she was not a witch. That's nothing. That's nothing. We are in very different territory. Look, i love the way you ended the intro. You bought it because you broke it. You own it now. Mark robinson is not going anywhere. He has three hours and some 45 minutes to drop out. He is defiant and the reality is that the stain is here. You knew this. They knew a lot of this and yet they thought they could get away with it. They thought they could slide it past folks. This guy is a pulpits and churches talking about killing people, people should die and everyone just walked it off like okay. So now this is the line you are drawing? this is the line? not the killing people. Not the other stuff he said that you already knew about. So what do you expect to happen now? north carolina is in play, chris. That is why the gop and north carolina republican party and the trump campaign want him gone because they are underwater in the private polling and they are losing the state, so they figure if they just jettison the weight they can get the ballast right and float a little bit better to win the state. Roy cooper, the governor of north carolina. We should note that north carolina is a strange state. Lieutenant governor czar elected independent of the governor, not on the same ticket. The governor said donald trump and gop leaders embraced mark robinson for years knowing what he stood for including disrespect for women and inciting violence. They reap what they sow. What does this say about this era of the maga gop? this is i think the worst i have seen. But what does it mean for the party and what does the party do now, because if it were a democrat, people would be issuing statements. Particularly jewish members of congress would be out with statements saying this is unacceptable, he should drop out, this is disgusting. As far as i can tell i don't think there has been one word from one republican anywhere. This is donald trump's republican party. Donald trump is despicable, he is shameless, he is a con artist, he fleeces people. He is a convicted felon and incited an insurrection. Why is anybody surprised that the candidates that are now running in the republican party aren't the best people? mark robinson isn't the only one. There is a litany of them. You have blake masters, herschel walker. Now we can add this guy. They all are despicable, horrible people who said despicable, horrible things, extremist things about women, and mark robinson is just another one to add to the list and he got a pass a little bit because he is black, just like herschel walker. You look at their records and the things they said, they are not qualified for office. They are on unfit, but maga needs their racial path of pacifiers. Better than martin luther king. Are you kidding me? donald trump comparing this guy to martin luther king? if anybody ever looked at this and thought donald trump was not a racist or actually cared anything about people of color or a history of civil rights. You've got to be kidding me. You are comparing this guy, who, like michael said, there should be some killing from the pulpit? so not only is mark robinson a hypocrite, he tries to hide behind god and christianity when he does it and this is another frustrating part, infuriating part of their hypocrisy trying to hide behind god. Mark robinson said if anyone came against him they would get god's vengeance. Stop using god and christianity to hide your perversions and hypocrisy. Maga does this all the time and mark robinson is the next one. He has a problem and says they are a sin against the holy spirit. No, how about your hypocrisy and you and your sexual deviancy hiding behind the pulpit? that is a sin before god. They need to stop it. This is donald trump's republican party. That is what you get in this era when there is no shame. There is no shame. It is pathological and the people of north carolina, i hope they do the right thing. I think it is a test. Is the party going to be okay with this? we should note tonight, when you talk about no shame, donald trump is doing an event to combat antisemitism tonight, speaking tonight and i will say i thought about this a lot in the context of mark robinson. There is a post that he accused of being concocted by jews and he used a yiddish derogatory term for black people. This was public beforehand. This is a guy who said that he preferred hitler to barack obama and now calls himself a nazi. Given the conversation about antisemitism this does seem like something that needs a response from someone in the national party. That you can't align yourself with someone who calls themselves a nazi. Chris, you would hope so, but i would not put any money on it. What are they going to say? they nominated him. They nominated him in the face of all of this stuff and in the face of the stuff that we already knew. This is new, so we are just finding this part out, and in the face of everything else they have the video. They have seen with this guy was saying before he announced a run for governor. They knew what kind of elected official he was for the state, so what are they going to say now? oops, my bad? i don't think so. The reality is they are stuck with this, because this is what they wanted. They were cynical in the nominating process. They did not give a about the voters of north carolina. It was about fronting a black man that could be the noise and chatter that they wanted to unload and he brings his own baggage that he unpacks on their front porch. What are you going to say, the spokesperson for the national party? i am waiting for those comments. State party organization. Members of congress from north carolina, how about that? there is one gop member tonight and i think this is what they will do. This one, again, someone who uses the term like terminology like your deep in the world of antisemitic vocabulary. Stereotypes. He also called beloved television creator norman lear and antisemitic slur. That is the kind of stuff we're talking about. But to your point, michael, one republican congressman basically says who knows anymore these days with a. I. What they will do because they are capable of saying hundreds of thousands of undocumented immigrants are voting, they are just going to use the reality denying machine that it does not exist, even though everyone should read the article and i cannot overstate to you how thoroughly documented it is. This guy. Have a drink with you when you are reading it. They will use the reality denying machine here. Yeah, this is what they do because this is donald trump's playbook. This is what roy cohn, donald trump's mentor taught him to do. Never admit defeat. Never admit wrongdoing. N