Event in a crucial swing state. I think you are better than Martin Luther King. I think you are Martin Luther King times two. New reporting on the Trumpeters Candidate in North Carolina. Robinson made dozens of disturbing comments on the pornography site, complaining he is a Black Nazi and said, quote, wishes they would bring slavery back. I would buy a few. The denial from the Maga Candidate at at the deadline for republicans to replace him. The latest Evidence Donald Trump cannot get away from project 2025. I havent read it. I dont want to read it. All in starts right now. Good evening from new york. Im chris hayes. We have a big night tonight. Big night for big stars and democratic and republican parties. Any minute, Vice President Kamala Harris will be appearing with The One And Only Oprah Winfrey. A highly produced live Campaign Event in michigan. We will bring that as soon as we get it. We begin in North Carolina. Republicans are positively freaking the heck out. You see, the deadline to withdraw from the gubernatorial election is four hours from now. The state Republican Party wants its candidate, Mark Robinson, to drop out. Even by the standards of Donald Trumps freaks and geeks. Mark robinson is a uniquely terrible campaign. He has a history, open history of Rank Antisemitism along with a bunch of other bigoted statements. He has made grotesque anti abortion ads of accusing women not being responsible enough to keep the score down. Last week he had to deny report he was a five nights a Week Attendee of multiple pornography shops. All that had been a known quantity. Trump bitten his party and yet this afternoon, we start to hear this chatter that republicans including members of the Trump Campaign had decided it was time for robinson to go. Then we learned why. Around 3 30 p. M. cnn dropped a report that robertson made a series of inflammatory comments on a Pornography Website Message board more than a decade ago in which he referred to himself as a, quote, Black Nazi and expressed support for reinstating slavery. The extensive and thorough report by the excellent reporters at cnn provides overwhelming evidence that Mark Robinson was indeed the one making the comments on the website Nude Africa including the fact he signed up for an account using his actual name, Mark Robinson. He used the same username and an Email Address for other accounts on multiple other websites and the report he says he wants to own slaves and calls himself a nazi. Wrote he preferred the former leader of Adolph Hitler during the administration of Barack Obama. I would take hitler over any of the expletives in washington right now. Also Robinson Graphically described his own Sexual Arousal as an adult from the memory of secretly peeping on women and gym showers when he was 14. Memories he still fantasizes about. Robinson said he enjoyed watching transgender pornography, archived messages found to which he referred to himself as a, quote, perv. Of course, its our position strongly here on this program, Consenting Adults in every country can produce or consume any pornography should they want to. Transgender pornography obviously included. It does present a stark contrast with What Robinson says now about lgbtq folks. There is no Reason Anybody anywhere in america transgender, homosexuality, and at that felt. Yes i called it filled. That seemed to be a filth expert. In an interview, robinson denied that any of the messages belong to him. This is not as. These are not our words and not anything characteristic and has it ever been. How do you explain the details on this profile. The profile on Nude Africa less your full name is Mark Robinson. The email listed on the account is an email you use and have used elsewhere on the internet including with your photo. You have used that name on multiple Social Media accounts including twitter and black planet and you to. How can you deny with these matching details that this is you . Im not going to get into the minutia of how somebody manufactured these tabloid lies. We should note the report uncovered very specific language used in the post at issue. On common phrases such as giga may get. I dont give a frogs as. I dont use two shakes a bit. And by Mark Robinson on his personal facebook page. Also according to the report, robinson spoke admirably about the implying he would join if they allowed black members. Made disparaging remarks about Martin Luther King jr. Calling him a commie pastored. Ironic considering what what trump likes to say but his good friend Mark Robinson. I said to this man and when he endorsed me he gave a speech and he said, you are dr. Martin Luther King on steroids. Thats how good you are. You are unbelievable. He got up and is doing fantastically well in North Carolina, and i think is going to be the next governor of North Carolina. Mark robinson. I dont know if i would put money on that right now in fact, trump and his family offset a lot of nice things praised hitler. Thanks as well to i think one of the hottest politicians in the united states of america and has become a friend of mine. Lieutenant governor Mark Robinson. We have to be very careful. We have to cherish. You have to cherish and. You have a fine line. He is an outstanding person. I know him so well and fairly quickly. I want to thank a very good man. He is fighting. We know he is a fighter. The next governor of North Carolina, Mark Robinson. Thanks. We know them well. We know marc very well. Amazing, amazing guy. Mark is a wonderful person, a wonderful guy. A person ive gotten to know very well. I think not only will we went to the state but he will win. Now it seems trump may be trying to distance himself according to the chair carolina journal, robinson is under pressure from strobe to withdraw from the Governors Race and leaders in the Trump Campaign privately told robinson he was not welcome at rallies for Trump Or J. D. Vance. He was slated to speak at the Vance Appearance on wednesday but his office announced that robertson had tested positive for covid. Now robinson is pretty far down the polls will the top of the ticket is locked in a tiein to be clear, the deadline for robertson to withdraw is today. He has less of four hours as of now. State law said he candidate can pull out up until the day before Absentee Ballots go out for overseas service members and they go out tomorrow. Robinsons name is already on the. According to robinson, doesnt 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 said he was the victim of High Tech it looks like Mark Robinson is too. We are staying in this race and in it to win get and with your help we will. I feel reassured. Lets take a Step Back and maybe Mark Robinson is the most extreme version of the antisocial Maga Candidate. Is he really that much more extreme than j. D. Vance who spent the last two weeks spreading Blood Libel about haitian residence in his Home State . What about Donald Trump who bragged about peeping on women while they undressed to say nothing of boasting of Sexual Assault and getting found liable for sexual abuse. By a jury. The guy who broke bread at his home with a man who praised hitler and about white supremacist. This is the Republican Party under Donald Trump. North carolina republicans, i think it will be hard to return your candidate now. You broke it. You bought it. Mark robinson is your guy. Michael steele is former chair the rnc in cohost of msnbcs the weekend. Tara setmayer previously worked as a republican Communications Director on Capitol Hill and Ceo And Cofounder the seneca project. A Super Pac to court moderate Women Voters for Kamala Harris and they joined me now. Well, well, well, michael. Who couldve possibly seen it coming. Who couldve seen it coming . You know what i thought today . I thought of the race in alabama. Roy moore was obviously 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. He never shouldve been close. These revelations the he was hitting on underage women outside the courthouse and stalking them in high school. It blew up and he lost that Senate Race but there was 1 Billion red flags. You chosen because trump liked him and now here we are again in North Carolina. Yeah, i had a moment of zen when the story started breaking. I was thinking back to 2010 and the worst i had was a candidate who had to do clear she was not a which. By those standards, that is nothing. We are in very different territory. Yeah, 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, the stain is here. You knew this. They knew a lot of this. And, they thought they could get away with it. They thought they could slide it past folks. This guy is in pulpits and churches talking about killing people. People should die. Everyone just walked it off like, okay. Now this is the line you are drawing . This is the line, the Black Nazi thing and not the killing people . Not the other stuff he said that you already knew about. What do you expect to have happen now . North carolina is in play, chris by The Gop and the North Carolina Republican Party in the Trump Campaign want him gone because they are underwater in their private polling. They are losing the state said they figure if they jettison the weight, right . They can get the ballots right and refloat a little bit better to win the state. Heres what Roy Cooper who is a governor and we should note that North Carolina, it has 12 statewide elected officials. The Lieutenant Governor doesnt run on the same ticket. Cooper said they embrace Mark Robinson for years knowing who he was, what he stood for including disrespect for women and inciting violence. They reap what they sow. Tara, what does this say about this era of the Maga Gop . In some ways, this is the worst ive seen although Roy Moore is tied. What does it mean for the party and what does the party to now . If it were a democrat, people would be issuing statements. Particularly jewish Members Of Congress would be out with Statements Tonight saying this is unacceptable. He should drop out. This is disgusting. As far as i can tell, dont think theres been one word from any republican anywhere. This is Donald Trumps Republican Party. It flows from the head. Donald trump is despicable. He is shapeless and a con artist. He fleeces people. He is a convicted felon. And cited an insurrection. Why is anybody surprised that the candidates that are running in the Republican Party arent the best people . I mean, Mark Robinson is not the only one. Theres a litany of them. You have blake masters, mastriano, herschel walker. Now we can add this guy. They all are despicable, horrible people who have said despicable horrible things. Extremist things about women, about jews and Mark Robinson is another one to add to the list. He got a pass a little bit because he is black just like herschel walker. You look at their records, you look at the things you have said, theyre not qualified for office. They are unfit, but maga needs the racial pacifiers so they can be called racist. Oh no, hes better than Martin Luther King. What an of front. Are you kidding me . Donald trump comparing this guide to Martin Luther King . If anybody ever looked at this and thought trump was not a racist or actually cared anything about people of color or black folks for the history of civil rights, youve got to be kidding me. You are comparing this guy who like to michaels point said, there should be some killing from the pulpit . Not only is Mark Robinson a hypocrite, he tries to hide behind gut in christianity when he does it. This is in the frustrating part and infuriating part of maga and their hypocrisy trying to hide behind gut. Mark robinson said if anybody came against him, that they would get guts vengeance. Stop using got It Christianity to hide your perversions and your hypocrisy. Maga does it all the time and Mark Robinson is the next one. He had the nerve to have a problem with transgender folks are people like that and said they arsenic is a holy spirit. How about your hypocrisy and you and your sexual Deviancy Hiding behind the pulpit . Thats a sin before gut. They need to stop it. This is Donald Trumps Republican Party. This is what you get when there is no shame. There was no shame. Its pathological with these people and the people of North Carolina, i hope they do the right thing. I think it is a test here. Will the party be okay with this . Is is person running for office . Michael, talk about no shame, trump is doing an event to combat antisemitism tonight. I thought about this a lot in the context of Mark Robinson. The black Panther Marvel Movie accused of concocted by jews to take shekels out of the pocket and a used yiddish derogatory term for black people. This was public beforehand. A guy who said he preferred hitler to Barack Obama and now calls himself a nazi. The national conversation we have been having, this does seem like something that needs a response from someone in the National Party that you cant align yourself with a person, who calls himself a nazi . Chris, you would hope so. To terras point, i wouldnt put any money on it. What are they going to say . What are they going to say . They nominated him. They nominated him in the face of all this. In the face of the stuff we already knew. This is new, revelatory, so were just finding this part of it out. In the face of everything else, they have the video. They have seen with this guy was taking before before he announced he was running for governor. They knew the what elected official he was. What are they going to say now . Oops. My bad . I dont think so. The reality is they are stuck with this. They are stuck with it because this is what they wanted. They were cynical in their nominating process. They did not give a about the voters of North Carolina. It was propping up a Black Man who could front for a lot of the Noise And Chatter they wanted to try to get around and avoid. Lo and behold he brings his own set of baggage that they now have an impact on their front porch. What are they going to say . What are you going to say, lara trump, since youre the spokesperson for the National Party . Im waiting for those comments. State Party Organization . Members of congress from North Carolina . How about that . There was one gop member, i think this is what they will do. Theres one more detail i want to throw in the mix. Someone uses the term like theyre trying to get shekels out of peoples pockets. Thats up terminology were your deep in the world of anti semitic vocabulary thats pretty nasty. Beloved Television Creator norman lear, antisemitic slur that begins for h, hebrew. Thats the kind of michael, tara, one North Carolina Republican Congressman said who knows these days anymore with a. I. What theyre going to do because a capable of saying hundreds of thousands of undocumented immigrants are voting, they will just use the reality Denying Machine even though everyone should read the article. I cannot overstate to you how thoroughly documented it is. Yeah. Yeah. There is no question it was him. But they will use the reality Denying Machine here. Yeah. This is what they do because its Donald Trumps playbook. This is what roy cohn, trumps mentor taught them to do. Never admit Defeat Or Wrongdoing but triple down on it. Its the Donald Trump playbook. It work for him. Got him elected president. It worked for george santos. People who tried to replicate it and hopefully it catches up with him. Is a convicted felon now and it has caught up there. They are not going to do this. If they hold Mark Robinson to that standard, then they have to hold Donald Trump and the rest of maga to the same standard. Have you been to a Maga Rally lately . This is to Kamala Harriss point, if they come out and criticize this guy then they have to criticize everyone which they cannot do because the party is so diseased with this ilk that they Cant Pick and choose their outrage. There is no integrity anymore. There is an. This is a perfect example. Theres only a couple of hours to go and there was one halfhearted response from a republican in North Carolina. Where are the calls for this guy to step aside and the condemnation of the . You are not going to get it. I should say for context and the antisemitic remarks, josh stein, North Carolina Attorney General is a democratic candidate and hes leading in the polls. We will see what happens. If you are watching right now, direct your attention to the box you see on the screen. We will go to it in a bit. We are anticipating basically live interview in detroit, michigan, sort of Interview Rally events being produced and hosted by The One And Only Oprah Winfrey and she will have Vice President Kamala Harris out there for this event. I do think, michael, if we