From steve bannon. Allegations which have just in the last hour been reported by nbc news, and were going to have those in detail in just a moment. Its some truly surprising stuff. Weve also made some progress today on one of the weirder loose ends of this whole campaign thus far, which is this truly strange, like laugh out loud strange, doctors letter, which remains the only documentation the Donald Trump Campaign has ever released about their candidates health. Well, this is a strange letter. Hed be the healthiest individual ever elected to the presidency, blah, blah, blah. The new york city doctor who is behind that letter, has now explained why that letter is so unusual. And hes done it on camera. We have all of that straight ahead, including the doctor himself, on tape and on the record, explaining this to us. That is some of the stuff that weve got straight ahead for you tonight. But were going to start tonight with a remarkable story that is still developing right now. And i expect it may continue to develop overnight. Its a story of one states republican governor apparently just having a meltdown in public and in one case, on somebodys voice mail. And this story has been building up for a couple days, but today it just exploded. I will warn you that what we are about to play you here contains some vile language on the part of the governor. I would like to talk to you about your comments about my being a racist, you [ bleep ]. And i want to talk to you. I want you to prove that im a racist. Ive spent my life helping black people and you little son of a bitch socialist [ bleep ] sucker, i need you to just freaking, i want you to record this and make it public because i am after you. Thank you. Thank you. [ laughter ] always polite when youre calling somebody that to make sure you tidy things up with a polite my mother always says whenever im calling somebody a i should. You may know this is maine governor call lepage, who left that voice mail for a maine state lawmaker. But if you want to know beyond that where this came from, lets just do this chronologically for a second. This is by no means an exhaustive catalog of paul lepages controversies, that would take way too long. But the easiest place to see this starting is here. Guys of the name, d. Money, smoothie, shifty, these type of guys come from connecticut and new york. They come up here, sell their heroin and go back home. Incidentally, half the time they impregnate a young white girl before they leave. Those comments led to nationwide headlines about these racially charged remarks from the governor. And so the next day, governor lepage called a press conference to offer this nonapology apology. Instead of saying maine women, i said white women. And im not gonna apology to the maine women for that. Because if you go to maine, you will see that were essentially 95 white. If you want to make it racist, go right ahead, do whatever you want. I never said anything about white or black on traffickers. What are they . Black . I dont know who they are. I just read the names. Paul lepage insisting he did not mean to imply that d. Money, smoothie, and shifty had any particular racial specificity. That explanation did not last long. The governor clarified that yes, he was talking about black guys named d. Money, smoothie and shifty. I had to go screaming at the top of my lungs about black dealers coming in and doing the things that theyre doing to our state. The top of his lungs, he had to go screaming about the black dealers impregnating the white girls of maine. That was how maine dwfr paul lepage kicked off this year, 2016. And this Current Crisis that he finds himself in now, which tonight is leading to pretty widespread calls for his resignation. Its led to public calls that she should get psychological help. This crisis that hes in tonight comes from this same issue area. Paul lepage once again going on a tear about how dangerous basically how dangerous he finds black people on the basis of their race. This wednesday at a town hall in the town of north bur wick, maine, governor lepage informed the audience, that, quote, ive been collecting every single drug dealer who has been arrested in our state, i will tell you that 90plus percent of those pictures in my book, and its a threering binder, are black and hispanic people. Paul lepage this week announcing that he has a binder full of black and hispanic people. And ever since he revealed the existence of this binder and started talking about his racial composition, a lot of people have expressed interest in seeing that binder. We are one of, im sure, many other news outlets that have put in a request to see paul lepages secret race binder that explains all crime in maine. The governor volunteered that information this week. Even though the governor clearly started this, the pressure that has resulted from the News Coverage of that pronouncement from him, it does seem to be getting to him. Let me tell you something, black people come up the highway and they kill mainers. You ought to look into that. Governor, were not trying to get into a battle, we just want to see youre a sick bunch of people. You make me so sick. Thats him talking to state house reporters who were questioning him about his remarks. That was yesterday. And since then, it has been he barred the door. Its been a series of outbursts. One thing and another thing and another thing from this governor who really does appear to be melting down. Yesterday morning, Governor Paul Lepage yells at those reporters who were asking about his threering binder comments from the town hall earlier this week. Then he storms off after that. Thats when he called this state legislor who he heard described him as racist, and thats when he left that voice mail. Then he decided he wasnt done talking about this. He called reporters into his office where he volunteered that he would like to kill that legislator. I wish it was 1825 and wed have a duel. Thats how angry i am. And i wouldnt put my gun in the air, guarantee you. I would not be hamilton. Id point it right between his eyes. During that again, the governor called this meeting with reporters because he wanted to get this off his chest. Tells them he wants to kill this legislator. Wishes he could take a gun and put it between his eyes and kill him. During that same discussion, he volunteered that he had left this legislator a voice mail message. At that point, nobody other than the legislatoror knew it. But hes talking to reporters about it. A freedom of access request was filed to get the phone message. They got the phone message, posted it online last night and everybody got to hear it. Again, i need to warn you, this recording contains the governors vile language. Mr. Gattine, this is governor paul richard lepage. I would like to talk to you about your comments about my being a racist, you [ bleep ] sucker. And i want to talk to you. I want you to prove that im a racist. Ive spend my life helping black people and you little son of a bitch, socialist, [ bleep ] sucker, i need you to just freaking, i want you to record this and make it public because i am after you. Thank you. So that was last night that that was made public. For the record, the legislator who paul lepage is so angry with, says that he never called governor lepage racist. He said that he said governor lepages racially charged comments on the drug problem in maine were not helpful toward finding a solution to the problem. That is what caused this response from the governor. Today paul lepage went back to the press and decided to keep talking about this. He explained to reporters today that hes not apologizing for anything hes done or said. He wants you to know who the people of maine should think of as the enemy at this point, like in a war, the people you shoot, he wants to be very clear about that. When you go to war, if you know the enemy, the enemy dresses in red and you dress in blue, you shoot at red. Dont shoot. Ken, youve been in uniform. You shoot at the enemy. You try to identify the enemy. And the enemy right now, the overwhelming majority of people coming in, are people of color or people of hispanic origin. So we know who the enemy is, right . You can see them by their color. In the midst of all this, the state of maine sort of reeling to the point where the Portland Press herald has written an editorial that does not address the governor. Its addressed to the United States of america, apologizing to the rest of the country for paul lepage, apologizing for electing and reelecting, quote, a governor who is unfit for high office. Now, in the midst of what is going on in maine, i think, the fact that paul lepage did actually offer to resign as governor in his most recent tirade to the press this afternoon. It was a conditional offer to resign, but he did make an offer. The fact of the matter is, i would like i will resign if gattine resigns. Anybody wants me to resign, how about them . How about the corrupt people in this building . Gattines not enough. Come to think of it, ill give you a list. If they all resign and offer never to run again,il resign. First of all, this one legislator who he screamed at, if that guy resigns, then ill resign. No, thats not enough. Hell come up with a list of all the other people who have to resign and then hell resign. I dont have any idea whether all these democratic legislatorors will be on his list whether they want to sacrifice themselves for him to go. In the middle of one of his earlier controversies, governor lepage previously said that he would resign as governor if enough regular people in maine wrote to him and asked him to resign. We filed a freedom of access request for those letters to paul lepage, asking him how many letters he got. We found the people of maine were very enthusiastic about asking him to resign. There were tons and tons and tons of these letters. So if he got that many, and he still didnt resign, i think theres no reason to take him at his word. But democratic legislators are asking for him to quit, to resign the governorship, and theyre calling for him to get some help. It is time for a political intervention with governor lepage. And a political intervention means that our sensible and thoughtful republican friends come together with us to do one of two things. To either make sure that governor lepage gets the help that he needs, because this kind of behavior is not normal behavior. Its not just not what we expect of our chief executive for governor, its also not what we expect of any human being who is functioning normally in society. So we expect them to come together with us to either get him the help that he needs, or remove him from office. Democratic majority leader there, asking for republicans to join with democrats, not just in, i guess, calling the governor out for what hes doing, but specifically saying that they want governor lepage to get the help that he needs. And if he cant get the help that he needs, that they need to get him out of office, either by encouraging him to quit, or by removing him from office. Joining us now is bill nemits, columnist with the Portland Press herald, which has been right at the tip of the spear for this whole story. Thank you for being here. Can i just say for the record that duelling with pistols is no longer a thing. Even if youre a history buff. We dont do that anymore. Even if you think its neat. The governor sort of did go back to the duelling comments, and he said, i recognize that its not legal now, but it doesnt mean i dont want to do it. Thats right. Apparently it was just a fantasy. Passing fantasy. Let me ask you, bill, first of all, in summarizing that way, i know theres other things you could bring into the discussion and more context and more things hes done and said, but is that basically the character of this political crisis that maine is in right now, with people worrying not just that paul lepage might not be comporting himself well as governor, but that he might be having some kind of a breakdown . Well, many people are wondering about that. Because youve had it on your show many times, theres a list of transgressions hes committed over his six years in office now. This one stands out and really seems to have awakened people out of what i call a selfdefensive slumber. A lot of people had looked away a lot in recent months and years because to go crazy over every single thing he says is really just to go crazy. And people have tried to ignore him, but this one stands out for some reason. I think its the utter profanity of it, the fact that people for once can hear him unfiltered on that voice mail. We decided to run that without the bleeps, so people can hear exactly what it is he said, at his suggestion, i might add. And i would add not only people can hear that, but their kids can too with their cell phones. So people are getting a thoroughly unvarnished look and listen at what this guy is all about. You got to look long and hard in maine right now to find people who arent completely horrified. I think part of the reason this resonates as a National Story more than it might at some other time is because of concerns about racism and even like White Supremacy and that stuff thats bubbling up in the Trump Campaign. His daughter is running coalitions in maine for the Trump Campaign. Hes described it himself as being trump before trump was trump. When hes making these points that hes making about race, when hes pressing this case that the problem in maine is black men and hispanic men preying on white women, is he trying to get something done . Is there a piece of policy that he wants different in terms of Law Enforcement . Or is this just trying to get people upset along racial lines . Well, he would argue that hes trying to stem the flow of heroin and other hard drugs into maine. And as he repeatedly puts it, save maine lives. And at the very core of this, that could very well be. But nobody seems to be able to get their head around is this fixation on race. Yes, maine, like many other states, has a real problem with this inflow of drugs into our state. And theres unanimity on that, that we need to do something about it. What people cant figure out is why, whenever he raises this problem, he has to overlay this issue of race onto it, rather than just address the fact that we have to stop the drugs. So its very difficult to get inside this guys head. But a lot of people right now are trying to figure out why he has this obsession with the color of their skin and why that should matter. Why not just deal with the drug issue and join hands as we all want to do and attack that problem and leave the race issue aside. Hes running very much in sync with the Trump Campaign right now, and i think thats why a lot of people are very much up in arms about it and want it to stop. And are tired of hearing about it. Bill nemits, columnist with the Portland Press herald. Youve been right on top of this. Thank you for being here. I appreciate it. Pleasure, rachel. The state legislator who the governor said all those things to, he is drew gattine. The city of westbrook, maine, has written a public letter talking about governor lepage humiliating himself in the office of the governor. Saying the voice mail is so outrageous, its beyond our ability to know how to respond. His threat to want to shoot him between the eyes would be reprehensible coming from anybody, but from the individual holding the position of governor of our state, thats insanity. Whens the last time you heard a city write to its state government, calling it insane . Much more to come on a very busy news night. Stay with us. Engineering. Its a performance machine. With this degree of intelligence. Its a supercomputer. With this grade of protection. Its a fortress. And with this standard of luxury. Its an oasis. Introducing the completely redesigned eclass. Its everything you need it to be. And more. Lease the e300 for 549 month at your local mercedesbenz dealer. Lease themercedesbenz. Month the best or nothing. 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