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Hey, we're just getting in the spirit of things. not trying to culturally appropriate. just wearing this costume of an indigenous costume and having fun. when you don't see it because you're of privilege, it allows you to be anythingerant? we see, wow, mockery, ridicule and dehuman saigz. for others a great costume for a party. i wonder when it comes to governor northam. that photo of him in blackface was in his yearbook. nobody said, wait a minute. there's a man in blackface in the yearbook. maybe we shouldn't put this in the yearback. back to the point of systemic racism. we need education a...

That way you would get the audience, they would understand what this is all about. the witness can't wiggle. quite the way he can, or she can. they can't filibuster through that five minutes. so i think that's the crux of the problem is the rule, and not any of the particular members. >> john dean, always good to have you with us. thank you. >> thank you, erica. well, any moment now justin trudeau set to face questions about photos, video that's surfaced showing the canadian prime minister donning dark makeup, brownface, blackface. hear his explanation now, live. plus, alarming new numbers...

Taking a moment to speak to obviously constituents who are french speaking. as he's doing that, bring you in. curious to your reaction what we're hearing from him and in this first couple of moments appaologizing and explaining whe he is today? >> why did he see it as racist as a young man? he briefly teased he had the privilege and privileged not to see it. we know privilege is blind to its own power, its own abuses of power but i really would were have hoped he would take this moment to really talk about that issue. the issue of privilege and white supremacy and systemic racism. really allow...

Blackface. what has always been done, advance white supremacy at the expense of people of color. yellowface, "breakfast at tiffany's." buck teeth, slanted eyes. audience laughs. object of ridicule and mockery. whoever's in power in the case of western society often white spr supremacy, the rest of us marginalized, the people are color. why we're stuck. okay. all these liberals putting on blackface, brownface and conservatives don't seem to like black and brown people and we're stuck in the middle? what's going on? talking to a stylist at cnn. person of color. never occurred to put on blackface...

Something absolutely unacceptable to do. and i appreciate calling it makeup, but it was blackface, and that is just not right. it is something that people who live with the kind of discrimination that far too many people do because of the color of their skin or their history or their origins or their language or their religion face on a regular basis, and i didn't see that from the layers of privilege that i have. and for that i am deeply sorry, and i apologize. okay. [ speaking in foreign language ]