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Non-discrimination ordinance. lawmakers were supposed to look at that and come back here and repealed hb 2 because of the loss of millions of dollars of revenue. in the end, there was a lot of back and forth here and the legislative building and last night, the governor elect roy cooper responded to all of this. take a listen. >> republican legislative leaders have broken their war to me and they have broken their trust with the people of north carolina. >> so certainly, the back and forth continues, republicans are blaming democrats for not accepting a six month moratorium for non discriminat...

Know, the primary and the general election. you look at that number, almost $340 million. and there are plenty of republicans, plenty of people in the business community who have been obviously pushing hard for this to go away. what's your next step? >> well, i tell you, i remind folks that the people who really suffer the most in these economic challenges are small businesses. this is really hard for charlotte. we hope that people are calling our legislators. we hope that people realize the power has been in the hands of the legislature the whole time. charlotte has done everything we possibl...

As you just saw, it fell apart. lawmakers leaving for the night after 7:30 last night, and basically, here's what happened. democrats are blaming republicans. republicans are blaming democrats. this all goes back to that nondiscrimination ordinance that charlotte signed earlier this year that prompt eed house bill, the bathroom bill. the city council yesterday voted to repeal that entirely, but some republicans here at the house didn't think they did that fast enough. when lawmakers came here to repeal hb-2, they said they didn't trust what some of the democrats were doing. so this deal starte...

The bleeding. jennifer roberts is the mayor of charlotte, north carolina. thanks a lot for being with us. a lot of this has to do with the back and forth of what the council did in charlotte. we know what republicans are saying. they say this is no more than a power play by the new governor. what do you say about what happened last night? >> well, we were extremely disappointed in charlotte to see this whole agreement break apart. we acted in good faith in charlotte. we actually tried to do the reset they asked for to take us back to february 21st. we took all of our ordinance off our books, a...

Yesterday morning, the democrats in the house ready and united to repeal hb-2. it would be that charlotte would rescind their ordinance which they did in full and then we would vote on a repeal of house bill 2. that bill never materialized and never given a chance to debate and vote on that so we walked away empty handed. >> bruce springsteen himself not appearing. what will it take to repeal the law? people usually say hold your horses when jobs are affected. >> those are more key names talking about the nba all-star game but also a large number of