about for former felons, returning citizens, that you shouldn't be judged forever by your worst day. but you've still got to contend with that and those issues, before we're able to move forward. >> and you dealt with racism when you ran for governor of florida last year. there was that racist robo call, i remember, attacking you, that included monkey-like sounds. you also lobbed accusations of racism against your opponent. so i have to ask you, are you at all surprised by this? >> well, of course we're surprised. as i said, when i met governor northam, i understand it's been 35 years, and people are allowed to grow and to evolve, but there was a way to handle this. and i don't think that it has been handled appropriately. and now we've gotten to the place where i believe that it is causing greater damage to the people of the state of virginia, and it requires a very selfless act at this time to say, you know what, i've become a distraction. it's going to be very, very