the 1960 civil rights act on the ballot in the 1960s. i mean, it s voting on the rights of a minority but let many be devil s advocate here. there s an exhaustion there s clearly an exhaustion over debating this issue. if this is what it took to get hb 2 repealed, and the risk was okay other cities you may have this pop up as a local referendum, but it bha the public s exhausted from it, and at least short term you ve gotten rid of hb 2. well the problem is that you can t get enough votes for this option because most of the democrats are not buying this. they know that it will create significant problems in cities all over north carolina, it ll put the spotlight back on us for all the wrong reasons. governor, what would happen if you put hb 2 up for a referendum statewide. would it win or lose? i think it would lose. i think people are sick of it. they want their legislature to
our law we know the effect of it. it has cost of thousands of jobs and hundreds of millions of dollars. and we know it s put a stain on our great reputation here in north carolina. i think one of the reasons that i won as a democrat for governor during a trump wave, even beating an incumbent republican governor is because people were tired of these social issues. they were tired of issues like hb 2 and they wanted to focus on jobs a the economy. but unfortunately, the right wing of the republican party continued to want to bring up these social issues and they are effectively blocking repeal of house bill 2 in north carolina. we almost had it. i had an agreement with the leadership in the republican they have super majorities. we had an agreement that i would get charlotte to back down if they would repeal house bill 2.
act. and it is time for them to act. it s time for them to repeal house bill 2, let s put this issue in our rearview mirror, and it s time to move forward to get on to other things. all right. governor roy cooper, democrat coming to us from raleigh today. governor, thanks very much. thanks, chuck. still ahead, we will look at what to expect from the rollout of a revised travel ban. keep it here.
welcome back. north carolina s new democratic governor roy cooper was narrow le elected in november as republicans swept the rest of the ticket. ran against the controversial hb 2 law. that s so the-called bathroom billhich blocks local governments from passing antidiscrimination measures. it stirred emotional protests both for and against. in an msnbc panel in north carolina this week of three trump supporters and two clinton supporters, all of them expressed dissatisfaction with that law. i mean, can you imagine if every municipality had their own version of the bathroom bill. go to a town, think, where do i go to the bathroom? going to the bathroom. how is it no matter who you are, how can you make a problem
it done. i m willing to even compromise, there are a number of republicans who want to yeah they say okay, we ll repeal it, but we ve got to replace it with something else. the problem is, it needs to work toward eliminating discrimination. and it needs to work. we can t have a house bill 2.2, something that s just as bad and something that won t bring the jobs back. this means you don t like the idea of the one compromise idea which would tell cities they would need to put these ordnances to a local referendum. i proposed a number of compromises so there are a lot of issues we could talk about. but having these many house bill two fights in cities all over north carolina, when we already have this reputation with this hb 2 law, with the millions of dollars that will be spent, with the 30 second ads, with the national spotlight on our state, it ll be a problem. and it s sort of like putting