Candidate for governor, Mark Robinson, who is a Lieutenant Governor right now, one of the partys most controversial figures engulfed in Scandal And Battleground State Race despite calls from some fellow republicans to step down, a Bombshell Cnn Report on Earth Thing dozens of rather lewd comments or robinson made on a pornography forum. The posts include robinson calling Himself A Quote Black Nazi defending slavery even using racist language to insult the late Civil Rights icon, dr. Martin Luther King junior will speak to Kings Son about those shocking comments in just a few but first, your Cnn Kfile senior editor, andrew kaczynski. Good morning. Andrew wolf, my colleague, eleni, found a series of highly disturbing posts, more than a decade ago on the Message Board of a pornographic website. And we traced them directly to Mark Robinson. Now we did interview robinson yesterday. Any categorically denies making these posts. Ill get to that in just one moment. But first, i want to walk peo
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Penalties will tell you more about that in a second. Plus, with just over six weeks until Election Day, a controversial new rule from Georgia Republicans about Hand Counting balance, despite warnings for Election Officials, Poll Workers, and even some of the states republican officials. But leading this hour, the fallout spills into a second day after cnn uncovered disturbing and inflammatory comments by the republican gubernatorial nominee in North Carolina. Cnns kfile found lieutenant Governor Mark robinsons posts on a Porn Hungerfree Message board for more than a decade ago before he entered politics, robinson called himself on that board, a black nazi, whatever that is, and expressed support for reinstating slavery, even buying a few slaves himself now robinson is ignoring multiple calls for him to drop out of the race. He insists hes not the one behind the posts republicans are voicing concerns that this scandal could impact other candidates in the state. Lets go straight to cnns
Good to be with you. Im Jose Diazbalart in for katy tur. And we are just 46 days out from Election Day. And after appearing at a Campaign Event hosted by Oprah Winfrey in michigan Last Night, Vice President harris is rounding off the week hitting two Battleground States she hopes to keep blue after President Biden flipped them in 2020. Shell be in wisconsin later this evening, hoping to rally voters after a strategic of new polls revealed a deadlocked race between her and Donald Trump in that state. But first, the Vice President is set to speak to voters in georgia this hour. Focusing on reproductive access and what her campaign calls preventable Abortion Deaths following a recent pro Publica Report which linked the deaths of two women to the states restrictive laws. How shes planning on pinning the blame on the president s abortion record. Were going to take you live to those remarks once they begin. First lets get to the reporting. Joining us this afternoon, Nbc News Washington corre
And now terrorism charges. How does she see the rule of law in pakistan and her country s future? imaan mazari hazir, welcome to hardtalk. Thank you for having me. Now, you have become well known in your own country as a human rights lawyer, including taking on key institutions of the state. I wonder, first, what it was in your early life that led you to that work? i think, when you grow up in pakistan, you see a lot of power imbalances. You see the constant derailment of democracy. You see injustices being perpetrated by the state and its agencies against the most vulnerable, whether that s the baloch ethnic community or that s the pashtun ethnic community or sindhis. So you grow up in that environment, and i feel that you re very motivated to fight against that injustice because you see it on such a massive scale. How would you describe the state of human rights in the country today? i would say that the state of human rights is deplorable. We don t have a democracy in pakistan right