the end of it. the attorney general now faced with another charge related to sexual matters. i don t think it s going to stop with governor northam. i suspect other democrats are doing to find themselves put in the same position he is. that is the nature of media today. dana: is it also the nature of opposition research either by the media or by opponent to look at your yearbook? especially. if it is fair game to extend one s acts like this, extending back into college years or even high school years like it was with brett kavanaugh, then anybody is fair game. now you have governor northam being subjected to the exact same standard. dana: i can imagine that s happening all around now. it s going to keep happening. dana: all right. thanks for making time for us today. thank, dana. dana: president trump announcing plans to keep forces in iraq to keep an eye on iran.
name. garrett penny is live in richmond, virginia. where do things stand now governor northam? reporter: he said he would only resign if he felt like he could no longer be tpbive in serpbing as governor. sources tell me he s been discussing whether or not that is the case. their frustration, this coming from nearly every member of his party, both at the state and national level, has been building, calling on him to resign. that comes in part not only from the racist picture but also from his changing exposure and admitting he did have another situation in that same year where he wore black face. now, the challenge for democrats is if northam does not resign, there s not a whole lot they can do about it. there s quite a high bar in order to bring impeachment against him. lot of legal scholars suggest a picture, racist or not, or offensive, from 35 years ago
one of the main reasons that nixon resigned is because he recognized he had lost the political sport of the republicans in congress. at that point it was going to be difficult for him to continue. governor northam said, when it s clear that he will no longer be effective as governor, he will consider resigning. there s no way he s going to be an effective governor going forward. dana: i wonder if you could explain more about this idea that we ve seen it for a few decades. increasingly in the last three years any time a republican says anything, they are called racist. everything gets that charge. then you see a photo like the one governor northam is on his year book page. now he s denying that it s him. it really shocks the conscience. it does shock the conscience. it should shock the conscience. let us understand why this pressure is being put against the governor to resign. not merely because of the
harris: state of the union address coverage tomorrow when i see you. dana: fox news alert. we re following several news story. virginia s governor resisting calls from his fellow democrats to resign over an ugly and racist photo. president trump doubling down on his plans to pull u.s. traofs from afghanistan and syria while keeping a military presence in iraq to keep an eye on isis and iran. i made some queso last night. apparently some people thought it was terrible. hello, everyone, i m dana perino and this is the daily briefing. embattled governor rob northam faces growing pressure to quit amid the racist photo under his
existence of this racist photo. this was made explicit in the coverage. democrats intend to run against don ted a trump an the republican party positioning the republicans as inherently racist in the ways we describe for all these reasons. it under cuts that if governor northam getting away with this. so they re using a political reason to use race against governor northam to get him out of the way so they can use that charge against president trump. i honestly think this diminishes a very serious problem, an idea called rayism. it has been turned into a political weapon, it becomes something less substantive. dana: you said the democrats used the issue of race against the governor s opponent. they tagged him with the same thing. they re being hoisted up. this weapon is out there. it can be used again anyone. quite frankly, this will not be