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yesterday that it was him in the photo. the photo from his 1984 med school yearbook shows one person in blackface and the other in a ku klux klan robe and hood. mark thompson, home of the make it plain with mark thompson program. karine jean-pierre and msnbc contributor jonathan capehart. mark we were talking about it, northam already put out a statement and a video in which we played a little bit of it a moment ago as a practical matter if he does a press conference now taking all of that back, what happens? it s an utter embarrassment. he looks this is crazy and bizarre. he s already admitted it was him. now we re supposed to believe it s not him. why didn t he say that in the first place. again, you know, it prolongs the story. you said blackface scandal. we got blackface gate now. it s going to be prolonged for several days.
starting the process of repairing his relationship with the african-american community in the state that helped him get elected, but also, he would be be making way for an african-american governor to come in and take the position of governor of the commonwealth. if you want to do right by the people of virginia, if you want to do right by the office of the governor and if you want to do right by history, governor northam, you must resign. yeah. we ve had statements out from elizabeth warren, who was one of the first to come out said these racist images are deeply disturbing, hatred and discrimination have no place in our country must not be tolerated from our leaders. northam must resign. senator kamala harris called on northam to resign, julian castro who we heard, moveon.org, guy cecil, the chairman of the priorities usa one of the big pacts, it goes on and on. senator mark warner has not so
openly called for him to resign but a lot of statements. kirsten gillibrand who is a candidate for president of the united states. let s play her statement. senator, can you clarify your position on governor northam? has there been news yet? has he stepped down? no. he should resign. i saw the photo after i saw you guys last night. so disturbing. so racist. there s no place for racism in our government, among our leaders. it really just was so disturbing. it s going to become difficult for anyone running, mark, for the democratic nomination for president to not say something because there s some that have not yet and it s going to become difficult to get by now. yeah. everybody is going to have to come out and say something. this is completely untenable and again, the longer he delays this, it looks even worse. is there some practical
you and others are running for the presidency? well, what we want as democrats is a country where everybody counts and everybody is respected, whether you re talking at the state level, federal level or anywhere in the country. this sends exactly the opposite message that you could have somebody that engaged in that kind of behavior, that did it when he was an adult, that did it in 1984, so this wasn t 60 or 70 years ago. it never came forward about it in the first place until it was picked up by journalists. i think that the best thing for him to do is to step aside and to resign. would you refuse to campaign in virginia if he is still the governor? well, i don t know that i would refuse to campaign if the state. i think a more precise question is would i refuse to campaign with him and the answer to that is yes.