this information about my experience in setting the record straight. it has been extremely difficult to relive the traumatic experience from 2004. mr. fairfax has trade to brand me as a liar to a national audience. in service to his political ambitions and has threatened litigation. given his false assertions, i m compelled to make clear what happened. professor tyson goes on to describe a consensual encounter that she said devolved into a physical assault involving forced oral sex. her full statement is posted online. so currently the state of affairs in virginia is one of utter disarray. the top three men in leadership face at minimum political uncertainty and during the heart of the legislative session, the government in virginia is largely paralyzed. garrett tenney reporting live from richmond. do we know why the attorney general decided to share this
scandals. one with black face charges and the other with sexual assault charges. could it end up that a republican becomes a virginia governor? we ll see. i m dana. here s shep. shepard: breaking news now on fox news channel. a live look at the state department where president trump is set to address a global coalition fighting isis. when that begins, we ll take you there live. reporting begins now. and a fox urgent to start things out. democrats in virginia in a state of escalating crisis. days after the common wealth attorney general called for the governor to resign over admissions that he dressed in black face, that very attorney general admits he did the same thing. in the 1980s when he was 19 years old. he was about to be outed and came forward instead. that means the top three officials in virginia, the governor, the lieutenant governor and now the attorney
happened in virginia is but organization feeds off of energy and the energy that is felt out there is being sparked in part by donald trump. exactly. but there s plenty of people working precincts for these house of delegate candidates because they wanted to express themselves. and it is important to note again that a lot of the battlegrounds in particular for control of the house next year is going to be in the suburban districts. i think you re going to see more members retire on the republican side. again, if you pass the tax bill it has all this regulatory reform, get a health bill next year barack obama passed more legislation in his first two years than any president since linden johnson. and we got our butts kicked and on the tax reform bill,
democrats. this guy is probably going to win. chris christy has just left a bathtub ring around the governor s office. his approval ratings are worse than trump s. let s talk about virginia. it s a purple state. he had gill list pea logs a race. almost knocked off mark warner. amazing performance, actually, but now he s behind about 6 points. but it s a good race. the monuments issue. i just looked at this poll here. now, virginia is virginia. it s not new jersey, philadelphia, pennsylvania. 52% of voters polled consider the monuments southern heritage. 25% police the statues are symbols of racism, pure and symbol. that s not just minorities, some liberal whites, too. but i have a guess that that s his only chance to make this a referendum on do we betray our heritage. all but call him a race traitor for this particular issue.
but since 1909, number two is robert e. lee. i think when we have so many other people, in 2017, is it really robert e. lee that we would say is the person we want to stand for who virginia is? i m not sure it is. and you look at that. you have also in virginia two slave holders representing the state of virginia. right. and you could look at it two slave holders, two people that the most recent of whom was active in the 1860s. we haven t had anything good in the last 100 years that we think should respect us. there were statues designed to be removed over time. the only requirement is that you can t remove anybody within ten years. i think a lot of states have to grapple with it.