group in have we seen this from this? no. martha: one thing i keep pointing out that i go back to the thing that started this ball rolling were governor northam s comments were about third trimester abortion. those were also, many people feel, very despicable comments he made about his understanding of that procedure. and then it looks like somebody was out to get him and next thing you know yearbook picture surfaces that has fallen to the wayside in that conversation. right why don t we as americans have a real conversation with more context than the desired outcome whether it s republican or democrat? the reprehensible nature of the abortion bill strikes more people at home than it does this issue of blackface. maybe we can use this to go back to what about our public figures? there is a responsibility if you are a public figure. there are some things you
right now, but right now my focus is on calling for the governor to step down. the key thing right now is that governor northam needs to resign. there s no excuse for him when he said is completely disqualifying. as all this plays out, governor ralph northam continues to meet with his team to try and discuss a path forward, to see if there is a way for him to remain in office. he s reaching out to democrats here on the state level, as well, to try and convince them to give him time to clear his name and convince them that he can continue to serve as governor and do so effectively. paris? harris: i m listening closely. i thought it was interesting, senator warren saying what he has said is disqualifying. we are all talking about a yearbook picture. that would be a bigger picture of all of this for democrats. garrett tenney, thank you very much. federal prosecutors have issued a subpoena for president trump s inaugural committee last night. in the white house, are they at all con
governor ralph northam says the first thing he said when someone showed him that yearbook picture was, that can t be me. despite that, today he explained that his office was getting a lot of calls, people were upset and he felt like he needed to apologize and accept responsibility, so he released a statement that said this part: i am deeply sorry for the decision i made and for the hurt that decision caused then and now. today though he said he is absolutely certain it wasn t him in that picture at all. here s how he explained that total 180. what has happened is that the last night i finally had a chance to sit down and look at the photograph in detail. it is definitely not me. i can tell by looking at it. i have had friends also look at it and tell me it s not me. i have also had a classmate if who i discussed this with this morning, we talked about the
today that it is not him in that photo. now, he says, when asked about the other photos that are on that yearbook picture or that spread, you see he s in front of the car and other things, he says those photos he remembers, he knows were his. but it s the photo of the black fa blackface and the person in the ku klux klan outfit, he doesn t know where it came from, he doesn t understand how it got there, he says he never even bought the yearbook, that he s never seen the page before yesterday. when you zoom out and say, how does he get from taking responsibility yesterday into today saying that s absolutely not me, ana, we never actually heard an exact answer, except that once he took time to reflect and talk to people he knew, that he just says it wasn t him. and that now he wants to use facial recognition technology to find out who that is. now, he did also, too, today, talk about how in that same year
governor ralph northam says the first thing he said when someone showed him that yearbook picture was, that can t be me. despite that, today he explained that his office was getting a lot of calls, people were upset and he felt like he needed to apologize and accept responsibility, so he released a statement that said this part: i am deeply sorry for the decision i made and for the hurt that decision caused then and now. today though he said he is absolutely certain it wasn t him in that picture at all. here s how he explained that total 180. what has happened is that the last night i finally had a chance to sit down and look at the photograph in detail. it is definitely not me. i can tell by looking at it. i have had friends also look at it and tell me it s not me. i have also had a classmate if who i discussed this with this