Tonight on 360 a cnn exclusive, our kfile has uncovered startling comments on a porn site made by the man now governor of north carolina, mark robinson. He denies the charges, vows to stay in the race. The latest tonight, also, just a few moments from now, oprah winfrey is scheduled to appear with vice president kamala harris just outside of detroit and swing state, michigan. Will bring you some of that live and breaking news in kentucky, a judge shot dead in his own chambers. Authorities say a preliminary investigation indicates it was a sheriff who killed him, were expecting a news conference with more details. We begin tonight with our cnn exclusive 47 days before the election, a bombshell report from cnn's kate files about north carolina's republican lieutenant governor mark robinson, who's also his party's nominee for governor. Newly discovered comments that he made on the message of the message board of a porn website between the years 2008 in 2012 comments that follow an already lengthy history of controversial past remarks about abortion 911 people who are transgender. Tonight, the naacp, north carolina as raleigh news and observer is calling for robinson to drop out of the gubernatorial race with at least one congressional republican agreeing. And more starting to distance themselves from robinson this comes as polls suggests, the state is the state the former president has won twice, maybe up for grabs. Cnn, excuse me, see, a senior editor of cnn's kfile, andrew kaczynski joins us now talk about first all, where did robinson make these comments? well, anderson cnn found a series of highly disturbing posts made on the message board of a pornographic website. And more than a decade ago we trace them directly to mark robinson. Now we did interview him today, any categorically denies making these posts. I'll get to that in just a moment. But first, i want to walk people through just some of them take a look at this right here in one post, robinson called himself a quote, black nazi. And when discussing then president barak obama in 2012, writing quote i take hitler over any of this that's in washington right now. It even really goes beyond that in another disturbing posts robinson defended slavery, writing in quote, slavery is not bad, and i wish they would bring back slavery. I would certainly buy a few. Now, all of these and many other comments you can read on cnn. Com were made of the message board of a porn website called nude africa. And anderson, in addition to those posts, he also expressed views on nude africa that sharp lee contradict his current policies as a socially conservative candidate for governor, for example, he has been vocally antitransgender, but look at what robinson wrote on the porn message board a decade ago, writing that he liked, quote watching transgender porn, adding quote, that's effing hot and calling himself a quote heard in another thread that was discussing the story of a woman who said she had been raped by her taxi driver while she was drunk, robinson wrote quote, and the moral of this story, don't eff, a drunk white so he wrote this all this years ago. He was i guess i'm not sure what he was doing that and it was a citizen before he got into politics, how do you know that it's him? well, anderson, we found that robinson consistently use that same username. Many soldier that he used on nude africa in all of his social media. You can see it on pinterest black planet, youtube. He even previously used it as his twitter candle and his full name was also listed on nude africa along with an email that but he used on nude africa that he used on several other websites. Now the biographical data from multiple sites using menary soldier also matches robinson's, his exact date of birth, his hometown. The fact that his mother worst in hbcu, even having his favorite episode of the twilight zone as number 22. And what is robinson? so now saying about all this so robinson calls this trash. He says it's not him. We ask that campaign for comment and we gave them 48 hours to respond. That deadline was this morning and that's when lieutenant governor robinson agreed to do a brief interview with us. Here is just a bit of that robinson. Thank you so much for being willing to talk to us. I think we'll just jump right into it. Do you deny that this account is you? well, first off, let me say. Thank you so much for allowing me to come here and clearly here, we absolutely i do. I do. This is not us, these are not our words and this is not enough then his characteristic of me nor has it ever, has it ever been the people here of north carolina know i have been completely transparent about my history all the wards and we put them all out. We let folks know about it but the folks here also know my character. They know who i am, they know my voice so to speak that this is not my voice is not things that we would ever say or even think. So absolutely we do. How do you explain all of the matching details on this profile? the profile on nude africa lists your full name as mark robinson, the email listed on the account is an email that you used us. You have used elsewhere? they're on the internet, including with your photo. You have used that name many soldier on multiple social media accounts, including twitter, pinterest, black planet, and youtube. How can you deny with all of these matching details that this is you? look, i'm not going to get into a new sheriff house on my manufactured their saw these salacious tabloid lives. But i can tell you this. There's been over $1 million spent on me through ai by billionaire son who's bound and determined to destroy me. The things that people can do with the internet now was incredible. But what i can tell you is this, again, these are not my words. This is simply tabloid trash being used as a distraction from the substantive issues that the people of this state are facing we have addressed it. We have said it's not true, and we wish we could move on and get busy with the business of the people of the state okay. Well, these posts, they do take place over a fiveyear period from 2008 to 2013. You mentioned ai. Are you saying that somebody was somehow manufacturing biographical details to exactly match you using your username i have no idea how this was done i have absolutely no idea how it was done. I have five weeks left in this campaign to focus on the substantive issues that nor karelina's price. I did not have time for tabloid trash. There have been rumors that some of your campaign staff have have quit. Can you tell us if that's true or not absolutely not. And we are not getting out of this race. There are people who are counting on us the win this race because again, we don't want a governor who's going to be a person that can't be counted on to tell the truth. And i can assure you my opponent has been taken to court for not telling the truth in campaigns and he's been completely dishonest. In his ads against me, his camp is so desperate to destroyers. It's just like clarence thomas years ago. This is a hightech lynching back long years ago. They used to use ropes, nauta using table now, lieutenant governor robinson released a video on x shortly after our interview underscoring that he plans to still stay in the race, anderson. All right. Andrew kaczynski. Thank you. There are a lot of questions obviously tonight about what impact this might have on other candidates on the ballot in north carolina, especially the top of the gop ticket, going i go to alayna treene, who's covering the trump event tonight in washington are you hearing anything from people in the foreign presence orbit about this? yeah. We've we've begun to hear some things about this. So many people in donald trump's orbit had actually been preparing and had heard rumblings about a controversial story about mark robinson prior to that, kfile reporting dropping today. Now, i've been told that they had not donald trump's campaign it had not invited robinson to a rally that is scheduled for this saturday in wilmington, north carolina. And now they are saying that that decision is expected to hold, but of course very notable that donald trump is going to be in the state just days after this bombshell reporting from our own andrew kaczynski. Now, i've also been told that many people within it donald trump's campaign and those close to the former president has long had reservations about robinsons gubernatorial candidate, particularly because this isn't the first time that he has made very controversial and pretty damaging remarks. Remember, he has previously mocked victims of school shootings. He has been very demeaning to the civil rights rights movement. There's a lot of other examples i can point you to, but that has already led to a lot of unease within trump's orbit, but that hasn't stopped. I should argue donald trump for from continuing to support robinson, he endorsed him earlier this year, so there's a lot of questions about that now, i am told that donald trump's team wants to continue to try to distance him distance the. Former president from robinson. But at this moment in time, they say that there are no plans to try and pressure him to withdraw from the race himself. Anderson. Thank you. I'm joined now by cnn's eva mckend, jamal simmons, former communications director for vice president harris, met maori and former official in the trump administration and former rnc communications director doug heye jamal. There's a lot to unpack here. I'm not sure how much we actually want to unpack, but this is still the family out and apparently there's other things that were written which are have not been put out there. What what is the impact of this? oh i. Think it's going to have a big deal in the state of north carolina. He's already down in the polls. She's already down. But one thing has gotten politicians in trouble in the past and maybe will continue to is hypocrisy. The fact that he said things in public, that he does not seem to believe in private. The same also gets politicians in trouble as being hateful and going against american institutions and right now, i think most americans consider martin luther king to be an american institution. They're proud of slavery to be something that they're against and don't want back. And hitler to be something they despise someone they despise so to be for those things is actually not really a great place for the candidate to be. Now what we're going to see is whether or not trump's style politics will apply to any he body else other than donald trump. We've been waiting to see if a candidate who is iconoclast, it's like trump, who was his hateful or says things that are maybe as hateful and can be a separate critic of trump. If that person will still win, what we don't know, but we might see with mark robinson even, i mean, you spent all the time being stage. Do you think this story like this resonates? well, i think the harris campaign is eager to try to tie the former president to mark robinson. We're already seeing them do that tonight on social media. And it leans into a broader argument that they have been trying to make that the former president is too extreme that people like mark robinson and by extension, the republican party is too extreme. And i think it is having an effect. So we see them really investing in this republicans for harris trying to peel off these conservative voters that just cannot stomach supporting the former president. I met a voter in vegas who has never supported a democrat for president ever in his life. And he is supporting vice vice president harris this cycle. And i asked him why and he said the most important issue to him, his character and so those are the type of voters that the harris campaign thinks that they can reach in the wake of stories like this one that, i mean, this is a person that a foreign prison trump once called martin luther king on steroids. Do you think the former president should revoke his endorsement? do you think it's likely that he would because the statement put out by the campaign today didn't directly address cnn's reporting on robinson yeah. I mean, look from a strategic perspective, what donald trump needs to do is if he's asked address it, say if it's true, he doesn't agree with it and try to pivot and move on. I think at this stage, trying to withdraw and endorse i spent or something like that. It's just going to continue this story and i'll say, having done politics now for almost 20 years, rarely do you see a downballot race impact about above it you often see an impact from top to the bottom if you have a bad federal election year for republican or democratic party, maybe downballot. It has an impact, but very rarely do you actually see an impact up ballot. So i'm not sure how much this is truly going to impact donald trump's campaign in north carolina, except to say that he's got to somehow find a way to keep republican volunteers enthused while also trying to show some distance between him and some of the obviously extreme comments and rhetoric of mark robinson i'll just say one quick point, where he stands today is not a surprise to the point you made anderson. I mean, we pulled this race. My firm pulled this race about a year ago for a different client. He was down a couple of points already earlier this year. He was already down by five and that's because of some of the controversial comments that the stein campaign has been playing for the better part of a year now doug i mean, we're monitoring the foreign presence event and i just in case he weighs in on this, meanwhile, north carolina democratic governor roy cooper just weighed in trying to tying robinson to trump as eva was indicating writing on social media, donald trump and north carolina gop leaders embraced mark robinson for years, knowing who he was and what he stood for. Putting disrespect for women inciting violence. They reap what they so i'm wondering what you make of that. Well, anderson, north carolina's my home state. I've worked a few senate races there and spoke to more than one north carolina current elected official and an former elected official today. And i'm reminded of being in north carolina in chapel hill and raleigh, north carolina, the day of when the day after the access hollywood tape came out, big difference though, we've had a lot of these little access hollywood tapes from mark robinson and mark robinson isn't donald trump match, right? he was probably toast before today. Now he's just a bigger piece of toast. The problem is that this isn't about the governor's race. That race is over. Josh stein will win the question is does this affect up ballot? and i think potentially it does. And i know for a fact that the trump campaign is and has been worried that it does because not just these comments that distract donald trump, he obviously make some weird comments from time to time as well. But also this campaign has no money. It has no ground game. It can't drive out their own voters. They're not all wrong boeing in the same direction. And that's a real problem. Offer trump. And i've heard this on the ground, not just for the past day or a few weeks. I've heard this months and months ago that they were worried about what would happen when the robinson comments came out. They were worried about what effect it might have if donald trump were to cut mark robinson loose and you can certainly understand why would trump wants to win. He cares about his own winning first and foremost, no surprise. So that's where republicans have put themselves in. And ultimately, yeah, this is a making of donald trump because he endorsed him. Donald trump's endorsement doesn't determine who the nominee is, but it sure helps end. This is another example, anderson and i'll wrap up. I'll shut up here in a second. And this is another example of republicans taking their own fists and saying stop hitting yourself, stop hitting yourself. We saw this in the pennsylvania governor's race. We saw it in the maryland governor's race. This cycle, last cycle, the cycle before these kinds of candidates sink republicans. Jim, to your point earlier about the hypocrisy, if if he had been on some porn site foreigners incredibly popular in america. I don't know anybody would really care that much. It's so contradictory. His stance on transgender issues they taxis made and apparently interest on transgender people on this porn site, it's obviously seems a stark contrast. But i think when you are saying things in public that don't hold up in your private life. That is the kind of thing when you're running for office, comes back and it hurt you in a bad way that is the place where he is right now. But remember, he was bad from north carolina before this started. This is a guy hi, who wanted a total abortion ban. He said get them down to zero, is the guy who said he wanted to restrict birth control for women and girls. And this is a guy who said he wanted to unwind the medicaid expansion which affects hundreds of thousands of people in north carolina who have health care because of this. So i think the sigh campaign, wants people to focus on the fact that this is not the person you want to have given during the judgment or having the judgment to make decisions for any north carolina family, i mean, do you think it's over for him? he was pointing out ten points down in the polls i would not want to be working on that campaign right now, the trans thing is i think the most jarring thing for me, right? because the policies that he supports and the rhetoric he espouses puts these, this vulnerable community in danger, right? and so that is, i think the most drawing point of all of this. But democrats will seize on this. They already thought that they were in a strong position in north carolina north carolina to be clear, anderson is a purple state. It is a state with a lot of hbcus. And so they are investing in organizing in those spaces and this just helps they can appeal to conservative and republican voters who just think that this is going to be a bridge too far. I've also never heard of anybody going to a porn site in order to make comments. I was unaware that there are comments sections doug, i want to play some of the republican reaction today on capitol hill. Let's listen pretty sad to go this far along and then the paper supported in all the money that he's raised. And i think he needs to drop out today. I definitely want to read what the allegations and the comments on it. I myself can't support anyone if that all turns out to be true for all the allegations are very concerning my hope is that the governor can reassure them people north carolina, that the allegations are true obviously disappointing. Do you think he should resign, drive out of the race? i'll live in north carolina, so it's up to north carolina. People of north carolina i mean, it does not all but some congressional republicans starting to distance themselves. Do you imagine that? i imagined do you imagine that is going to increase absolutely. Richard hudson there, who you showed we went to college together. I've known him for a long, long time. The outrage in the state predated this this just brings it all all further to bubble, and this is why it's toxic and republicans need to learn stopped nominating, stopped voting for these cartoon candidates. These addams family candidates who sink your chances in november. This is just the latest most outrageous example. Doug heye. Thank you, everyone else stay with us. We'll have more from the panel coming up the state of the president if a race a slew of new polls dropped, including four for pennsylvania state critical to both campaigns. Harry enten is going to walk us walk us through the latest polls. And again, we're also expecting to see by frozen harris appear live on stage with oprah winfrey tonight, a major campaign even