Candidate for governor, Mark Robinson, who is a Lieutenant Governor right now, one of the partys most controversial figures engulfed in Scandal And Battleground State Race despite calls from some fellow republicans to step down, a Bombshell Cnn Report on Earth Thing dozens of rather lewd comments or robinson made on a pornography forum. The posts include robinson calling Himself A Quote Black Nazi defending slavery even using racist language to insult the late Civil Rights icon, dr. Martin Luther King junior will speak to Kings Son about those shocking comments in just a few but first, your Cnn Kfile senior editor, andrew kaczynski. Good morning. Andrew wolf, my colleague, eleni, found a series of highly disturbing posts, more than a decade ago on the Message Board of a pornographic website. And we traced them directly to Mark Robinson. Now we did interview robinson yesterday. Any categorically denies making these posts. Ill get to that in just one moment. But first, i want to walk peo
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his visit to germany later in the week will go ahead. the bbc has paused plans to scrap the bbc singers, the uk s only full time professional chamber choir, after a public backlash against the move. the singers were due to be axed just before their centenary because of bbc budget cuts, but now, the corporation says they will continue performing while it looks at other ways of funding them, as our media correspondent david sillito reports. singing the bbc singers a part of british musical life for nearly 100 years. however, what began as the wireless chorus of 192a didn t look as though it was going to make it to its centenary year. the bbc said it had to make cuts the choir would close in september. however, there s been a u turn. and in the queue for today s concert, there was relief that britain s only full time, salaried professional choir looks to have been saved. it s something to aspire to, certainly for young singers coming up professionally. ijust read on my phone
stay right where you are. cory coffin comes to pick up the coverage right now. good morning, welcome into you, i m cory coffin current you from new york. we will begin with the latest on the high altitude object that was fly over alaska airspace, and shot down by the u.s. military yesterday. ce, and it has been less than ak since a trial spy balloon was discovered flooded over the u.s., it was a sudden eventually shot down over the coast of south carolina by an air force fighter jet. pentagon officials would not confirm whether or not the new object was also a balloon, or what the country of origin was. officials did say the object was roughly the size of a small car. flying at an altitude that made it a potential threat to civilian aircrafts. here is national security spokesperson and retired admiral john kirby yesterday. i can confirm that they department of defense was tracking a high altitude object over alaska didn t base in the last 24 hours. the object was flying a
scrambled, and a u.s. f 22 successfully shut it down. it s unclear whether the latest object has anything to do with the chinese by balloon shutdown off the coast of carolina s just last week or the object that was down over alaska on friday. nbc is in washington with the latest. ben, tell us what we know about the jets taken down a short time ago in canada. we do not know really anything more than what you just pointed out, which is this tweet from the canadian prime minister saying that they took down this high altitude object so this is 24 hours since a another high altitude object was taken down off the coast of alaska by a another u.s. fighter jet, another of 22. we still don t have any answers on what that object was other than that it was roughly the size of a small car, and it was not manned. in this case, this was spotted over northern canada, there were u.s. and canadian aircraft tracking it, and the f 22 fighter jet shut it down. what altitude was a? what s beat