Im Ana Cabrera reporting from New York. Jose diazbalart picks up our coverage right now. And good morning. It is 11 00 a. M. Eastern, 8 00 a. M. Pacific. Im Jose Diazbalart. We begin with a scandal in battleground, North Carolina, that could have national implications. Mark robinson is facing pressure to leave the race after allegations he made racist and lewd comments on a pornography site, including declaring in one post that he was a black nazi. Robinson who is North Carolinas lieutenant governor, is denying the allegations and vowing to stay in the race. This is not us. These are not our words. This is not anything that is characteristic of me, nor has it ever been. Folks here also know my character. They know who i am. They know my voice, so to speak. This is not my voice. This is not things we would ever say or even think. Cnn published the string of incendiary comments it says it found on the Message Board dating back to 2008, well before robinson began his political career. Nbc
there for the first one. i was too young to make it up. these birds have a new appreciation of the words, let freedom ring. president biden with some age jokes during the turkey pardon at the white house. meanwhile, his campaign is facing calls from democrats to become more active and aggressive against donald trump. speaking of the former president, we have a lot going on this morning. we ll explain what happened yesterday in the gag order hearing for his federal election interference case. plus, republican senator tommy tuberville s latest outlandish reason for blocking oh, my gosh. hundreds of military promotions. he can t help himself. he intellectually degrades himself every single day. stop him before he humiliates himself again. please, don t double down on dumb. also ahead, we ll have the latest on the hostage negotiations between hamas and israel, which appears to be centered on the pause in fighting in gaza. we ll have the very latest on that
gun, being checked beforehand, anything to an actor so it s like double, triple checking. okay, so, with regard to any sort of investigation, there s only going to be a few people who handled that gun. that would be your understanding, if safety protocols were followed to the tee? well, also, yeah. yes. correct. just, whoever s handed alec baldwin the gun is going to start there and it s going to work its way back to the and that s pretty much it. and speaking of alec baldwin, according to the report so far, when he fired the prop gun, the cinematographer, who tragically died, was struck in the chest. the director, standing behind her, was struck in the shoulder. does that reveal anything to you about what happened? sounds like it was a real gun onset. i mean, looks like it wasn t properly checked. that s just my opinion. but i wasn t there. i can t really say. okay, look, and i know you weren t there. with a prop gun, there s a plug in the front. so, okay.
that the captain myrick from the sheriff s department let us know they have absolutely secured the area. they have gotten everybody off the train. i can tell you from my experience this week amtrak was very procialg after that crash going up and down double, triple checking to make sure that nobody was left hibsd. ed to these are brand new images just in to fox news of the train collision there in cayse, south carolina. for those of you who may not be familiar with that area it is about five miles from columbia, south carolina. as we have been mentioning throughout the morning that is fortuitous in this kind of a situation because university of south carolina is there. medical facilities. all the levels of trauma center that you would need in a situation like this at the ready because of the proximity to columbia, south carolina. i know i did not know about kazee, south carolina, prior to the last two hours here fortuitous that it is in that general area so close to a major university
unicorns and all of the fun that is involved in writing that to a book that s intensely personal, that expresses a lot of my reality. reporter: rowling insists the book is not a memoir but did draw on the darker times of her life to craft her characters. we have an adult character that has obsessive compulsive disorder. and these are things i know from the inside, yeah. the ocd part as well. when i was in my teens i had issues with ocd. how did it manifest? compulsions like checking things. it is very common. checking, double checking, triple checking. reporter: some might wonder why rowling, an almost billionaire, would wright a book putting her reputation on the line. how will you decide whether this was a success? it won t sell as many as