| | | | Virginia Gov. Ralph Northam admitted Friday that he appeared in a racially offensive photo on his medical school yearbook page that featured men in blackface and Ku Klux Klan robes. Northam has apologized, saying “this behavior is not in keeping with who I am today,” but a growing number of fellow Democrats and Republicans are calling on him to resign.
On MSNBC, Gov. Murphy, D-N.J., told Chris Hayes that he doesn’t think Gov. Northam has any other choice other than to step aside. Michael Moore, on the Last Word, invited the governor to call into MSNBC and resign on live TV.
Earlier today, Sen. Cory Booker, D-N.J., officially launched his 2020 presidential campaign, invoking a message of economic populism and racial justice along with a veiled swipe at President Donald Trump's leadership. The 49-year-old former mayor of Newark, New Jersey, joined the fast-growing field of hopefuls.
Tonight, with the government open again, President Trump is back at Mar-a-Lago. It will be the president’s first visit to the resort since Thanksgiving, as he stayed in Washington D.C. during the shutdown crisis. He will return to D.C. next week to deliver the State of the Union address Tuesday. |
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|  | | Racist photo prompts call for Virginia governor's resignation | | Larry Sabato, director of the UVA Center for Politics, and Karine Jean-Pierre, senior adviser to MoveOn.org, talk with Joy Reid about Virginia governor Ralph Northam's admission that he is in a racist photo from 1984, and the reaction of Virginia and national Democrats for him to step down. | | |
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| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | |  | | #MonumentalAmerican: Baseball legend Jackie Robinson | | Watch Ali Velshi honor baseball legend Jackie Robinson on the week of his 100th birthday. Robinson is a baseball Hall-of-Famer, a known civil rights activist, and the posthumous recipient of the Congressional Gold Medal and Presidendial Medal of Freedom. Robinson is a #MonumentalAmerican. | | |
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