>> protesters in richmond, virginia, demanding that democratic governor there resign. so far, ralph northam says no and is in full damage control a day after a racist image from his 1984 medical school yearbook surfaces. now, he's telling fellow democrats he's not sure he's the guy in the picture. >> plus, vladimir putin says russia will follow the u.s. lead and also pull out of a landmark nuclear arms treaty signed by president reagan at the height of the cold war? and hitting the campaign trail, a growing number of democrats

try and stake their claim to the 2020 presidential race. ♪ welcome to america's news headquarters from washington on a saturday. just when you thought it was going to be a quiet super bowl sunday weekend. >> never ever going to be dull again. leland: when you thought friday was the end of the news cycle. >> do you ever think that anymore? >> i dare to dream occasionally. >> well, i'm molly line. leland vittert, of course, as well. we're talking about our virginia governor ralph northam today. he's slated to make a statement at 2:30 this afternoon and one virginia lawmaker tells fox news that the governor is now questioning whether he is in that controversial yearbook photo less than 24 hours after apologizing for being in that photo. our garrett tenney is in richard, virginia with the latest on this unfolding story, garrett. >> well, molly, despite the

growing calls for his resignation, the democratic party says they've gotten word that governor ralph northam will not be resigning this morning. he's expected to have a press conference at 2:30 eastern time. on friday he admitted it's time in the picture from the 1984 medical school yearbook and describes the costumes as one man wearing black-face and the other wearing ku klux klan, and he didn't know which was him. and now he says he's not for sure. he did reach out and say it's not him in the picture and he's not resigning. here is what northam said in a video last night. >> i am deeply sorry. i cannot change the decisions i made nor can i undo the harm my behavior caused then and today,

but i accept responsibility for my past actions and i'm ready to do the hard work of regaining your trust. >> now, that was not enough for the state party though, which is still calling for northam to immediately resign saying he no longer has our confidence nor our support. he must end this chapter immediately and step down and let lt. governor justin fairfax heal virginia's wounds. if he does not resign there's a process where he could be impeached. there are questions whether or not this picture from nearly 34 years ago, whether or not that picture constitutes an impeachable offense. >> an unfolding story for certain. and we'll look later this afternoon for word from the foreign. thank you, garrett tenney. leland: live coverage on that. to cause the fallout democratic strategist blake rutherford and former head of the democratic party in virginia. appreciate you being here.

either of you want to throw governor northam a lifeline here? >> not at all. [laughter] >> no, immediately. let me say this. i'm looking at this guy with more so of a side out right now. governor northam needs to take several seats. he's basically saying or somebody's trying to spin that his apology yesterday was or should be null and void because maybe it wasn't him in the photo? what does that say? that says that either this guy took a punch of pictures when he was in school of him in black-face and possibly him wearing a ku klux klan outfit and he doesn't know if that's the actual picture. maybe it's a different picture. it's ridiculous, this guy needs to step down immediately. leland: this is the statement from yesterday. earlier today, a website published a photograph of me from my 1984 medical school yearbook in a costume that's clearly racist and offensive. i'm deeply sorry for the

decision i made to appear as i did in this photo and for the hurt that decision caused then and now. you know, there is the shaggy defense, it wasn't me, but typically that involves saying it wasn't me from the beginning. >> in his case, he admitted it was him and even his story today is exactly as, you know, it's just disgust. well, this may not be the actual picture of me with sort of an open parenthetical, but perhaps already other photos. this is not how as an elected officials you deal with cries 101. the list of democrats that called for him to resign is exhaustive and extensive. the list of democrats saying let's see how this plays out, is very short because we haven't

found any yet. the question is, what does it mean as we zoom out. as garrett tenney pointed out, you can't force northam to resign no matter how many democrats call for him to. you've got democrats announcing almost daily new for the presidential race. this is not the conversation democrats want to be having. >> absolutely not, but this will get worse for governor northam. the calls will only be amplified. he's going to suffer, you know, i think really, really serious criticism, and you have someone waiting in the wings that it seems very clear virginia democrats want to ascend to that governorship. so he's in a really, really bad spot politically. i'm really not-- he may think and politicians are always the last ones to think that they need to resign, so he may be the very last voice of that in virginia. but i think eventually he gets there. >> to that point though, how long can democrats afford for this to be the conversation,

that a democratic governor, who, by the way, made race an issue in his campaign, and there was a lot of talk that his opponent, ed glessy was a racist, et cetera, et cetera, and saying it was time to call out racist politicians and yet now democrats have to continue to answer for him for as long as he's in office? >> that's right, so as long as he remains a focal point in conversations through media, through coffee shop conversations, water cooler conversations, this remains toxic for democrats who are trying to advance politically. so right now the best thing that can happen for democrats is for northam to resign and-- >> it may be the best thing. democrats seem to agree that's the best thing because that's what we're telling him to do. what if he doesn't? what are the options for democrats? >> they have to distance themselves from him immediately. leland: blake, is that possible? cause so many democrats are on record and on twitter and things

that perhaps didn't age so well, talking about how he was the answer to the racism that may or may not have existed in virginia? >> i think you'll see, leland, a lot of democrats say, wait a minute, if this was your yearbook, if you knew this was out there, why did you run for governor in the first place? you're putting all of us in a terrible position by doubling down on what i think ultimately is a nonsensical defense, and so, i think that's right. i think it starts with distance, but political pressure can be incredibly severe, and i do think there are people that ultimately governor northam will listen to. he's probably not listening to them today, but that may change 12, 24, 36 hours from now. >> this brings up an interesting point in terms of the arc of this story. if northam decides to stick around longer, if it's the 36 hours blake is talking about or longer, how do democrats try and change the conversation after one of their own doesn't listen

to them about resigning? >> i think they need to denounce that he is one of their own and start there. what you have seen are the progressives in the democratic party being really at the forefront of calling out one of their fellow democrats. in addition to that, beyond the right now political conversation, you have a presidential conversation. you also have a gubernatorial conversation. all of these-- all of these elements of politics must be contained somehow and this guy, this guy toxifies every single bit of it. so, yeah you've got to denounce it and do it quick. leland: many have. the list continues to grow. we heard from joe biden earlier today on this very issue. gentlemen, appreciate you guys being here. it's rare, but perhaps refreshing to have a panel where everybody agrees. >> yeah. leland: so we will await governor northam at 2:30 p.m. eastern, about two hours and 20

minutes from now. thanks, fellas. molly. >> thank you. >> one of georgia's well-known tourist attraction is closing ahead of one of the big events. stone mountain park is being closed because they couldn't adequately secure it. white supremacists and nationalists were planning a rally and some of heading there. the park is home to mountain carving of confederate leaders. leland: the president saying pelosi is quote, very bad for our country after a bipartisan committee of lawmakers will continue to meet hammering out a deal on border security in the hopes of averting another government shutdown or the declaration of a national

emergency, the deadline just two weeks away. ellison barber travelling with the president down in west palm beach. you know, ellison, you had to stick around over christmas up in d.c. we're glad you got some time in the sun. >> thank you, we're glad that it finally let up a little bit of the rain. we went from snow to now sunny and it's rain now and now it's turned into a beautiful day and the president is here this weekend. he is expected to be here through sunday. we're told that he'll spend some of his time this weekend, working on tweaking his state of the union address. president trump has said that those bipartisan negotiations, that bipartisan conference committee was negotiating on capitol hill to try to come up with some sort of border security package that the president will sign by february 15th. he says those are proving to be a waste of time. the president said on multiple occasions that he's prepared to declare a national emergency in the event of that negotiation, a deal was not reached by the end of those negotiations. president trump hinted at the white house yesterday that that sort of announcement could

actually come during his state of the union address. >> i don't want to say, but you'll hear the state of the union and then you'll see what happens right after the state of the union. >> there's a good chance that we'll have to do that, but we will, at the same time, be building regardless, we're building a wall, we're building a lot of wall. >> a senior administration official who briefed reporters at the white house friday afternoon declined to comment when asked if the president plans to use his address to make that sort of policy announcement, one senior republican on capitol hill, who i spoke with the, the senior republican aide don't necessarily think he'll do that and if there's the option and has things ready to go. the bullet in the gun, so to speak and told the new york times, that house speaker nancy pelosi is hurting our country and that he's quote, set the table. set the stage for doing what i'm going to do. here is what he told cbs news in records to how talks with house

speaker nancy pelosi has gone in his view. >> well, i think that she was very rigid which i would expect, but i think she's very bad for our country. she knows that you need a barrier. she knows that you need border security. she want today win a political point. >> she offered over a billion dollars for border security. she doesn't want the wall. >> she's costing the country hundreds of billions of dollars because what's happening is when you have a porous border and when you have drugs pouring? in- >> despite that a senior white house official says president trump is going to use his state of the union trace to call for unity and tell members of congress, quote, together 0 we can break decades of political stalemate. bridge this and heal old wounds and extraordinary promise of america's future. the decision is ours to make. immigration is one of five key topics we expect the president to touch on during a joint session of congress on tuesday.

>> the president getting a little time on the golf course. we understand he's playing a round of golf today with legendary golfers jacks nicholas and tiger woods. we'll see if there's any pool or update on the score. thank you. >> you bet. >> for more insight let's turn to top republican house members-- sorry about that. conference committee border during and ranking member, kay granger. congresswoman, you're an excellent person to talk to as the negotiations go on and trying to avoid another shutdown. give us some insight. you know a lot about how things are going. could we expect a better outcome than we saw with the long shutdown through january? >> you really can. the people that are on that committee are very experienced members of congress, and senators. we've negotiated many conference bills. this is a process that is used, that's been for a long, long time to settle differences and to bring together the house, the

senate, and most of us know each other. the chair and i have have worked on committees before so we're optimistic and we want to find the right solutions to keep our borders secure. >> the president is out there with the possibility of a national emergency being declared. your thoughts on that? >> i hope that doesn't happen. our job is it to find a solution and a compromise. if we can't do that, the president has to take whatever actions he decides. we've had a meeting where we talked about how important it was for all of to us work together. that border security, protecting our country is uppermost in our minds. i really think we could do this. i've been working on it. i leave tomorrow to go to the border. there are two texans on this that live on the borders. we we're bringing members of the

committee to see the border. >> you come from a unique perspective you're from texas. you've been to guatemala and seen the human toll. what do you think the right approach with a. >> when i traveled, i was asked by house speaker john boehner, when it started to be so serious, he asked me to travel the border, report to congress and then travel to the countries, guatemala, honduras and see as i put it, see what would be so bad that parents would send their children to a country they'd never been to with someone they'd never met. those countries are very, very dangerous. we've tried to help them be safer so this wouldn't occur. >> even now we've seen in multiple stories in recent weeks, women and children managed to dig under various border fences cross into america. what do you think is the right approach there along the border. are you someone who supports a

wall in some context? >> i support a barrier. i support-- and that's why we're going to look at the border tomorrow and the next day, and it's such a long border, and in some places it's going to take a physical barrier. we need the ability to have more people at the border. we need to have better technology. for a long time we've known we're not funding that border as we should, and that's part of what we're looking at. >> so, i'm hearing a kind of all hands on deck approach from you, but a lot of folks that are sort of dug in whether or not the wall or a physical barrier should or should not be a part of this and it seems to be a sticking point. how do you unstick that point and find a compromise? >> i don't think we should be making any decisions, certainly, it's left to the conference committee, but as we look at this, and as we meet, that's when we should determine what's necessary, and it's not going to be one thing across the border. it's not going to be one wall,

it's not going to be no wall at all. it depends on what the terrain is and what the risks are and that's why it's so important, i think, for people to see what we're dealing with. >> and congresswoman, finally, a quick question on news of the day, watching and waiting to hear from the virginia governor. i'm guessing you're aware of the yearbook photo that caused an enormous amount of controversy and many people in the democrat democratic party to not only disavow, but your thoughts. >> on situations like that, it always sort of hurts us all. we should always be aware that what we do at anytime in our lives could become public, and that some situations that seemed all right at the time are certainly not acceptable for today. >> a lesson for america's youth. and we appreciate your insight as discussions going on in washington. >> thank you. >> tune in to fox news sunday

tomorrow. chris wallace will have discussions with two more members of the conference on border security. senator holman and henry cruell >> nancy pelosi adding input on the story. coming up thousands more migrants headed to the u.s. border. griff jenkins with them. and medicare for all paid for massive new taxes on the rich. so how would that impact the economy? thousands of venezuelans risking their lives in the street calling for socialist dictator nicolas maduro to resign. steve harrigan with the first crack in the military when we come back. fact is, every insurance company hopes you drive safely.

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united states and in the larger sense as president trump also deals with china. >> it's a big deal, leland. the u.s. is officially suspending the intermediate range forces treaty with russia. it's been in effect for decades and administration officials believe russia has been violating the spirit and letter of its terms for over a decade. the secretary of state saying enough is enough. >> we provided russia an ample window of time to mend its ways and for russia to honor its commitment. tomorrow that time runs out. russia has refused to take any steps to return real and verifiable compliance. molly: president trump is still hopeful. >> i'm hoping we can get everybody in a big and beautiful room and do a new treaty that would be much better. molly: at issue are the russian cruise missiles. in order to come back in

compliance, russia would have to destroy its arsenal including any equipment that goes with it. national experts say when it comes with russia complying, but there's hope, but no chance. vladimir putin is weighing in publicly today. and they said it sounds like he's jonesing for an arms race. >> we will do it this way. our response will be symmetri l symmetrical. and american partners said they stopped participation in the inf treaty and we stop. they stated research of developments of the arms and we will do the same. >> the u.s. first began warning russia it was in violation in 2013 though russia itself insisted it was in compliance. even after dozens of behind the scenes talks, they've never burdged. now officials are worried about the impact all of this will have on u.s.-military relations with china. china has never been a party to the inf treating so the

president he would be interested in adding any country. and it's got a thousand missiles in the arsenal that had that would be in violation. leland: and if they can hit guam, they can hit rumoscow tha russia would be worried about. peter from the heritage foundation with more on what the withdrawal from the treaty would mean and what we can expect from the russians. molly: more protests in venezuela's capital and cracks in the power base of nicolas maduro. our steve harrigan joins us on the ground from caracas. >> molly, this could turn out to be one of the largest anti-maduro protests here. people are coming from four parts of the city to meet in the

center and you can hear the sound reverberate with the mountains forming a dome behind me, horns, whistles, people honking, and yelling and in 25 cities across venezuela coming out to say they do not want nichol nicolas maduro, the disputed president as their leader anymore, there's a crack, a small one, francisco janez saying he will no longer back maduro, here he is. >> the transition to democracy is imminent. keep ordering the armed forces to continue their oppression against our people means more death due to hunger, due to illness and hope god does not allow it, the fighting between us. >> so that's just one general coming out, the first one and he said that 90% of the military is actually against maduro, but that remains to be seen. we could see a real test here in a few days' time. the u.s. announcing it's responding to the opposition

leader, juan guaido's request for humanitarian aid. surgical supplies, medicine and food will be brought to venezuela. the question, who will let them across the border. there might be a real conflict there between guaido who wants the humanitarian aid and maduro who is refusing it. molly: steve harrigan, a pretty dangerous situation and we feel for those people. thank you, steve. leland: the battle over the border wall funding continues as this as more migrants are making their way through mexico on a caravan. griff jenkins as they're headed for another u.s. port of entry, hi, griff. >> hey, leland. this caravan is closing in on the u.s. border, less than 500 miles to go and they're packing up trucks as they make their way. we've got that when we return.

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>> congress still hasn't decided how to secure the southern border. still arguing about that. meanwhile, hundreds of migrants are headed north through mexico to try and get here before they make a decision. griff jenkins travelling with them. the latest on the journey here, griff. i'm interested, are they talking at all about the debate in washington and whether or not they're going to be able to ask for asylum, et cetera? >> well, you know, leland, most know they won't qualify for asylum and many told me they think that democrats are not giving president trump the money for the wall, here is the deal. they all intend to come to the u.s. whether it's legal or illegal and you see behind me part of the 2500 plus migrants that began the journey in hondur honduras january 15th closing in. unlike tijuana or california this one is going to texas.

they were packing trailers and trucks and they've got cooperation from the states, the officials in the states of mexico and they're getting a welcome, open arms from the new president in mexico, manuel obrador. we rode on one of the trailers and here is what he had to say about the new mexican president. >> does it seem like, samir, that the mexican president is kind to the immigrants? >> yes, he's opened the doors and taking the opportunity to pass through the other countries. i think it's a good president. >> another big signal, leland, was the asylum, temporary asylum and temporary work program that he gave the signatures, capping at 12,600 because they had too many people doing it. bottom line, the message is very

clear with the new caravans, that is that mexico is helping. this is dr. juan hernandez of the state that we passed through the director of immigration. >> these 2000 people also, they say they're fleeing poverty, they' they're fleeing violence in central america so our heart is with them. the governor said, we treat these people first with the heart. it doesn't cost us a lot of money, a few bottles of water. it's a few sandwiches or tacos, in this case, and so, once again, we give them the right care so that they can push the united states to treat our people right up there. >> this comes as the dhs officials tell fox news that they intend to expand that remain in mexico program, that has migrants staying in mexico while their claims in us play out. two more caravans, february 7th

and february 15th, and originating in the same location in honduras that this one did. >> griff jenkins incredible reporting from south of the border. thanks, stay safe. molly. molly: and here who weigh in about the border wall negotiations is talk radio host, tony, thanks for joining us. we saw a remarkable report from griff jenkins, why the people are making the journey and why they intend to come into america whether it's legal or not and he mentioned at least one person had told him that they'd simply don't think that the democrats are going to give the president the money for the wall. not that that would necessarily matter when they cross, we know there have recently been women and children that managed to dig under the wall and found ways to get through as things stand today. just, your thoughts as you see yet another caravan coming and as griff mentioned, more planning to make the journey. >> i think that griff always does fantastic work, but there's a problem in that second interview that he did with what was said. kindness and caring isn't--

if that's about a sandwich or a taco, i find that a strange conversation because what we're seeing in the united states of america is, give us health care, citizenship, and anything else that we ask for. it's a fundamentally different conversation taking place. and i also would say that the president of mexico, obrador isn't doing us or himself any favors allowing them to come through. the people in honduras need to solve the problems in honduras. the able-bodied men need to stand up for their own country, the same as with guatemala. that the united states is a fantastic place to be. it goes without saying. it's true. should we have legal immigration? absolutely. and we should also be people who respects the laws here. that goes for the people of guatemala, the for the people of honduras, mexico or anybody else who wants to come in the united states. loving, caring, kindness is not something that supplants the

laws which is how we protect our citizens, loving caring and k d kindness. molly: it's a revealing report showing how much mexico may be helping the caravans. and back, the president has looming threat he may declare a national emergency. your thought on that. >> i have no idea what the president is waiting for. i'm not sure. and the first signal was the other day he's there having that presser and he says, republicans don't waste your time, don't bother. and nancy pelosi's going to be steadfast. she isn't interested in border security, she's not interested in protecting american citizens and don't care if 800,000 people if without paychecks. i think he wants it, but in the implementation he has a republican senate and possibly a larger republican caucus that knows once you go down this road, you've opened up a

pandora's box that may become problematic in the future and i think that's where the worry is. i don't think any doubt the president says to himself if i've got to live up to the promise and that's the only way, national emergency. molly: the next shutdown date on february 15th. bring you further north, there's a fascinating story unfolding in virginia, the virginia governor, this yearbook photo from his medical school days showing a klansman and blackface and he originally apologized for the photo and now he says he's not sure he's in the photo. your thoughts as you see this unfolding and democrats in the state of virginia not to mention the majority of 2020 contenders, senator elizabeth warren, kamala harris, cory booker, so many people come out and call for his resignation. >> they've called for his resignation on this. but when you endorse infantcide, you leave that aside.

this is the shaggy defense as many people have been talking about. and i put out in my twitter account, it wasn't me. yesterday he put out a full statement saying he's wrong and that that photo is not representative of who he is today and today he's having conversations, you know, i'm not sure if i'm in the photo. maybe some facial recognition would figure it out. i don't know what facial recognition you get with a hood, but it's an unbelievable turn around. >> whether in the photo or not on the photo. >> it's on his page. and people who went to vmi want to mick sure that this is his medical school yearbook, nothing to do with him at vmi. i've seen a couple of tweets and i think it's worthwhile and important. molly: tony katz, thank you so much. we are waiting for the governor with more at 2:30 today and we thank you for your insight. leland: his vmi yearbook has something else in it. and what vladimir putin and the nuclear arms race means for u.s. national security. what do you have there?

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fears of a new nuclear arms race as the u.s. says nyet to a new nuclear arms treaty. here, defen secretary of defens peter. they the russians say we'll go tit-for-tat on this. and they're light years ahead and so it's the u.s. has to catch up. >> just in one category. they've been cheating. they have a system out there that provides an asymmetric advantage in europe the cruise missile and the reason we're leaving the treaty. not in all cases, but in this one they are. and go further. there's still six months before the treaty is gone. there's a period of notification that happens before. leland: so we're looking at

video of then mickhail gorbachev and president reagan. >> right. leland: signing this treaty. so it goes back now just about 30 years by my math. recently president trump has come under so much criticism for his relationship with vladimir putin. and here they're in helsinki talking between the two about the weapons. >> i think we're all to blame. i think that the united states stepped forward and long with russia and getting together and we have a chance to do great things, whether it's nuclear proliferation, stopping, have to do it ultimately probably the most important thing we can be working on. all right, right after this the president caught so much flak for being too soft and cozying up to russia. and now people are saying, if you withdrawal, it's too much provocation. >> it's not, the nuclear arms

treaty renewed in 2021, it's a strategic nuclear weapons agreement with russia-- >> it brings up an important point though, is the united states policy too much on russia, tough enough on russia? where is the carrot and stick here? >> i think it's tough enough with russia. we have issues with russia, in ukraine, syria, venezuela. we don't mention the ties between venezuela and russia today. so, this is a tough relationship. it's very tense, and we have to continue to press for our advantage. leland: when you say press for our advantage, how much needs to be invested now in these kinds of weapons systems as you pointed out the russians are pretty far ahead in? >> well, we-- >> we've been living by it. >> they've been cheating. we have to make the decision do we want to move ahead with these weapons in europe. and chinese has weapons, that 90% of them would violate the

treaty. the chinese say you ought to stay in that treaty, you ought to stay in that treaty because it's an advantage to us. people aren't talking about china, but that's another why we're leaving the treaty. leland: and that's one of the reasons that russia has developed these systems in the meantime. appreciate your time, sir, thank you very much. molly. molly: coming up, as the 2020 presidential campaign gets going some democrats are proposing a big tax hike on top earners. what it might mean for families and businesses. ave you money. save up to 10% when you bundle with esurance. including me, esurance spokesperson dennis quaid. he's a pretty good spokesperson. ehhh. so when i say, "drivers who switched from geico to esurance saved an average of $412," you probably won't believe me. hey, actor lady whose scene was cut. hi. but you can believe this esurance employee, nancy abraham. seriously, send her an email and ask her yourself. no emails... no emails. when insurance is affordable, it's surprisingly painless.

>> before leaving for palm beach, the president tweeting friday about the latest gains made by the stock market, saying best january for the dow in over 30 years. we have by far the strongest economy in the world. good job numbers as well. same day, senator cory booker launched his presidential campaign saying things aren't that great. >> i believe that we can build a country where no one is forgotten. no one is left behind. where parents can put food on the table for their good paying jobs good benefitting in every neighborhood. leland: joining us is former chief economist at u.s. national trade commission. peter mauricesy, who is right?

booker or trump. booker is right, we're building a new economy where no one is left out. they're training people to be engineers and folks with handicap caps for the workplace. leland: i drive around and there are help wanted signs and referral bonuses for machinists and crane operators and blue collar jobs. there are, but what we're seeing a lot of people excluded in the past and now included. the handicapped and people without education businesses are training up and donald trump has opened up thousands of apprenticeships in the private sector which train people for 55,000 to 60,000 a year. it's not just wellness, it can be hospitality industry and banking and so forth. this is an inclusive economy. we're getting the kind of social justice through free market capitalism that the democrats want to get by taxing the living

day lights out of us. leland: you bring up the issue of taxing the living day lights. there's this race on the left to find more and more programs to spend more and more money on and pay for it by taxing more and more. listen to some of the proposals. we'll get your reaction. >> could increase the taxes that people are paying who are the extremely wealthy in our communities, foe 70%, 80%, we've had it as high as 90%. >> what i believe is capitalism with serious rules, and that means rules where everybody gets a chance to play. leland: we don't have serious rules now? i feel like the irs sort of enforces a few of them. >> we certainly have quite heavy taxes. back in the days of 90% rates, there were lots and lots of deductions, exclusions and loopholes. those are largely gone. the bottom line, this is is economy with people in the past didn't have skills to work and high school drop-outs, for

example, people with marginal high school dwalgs education that weren't available when people had their chance. during the obama years, the answer was to put them on welfare. today we're not forcing them to work, they're getting up off the bench and playing because they want to. leland: the wage is no longer what the government sets, it's what the market sets. it's higher than the minimum wage. the labor participation rate is starting to increase and more people getting off welfare and deciding to work on their own. 30 ekdz is -- second, if the democrats come in. >> they want guaranteed pensions, to stay home. they tried it in the 50's and 60's and discouraged people from getting skills and what they ended up with, a huge shortage of skilled workers much worse than now. leland: and with socialized medicine and we can think what the nhs is.

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yet. >> presidential contenders weigh in on controversy. leland: floods and mud slides in california after months of wild fires. ♪ ♪ leland: news changing so fast, i'm leland vittert. >> fascinating hours ahead. we continue to watch the story, virginia's governor taking a stance doesn't believe he's in controversial yearbook photo, the same he apologized being in 24 hours ago, governor will speak to the media about an hour and a half from now. garrett tenney joins us in richmond, virginia with details

next. >> expected to announce that he will not resign and the controversial yearbook picture is not of him. that is quite the change from his statement yesterday in which he was unequivocal about it. costume that's clearly racist and offensive. i am deeply sorry for decision that i made to appear as i did in this photo. despite that today, northam is reaching out to democrats he does not think it's him in the picture, he doesn't want to resign until he knows for sure. louis lucas tells fox news, governor northam did reach out and that he's not resigning, the explanation did not sway the democratic party of virginia. this morning the party said in part, we stand in democrats to immediately resign, he no longer has confidence or our support.

governor must end chapter immediately, step down. only a randful of democratic officials are standing by northam, at least not calling on him to resign straight out. mayor of new port news told virginia pilot that those calls were overreaction and said the photo was a reflection of a segregated society but he added the governor has acted proper governor and knowing him personally, values and goals are something that i will continue to support. all of this comes on the heels of entirely separate political fire storm earlier this week when the governor made comments about abortion bill that many described as side. this is the latest controversial is political pressure is building to reside from all sides, republican, democrat, from activist groups all across the country, molly. >> certainly in the state of virginia, thank you very much, garrett tenney, appreciate it. leland: joining us republican candidate d.j. jordan, typically people say it wasn't me and then

say it was them, they don't typically say it was me and i'm sorry sorry and now say oh, never mind. >> yeah, that's what makes this all so weird. why would you come out ahead saying it's you and try to backtrack. i think he should resign unless he has evidence that it's not him, you have to bring the person forward. >> start the search for the real klansman, how do you prove from a photo that was on your own yearbook page. do either of you can equivocally say i have never taken a photo like that or dressed like that or you can say, well, maybe i don't know which one was me, maybe it was a photograph, he hasn't in statement yesterday which one of the people people in offending photograph was him. >> that's right, that's a mess.

he should resign if this is him but mainly because the standard he held to republicans to, back in 2017, he and the democrats demonized ed gallespie who is a good man and set high bar for racism and he needs to follow through and not be a hypocrite and follow through -- leland: went after the president on race issues, the ad with ed gallespie with confederate flag in the truck, et cetera, et cetera, the list goes on. this is interesting, though f northam you have justice fairfax who serves 3-year term and be able to run again, he'll he's the lieutenant governor, assistant u.s. attorney. he was tweet from mlk day, interesting, once again to time to rise for better angels of nature, #we rise on mlk day. is he the answer, is he able to sort of heal this wound that

clearly has been created over the past couple of days? >> i know justin, he's a good man and i think he really wants to bring people together and i would urge if he's the next governor that he would work with republicans to try to heal our state. we have a painful history when it comes to racism and confederacy and charletsville 2017. leland: reopens all wounds. >> painful week for virginia. late-term abortion and now he's, the racist pictures are exposing, assault against human dignity. that brings a lot of pain especially on first day of black history month. we should be talking about the triumph and the story of african americans. >> brings up interesting question, assault on human

dignity. virginia constitution is not an impeachable offense. if northam says i'm sticking around, there's nothing democrats or republicans or virginians can do about it? >> basically becomes lame duck. he can do that if he wants to. he's the wrong person to bring the state together right now. leland: all right, where does this go from here politically? as you point out for republicans racism was the end velvet ed gallespie was beat on 2017, does this change the conversation, you have a democratic governor that has to resign because of a photo like, does the conversation need to change that changes of racism need to have much higher bar? >> i think each individual candidate is going to be judged differently. here is the thing, the democrats set extremely high bar when they use race at political weapon in 2017. they have done this in other

elections as well, you better live up to the standard and that's why ralph northam should resign. leland: how do you see the democrats handling this? are they being aggressive enough on their attack and calls on northam? >> i feel like they are. they are being aggressive and ncaap in state of virginia, legislative black caucus in richmond have all called -- leland: ncaap nationally too. >> they are holding him to the same standards as republicans. i think that's important. people are talking about where was this photo, how come no one saw this before now? ralph northam has run 6 different elections, four of them statewide. his team missed this and chopra ran against him in 2013 missed this as well. this is a big issue. leland: there are two sets of rules, right is right, wrong is

wrong, she would like us to be talking about her visit to new hampshire and democrats would rather than controversy. do you appreciate the insight, runner for legislature. we will have you back. >> thank you. >> cory booker the latest person to enter 2020 presidential field, david has the latest on this, david. >> cory booker on the campaign trail waste nothing time when it comes to meeting with potential voters, booker made announcement in newark, new jersey. >> it's easy to say i love america but love is not a word, it is action, it is sacrifice, this is work. >> booker gained more attention in the hearing for now supreme court justice brett kavanaugh last fall because he threatened to race senate rules relating to kavanaugh.

>> about the closest i will probably ever have to i am spartacus moment. >> he was called out after announcing run for the white house but he says he has no regrets from the comment. >> it was one of my prouder moments sticking up for people and when i was threatened to be thrown out of senate, bring it, another senate said you will throw cory booker out, throw me in the pit as well. >> senator kristin gillibrand on the trail and had coffee with voters, he's pushing for medicaid for all. similar position held by california senator kamala harris also in the race. >> the way to health care for all americans is to have a nonfor profit system, single payer, medicaid for all, some version of that ability for everyone to get quality affordable health care so you are an owner, it's there for you forever. >> hawaii congressman gabbard

will launch campaign officially tonight on hawaii, more candidates expected to join in the coming weeks, big names still hanging in the balance, beto o'rourke and joe biden, expect crowded debate stage early in a couple of months. >> it would be fascinate to go see how it's all layed out and they find room. thank you so much for joining us. choosing greatness, that's the official white house theme for president trump's upcoming state of the union speech on tuesday, mr. trump promise today strike a tone of unity but also expected to make clear his party differences with democrats on border security and, of course, other budget priorities. here to help preview that speech ted harvey of the committee to defend the president. thanks for joining us. >> thank you. >> a few more days to salivate on what we might hear on state of the union address? >> i think building the wall and making sure that we are securing borders and defending americans,

i think those would be some of the biggest issues. i think the fact that ruth bader ginsburg will probably not be there will be a huge news story. i think it should be. he will not have been seen in public for 62 days on tuesday, so it'll be interesting to see how the media handles that issue. i think that if clarence thomas hadn't been seen for 62 days, cnn and msn would have satellite trucks on the front steps. >> how tasteful that discussion may or may not be as well. >> exactly. right. >> when we talk about greatness, the president, of course, loves the word great, how will he define that in the speech? >> if you see what he had promised the american people he would do when he got elected and what he has fulfilled in those promises and the results of that, you look at unemployment rates being all-time low, african-american unemployment and hispanic unemployment all-time low. those are the things that the president got elected on and i think the result show that those

are pretty great results. focusing on america, making america great again, that is what the american people elected him for and they will continue to support him. >> he has not campaigning, he goes out and packs hangers, promises met, promises kept. how much did the shutdown hurt the way it ended? did that hurt the president, he doesn't employee the fight is over, national emergency still looming there that something is mentioned. >> it is, he hasn't backed down despite what the mainstream media wants to say. he has pointed out that the democrats don't want to have a secure border, they want to continue to allow drug traffickers and human traffickers to come across the border and he has said he does not want that, he will fight for the american people and if in two weeks the democrats don't come forward and fund the wall, i believe he's going to be fulfilling what he's told him, he would do state of emergency

and fund it and build it with the military. >> he's received some essence of lashing from conservatives over the way the shutdown ended but when we are looking ahead we are seeing incredible reporting from griff jenkins that's there with caravans, talking about other caravans that are looming in the distance essentially. so what can the president say to the american people to get them on board in the direction that he wants things to go? >> well, we are going to have thousands of people coming to our borders that are not going through points of entry. we don't know who they are, we don't know like last time we had tens of -- tens of thousands of people coming across who didn't know whether drug traffickers or human traffickers, that's a crisis, whether the democrats want to admit that, that's a crisis. the elected officials in our country sworn an oath to defend our borders and the president is going to do it. he is going to call for a state of emergency and he is going to put in barriers that will force

people to go through the ports of entry and come here legally and allow us to determine whether they work hard and assimilate into america or they are coming here for bad reasons, ms13, we don't want ms13 coming here. >> what's the key thing the president needs to say right now? >> i think that's the most key thing that the american people want to see, that he is up there trying, working hard to compromise with the democrats to do the things that the democrats want but also standing firm on his promise to the american people that he will build a wall and we will defend the borders. i think the democrats have put themselves in a box to say we are going to be obstructionists and we are not going to work with the president despite how many times he comes forward and tries to work with them and compromise. >> thank you for the insights, we will see if he gets warm response, you know how it is. >> exactly right. >> thank you very much. >> appreciate it.

leland: eyes on california right now as they look to the sky on storm watch, heavy rains threatening communities, they are reeling from wild fires and the fire damage means flash floods could rise in just minutes, jeff paul live in malibu? >> not yet, normally a huge tourist spot but because of nasty weather not too many people out here, you could see that it's not only raining very heavily out here but the winds have really started to pick up and you could see what it's doing to some of the waves out here as the gusts pick up, all the waves are tracking on shore, the big concern is you take a look, spilloff, it started over mud slides, the area was hard hit by wild fires, you couple that with heavy rains and strong winds and fears of mud slides on

top of overflooding, power outages, residents who have been hard hit in the area are not taking any chances and they are preparing. >> i think everyone is anxious and everybody thinks it's a bit of a scary time. >> much more intense than the storm we had last time. >> now, one of the things residents and businesses as you could see are doing, they are setting up drums as well as sandbags to prepare for the rain and the flooding and the possible landslides that are coming down from the canyon over here. this is just the start of this rain too, we should mention in northern california they are being hit hard, thousands of people without power, some evacuations, orders in place for santa barbara county as well as ventura county and it's supposed to rain through tuesday. people are getting ready, that's for sure. leland: so many have been hit so hard, jeff paul on the ground.

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leland: live pictures from caracas, venezuela, 2:20 p.m., pronicolás maduro rally, no surprise, we can get pictures in news room, much hard tore get pictures of massive rally calling for maduro to leave. steve harrigon on the crowd, massive crowds converging from all over caracas says maduro needs to go as the united

states. with that we bring chairman, former special envoy chief of staff from clinton administration, you think how much of venezuela has changed since bill clinton and your team were in the white house, didn't take long and it's now a disaster in. >> it's a disaster. but you're right about venezuela, once hugo chávez took control in command has gone socialist and terrible, terrible humanitarian crisis they are now. leland: you dealt with crisis at highest level, somalia, humanitarian crisis mixed with the kind of strong men leaders, this is john bolton, the national security adviser tweeting about the first real u.s. move. the u.s. will mobilize humanitarian aid, national

supplements for the people of venezuela, time for maduro to get out of the way, juan guiado, the leader of national assembly, maduro says we don't want anything from the americans. is this a good first to try and push maduro? >> i think it is. i think the trump administration is handling this in the correct manner, secretary pompeo tweeted this morning about humanitarian aid consistent with national security adviser bolton's message. so i think we are trying to walk that careful balance, leland, of pushing and encouraging change in the administration. guiado who was elect bid the assembly has handled things quite skillfully. we have to walk a careful, careful course here but we have good support in the region, that's important.

leland: there's a line that's being walked. you think about the other tweets from ambassador bolton saying there would be serious consequence ifs anything happens to guiado, putting the u.s. umbrella protection over him. what kind of conversations are going on right now inside the white house and the situation room to back those threats up? >> well, geography is destiny and venezuela is close to the united states, same hemisphere, there's no question that the white house and the appropriate cabinet agencies, secretary of defense, secretary of state so forth are focused on this issue, they are handling again with proper proactiveness but also calibration but i think it's also key that has improved and taken leadership role as secretary general of oas that helps u.s. position, no doubt we have the uss abraham lincoln off the coast of caracas if maduro

does something provocative especially with embassy. leland: you spent a lot of time in latin america, we saw two-star general to back one of the first military defense here in washington also defected. do we get situation where there's venezuelan army turning on the vel wednesdayan -- venezuelan people? >> i hope not, it can always happen with strong man like maduro. loyal soldiers will not point the guns on their own people and so far that's largely been the case. i think what you are seeing is a tipping point just as you suggested, i think, leland the polls suggest 95% are in favor of maduro leaving and having a proper government safe place. i think amnesty will be

important element of that as with elections. leland: guiado talked about that, amnesty issue. the egyptian military held through the theory as well during revolution, thanks as always. >> good to be with you. leland: good to see you, sir. molly. >> still ahead on america's news headquarters, deadline for border security deal is about 2 weeks away, will they be able to come up with a plan? congressman weighs in and early spring. we will have that answer. it has protein, plus 21 vitamins and minerals including calcium and vitamin d, to help your family be their best. carnation breakfast essentials®.

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>> virginia governor ralph northam expected to speak in next hour after calls to resign

after offensive photo surfaced from medical yearbook page. not the first instance of of lawmakers' actions have been brought up. >> molly, scandal in virginia right on the heels of another black face incident that caused florida secretary of state his job, just last week michael ortell handled resignation to ron desantis after photos showed him in halloween party in black face posing as hurricane katrina victim. resigned it is a same day as photo surfaced. secretary of state under a month and earlier this month congressman steve king iowa stripped of street after defending questionable comments on race. he said in new york times, white nationalist, white supremacist, western civilization, how did that language become offensive, he backtracked saying he was not advocating for those evil ideologies and said the interview was a hit piece

because of his immigration views and support for president trump. >> yes, he had those for me and i responded question about them but when i said, why did that language become offensive, i was speaking exclusively and directly about western civilization. >> not every politician has left office after race scandals, west virginia, high-ranking member of the ku kluz klan after serving 6 hours in the house and 51 years of the senate after being huge advocate and called the time in klan worst time of his life. at the time of death ncaap made praising him, he stood with us crucial importance to remembers and reauthorization of voting rights act, historic healthcare legislation of 2020 and his support for the hate crime's prevention legislation. senator burr served 4 times

making his -- making him rather third in line to the presidency after the vice president and the speaker to have house, molly. >> a little history for us as we look at the present issues of the day, thank you very much. >> all right, we wait to hear from ralph northam from the governor's mansion in just about an hour. protest outside his house but so far he's saying he's not going to resign. we bring in chief deputy whip of the house democratic caucus, michigan congressman, good to see you, appreciate it. >> thanks, leland. leland: this was from ralph northam about ed gallespie, then republican candidate for governor back in 2017. va is an exclusive and diverse, meaning virginia, we won't put up with racist rhetoric and fear-mongering, boy, that did not age well. >> , no it didn't, what it shows is when you have a standard, you to live by it and i think

governor knotam -- northam coming to understand in ways he never images, i'm the one that feels this is a disqualifying moment for him. it makes it very difficult for him to govern a state as diverse as virginia. leland: hold on congressman, he says it wasn't him. >> i'm dumbfounded by that. leland: first he said it was him and he's sorry, the quote being i'm deeply sorry for the decision i made to appear in the photograph, website published a photograph of me but now it wasn't me, it's like the shaggy defense but after you admitted that it was you. >> i think that's really troubling because let's face it, if you can't remember if you appeared in that photo, in other words, if you can't remember putting on grease paint to portray yourself as black face

or putting on robes on ku kluz klan, that's not a defense that one would want to advance. leland: you put these things together, northam used racism to beat up on ed gallespie but also go after president trump as a number of democrats also have. is this a watershed moment when all of a sudden you have a democratic governor that was elected and your own opposition research, own campaign, et cetera, never uncovered this photograph, is it time to stop and pause before accusing people of racism without really concrete proof? >> no, i actually think, you know, obviously we have to be thoughtful about this but there are certain images that disqualify an individual and i think unfortunately in this case governor northam has crossed the line. i do think we have to be careful to make sure that when thinking about this, when applying the standard that says we will not

embrace those who embrace racist views that we keep them in some content but i think in this case and governor northam's case unfortunately it's clearly crossing the line. >> i was going to say, you're accusing ed gallspie of things he may or may not have said, et cetera, this seems like a much further distance from that very dark line. >> it would sure seem. i don't know the particulars of the gallespii comments, i will say that when governor northam created that standard he has to be willing to live by it. leland: this brings up an important for democrats, you will be whipping votes as it relates to possible deal over border wall funding, you the 2020 priorities, democratic priorities when it comes to health care, how big of a distraction if all of sudden you have northam, you used facial recognition software to decide whether that's me in my yearbook

after i admitted it's me? >> yeah, i mean, obviously it's a distraction that we don't need because it takes us away from people that actually sent us to washington to work on. i would rather have all of our conversation being focused on how we reconciled some of the differences we have through this conference committee and trying to come to some understanding and to have another subject invade the conversation particularly one that is as divisive as the racial divisions that we are still trying to heal in the country, it's a distraction. it's one to have reasons that governor northam needs to think about the bigger picture. it's not about him. leland: there's irony if anything, a few topics that seems that republicans and democrats are in universal agreement on and quickly and 12 to 24 hours you have statements from both sides, doesn't happen very often. >> northam will do well to --

leland: 50 minutes away from press conference. somehow he doesn't seem to be getting the message the democrats are sending him. appreciate it, the gentleman from michigan. molly. >> coming up atlanta and the world get ready for super bowl 53, 64-degrees, i'm a little jealous, that sounds really nice. jonathan. >> hey, molly, the weather is absolutely beautiful but sirens behind me, security is also tight. ly have the latest coming up what do you have there?

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belichick. live in atlanta in front of the stadium, hi, jonathan. >> hey, leland, nfl is putting touches on the field in mercedes benz stadium, $1.5 billion facility is home to both the atlanta falcons and atlanta united, the soccer team, this field is used to plenty of repainting, take a listen. >> with the two teams, soccer, football, nothing can be permanent. each time they change operations everything has to come off and get redone. >> how difficult is that? >> tedious, a lot of man hours. >> the super bowl is level 1 national security event, people enter security checkpoints 300 feet from the building instead of stadium gates and atlanta field office is hosting multiple agencies as intelligence operation center so they can quickly investigate and respond to any potential threat.

>> i tell you right now we don't have any threat to super bowl that we are aware of at this time. >> however law enforcement officials say they do have to investigate drone operators for violating faa no-fly done near mercedes benz, the pilots could face fines and possible jail time. >> taken up a lot of time for agents and for law enforcement officers to be targeting these drones when they could be working on other security measures and leland to give you an example of how seriously they are taking this, i road on uber to live location, the driver says yesterday he dropped someone off, someone carrying a drone in plain sight, a couple of hours later, her husband who actually own it is car said got call from fbi agent asking him what he knew about the drone,

leland. leland: wow, ever growing problem. jonathan in mercedes-benz stadium, thanks. molly. >> for more on how officials are working to secure big game, retired fbi special agent and author of the secret to cybersecurity scott, thanks so much for joining us, scott. you know, they are not playing security but taking very seriously. huge swaths of people involved but they have operation center, of course, there's significant amount of security, local authorities involved as well. you talk about just the massive endeavor to ensure that the game stays safe. >> this is a huge operation and it's taken at least a year's worth of planning with federal state local law enforcement agencies, emergency first responders to military, there's such a large amount of interagency coordination to pull off massive security event to

keep people safe. >> what are the biggest threats they are focused on. >> right now the threat today are much different than they were almost 19 years ago in -- when the super bowl take place. we have to worry about terrorists and weapons of mass destruction. we have cyber threats and even human trafficking. >> when you talk about things that are happening to keep people safe, when you go to big events you see blockades to ensure big vehicles can't come through. snipers being taken to ensure that there isn't a mass shooting, that sort of thing. what is happening on the ground just for crowd control protection? >> well, this is show of force, there's so many different law enforcement agencies that are out there in numbers and a lot of things going on behind the scene that the public does not see. there's a massive operation center. there's so many people on standby right now just in case somebody goes bad and at the end

of the game when everything goes according to plan, everybody goes home and it was a success. >> one of the things you mentioned moments ago, i want to talk about human traffics, there's been some arrests in that effort that they tend to make it in every super bowl. how big of an issue is this for the law enforcement community down there? >> human trafficking is a massive problem, there was a number of arrests just the other day, i believe it was 34 individuals and even minors, certain people say that this is a victimless crime but sex trafficking, the victims here don't have a choice and so often the young victims that we see underage girls are online and they are answering ads to become models or dancers or something like that, so we have to really be aware.

massive amounts of emails, emails and they'll be saying, hey, look, there's a great deal, you can go to this party go, to this event, discounted tickets, we need to stop and think before we click, e-mail is the number one way the bad guys are targeting us. another way is wi-fi. we will see so many sites popping up, free, high-speed wi-fi, a lot of bad guys are putting up sites and trying to trick us to logging in and once logged in they are able to see traffic, so awareness is so very important during this time. >> all right, thank you so much for joining us and of course wishing everybody wonderful game and great appreciation to law enforcement community. thank you for your insight. >> thank you.

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>> after a week of record cold from much of the country all eyes turn to punxsutawney, philadelphia, janice dean has the details. >> faithful followers, there's no shadow of me, a beautiful spring is still be. [cheers and applause] >> historic day in punxsutawney where he came out of burrow and predicted early spring, that has only happened 19 times in 133 years. this is an aamerican tradition. >> when we started in 1988 we were lucky if we had 500 people. so then it started to grow and

by 1989, '90 close to a thousand and we thought that would max us out. janice: today we had over 25,000 people come to gobbler's to see prediction, we are all waiting in anticipation, there was music, there was celebrating, fireworks, the official prediction came at around 7:20 a.m., big day for punxsutawney and have tourists come for this incredible day, prediction of an early spring was quite a moment and i will tell you on "fox & friends" earlier this morning they asked me what my prediction was and i said early spring. but i have science to back that up because next week as we go a week ahead the temperatures are going to be in the 50's here in punxsutawney, so phil was

listening to my forecast. i'm honored, what a day, i hope to be here next year, back to you. leland: all right, warmer in palm beach, we will tell you who the president spent the day golfing with when we come back. . . .

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golf course with tiger woods and jack nicklaus. no word from the score with the pool traveling with the president. there's he three of them. typically golf is a foursome. if you need somebody for tomorrow's round, i'm available. >> that's so generous. i'm so bad, i'll bring down anybody else's handicap. there we go, it's just about 2:00 eastern now. ralph northum is scheduled to address the brett in about 30 minutes. -- press in about 30 minutes. you could have gotten pretty long odds at 5:00 yesterday that he would have been gone by now. now he says he he's not resigning. >> we'll see if we get clarification. he originally apologized for the photo we've spoken about today, saying i'm deeply sorry for the decision i made to appear in this photo and seems to walk back whether or not he was even in the photo. >> now he's saying i don't remember, maybe it went me. there's some reporting that they

used facial recognition software to see if he was the guy in the hood or not. 30 minutes from now we hear from the governor himself. eric and arthel will have all of that coverage and continuing the fallout throughout the day. >> thanks for watching. eric: we start with a fox news alert. the explosive photo prompting ralph northum to make a statement will happen 30 minutes from now. this comes as the virginia lawmaker tells fox news that the governor now says it was not him in the controversialbook photo from decades ago, a reverse from what he said yesterday. hello. welcome to a brand-new hour, fast-moving day of new developments in america's news headquarters. i'm eric shawn. arthel: i'm arthel neville. the democratic governor facing a wave of criticism and growing calls to resign after the photo became public and today protesters gathering at the governor's mansion in richmond, demanding that he step