good night from washington. "hannity" is next. this is a fox news awe letter. we have major developments on the political chaos in virginia. hang on to your seats. it will be a wild night. this special edition of "hannity," "the left in crisis." i'm dan bongino in for sean. in the scandal rocked commonwealth of virginia governor ralph northam and attorney general mark herring fating calls to resign after being embroiled in the blackface scandal. tonight. a second woman accusing lieutenant governor justin fairfax of virginia of sexual assault. trace gallagher has the latest. trace? >> good evening, dan. the second accuser is meredith watson who says the assault was in 2000 while they were both under grads at duke university. watson says the two were friends but never had a

romantic relationship. watson has not detailed what her lawyer calls aggressive and premeditated attack but claims it was similar to the first victim who says that fairfax forced her to perform oral sex. justin fairfax called that consensual and said the allegations are made up. and fairfax claims that watson made previous assault claims against a basketball player. she says that she was assaulted by a basketball player. watson's attorney says she told many of the friends about fairfax attacking her and they have issued corroborating statements. the attorney says ms. watson is reluctantly coming forward out of response to the civic duty and believes those who are in highest office should

be of the highest character. and cory booker tweeted the multiple detailed allegations against lieutenant governor of virginia are deeply troubling. serious, credible and corroborated by others and this is no longer appropriate for him to serve. he should resign. senator kamala harris and another 2020 contender echoed that. former virginia governor terry mcauliffe and the house and the senate democrats called for justin fairfax to step down. now a virginia democratic state lawmaker says if fairfax doesn't resign he will begin process of impeachment. governor ralph northam met with his staff today and reiterated he will not resign. dan? >> thank you. we are going live to virginia where patrick hope is holding a press conference to announce the plans to introduce articles of impeachment for the lieutenant governor justin fairfax if he has not resigned

before monday. let's listen in. >> he wants time for an investigation. why rush to judgment, one would argue? >> two women have come forward. you can't question their motivations. they are credible people. these are very serious accusations. he is unfit to serve office. >> how do you know he is telling the truth? >> have you spoken to the lieutenant governor? >> have you spoken with the speaker? >> i have not spoken to the speaker. >> do you believe there is a realistic chance of articles of impeachment? do you think there is a realistic chance of impeachment if you enter of the articles of impeachment against him? >> we'll find out. >> why are you calling for just the lieutenant governor right now? why not the governor or the attorney general? >> well, i mean the distinction between a sexual assault or a rape is purely very different.

the articles of impeachment are high crime and misdemane nowhere. this meets the threshold. while the events that occurred 30-some years ago with the governor and the attorney general, while they're heinous and insensitive, they don't rise to the same level. >> have you called on them to resign? >> i supported the caucus' position to call on the governor to reseine. >> what about mark herring? >> we have not issued a statement on mark herring. anything else? thank you. >> joining us now with reaction. tammy bruce and lawrence jones and istive rights attorney darrell parks. tammy, do you first. the democrats in virginia, this is complete chaos for them now. now they have two problems here. this is a binary thing. power or principle? the person in line of

succession after mark herring is a republican. but the principals from the kavanaugh situation in the past is clear. so if they stick to principles, they have a clear political power problem. your thoughts? >> the principles for democrats is an oxymoron there. this is what has happened. men now, they get no due process under any circumstance. right? due process is blown up. women are now clearly been made to irrelevant weaponized additional victims of the opportunity when it comes to political option. if you are the right kind of woman making the right kind of accusation against the right kind of person; i.e., conservative or a republican, you will be taken seriously. in this case now, it seems to be so serious that they have to apply and they are trying to apply the same standard of no due process. you heard in the press conference moment ago someone in the background saying how do you know they are telling the truth? >> right. >> look. women are credible.

i want women to be taken seriously. >> of course. >> that is part of the dynamic of justice. in this particular dynamic, the saying this rises to something more serious. where they are accusations at this point. no legal frame wok. when it comes to the blackface episode, the issues that some say are the racist episodes, those are actually in public, have occurred, there is no real debate over their existence. if it is about character and principles why aren't they held to a similar standard about the nature of who is going to be holding office in virginia? >> yeah. darrell, to you. during the kavanaugh case a lot of democrats were quick to jump out in front of the cameras to demand brett kavanaugh take his name out of the running for the supreme court position. in that case, the evidence was thin. everybody treated the evidence seriously but it was thin. in the case against justin fairfax, he has the right to be heard. like anyone else. the right to due process.

but the evidence here is specific. named on the record witnesses. why did some democrats take so long if they stand by the principles to come out and demand the same for the lieutenant governor fairfax? >> i think he deserves due process as well. >> i agree. >> these are the accusations against him. they are accusations. they have to be vetted. they should be taken seriously, though. the accusations made by the women are serious but they should be investigated. he should have his day. it's not right he should outright resign and not have a chance to face his accusers. not have a chance to hear all of the facts. so i think we need to let it run its course. >> daryl, i don't disagree one bit. i have been consistent on the start. i said the same about kavanaugh. but i'm asking simply why the democrats didn't give the same, the same standard of justice to brett kavanaugh when he was in that position? that is all i'm asking you. why not? what was different about his

case? >> there are two different scenarios. you have a supreme court justice nominee. >> it doesn't matter. >> yes, it does matter. one person has not achieved office. one is in office. the crime doesn't matter, the alleged crime -- -- >> so it only matters when a person is going to a high office? >> there is a difference, too. there is a difference, too. you also have to vet the situation. remember, now, with -- >> hold on. time-out. time-out. time-out. let me go to lawrence. hold on. let me get lawrence in here. >> i can't take this nonsense. >> i'm having a hard time with it, too. the problem i have in the kavanaugh case not only is there a look of evidence and in many cases there was anti-evidence. negative evidence. some of the information put out there turned out to be categorically incorrect by the names offered up by dr. ford herself. yet the democrats jumped the gun on kavanaugh. that is my problem with this.

>> that is exactly right. >> the evidence wasn't there. they kept changing the story. including dr. ford as well. now you say i believe in due process, i believe in the right for people to face the accuser. but that is not what the democrats believe. now in order to protect their own they are changing their story. look, i have a lot of problems with this case as well. one being that the people that are accusing fairfax don't want to go through the criminal justice process. they don't want a real investigation. especially since that is concerning, especially since the statue of limitations has not even ended in this case. >> that's because we have been con sus tent on this -- consistent on this. tammy, i want to bring you in here. if your principles are due process matters, accusations are not elfed. evidence is evidence. if everybody is given their chance, eventually this will work its out.

>> it's a problem when the democrats assigned to be protector of women and the owner of the issues. it's weaponized and partisan. as a result they use it in that way. it will eliminate the seriousness of the issue. all women begin to be looked at as unserious and dangerous it's transactional in nature. so four women realizing that the democrats in the framework, they can demand justin fairfax resign. but in the meantime, they destroyed the seriousness of the issue that we worked for decades to elevate. in the meantime, the democrats continue to lie to women they are the ones who represent the best. women have to look to both parties spread the influence and work for the solutions to issue as opposed to using the lives as weapons against the political opponents. that is what the democrats have done here. including abortion by the way. >> let me say this. let me say this. i think this is not a

democratic issue. different people the issue different ways. you have probably disagree vehemently with the democrat from the northern virginia who is just on tv grandstanding against lieutenant governor fairfax. >> at least he's consistent. >> you can't make it a democrat or republican thing -- >> hold on. is it a democrat or a republican issue. because the democrats made it that way. not me, lawrence or tammy. we have been very consistent. we said democrat or republican, you are entitled to your day in court. you are entitled to defend yourself. the integrity of your name and character. we have never said any different. it's the democrats during the kavanaugh situation that insisted that the standard was different for kavanaugh. do you see why we might be upset? nothing changed. fairfax deserves the evidence in court. so did kavanaugh. but the evidence was nothing like we have now. >> they still destroyed him. >> let's just remind ourselves here.

we do have definite character issues when it comes to northam and the other -- huggins -- >> herring. >> herring. definite admitted character issues. yet of these men, it's the african-american man who is going to be the one who will be effectively forced out. this is a character issue across the board with the democrats. boy, what does it tell you if it's the black man that has to go first. >> 30 seconds. last word. >> because thaw want to protect their power. he is not in the inner circle. >> right. >> so they are circling the wagons. the democrats have not been consistent on this issue. that is why we are heated on the panel. i wish kavanaugh was given the same grace and the opportunity to present his case like this guy has been given. >> darn right. i have to run. thank you so much. that was a great discussion. thank you for joining us tonight. what is the turmoil in virginia mean nationally for the democrats?

many leading democrats were quick to voice support for the chrstine blasey ford in the kavanaugh hearings. at first they were mostly silent on the accusations against the lieutenant governor of virginia. justin fairfax. it was only following the seconding accusation that the 2020 contenders including kirsten gillibrand, cory booker and elizabeth warren called for fairfax to resign. we're with the national spokeswoman. and the syndicated talk show host larry elder. kailey, go to you first and i'll pose the same question to you. this should not be the democrat or the republican issue. these are the very serious charges. extremely sears you charges. women who bring forward the charges should absolutely be taken seriously. nobody said different. no rational person on this network or anywhere else. the problem i have with this, when the shoe was on the other foot and it's brett kavanaugh the republican appointee, all of this went out the window. the evidence didn't matter.

the response is instantaneous. he should pull his name out. now democrats have come out after the second allegation but it wasn't the immediately. your reaction to that? >> that is right. look at what happened. in the wake of the justin fairfax accusations coming out. the number fourth in line of the gubernatorial succession in virginia, kirk cox, who is a republican came out with a statement immediately. we at the r.n.c. talk told the state party of virginia, talked with kirk cox, the statement was this. let's wait for the facts to come out. i was the same standard with kavanaugh. even though there was a political interest and the republican party saying that fairfax should resign, we said wait for facts to come out. we were consistent. it's not the democratic party in wake of kavanaugh. they said kavanaugh should step down. kirsten gillibrand said one credible allegation is enough. democrats were silent at first. you have a few coming out now because the political interest depends on it. the democratic party largely

been silent. dan, one more thing. i was dismayed when we heard the press conference. your heard them say we yet to have a statement on herring. herring is the one that wore blackface. and northam wore blackface. if it's meriting a resignation, so too, should it be for herring but they are not consistent. double standard. all politics for the democratic party. >> larry, it gets infuriating. when you stand on common set of principle, there is nothing to -- you just say what you said before because it mattered to you. what bothers me, look at herring. he appears to be the biggest hypocrite at all. he was one of the first people to jump out and go after the governor northam for the blackface. knowing he had this in the past. there are a lot of trouble with democrats in virginia right now. it's a mess. >> well, they are, dan. you can nail the a.g. for the hypocrisy. i take issue with the idea that the blackface pictures

suggest bad character. c'mon, have perspective here. 1984 was the governor's blackface photograph. he was 25 years old. if you look at the photograph, i thought they were mocking racism, mocking the klan, mocking people wearing the blackface. the a.g. was 19. he wore blackface because he admired rappers like curtis blow and he was trying to appear at a halloween party dressed as a rapper. that is a character problem? he wasn't hating black people. he was loving on rappers. have perspective. the charges against the lieutenant governor are very serious. two cases of sexual assault. in one case, they told friends which is a way to corroborate the allegation. that is a different charge than the silly blackface controversy regarding the governor and the a.g. >> kayleigh there were a series of questions asked by kavanaugh. if the democrats were standing on principle -- i can't go back to this enough.

it seems like their principles wavered. what is the motivation for the women to lie? i find it interesting that some of the same questions are not asked by some. by some, not all, prominent democrats. but are the accusations enough? it wasn't a question for kavanaugh. the accusations were perceived to be enough. let me ask you this. if accusations are enough at this point, given this new social media world, do we find ourselves in a dangerous spot where the people don't have the opportunity any more to defend themselves. and the lives are just thrown into basically overturned by the simple accusations. that creates a big problem. does it not? >> it's a huge problem. men are guilty in the court of public opinion before the facts come out. is there is a rush to judgment. there are women who have been sexually assault and my heart goes out to them. it's a real problem in the country. but this in the democratic

party. this is not believe all women. it's only believe all women who accuse republican men. that is what is so troubling. this has been weaponized. the #metoo movement has been weaponized against the republican party. it's unfortunate. that does not take all sexual assault allegations seriously as they should. this should not be political. we should stand on solid footing. we support all women who are true victims. this is not a political issue. something to say about mark herring. he set a standard when he called for northam to resign. he set the standard. so whatever it says about his character, he set the standard when he called for northam to resign. so he has lost credibility when he set a standard he himself will not adhere to or step down because of. >> larry, she said before they have an interesting political problem now. it shouldn't be. if you are principled like we

have been and you believe in this, they should all step aside. the next in lain, the fourth in line is the house of delegates speaker who is in fact a republican. so this puts the democrats in an interesting political situation. a tough bind. because they don't want to stick to the principles in virginia. >> this is a guy that set the standard. out was a stupid standard. i posed as blackface at 2 in a yearbook pictures so all the others should use the job, too? i'm sure a muckety muck in a hospital somewhere, should they be in trouble? nail him on hypocrisy. not for the blackface. jimmy kimmel did. this is a silly standard. it depends how old you were, when you did 9, the intent and what you have done since then. have some perspective here. >> all right. well, larry, kayleigh, thank

you. >> thank you, dan. >> see you guys. next on the "hannity" special, the left is in cray analysis. we -- crisis. we'll bring you the latest in the virginia crisis. stay with us. don't go. this isn't just any moving day.

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resigned before then. jennifer wexton of virginia, i believe, dr. vanessa tieson and i believe watson. and i believe lieutenant governor justin fairfax must resign. cory booker, elizabeth warren and kamala harris calling for his resignation tonight. new jersey law firm issued a statement saying they represented meredith watson who was raped by fairfax in 2000 according to the allegations. while they were both students at duke. miss watson shared her account from the statement of the rape with friends in a series of e-mails and facebook messages that are now in our possession. additionally we have statements from former classmates they claim to corroborate that watson told friends mr. fairfax raped her. the law firm refused request from fox news to elaborate on the claims or allow us to review facebook messages or give us the name of the former classmates tonight. they issued another statement saying attempts to discredit watson are a smear.

fairfax fired back. the end of the statement is the most salient. "i will not resign" he wrote. he denies the latest allegation saying it's demonstratively false. i never forced myself on anyone ever. it's obvious that a vicious and corroborated smear campaign is orchestrated against me. the second woman to accuse fairfax of impropriety comes exactly a week, almost to the hour of the picture from the governor's yearbook surfacing. there was an equally loud chorus of calls for him to resign. he is still in office. now comes the question when it comes to fairfax, can he hold on as long as the impeachment threat changing the equation for him tonight? >> dan: is anybody standing by the lieutenant governor? >> one so far we have found. bobby scott of virginia.

issuing this statement late tonight so far. both allegations must be investigated. he continues if either is found to be true and there is corroborating evidence then the haunt governor should resign immediately. so far he is the only one offering that grace of the due process or the investigation. >> thank you. i appreciate the insight. >> dan: joining us now to break down unfolding scandals in virginia, relatable podcast host. ally. carrie picket. and morgan ortegas. morgan, to you first. what has taken the democrats so long? what has taken them so long?

>> i don't know if that is the right approach. we are rushing to judgment here without having any sort of the public hearing and without having a full investigation. we have to be intellectually consistent here and demand the same fairness for justin as we did for kavanaugh. >> dan: i agree with you 100%. he is entitled to due process. but that is not what they did in that case. >> let me tell you, i have personal experience with this. my husband has known the lieutenant governor for probably 15 years. some of his close friends are our friends. on a personal level this has had a personal discussion with me as a republican and my democrat friends. i said this is why i was apoplectic in kavanaugh. we live in the d.c. area. so i know people were crushed to kavanaugh who were crushed by the accusations happening to him. similarly my friends who are

close to justin can't believe this is happening and they see their friend getting destroy and they want to stand by him. but as democrats they are conflicted because of the position they took in kavanaugh. so it is important to take the people out of the headlines and say best thing i read is "washington examiner" op-ed talked about suzanne collins laid it out for us. the susan collins speech she gave when she said she was voting and supporting if kavanaugh she gave the criteria for why and how we had gone through the process. any metro we should follow on the right or the left is not politicize the #metoo or the aizations. and as a country, let's set a standard of giving women who feel like they need to be heard the right to be heard and give men the ability to go through an investigation as well. so i'm not going to sit here to call on him to resign or beat the democrats over the head. i'll say this is why i took the position in kavanaugh. this is why now i think we need that same fairness

applied. >> dan: carrie, you have been following this closely. out of all three who are clearly in hot water here, the governor, the lieutenant governor and the attorney general, do you see any of them, all of them or one of them, who do you see politically being able to weather this if any at all? these are all serious charges. especially of the alleged rape charges. very serious charges. do you see any of them getting through this? >> well, let me put it to you this way before i answer that even directly. so far the only person who has actually resigned over even wearing blackface in two months has been the now former florida secretary of state. >> dan: good point. great point. >> he was a republican. so that being said, as far as the optics are concerned this is so bad for the democrats. let's face it. if you have a black lawmaker over in virginia, who ends up

getting impeached and then removed from office. then you end up with two white lawmakers, rather one white lawmaker and then you have a white official who ends up staying there. because they still have the black face going on there, that will look worse. ten you figure out what is worse? we kicked out a black lawmaker. what goes on hear? >> i'm worn out with the comparisons between kavanaugh. the cases are not the same. the evidence against kavanaugh was lose at best. i was anti-evidence at some point. the alleged victim named the names of people who said no, i don't remember any of that. the victims are clear.

>> you have two women with similar stories. justin fairfax deserves due process. you have don't think anyone would disagree with that. i appreciate how much nuance and balance we are trying to offer to the conversation. what we are trying to show the democratic friends is they need to stand on principle all the time. not just when it's politically expedient, which of course paradox. you can't be politically expeedient and stand on principles at the same time. we are not saying that justin fairfax to judge him more quickly than kavanaugh but if you do it there, do it here. or vice versa. i would rather us not jump to the conclusions whether the right or the left and give everyone due process. this is not really up to the democrats or to republicans.

to decide what is too racist to stay in office. they need to decide if it's too far for them to have done blackface 30 years ago if they can still serve. i'm interested to see conclusions they come up with. including governor northam. it has to be a conclusion they apply across the board. >> the conclusion will happen in november. there are state legislative elections in virginia. the republicans have 51-49 in the house and the state legislature. 21-19 in the senate. that is part of this. contested tight election in nowhere for the state legislature. >> dan: we will see coming up soon. thank you for joining us. coming up next on the "hannity" special. "the left in crisis." more analysis of the democrat party in complete chaos. don't go anywhere. when we started our business we were paying an arm and a leg for postage. i remember setting up shipstation. one or two clicks and everything was up and running. i was printing out labels and saving money. shipstation saves us so much time.

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>> dan: fox news alert. welcome back to special edition of "hannity." just in, a new statement from the virginia legislative black caucus saying, "it is bess for lieutenant governor fairfax to step down from his position." joining us for more on the latest surrounding the political scandals rocking virginia is ellison barber. ellison? >> hi, dan. we keep seeing more and more of the statements of the people coming out and saying now they do believe the lieutenant governor should step down from his role. the most recent allegation, of course, allegedly tack place at dauk university, when the lieutenant governor and the woman were students there back in 2000. duke university tells me that the lieutenant governor justin fairfax was asked to step down from the board of visitors at the duke stanford school of public policy. the lieutenant governor facing sexual assault allegations from two different women. one says he forced her the pore form oral sex on him in the 2004 d.n.c. convention in

boston. another says he raped her in 2000 when they were students at duke. lieutenant governor denying all of the allegations against him. in a statement he said, "i have never forced myself known ever. i demand a investigation into the false accusations." he called it part of a vicious and coordinated smear campaign. the law firm representing the second recent accuser says of alleged assault, "mr. fairfax attack was premeditate and aggressive. the two were friends but never dated or had any romantic relationship." a number of democrats are calling on the lieutenant governor to resign. delegate of the virginia state delegate says if the lieutenant governor does not step down by monday he plans to introduce articles of impeachment. dan? >> dan: thanks a lot. earlier in week, political science professor dr. vanessa tyson came forward with allegation of the sexual misconduct against fairfax to detail allegedly abusive encounter with him in the 2004 democratic national convention. viewer warning, what you are

about to see is extremely graphic. tyson claimed, "as i cried and gagged, mr. fairfax forced me to perform oral sex on him. i cannot believe given my obvious distress that mr. fairfax thought this forced sexual act was consensual. mr. fairfax tried to brand me as a liar to a national audience in service to his political ambitions and threatened litigation and has given false assertions. i'm compelled to make clear what happened." joining me with the reaction are fox news contributors rachel, sarah and lawrence jones. rachel, to you first. the lieutenant governor has given a firm statement of denial saying it's demonstratively false. if we apply the standards that the democrats applied before he should be gone by now. but he seems to fight back and he has known no willingness to resign at this point. >> i do agree he deserves due process. this is sort of a little bit

of the kavanaugh karma for the democrats. they are stuck in a situation that are they going to learn from this? moving forward are we going to have when a republican gets accused of this, is this situation going to mean we will have due process? is this the moment that morgan talked about where we step back to reassess how we handle this? the democrats have been just masters of using race and sex for the political purposes. they don't care about the issues. this is about a political win for them. i think he deserves due process. the charges sound awful. by the way, as a mom, i'm so sick of hearing about these kind of stories on the news with the kids around. >> dan: right. gross. >> it's so much. >> dan: yeah. it's disgusting to have to talk about it. i have two daughters at home again. ridiculous. sarah, given that the gravity of the charges and they are serious. i canned ker -- i ask kerry before, do you see any of the

people, ralph northam, justin fairfax or herring herg politically surviving this? i'll get to lawrence next. but i want to see you up for this. the optics of this are terrible. you have a political party here democrats buried themselves in the identity politics. optics are not good. sarah and lawrence next. >> the virginia politics turned on its head. the people suffering most are the citizens, are the people of virginia. what we found out is distressing. i'm a virginia resident. i can tell you there isn't a place i don't go where i don't get groceries i'm not shopping where i don't hear people talking about this. governor northam practically disappeared. he saudi he was going to make it a -- he said he would make this a big issue to talk about the race. bringing this to the forefront. but he is refusing to listen and talk to people. most people want him to resign. i interviewed quite a number of people, democrats,

actually. here in virginia. they want him out. we have, you know, the attorney general herring who also admitted to wearing, painting his face black, wearing blackface. distressing. now we have the allegations with the lieutenant governor. these are serious allegations. just like rachel said there is due process. we have got to wait and see what happened here in both cases. but one thing is really certain, dan, that both of the women have corroboration, they are coming forward. they are people supporting what the women have said. now the democrats are asking for his resignation. so, yes, i think that virginia right now is really in a quagmire. i don't think any of the three will survive this. >> dan: let me go to you, lawrence. we can't forget ralph northam yearbook picture still has a picture with ku klux klan outfit and guy in blackface. he seems to be right now not resigning at all.

>> so here is the thing, dan. there are three cases going on right here. two of them we know the truth. there is evidence of it. they admitted to them. the other we don't know. yet, the only articles of impeachment that are going to be presented is toward the guy that there is no evidence for right now. we don't know. there has not been an investigation. the two accusers said they don't want to go through the criminal process. i have to throw this out here. you are always defending black people but the black guy has to resign? is that what you are going to do? the legislative black caucus? you respected going to de -- you aren't going to defend him? this is what they care about, guys, to the voters. >> can i add in there, dan. >> dan: real quick. >> real quick. you said northam disappeared. republicans accused of blackface don't get to disappear. >> that's right. >> the media hounds them.

another double standard. >> you brought that up in florida, kerry brought up that a prominent public official -- by the way. sarah, asked to resign immediately. no debate about this. i have to run. thank you so much. sarah, rachel, lawrence. thank you. lawrence is sticking around for the next block. straight ahead on the "hannity" special. "the left in crisis." the scandal got started with the virginia governor ralph northam. will he be stepping down? full analysis next. guys, it's that time... and nothin's happenin'. well now there's score!, from force factor, to rev your libido and maximize physical response. it's no wonder walmart offers score! in more locations than any other performance enhancer. unleash your potential in the bedroom, with score!.

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>> dan: welcome back to the special edition of "hannity." joining us now with the latest on embattled very georgia ralph northam -- embattled virginia governor ralph northam is leland vittert. >> a week ago you could clock

northam's life with an egg timer but he is still hanging on to the governorship of virginia. this is from the "washington post" this morning. embattled virginia governor ralph northam appeared to be in a stronger position on thursday as the scandals engulfing the state's two other top office holders made it less likely he would be forced to step down during the general assembly session. it was a week ago exactly that we were reporting on this. the who's who of the democrats who were upset over this picture that emerged from northam's yearbook. on it, a man in blackface and another in a ku klux klan costume. northam first apologized for the photo. then on a saturday afternoon news conference flanked by his wife said, "it wasn't me." with that and before that news conference a who's who in democratic politics called for northam's resignation and the list of 2020 candidates weighed in as well saying he had to go.

but as you know, so far he has held on. important that there are three top democrats in virginia as you pointed out in your show hanging on right now. all three are democrats. if all three resign, the governorship would then go to a republican. >> dan: thanks a lot. it was only last week when the democratic virginia governor ralph northam catapulted to infamy after he made the comments about the late term abortions. remember this? >> when we talk about the third trimester abortions, these are done with the concept of obviously the mother, with the consent of the physicians. more than one physician, by the way. it's done in cases where there may be severe deformities or a fetus nonviable. so in this particular example if a mother is in labor, i can tell you exactly what would happen. the infant would be delivered. the infant would be kept comfortable. the infant would be

resuscitated if that is what the mother and the family desired and a discussion would ensue between the physician and the mother. >> dan: joining us now fox news contributors tammy bruce, lawrence jones and doug schoen. we are all forgetting where this started. the news cycle now is so fast. this started with the comments on a radio station. it's a popular radio station. i think the mistake northam made there he described abortion as it is. he became a political liability for the democrats. interesting that all of these scandals surface at that exact same time. there has been some allegations out there, there may have been some people on the democrats side who wanted northam out of the picture quickly, politically. >> the democrats do view this as just the new frontier, late term abortion. which is really a euphemism. it's infanticide. majority of americans see roe versus wade, the first

trimester as appropriate. but rejection of the act past that period of time. only 16% of the americans think the third trimester is appropriate. americans are united on this. we are not polarized country on that issue. that said, you have got the individual then when we talk about character that this was the trigger. it was a medical school colleague at the time who is seeing and hearing the comments was outraged and knew of the photo in the yearbook for the medical school. that is when he released it. so when you look at a thin veneer of character and if there is a fraud perpetrated on the voting public. by the way, if the republicans had done any basic, talk about the due process, investigating the candidates, there would be a republican governor right now. this is one of the political problems of why those races were just abandoned in a way by the republicans in all the

cases. being able to be publicly seen. i would say it becomes a domino effect because the things exist. and there is a reliance on being detected. that is now hopefully over. >> dan: doug, from a democrat party perspective, they are in a world of trouble right now. let's not hide this. the democrats don't want to be having a conversation about blackface and infantasied. how do -- infanticide. how do they recover from this? what once was a swing state of virginia? >> let's talk politics. northam should go, fairfax should go. and the attorney general probably should go, too, even if it means a republican governor. because dan, virginia is a swing state. this behavior is outrageous. northam lost the confidence of the electorate. and indeed the citizen i have of the country -- citizenry of the country. lieutenant governor fairfax can't and shouldn't serve anymore. attorney general mark herring, i thought he was the most simp

thet you can of the three but he acknowledged his own -- sympathetic of the three but he acknowledged his own behavior. they have to go. >> dan: we have a hard break, lawrence. is he entitled to an investigation, fairfax? 20 seconds. >> entitled to investigation? i say keep all the democrats there because when 2020 comes and they start this -- >> they all got to go. >> women an being the antiracist, keep them there. we will use it against them. >> got to go. >> dan: thanks. we'll be right back with closing thoughts. be right back.

>> welcome back to the special edition of hannity developing crisis. that's all the time we have lef this evening. thank you for being with us,, more analysis and the unfolding situation in virginia on monday show when sean is back.

also live coverage of the rally in el paso, texas. have a great weekend. thanks a lot. on a plane this weekend. tucker carlson is coming up next. ♪ >> tucker: good evening and welcome to "tucker carlson tonight." we expected a slow news output this evening. it's friday but that's not what happened. there's a torrent of it. if you are watching it from a restaurant have the bartender turn up the volume it's worth it. first we have new security footage that shows details of the fbi's pre-dawn raid on roger stone's house on south florida. three separate cameras captured all of it. from the moment that robert mueller's p.r. team from cnn arrived with a tripod to roger stone's arrest at