Okay. There is a lot going on, but I want to start tonight with the dumpster fire. That's the only way to call it, that is still raging in North Carolina.

Because it's actually about more than one crazy guy. And believe me, he's definitely crazy if he's read any of the things he said. And it's also about more than one crazy guy. And believe me, he's definitely crazy if he's read any of things he said.

And it's also about more than one important swing state.

And believe me, North Carolina is very important.

But this really is a story about the corner the Republican Party has backed itself into.

As I'm sure you've all heard by now, or probably wish you could unhear or unsee if you've been paying attention, Mark Robinson, the Republican nominee for governor in North Carolina, posted a whole lot of stuff on a porn site.

He called himself a black Nazi, expressed support for reinstating slavery, and called MLK an effing commie.

His words, not mine.

That was all according to a very thorough report

from CNN that came out just last week.

Now, surprise, surprise, ever since then,

Robinson has repeatedly denied making those comments.

And what we heard from him today

was just about as Trumpy as you can get.

We're in talks right now, everything up to legal counsel, to take CNN to tasks for what they

have done to us. We are going after them. Okay? We are going to go after them for what they've done.

Hmm. Threatening to sue a media organization for reporting on something you actually did.

I wonder who he learned that trick from.

So that's Mark Robinson's response.

Now, when it comes to the rest of the Republican, not all of them, but many Republican leaders,

we're seeing some flashes of what you would expect to see in the wake of a scandal like this.

I mean, four of Robinson's

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