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How is removing assault style weapons going to benefit the greater good of the country . I thank you for the question. I know this is a very sensitive issue around the country and certainly in texas. I said earlier i want to talk about what i want to believe in and whats in my heart and whats true for me. First and for most, i respect and i honor the second amendment. I would do nothing if i was president to in any way to approach that in ways thats dilutive to the right to bear arm. I understand it and i respect it. When i read a story to our children across the country, going to school that there is going to be a school shooting, it breaks my heart. We have a lot of violence in america, it is linked to many issues, Mental Health issues and as well as i characterize as weapons of war. I think we can agree to disagree on this issue. But, what i believe is that there should be some sensible approach to removing the kind of weapons that have no place in common society and pose a threat to those teenagers who everyday are in fear of a shooting. Now, i am not taking an isolated situation and bringing it all to one issue. But, i think we can have more balanced and more sensibility around this issue while respecting and honoring the second amendment. I have a hard time understanding why people need to carrieany carry an ar15 around the streets where they live. It is hard for me to understand that. I respect the issues of sportsman and hunting and all things that go with gun ownersh ownership. Anyone who has a criminal record or Mental Health problems, there needs to be a lot more jurisdiction on how those people are buying those weapons. We should take a look at this. Now the far right once again does not want to do anything in the issue. The far left wants to do Everything Possible to remove guns completely. I am in the middle. I am a centrist and going back to healthcare, immigration, the majority of americans want to see a sensible solution to this situation. Those are the people i am listening to. Thank you for your question. Lets get to our next question. Th whats your question tonight . Mr. Schultz, you allow starbucks employees working more than 20 hours a week to qualify for Free Institution through online courses. As a student, my question is how would you make Higher Education more affordable at a time most graduates leave college with considerable debt and the cost of tuition is growing much faster than what we can keep up with . I am so proud of the fact that starbucks was the First Company in america offering Free College Tuition for employees. Your question is so critically important to the situation right now. Once again this is a problem that should be able to be solved. We have over trillion dollars of debt on the backs of students. The issue at hand is that there has not been any accountability on the part of universities in colleges for completion. What i would say is if a college is not completing if students are not graduating, those colleges should not get federal aid from the government. We should look at ways for bringing those kids back into college and figuring out a way to delay the payments for the burden of responsibility still there but they can live a life where they are not burden everyday by the trillion dollars plus which is greater than Credit Card Debt on the backs of students today. We have to be a country that invest in education at k12 through innovation and practices that are not in place today. We have to do Everything Possible to hold universities and colleges accountable for graduation what about building on what you did with starbucks . My question to you is, do you believe there is an ownness on an American Corporation to help fund Higher Education for their employees . Is there a moral responsibility and also is that the future of Higher Education in this country to have more go online and be funded by corporations . Well, i have said the last couple of years, the moral obligation for corporations in america is the rules of engagement have changed and we need to do more for employees and our communities. There is no reason why the program at starbucks cant scale to other companies. It is a unique partnership between starbucks, asu and the United States program. It is a scaleable program. Even for companies without the margins . Yes. Our next question comes from madeline. Shes an independent at rice university, whats your question . Hi mr. Schultz, if you were to select a single feedback most athletes select throughout the country, what would it be . A thriving economy or higher population or Something Else . I would say access to opportunity. We are living in a fragile time. So Many American families feel as if they lost confidence and trust in the promise of the country. I know in my heart that we are better than this right now. This is a moment in time that we can fix and we cant allow American Families across the country to feel as if the American Dream is not assessable to them. I think it is opportunity as well as what i said earlier and thats returning the power of the Government Back to the people, for the people, of the people and this is something so critically important, the government is not representing the people as the way we should be represented. I think the issue here is opportunity and access for everyone. Lets go to our next question. Paul belen joins us, hes a democrat who works in the energy industry. Whats your question . Mr. Schultz, if you were elected, what would be the first thing you did on day one of your term and why . First off, i am three weeks in. But, i think i am so concerned about our standing in the world and how President Trump has fractured our relationships with our allies. One of the first things ill do is i would be on the phone with every world leader that no longer feels that america is standing with them and make sure they understand that they can trust the person in the oval office and have confidence that well standby them. You know this speaks to something that the president did the last couple of months which regards to syria. Do i have time for that or not . Please. I disagree completely with how President Trump acted in unilaterally deciding to pull out of syria for a whole host of reasons. He did not inform any of our allies. The president of the United States has a moral responsibility to listen to the intelligence community, and his military advisers he did not do that. Not only did he not do that, he obliterated the respect of those people and left syria and leading syria, announcing hes leaving syria. The result is we have russia moving in the syria with iran. Russia has a strangle hold on the middle east thats going to affect that region for many years to come. We had a moral obligation to stay in syria and make sure isis does not get stronger, to protect the kurds who are fighting next to us. All of that is gone because President Trump woke up one day and decided that we are leaving syria. The country cant function by these kinds of hyperbolic decisions. We need thoughtful strategies and recognizing the role and responsibility of the commander in chief. One of the roles of a commander in chief is rerestraints. Howard schultz, thank you. Thank you all of you for being with us tonight. Thank you for the hobby center and our audience here. Be sure to tune in on monday for a democratic town hall with Amy Klobachar hosted by my friend, don lemon. Let me turn it over to don le n lemon. He picks up our coverage for cnn tonight. Thank you very much. Thank you very much, my colleague poppy harlow. You see that stage is set there. This is cnn tonight. That was Howard Schultz. Theyre wrapping things up there in houston, texas. Very vesting debate, we learned a lot and you heard him answering questions from audience members more than an hour there, just about an hour and ten minutes down in houston. Did he make his case in this town hall and can he make the case over the course of the next year or so to america. I want to bring in ryan lizza. Did he say anything to elate those fears . Well, don, he was asked about that headon and it was definitely one of his key missions tonight was try to take on that criticism. It is part of what hes selling to the American People as to why he thinks his candidacy is viable. He continues to hammer away at the left and the right failing the American People. He kind of dismissed the notion of being a spoiler. He tried to reframe it. Take a listen to what he told poppy. If you run, mr. Schultz, if you look at the polls in the fall of 2020, and it looks like you are going to be a spoiler like you will get President Trump reelected, will you drop out of the race . Very important question. Lets clarify it right here on national tv, on cnn. First off, the issue of being a spoiler, how can you spoiler a system thats already broken . It is not working. It is not the right word. What i said publicly and i want to repeat, if the math does not tally up when i get to the next three or four months and i take my message out to the American People and i continue to talk this way about how concerned i am about the country and how much i think we can do so much better under a different process. If the numbers dont add up, i will not run for president because i will not do anything whatsoever to reelect donald trump. No one wants to see him fired more than me. Mr. Schultz, the fall of 2020 is what i was asking about. If you do run and the numbers dont add up and it looks like it would mean a second term for the president , would you commit to dropping out . What i have just said is i am not going to run for president if it looks in any way shape or for form look at 2016, they do change. At this point, it is a lotless about me than giving the American People a voice that they dont have. Don, what you heard there was not answering the actual question. Hes saying hes going to look at the map in advance of deciding hes going to run or not. Poppys question was okay, if we are in the fall of 2020 and you are already a candidate and the math shows that you may throw this thing to donald trump, would you drop out . That was a question he was not willing to answer this evening. So brian, i got to ask you then, democrats were a concern again of this spoiler thing, right . This is supposed to be a reset for Howard Schultz to sort of, correct maybe the possibility that he attacked democrats, he alienated some democrats when he talked about the poblssibility running. Did he help himself tonight . He helps introduce himself and talks about what hes against and he obviously did not sit down and put together a 10point proposal on all big issues. I think any democrats watching that would be in the same camp. Hes much likely and more evidence right now, hes much likely to be interest of candidates on the center left than on the right. If you listen to his response on two big issues, the democrats care about Climate Change, and immigration, he sure had a lot of criticisms of what he defines as the far lefts proposals on those issues. Hes not going to steal very many Trump Supporters with the way he talked about Climate Change and immigration. Hes basically running as a center or presenting himself as a center left candidate and democrats should be concerned that means hes going to steal more vote from their guy or woman than from donald trump. As we know when you get a businessman in office as president , there are issues thats concerning of his businesses. David challen, does it sound like hes taking acute from the current president . It sounded like he did not want to impact anything with starbucks financial standing in the moment by announcing something here. You know so much of his wealth is obviously tied up in starbucks stock. He was not ready to make a decision about that publicly. Wh he acknowledged it would be important for him to address that should he be candidate for president or elected for president. He just would not go there yet and he did not provide an answer. He did say he would release his tax returns and follow up jimmy carters model of transparency on such matters. No, don, he would not answer that. To me that gets to ryans initial point which is that the one thing i think Howard Schultz left hanging out there today is hes good and skilled of diagnosing a problem and blaming the extremes on both sides. I am not sure if he has a 10point plan. He was not putting forward of his solutions and how to achieve. Hes more middle of the road vision to these problems facing the country. Thats something will probably develop as time goes on. Certainly, he introduced himself to voters and he got his story out as rag to richess story. Was it a little premature, ryan . It is true that a lot of candidates wait a little bit until they get deep in their policy lead. Consultants would tell you to introduce yourself and big broad picture of what you want to do for the country and later in the campaign you put out the policy proposals. He was a little skip py on this. Can i make one point of not d divesting. This is the first example of the trump era, a wealthy person p l politics into america and wants to be president. As a lot of people talk about the precedents that trump said and now norms have been broken, we have how that affects our politics. You have someone Howard Schultz, you know i dont need to state it to the American People and the reason is because trump did not do this. Tonight, i went down with friends, everyone put their hat in the ring and got their take on it. It was interesting to hear the responses. Well see if they are right over the next years. Thank you, gentlemen. I appreciate it. Thank you, don. Now we got a lot to talk about. We got to talk about something that President Trump said today. A lot going on. Something stunning coming from this president. This is what he said about congresswoman ihan omar. Congressman ihan omar is terrible of what she said. I think she should resign from congress for resign from the house foreign affair committee. What she said is so deep seeded in our hearts that her lame apology thats what it was, it was lame. She did not mean a word of it. It was not appropriate. I think she should resign from congress frankly. At a minimum, she should not be on committees or certainly that committee. Yep. He said that. Donald trump said that congresswoman omar should resign over a hateful tweet. You know who else has a whole lot of experience with hateful speech . Donald trump. I want to recap. Congresswoman omar, a fresh democrat replied to a tweet by implying politicians including house minority, leader maccarth supporting israel, she tweeted, it is all about the benjamins baby. The congresswoman apologized yesterday saying quote, antisemitism is real. Her tweet is wrong and hateful. Shes right to apologize. As i pointed out, congressman mccarthy never apologized for his tweet before the midterms saying quote, we cant allow soros, styles or bloomberg to buy this election. He deleted that tweet but never apologized for it even though it is the same thing, the same antisemantic stereotype. Wholly double standard, bat man. There is more. The Washington Post reported tonight of a group of 200 people calling themselves profamily leaders, signing a letter calling for congressman steve king to get back his committee assignment. His colleagues decided they could not turn a blind eye to his statements. How did that language become offensive . White nagstionalist. Or this . About the children of undocumented immigrants. There is another hundred out there that weigh 130 pound and they got calvs es of the size o cantaloupes because theyre holding steroids into the u. S. Besides all that, it is trumps 101. You may not have to pay a price. Speaking of trump, i want you to listen to what donald trump said about steve king when he campaigned for him in iowa in 2014. This is a hat tip to our friends at the kay file for digging this up. Today i am here to support steve king, a special guy, a smart person with really the right views on almost everything. We dont have to compare notes, do they . Listen to what donald trump said to the Republican Jewish Coalition back in 2015. We are not going to support them because i dont want money. Is that crazy . No, it is true. You want to control your own politician, thats fine. Dont worry about it. I understand five months ago i was with you. I would love the support but i dont want your money. That raised eye brows from a lot of people including our Ari Fleischer tweeted what the hell does that mean . Excuse me, i saw the same picture as you did. The president said this about nfl players taking a knee. Would you love to see one of these nfl owners when somebody disrespects our flag to get that son of a out the field right now, hes fired. Hes fired the president who in the oval office called african natio nations countries and there is so much more. Lets not forget. Donald trump insulted a gold star family, whose son was killed in a car bombing in iraq as he tried to save other troops. You look at his wife, she was standing there and had nothing to say. Maybe she was not allowed to have anything to say, you tell me. Lets not forget he launched his campaign by trying to stir up fear of mexicans. When mexico sends its poeopl, theyre not sending their best, theyre bringing drugs and crimes and theyre rapists. We made a muslim ban the center piece of that campaign. Donald trump j. Trump is calling for a total and complete shutdown of muslims entering the United States. He spent years pushing the racist birther lie that barack obama was not born in this country. A lie that he continues to cling to 9 even in the white house. And aiming at elizabeth warren. Pocahontas, i call her p pocahontas, thats an insult to pocahontas. The president doubling down this weekend tweeting this. See you on the campaign trail liz. It is hard to see that anything reference to the trail of tears in the 1830s. President trump seems to really lose it when a woman crosses him. There is, of course, Hillary Clinton. Crooked Hillary Clinto clinton oh, shes crooked as a 3 bill. She does not have the stamina to be a president. Such a nasty woman. Lock her up lock her up there is carly fiorina. He told rolling stone, look at that face, would anyone vote for that. Can you imagine the face of our next president . H on and on and President Trump never apologized for r aany of that. Trump 101. There was one time when donald trump was caught on tape saying this. I am going to use some ti tictacs just in case i kiss them. When you are a star, you can do anything, you can do anythi anything grab them by the so gross. That take, trump bragging about sexually assault came out one month before election day. He at first offered an apology. I said it, i was wrong and i apologized. Then two days later, he dismissed the whole thing as locker room talk. I dont think you understood, it was locker room talk. Later he did not think it was his voice in the first place. Trump 101. Dodge, deflect, dont apologize. Something else the president may wish he could dodge, thats a signing of a shutdown deal. Hes getting a lot money for his wall than over a month ago. So much for the art of the deal. At outback, your steak lobster wish is our command. Steak lobster is back by popular demand, starting at only 15. 99. Hurry in to outback steak lobster is only here for a limited time. avo lisecond chances. You many but a subaru can. You guys ok . You alright . Wow. avo eyesight with precollision braking. Standard on the subaru ascent. Presenting the allnew threerow subaru ascent. Love is now bigger than ever. President trump will likely sign the Border Security agreement, though nothing is certain. We know that. This is the same president who vowed to shutdown the government again unless he got 5. 7 billion for his wall, okay . He said i am not going to do it unless i got 5. 7 billion. The disagreement gives him 1. 35 billion. Even less money before his wall i should say than the original deal he turned down in december which led to the 35day shutdown. What changed . Here to discuss, author of max boot. Good evening. He loves to talk about himself as the ultimate dealer here. Watch this. I am a great deal maker, thats what i do. I have made deals that should have been disasters in to among the best deals. We are going to make the best deals. I am a deal maker. I do very well, i make great deals. Hes a great deal maker. Help me understand this. I am serious. He wanted 5. 7 billion. They offered him 1. 6 billion for 65 miles of wall. Now hes getting 1. 375 billion, less money, fewer miles. He also got to have historys longest shutdown and take the credit for it and put the country in that misery and stand his presidency with it. Not only has he failed in this deal, he made his political position worst. He made himself a laughing stock for the country. This is the guy who had to have someone else invent the name of his book, the art of the deal. That was not his deal to name the book. He goes bankrupt and he declares himself rich. He makes a bad deal and declares a good deal. This is all he says hes going to work the hardest of the president. He has more executive time to play golf. Is it opposite day everyday . It is opposite day every single day. Go on. Absolutely right. This kind of remiends of big whoop to do over nafta and he holds up our allies and insults with leader with canada and mexico. Basically comes up with the same agreement with a few minor tweets which he calls it the u. S. Mca instead of nafta. This is very much that same kind of deal. It is not that hes not getting anymore than he could have gotten in december. So would i show up tomorrow with my sports car, well, don is not paying for it so i am going to be on cnn a lot. This is crazy and it is all insane. You can give this to the white house. Metro car. Free ride on the subway. I need that back. Listen, this is what the president tweeted tonight. He says i was just presented the concept of the parameter of the Border Security deal by hardworking senator rich shelby, looking overall as bekts knowing this will be hooked up with a lot of money. Well be getting almost 23 billion regardless of wall money. It is being built as we speak. 23 billion for Border Security, max, what is he talking about . Nineten of the times it is a mystery of what hes talking about. Hell somehow try to get more money for the wall and extra constitutional way out of money thats appropriated. I think the question now is don, how is his base going to react to this . Are they going to go along with this and accepted the deal he could have had in december which was a long shot away from what he promised them to begin with. Are they going to accept it is a good deal because he says it is. Anne coulter are pressing him for the Government Shutdown because he thought 1. 3 billion is not enough. You shut the government down because you needed the money from congress. 5 billion, 5. 7 billion. You dont need congress to get 23 billion. Explain to me how it makes sense . This is trumps math. It does not make sense. This is also a situation if he expects to redirect money, he has to get the house to go along with him. He has to get nancy pelosi to agree to this. I give him about as much chance of that as me showing up with a sports car. Lets talk about your new column. Is that what we are seeing here . Absolutely. I think this actually is one of the secrets of his success. Hes not at all daunted by charges of hypocrisy and inconsistency and shamelessness. It does not matter what the facts are. You are pointing out the fact that hes calling on representative omar to be kicked out of congress or kicked out Foreign Affairs committee because she said something that was antisemantic. You had trump engaging in a long history of racist utterance and hes calling someone else out for racism . No other politician can do this with a straight face. Hes been charged with sexually assault by 13 women or say that or claim hes the hardest working president ever when we have seen he spent a record amount of time, executive time playing golf but none of this stuff dawns him. If he has awareness or irony or humility, he would not be president. His shamelessness is the super power that allowed him to be president and stay there. What does this mean for us . Donald trumps original concept life taught to him by his father when he witnessed the opening of the bridge was that you either are the sucker or you are the one making suckers out of everybody else. That makes us the suckers and him the guy conning us. Lets talk about witnessing something. Remember the president had this desire, he witnessed it in france. Listen to today though. We are thinking about doing on the 4th of july there about a parade salute to america parade, it will be a really gathering as opposed to a parade, i guess you have to say it perhaps at the Lincoln Memorial we are looking at such. We are thinking of doing something which would become a tradition, salute to america on july 4th or 4th of july weekend. Well get free fireworks because it is already being done. Thats very good. Maybe we can have a band that marches through the street streets oh, wait a minut minute this already happened and it is a tradition and you see it in every city. Al gore invented the internet and donald trump invented 4th of july . The next thing is hell give us oxygen, well be able to breathe. Thanks donald trump. What about all this . It is crazy time. This is what goes on in his head. He imagined that he can claim anything in a certain percentage of the people will believer it whos to argue with him . Hes president and you are not. Last night he said he inve inventinven invented caravans. Thats an unlimited ride car. I want you to get home. Thank you both, i appreciate it. The president s former lawyer is speaking out of the mueller investigation. He has a lot to say why the president has not sat down with robert mueller. [birds chirping] [brakes squealing] accidents can happen anytime thats why geico is here 24 hours a day everyday. Geico, fifteen minutes could save you 15 or more on car insurance. coughing need a change of scenery . Kayak searches hundreds of travel sites and filters by cabin class, wifi and more. So you can be confident youre getting the right flight at the best price. Kayak. Search one and done. [ ding ] show me just add magic. Hey toothless. [ ding ] [ gurgling ] [ ding ] show me cartoons on netflix. 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As a matter of fact, i told bob, why dont you let us script it . They have to script the president s testimony, lauren . Oh, what i thought, don, was one of those classic moments was like watching an episode of the office, you know i am too great i am too giving. The idea of the integrity over load of the president of the United States, thats why he would be so willing to be helpful. That may turn into a lie. What an effective or in effective spin on a narrative that they had created. In reality, it is not a trap. If you yourself offer false testimony. If you do so because you are simply maybe trying to guess to be helpful . Theyre trying to say listen, there will be no nefarious intent here. In order to commit perjury, you have to have that bad intent. He has intent to have integrity. Thats not at all what we have learned so far. It is not what we have learn over the course of this presidency. And john dowd is shocking to me and his effort trying to change this narrative with this sort of spin. John dowd is saying the president wont be able to lie under oath and he got bad memory. Didnt the president say he got one of the best memories of all time . I do remember that. The president cant tell the truth. He has to lie. Hes wired in such a way that he has to lie even if hes under oath or talking to federal investigators. Thats a pretty shocking statement. It is a Pretty Amazing thing when your Attorney Says he cant allow you to take the stand because you are compel to lie. I dont know what that means for our nation that we literally have a president who apparently cant answer our question honestly, even if his he was under jeopardy if he does not answer honestly. Does it sound like he basically sort of makes up his own and hes living in his own world and reality and facts dont matter to him. Not that he would be trying to do anything wrong, maybe you are saying the same thing i am. Thats who he is. His reality is not based if actual reality. Is that more alarming for a president who literally does not live in our reality. Frankly, thats what hes trying to do, trying to get everyone the news of what they see or read, does not matter, it is not true. You can only rely on his words based on some fantasy land. It is not a good thing for the United States of america. Thats for sure. Lets talk about the subject of collusion, there is a split tonight on the Senate Intelligence committee, Top Democrats and Top Republicans budding head. This is what richard burr today. The president feels vindicated that senate intel has not done anything so far on the trump collusion. We have not finished with our investigation. I think there was a store that the democratic staff confirmed where we were. We still got some investigations left. Have you found any connection between the Trump Campaign and russia . I am not sure how clear, i have said it before. We have no factual evidence between collusion between the Trump Campaign and russia. Matt warner says he cant make any conclusion because the investigation is not done. No one knows whats in the investigation. He may not find anything or he may no one knows. What do you make of this split, laura . One has his head in the sand as if hes an ostrich. There had been no connection or evidence whatsoever linking the member from the Trump Campaign to russia. When you have evidence like wikileaks and roger stone and Paul Manafort and talking discussion regarding whether or not he was closed passing on polling data to some body tieing to the kremlin. Through the parallel legislative investigation for congressional over sight, they have not been able to come up with a direct evidence of an antitrust based law collusion. I have seen nothing. Well, there had been information and not being able to draw that final conclusion until the end of the investigation is prudent. There had been no single evidence of the contrary or evidence to suggest there had been collusion when you got the Mueller Probe going on with all the criminal charges going on there. Thank you both. Thats all the time we have. Another black face picture is making waves. This time is Police Officers in baton rouge dressed up as socalled soul brothers for an under cover operation. Seriously. The details, next. About 50 of people with severe asthma have too many cells called eosinophils in their lungs. Eosinophils are a key cause of severe asthma. Fasenra is designed to target and remove these cells. Fasenra is an addon injection for people 12 and up with asthma driven by eosinophils. Fasenra is not a rescue medicine or for other eosinophilic conditions. Fasenra is proven to help prevent severe asthma attacks, improve breathing, and can lower oral steroid use. 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It just says soul brothers. Somehow making the whole thing even more bizarre. The current Baton Rouge Police chief confirmed that the officers were working in an under cover capacity, the local news paper called the advocate. First published the yearbook photo and thanks for their reporting back in 1993, we have an article detailing exactly what happens. The officer were made up in black face who conduct an operation. One of the officers in black face boasted to the newspaper about his racist disguise. He said, not only do they not know we are cops, they dont even know we are white. Yes, there is no why anyone could have missed that these were in fact not black people. Make no mistakes. These cops are proud of what they do. Thats why it is right there in that yearbook. The current baton rouge chief is apologizing for this photo. Chief murphy paul says black face photographs were inappropriate and offensive. Baton Rouge Police Department would like to apologize to the citizens and anyone who may have been offended by the photograph. The chief was right, inappropriate then and now. All right, listen, can we all just admit that black face is wrong. Can we stop it . I am sick of talking about it. It is a huge problem. I am sick of talking about it. I am sure you are sick of hearing about it. This is the moral of the story, lets talk about what will make a difference here, policy wise. The police chief should have apologi apologized for the lack of diversity in the department back then. That anyone would fathom putting white officers in black face was a good idea led alone a tool for law enforcement. You know what would have been sufficient here . Black officers. As a matter of feedback, crawford to baton rouge paper, the advocates after decades to diversi diversify, it still does not reflect the citys population. Thats the real issue here. Lets learn from the past. Correct it in the future. 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