openly called for him to resign but a lot of statements. kirsten gillibrand who is a candidate for president of the united states. let s play her statement. senator, can you clarify your position on governor northam? has there been news yet? has he stepped down? no. he should resign. i saw the photo after i saw you guys last night. so disturbing. so racist. there s no place for racism in our government, among our leaders. it really just was so disturbing. it s going to become difficult for anyone running, mark, for the democratic nomination for president to not say something because there s some that have not yet and it s going to become difficult to get by now. yeah. everybody is going to have to come out and say something. this is completely untenable and again, the longer he delays this, it looks even worse. is there some practical
constituency other than republicans who want to either control the democratic nominee or to have donald trump back and keep the tax cuts. am i wrong? i m hard pressed to argue against your theory there, joy. howard schultz has been rumored to be considering running for president for a long time now. to the point where people who knew him as a democrat were assuming he was going to run for president within the democratic party. the person we saw in on 60 minutes, on morning joe is someone who i don t even recognize. i mean i was the emcee at the naacp legal and educational defense fund dinner where howard schultz in 2017 won the national justice award who gave this very inspiring speech about his rags to riches upbringing, his commitment to social justice, his work after ferguson, doing
like steve schmidt one of the most eloquent people in describing what donald trump has done to the presidency and country, but people like steve who don t feel comfortable in the republican party and who don t necessarily feel comfortable in the democratic party over certain policies would very much love to kind of force the democrats to nominate somebody they would like, somebody they wouldn t mind voting for and sort of kind of say you can do what you want but if you nominate elizabeth warren we would rather have trump he gives us tax cuts. vanity fair talks about he s a mr. berns foil and the question they have about somebody like steve schmidt, is it possible he has a more realistic political game in mind to in addition to a generous paycheck, if the pre-trump republican party can t be resurrected maybe the threat of schultz can push the democrats to nominate a middle of the road candidate. the only candidate that republicans who oppose donald trump in 2016 are talking about
morning a lot of 2020 democrats have statements out. one of the shoes that hasn t dropped is governor wilder, douglas wilder, that has not happened yet. any expectation that he will have some comment on this? well, you know, i m a little surprised we haven t heard from him. i ve reached out, i m sure others have reached out, but he has stayed quiet and as you know he usually speaks his mind, so you never know if he will weigh in. and let s talk a little bit about let s bring the panel in, mark on set, one of the complicating factors for northam is justin fairfax the lieutenant governor who won election separately, but got only about 1% less than he did on the ballot, did very well and cleared the threshold cleanly, justin fairfax phone for having sat out the robert e. lee tribute the state does before mlk day, ironic the republicans
who pay a higher percentage in your w-2s. maybe you should have thought about becoming billionaires? ever think about that. howard schultz would like to keep that low tax rate and the giant tax rate that he and other rich people and corporations got from donald trump and the republicans who remember he s totally against. and he really hates the extremism of things like medicare for all which he literally called un-american. did i mention that at 65 years of age, he s on medicare? mostly howard schultz would like to send you democrats a warning, go ahead and nominate whoever you like, but don t even think about touching howard s tax cuts or he and his never trump friends will do what they have to do. like maybe help re-elect donald trump. we ll talk about the implied threat of the howard schultz campaign in waiting next. srdchz campaign in waiting next for your heart. your joints. or your digestion. so why wouldn t you take something for the most important part of you.