york city. right. having him run for president in the democratic party is going to make the field better. it s going to make the argument better among democrats why the nation should put them in charge. what howard schultz is doing is really reprehensible, is too strong a word, but i guarantee you if he announced he was running for president in the democratic party his standing within the party, within the country, his reputation, would be intact instead of being in tatters the way it is right now. yeah. he wants his money. people love money and he wants his tax cuts. we have to cut the segment short. we have breaking news coming up. quickly, evan, if schultz runs, what percentage, you re the numbers guy, what percentage of the vote would he get? i don t know. if we re going by twitter he s getting ratioed for every tweet and if you get ratioed you get schultzed. he could shift a michigan or wisconsin but howard schultz is
the democratic governor of virginia ralph northam is not resigning after a photo from his medical school yearbook surfaced yesterday. a photo under his name showing one person in blackface and one in a kkk hood. northam initially apologized but now reportedly calling democrats in virginia and denying it s him in the photo. he is scheduled to make an announcement to the press at 2:30 eastern this afternoon. his spokesperson tells nbc news he will not resign during that statement. we will have the latest when we come back. come back. would you want the one the experts at rootmetrics say is number one in the nation? sure, they probably know what they re talking about. or the one that j.d. power says is highest in network quality by people who use it every day? this is a tough one. well, not really, because verizon won both. so you don t even have to choose. why didn t you just lead with that? it s like a fun thing. (vo) chosen by experts. chosen by you. get 50 million songs now with apple
it s something about all of that doesn t add up. i m not sure at this point after his apology and given the other information that we have about the other yearbook, that he should even be given the benefit of the doubt saying it s not him. and sir, we have statements from the virginia democrats put out a statement this morning saying we made the decision to let governor northam do the correct thing and resign. this morning we ve gotten word he will not do so this morning. i m quickly scouring over the laws regarding recall and do you believe that if he were eligible for same, it says here that reasons for recall in the state of virginia according to their rules and statutes would be negligence of duty, misuse of office, incompetence in the performance and then convictions of a crime. if it is lawful to do so do you believe the governor of virginia should be recalled? if it s lawful then that s something that people of
trump is going to pick it up any minute if he hasn t already tweeted about it already and that becomes the story. we can t hold the trumps of the world and the steve kings and others accountable, now there s a picture of mitch mcconnell circling in front of a confederate flag, democrats can t call that out if ralph northam won t resign. he already admitted it. can t say it was me and wasn t me. that doesn t it s interesting because right, there is the there were folks yesterday jimmy williams and others, from south carolina, tweeted out a picture from south carolina tweeted out a picture of mitch mcconnell in front of a confederate flag making the rounds on twitter now. lots of people talking about the ongoing steve king in which you have tim ryan of ohio talking about the fact that he s promoting a website. there s all of this other stuff in the ether that s happening at the same time. i m wondering, northam as a democrat, as somebody who is a member of the party, in a very impo
you and others are running for the presidency? well, what we want as democrats is a country where everybody counts and everybody is respected, whether you re talking at the state level, federal level or anywhere in the country. this sends exactly the opposite message that you could have somebody that engaged in that kind of behavior, that did it when he was an adult, that did it in 1984, so this wasn t 60 or 70 years ago. it never came forward about it in the first place until it was picked up by journalists. i think that the best thing for him to do is to step aside and to resign. would you refuse to campaign in virginia if he is still the governor? well, i don t know that i would refuse to campaign if the state. i think a more precise question is would i refuse to campaign with him and the answer to that is yes.