self identified as independents, 42% than democrats, 30% or republicans, 26%. hey, by that logic, maybe schultz should be telling the democratic field that they should stand down, let s ruin his shot. if we learned one thing from 2016, it is that we know nothing about what the future holds. so let s let this play out. obama s speech writer john favreau tweeted this, quote, 91 of the explanations coming from howard schultz or his advisers answer a very simple question, if he thinks he has a winning message, why can t he run in a democratic primary? why does he get to skip that contest? just because he s a billionaire. would love to hear an answer. well, john, put this on your podcast, accepting schultz at face value, he s no longer comfortable being a democrat. he said this on 60 minutes. i look at both parties. we see extremes on both sides.
the president lied about them in order to cover up those contacts, not because they were crimes, necessarily, but they would have been politically devastating if they were revealed. why carve out and charge stone now if you are headed for bigger things, meaning mueller, conspiracy, collusion? that s a really good question. we should preface all these discussions by saying, we don t know. bob mueller knows so much more than any of the rest of us do. we don t know what s coming. what else he has discovered so we re all trying to read tea leaves in all of these discussions. the most common reason to carve out someone like stone and charge him separately would be to get him to flip and testify in the larger investigation. it s a little harder to believe that bob mueller wants someone like roger stone with his credibility issues to become kind of a star witness or that he needs him and, in fact, if you would argue that he charged stone because he needs him to
be allowed to apologize and rec tile i i ll and offer remedies and redemption. this isn t a moral question. this is a political question. when we talk about impeachments. we talk about apologies, these are political actions and, frankly, if the virginia house, the virginia senate, virginia democrats, former governors like doug las wilder, when all of these folks are telling you to step aside, when powers in the democratic party are telling to you step aside, politically, you cannot be effective in that role anymore. it occurs to me this is not a keg or a squeeze house. i m caught up in the fact that he s 25 and in med school and i see, i don t know how i feel if it s blackface, i m inclined to say you are done. i want no ask you about that in a moment. i see a difference between a high school and i m thinking, of course, of the cavanaugh yearbook, we went through this. albeit, that was not blackface and med school 25 years old, you
the high roam you play for barack obama. i have got to believe your democratic friends are leaning on you and saying, like, bill, what the [ bleep ] are you doing? look, i ve heard from hundreds of people directly this week, recently people i worked with a long time ago. there has been a wide range of opinions, including some of the people you talked about on the show earlier. i would say the vast majority of people that i have heard from, the vast majority have been very encouraging and have said you know i should like keep up the fight, like let s answer this question. let s find out what s happening. you know what, when you are in the arena, you got to take some arrows, to be along for this ride, at what can be a historic moment in this country is great. i know what the status quo looks like, apparently 40-some percent of us aren t satisfied. thank you for getting up early. i really appreciate your being here. thank you. talk to you soon. what are your sthots? tweet me at sm
. he knew that there was going to be blow back. he is excited to continue this conversation and what we have heard at the home office is there is a lot of people who are really interested in this effort. we ve heard from thousands of people, hundreds of people vent in their resumes. people to me directly have sent so many messages of support say that want to be involved in some way and i have to tell you, this is so different from anything that i ve ever done. it s democrats, republicans, independents, people who are in the military, people in journalism all working side-by-side. the diversity of thought and interest is a pretty amazing thing. respectfully, i don t think you answered my question, though, is he now reconsidering because of the vicious, i think unfair, you heard what i think, but because of that reaction is it causing him to say, hey, i may not want to do this? no. okay. and final question, what what about you? you have given your credentials,