trump s former lawyer, john dowel, gave an interview today e planing why the president did not sit down with robert mueller. thank you both for coming on. i appreciate it. let s talk about john dowel right now. first question, easy, third question, easy, he was not sure. he does not look being unsure. so he ll guess. there is your trap right there. it is not whether he lies about it. everybody wants to get into this integrity business. it is not a matter of integrity. it is over load. what i was worried about is that
all right, welcome back to cnn live town hall with howard schultz. let me bring in kevin mcmac here in houston. mr. schultz, you expressed you are in favor of guns, can you explain your motivation with this initiative considering that less than 4% of firearm murders are caused by rifles and similar weapons. 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
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. let s go to our next question. paul belen joins us, he s a democrat who works in the energy industry. what s 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
you are going to be a spoiler like you will get president trump reelected, will you drop out of the race? very important question. let s clarify it right here on national tv, on cnn. first off, the issue of being a spoiler, how can you spoiler a system that s 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 don t 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.
max, what is he talking about? nine-ten of the times it is a mystery of what he s talking about. he ll somehow try to get more money for the wall and extra constitutional way out of money that s 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 don t need congress to get $23 billion. explain to me how it makes sense? this is trump s math.