yes. our next question comes from madeline. she s an independent at rice university, what s 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 can t 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 that s returning the power of the government back to the people, for the people, of the
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. let s get to our next question. th what s 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.
if you do run and the numbers don t 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 don t have. don, what you heard there was not answering the actual question. he s saying he s going to look at the map in advance of deciding he s going to run or not. poppy s 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,
president trump s former lawyer, john dowd, 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 dowd right now. first question, easy, third question, easy, he was not sure. and he doesn t like being unsure. so, he ll guess. there s 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 overload.
of people, including members of the press. this coming from sara sanders. she goes on to say, we ask anyone attending an event do so in a peaceful and respectful manner. absent from that statement is any kind of indication that the president is going to knock off the volatile rhetoric that sometimes creating a climate of violence and danger for reporters who cover those rallies. you covered a lot of those. you have some firsthand knowledge on all of that. jim acosta, thank you very much. let s get more on all of this. ted liu of california is joining us, a member of the judiciary and foreign affairs committees. thanks for joining us. thank you. the chairman of the senate intelligence committee says they haven t seen any factual evidence of collusion between the trump campaign and russia. do you think that s accurate? thank you for that question. let me first say that today, with the funeral services for john dingell, my prayers are with his wife debbie and their family.