21ST CENTURY PURCHASE OF SKY.
NOW, PRESIDENT TRUMP GRANTED
FULL PARDON TO CONSERVATIVE AT A
DANESH DSOUZA.
>> GOOD TO SEE YOU.
STUART: YOU PUT OUT A FILM
PRESIDENT OBAMA'S AMERICA,
BECAUSE OF THAT YOU WERE
TARGETED?
>> YES, THE MOVIE WASN'T JUST
IDEOLOGICAL CRITIC OF OBAMA, IT
WENT TO OBAMA'S WORLD, I WAS IN
KENYA INTERVIEWING PRESIDENT
OBAMA'S BROTHER GEORGE AND OBAMA
HAD BEEN GOING AROUND SAYING
THAT WE ARE BROTHER'S KEEPER BUT
THE BROTHER LIVING IN
THIRD-WORLD POVERTY AND OBAMA
DIDN'T DO ANYTHING TO HELP AND
THAT DEPARTMENT SIT WELL WITH
OBAMA AND UNLEARNED DOGS ERIC
HOLDER AND BRRARA IN NEW YORK.
STUART: YOU WERE PARDONED IN THE
SAME DAY AND SAME STATEMENT AS
ROD HAD SENTENCED COMMUTED AND
MARTHA STEWART WAS GIVEN IN THE
COMPANY, YOU WERE IN THE COMPANY
OF GOVOISH AND MARTHA STEWART.
HOW DO YOU FEEL ABOUT BEING IN
THE THE SAME STATEMENT AS THOSE
TWO?
>> WELL, IF I'M RIGHT, MY PARRED
OPEN WAS HANDLED SEPARATELY.
THE PRESIDENT HAD CALLED ME THE
DAY BEFORE.
HE SAID THAT HE LOOKED AT MY
CASE, HE SAID HE KNEW IT WAS
FISHY FROM THE OUTSET, HIS WORDS
WERE YOU GOT SCREWED.
YOU COMMITTED A TECHNICAL
VIOLATION BY THOSE PEOPLE, THE
OBAMA PEOPLE, WENT WITH
EVERYTHING THEY'VE GOT AND HE
WAS GOING TO SET JUSTICE RIGHT.
THE VERY FACT THAT PRESIDENT
TRUMP IS CONSIDERING PARDONS IS
NOT TRUMP PARDONING HIS OWN
TEAM, HE FEELS THAT THERE ARE
INJUSTICES PERPETRATED AN HE HAS
THE POWER TO FIX THEM.
STUART: DANESH, YOU SAID THE
PRESIDENT CALLED YOU, HAD YOU
MADE AN APPLICATION TO THE
PRESIDENT?
>> I MADE NO APPLICATIONS,
STUART, IN FACT, SOCIAL MEDIA
CAMPAIGN TO COLLECT PETITION
SIGNATURES TO GET ME PARDONED
BUT I FELT IT WAS UNSEEMLY FOR
MY OWN PARDON.
I STAYED AWAY FROM IT.
MY WIFE AND I HAD DINNER WITH
SENATOR TED CRUZ ABOUT A MONTH
AGO AND SENATOR CRUZ VOLUNTARILY
SAID, LOOK, I'M OUTRAGED AT YOUR
CASE, I'M GOING TO ASK PRESIDENT
TRUMP TO PARDON YOU.
AND CRUZ CALLED ME AND TOLD ME
THAT THE PRESIDENT WAS RECEPTIVE
BUT HE SAID, LOOK, THERE'S A
LEGAL REVIEW, COMPLICATED
MATTER, IT'S NOT A DONE DEAL
UNTIL YOU GET CALL FROM THE
WHITE HOUSE AND THEN LITERALLY
TWO OR THREE WEEKS LATER I GOT
THE CALL FROM THE WHITE HOUSE.
STUART: THAT MUST HAVE BEEN
QUITE A MOMENT.
HOW DO YOU FEEL ABOUT HOWARD
SCHULTZ LEAVING STARBUCKS AND
MAYBE MAKING A RUN FOR THE
PRESIDENCY?
>> WELL, THIS WOULD BE VERY
INTERESTING.
I MEAN, SCHULTZ IS ONE OF THE
GREATEST ENTREPRENEURS OF OUR
TIME, HE'S ESSENTIALLY CHANGED.
IT'S VERY RARE THAT ONE CANNOT
ONLY START SUCCESSFUL BUSINESS
BUT YOU CAN ALMOST SAY CHANGE
THE WAY AMERICANS LIVE THEIR
ORDINARY DAY.
I THINK THIS IS A GREAT
ENTREPRENEUR.
BUT IT TAKES MORE THAN THAT TO
BE PRESIDENT, YOU NOT ONLY HAVE
TO BE AN ENTREPRENEUR, YOU TO
SORT OF UNDERSTAND HOW TO
COMMUNICATE THE PRINCIPLES OF
ENTREPRENEURSHIP, YOU HAVE TO
HAVE PUBLIC LEADERSHIP AND
WHETHER HE HAS THAT, I HAVE NO
IDEA.
STUART: YOU HAVE TO HAVE A
POLICY WHICH SUPPORTS
ENTREPRENEURIAL ACTIVITY IF YOU
WANT TO MAKE ECONOMY SUCCESS.
LAST POINT TO YOU, DANESH.
>> YES, WE ARE LIVING IN
ELECTION, THE FACT THAT THE
OUTSIDER HAS BEEN PERFORMING SO
WELL, I MEAN, LOOK AT PURELY IN
THE OBJECTIVE TERMS IN THE
ECONOMIC NUMBERS SHOWS YOU THAT
AMERICANS, I THINK, ARE
REASSESSING WHAT THEY MEANLY
LEADERSHIP AND THE GUY THAT THEY
WANT TO SEE IN THE OVAL OFFICE
FROM NOW.