JEFF PAUL MONITORING, THANKS,
JEFF, GILLIAN.
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GILLIAN: JOINING US PRESIDENTIAL
CONTENDER HOWARD SCHULTZ,
HOWARD, THANK YOU VERY MUCH FOR
YOUR TIME THIS AFTERNOON, I WANT
TO GET YOU TO JUMP RIGHT IN AND
WEIGH IN ON FORMER PRESIDENT JOE
BIDEN, HE ISSUED THIS WEEK A
KIND OF SORRY, NOT SORRY
RESPONSE TO WOMEN WHO HAVE
ACCUSED HIM OF SEXUAL INPROP
INPROPRIETY, ARE YOU BUYING IT?
>> I HAVE NO REASON TO BELIEVE
THAT THE WOMEN ARE MAKING THE
CLAIMS ARE NOT TELLING THE
TRUTH.
I KNOW VICE PRESIDENT BIDEN
WELL, I RESPECT HIM, I THINK THE
VOTERS WILL HAVE TO DECIDE AND
HE WILL HAVE TO DECIDE WHETHER
OR NOT GIVEN THE SITUATION
THERE'S ROOM FOR HIM IN
DEMOCRATIC PRIMARY.
GILLIAN: HOWARD, SOUNDS LIKE
YOU'RE IN BELIEVE ALL THE WOMEN
CAMP?
>> CERTAINLY, I HAVE NO REASON
NOT TO BELIEVE THE WOMEN.
VICE PRESIDENT WILL HAVE TO
DECIDE FOR HIMSELF BUT THE
VOTERS WILL MAKE THE DECISION.
GILLIAN: YESTERDAY AT THE BORDER
PRESIDENT TRUMP SAID THAT THANKS
TO THE FAILURES OF JOE BIDEN AND
BARACK OBAMA THAT HE'S NOW
PRESIDENT OF THE UNITED STATES,
IN EFFECT, HE OWES THEM HIS --
HIS POSITION TODAY.
HOW DO YOU LOOK AT THAT
SITUATION, HE SAID, THE
PRESIDENT ESSENTIALLY SAID THAT
OBAMA WAS A FAILURE, HE FAILED
THE AMERICAN PEOPLE, WHERE DO
YOU COME OUT ON THAT?
>> WELL, I CERTAINLY DON'T AGREE
WITH THAT, PRESIDENT TRUMP SAYS
A LOT OF THINGS MOST OF THEM NOT
TRUE, FOR EXAMPLE, I MEAN, HE'S
BLAMING THE MEXICANS RIGHT NOW.
THE FACTS ARE ABOUT THIS
IMMIGRATION CRISIS WHICH DOES
EXIST IS WE HAVE A CRISIS OF
LEADERSHIP.
WE ALSO HAVE A CRISIS OF NOT
TELLING THE TRUTH.
THE TRUTH IS THERE'S MORE
MEXICANS WHO ARE LEAVING THE
COUNTRY THAN MORE THAT ARE
COMING IN.
PEOPLE WHO ARE TRYING TO
ILLEGALLY CUT IN ARE FROM
CENTRAL AMERICA AND HE CUTS THE
AID IS A MISTAKE.
GILLIAN: WOULD YOU INCREASE TO
THOSE COUNTRIES, TO ME
THOSE COUNTRIES, TO MÉXICO,
GUATEMALA, HONDURAS, EL
SALVADOR?
>> YES, I WOULD, I WOULD
INCREASE AID BECAUSE THE REASON
THESE PEOPLE ARE TRYING TO
ESCAPE IS BECAUSE OF THE
VIOLENCE, THE -- THE ISSUES,
THREATS ON THEIR LIVES AND WE
NEED TO SUPPORT THE COUNTRIES TO
PROVIDE A SAFE HAVEN FOR THOSE
PEOPLE BUT IF WE ARE NOT GOING
TO DO, THE REAL QUESTION IS --
AND THIS IS -- I THINK THIS IS
VITALLY IMPORTANT.
THE CRISIS OF LEADERSHIP IS THE
PRESIDENT, THE DEMOCRATS AND THE
REPUBLICANS HAVE NOT BEEN ABLE
TO SOLVE THIS IMMIGRATION
PROBLEM.
WHY?
ALL OF THESE DEMOCRATS WHO ARE
RUNNING FOR PRESIDENT WHO HAVE
HELD NATIONAL OFFICE, WHERE HAVE
THEY BEEN ON THIS IMMIGRATION
ISSUE?
AND WHEN I SAID THIS WEEK ON THE
TOWN HALL WHICH I WILL REPEAT IS
I'M QUITE CONVINCED THAT NANCY
PELOSI WILL NOT DO ANYTHING
UNTIL 2020 TO PROVIDE THE
PRESIDENT OR REPUBLICANS WITH
ANY KIND OF VICTORY ON
IMMIGRATION.
GILLIAN: DO YOU THINK, HOW
WARPED, TO GET TO THE HEART OF
THIS HERE, DO YOU THINK
PRESIDENT TRUMP'S INITIATIVE AT
THE SOUTHERN BORDER IS IMMORAL,
DO YOU THINK HE'S AN IMMORAL
PRESIDENT?
>> I THINK THE ISSUE IS ONE OF
ILLEGAL IMMIGRATION WHICH IS
REAL BUT REAL ISSUE OF HUMANITY
HERE AND I THINK THE VAST
MAJORITY OF AMERICANS WHEN
POLLED HAVE SAID, WE WOULD LIKE
TO SEE A COMMON SENSE SOLUTION
TO THIS IMMIGRATION PROBLEM
WHICH CONCLUDES BY THE WAY A
PATHWAY TO CITIZENSHIP FOR THE
DREAMERS, A PATHWAY TO
CITIZENSHIP FOR THE 11 MILLION
WHO WERE HERE ILLEGALLY,
UNAUTHORIZED, AND ONCE AND FOR
ALL SOLVE THIS PROBLEM.
THE PROBLEM HAS BEEN GOING ON
FOR 25 YEARS BUT THE PRESIDENT
HAS EXACERBATED WITH FALSE
NARRATIVE AND THEY ARE USING THE
ISSUE AND WEPONIZING IT AS AN
ISSUE RATHER THAN TRYING TO
SOLVE IT FOR THE AMERICAN PEOPLE
AND THAT'S WHY I'M CONSIDERING
RUNNING FOR PRESIDENT BECAUSE
BOTH PARTIES' IDEOLOGY PREVENTS
THEM FROM SOLVING THIS PROBLEM,
22 TRILLION-DOLLAR NATIONAL
DEBT, THE HEALTHCARE CRISIS AND
I CAN GO ON.
GILLIAN: QUESTION THERE, HOWARD,
ESSENTIALLY WHEN YOU -- IF YOU
THROW YOUR HAT IN THE RING AND
RUN, YOU WILL BE ASKING MILLIONS
OF TRUMP VOTERS, ANOTHER
CANDIDATE WHO IS A
MULTIBILLIONAIRE, HOPES TO BRING
THEIR BUSINESS EXPERTISE, WHY
WERE THEY GOING TO VOTE TO FIX
SOMETHING THAT'S NOT BROKEN, THE
ECONOMY IS DOING WELL AT THE
MOMENT?
>> THE ECONOMY IS DOING WELL FOR
THOSE PEOPLE WHO PARTICIPATE IN
STOCK MARKET BUT IN YOUR EARLIER
SEGMENT WHICH I WATCHED AND I
COULDN'T BELIEVE THAT THE MAN
WAS SAYING, THE PEOPLE IN THE AG
BUSINESS, THEY ARE SATISFIED
WITH THE PRESIDENT, I'M IN
KANSAS NEXT WEEK, I CAN PROMISE
YOU THE PEOPLE IN FARMING
INDUSTRY ARE NOT SATISFIED
SEEING THE FACT THAT THEY LOST
MARKETS AND THESE MARKETS ARE
NOT COMING BACK AS A RESULT OF A
FOOLISH STRATEGIC MISTAKE WITH
CHINA ON THE TARIFF AND TRADE
ISSUE.
I MEAN, AND SO THE QUESTIONS
THAT YOU'RE BEING -- THAT WE ARE
BEING ASKED ABOUT WHETHER OR NOT
REPUBLICANS WILL LOOK AT ME IS A
VERY INTERESTING QUESTION
BECAUSE IF THEY HAVE A CHOICE
BETWEEN TRUMP AND SANDERS OR
LEFT-LEANING DEMOCRAT THEY WILL
PROBABLY REELECT DONALD TRUMP
BECAUSE THE COUNTRY DOES NOT
WANTING TO TO THE ISSUE OF
SOCIALISM, HOWEVER, THERE ARE
LIFE-LONG REPUBLICANS ON THE
ISSUE OF CHARACTER AND MORALITY
WHO DO NOT WANT TO REELECT THE
PRESIDENT AND ON THE TOWN HALL
LAST WEEK I ASKED AN AUDIENCE OF
400 PEOPLE CAN YOU RAISE YOUR
HAND IF ANY ONE IN THIS AUDIENCE
WOULD LIKE TO SEE THEIR CHILD OR
THEIR GAPPED CHILDREN EMULATE
THE BEHAVIORS OF THE PRESIDENT,
NOT ONE PERSON RAISED THE HAND.
THE CHARACTER ISSUE ALONE IN
2020 IF I ENTER THE RACE WILL BE
A VERY BIG ISSUE.
GILLIAN: CHARACTER WILL BE A BIG
ISSUE, WHO YOU ARE, IDENTITY
WILL BE BIG ISSUE, LAST
QUESTION, HOWARD, WHEN WE SPOKE
LAST TIME ABOUT A MONTH AGO,
DEMOCRATS EMBROILED WHETHER OR
NOT AND HOW TO CONDEMN
ANTI-SEMITISM.
>> YEAH.
GILLIAN: YOU SPOKE TO ME ON YOUR
OWN EXPERIENCES AS JEWISH
AMERICAN, DO YOU FEEL CONFIDENT
THAT THE AMERICAN ELECTORATE IS
READY FOR AMERICAN PRESIDENT, DO
YOU THINK THAT CAN HAPPEN?
>> I CERTAINLY THINK THE
AMERICAN PEOPLE ARE READY FOR
JEWISH PRESIDENT, I HAVE BEEN
TRAVELING THE COUNTRY NOW FOR 10
WEEKS, I RECOGNIZED THERE'S BEEN
ANT SEMITISM IN THE COUNTRY
WHICH CONCERNS ME BUT I'M
RUNNING AS AN AMERICAN, I WILL
WRAP MYSELF IN AMERICAN FLAG AND
VALUES AND DO EVERYTHING I CAN
TO PRESERVE THE PROMISE OF THE
COUNTRY AND THE AMERICAN DREAM
FOR EVERYONE.
GILLIAN: I HATE TO POINT IT OUT
TO YOU BUT YOU SAID I'M RUNNING.
>> WELL, I --
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>> WELL, THAT'S A GOOD POINT BUT
I WILL DECIDE -- GILLIAN:
ANYTHING YOU TELL US BEFORE YOU
WANT TO GO.
WHAT I WILL SAY BEFORE I HAVE TO
GO, THIS IS THE BIFURCATING
ISSUE, THE REPUBLICANS ON THE
FAR RIGHT AND THE DEMOCRATS ON
THE FAR LEFT HAVE CREATED SUCH A
LEVEL OF IDEOLOGY STEEPED IN
SELF-INTEREST AND THIS PRESIDENT
IS NOT LEADING THE COUNTRY AND
ARE STANDING IN THE WAY IN WHICH
THE VALUES OF OUR COUNTRY ARE
BEING PRESERVED AND COME 2020 I
BELIEVE THERE WILL BE A GREAT
OPPORTUNITY FOR SOMEONE LIKE ME
WHO IS A CENTRIST COMMON SENSE
SOLUTIONS WHO CAN BRING THE
COUNTRY TOGETHER IF I DECIDE TO
RUN FOR PRESIDENT.