howard schultz: yeah. coee shop tell people what it thinks about humanity. >> howard schultz: the execution was flawed. and who owns that execution? i do. because i was the one who was pushing us to not play it safe. >> pelley: but from the beginning, his 350,000 employees caught a break with schultz's social agenda. >> barista: whoo, thanks kirby! >> pelley: they enjoy health insurance, tuition aid and stock. >> barista: caramel macchiato! >> barista: hi there, welcome! >> pelley: schultz likes to say he created the company his impoverished parents never had the chance to work for. >> howard schultz: when i read statistics that says that over 40% of the american people don't have $400 in the bank, and are only a crisis away from bankruptcy, or that 5.5 million kids in america, many of whom are african american and latino, are not in school and not in work and don't have a chance, and one out of six people in erhis is what i think about. >> pelley: those grim numbers describe his own childhood. >> howard s

their latest mark is a billionaire called howard schultz. the former ceo of starbucks.f a pair of slick consultants somehow convinced howard schultz that he could be president. so over the weekend he announced he may get in the race. here's the twist, schultz, who is an entirely conventional affluent liberal said that he is not planning to run aslu a democrat, but instead as an independent. democrats were horrified by this. boycott starbucks started trending on twitter. michael bloomberg denounced schultz. some on the left were so angry they screamed at howard schultz when he went in public. watch what happened at a book event lastoo night. >> don't help elect trump you egotistical billionaire [bleep]! go back to getting on twitter. go back with the other billionaire elite who think they know how to run the world! that's not what democracy needs! >> tucker: in fairness, the heckler dides make some solid points. the last thing we need is another egomaniacal moron running the country into the ground. if you sincerely thought barack obama did a

you oppose howard schultz's plan. you tweeted, howard schultz running as an independent isn't about bringing anyone together. it's about one person: howard schultz. >> we tend to siphon off a number of votes and get the wrong person into office. certainly everyone, democrats, independents, right-minded republicans are wanting president trump out of office. the water is fine, get your ideas into something like that, but we have to unite with one candidate. howard being on the independent side, that just hands the presidency back to donald trump in 2020. >> washington is a pretty interesting place during the primary. i covered hillary clinton there and bernie sanders there. he won the caucus process, she won the primary. there was a lot of enthusiasm for both of them and i think maybe even more enthusiasm for bernie sanders, but one of the complaints coming from schultz is that the party is being pulled too far to the left. you know, what do you think about that, where he's making that argument that he sort of feels as

trump but they could be for howard schultz. the idea of that, risking our ability to prevent donald trump from getting kicked out of the white house is alarming. however, i do think we are going a little overboard. we're 24 hours into this. he says he is thinking about it. let's see what happens. he may completely implode himself or he could make a better case for the democratic party. we have to see. >> right. >> i think you said something, chuck, that's very important. i think that's why they're concerned. he raises the problem the democrats have that they have been trying to underestimate and that is the move of the leadership to the extreme left. we have the same problem in 2008. rise of the tea party, freedom caucus. you're having the same problem. now you're seeing candidates like kamala harris, elizabeth warren who are seen as extremists. so you have a problem. >> i don't think you can call kamala harris an extremist or elizabeth warren. >> it is interesting. if you look at the coalition that essentially rejected trump i

> howard schultz evens the playing field, guys. >> did people know who howard schultz was -- >> they know starbuck, international brand but a national political republican fund-raiser, i had two donors that said, wow, that's somebody i could get behind that is scary. what howard schultz does is even the playing field. he will take votes from trump. he will take votes from a democrat candidate he evens it up evens it up right there. >> i don't want it to be even. i want to win. i want to win. >> and this is -- talking about money that's involved. as we look at scene there in oakland. kamala harris is not poor. her husband, they're not poor. it's not the same middle class folks. they're millionaires bring in beth there at the scene there, but the one thing that you've mentioned that noelle, or -- republican on the panel here had to say that was alarming to her is that there are a lot of young people who are there, and riled up for kamala harris. >> reporter: yeah. i mean, you know the answer to that is democratic enthusiasm to get somebody else in office other than trump we've seen it

his logo is literally howard schultz and then he signs howard on top of howard schultz that's the campaign logo i don't view this as an indicator of anything about politics i think it's more of an indicator about what his own desires are. >> i've only been drinking coffee for four months so i find this whole prospect very exciting >> guys, thank you both. >> really into it. >> austan goolsbee and jimmy pethokoukis. >> a conversation with the audi soil minister in riyadh. hadley >> hello from a sandstorm in riyadh we did have a chance to catch up with the saudi energy minister on the sidelines of a massive infrastructure and industrial conference they are planning for a lot of things over the next decades looking at hundreds of billions for investment in saudi arabia and also abroad. they don't seem to think they will have any trouble getting that kind of investing, even after what we saw over the last couple of months with all of the negative press for saudi arabia, but i had to ask him the one question we all wanted to ask him last week at davos when he didn't show up, what's going happen

what does howard schultz say about that? >> my jaw was on the floor when he broit up bloomberg before i did and he said to me, i'm paraphrasing, if mike bloomberg ran two years ago as an independent, i think he could have won. i said howard schultz, mike bloomberg doesn't even think that. he did all the data, he poured money into this he says the numbers don't work out. he says i think he could have won. i disagree. then i say if mike bloomberg jumps in much more centrist than some of the other democratic candidates this year as a democrat, will you not run spend that said mike bloomberg running has no impact on my decision to run. because they have very similar platforms on things like medicare for all, for example, but he said it won't affect his decision. >> that was interesting because in the conversation he made clear he was waiting to see what bloomberg and biden do, other older white guys. >> that's true. that is all true, john berman. and we spent an hour talking. so you can hear his explanation on a lot of that in t

segment with howard schultz. we got it. the president tweeted howard schultz doesn't have the guts to run for 60 minutes watched him. i agree with him that he's not the smartest person.

it's delicious >> we have a tape of this interview with howard schultz. >> are you supporting howard schultz? >> i'm supporting something he's saying >> i am with you, joe. >> would you give him a three or four >> you go to town to open a bar, don't go all the way to the other side of town to open a bar. >> right but what do you give him a two for his presentation yesterday? >> i would say a minus two >> a tough grader. >> we have the appropriate music this morning coffee in bed for everybody today. >>> when we come back, we'll talk more about this protesters facing off with howard schultz last night at an event after his announcement he is taking steps to prepare for a run at the white house as an independent we've got the video and his reaction coming up meantime, check out the three big dow components that reported this morning right now looks like pfizer and verizon both down. it looks like 3m is up by about 1.5% we'll run you through the numbers. stay tuned you are watching "squawk box" on cnbc i'm a veteran and the army taught me a lot about commitment. which i apply to my life

genuine liberals would welcome howard schultz into the race. more candidates, more opinions, more diversity of thought. may the best ideas win. that's when in actual liberal would say. that's not what the media is saying. they are not liberals. they are loyalists. they are party people. diligent worker bees, toiling from the benefit of the democratic party masters. so of course they parroted the line precisely. michelle goldberg of "the new york times" who embodies this cold schultz is run "reckless idiocy." she did not even mention his views about anything. it is irrelevant. "the daily beast" accused schultz of racism, because that often works as a line of attack. at the starbucks music storm was painfully white, read a story today. whatever it takes, and of course the dummies on tv news spread their talking points faithfully. watch. >> he may run for president as an independent. a democrats fearing that he could help president trump win the reelection. >> democrats are uneasy. >> he could take away votes i would go to the democratic nominee.

when it comes to aoc versus howard zhults as howard schultz, what do you think about she advanced? >> howard schutt is like ja rule organizing another music festival. no one needs this right now. it's only going to benefit donald trump, because, obviously, when we have a third party candidate, it often disadvantages democrats. >> let me say that's a sick burn the fry festival was a failure. although, howard schultz i would trust to run a gathering than a country. >> he should run the nextfi fyr festival. there we go, we found your calling. for him and aoc they haven't talked to each other if real life. but the standoff that they have is aoc is exposing the myth of the fiscal conservative but the socially liberal person. right? so you know howard schultz says he is pro, taking a stance against ace rich, refugees, pro women, pro reproductive rights, but he has fiscally conservative policies and what aoc has been able to do is message you those two things are completely contradictory. if you believe black people, people of color in this country should have equal rights, you have to be

and howard schultz is free to enter that primary. i think if he had decided that he wanted to run as a democrat, i don't think a lot of people would have given him a very good chance of winning. but he wouldn't have engendered all this backlash if he really thought that he could persuade everyone that he was wrong and kamala harris' tax cut didn't go far enough, he could have entered the fold and tried to persuade the democratic party primary voters that the party had veered too far to the left and they should attack more to the center. he made the choice not to do that, and he made the choice in this context of trying to say that the entire democratic party is on board with the 70% top income tax bracket and elizabeth warren's wealth tax, and he is calling those things unamerican. he just attacking the democratic party. and it seems pretty clear that the reason that you do that is that you know that you can't win, but maybe you can bring the democratic party to heal if you threaten to do what happened in 2016 all over again by throw

now, to the possible presidential run of howard schultz. it appears the former ceo of starbucks is savoring the democratic backlash against his bid like a cup of dark roasted coffee. a source says schultz's team sees the party attacks as good. top democrats fear a schultz run would split the democratic vote leading to trump's re-election. the source adds that if republicans start piling on, it would only help bolster his outsider image. but my next guest says democrats got it all wrong about howard schultz and what his independent run could potentially do. i welcome my panel. thank you for being with us. jeremy, you first. we read your opinion piece and clearly you don't think howard schultz candidacy will necessarily hand the election to donald trump. tell me and really any democrats watching why. >> well, i think what we need this coming election is we need an issue focused election. there are some major policy problems in our society that are not getting addressed, they're getting a lot worse because of the current president and we need

i don't know if you heard howard schultz. he was talking about medicare for all and why he will consider running. his political adviser was just on as well. question to you, should schultz run? >> no, i don't think he should run. i heard bill say he's not doing it for the money. i guess he's doing it because the weather is nice in seattle. i think mike bloomberg got this right. on a independent can't win. all he'll do is end up splitting the trump vote. i would think mr. schultz would rather have his legacy the fact he became a billionaire selling coffee than he helped get donald trump re-elected of the united states. >> when you put it that way. before we go, jeff is reporting that hillary clinton is not closing the door on running for 2020. do you think she would do it? >> she said, first of all, i love her. i wish he was president. she got three million more votes than donald trump. she said she's not running for president. i think this is media catnip. she's in puerto rico trying to help the people that donald trump aband

i don't think it wants howard schultz. >> here's howard schultz's problem it seems to me right now with his message. howard schultz speaks like the person he, is the political animal that he is and that is a very wealthy democratic ceo. i've heard howard schultz's complaint about the left wing of the democratic party now for about four, five, six years, they're too far left, they're going to chase off -- people that are scared of elizabeth warren, the bob reuben wing of the democratic party. when howard schultz runs that way, he'll kill off some democrats and some conservative democrats but this is what bloomberg's talking about. he's not going to light the prairies on fire with this message and pull from both sides. >> and that's the point, is it not? if we replayed the schultz announcement that we just showed here, what's in it? nothing's in it. it's mush. it's basically, you know, nothing's working, i'm going to run, i'm going to make it work. he's a nice guy, he a rich guy, i'm sure he has some considerable thoughts that are relevant to what's going on today but what that message, i

so howard schultz, if he's going to run for president, he should run as a democrat. there are lots of people running and he's got deep pockets and why not jump in there and really be in a contest over ideas and candidacies as opposed to running as an independent where you are throwing the election in some way >> one of the key people advising him is someone who has worked closely with him on the business world which is bill bradley who ran for president and of course, the former senator and great former basketball player. let's talk about kamala harris let me play a little bit of her speech in oakland and all of the ways that she is trying to expand on and also mirror the obama coalition. >> and let's speak an uncomfortable, but honest truth with one another racism, sexism and anti-semitism, homophobia, transphobia are real in this country and they are age-old forms of hate with new fuel, and we need to speak that truth so we can deal with it. too many black and brown americans are being locked up, from mass incarceration to bail, to the criminal justice system needs

as howard schultz are baffled by liberals outraged over his american success story. we'll talk about that and much more on "making money." ♪ charles: feels like an idyllic, lazy summer days. today the market we're wrapping up a very strong month. in fact the s&p 500 is on pace for its best month since october of 2015. a big part of that is fourth quarter earnings reports. however it is not earnings themselves but investors finding silver lines in these reports. joining us to discuss it all, max funds dot-com founder jonas max ferris and eddie gabor, scott martin, chief investment officer for kingsview asset management. scott, let me start with you. three things i want to talk about in this segment. i tell people, investors, not earnings, market reaction to earnings. reaction has been pretty positive. >> i love it, charles. you're absolutely right. earnings, don't forget my friend have been better than expected. we thought this would be in a word stinky quarter. not so far. double-digit quarter with some reports. you're right, charles. the market psychology has tota

a lot of people say to howard schultz, he's a more sensitive guy. he talked about pie in the sky ideas. here he is talking about howard schultz running as an independent. >> number one, you can't run as an independent because of the electoral college requiring a majority. and number two, i think all it would do would be to reelect donald trump, and back in 2016 when i looked at it, i said i did not want to be the one to give us donald trump, so i did not run as an independent. wasn't able to get into any of the parties through their primaries, and you got donald trump, anyway. >> he publicly ak nojcknowledge looking at it in 2016. that's not the only time he looked at it running as an independent. hey, it gets you points with democrats, some of whom are skeptical. but he's trying to tell schultz to go away. >> the conversation i had with bill burton, he seemed way f far ahead than where schultz sees himself. i think snoenator harris needs add a little. let's see how she answers next time if she adds a little nuance to that. she also signed that bill

the former ceo of starbucks howard schultz is openly considering one. what does that do to the race? jeff zeleny is in des moines, iowa. you spent so much time in iowa i convinced myself thereat you were from there. but you are a corn husker. des moines, is that where senator harris will be for a town hall tonight. jeff, what are we going to see there tonight? what do caucus goers want to know right now from the senator? >> there is no question that this is a sense here when you talk to iowa voters, there is a hunger for this campaign to begin now. people may say isn't this too early? this is when campaigns normally begin. we saw the big speech yesterday in oakland, california. she will be on the stage behind me here on the campus of drake university tonight. she will be taking questions from iowans. there is a sense here. the overall question is which candidate can take on donald trump? that is a subtext to every conversation you have with voters, to every discussion you have. is it going to be a senator? is it going to be a governor. she is getting a

beating up on howard schultz, managing to unite both sides. it seems one benefit for democratic candidates here is that you get to punch a potential candidate who isn't another democrat. >> well, look, i think senator warren was absolutely correct to respond to, again, the gratuitous attack on her proposal. it was teddy roosevelt, a republican, who believed in progressive taxation. we're going to have these debates within the democratic party. i respect mr. schultz's decision to put his hat in the ring. i know he wants to be an independent. you know, as democrats, we believe that our party will be united. we also are going to fight for those values that united not just democrats, but all americans. and i tell mr. schultz and anybody else who decides to run, come on in, the water's warm. but that doesn't mean there's no sh sharks. >> who's the biggest shark right now? >> i don't know. >> oh, you know. >> i'm a louisiana girl, babimebaby. when i get into the shark thing, i just want to swim the hell out of it. but this is going to be a good seas

the one person who really wants howard schultz to run besides howard schultz is president trump. >> he said that in his private dinner last night. >> he did, he sent out a taunting tweet, he said at the dinner last night, to entice schultz into the race. we know there's a ceiling on president trump's support, somewhere in the low 40s. how do you get elected president if your support can't go above 43? by having a real three-way race. and that's what a billionaire with endless amounts of money to spend just might be able to do. >> here is schultz today on "cbs morning news" responding to that. >> i must be doing something right. i think republicans are looking for a home. and if republicans have a choice between a far-left, liberal, progressive candidate on the democratic side or president trump, president trump is going to get reelected. >> mike bloomberg has studied this to death, he has the best polling, whether you can run as an independent. this is what he had to say, especialhe was up in new hampshire today. >> the government shutdown was an utter failure of executive leadership.

so people on the left are not going be remotely comfortable with howard schultz. the question is his message of almost moderation something that's going to appeal to republicans or trump voters. certainly not. the biggest issue he can present if there's a large sort of contingency that would peel off from democrats >> that could be the name of a future third-party, the kumbai party. let's talk about the government shutdown and whether we'll see anything happen in these now 18 days or so that are left, the government shutdown doesn't seem, obviously when it shutdown a couple of days ago -- i should say when the shutdown ended a couple of days ago there was a bit of optimism. but it seems it has dissipated quickly that they won't compromise and could see a national emergency declared by the president. >> i would be floored for democrats to carve out money for president trump to build the wall after they spent more than a month they refused to give him money. republicans and democrats from both the house, a group of them have been appointed by their party's leadershi

>>> it is howard schultz versus the quote, un-american democrats. the former starbucks ceo slamming aoc's proposal, calling it un-american. kamala harris's medicare for all un-american. i have a panel later in the show. >> deciding to leave the eu in 2016, britain is still trying to figure out a brexit plan. we're looking at key amendment votes fon prime minister theresa may's plan b. you're getting that and a whole lot more on making money ♪ charles: we're in the middle of busiest week for earnings. results so far have been mixed but reaction to earnings has been over the moon. the names that beat have been soaring. the names that have missed have still on average seeing their share prices go higher. now this perhaps reflection of too much pessimism in december but, some are wondering has the pendulum swung too far? are we now too optimistic? joining me to discuss money map press chief technical strategist, dr barton. we also have investment advisor wayne wicker. dr, we had amazing rally, amazing selloff, amazing rally. if you missed you're up. i

it's howard schultz. the former starbucks ceo who is all over the air waves pitching himself as an independent alternative in today's divided politics is uniting democrats on both ends of the spectrum against hip. axios reporting today they're hearing about threats of boycotts and social isolation. attacks on starbucks. and emotional insistent lobbying of his advisers. people saying he should either run as a democrat or spend his time and money doing something that shouldn't ruin the world. a hillary clinton confidant says howard schultz is a jack. he's arrogant and wealthy, and those people tend to not see the world as it is. i cleaned that quote up, by the way. >> i have been a democratic but i'm not a democrat. i don't affiliate myself with the democratic party. they are so far left and want the government to take over health care and the government to give free college and give everyone a job. >> schultz is not alone in that criticism of those kinds of progressive policy grat -- platforms. here's mich

i applaud howard schultz for bringing it up. god bless him for bringing up the debt and deficit because there's nobody on the left and nobody on the right in the republic-con party that said they would do something about the debt and deficit. >> i thought it was interesting, harry reid took on alexandria ocasio-cortez the other day, saying her tax plans were too radical, and also coming out and saying why don't we fix obamacare instead of kind of talking about a whole new re-engineering of our health care program, which let's face it, last time had enormous consequences that we didn't foresee. why not go back and try and fix obamacare. i think that actually is something that if i were a democrat running, that's what i would be talking about. david: isn't harry reid kind of a dinosaur at this point? >> of course. of course. >> that's where howard schultz's opportunity is. harry reid is a clown. he proved it when he was against the koch brothers years ago. aoc, these are old tired ideas. even those who love the president might loo

could howard schultz in your estimation have that type of impact in florida? >> the one thing that we haven't seen with regard to howard schultz and part of this is just because of maybe there haven't been polls yet, but i don't understand exactly who his constituent insi constituency is. he has this idea of appealing to the centrist group of americans who are sort of frustrated with the political parties. but until we see that catch on, until i see people with howard schultz yard signs out there, i'll be skeptical that he can do any of this. >> and you can't think about how he might draw away from the trump voters. but the uproar has been venti sized. zach, thanks so much. >>> and the self declared president of venezuela taking his message to the american press. how can he translate promises in to help for his struggling country. cica ointment.ked skin with shea butter and triple oat complex. for fast relief and a protective barrier for lasting relief. wear what you love, aveeno®. ato be there... for the good. and not so good. for the mundane. the awe-inspir

howard schultz. this is what he told us earlier. >> i usually vote republican, to be honest. >> and you voted for the president. >> i voted for the president, but i'm more of an independent voter. i think the two-party system, i'm not actually a big fan of the two-party system anymore. i think there are too many issues involved in the two-party system. i'm not saying that means we need a third party. >> there's a pretty sizable field growing of 2020 candidates. who interests you right now? >> schultz does. >> why? >> for one reason, he's an independent, and as i've mentioned before, i'm kind of tired of the two-party system. so maybe this will shake things up, getting an independent in there, if he was able to get in. >> reporter: now, katy, if howard schultz does get in this race, i asked keisha barnes. she's actually an elementary school principal down the road here in des moines at king elementary. she said she is a democrat and she's looking at this field and she says she believes the likes of co

so i think howard schultz needs to figure out who his constituency is is, how to build it. otherwise, you're going to see democrats in particular taking shots at him and then the president himself saying this is great privately telling people that he wants sthoults run because it would be good for him. >> he wants howard schultz to run. >> donald trump's survivor mentality and reptilian instincts have taught him it's in his interest to have an independent candidate in this race because you knows it will splinter the democratic vote. democrats have a long memory and remember ralph nader in florida during the bush v gore race. and that vote got tilted in bush's favor because of ralph nader's presence in that race. i also think there's a long history of other independent candidates who have never surmounted around 5% of the vote. >> what is the point though to running as an independent for howard schultz? he's not going to win as an independent. i'm going to put that out there. what's the point for running? >> he must think there is some pathway forward. otherwise this seems l

presidency next year howard schultz took a swipe at president trump in doing so who was quick to fire back we're living at a most fragile time not only the fact that this president is not qualified to be the president but the fact that both parties are consistently not doing what's necessary on behalf of the american people howard schultz doesn't have the guts to run for president watched him on sixty minutes last night and i agree with him that he's not the smartest person besides america already has that are in the hope that starbucks is still paying me their runs in trump tower mr schultz as announcement was slammed by the democrats as well who fear the independent candidate could split their voters. i want to see america when i don't care if you're democrat independent libertarian republican bring me your ideas are his critics have now called for a boycott of starbucks and are urging people to get their coffee elsewhere we asked people in new york what they thought about howard schultz his chances of becoming the next american leader. he has a right to run he wants to run i think

schultz his chances of becoming the next american leader. he has a right to run he wants to run i think that he could do a bit of a job as a president now i feel like you need some sort of experience with. public office i think he definitely would have a lot of people who would be interested in seeing what he has to say. spectacularly if he's trying to bring down trump and you divide the ticket that he could easily lead. with a minority of the vote if you ran it would really hurt. it would help of getting reelected i think it will actually hurt trump. over the excessive for sure i don't know why people would say that just because he's running for president is mission boycotting i don't believe in boycotts of anything i think people should have their opinions and be able to do what they want to in a free country i think that seems a rather pointless idea legal analyst jennifer britton told us why she believes many democrats are so angry about chills is announced. now if you look historically at u.s. presidential elections and most of these ca

so it's possible that howard schultz would be a spoiler. i find it hard to believe that he actually would end up being elected president. but after 2016, i've learned any sort of guess as to what the outcome will be is likely to be wrong on my point. >> but spoiler yes. >> spoiler, yes. i had a cup of starbucks coffee first thing this morning, great cup of coffee. the real question is is the american interested in a repeat of donald trump, someone with no prior experience of government service and government, but someone in this case who has a stronger record as an eveningical business leader. >> want to ask you about venezuela. lindsey graham says the president went to him and swlaerd do you think about using military force in venezuela? and graham replied, well area you need to go slow on that, that could be problematic and the president joked well, i'm surprise you want to invade everybody. forget the last part of that for a second. but the idea that the president's asking about military force in venezuela, where do you vee this heading?

you could even have howard schultz as an independent. if you look at all these choices, would you be willing to vote for one of these people as president? >> absolutely. i think the key would be to change the white house so absolutely. i'm looking forward to it. i think it will be a fantastic primary campaign, a ton of good candidates out there. this is the first step in iowa. it's going to be exciting. >> thank you very much, brian. appreciate you time. >> thanks, erin. you bet. >>> up next, nbc news calling tom brokaw's comments about hispanics assimilating and brown babies inaccurate and inappropriate. are they taking any action? >>> plus jeanne moos, on roger stone, guilty against crimes of fashion. after months of wearing only a tiger costume, we're finally going on the trip i've been promising. because with expedia, i saved when i added a hotel to our flight. ♪ so even when she outgrows her costume, we'll never outgrow the memory of our adventure together. unlock savings when you add select hotels to your existing trip. only when

i've not interviewed howard schultz. i'm not here to carry his water, but i am really appalled by the blowback against someone willing to put some skin in the game and trying to make the situation better. >> it's an interesting point, michael. i know that you'll be talking about this and many other things on saturday on your show "smerconish" which we will definitely tune in for. that will be 9:00 a.m. on saturday. thanks, michael. >> okay. >>> senator kamala harris already bending on her vow to eliminate private insurance just 24 hours after backing medicare for all. plus chris christie's fascinating story about watching the "access hollywood" tape with president trump before the story broke. and the secret vladimir putin chats. we are now learning who was not in the room when he met with president trump. (mom vo) it's easy to shrink into your own little world. especially these days. (dad) i think it's here. (mom vo) especially at this age. (big sister) where are we going? (mom vo) it's a big, beautiful world out there.

stuart: back to howard schultz. listen to what he had to say about his possible 2020 presidential bid. roll tape. >> there is, it's a very strong possibility that more lifelong republicans who will have no place to go if there is a left-leaning liberal progressive democrat, they will vote for donald trump. it is very possible if they had a better choice, someone in the middle who can speak to their values they would vote for someone like me. stuart: that is interesting. take votes away from the gop, as well as votes away from the democrats. katie pavlich with us, fox news contributor, "town hall" editor. katie, what do you think? i would think mr. schultz would take votes away from democrats primarily. what do you say? >> i don't know, based on the way he is going after their policies, left ward tilt, i'm not sure democrats would vote for him based on what he is saying. stuart: moderate democrats surely. >> do moderate democrats exist? they do exist in places like michigan, ohio, places where the electoral college w

i've got newcorp tonight i -- it wasn't howard schultz. it's not howard schultz. it's john ferriola one guy wants to run a company one guy wants to run guided up today. people are saying -- lowered the movement on facebook you want to know why it's down it was a tale told by -- no, never mind david, someone yesterday said once more they're going to the beach and i was embarrassed by people who don't understand any of the history which are -- hey, the histories really hold up check it out, man. it's like stephen king that's how good it is. >> i'll brush up on it twitter is also down >> which one >> twitter >>> when we come back, we're talking about the giant slowdown we'll speak to goldman's co-head of asia research keep ihet re more teched out than silicon valley? with a cockpit fit for aspaceship. hang on. radar that senses things the human eye can't. busted. and the ability to make a thousand decisions before you even make one. was all this, really necessary? what do you think? ♪ ♪ >>> good morning welcome back to "squawk on the street." i'm david faber with

liz: that's the former ceo of starbucks, that's howard schultz. he's sounding more and more like bill clinton or al gore. he's sounding like a moderate democrat. the democrats are threatening to boycott starbucks, blasting howard schultz because they think he'll split the democrat vote and get trump re-elected. howard shuttle is showing where the real split is in the democrat party and how extreme the left has become. john bolton condemning the attacks against opposition leader juan guaido. the u.s. really potentially sending 5,000 troops to next door neighbor colombia? russia and cuba look set to get in there. venezuelans loudly pointing out the silence of the democrats. no word yet from main line democrats on venezuela, now being turned into a killing field as venezuela is shooting and killing its own. alexandria ocasio-cortez is ignoring all that. 60 countries including canada condemn maduro for stealing the election. looting the country. the death toll is at least 40 with nearly 1,000 imprisons. critics say here is a question sanders and corte

ainsley: furious with howard schultz. >> god bless howard schultz run howard run. you look at this group. let's face it here's the thing. you can't look at that group and pick out hot winner is going to be. you just can't. and i remember being -- our group in 2016. brian: you had 16? >> we had 17 people. at this time three years ago, you know, people were saying jeb bush was the frontrunner. nobody can really tell what's going to happen when these guy -- i always say all the time presidential campaigns when the lights go on they are so bright you either shine or you melt. we will see a whole bunch of these people who think they are going to be president melt really quickly. steve: i remember the morning of the new hampshire primary you joined us at our first ever diner location, the airport diner in manchester. it was you, donald trump and jeb bush all together that was pretty much the starting gate. things didn't work out for you. the president wound up winning new hampshire. in your book though, you make it pretty clear that you were just not the choice the numbe

i.c.e., 70% tax rates - does howard schultz have a path? >> we will see. president macron in france ran as a third wave candidate and bucked the traditional party system and certainly howard schultz is a person of a compliment, of character, starbucks is an iconic one a brand, to say the least. his international experience in his business and written a number of books and been very engaged with the military as well as his workforce. that will serve him well but, maria, third party candidacies as he is seen as fast with ross perot most recently and ralph nader is a different role but these are different times. that is for sure. maria: democrats don't want him to run. funny picture of a starbucks cup and they use to write let's talk about this but they rose howard, don't do it. what you think about that? the dems don't want him in the race. >> i guess the democrats hope that 25 candidate was enough. we got such a large field they will be various lanes as i see it my swim lanes if you will in the democratic primary with the progressive wing, more centrist dow