jim schultz, ambassador eisen, thank you. >> thanks, anderson. nks jim. >>> coming up, something to make you smile at the end of a long week. in dancing politicians are wrong, we don't want to be right. t theory dick li the ridic yew list is next. memories. what we deliver by delivering. what do you look for i want free access to research. yep, td ameritrade's got that. free access to every platform. yeah, that too. i don't want any trade minimums. yeah, i totally agree, they don't have any of those. i want to know what i'm paying upfront. yes, absolutely. do you just say yes to everything? hm. well i say no to kale. mm. yeah, they say if you blanch it it's better, but that seems like a lot of work. no hidden fees. no platform fees. no trade minimums. and yes, it's all at one low price. td ameritrade. ♪ >>> time now for the ridiculist. tonight we have one of the silliest, non-controversy controversies ever to sully the life affirming space that is twitter.com. that's one anonymous troll whose account has since been deleted posted a video that i su

jim schultz, ambassador eisen, thank you. >> thanks, anderson. ming up, something to make you smile at the end of a long week. if dancing politicians are wrong, we don't want to be right. the ridiculist is next. ito take care of anyct messy situations.. and put irritation in its place. and if i can get comfortable keeping this tookus safe and protected... you can get comfortable doing the same with yours. preparation h. get comfortable with it. chicken! that's right, chicken?! candace-- new chicken creations from starkist. buffalo style chicken in a pouch-- bold choice, charlie! just tear, eat... mmmmm. and go! try all of my chicken creations! chicken! >>> time now for the ridiculist. tonight we have one of the silliest, non-controversy controversies ever to sully the otherwise consistently optimistic and life-affirming space that is twitter.com. that's when an anonymous troll whose account has since been deleted posted a video that i suppose was meant to, as the kids say, own new u.s. representative alexandria ocasio-cortez. here's the video. ♪ >

collusion. >> i don't know if that's a crime, colluding with russians. >> back now with robby mook, jim schultznd carrie cordero. jim, i just want to pursue what i asked you before. when you look at the montage, was rudy giuliani confused or confused last night? or not -- or saying something different last night as part of a strategy? >> look, he's had a history of being imprecise, no question about that. the motivations behind that, whether there was motivations behind that, whether he is forecasting something, where he is spinning something, it's hard to tell, and it's been hard to tell. but i also think it's -- one thing he could have been doing, look, you saw the manafort, the fact that manafort sent the polling data over to the russians that was campaign polling data. and some of that is maybe he's anticipating spin that some of these actions that i think based upon the fact that he was not charged with conspiracy, meaning manafort to conspiracy and there was no charge, that there is probably no connection to the campaign associated with this. maybe he's just -- >> he was the campaign chai

. >> let's bring in former trump white house lawyer jim schultz.e the attorney general nominee kind of fudged this answer here a little bit. but i wonder if the more important bottom line is this, because trump has pushed this, trump loyalists have pushed this idea of uranium one. you have the president's attorney general nominee. later he said i wasn't thinking in terms of a criminal investigation of the foundation. he just said he didn't think it should be pursued progressively. is the bottom line that william barr really took the wind out of a two year long argument by trump and his supporters about uranium one? >> i would say i think there's some truth to that. it's easy to fire off an e-mail to a reporter or to write a tweet or talk about this at the dinner table and spout off about uranium one or whatever. but when you're under oath in front of the senate judiciary committee, it's a different story. i think the reality of the matter is it may be easy for fox news or something to talk about the seriousness of those allegations, but when it cam

. >> jim schultz, let's go from poetry to prose.u think the president would consider pardoning mr. stone? >> i have no idea whether the president would consider pardoning roger stone and certainly his lawyers are going to advise him at this point in time that that's not a wise thing to be talking about at this point in time, especially in advance of the mueller report coming out. so hopefully we won't hear anything like that from the president. >> do you think he can pardon him, jim? >> he has the ability to. >> can he pardon somebody to keep that person from incriminating him? >> i don't think you'll see anything where you'll see any movement toward a pardon in this matter. this thing would have to be done and finished and long over before any of that considered. >> i agree with that. >> you're going to pardon stone because he won't testify against you even though to use neil's phrase, the stench of communications, the idea that trump's longest time adviser and friend is doing all of this stuff on his behalf at the same time that t

we have asha rangappa and jim schultz. beautiful guests for tonight.erience on the fbi side, experience in the white house. let's get after this conversation. asha, how big a deal is this "new york times" report? >> it's huge. look, you know, there are two kinds of investigations in the fbi. there are criminal investigations and there are national security investigations. and there are different predicates, is what they're called in the fbi to open both. on the criminal side, it's whether there's suspicion or a belief that someone has violated the law, the u.s. code. but on the national security side, it's whether this person may pose a threat to the national security of the united states. now, sometimes that can be a low threshold. it could be, you know, they're being targeted by a foreign intelligence service. but in my experience, when you are dealing with first amendment activity, when you're dealing with journalists, politicians, clergy, things that deal with first amendment activity, the bar is so high. and here, we're talking about the sitting p

jim vandehi. >> looking at hosts on "morning joe," liberals are trying to bully schultz out of the race.tter and staff that might want to go work for him, talking to family members and friends, trying to get them to pressure schultz to get out of the race because they're worried he could help hand the race to donald trump. this is unusual. usually no one pays attention to third party candidates because they don't rank that high on the polls. democrats are worried. jim messina has to get out of there with his life and hillary's hatchet man, calling him the pg version of a donkey, saying he has to get out of the race as well. >> would they be more excited about a schultz run if in fact he had decided to run as a democrat? >> i think they would just shrug if he ran as a democrat. one of the reasons schultz ran as a centrist independent, he knows if he was on stage with 18 other liberal democrats he would get pounded because he's not a lock-step where the passion is in the party and trying to knock out this centrist pack. and democrats believe they have to solidify the centrist independents.

i want to start by thanking secretary schultz and jim pemby, who are running this project on the problems of the new era. i want to thank them for putting a focus on issues of governance because it is very clear that across the world in whatever setting, governments are having trouble connecting to their peoples, delivering to their people. and him as every country you are saying a crisis of confidence and institutions, particularly in local democracies. our path today is to talk about one aspect of this problem of legitimacy, problem of confidence. that is, what is the impact on the way we get our information, the speed with which we get our information, what is the impact of information technology on democracy? is it a challenge as well as an opportunity? for 40 minutes or so, 40, 45 minutes, the panelists here will have some questions and concepts they have written good papers for the conference we are holding. then we will open it up to you and ask you to join in the conversation. if nobody raises their hands, i will cold call. so get your questions ready. [laughter] with that, let me

. >> and you know howard schultz, jim.r opinion on the whole saga, soap opera >> i think that howard would like to actually, i know he says he doesn't want to be a democrat, how about if he got it by acclimation, something howard would like, therefore didn't have to go through the slings and arrows of primaries which i think is something that would be very hard for him. i think that howard, we all know, howard is being combative when you disagree with him some would say he's thin-skinned i like the term combative. that doesn't necessarily lend itself to retail -- let's call it retail campaigning. and the idea of boycotting starbucks, i mean, geez, put a short on starbucks because you know they have to sell a lot of stock, i don't know. i think it is important. i think it is worth following. the book tour is going to determine what kind of speeches we get on that informative. i think he wants to run, sure. he would run >> thanks, jim we'll see you in a couple of minutes for more on that "squawk box" is coming right back one

jim and i will talk about that howard schultz, 2020, the founder of starbucks, says he's seriously thinking about a centrist independent bid for the white house. well, stocks are set to open the week lower it looks like they will half hour from now, dragged down by caterpillar's quarterly miss on earnings, reflecting weaker demand for construction equipment in china revenue slightly exceeded consensus. caterpillar issuing full year guidance largely below estimates most of the analysts who follow the company. our outlook assumes a modest sales increase based on the fundamentals of our diverse end market as well as the macro economic and geopolitical environment. all right. i mean, 20% topline growth year over year, but slowing, slowing to 11% this quarter and guidance, though, up perhaps not what people had anticipated. the stock high in 2018, the very beginning of the year, in '18. this last year has not been as kind to them. >> very good is that last year it was a lot about conference call, the one about how, look this is the high water mark for the year they said it twice it was and i thi

jim. >> that was a really good interview. part of the reason why schultzs considering it is because of things like medicare for all. he said he would be disingenuous if he ran in the democratic party. >> democrats are saying make that case in the primary as opposed to an independent. if you want to run, you can run. >>> so headlines are pouring in from this hearing going on on capitol hill. christopher wray issuing a major warning on election interference. we will have more on that in just a minute. went to ancestry, i put in the names of my grandparents first. i got a leaf right away. a leaf is a hint that is connected to each person in your family tree. i learned that my ten times great grandmother is george washington's aunt. within a few days i went from knowing almost nothing to holy crow, i'm related to george washington. this is my cousin george. discover your story. start searching for free now at ancestry.com unstopand it's strengthenedting place, the by xfi pods,gateway. which plug in to extend the wifi even farther, past anything that stands in

>> now, this morning we are hearing from howard schultz, as well as the rnc both on the attack criticizing what harris said there to our jake tapper, jimppy, about private insurance when it comes to medicare for all and getting rid of that paperwork. it is a specific we will hear from her. >> great piece, by the way. howard schultz this morning said that is un-american. that is not american to get rid of private insurance companies. we'll ask him about that a lot more. thank you very much. >>> let's talk about all of this. white house correspondent for the atlantic and white house correspondent for the washington post joins us now. we'll get to some of that in a moment. but this overarching number that's getting so much attention is in this new poll, 56% of voters total say they would definitely not vote for the president. this isn't like i'm not so excited. this is a at this point i would definitely not vote for the president. how significant is that since we're really far out? >> yeah. we still have two years before the next presidential election. but this is a warning, a red blasting light for this president that he is seen as toxic

jim sciutto, thanks for hanging out. we appreciate it. >>> just in, battle of the billionaires. howard schultz and michael bloomberg both blasting policy proposals including this idea of medicare for all. bloomberg saying moments ago, it would bankrupt the country. we'll have a live report for you from new hampshire on that. also next, breaking news out of chicago. what we're learning about a possible hate crime against one of the stars from the hit tv show "empire." you're watching cnn. i'm brooke baldwin. uh, honey, isn't that the dog's towel? hey, mi towel, su towel. there's more gain scent plus oxi boost and febreze odor remover in every gain fling. gain. seriously good scent. if you love the scent of gain flings, you'll love our scent beads and dish soap too. i couldn't catch my breath. it was the last song of the night. it felt like my heart was skipping beats. they said i had afib. what's afib? i knew that meant i was at a greater risk of stroke. i needed answers. my doctor and i chose xarelto® to help keep me protected from a stroke. once-daily xarelto®, a latest-generation blood thinn