Sharpton on Rahm Emanuel: ‘I Think He Should’ Resign

SHARPTON: "Absolutely an outrage!"
HEILEMANN: “Let me ask you this question, to stick with Mayor Emanuel for a second. There seems to be not a moment where his political fortune has turned,  but where he became aware of just how in peril he was. We read story after story about him making a phone calls, sending the text messages, trying to save himself and make the city manageable again for him. How is it possible --  just try to answer the question -- that this mayor having been through what he’s been through in these past weeks is not more aware of how much this new crisis could impair his ability to be an effective mayor and in its entirety?”
EMANUEL: “I cannot for the life of me imagine how he could not know how this further impairs it unless he’s sitting wherever he is writing out his resignation because I think that this is absolutely -- you talk about crisis with steroids. A grandmother who did nothing, who the police admit they had no reason to shoot. And then you have the other shootings including the 19-year-old that was killed. You had other shootings over the weekend and you’re in the middle of a recall. They’re circulating petitions in Chicago to recall you. The state legislator is going to have to deal with it and if you don’t come back and the governor doesn’t make a statement -- this is the height of either  lack of sensitivity, intelligence  or arrogance, or unreasonable combination of all three."
HEILEMANN: “Just quickly, whether or not he is recounted or n