Cooper on withdrawing from Harris VP consideration: 'Just not the right time'

North Carolina Gov. Roy Cooper (D) defended his decision on Sunday to withdraw from consideration to be Vice President Harris's running mate.

“Yes, I did let the Harris campaign know early in the process that this was just not the right time for me or my state,” Cooper said Sunday on MSNBC’s “The Weekend.”

MSNBC hosts Michael Steele and Symone Sanders-Townsend noted that part of Cooper’s decision to take himself out of the running for vice president was because it would potentially give North Carolina Lt.