uninterrupted discussions. in london broadcast. on al-jazeera. this is al-jazeera. i wonder in jordan this is the honest news hour law you from a special coverage of super tuesday in the united states is the biggest day yet in the race to the white house millions of americans about to vote in the democratic presidential primary. welcome to the program well it's the final hour of voting on super tuesday millions of americans across the united states are voting for their preferred democratic

candidate to take on the incumbent donald trump on november 3rd tonight there are $1357.00 that's about a 3rd of the democratic delegates and $785.00 republican delegates are at stake people are voting across 14 states plus the u.s. territory of american let's not forget democrats given a broad are also taking part well in the past 48 hours the democratic race has narrowed down dramatically with just 5 contenders left so so bernie sanders seems to be going head to head against former vice president joe biden and this is how the numbers stack up after the primaries and caucuses in 4 states vermont senator bernie sanders has an early age of biden he's got 60 delegates ultimately to win the party nomination the democratic candidate will need to secure 1991 delegates there's the magic number up there and on the republican side it's donald trump versus former governor william weld in the magic number to beat is $1276.00 to

emerge as republican frontrunner and trump of course is unquestionably in the lead there as well at g.m.t. the 1st polls will close in vermont the genea and parts of alabama with a total of $167.00 democratic and $67.00 republican delegates and north carolina's polls close 30 minutes later the state has $110.00 that's a pretty large chunk of democratic delegates at stake there there's no republican primary in virginia this year well we've deployed teams right across key battleground states for super tuesday white house correspondent kimberly help it she's in the u.s. capitol john hendren is at a polling station in charlotte north carolina kristen salumi is in west palm beach florida at a mike bloomberg event there alan fischer he'll be joining us from a democratic watch party in austin texas there is. and rob reynolds is coming all the way from the west coast in california at a bernie sanders watch party well joining me here on set was bought about tunnel is

al-jazeera senior political analyst my one bashara along with justin sage mitchell assistant professor in residence at northwestern university in doha also joining us is joseph who are associated professor of political science texas a and m. university in doha but before we get to them that gets around up from our reporters fanned out across the u.s. we go 1st to our white house correspondent kimberly how kits she is there kimberly so president trump has been talking about the democratic party not liking. trying to oust bernie sanders what was his strategy then going forward. if there's a reason the u.s. president donald trump continues to promote what many see as the infighting among the democrats because his strategy essentially is as long as he can keep democrats fighting amongst themselves they're not focusing their attention and fighting him so we saw this strategy of full display on the eve of super tuesday donald trump

held his own sort of preset were tuesday rally in charlotte north carolina where he continued to talk about how he believes the democratic party is treating bernie sanders it's a wound that he sort of picked the scab off if you well because this brings up sort of some painful memories from 2016 when the president pointed out what many people in the united states believe is that bernie sanders got a bit of a raw deal and felt that the establishment kind of over ran his attempts that had to see in favor of hillary clinton so donald trump bringing up that old wound because again as long as he's doing this this is promoting sort of the controversy within the democratic party the spotlight is not on him and he's free to kind of move forward without any real challenge to his own candidacy yeah and can really so with super tuesday now here i mean who is the biggest challenger then at this point . well at this point the white house republicans on capitol hill are simply watching 2 candidates we've seen others drop off and that's the former vice

president joe biden also senator bernie sanders said both of them democrats say there would be very strong candidates but republicans have been quietly saying that they would like a fight with either one of these gentlemen they have been if you recall the impeachment issue with donald trump that the biden's names came up repeatedly on capitol hill so we know that already there's some sort sharpening they're getting ready to kind of dig up some of that dirt and that was regard to senator sanders well of course just the word socialism democratic socialist republicans already fighting a campaign against that so they argue that either man would be a great candidate for donald trump to fight against because they believe the president can win of course ultimately it's up to the voters to decide by rights i can believe the white house kimberly thank you polls in north carolina close in just over an hour john hendren is that for us now he's in

a polling station in the city of charlotte john so north carolina has 110 democratic delegates up for grabs that's pretty significant tell us what's happening the. 110 is the 3rd most number of delegates being voted on here on super tuesday after california and texas early polls seem to favor joe biden in many cases one of them favored bernie sanders but there's also the x. factor of michael bloomberg this is the 1st day on which will show up on balance anywhere in the country and of course he showing up all over here on super tuesday we've seen from exit polls that 25 percent of those who voted here in north carolina and in virginia are african-american that he possibly good for joe biden he's tended to you well know in polls with african-americans. but nobody really knows what's going to happen this year. and that is because 2 of the most moderate candidates have backed out amy club which are and pete just to give you an

idea of how dramatically this race has changed in recent weeks this is the north carolina ballot they've got 15 different democratic candidates only 5 of them are still in the race and if you subtract will see gabbert who is polling in this low single digits all of the other 4 are white and over 70 so it's really anyone's guess what could happen here but north carolina in a sense is a microcosm of the rest of the country it's got urban and rural areas it's got a broad mix of ethnicities so if biden or sanders is used to do well here they would likely do well across the country but once again we don't know what's going to happen with mike bloomberg he has spent half a $1000000000.00 on television ads and has yet to see a single vote cast in his name job losses talk about the primaries in virginia tennessee and minnesota and i make clear that saddam dorfman went to joe biden didn't think that the best in minnesota. well in minnesota

that's another one to do so any clue which i was pulling 2nd after bernie sanders but if you were to combine her boats her votes with those of joe biden. she could possibly be helped by overcome the advantage held by sanders but again nobody really knows voters don't do what people say yes as airily when it comes to those kind of indorsement so she is appearing on advertisements in minnesota and elsewhere with joe 'd biden these are tapes from the previous night where she endorsed him so it's entirely possible bad could put her put him over the top i believe at 75 delegate votes there and then in tennessee there is the tragedy of a series of tornadoes that have killed something like 25 people that caused poles to open late they may close late so it may be considerably later tonight when we hear about what happens there virginia is another purple state one that could go

democratic or republican and it may take a while before we know what happens in virginia but early polls 'd showed an advantage for biden but once again the changing nature of this race really means that it is point we just don't know what's going to happen yeah i think pretty unpredictable for now john hendren there in a polling station in north carolina john thank you for that let's move on shall be kristensen to me is a mike bloomberg events in florida and joins us live now from west palm beach let's talk about michael bloomberg christine because it's his 1st time officially on the primary ballot so where if anywhere does he stand a chance of picking up votes. that is the question to be answered mike bloomberg the former mayor of new york billionaire entrepreneur skipped the 1st 4 nominating contests to focus on super tuesday in the many delegates up for grabs here it's a strategy that's never worked before but there's never been

a candidate with the resources of mike bloomberg who's already spent more than half a $1000000000.00 on advertising and setting up a field offices all around the country he is focusing on a lot of the smaller states that are. voting today that typically don't get a lot of attention from candidates places like oklahoma tennessee massachusetts hoping to appeal to the more moderate wing of the party who might be concerned that bernie sanders is too far to the left and can't beat donald trump come november he's counting on his management credentials to appeal to those moderate voters it seemed to be working. before his. seem to be working when biden was joe biden the vice president was faltering in the early state races but joe biden has since done very well in south carolina has gotten a lot of support from african-american voters that's a particular weakness for mike bloomberg that community remembers him as

a mayor who used very targeted police tactics in new york against their community and that's something that does not poll well with them and has not shown them showing him support so that's something that he will have to overcome but he is hoping to overtake joe biden as the moderate voice in this race and he's again harping on his experience as not only a manager but as an executive of the largest city in new york of course not so to answer your question as to where he might when he might not win any states today but he is hoping to get at least enough delegates to stay alive in some of the states down here since these are not winner take all state chris and i think many people are asking why is mike bloomberg even in florida because it's a state that isn't even voting today. yeah that was the question that i asked his campaign someone there told me that they are looking past super tuesday florida is a very important swing state in the united states elections it's got 219 delegates

for grabs. he was poing well here prior to his to bew debate performance which did not go so well he seemed to stall a little bit in florida after that but this is a state that tends to be a bit more moderate than say a california or some of the other states that are voting today and ongoing the florida electorate has a strong percentage of cuban americans bernie sanders comments and support of socialism and fidel castro don't do well here so he thinks that this is a place where he can do well and he's sending a signal as well that he's in this race beyond super tuesday even if he doesn't win the state today he's going to stick around and keep on fighting one other reason he may be here in florida president trump's mar a lago resort is literally like a 15 minute drive away from here and the president and mike bloomberg have been

going at each other on twitter this morning and really since bloomberg entered the race the president likes to call him mini mike he's a relatively short compared to the president mike bloomberg has been given it right back to him on twitter and denigrating the job that he's been doing on coronavirus and so forth so being so close to donald trump's headquarters may not be a coincidence here or as a christmas i mean in west palm beach and for the christian will no doubt be looking how mike bloomberg does tonight for super tuesday thank you very much indeed well polls in the primaries in texas will close in about 2 and a half hours time but still to alan fischer who joins us from austin allen so texas of course is the other big prize on super tuesday it's hugely diverse isn't it with all the candidates folk. seeing their efforts there what are the prospects of a joe biden win there then. all the other thing you have to remember about texas as well is that a lot of young people have registered to vote here over the last year or so the

whole dynamic of politics in texas changed all of that came about after the election in 2018 more ted cruz almost lost his seat in the senate for the republicans when he was challenged by a 2 or rourke that energized a lot of young people who thought wait a minute we can actually do something here and not lead to a huge drive to register a lot more people and many of them are democrats and they're voting today we're hearing reports of long queues at many of the polling stations in fact not far from here there's one at the local university where there are still large lines chances of joe biden when well everything's out the window according to the polls because of what's happened in the last 2436 hours who would have thought that people were to judge and maybe clubbish are would leave the race before super tuesday normally candidates want to see what's happened in super tuesday and then decide to leave it would be wrong to suggest though that all of their supporters will immediately go to the more moderate candidate who is regarded as joe biden that may be true with

shar but it's not automatically true with people to judge in fact if you go back to iowa and some of the contests since then many people were asked if people to judge was in the race who would be your 2nd choice and many of them said elizabeth warren and certainly speaking to voters here in texas over the last 23 days elizabeth warren's name is the one that we keep hearing no that's not to suggest that she's going to spring a surprise here. joe biden is expected to do well in fact just last night he had a huge rally in dallas it brought on stage people to judge an equal share of bitter 'd or and got their indorsement but if the polls before all that happened to be believed and bernie sanders has a lead here then that changes the dynamic of the democratic race. quite significantly because he's expected to do well in los angeles and california and rob reynolds will talk about that more in a moment but if he takes the california and he takes texas the 2 biggest delegate

halls on super tuesday then that put some well on the way to winning the nomination is going to take a colossal fight to stop him and of course the more power he gets through the ballot box the more his supporters will expect the democratic party to get behind him rather than as they suggest 4 years ago or perhaps erroneous late that the the nomination away from him in favor of hillary clinton so texas for many reasons is hugely important in the next few hours and alan you can also talk to us about alabama are console and oklahoma i believe so what's driving voters there to choose the person that they believe can take down trump in november. it's well you know if you look at it in plain terms why did donald trump do well in these states well they're traditionally republican ok let's take that box but he spoke to the people who felt they were disenfranchised they were disaffected with the system they weren't getting from the elites from the people that they were voting for the sort

of things that they felt the should be getting and the should deserve who has spoken to that message more clearly than anyone and it is perhaps bernie sanders so be interesting to see how he does in these states is john was suggesting and of course going to be a problem with tennessee because of the awful events there in the last 24 hours with the number of people dead and that has delayed voting but it still got 61 delegates to give up so that is a very important state might bloomberg has poured a lot of money into those states so be interesting to see what he does and you've got to remember this is the 1st time might bloomberg has appeared on the ballot anywhere he'd missed the 1st $4.00 contests he decided he was going to put all this money into super tuesday and beyond he thinks so and be interesting to see how much half a 1000000000. how many votes half a 1000000000 in television advertising can actually get here he hasn't spent a huge amount of time in these states so they're important but all eyes california texas they will be the big drivers over the next few weeks yeah all eyes on the

prize allan thank you very much for that well polls for the primaries in california will close at about 400 g.m.t. that's in just under 5 hours time from now rob reynolds is live for us there from los angeles he's at a bernie sanders event california of course the big prize on super tuesday 415 democrat delegates for the taking there talk us through who is expected to do well there and why. yes indeed erin this is the beginning to a lot of the big of a carto tows the big california roll if you will of the super tuesday states and bernie sanders is doing well here he is a head according to the polls he is hoping to duplicate the coalition that he put together a week ago. all right apologies for that we lost rob reynolds we'll hope to get back to him in los angeles he's at a he's at a bernie sanders event if we can we'll get back to him

a little bit later but before that candidates have been pitching their positions on major issues and that's important of course for voters as they decide their candidates nearly 5 out of 10 democrats think that health care is extremely important for the republicans the figure is just 22 percent on climate change 44 percent of democratic voters and 8 percent of republicans think it's important income inequality is considered a crucial subject by 37 percent of democrat voters and 12 percent of republicans race is also among the big issues for 33 percent of democratic voters and less so on the republican side at about 11 percent and a student debt rises in america 43 percent of democrats and 23 percent republican voters think that education is a critical and well we spoke to a number of americans as to what they think are the biggest issues they'll be considering as they vote this election my biggest issues tend to be in terms of taxation like lower taxes and deregulation i also do believe security on

health care definitely education restoring america's democratic system getting back to getting back to normal as you know and that looks a lot like. health care support you know income inequality is probably one of the biggest things that i care about all right let's bring in our panel bashar al jazeera seen a political analyst also joining us on set is joseph associate professor of political science at texas and university in cats and justin sage mitchell an assistant professor in residence at northwestern university here in qatar just let me start with you if i may super tuesday shuji exciting isn't it in u.s. politics and it's hugely important you know for the presidential race it's so for our international viewers just talk us through the process that the delegate allocations there's this 15 percent threshold the people need to get through and

what's different this time around yeah great question and. it's very important because up until now we've had these bellwether states these 4 states that gave us a sense of what different parts of the country different demographics might care about in this upcoming election but that was only 4 percent of the delegates right now we have here. you are. right now we have about a 3rd of the delegates up for grabs now which is why super tuesday is as you said super we have about a state we have statewide delegates as well as district delegates and they all go on this 15 percent electoral threshold and this may be known to many people who have who know countries with parliamentary elections with proportional representation but basically you need to get 15 percent of the vote as a candidate before you get any delegates at all and then depending on how well you do not only will you be allocated proportionally within

a district but also the statewide vote as a whole so for example in california which is the big prize we have more than half of the delegates being allocated district by district about $270.00 and the rest of them are going to be allocated statewide and just to put it into perspective. why this 3rd of the delegates is pretty important for these candidates that remain we have. let's see you know if you even say that you split the california delegates between 2 candidates $200.00 delegates each that puts that those candidates a 10th of the way towards the eventual nomination so it's a really big deal for these candidates that still remain absolutely joseph let's come to you i mean just a general point for me about super tuesday whoever emerges as the democratic front runner here goes if it's night is that a clear shot then at the party nomination or is or is it more complicated than that . well it's both i mean obviously winning a large share of the these delegates who are. a 3rd of the of the delegates overall

would be a huge advantage particularly for for the front runners now who are already amassing the larger delegate totals. pointed out right that there's a there's a great deal potential for the leading candidates to split these delegates especially given the democratic party's proportional representation rules and that makes things even more complicated because the democratic convention and this is brokered convention think that's right but yes so if no one has a majority going into the democratic convention not only would could the convention deadlock on the ballots but then the superdelegates the uncommitted delegates who are democratic officeholders get to vote in subsequent ballots and at this point we have no idea how many of them would behave depending on how the primaries roll out so certainly watching who emerges in terms of winning delegates in these primaries is important but watching overall delegate counts and seeing who can remain above

that 15 percent threshold right does it really boil down to the 2 person contests the commentary seems to be focusing on between senator sanders and vice president biden or does senator elizabeth warren remain above that threshold because mike bloomberg enter that picture and things could could get incredibly clear after tonight or be even more muddled than they are at the moment and anything in between and it's really. you know it's been 4 years of interesting moments in american politics and here we are arriving at yet another series of kind of unprecedented events on the horizon this spring in my one my one so in terms of your take on all of this you know what are the most important sort of underlying issues facing us voters especially you know the democrats in the age of trump you know what most americans care about what we heard from the young men in america or the women. we could put them in under 3 clusters basically it's about race religion. an

inequality but in that each cluster of course there's a number of things for example on that inequality or there is a question of health health services insurance and so on so forth education access to education jobs good jobs and so on so forth and that's has become i think a major major issue in the united states and specially in this election because thanks to bernie sanders in particular speaking about billionaires and inequality inequality inequality the question of race is also important especially for the democrats because they are dependent on so many ways on a number of minorities none white protestant minorities especially african-americans latinos and so on so forth. and of course the question of religion also includes the whole is the issues of values and beliefs and what american or americans stand for and i think in so many ways for so many democrats trump already represents the until this is what a lot of them believe which the whole idea of white protestant slash eventually

coal. getting to the bill you know and so there's a sense that you need to drive african-americans latinos jews and others to vote for the democratic on this in this election you need to bring the young people who need jobs and education and you need to bring people who one tells and sold so forth all basically to say we don't want from so we don't we don't want trump comes on on those 3 important get the good as the i think defined shape the future of america joseph let me come to you and stay with this issue that just pointed out that i mean what is the importance then of the hispanic vote because some polls suggest that in 2020 it could even overtake the black vote if turnout is good and that's that's that's a crucial factor if turnout is high how does this play out in a state like texas for example which is extremely diverse. american electorate is

changing newer voters are entering entering. baby boomers are entering those or later phase of their lives and maybe voting at slightly lower rates and they haven't passed the country is more ethnically diverse so to the extent that those those younger voters minority voters continue with historical patterns of supporting the democratic party and turnout it's an advantage for democrats that the electorate is becoming less white and younger on the other hand it because they are new voters we don't have a lot of historical data about these new voters loyalties about to the extent to which they're motivated by by president trump or that's just normal in their sort of shorter span of political experience so i think the safe money is that changing electorate advantaged advantages democrats but again there are a lot of questions about whether historical patterns will hold or as they did in 2016 whether donald trump really sort of rotated the important cleavages in

american politics in ways that will upset those. storable patterns even among newer voters you just you know to go ahead what's what's your take on the importance of you know the minority vote hispanics blotches that will and this is such an important discussion for the democratic party we call the minority vote the foundation of the democratic party in 2016 blacks and hispanics made up about 20 percent of the electorate that went to vote in that and they overwhelmingly go for democrats 9 out of every 10 black voters go for democrats 2 out of every 3 hispanics go for democrats but it's 20 percent you need that strong support in order to win if you're a democrat but you can't win only with that. the as joe said you know yes we are becoming more and more ethnically diverse in america but still in 2016 we had 75 percent 3 out of every 4 people who went to the polls were white and what

we're looking at here in particular with the democratic party is in particular white women and the and even more particularly the white college educated women white men generally went for for trump over clinton by $2.00 to $1.00 but the women were so over split the white women were split $5050.00 and white college educated women however did lean towards hillary clinton and that's the demographic that switched the house in 2018 from republican control to democratic control that's the demographic that the democratic party is showing they really care about especially through these consolidating the indorsements around biden all right just tell us for a 2nd because i mean let's just take a listen to what candidates have been saying on this issue. we got to come together the black and white and latino asian american native american gary edge great we got to bring people together our ah. god and as president

i will do everything i can to do that and let me tell you this that our cabinet our it ministration will in fact look like america i have my hand just fine on god black entrepreneurship and the black i'll have one small business as i have a hand to counter the effects of forever i know i was my have a hand to and i'm asking our separation of a 1000000 survivors brothers and sisters today that typical black family in america always 110th the wealth of the typical white family 110th. that really is a disgrace i just let's just come back to you because i mean for bernie sanders he's promising to target income inequality spending trillions on everything from health care he was talking about the taxation education how is that likely to

appeal to voters then yeah as mark as more once said economic inequality is absolutely one of the most important challenges that is facing in america today at least according to bernie sanders and also elizabeth warren both of their plans target specifically ways of taxing wealth not just income redistributing down to. the lower the lower economic. and you know i think that this is a very important issue for many because in some ways you cannot look at the higher . issues such as climate change for example if you're so worried about just the debt that you have and putting food on the table and how you're going to pay for your medicines all right we'll we'll come back to some of the issues in a 2nd because i want to bring in but my want to hear a point that we were talking about earlier moments before is that this before you. know numbers here i promise you i want to expand if i can on the issue of

electability and so as we look at the last 5 candidates left in the democratic race who do you think is best placed to the future of the interesting bit is about how this argument has been advanced nonstop over the last several months underlining that the electability of bernie sanders is not very high and hence the democrats need to choose someone else and if you look carefully about what just happened the last 2 or 3 days you can see how the entire democratic party establishment is coalescing behind joe biden against bernie sanders they're almost trying to say to each other look we can't afford another trump in our party we can't afford what happened in the republican. republican party in 2016 when i thought of us some my outside called trump came in with a populist agenda with one you know a plan plan attack as it were and took over the party and took over the presidency

so the democratic party is doing is taking a sort of a preventive measure of ready before super tuesday in order to coalesce behind joe biden in order to undermine bernie sanders because they say he's not electable of course bernie sanders supporters say he is incredibly electable why because he does look like donald trump because he has a popular said because he is focused on some certain issues although he needs to address issues of race and others but he is really focused like trump was focused and he's outspoken he's clear and there's a whole young generation of americans including in the battleground states that are behind and so you're talking about the divisions there within the democratic party let's bring in joseph joseph centrists in the democratic party have been calling on the members to unify to to try and stop bernie sanders as you know he says no i'm a democratic socialist that's that's you know he's professed that is that cool

being he did within the party do you think because it seems more divided than ever . it's tempting to make a lot of the divisions because it's the primary season and obviously individual voters have their preferences about which candidate they support and in some respects the candidate you support is some sort of like steak that voters have in their identity are you a bernie sanders kind of guy and you're progressive in you're a populist are you for elizabeth warren and near you you care about women in politics and so there's a lot tied up in who the voters are saying they their 1st choices i mean said that i think it's going to be very easy to unite the democratic party once they settle on a nominee and again there's a lot of complicating factors and it may take some time but donald trump is the most polarizing president in american politics in my lifetime he the buttons he pushes in american politics go right to the heart of what the democratic party asserts are and sort of core values and so once a nominee is selected i think it's going to be very easy for that person whether

it's senator sanders or vice president biden or someone else to sort of rally the party together to to take on president trump so it again it's tempting to look at these divisions and say well this is a deeply divided party and of course it is a divided party in the sense that they the democratic primary voters may have divergent preferences about about their candidate and wanting someone more progressive or a more moderate but come the general election the issue of defeating president trump and getting the country back on is really more mortgages hassen and the sort of core democratic agenda i think would be very easy to poll those those strains together and be as competitive as they can be but of course you know it's sort of a whole other question because in 2020 an incumbent president trump has a lot of advantages that maybe he didn't have when he ran as you know somewhat outside of political office in 2016 justin let's talk about if we can the recent dropouts in the race something close but you judge with them endorsing biden though

does this sort of show that the democratic party's preference a biden. and moderates over saunders. and how does this matter by the way. yes it i appreciate joe's optimism that the that the democratic party can come together after the nominee is selected it's the process of selecting the nominee that is the divisive part right that because as he said it's so wrapped up in identity and concern for who will be the best person to beat what what is a very polarizing and concerning president to many. so in terms of this consolidation that we've seen these drop outs which i agree have been quite dramatic in the past 12 days for closure are better work to come back in the state of texas and also endorse biden this is signaling as marwan said how much the time accredit party as an establishment does not believe that bernie

sanders is the one to to go up against trump but also that they're against bloomberg you know mike bloomberg they're also trying to shore up biden's support and say you know don't don't go for mike bloomberg as the alternative moderate here you know we were trying to put all of our our eggs into the biden basket this is different than how the republican party was able to handle the rise of trump in 2016 on super tuesday in 2016 we still had many of the more establishment republican candidates cruz rubio case it carson in the mix and it was allowing trump to eke by with plurality win let's just. go ahead and just you know slice to begin the 1st disagreement of the evening since you know we really all know and you saw you do that he's right and you didn't see him in there very now i just i just hope you know hope. that the analysis on the on the democrats is correct i'm not a month as

a domestic at all i think if burdensome there is does well today. we're going to see major movie going to see the knife's coming up and we're going to see this start which meant basically going after him and we might actually go towards a brokered convention and if that happens and the establishment stands behind by then we might see civil disobedience within them aquatic party basically young people not voting this time around and let trump win sort of a thing because in 2016 we had similar problem but it remains sort of calm i think this point in time sanders is out for blood if the democrats don't give him the nomination if he gets majority of votes or not majority most votes so that we're going to we're going to talk quickly my one about foreign policy because democratic contenders have been vocal against trump's foreign policies have been and have been equally unsparing about each other trump.

view in my view debases our cherished democratic values at the very time sink of 8 to a strong when he plays that role when he refuses to condemn saudi arabia for the gruesome. murder of a journalist an american resident and when he falls alone with a murderous dictator in north korea but i don't believe. there's sure. trouble when people learn that he voted for the war in iraq. i don't believe there will be drama when people understand totally different than he and i know her trade agreements which of course this bill you to join a summer let's stay with you quickly because maybe it's going to talk about foreign policy if we do have a democratic president come november how how would they differ then from trump on

foreign policy big issues are they not like iran israel russia nato even climate change absolutely but just to be clear foreign policy is not important in super tuesday when it's mostly on domestic issues but as you said the contrasts on the kind this is huge but not so much when it comes to joe biden called joe biden is trying to reinvent himself as some sort of you know a new angel on the on the ground or what he's trying to do is bring america back to it before america before trump wasn't those who do so it's a very he's trying to project yes they want to go to sort of a cold war mentality against the russians i think the democrats are edging towards that i think they would like to have a sort of more severe more clear policy towards north korea china and so on so forth but on the question iran i think they certainly would like to go back to the agreement with iran on the question of climate change they said they would like to go back to the paris agreement so there's

a number of issues that they do unite around that they hate trump for doing which is basically undermining american role and status around the world and undermining american alliances out on the ward especially with the europeans and i think the democrats would like to reestablish that. kind of a status quo that went at least from the end of the cold war until 2016 joe i mean are americans that fixated on domestic issues so much that they're for big foreign policy issues like iran and israel you know that we matter it's all i mean americans want a president who can effect of lee represents the country's interests and the you know authoritative and wise national security decision maker having said that americans are not especially tuned or informed about the sort of. particulars of a lot of foreign policy issues so in broad strokes very they may be hostile to

russian expansionist tendencies or. punitively minded towards iran or not but if you ask them about the particulars of the iranian nuclear deal and whether the new deal is better than the old deal or what's the difference between nafta and the new us canadian mexico trade deal people i think in general are lost on those sort of subtleties in fact i'm often quite confused about the myself so. it is incredibly complicate things what people want is competency and so in some ways that is why the candidates and so much time talking about the men talking about the particulars not because they think voters are invested in the details but because that projects the kind of general competence on these issues which frankly kind of stunningly is a contrast of the sitting president there's normally a point of advantage for an incumbent president to say i have engaged with world leaders i'm involved with these issues look how i have behaved in these conflicts and and president from again uniquely may be disadvantaged compared to some of his

challengers and being able to speak authoritatively in an informed way about foreign policy issues just i want to talk to you could if i can about the issue of ideology i mean why doesn't the democratic party like bernie sanders i mean he lost to clinton in 2016 but even trump is saying the democrats don't like. well i i actually think that many of his ideas are are quite in line with the democratic party and i think that many of his supporters are what they would consider themselves true democrats and that he speaks what the the democratic party. does speak on a wide range of issues in their platform but in terms of the specific ideology of bernie sanders it's not. i'm not sure if it's so much the socialist label but we do have to keep in mind that he has never registered as a report as a democrat he has name he has insisted on remaining as an independent and that

signifies something to the party more than that he has actually sometimes voted against democratic policies or legislation while in the senate because of his ideological purity because he felt as though this legislation did not go far enough to wards where he wanted to go immigration reform is one such example we we have to understand that. his ideological purity is what his supporters love about him as moron said he is is as clear and he's passionate when he speaks and a lot of democrats like what he has to say but he hasn't always played nicely with the democratic party and the democratic party definitely sees that and they are showing that they care more about pragmatism the ability to compromise and the ability to appeal to those moderates in the middle that they really think can flip

from supporting trump in 2016 to supporting the democrats in 2020 all right stay with us or 2 because we're going to take a recap and a closer look at super tuesday and what exactly is at stake here is predictable to . it's a long race to the white house and in a packed calendar of an election year the one day that stands out is super tuesday this year 14 states across the country plus the u.s. territory of american somewhere are voting for their preferred choice of democratic candidate and 13 states are voting for the republican nominee democrats abroad are also voting on the democratic side it's a crowded field of 6 hopefuls including former vice president joe biden senators elizabeth warren and bernie sanders and former new york mayor mike bloomberg on the republican side it's donald trump who wants a 2nd term in office versus his main challenger former governor with a weld and it's all about the delegates whoever gets the most ends up becoming the

party nominee for the democrats that magic number is 1991 and for the republicans it's 1276 and more there's a lot at stake the super tuesday at least for the democrats 2 of america's most populous states california and texas with lot chunks of pledged delegates are voting their $1357.00 total democratic delegates up for grabs so what happens in super tuesday can make or break the race for some democratic hopefuls in the following weeks and months they'd be more primaries and caucuses all leading to the democratic national convention in milwaukee in july and republican convention in charlotte north carolina late august that's when delegates will gather to formally nominate their official candidates for the embers presidential election.

are let's take a breath and move away from super tuesday for just a bit to bring you news from the rest of the world turkey shot down a syrian government fighter jet over in the province as an escalated campaign against president bashar al assad's forces it's the 3rd syrian warplanes shot down 3 days there now worries that turkey could come into direct confrontation with syria's ally russia reports from hansei in the turkish syrian border operations spring shilled is in full swing turkish forces striking the syrian army's i mean it's in depots tanks and defense systems they've also shut down a warplane in southern. the escalation in fighting comes as turkey says it's determined to stop syrian army troops from advancing towards the city of idlib the rebels last stronghold of fischel is here say the military campaign has severely

undermined the syrian army's capabilities. undeterred syrian troops took. the city sits on 2 highways the m 4 and m 5 and has changed hands many times over the last few days as fighting continues u.s. special envoy for syria james jeffrey and u.s. ambassador to the u.n. kelly craft visited the border area with syria and met members of the syrian white helmets the u.s. is contributing more than $100000000.00 to address the deteriorating humanitarian situation in northwestern syria humanitarian aid is only a response the real answer is an immediate cease fire and durable cease fire so i'm very happy to be here this is obviously a moment that we need to make certain that we stress that the americans care but at the same time that there has got to be an immediate cease fire. and his father

from province their family members are among thousands of people who have fled their villages and settled all the border with turkey. when we were walking out of the village we were hit by ernest reich i lost my hand and i miss my home my school . for the time being and his family have nowhere to go so that makeshift camp could turn into something more permanent if the fighting doesn't end as international calls for an immediate cease fire gather momentum turkish and russian leaders will meet on thursday to try and agree on a buffer zone and the demarcation line that will constrain the movement of the syrian army but damascus remains adamant its offensive won't and until it regains control of all the territory held by the rebels house about. how time now the e.u.

has promised $777000000.00 to support greece's tens of thousands of refugees migrants massed on its border with turkey e.u. officials have been meeting greece's prime minister he took them on a helicopter tour to show them the extent of the crisis on the weekend turkey announced it would no longer stop people trying to reach europe going against a deal brokered in 2016 the touch of a name is in a turkish border village of dawran where she says people are desperate to read europe and will use any means possible. it's only a journey the length of a football field to cross the border from turkey to greece here but it's an almost impossible one in a smugglers boat there is also a land border which the syrian refugees managed to cross a few days ago soon they were deported back to turkey they remain undeterred. telephone all degree soldiers took our phones our money and our bags and i went back to istanbul packed up my bags and returned. this river bank in the village of

di run has become a campground of hope these families look at the merchant river and see all the possibilities europe represent. syrian refugees his wife and 3 young children have used branches donated blankets and tarps to build a shelter to shield against the unrelenting cold wind day and night for 4 days business that it is we need to take a threat i'm 34 years old and i've seen nothing good today and maybe my children can see something good we need some space to see our future the un refugee agency u.n.h.c.r. says countries must not use excessive or disproportionate force against migrants they must process asylum applications in an orderly manner and the international community needs to increase its support of turkey the country is home to almost

4000000 refugees 3.7 of them are syrian. a few kilometers away the european council president and the greek prime minister visited the border we have not used the time wisely since the last migration crisis to address the situation effectively it's about time that we do it now during 9 years of war syrians have heard similar pronouncements and promises from world leaders before dia and other refugees we've been talking to tell us this isn't simply about turkey opening its borders to europe it's about all countries changing their mindset and welcoming them until then they're determined to push their way in any way they can natasha. die run on the border between turkey and greece. the world health organization is warning iran is ill equipped to handle the corona

virus outbreak on its own it says doctors and nurses are lacking vital medical supplies have been 77 deaths in iran the government's considering stepping up the role of the military to assist with the response and the world bank is page $12000000000.00 in aid to some nations dealing with the outbreak meanwhile in the u.s. the federal reserve has cut interest rates by half a percentage point to cushion the outbreaks economic impact and italy has overtaken iran to record the highest death toll outside of china a total of $79.00 people have lost their lives there and a challenge explains countries across europe are scrambling to contain the virus. italy has just recorded a large jump in coronavirus deaths and increase its official number of cases to more than 2500 he was already europe's worst hit country this makeshift triage center has been set up at a hospital in brush here to keep suspected coded 19 patients separate from others the national health institute wants

a new coroutine red zone set up near bergen that would make 3 units of these north . as the u.k. updated its number of confirmed coronavirus cases to 51 signs of the outbreaks impact are starting to show there this province sorry closed for a deep clean after someone with the virus visited but on the day the government on veiled its action plan it's clear the u.k. is trying not to overreact but let me be absolutely clear that for the overwhelming majority of people who contract the virus this will be a mild disease from which they will speedily and fully recover as we've already seen. i fully understand public concern for the moment no blanket school closures no major reorganization of health services no army involvements no advisories against travel not unless things get significantly worse. time increment which measures if you do it. you end up with

a lot of people having destruction or societal destruction on top of the not getting benefit europe's big carry is a meeting at an aviation conference in brussels this chief executive things airlines are going to be hit hard by flight cancellations there are quite a few we carry years throughout the world and in particular asia we are seeing that in europe we see the same france over the last few months we've seen 2 failures so most definitely i believe this will accelerate consolidation in france where wordstar close the louvre museum on sunday and monday the government has to requisition face mosques there's been a run on them in shops and prices have risen we will distribute them to health professionals and to french people infected with the coronavirus president mccrone said on twitter rory chalons how does their. he's 20 people have been killed in 140 buildings destroyed as tornadoes ripped across the u.s. state of tennessee it's one of the states voting on super tuesday and people there

have been given extra time to cast their ballots one of the twisters cause widespread damage in the city of nashville charlotte has more. in airy cool to take shelter for tennessee residents the siren warns of illumine tornadoes. this is one moving through downtown nashville but there were multiple tornadoes early tuesday morning throughout the state of tennessee oh my. mother building right next to us was blown off in our rough for our our wall mendoza. bar the hotel below us was ripped off and stuff and. that is pretty scary. they live tens of thousands without power as the winds damaged in the church from the put meant that lit up the sky more than 150 people were rushed to hospital we heard sirens going off we heard the wind we were in the basement 2620 seconds later it was done it was gone 20 seconds one tornado hit the

ground near downtown nashville and ripped to 16 kilometers poc to the city's eastern suburbs there are multiple homes damaged there are multiple injuries and we are still in that response our priority right now is assessing the injuries we're responding trying to find those who are trapped trying to find those who are injured as day broke the death toll grew and extensive damage was revealed in nashville alone hundreds who left homeless schools courts public transportation an airport and the state capitol were closed officials scramble to find alternative sites for super tuesday voting. tennessee the 1st to feel the brunt of america's $22020.00 season. all right so that's it for me daryn. for this news hour don't go away that was all be back in a moment with much more on our super tuesday special coverage budget cuts which.

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does it is very good news to the world from here. and on down jordan this is out as iran lawyer from doha welcome to our special coverage of the u.s. super tuesday presidential primaries this is the biggest night of the year in the race for the white house 14 states and one u.s. territory voting well polls are closed in vermont virginia and parts of alabama with a total of $167.00 democratic and $67.00 republican delegates and north carolina will close in around half an hour the state has $110.00 that's a large chunk of democratic delegates at stake there's no republican primary in virginia this year well as the results come in over the next 2 years.