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wrong time, wolf. >> and we know he was accompanied by some of his closest family members. i'm sure they're relieved that at least for now he is not about to be executed. he was supposed to be executed at the top of the hour. supreme court says not happening. erin burnett "out front" starts now. "out front" next, mixed messages from the president and vice president on coronavirus as the number of deaths and infections goes up. plus coronavirus fears on a cruise ship off the san francisco coast. test kits were just air dropped from a helicopter for about 100 passengers being checked for the illness at this officer. biden trying to get to warren by tweeting at her dog. let's go "out front." good evening. i'm erin burnett. "out front" tonight the number of americans with coronavirus rising. 221 americans infected, up from 157 at this time last night.
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the death toll here in the united states now at 12. and today, vice president mike pence, the man heading the effort to fight coronavirus admitting there may not be enough tests to meet demand. >> we don't have enough tests today to meet what we anticipate will be the demand going forward. >> okay. just yesterday the vice president though sending a very different message. >> any american that wants to be tested for the coronavirus on their doctors' indications can be tested. >> just to state the obvious question, how can everyone be tested if there are not enough tests? two very different messages from the vice president of the united states who's in charge of this in just a 24 hour period. still today president trump bragging about how well he has contained the virus in the united states. he tweeted with approximately
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100,000 coronavirus cases worldwide and 3,280 deaths, the united states because of quick action has as of now only 129 cases, 40 americans brought in, and 11 deaths. we are working var hard to keep those numbers as low as possible. is that tweet too much too soon? as i said the number of americans infected is now 221, not 129 as the president said. sure, that was tweeted 7 hours ago, but then the number of americans was 163, not 129 as trump said. these are not small detailed the number of americans with this virus for the president of the united states to get right when tweeting on a topic that has frightened americans arks topic where his credibility is crucial. and in fact the experts at the cdc are saying something different. they are warning that this could get even worse. >> what is happening now in the united states maybe the beginning of what is happening
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abroad. >> it is a different message, a different warning than the president is sending. boris sanchez is outfront at the white house. president trump tweeting but refusing to answer questions about coronavirus from the press today. >> that's right, erin, the president repeatedly trying to look on the bright side of the coronavirus, even frequently contradicting what we've heard from his own officials. the president, as you said, leaving the white house earlier today not taking questions from reporters, specifically about the number of coronavirus tests that are available for americans. he did tweet earlier in the day trying to clarify remarks he made last night on fox news in which he said that people who have coronavirus often get better while going to work. the president stated that clearly even though on twitter today he said that he did not. the cdc has made clear that if you have any inkling that you might be sick you stay home so that you don't infect your coworkers. further the president trying to down play the mortally rate of coronavirus saying he has a
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hunch that it's lower than 1%. of course the cdc has repeatedly said that the mortality rate is closer to double that at least. the president trying to down play the effects of coronavirus in part because he sees what's happening in the stock market and he's concerned the virus could have damaging effects on the american economy as he's going into an election. so, he continues to say that everything is fine hoping that it won't hurt his chances for another four years in the white house, erin. >> boris, thank you very much. it is having significant impacts on the economy. if you look at what companies are saying about earnings, it is incredible. "out front," patty of washington, her state is the largest of coronavirus cases in the yates. she's also the top democrat on the health committee. senator, i appreciate your time tonight. you heard vice president pence. he says today we don't have enough tests today to meet what
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we anticipate will be the demand. that is important that he's being honest about it but also a very soeb ebering admission. do you have confidence that the united states will have enough tests to meet demand to even know who has the coronavirus when the tests are needed? >> erin, there's no way. the mixed messages, the chaotic back and forth, you're going to be fine, you're not going to be fine, we have a million, we only have 75,000, is creating real confusion at home in my state. families right now are being told if you're sick stay home. they cannot get tested, so they can't verify that so everyone is told to stay home. community leaders, school districts, mayors, county executives are making decisions about closing down public events. businesses are closing and telling their employees, thousands of them, to stay at home whether they're sick or not today. this is having a huge impact. i've been talking to parents where school districts have been closed and they're saying i
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don't have daycare. i don't have a way to take care of my kids. families who are told don't come to work and if you're sick stay home. and they don't have sick leave. they don't have any way to pay their rent or put food on their table. this conclusion, this lack of testing, is causing real confusion and chaos and it's dangerous. >> you sent a letter i know to vice president pence demanding answers about the delays with testing. you're laying out the real world implications of those delays. have you heard back from him? >> i have not heard back from him. there's two issues. one is what the heck happened? two months ago you were telling us you were going to have tests out there and then some kind of issue happened and they said they don't work and we're going to have a million by the end of the week, obviously we're not. the president and vice president are telling us different messages. and on the ground we are not seeing enough tests to make decisions. the second thing is we need these tests out there so people can make the kinds of decisions
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that are impacting their families, their businesses, and our economy obviously. and without them, we don't know the number of people that actually have been impacted. so, it is tremendous impact not to have the facts. >> look, you're on the senate health kmut tee. you've been briefed on the information out there. you referenced some issues with testing. but another issue is just whether these tests work, right? we know a woman was released from quarantine at lackland air force base in texas after testing negative twice. but then her third test came back positive. but those results didn't come back until after she was released. so, do you even know -- that could be the way the virus acts. we don't know. it could be faulty testing. do you know whether the tests actually work? >> well, i don't know who to ask to get that assurance. you know, i will say this. dr. fauci, the folks at cdc, i believe are telling us the best information they can. >> yes. >> but often times, they are overridden by someone at the administration or someone who's
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just trying to calm fears who don't realize that the impact of what they're saying the real. we need tests that we know work and we need to get them out theri there quickly. if we don't have that, we have to tell families to make a decision based on containing this contagious virus. >> some schools in your state have closed because of coronavirus. that is a big deal for those children missing the school and the learning, for the families, for countless people. you held a hearing today with the education security, betsy devos. you brought up this issue. what do you think needs to happen? obviously you want to be on the side of the safety, but when you're keeping millions of children out of school who are not sick, is that the right thing odo? what's the right thing to do here? >> these are the decisions every school district is struggling to make the correct decision. one school district that i know of in the seattle area, 30,000 plus kids is now telling them to
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stay home for several weeks. their absentee rate was at 20%. they have a high number of employees who are over 60. public health is telling you if you're over 60 that this virus can have a serious impact. so, stay home. so, they have school employees not coming home. they're working really hard to try and make sure the kids are getting an education. but i will tell you parent who is don't have paid sick leave are now having to stay home with their kids or kids are staying home alone or staying with grandparents who are at that age of the highest impact or hang out in the mall. so, these are really difficult decisions for school districts to make. i can tell you from on the ground in sh wah wash state everyone is trying to do the best they can. but what this means is we need policys in place in this country that are there for us when we have these kind of public health emergencies. >> so, the bottom line though, your state, starbucks is based there. today they said the coronavirus as it is right now could
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earnings by 30%. airlines are cutting back. ceo of southwest says the impact of air travel has a 9/11-like feel which is a stunning thing to stay when you think about the nature of 9/11. do you worry that fear has outplaced reality. >> the way to replace fear is by having real concrete information. without the tests that are credible, we don't have that, and therefore we don't know and community leaders the and school districts and businesses don't know how to make the wisest decisions. that's why i really hold this administration accountable and am demanding that they get us answers. >> all right. thank you very much senator murray. a appreciate your time tonight, from washington state, the hardest hit state thus far in this country. coronavirus tests air dropped from a helicopter on to a cruise ship. there are more than 3,000 people on board this cruise ship
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tonight passengers and crew aboard a second cruise ship -- a second cruise ship -- are being tested for coronavirus. a california air national guard helicopter delivering the tests to the grand princess which is currently off the coast of san
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francisco. the tests will be administered to about 100 passengers and crew who have been identified for testing. all passengers are ordered to remain in their state rooms. remember when this happened with the diamond princess, it was weeks they were stuck on the ship. previously this ship had a man on it with coronavirus, the first person in california to die from the virus, dozens with people on that ship with him are still on that ship. i appreciate both of you with us to give us some answers here. is there a legitimate chance, you know, people look at this, yet another cruise ship here and now people are, again, sort of stuck on this ship. we saw that air dropping of the tests to the actual ship. is there a legitimate chance the virus could still be on that ship? >> it's not just that.
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it sounds like this man left the ship within the last 14 days. so, in other words, that's within the incubation period, within the window of someone having been exposed directly to him and still being incubating the virus. so, i think it's not just a question of contamination of the environment but also of having had direct contact with this gentleman. >> so, dr. quick, in new york a thousand people right now just in one -- this is the latest numbers we have -- are being asked to self-quarantine. this is due to the virus spreading from one person, one man, one lawyer to his family. now you've got a thousand people related to that being asked to self-quarantine. this comes as new hampshire a man while awaiting the results of tests failed to self-quarantine. went to a party at dartmouth and he got his results back and he was positive. are you concerned about this,
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that self-quarantine, people won't do it. >> i can only speak for one experience with this -- sorry. go ahead. >> the defense that we have is quarantine and a key thing is confidence and trust and public understanding. you want to avoid, in a sense, imposing police-type controls on people. some of the things that have been done are basically to have a self-quarantine partner, definitely a daily call in. we went through this with ebola. we had people coming back from ebola and we had self-quarantine. i think what we've learned is that we need to apply some social pressures, and as i say, maybe a quarantine partner to be sure that people don't break quarantine.
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>> president trump has c contradicted medical professionals time and again. here's one example. >> so, if, you know, we have thousands or hundred of thousands of people that get better just by, you know, sitting around and even going to work, some of them go to work, but they get better. >> if you get sick, stay home. you're not helping your colleagues by going to work sick. >> and here's another. here's the president and the nih infectious disease chief talking about a vaccine for coronavirus. >> i've heard very quick numbers, you're talking about three to four months. >> in order goto get a vaccine that's practically deploy able for people to use, it's going to be at least a year to a year and a half at best. >> how worrisome are these contradictions? >> i don't know if it's intentional or misunderstanding. for example, i think there may
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be confusion as to what is an experimental or candidate vaccine and what is a vaccine that has gone through all of the different stages of clinical trials necessary to test its safety and efficacy. it is true we do have an experimental vaccine that is about to go into phase one clinical trials. but that also means that it's about another 18 months away from -- and this would be going at warp speed -- from making it through stage one, stage two, and stage three. so, you know, i don't -- i can't speak to intent, but there does seem to be some confusion in terms of interpreting the scientific facts. >> how much spread do you think there will be. you look at the numbers in where you are right now. we're at -- they're growing quite rapidly, right? when you look at the percentage increase, you have 40%. some of that's testing. some of that's increased cases. but, dr. quick, you're also on very low numbers, right? so, that's why the percentage increase is so high.
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how big do you think this could become? >> well, i would anticipate you're going to see a big percentage increase up front and it doesn't necessarily represent that you're seeing cases truly spike in that way. we saw this as they changed case definitions in china, that you would see all of a sudden the big jump and then things would level off a little bit. when we institute testing in a widespread way, you will see cases go up rapidly because you're finally catching what you hadn't been catching all along. so i would not let that alarm people. but i think that is to be expected. >> dr. quick, what do you think? obviously you have the w.h.o. earlier today talking about -- i'm sorry, the head of the cdc saying what's happening now in the united states may be the beginning of what's happening abroad. when you hear that, what do you think? >> well, that's a reality. we don't know how fast or how far it's going to go. one of the key things is to track what's happening on the
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new cases per day. and what we -- a month ago we had 130 cases outside of china. today we have 12,000. and it is continuing to rise each day. so, watching that epidemic curve. and the reality is we're not sure what's going to slow that down. we have seen in several countries they've been able with really good reaction to level off. but in most of the countries where it's taken off, it hasn't. we have to remember, there are 80 countries where it's gotten to. most of those only have two or three cases. so, if those can be contained we may be able to hold this back if had a number of places. >> all right. well, thank you both very much for your time. and a lot more here on the facts which is what matters in a time when fear has had already such a
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huge economic impact. join dr. sanjay gupta and anderson cooper tonight on cnn. next bernie sanders, last minute change of plans. has joe biden's big super tuesday win forced sanders to have a new strategy? and andrew yang, big plans. he's out of the presidential race, but he's doing something new. he'll tell you what tonight. man: sneezes skip to the good part with alka-seltzer plus. now with 25% more concentrated power. nothing works faster for powerful cold relief. oh, what a relief it is! so fast! ♪[ siren ] & doug give me your hand! i can save you... lots of money with liberty mutual! we customize your car insurance so you only pay for what you need!
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new tonight, change of plans. bernie sanders has cancelled plans to campaign tomorrow morning in mississippi. instead, he's going to go straight from phoenix where he is about to hold a rally to michigan tomorrow morning. she's at the sanders rally tonight. karen this is a shift. she's not trying to hide. he's focusing on what is a must-achieve just five days away in the next primaries. >> certainly. and that is going to be the big prize and bernie sanders doubling down on his strategy here, erin. what he is saying is that he is going to sell himself hard to the state of michigan, a state known for its union workers, for its working people, that he is
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the one, the candidate who can represent the working class. and it is joe biden by contrast he is going to say who is someone who has to speak to bigger fund-raisers, that he is not the one who's going to be fighting for the working people of america. it's certainly going to be a difficult argument for him to make especially since he is coming up against working class joe. something that we're seeing here in arizona, a lot of people streaming in. and this is the sort of enthusiasm that he's hoping is going to carry over into michigan as he heads there tomorrow, a critical state. sanders saying that he will lean into the fact that joe biden supported trade deals like nafta, that bernie sanders did not support that, that it is a deal that sanders believes has proven to be unpopular in the midwest, that that's an argument that helped him win the state of michigan in 2016, just barely from hillary clinton, but he
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feels, erin, that by making these arguments that he's the one who's going to walk away with the delegates from the state of michigan. >> a very rich delegate haul. "out front" now dana bash, former press secretary for president clinton, joe lockhart. okay. so, dana, let me start with you. sanders pa sanders making a last minute change. he's not trying to hide it. mississippi may not be where he can win or the focus will benefit him. he needs to win michigan and he's going to spend more time there and making no bones about it. what does that tell you? >> that his campaign, they know what they're doing. they look at the numbers. they understand very well where his support is and is not. at the beginning of this campaign, he was hoping that he
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would do better with african-american voters than he did in 2016. so far that hasn't happened for him. and on tuesday night it was a southern sweep for joe biden, particularly with the help of african-american voters. and the expectation inside sanders' world is that will happen again with approximamiss. on the other hand, michigan was the place four years ago that breathed new life into bernie sanders' campaign four years ago against hillary clinton. he needs to do that for the delegates. that's the biggest prize of the night that coming tuesday. >> so, natalia, bernie sanders obviously beat hillary clinton in michigan. as dana said it was a big turning point for him. but on super tuesday one of the negative surprises for sanders was that he lost some states he won four years ago, maine, minnesota, and oklahoma, and didn't do as well in his home state of vermont. so, does that give you any concern when you look at
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michigan which clearly he views as a must-win and must-win-big with that rich delegate haul? >> i think looking back at 2016 he won by 20,000 votes. 15% of the electorate are black folk. african-american voters. so, he's going in -- i'm not absolving the campaign of what they need to do with the black community. there's clearly work that needs to get done. but i do think what's going to happen here is he's going to show the biden campaign for what it is. you know, joe likes to call himself working class joe. i think what folks are tired with is the virtue signaling. what senator sanders has shown is that beyond the rhetoric, he also stands by the issues that matter to workers and everyday people. and in a state like michigan where the auto industry union has really sort of set the tone for the state, that is going to resonate with folks on the ground. so, joe, earlier today biden
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slammed sanders. senator sanders said his resurgence is in part because he's supported by the corporate establishment. maybe not even in part. he's talked a lot on the reliance to donors and joe biden is going to washington for another dinner with big donors. >> it's ridiculous. bern bernie, you got beat because of overwhelming support from african-americans, bernie, by women, bernie. >> that's the argument he's making is that it's the voters. the argument sanders is making is all these billionaire donors and the money and bloomberg's money can sway a lot of voters and that is what's happening here. >> if you look at the facts, bloomberg didn't sway any voters. he came in a distant third most places, some places fourth. and the day before super tuesday -- the day before south
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carolina, joe biden was broke. campaign was running out of the money. so, i think this is just senator sanders' way of campaigning which is demonizing whoever he's running against and saying they're part of somehow a corporate -- it's insulting to the african-americans who voted for biden. it's insulting to the suburban women as joe biden said. this was a ground swell of support not from the -- bernie sanders outspent joe biden in all of these states. >> right. >> but this is the what the voter wanted. >> obviously it's more complicated than i'm going to put it here. but when you look at states like mississippi, states that in the general election are not democratic states, you can win them in a primary. but if you look at states like michigan, if bernie sanders is able to win states that possibly could be turned democratic, what does that say if biden is wracking up wins in red states when he's got to also show he can wrack up states in some of
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the big, big blue states like california and michigan -- michigan obviously is a swing -- but in other places. >> it's a really, really astute question. just look back, the clinton campaign took michigan for granted just assuming it would be a blue state. and it wasn't. it turned red and it helped give donald trump his victory. and it was clear that the people that supported bernie sanders -- not all of them, but some of the people who came out in support of bernie sanders during the primary didn't see her as the candidate for them. and some of them obviously said either we're going to stay home or we are union workers who think donald trump is our guy because of the trade issues we just heard about and others. so, that's no small thing. so, when we look at the exit polls on next tuesday, no matter who wins, where the win comes from and where the delegates come from are going to be really
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key to helping answer that question about whether joe biden learned hillary clinton's lesson or not. >> so, the other big news story today, senator elizabeth warren dropping out of the race. biden and sanders, i mean, they're laying it on thick, trying to win her over. biden even tweeted to her dog saying and to bailey, champ and major would love to have you over any time. and senator sanders writing a pair of tweeting including praise for warren, saying without her the progressive movement would be as strong as today. these are love notes at the highest order, let's just be honest about that. so, warren's not making an endorsement but she's had talks with biden and sanders. what do you think she's holding out for? >> thinking about the highest love note possible. i can't find two candidates who agree more on the issues that matter to marginalized communities. at the end of the day, you think that senator warren has really run a campaign of moral clarity
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and also has displayed her policy chops. and in addition to that has always added in a layer of centering women of color, especially black women. >> go ahead. >> go ahead. >> i think that when she makes her decision, i think ultimately the same way she read her campaign, a campaign of moral clarity, a campaign whose fundamentals were based on the issues, that will come into play and will ultimately decide her decision for her. >> joe, before we go, warren tried to say recently her medicare for all plan is different than sanders. she's been with team bernie on this course a lot. earlier on she said i'm with bernie on medicare for all. i'm with bernie. she's said it again and again. could someone that said i'm with bernie, i'm with bernie, endorse biden? >> i think she could. she's got leverage with joe biden. she could go to joe biden and
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say you need my support. let's talk policy. let's talk the things. i want to move you a little left. so, i think she's actively considering endorsing both. >> all right. thank you all very much. and next, billionaire michael bloomberg out of the race for president. his month, though, is not. he has a big announcement tonight. and this man was leading the charge against coronavirus in iran. you see him. days after this television appearance, he was diagnosed with coronavirus. we're going to take you inside the spiraling crisis inside that country that is threatening some in the regime itself. wait a sec i feel like i know you? oh! have you dined with us before? no, you're -- you're that insurance guy, aren't you? the pasty one? oh, yeah. as if! like i'm gonna go into some spiel about how you can get options based on your budget with the name your price tool. hey, robbie, you tell them about the mushroom puffers? just about to, pam. wait, are we in a progressive commercial? ♪ come on down to portabella's ♪ it's food, family, and fun
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tonight michael bloomberg rolling out a new ad. you heard me right, he is still spending big time to defeat trump even though he dropped out of the race for president. he will employ hundreds of staffers to help the eventual democratic nominee. "out front" now andrew yang. you know mayor bloomberg. you've talked to him since he dropped out of the race, something he clearly did not want to do. he thought he was going to do
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better than he did. he wanted to be the nominee. did you talk to him about this? >> i haven't talked to mike since he dropped out. i talked to him beforehand. clearly this was not the scenario he or his team projected. but it's great he's going to keep resources in the field because his resources and personnel and technology are second to none in the democratic field. if the democrats are going to win in the fall he's going to be a big part of it. >> everyone wanted to know what you are going to do next? what's he doing? so, today you launched something called humanity forward. what is your number one goal? >> our goal is the champion the ideas of my campaign around the few chufr o, wo, human centered economy, and the fact that your data should be ours. we're launching this new non-profit and we have $3 million plus in pledges to give to the american people in the form of universal basic income and show that this economy should work for us and
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not the other way around. >> that's a core part of it. it was the center piece of your campaign. you have said, andrew, that if joe biden or bernie sanders were to buy into that idea to support that idea it would go a long way toward earning your endorsement. you know what they said in the past, somewhat of a mona lisa look on your face. but to people who don't know, here's what biden and sanders said about universal basic income. >> a job's about a lot more than a paycheck. it's about your dignity. getting an annual wage to sit home and do nothing, you strip people. >> what we believe in is guaranteeing a job in this country to anybody who is prepared to work. i think that's the better approa approach. >> so, obviously they have dismissed it. did you see either of them changing their view and earning your endorsement with your very young, very enthusiastic support base. >> i talked to joe just a few days ago and joe and i have had
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conversations about the seriousness of the industrial revolution. joe believes we are going through this profound technological shift. joe is deeply concerned aid abo it. and we agree on the diagnosis not on the same page in terms of the prescription or the approach. bernie and i debated on a debate stage about the universal basic income versus federal jobs guarantee. i think a federal jobs guarantee might seem good in principle but would be disastrous in real life if implemented. >> i think i remember asking you that question in that debate. so, you talked to joe biden personally but no to bernie sanders. are you going to endorse or -- >> bernie called me after i suss end approximat pended and he was very warm and congratulatory. i have said number one that i want someone to come out for some of the policies i
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championed. also i have a heavy degree of respect for the democratic process. i will campaign my heart out for the nominee to beat donald trump in the fall. >> speaking of campaigning, you told a news outlet that you were looking for a run at mayor of nn new york in 2021. this is one of the biggest jobs in the country. what are you waiting for to make your choice? >> i'm a problem solver and i want to see what the other candidates bring to the table, what new york might look like under their leadership. if they're on the same page i am in term of a lot of things i want to do for the city, frankly i don't feel as press iing a need to jump in. many of the problems i focused on in my presidential campaign are going to grow in scope and seriousness over time. we're looking at the new york
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mayoral race. >> evelyn, your wife, broke her silence about being sexually abused by her doctor. i can't imagine how hard it was for her to talk about this. and she did and she has made such a huge impact. since that story aired her lawyer tells us and you know know even more 52 additional women have come forward and said this doctor did similar things to them. this is incredible. >> i want to thank you and dana for the interview with evelyn. she felt like you presented it in the best possible way. and i've been staggered by the outpouring of gratitude, really, to evelyn for telling her story because there are dozens of other women who have come forward about the same doctor. and now the da has reopened investigation of this doctor. we all know this doctor should not be anywhere but prison. and the fact that you and you're
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helping evelyn unearth this story helped bring this doctor closer to justice is something we're deeply grateful to you for. >> i think a lot of people are deeply grateful to evelyn for what she did. the courage to do that, anybody watching can imagine how incredibly brave that was. thank you, andrew. >> thank you, erin. next one of the biggest coronavirus outbreaks outside of china. the situation in iran deteriorating. where ore-ida golden crinkles are your crispy currency to pay for bites of this... ...with this. when kids won't eat dinner, potato pay them to. ore-ida. win at mealtime.
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of an iranian morgue. a glimpse into the reality of the biggest coronavirus outbreak outside of china and korea. funerals held up while bodies are tested for disease. >> translator: what we are dealing with is how to handle the bodies of coronavirus victims versus noncoronavirus victims as the instructions for burial are different for each. >> reporter: health officials initially telling the country that the situation is stable. they seemed unable to manage the wave of infections even among themselves. the iranian official tasked with combatting the outbreak was diagnosed himself soon after this public appearance. the official numbers more than 3 3.5,000 infected. but there are tales the true toll could be much higher. iran is disinfecting public transport, screening and setting up websites to help self-diagnosis and quarantine.
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300,000 extra health workers have been deployed from the hardline basi militia. not before a senior adviser to supreme leader died from the virus. the disease has spread from iran to the middle east and now new york, where a woman arriving from iran has been recently diagnosed. the white house has banned new arrivals from iran, while the president has offered help from the u.s. . >> if we can help the iranians with this problem, we are certainly willing to do so. we would love to be able to help them. and all they have to do is ask. >> reporter: no appeal from iran is likely, given the attitude of the supreme leader. >> translator: this outbreak did not just happen in our country. you know and have heard it is happening in many countries today. the difference is many countries have kept it hidden. >> reporter: one senior u.s. health official demonstrating uncommon candor over u.s. efforts to fight the epidemic. >> quite frankly, right now the
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only thing we really have is 18th century public health. >> reporter: driving home the idea that this isn't a nationalistic issue, it's a global catastrophe. iran is a nation under very stringent sanctions imposed by the trump administration that significantly inhibits its ability to react to import the much needed medical supplies that it needs. but nonetheless, it's clear that they're able to mobilize all of the power of an authoritarian state to deal with it. that unfortunately is not the case elsewhere in the middle east where war is going to be the principle problem in dealing with this virus. erin? >> all right, sam, thank you very much. and just to emphasize how serious this crisis is in iran, two senior politicians and a top cleric have died from coronavirus. that's right. and look at this, a vice president who is seen in this picture on the left seated just a few feet away from the president, hassan rouhani.
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here is jeanne moos. >> it's hard to swallow. her beer swiggin selfie snappin selfie campaign is over. >> elizabeth warren has dropped out of the race. >> reporter: she got over 100,000 selfies down to a science, moving from one to the next in five seconds with periodic hydration. her presidential run may be over. but she was definitely the most dashing candidate. >> how you? >> sorry, i'm running for a train. >> you're the only presidential -- you're the fastest presidential nominee. >> reporter: she never made to it the nomination, though she did make the train. you know what else is quick? her wit. with warren out, the race just got a little dumber, tweeted one
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fan. someone else wondered if she ever pondered -- >> who is going to be my mike pence? who is going to look at me with adoring eyes? >> i already have a dog. >> reporter: bailey the golden retriever was there when warren launched the campaign, and he was there when she ended it, always supplying a dog's eye view via the bailey cam. >> bailey! >> reporter: elizabeth warren got no respect for her dancing. ♪ but hey, neither did her rival, tom steyer and pete "raise the roof" buttigieg. >> go pete! >> reporter: one voter, warren dropping out will be like losing a sister, a twin sister, warren volunteer and doppelganger stephanie oyen says she's sad. warren would have been a great president. they'd met in person twice. >> fight hard, we can. ♪ with warren we have plans
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>> reporter: plans for another year, perhaps. if the campaign needed a laugh, they got it from bailey. warren's press secretary tweeted that bailey just swiped someone's burrito. we're sure bailey be shake off losing his bid for first dog, but not losing that burrito. jeanne moos, cnn, new york. >> and thanks for joining us. anderson starts now. good evening. just a day after he said that anyone who needed to get tested for coronavirus now could, vice president pence today acknowledged that at least for now, and perhaps the foreseeable future, this might not be possible. >> we don't have enough tests today to meet what we anticipate will be the demand going forward. >> the vice president now in tacoma, washington where he and washington governor jay inslee are about to talk to reporters. we're going to be monitoring that news conference, bring you any late developments.
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in washington, the death toll due