hello. welcome to our viewers joining us in the united states and around the world. i'm john vause. coming up on "cnn newsroom" -- millions of people on lockdown around the world. borders closed from eastern europe to america's west coast. as the coronavirus spreads, so too the drastic measures being taken to try and limit the impact of the virus. countries also going it great lengths to stop the economic fallout. the trump administration announcing a $1 trillion stimulus package to cushion our faltering u.s. economy. and joe biden sweeps key primary states, giving him a nearly insurmountable delegate

lead. a turning point perhaps in the democratic primary. ♪ two weeks. no more. that's all the time the u.s. has left to prepare for an approaching viral tsunami. in two weeks the number of coronavirus cases is expected to surge here. so too the death toll and the strain on an already stretched health care system. because in terms of preparation the united states is a lot more like italy, which saw the virus explode two weeks ago and is now in europe's hard yet hit country. the coronavirus now confirmed in all 50 u.s. states. more than 100 people have already died. for the worst case scenario could see as many as 2 million dead. and right now avoiding italy's fate rests on a response which varies from state to state, city to city, and inconsistent patchwork of measures ranging from aggressive action, which changes daily lives, routines, the very fabric of society, to

almost nothing. and the economic pain already being felt and the trump administration proposing a trillion-dollar stimulus package. according to a congressional source, the treasury secretary has warned the unemployment rate could rise to 20%. word of that possible massive stimulus spending sent stocksing soar. the dow up 5%. the nasdaq and s&p up 6%. and a sign perhaps of life to come in northern california. a shelter in place order has left busy streets empty. 8 million people ordered to stay home. and the new york city mayor has warned he's considering issuing the same order. and residents should be prepared to shelter in place. the governor of new york state, though, says he does not believe at this point such action is necessary. as officials impose stricter measures to slow the outbreak millions across is this country are making big adjustments in their daily lives. we begin our coverage with cnn's erica hill. >> reporter: empty restaurants. lonely streets. millions ordered to stay in

their homes without a clear end in sight. >> these measures will be disruptive to day-to-day life, but there is no need to panic. >> reporter: the san francisco bay area's shelter in place order has prompted questions about whether similar measures could spread. >> part of the year, the anxiety, people spread rumors, well, maybe you're going to quarantine new york city. and i have no interest whatsoever and no plan whatsoever to quarantine any city. >> and yet concern is growing by the day. about how long any measure will last and what will be left when it's over. >> small businesses are calling into my office one after the other. people are not going to the barber shops, they're not going to the restaurants, restaurants are being shut down, et cetera. we are seeing a massive collapse in the economy around this country. >> the unemployment requests, first-time requests for benefits that are coming in literally

this week as we sit here are overwhelming. >> reporter: the white house today announced help is coming. >> we're looking at sending checks to americans immediately. americans need cash now, and the president wants to get cash now. and i mean now in the next two weeks. >> reporter: how much, when and who will be eligible remains unknown. the pledge comes as airlines are asking for an estimated $50 billion government bailout. and dozens of retailers announced nationwide closings. including disney, macy's, nordstrom and foot locker. supermarkets across the u.s. are adjusting their hours, opening early for seniors in an effort to minimize their exposure. state and local officials preparing for an anticipated surge at hospitals and medical centers. as elective surgeries are canceled, patients are discharged more quickly, and new facilities are prepped to offer additional capacity. >> we can't do our jobs if we do not have access to our equipment

and we don't have access to, you know, fresh supply lines. and so we need to do everything we can to stave that off. rpt the government has yet to provide a clear answer on how they'll meet the need for life-saving ventilators, advising states to get their own while calling on other industries to help meet the need for industrial masks. >> we're asking them to donate their n95 masks to their local hospitals and also forgo making additional orders. >> reporter: questions about supply as the demand for answers grows. >> testing is still a major concern across the country. here in new york city mayor bill de blasio says as of thursday they're going to be opening up more testing. in fact they're going to get to the point where they'll be able to do some 5,000 tests a day in very short order and perhaps even more importantly those results will be back in just one to two days. back to you. >> erica, thank you. the united states and canada are considering suspending all non-essential travel between the two countries. the trump administration official tells cnn an

announcement could come in the next 24 to 48 hours. but the agreement is not yet final. negotiators are working out the definition of non-essential and what kinds of vehicles would still be allowed back and forth. but they stress business and trade between the two countries will continue. in an unprecedented move the european union has closed its external borders to all non-essential travel. for the next 30 days only goods and medical equipment will be allowed to cross. along with people deemed necessary to deal with the virus. the eu hopes tone courage members to reopen their internal borders, allowing a quicker response to the virus. france, spain, denmark, most recently germany have all closed many if not all of their borders. the uk in its post-brexit transition is expected to follow suit. members of europe's schengen zone like iceland and switzerland are exempt from this agreement. we're following developments across europe. germany's al goodman is standing by. senior correspondent jim bittarman is standing by in paris. but first we go to rome.

what is the latest there from rome, julia? >> well, john, a couple things happening here. one is of course confronting the ongoing emergency numbers from yesterday. we're up to some 31,000 total cases with, you know, a jump in about 3,000 new cases. there is of course the acute emergency in the north for icu beds, for ventilators. they have received some ventilators from china for example. they are building out new temporary hospitals. that will have some 600 beds in them in the lombardy region with some more icu beds and an american n gochlt called samaritan's purse has come over to a town called krimowna where they are also helping to build out some temporary hospitals to try and confront major emergency in the north, which has more than half of these 31,000 cases.

the other thing that's happening here, john, is watching these numbers. we have been in lockdown for the whole country now for about ten days experts are saying that's too soon to make any positive determination on whether the isolation is working but of course the towns in the north have been on lockdown for about three or four weeks now. those red zones began much earlier than the rest of the country. so italy is watching very closely its numbers to see if indeed some initial results from these smaller towns, john, that have been on lockdown for a longer time are showing a trend in which the positive cases have slowed which suggests, of course, that the isolation is working. so there's a lot of discussion right now to see whether or not in the next week they're saying will be crucial, the next ten days, to two weeks to see if

countrywide this major lockdown which has been in place now will have the desired effect on the numbers, john. >> okay. delia, we appreciate that. delia gallagher there in rome. cnn's jim bittermann. it was just a few days ago when the president emmanuel macron was scolding the population for not taking this viral outbreak seriously enough. what's happening now? >> reporter: well, now they are taking it seriously because in fact the real measures, the real lockdown measures took effect yesterday at noon and the fines if you're out and about without this special form that you're supposed to be carrying at all times, the fines start today. the police are going to start enforcing it. 100,000 police across france have been mobilized for this. one of the things that's interesting this morning, john, is our sister network bfn has done a poll just to see how the french are feeling these days about coronavirus and 81%, that's to say up 20% from just five days ago, 81% feel that it's a very serious problem and they're worried about it.

and even more importantly, 93% say they are in favor of the kind of lockdown measures that are being talked about and are now in place. so it is amazing sort of cohesion here within the french population and right across the political classes because i think there's some understanding that it's something that's bigger than everybody. so as these measures take place today there's stories coming out of ail sorts of problems everywhere. for example, on the eastern part of france the military's been called in because the hospitals are overloaded. there was a report overnight that a prisoner in the main jail just outside of paris died and that of course would be a really bad sign because it could spread very quickly within the confines of a prison. there's a lot of problems the french government has got to address, not the least of which is that they want to make sure people stay united over this

lockdown. they promised 15 days but they'ring also saying it could be prolonged. if it was prolonged beyond 15 days, people might have a different attitude. john? >> i guess we'll see. 15 days seems to be the minimum. others are saying it may be 28 days, maybe longer. but we'll see. jim bittermann, thank you for that report from paris. spain has the most cases in europe behind italy. more than 1,100 infections. nearly 500 deaths. al goodwin joins me now from madrid. i guess for spain the worst is coming. >> the worst is just we're peaking now as far as we can tell. the figures you just gave, the latest figsz we have, more than 11,000 cases and nearly 500 deaths. what's the change? those figures are about 15, 16 hours old, john, so we're waiting for new figures. but what we're seeing is the number of cases has gone shooting up like this and now the deaths had been slowly increasing and yesterday tarted

to shoot up. so the government on the health front is rushing resources in, 500,000, half a million surgical masks arrived from china to spain yesterday. at the same time the government, central government distributing half a million masks out to the 17 reengz. there has been vast calls all across the country we don't have the equipment, we need the masks, the gloves, and the equipment to did the testing. i'm right at the very heart, the center of the spanish capital. we see a military unit from a base on the outskirts of madrid patrolling this area to supplement the police who've been issuing fines already. in france they're about to start issuing the fines. in spain they've been issuing the fines, hundreds of fines in the last couple of days because the emergency, state of emergency went into effect here on the weekend. now, the spanish government, while people are basically confined to their homes, they only go out to buy food, to the pharmacy, a few other things,

the government moving late yesterday to try to ease the anxiety over the economic impact, promising a 200 billion-euro or about $220 billion aid pack aage for thing like suspending mortgage payments. you'll be able to get unemployment payment, even if you didn't work, in the temporary economy. they're trying to ease the fears of the business owners, the workers, the unions. they've got a lot to handle now. john? >> to say the least. al goodman with the latest from spain in madrid. thank you. a consistent message from elected officials has been that millennials are the key to slowing the spread of the coronavirus. on tuesday the white house coronavirus task force once again urged young people to stay home, even if they do not feel sick or have any symptoms. >> every single generation has a role to play. we're asking the younger generations to stop going out in public places, to bars and

restaurants, and spreading asymptomatic virus onto countertops and knobs and grocery stores and grocery carts. >> so why is this so critical? cnn's dr. sanjay gupta explains why. >> young people can be a risk to people with these pre-existing conditions. and even if there's higher populations of elderly people in some of these states, there are still elderly people in all these states and people with these pre-existing conditions in all these states. that's the one thing i think we're going to keep coming back to is that it has sort of felt like a patchwork thus far. one state handling it one way, another state another way. and i kept thinking that the federal government would come out with recommendations, which they have. but then still allowing some of these other states to follow their own recommendations. alabama, for example, saying 25 people or more. it's not so much the number of people, jake, to be clear. those are arbitrary numbers. but i do think there needs to be national guidelines on this that everyone should abide by.

>> and dr. gupta will answer more of your questions at a third cnn global town hall. coronavirus, facts and fears. that's thursday 10:00 p.m. eastern here in the united states. 6:00 a.m. in abu dhabi, 10:00 a.m. in hong kong. the program le play a few hours later, 8:00 a.m. in london. 4:00 p.m. in hong kong. still to come the uk's biggest pharmacy chain is facing unprecedented demand for things like hand sanitizer and other coronavirus essentials. we'll explain how they're fighting to keep their shelves stocked. also ahead, more wild swings for markets around the world. live in tokytokyo, we'll look ae stocks around asia. there was nothing i could do. (daughter) daddy! (dad vo) she's safe because of our first outback. and our new one's even safer.

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tokyo with more on this. it does seem one day it's up the next day it's down again. and this is a market which is being driven pretty much by fear, isn't it? >> it is. and i think that to make projections beyond the next hour is very difficult when you have these wild swings of 1,000 points, 2,000 points in the equity markets. but i can tell you that the initial optimism surrounding the u.s. stimulus package faded pretty quickly in the asian trading session. so as you pointed out, with the dow futures particularly down over 800 points now in asian trading, that has triggered a u-turn in some of the key indices here. australia is down very sharply again. tokyo has pushed into negative territory as well. and i think people are look at yields as well. the u.s. treasuries, 10-year yield is back below the 1%, which also sends alarm bells to investors. and as a result we're pushing into negative territory.

i think also the fact that we're getting real numbers about how much this coronavirus is hurting companies and the economy just reinforces the view that the recession, particularly for countries, excuse me, that were already weak like japan, like many eu countries, is reinforcing the pessimism. you have companies like al nippon airways which is a big airline here in japan and in asia saying that the flights from now until the end of april will be down 56% from what they originally planned because they have to cancel routes. this is a warning sign. you also have trade data. china is japan's biggest trading partners and you got numbers out of february saying exports were down 47% in the month of february alone. so i think it's a given among economists here that japan is in recession already. the question is how deep is it going to be and how long it's going to last, especially at a time when the economies in europe and increasingly the u.s.

are going into a standstill. when you have big industries like the auto industry with volkswagen, daimler, and nissan, ford shutting down their european markets, this does not bode well for many corporations here. and i think there are expectations that there might be cash handouts in store from the japanese government as well. back to you, john. >> thank you, kaori enjoji live from tokyo. across the uk there are empty shelves where hand sanitizer, shoep and anti-viral products should be. cnn's nina santos looks at how one uk pharmacy chain is trying to keep their stores stocked. >> reporter: the sign has become familiar around the world, and so have the empty shelves. as the uk steps up its effort to fight covid-19 the country's largest pharmacy chain, boots, finds itself on the front lines of supplying a panicked public trying to hoard supplies. and this is what they're after. we had to travel three hours

north of london to find it, deep in boots headquarters. with the government continuing to urge people to wash their hands, demand for products like these has soared. boots says that hand soap sales have increased by nearly 1000%. other items like this paracetamol and vitamins are also selling fast which means boots has to turn these truckloads around quickly, as soon as they reach the warehouse. the supplies aren't the problem, boots says. it's getting them to where they're needed that presents the challenge. that means calling up seasonal workers and hiring more delivery drivers. still, at this shop just a few miles away the aisles of painkillers are empty. thermometers gone and hand sanitizer, don't ask. >> undoubtedly what we're seeing at the moment is unprecedented. i've never seen it in my career and many of my colleagues have never seen it. >> clearly people are very anxious. >> reporter: tracy clemons is boots' top operations executive.

as such it's her job to keep the firm's 2 1/2 thousand stores stocked. why is hand sanitizering? that even on shelves of boots is missing? >> i think it has to be worth saying. the increases in volume of sales are like nothing we've ever seen before. >> reporter: like other retailers boots now limits how much any customer can buy. but as soon as the shelves are replenished they're cleared. leaving shoppers disappointed and boots staff facing their frustration. >> so customers may find that we have it for a part of the day but not the whole of the day. but we continue to try to procure as much as possible. >> reporter: to increase provisions the company is bringing on new brands and is in talks with fresh suppliers. >> we're learning every hour. and that's what we need to do actually. we need to accept that in this type of situation there is -- you can't be perfect, you have to make decisions that you believe are right. >> reporter: boots has more than 170 years of history on its

side, supplying britain through two world wars and the spanish flu. but for all retailers and pharmacies coronavirus is a learning curve. and for customers too. nina dos santos, cnn, nottingham, england. >> well, it's a big white house cash giveaway to households across america. all part of a trillion-dollar relief package amid fears the u.s. could spiral into recession. also ahead, a major postponement for one of the biggest sporting events in europe. the uefa 2020 championship delayed. we'll tell you until when. that's after the break.

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in the its concerns are growing the coronavirus will send the economy into a deep drawn out recession. a source says the treasury secretary has warned a lack of government action could see the unemployment rate hit 20%. a number not seen inside since the great depression. to avoid that the white house is proposing a staggering $1 trillion spending package which would include loans and direct payments to households and businesses. >> we're looking at sending checks to americans immediately. americans need cash now and the president wants to get cash now. and i mean now in the next two weeks. >> kath lynn van pelt is a commentator and opinion writer for the "washington post." she's with us for this hour. thank you for coming in. appreciate it. >> good to be here. >> if there is a positive here it seems like the leadership of this country, the senior leadership all now saying the right thing, they agree on this urgent need to help families and

business. and the leader in the senate republican mitch mcconnell says the senate will pass a stimulus bill from the house and they will do it at warp speed. here he is. >> a number of my members think there are considerable shortcomings in the house bill. my counsel to them is to gag and vote for it anyway even if they think it has some shortcomings. >> and in that bill there are provisions for free coronavirus testing. it improves paid emergency leave, unemployment insurance, increases medicaid funding to the states. but rand paul, senator rand paul apparently is not prepared to hold his nose and just vote for it. warp speed has come to a screeching halt. the bigger picture here is it raises the question is it ever a moment when awful these lawmakers from either party can actually rise above all this partisanship, even in a crisis like this? >> that is an excellent question. and i think these lawmakers need to, you know, behave like adults and do their damn jobs on behalf of the american people at this

point. look, the house passed a bill i guess in the wee hours of saturday morning this past weekend. and it was not a perfect bill. there are certainly shortcomings in this legislation. but i think lawmakers in the senate at this point need to not let the perfect be the enemy of the good. for better or worse they will have multiple bites at this apple. it is almost a certain outcome that they will have multiple rounds of stimulus, that they will need to pass. that they'll do this one, the white house has already called for additional stimulus, and both mcconnell and his counterpart in the democrats chuck schumer, who's the monitor leader, have advocated additional stimulus measures. and remember, we saw this multiple rounds of stimulus in the 2008-2009 crisis as well. so this should not be a surprise. i think at this point lawmakers need to bite the bullet, pass the imperfect thing, and then take another crack at it and fill in the gaps later. >> you know, just for example,

they're talking about getting thousands of dollars in checks out to families within two weeks. i mean, that's not easy to do. if they can't agree on this first stimulus bill, how are they going to get together on something like the money to families? >> the real issue with getting money to families may not be a political one. i think there is a fair amount of bipartisan support at this point for getting checks out to individual households. the exact amount is being haggled over of course. but otherwise, there's a fair amount of consensus. the issue is more the plumbing of the u.s. government. you may recall that in 2008 there was a similar direct payment that was given out to american households. it varied a little bit depending on what your income was. but everybody was eligible for this. and it took i think several months at that point. now, i don't know how much the system has been updated in the decade-plus since then. but the issue is that if the senate can't even come together to pass this bill and then you have additional delays in

getting the money out, you know, you're just losing precious time as we deal with this very urgent immediate now economic crisis in addition to a public health crisis. >> for the past few months there was the coronavirus according to the experts and the coronavirus according to the u.s. president. here's how it looked from donald trump's viewpoint. >> we pretty much shut it down coming in from china. >> you know, in april supposedly it dies with the hotter weather. >> looks like by april, you know, in theory when it gets a little warmer it miraculously goes away. >> in fact week, very close to a vaccine. >> we're going down, not up. we're going substantially down. >> we've done an incredible job. we're going to continue. it's going to disappear. one day it's like a miracle, it will disappear. >> yeah. none of that was true. and on monday trump's tone and demeanor was notably much more serious. so too on tuesday. but then he was asked why there was this marked change in just how he was talking and how he was basically addressing this

issue. 24s wh this is what he said. >> this is a real -- this is a pandemic. i felt it was a pandemic long before it was called a pandemic. all you had to do was look at other countries. >> well, then why didn't he say so? i mean, that's some lightning fast revisionist history going on. >> yeah, i think the issue with donald trump is that the most important lesson that he learned both in his private and career as a businessperson and in his political career is that you only care about today. there are never any consequences, tomorrow is tomorrow's problem. and he's been governing during this pandemic in the same way, sort of assuming that if he can just juice stock markets today, even if that leads americans to for example take fewer precautionary measures because they're not so worried about the pandemic, they think it's a hoax, et cetera, if trump just says don't worry about it, it's not an issue, it's a hoax, it's fake news, go about your business, that might help stock

markets today even if it hurts him -- hurts americans, hurts him politically tomorrow. and i think it's finally catching up with him, that tomorrow has come and in fact americans are getting sick. some of them are dying. and in fact they may be holding the president accountable for those terrible outcomes and for the fact that he played down this crisis for so long. >> then there's the reason behind this sudden change, what some have actually suggested could be a "new york times" story which estimated the worst case scenario would see 2 million americans dead by the end of all of this. others have suggested that the president and his aides now see this response as a real threat to his re-election. out of those two which one would you see as more likely for this change in tone? >> i would like to hope it's the potential human cost. you know, experience suggests that it's really that he's looking out for number one as he always has. maybe it's a combination. maybe he's genuinely concerned about the american people. but he's also concerned about his electoral chances. you know, they're not mutually

exclusive. >> catherine, thanks so much for being with us. appreciate it. >> thank you. another major sporting event is on hold because of the coronavirus pandemic. the uefa euro 2020 championship will now be held next year. cnn's christina macfarlane reports from london. >> reporter: for the first time in its history football's biggest european competition has been postponed by a year because of the coronavirus. euro 2020 is now euro 2021. so what does this mean for world football? well, here's what we know. the 2014 tournament will now take place from june 11th to july 11th, 2021 and will still be contested across 12 different host cities. the tienl international qualifying events for euro 2020 will now be moved from march to begin in june 2020. anyone with a ticket, keep it. there's no word yet on whether it will be valid for next year's championship. but you are entitled to a refund, uefa promises. now for what we don't know. when the champions league or the

europa league will conclude. for now uefa has suspended all european competitions and matches for clubs and teams, men and women, until further notice. with no announcements of changes or a truncated schedule to enable the season to be completed, europe is effectively on hold. but there's also uncertainty over existing international competitions with a raft of major tournaments planned for 2021. uefa say any changes to this line-up will be announced in due course. so what's next? well, uefa will set up a working group to delve into the calendar and find a way to break the logjam of fixtures. but don't expect quick decisions. football has never seen this before. nobody has seen this before. it's a defining moment. and football isn't immune. even this timetable isn't guaranteed. christina macfarlane, cnn, london. joe biden moved a lot closer to locking up the democratic presidential nomination. coming up, primaries in three

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cnn is projecting joe biden will sweep tuesday's democratic presidential primaries in arizona, illinois, and florida. the wins will put them substantially ahead of his political rival bernie sanders in the delegate count needed to secure the party's nomination. that's expected to ramp up the pressure on sanders to ramp up his campaign. in a speech biden sounded like he had it all sewn up, acknowledging sanders' influence in reaching out to his supporters. >> senator sanders and i may disagree on tactics but we share a common vision. for the need to provide affordable health care for all americans, reduce income inequity that has risen so drastically, to tackling the existential threat of our time, climate change. senator sanders and his

supporters have brought a remarkable passion and tenacity to awful these issues. together they have shifted fundamental conversation in this country. >> former ambassador to china and former democracy senator from the state of montana. he joins me from bozeman in montana. welcome to the program, sir. >> oh, it's great here. thank you very much. >> it seems we've sort of seen this movie before. if not the entire movie then definitely the ending. back in 2016 bernie sanders stayed in the race long after he had any chance of winning. and the end result was harming hillary clinton's campaign. how much harm i guess that's up for debate. but he was labeled a spoiler back then. does he risk being labeled a spoiler once more if he continues on in this campaign? >> i think this is much different. back in 2016 a lot of voters, democrats and republican voters, were disenchanted with washington, d.c., with the democratic establishment, with

the republican establishment, and basically -- not just democratic voters but some democratic voters but republicans voted for trump. this is much different. back then bernie sanders was running against hillary and there was no president to run against. this time there is a president, donald trump. democrats are very organized and very, very united in their opposition to donald trump. so this time it's clear now that vice president biden is the presumptive nominee. it's going to be more likely that bernie's going to come over to joe earlier than hillary and it's very likely his supporters will go as well because they very much want to beat donald trump. now, of course, vice president biden's going to reach out to them, talk to them, talk to bernie, be sympathetic. and joe biden i know will do just that. i've known joe for 42 years now. what you see now is what you always have seen.

he's a very decent person. so i think he'll do that. >> back in 2016 many of those sanders supporters, they stayed home on election day. 1 in 10 actually voted for trump. they're young. they are very loyal to sanders. and obviously joe biden knows this. listen to the former president just a few hours ago after the results came in. here he is. >> so let me say especially to the young voters who have been inspired by senator sanders, i hear you. i know what's at stake. i know what we have to do. >> you know, it's one thing for biden to make this appeal, but ultimately isn't it now just up to bernie sanders and what he says and how he acts which has the most influence over those supporters come november? >> well, it's both. clearly they both know that vice president biden's going to be the nominee. they both know that. if that's the case, they should work together. they want to beat donald trump. bernie sanders desperately wants to beat donald trump.

i think bernie sanders in the end will not be a spoiler. he cares about this country. he cares about beating donald trump. and sure, he's done a good job pushing biden over to his side on several issues like, for example, free education, pushing more toward if not medicare for all at least joe biden being more for medicare. so i think that it's going to work out. there's not much -- >> you know, the voting was postponed in ohio because of the coronavirus. it's now sort of impacted every part of daily life in this country. on tuesday president trump was asked what sort of job does he think he's done dealing with this health crisis. this is what he said. >> the only thing we haven't done well is to get good press. we've done a fantastic job, but it hasn't been appreciated. >> there was a new poll which found 8% of democrats trust the information about the virus coming from president trump.

about 3/4 of republicans trust it. it's obviously a very, re big divide there. but does that translate into more support for biden or more support for sanders? it would seem to benefit biden mostly, right? >> there's no question it's going to benefit joe biden. biden is trusted. he's stable. it's interesting. i think in the end voters want change, want change for the better, but they also don't want to rock the boat too much. voters tend to be a little bit conservative. they care about their jobs, education for their kids, clean air and water. you can find a real sense of stability voters are seeking. and that's very important today with the coronavirus. it's also important because a lot of americans are finding their incomes are not quite what they think it should be. someone who will talk to the other side of the aisle will get results. and that's very much --

>> at this point given the guidance from the cdc about limiting gatherings to more more than 10 people and the risk spreading the coronavirus and the reality that bernie sanders despite whatever he -- the math just isn't there, he can't really win at this point. if he does decide to stay on or continue this race going is there something the party can do, the democratic committee can do, to end this primary early, shut it down? >> before we get into that, i think that it's going to hurt bernie because bernie loves crowds. now no more than 10 people, 50 people gathering, that hurts bernie. it hurts him a lot. also hurts trump, by the way. watching the debate last sunday night between biden and bernie, very much seemed to me that that format without a crowd helped biden and hurt bernie. bernie could not feed on the crowd. now, the leadership in the party can help, but frankly it's more up to joe biden and to bernie sanders.

and frank ly i think very much the two want to beat trump, will work together. there are going to be some big donors who themselves want to beat trump, very much want to beat trump. so there's a strong unity here in the democratic party in 2020 that you did not see in 2016. >> that's a good point to end on. senator, thanks so much for being with us. we really appreciate it. regular hand washing is a key to staying safe from the coronavirus and preventing its spread. and in vietnam they're getting that message out in a way that has the world singing and dancing. a little corona levity. in a moment. ♪ got my first subaru and i did it anyway. for more than five hundred thousand miles, my outback always got me there. so when it was time, of course i got a new one.

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