for the nation talk about the presidential campaign. as always, you can join the conversation on phase and twitter. washington journal is next. you south carolina. [applause] my body, jim clyburn, you brought me back. he's a man of enormous integrity. knocked down, counted out, left behind, for all of you this is your campaign. that was former vice president joe biden last night, fresh off a victory of nearly 30 points over bernie sanders in the south carolina primary in the focus now turns from a single state to 14 events.

super tuesday voting begins in about 48 hours. welcome to this sunday edition of "washington journal." joeill get your take on biden's victory in that democratic primary. we want to get your reaction to it. if you are a democrat, call (202) 748-8000. republicans, (202) 748-8001 is your number. isependents, (202) 748-8002 your number. we have a separate line just for south carolina. voters, tell us about your experience and react to the victory of joe biden. here is your number, (202) 748-8002. you can also send us a text, (202) 748-8003. with that, please add your name and the town you are calling from. you can also weigh in on social media. http://twitter.com/cspanwj --

you can post a comment on twitter were on c-span. first 2020d courier, ahead of super tuesday, joe biden wins the rise of bernie sanders. here are the figures from the voting yesterday. joe biden, 48 point 4% in the primary, translating to 200 and 55,000 votes. bernie sanders, 19 point 9%. almost a 30 point difference. tom steyer, 11.3%. he hashaven't heard, pulled out of the presidential race. pete buttigieg, 8.8%. what this means for the delegate count is as follows, bernie sanders has 56 delegates up to this point following these four contests. joe biden, 48. 26. buttigieg,

mike bloomberg, zero, he did not take part yesterday. tom steyer, zero. totals he gathered, zero. front page of "the new york times," biden captures south carolina, wave of support delivers a moderate option to sanders." that's the story this morning in "the new york times." "low on cash, mr. biden desperately needed south carolina, estate for which he has affection, to cement his final pledge for the presidency, facing a humiliating finish in new hampshire, he flew out of the new england cold before the polls closed and staked his campaign on south carolina, telling voters in colombia that he was counting on the state has

more racially diverse set of voters to offset his dismal showing in -- dismal showing in the first few states. they want on to say that after finishing a distant second in nevada, they came directly to south carolina, campaigning almost exclusively here, debatets in the promising to win south carolina and projecting confidence that he would prevail with african-americans. according to the new york times, he did both. here is more from the former senator last night in south carolina. [video clip] we celebrate as tonight here, let me talk directly to democrats across america. especially those voting on super tuesday. a moment to this is choose the path forward for our party. this is a moment and it has arrived.

maybe sooner than anyone guessed .t would, but it is here the decisions the democrats make across america for the next few days will determine what the party stands for, what we believe, and what will get done. democrats nominate me, i believe we can be donald trump. [applause] keep nancy pelosi the house of representatives as speaker and take back the united states senate. join us. democrats across america, join us. the democrats want to nominate someone who will build on obamacare. take on our income manufacturers.

keeping the promises that we make, join us. if the democrats want a nominee who is a democrat -- [applause] , a proudg democrat democrat, and obama biden us.crat, then join we have the option to win them big or lose them big. that's the choice. we need to build on the coalition and legacy of the most successful president in our lifetime, barack obama. we will hear from bernie sanders and several of the other candidates shortly. we will take your calls on the joe biden victory in that democratic primary. the headline from "the "biden winsost,"

the victory, new life for an ailing campaign, first solid ,efeat of the front runner bernie sanders. first up this morning, steve, welcome to the program. you.r: good to talk this was expected in south carolina and it wasn't a big surprise to me. i think it may have surprise a lot of people. you know, paul, the analysts tell us that south carolina is representative of the nation when it comes to black white ratios of voters, elderly versus youth, men versus women, and if that's the case, this may be interesting going forward. the thing that democrats need to do, they need to get their act together right now. i am a republican and i exercised my wrote to vote in south carolina. -- my right to vote in south carolina. they weren't going to have a republican primary and joe takes

aspect to a time, i'm 72 and he takes us back to a time when it seemed like the parties were friendlier to each other and people could reach across the aisle to get things done. i certainly wasn't going to vote for bernie sanders, i can to you that. i just want out and said, in case, south carolina will go read in november but it was my way of saying i would choose him over bernie. who is going to drop out? that's the question. well, tom steyer did last night. does that make a difference? i think amy, kelsey, maybe even liz. amy probably won't drop out, minnesota is coming on super tuesday, but that may not be smart for her. she has to think about the party overall and how the delegates are going to split. i don't know if you know this, but did you watch the debate in south carolina, charleston but him or host: what did you -- charleston? host: what do you notice about

it? caller: black voters here, especially the christian voters, they are pretty conservative on same-sex rights, but they feel they don't have a choice. they still feel the democrat is a better choice. the other touring where it was held, ironically, it's right across the street from the mother emanuel ame church, i don't know if people know that. can i say one word about down ballot? host: make it quick. caller: the democrat there that's vulnerable voted for withchment, but he sided trump on maintaining his right to military action. he's vulnerable this year and it will be interesting to see how that pans out on the down ballot. thank you. matt is calling from charleston. good morning to you, matt.

good to see you, paul. way to go, bernie. i mean sorry, way to go, biden. this is a bernie beat down. this is great, beat down the bernie brose, democrats are finally coming to their senses and i hope that biden goes on to win super tuesday. host: more reaction here from mike in fairfax. good morning, mike. what is your reaction? move this forward to your vote on tuesday? caller: i was impressed that biden remembered what state he was in yesterday, didn't say he was in ohio or vermont or someplace else. he actually knew where he was for a change. as far as super tuesday, i will independent,m an

,ut i live in republican especially on the left these days which are complete socialists. i'm not sure who i am going to be voting for. i would like to vote for a candidate that trump would crush. i really want to send a message with my vote to once and for all finally crush the socialist agenda coming out of the left. this election would be the perfect opportunity to just crush, crushed bernie sanders and the socialist agenda. night, thatden last was baked in the cake. you know, black voters in south carolina, if they can't see that they voted for someone who clearly has early-stage dementia

, maybe they shouldn't be allowed to vote anymore. host: thanks for your participation in the program. social media to hear -- tweet here host: from "the washington post," they write "reading life into the struggling campaign as he is the first candidate with a clear-cut victory --

host: here ishost: bernie sanders last night following his second-place finish. [video clip] the established -- >> what the establishment, lobbyists and political pundits are saying is bernie sanders can't beat trump. well, to those folks i would suggest taking a look at the last 70 national polls. because we beat trump 65 out of the 70 polls.

. at the polls in michigan, pennsylvania, wisconsin, and other battleground states. we beat trump. and we are going to be trump. in virginia as well. and the reason the we are going to win is to hold. number one, we have the strongest grassroots movement of any campaign in the modern history of this country. already knocked on millions of doors from maine to california. all, our grassroots not have a super pac. and we don't want a super pac.

because when you start taking money from billionaires and millionaires, what you end up needs.s serving their our campaign, and i want everyone here to be really proud of this, we have received more from moreontributions americans as of today than any campaign in the history of american politics. bernie sanders in virginia onch, following his defeat tuesday, super tuesday there will be 99 delegates at stake. an online publication had this headline, "democratic hopeful bernie sanders promises government that works for all at a virginia beach rally ahead of the state primary on tuesday. we have jim from highland park,

new jersey. good morning to you, jim. caller: good morning to you. i'm excited you're taking my phone call. bernie sanders is in the forefront right now. i believe that joe biden will be try atful in his third the presidency of the united states. host: how come? theer: hopefully he will be 46th president of the united states. host: why do you think he can go all the way? caller: he has got the , he,ience, the integrity excuse me, i'm a little bit excited here. well, he did bring forth

some programs that we are currently enjoying right now. he has championed the cause of the downtrodden, the middle class and the working people. like i said, he has integrity and he has the experience, like congress andin also as vice president of the united states and chief advisor to the 44th president of the united states. that's what i have to say. thank you for calling. leo, go ahead, sir.

caller: yes, i have worked 65 handing in social security and everything and it looks like i see democrats wanting to give everything away. i worked for what i have got coming to me and i use that to pay my heating bill, my lecture will, stuff like that. looks like they just want to , the ones coming saying get something free for everybody. let them work for it like i had to do and lots of other people around them. just like when obama was in there. he gave drivers licenses to everybody that wanted one. my grandson just went through training and stuff like that. school to get his. a few years back they were just passing them out like candy

bars. said, tell us what you think about president trump and would you be voting yes.im this year? caller: if they wasn't fighting him so .uch, he can't do anything they are blaming this disease going around, trying to blame that on him somehow or other. it don't matter what happens. they just dig and try to find something to blame him for. don't matter what it is. more of your calls in the second. from "the washington times" this crushes southiden carolina primary. shows him and those aviator sunglasses, getting off his bus in south carolina.

"after two depressing losses and criticism from allies, biden refocused and one south carolina last night. sherman, ohio, democratic line. hey, sherman. caller: i'm a bernie sanders supporter. i wanted to give props to the biden campaign for their victory, but i don't think there is enough time between now and what, two days before super tuesday? bernie didn't do very well in south carolina, it was an improvement over how well he did in 2016 and i think a lot of people are forgetting that. number two, i don't know if anyone has heard this, but it looks like the sanders campaign has brought in $46 million for the month of february alone.

basically, he is very well suited to go all the way through june and it looks like he has amassed enough of a delegate possiblyalifornia and texas to make a stand there. let me make this point quick, i don't know if anyone is , thecting the campaign 2020 campaign with the coronavirus. if this global contagion is going to be as bad as i think it may be, bernie sanders is making the best case out of anybody as to why the for-profit medical industry should go the way of the dodo bird. ok.: that was sherman from karting can, ohio. 15 delegates at stake in california. less than starts in

48 hours in the east. you can see the states signing .rom east to south, west maine, massachusetts, down to alabama, north carolina. as the last caller mentioned, minnesota, california. and one territory, american samoa, will be voting as well in the primary. actually, it's a caucus there on super. let's hear from pat, now, calling from paying growth, california. thank you for joining us this early. we appreciate you calling. caller: i voted for republicans and democrats. my problem is bernie's health care plan. i would vote for him over by -- biden. host: tell us why, pat.

.aller: because of health care when i was an independent i, he was, my son and 40, i was 60. fors paying $340 a month from 60$900 for myself to 65. that's a real burden on somebody that age. think everybody should have health care and it takes every penny you have got if you are sick. host: you called in on the republican mind? caller: yes, i missed of the independent line. host: appreciate you calling. this from online

host: president trump was at the print -- conservative political action conference on tuesday, talking about biden and sanders. [video clip] we have two names -- >> we have two big names. one is crazy bernie. he's like a crazy professor. the other one is sleepy joe biden, right? let's take a poll. biden. screen like hell if you the guy should run against them, right? is that ok? in other words, we're going to beat him. so, scream like hell.

sleepy joe biden. reacts] all right. would you like me against. crazy bernie sanders? [crowd reacts] you cannot charge me for that. they will send me a bill for that. think of it, these pollsters. you ever see this crowd? we interviewed 193 people. with a plus or minus of three. you have thousands of people in here, i got it for free. mercedes will send me a bill, i guarantee, for a fruitful. it happened last night. they think that crazy bernie

would be easier to be than joe. the guy can't put two sentences together. it's insulting. but he is more down the middle. everyone knows he's not a communist and bernie is a real question about that, but he's a radical socialist democrat and people know that. joe is sort of down the middle, you know? the difference is that joe is not going to be running the government, he's just going to be sitting in a home someplace and people will be running it for him. and they will be radical left socialists. that's what you have to remember. there's no way he's running the government. president trump, yesterday. you can watch is. -- full speech on c-span.org. the president around midnight sent a series of tweets. here are a couple of them. congratulations he says to who

he refers to as sleepy joe biden. host: againhost:, the words of the president by twitter. eddie, good morning. yes, good morning. i wanted to congratulate joe biden on his victory last night and i will be supporting him all the way. and about the righteousness darkness of the demonic republican party and their leader, donald trump. i believe that god will win this and joe biden is the right guy to represent. that's a lie got to say. caller: joe biden the great last night, but realistically he has no ground game left and he has run out of money.

and in the delegate rich states like california and texas, bernie sanders is set to do a whole lot better than joe biden can. the other thing is that bernie sanders is going to win minnesota and massachusetts, effectively ending the campaigns of klobuchar and warren. after super tuesday, bernie sanders will be in a much better position to lock up the nomination. you mentioned money. ,ome speculated that tom steyer mike bloomberg, should they leave the race and put his money behind somebody like joe biden? what do you make of that. or possibility? caller: people will be surprised at how poorly bloomberg is going to do. he not only has a history of racist politics, he's a

republican and in a democratic primary true democrats will never vote for a republican. sanders has caucused with the democrats for decades. mike bloomberg ruled as a republican and will have no insight on the nomination. politico has a story on how joe biden plans to capitalize on the wind. "his advisers and allies say the challenge is to seize on the performance by locking down the moderate wing of the party and making the race between him and .ernie sanders under resourced and lacking organization, biden over the next three days will be counting on screen media and summary of work to get him the delegates. freegan lapping up the publicity this morning and there is already booked on cable shows, where he is expected to hold up his appeal to , sayingamerican voters

that in reference to bernie sanders and mike bloomberg he is neither a socialist nor a plutocrats. ." plutocrat teresa, calling from the bronx, good morning. very disappointed, yet not surprised about what happened. they say that all politics are local and unfortunately that's what you see here. i think that the people of south carolina, not going to talk about race, i swear they don't have any -- it appears they over thee an insight political ramifications. this is a world problem. who we elect for president is going to affect the whole world. happeningte to what's

in south america, africa. they just don't seem to understand that it isn't just about trump, who everybody don't like. but it's the people that he empowers that's the problem. clyburn, he's disgusting. host: why? caller: i think he disgusting. ok, for instance the media jumped on bernie when he had an interview on 60 minutes and he just barely mentioned, it was brought up, about cuba, using that as an example. of course, the media jumped on him, saying that he is a supporter of terrorists and dictators. he is not. obviously he is not. clyburn, that's the first thing

that came out of his mouth. "in south carolina we would never support anybody who would support a dictator. well, sanders is not a supporter of dictators, you know what i'm rather than expound on it and giving a historical context to the issue, no. it's just like, the people in south carolina are like sheep, you know? i just, oh my god, it's so frustrating. wanted to write down, i would have been more comprehensive, cecile and how i wanted to express myself, but i was just so angry, i picked up the phone and had to call to put in my statement. it was very sad, i'm very sad. biden is a nice man and the bottom line is that he is using obama as his reason for getting into the race to try to sway the black people of south carolina

and that is the going to work. we have serious problems in this country, serious, and we have to think beyond just race. we have to think in terms of really, really serious issues. thank you. host: teresa, thank you. athens, georgia, good morning. caller: good morning, great to see you again. teresa was a great caller. you don't have to write it down, teresa, just let it flow. ?ow much do i love c-span host: probably a lot since you asked the question and are calling in. keep going. .aller: you know it watching the impeachment trials and stuff, ever since bill clinton. got a few points to make.

it may be too far gone for the black people in south carolina and what the establishment wants . number two, i'm proud to be an american. it's a capitalistic society. coronavirus could be more dangerous than anything humanity has faced. people, try to get away from the vitriol. life is too precious to be emotionally churned up, fired up, ready to go at each other's throats. there are places where they actually go at each other's throats. teresa, i love you so much. paul, thank you. i love you, c-span. steyer, thes tom billionaire hedge fund manager philanthropist, environmentalist , pulling out of the race last night following his disappointing showing.

[video clip] question, this campaign, we were disappointed with where we came out. we got one or two delegates from congressional districts that i set -- thanks south carolina for . i said that if i didn't see a path to winning that i would suspend my campaign. honestly, i can't see a path where i can win the presidency. am i going to continue to work on every single one of these issues? yes, of course i am. because i have never stopped. that's what i'm here for. let me say, i kept trying to say , i'm arn the campaign huge grassroots person. i'm a registered engaged turnout person. young people, black book, latinos, the people who are overlooked, let's make sure that their votes are counted, there oysters are heard. i have then doing that. coursesay this, i of

will be supporting, i have said from the beginning, every democrat is a million times better than trump. trump is a disaster. host: tom steyer, from last night. jackson, michigan, democratic line. jerry, what's your reaction and what does it mean? he barely pulled it off and they are calling it this massive win. it was almost 30 points, jerry. caller: almost 30 points? ok, yeah, well, bernie routed the field. but the reason i called, quick, being a bernie supporter, i'm glad i is showing his desperation -- that biden is showing his desperation by lying eblasiohe lazio -- do

killing a groundhog. host: today at 4:30 p.m., bernie sanders. 6:30iden of it later at p.m. eastern time. deborah is calling from annapolis, maryland on the republican line, good morning. as a person who is exceptionally disappointed with , as a spy or a pond for vladimir putin, by his every action, from his global our responses or lack thereof to russian

,ntrusions into our democracy for the years of failure to address the intrusion into our voting process has brought this and how into question it will be processed out. looking at his budget that goes medicaid ande, social health care, all seniors ought to be up in arms with mr. trump about this. thattened to a poll saying fors upset with the media reporting all the things that trumped it.

my disappointment in mr. trump is that he is undermining the underpinnings of our democracy, like the free press. it is the responsibility of the press to report the truth. the bottom line is he did it. the things that the media reports, trump did the. they undermine not only our democracy but the credibility of the media, the credibility and our government. they undermine faith in the system's of our government that are designed to help uplift people and help people be successful. say bye thing to innuendo and bullying that somebody is awful. it's another thing to actually put forth programs that honestly, truly help people in

this country. just this budget is being proposed by president trump, there should not be a republican that is voting for him. just given the fact that he is undermining their potential livelihoods. you for calling in. we will this for about 20 more minutes. the third hour of the program, 9 a.m. to 10 a.m., we will do this again, get your reactions to the joe biden victory looking ahead to super tuesday. talking about the coronavirus this weekend, here's a new focus on international travel restrictions, the journal writing that health officials in washington state, whether was the first coronavirus death saturday, the white house added international travel restrictions and hastily arranged news conferences during the write ups, saying that vice put innt pence

everything that foreign nationals would be barred from traveling to a run and the government strongly advising people against travel to places in italy and south korea theyted by the virus, and asked those countries to ensure adequate screening of travelers o the u.s. the first death happened in the state of washington. here's the president after he took questions from reporters about his previous use of the regarding the coronavirus. >> yesterday you spent the day in a cabinet room with african-american leaders, saying to get away from politics. in charleston you used the word hoax when talking about politics. someone is no debt from this. do you regret that? >> hoax referring to the actions they take to try to pin this on somebody because we have done such a good job. i'm not talking about what's happening here, i'm talking what

they are doing. that's the hoax. it's a continuation of the hoax. whether it is the impeachment hoax, the russia hoax, this is not what i'm talking about. this is serious stuff. but the way that they refer to it, these people have done such an incredible job. i don't like it when they are criticizing these people and that is the hoax. that's what i'm talking about. other headlines this sunday morning, a new fda policy to expand testing for new coronavirus, they write that they took steps to sharply expand testing for coronavirus by allowing certain hospital laboratories to use her own tests before they are clear by the agency. that is from "the washington post" this morning. here's the headline from "the hill." pelosi promises congressional response." we're hearing about a piece of legislation that might be coming

toearly as this week, closer $10 billion versus some of the earlier reports that it could be less. here is what the speaker had to say in a letter to colleagues yesterday. "any emergency funding supplemental approved must be entirely new funding, not stolen from other accounts. the package must ensure that the funds cannot be used for anything other than fighting coronavirus and infectious diseases. host: that is speaker pelosi, yesterday, in a letter that she sent to her colleagues in the house. possible debate on a funding bill for the coronavirus in

congress this week. we will keep you posted. georgia, audrey, thank you for waiting. caller: teresa, in new york? she needs to take an hour. how dare she say something about representative clyburn. i heard somebody call in earlier is in theat biden early stages of dementia. i think that trump has been in dementia for a long while. he said that biden can't string a sentence together? trump cannot string a sentence together. he's often times slurring his words. but this name-calling, we are met in third grade anymore. this is a 73-year-old man calling names. what does that benefit him? this is what we teaching our children? ok to call names?

calling them sleepy and crazy? you want to be calling them other than. i am so glad that biden was the winner. i'm not a burly supporter, but i will support whatever democrat wins. i would support a glass of ice water over trump. people need to stop and listen to what's coming out of trump's mouth. they talk about biden slurring? he was ared when child. i have a grandson that stutters terribly and oftentimes he misses words because of his stuttering. he's stuttering. that's why he's missing words. but the people that's following trump? bernie is almost like a cult, but i will be with that. the people following trump are following the hate, the

divisiveness, and the racism of trump. that's all he knows. he has opened the door for things that we tried to get away from. racism, calling names, threats, hatred, division. what people that is what trump is all about. people following him are no better than him. host: we will go on to glenn. go ahead. joe biden had a tremendous victory in south carolina. i am a bernie sanders supporter. i'm black. seven years old. i would hate to see the democrats get into a situation it's like joe lieberman debating dick cheney.

during the debate it was like that situation again and i'm wholly supporting joe biden. i'm wholly supporting bernie sanders, i mean. and i hope that we don't fight a out where we get to situation where it is a little bit too late to try to make a change. host: thank you for calling. time for more of your calls. california voting on super tuesday with 400 and 50 .elegates at stake "sanders makes big promises with few details, but his california support is unshakable." here is a text from another viewer --

host: here is elizabeth born last night halloween the results from south carolina. [video clip] >> with fears of economic crisis fears ofsion rising, global pandemic rising, americans must ask themselves who you trust to run the government. donald trump has already shown that he is not up to the task. let's talk about who democrats should nominate. i am going to be blunt, the crisis demand more than a billionaire mayor that believes that since he is rich enough to purchase network airtime to pretend he is the president that that entitles him to be the president. a mayor whose track record has shown that he will govern to protect himself and his rich friends over everyone else. that's a no.

this crisis demands more than a former vice president who is so eager to cut deals with mitch mcconnell and the republicans that he will trade good ideas for bad ones. this crisis to man's more than a buttor who has good ideas whose 30 year track record shows he consistently calls for things that failed to get done and consistently opposes things that nevertheless fail. host: that was elizabeth warren the south following carolina results. massachusetts, her home state, says here "challenge of war and of her home turf," -- challenging was with warren on her home turf -- challenging elizabeth warren on her home turf," condo you are. ur.from wb you

host: kevin, brooklyn, new york. i there? caller: yes, can you me? host: yes. caller: good morning. first-time caller. i supported trump the first time , meaning last time. empty.mises are i have been looking at bernie sanders. he's pretty consistent. for the past 30 years he has been saying the same thing.

when it comes to debate time, some of these candidates, joe biden, they are coming out of nowhere. where are you coming from? bernie has been around for 30 years saying the same thing. these guys come out and mike says he wants to be president. you just come out to say you want to be a president? you have nothing to show. give me something to show. biden, same thing. thing. same what did you do? from 2016? did you help people? did you try to comfort people? you have a message for the people that you want to run for president? i got money, i want to run. i think that bernie has been doing a great job. i'm going to vote for him, like i say.

i was a trump supporter, but not anymore. he's horrible. his first year, my federal taxes went up $150 per week. that was just the first year. my payroll tax. , he's just a loser for me. he's not a president for the people by the people, ok? you talk about bernie, he comes at it from a more better for the people, better for the country. host: one viewer writes by text , -- morning host: several of the candidates

will be in alabama, today, they vote on super tuesday, several of the candidates plan to attend the bridge crossing jubilee. they write that a few candidates hoping to represent the party plan to attend just days ahead of super tuesday, including michael bloomberg, joe biden, and pete buttigieg as well as elizabeth warned have announced plans to attend the event. they are attending on the 55th anniversary of bloody sunday, marching -- marking the margin which demonstrators were beaten ,t the edmund pettis bridge part of one week of events happening in the selma, alabama area. we will probably be able to capture some of the video from that event today. watch the network of it later for some of that.

in the meantime, here is michael bloomberg in charlotte, north carolina, super tuesday state last night, about the president, coronavirus, and the economy. [video clip] have a leadership vacuum in the white house and it couldn't have come at a worse time. the coronavirus has arrived in america and make no mistake, the white house is in danger and our economyrting and the fact is that president trump was briefed on the virus two months ago when he buried his head in the sand. at that time a virus that is -- originated at a port city in china has floated into a global pandemic, thousands of thy. his failure to not harassed -- thousands have died. he's not leaving, he's not much too he's doing late. he even said he thought it was a democratic hoax.

look, the president we know is not a scientist and that's the nicest way to put it. he doesn't even believe in science and his incompetence puts us all at risk. last night at one of the rallies, when he called his democratic hoax, it was a time of the president should've been putting politics aside and rallying the american people behind him. he continues to try to divide us by playing partisan politics. this week we all know the stock market has plunged out of fear but also because investors have no confidence that this president is capable of managing the crisis. they know what we know. try to cutientists, funding for the centers for disease control, failing to preparednessrgency and in situations like this it is crucially government provide clear, consistent, and honest answers, but trump has done exactly the opposite.

michael bloomberg, in charlotte last night. he will be addressing the coronavirus in a primetime tv ad that will be airing tonight, seeking to draw a direct contrast to president trump, these are prerecorded remarks that will be three minutes long. it's not immediately clear how much of his personal fortune he with to provide himself this elevated platform but they say that the ad will air at 8:30 nbc, someht on cbs, executives estimating it could caustic campaign anywhere from $1.25 million to $3 million total. it will be on cbs and nbc tonight. he has released that online ahead of time, if you google it you will be able to find it i'm sure in several places. larry is calling now from pennsylvania, republican color. where's that in pennsylvania? go ahead. the politics going on

right now, you have a democratic candidate, bernie sanders, who wants to give away free food, free education, free tuition. there aren't enough billionaires and rich people in this world, much less this country, to pay for that. so, who is going to pay for it? you are going to pay for it and i am going to pay for it. and also, why would you vote for a democrat, all of these democrats are proposing open borders. why would you vote for a democrat that wants that? it's going to wreck our economy. we are going to have billions and billions more for education, health, and welfare. plus the jobs that will be taken from our minorities in this country.

the abortion platform. if you believe in the sanctity of life, why would you vote for any of these democrats? ok, issee about this, that his support, the support comes froms basically, and i hate to be so base, but basically the moochers , the takers in this country. trump,the news about many of these liberal networks like msnbc and cnn have already been caught lying about trump. that is where you get the fake news from. look at this. under obama, we had a zero, zero gdp. 4%.r trump we had a gdp of

the economy is surging. black and minority unemployment is the lowest it has been in 50 years. 50 years. a you want to go back to democrat and find our economy in the tank again? unemployment going through the roof? wake up, america. that democrats have control, whatever state, whatever city, that particular state or city is in terrible shape. i just say the people, be sensible, wake up. get trump to control his mouth and his tweeting. as a president, he has done great for this country. host: all right, larry. time for a call from elaine, democratic caller from st. louis. elaine, your reaction? thank you so much for

taking my call. in a happy ending. is looking 70at in the face, i thought it was good that joe biden won south carolina. however, i still remember how joe biden -- i don't think i would vote for him, although i am proud of his work -- i think he underwrote president obama when he came out for the legalization of gay marriages before president obama had an opportunity to do his own reflective thought. i think michael bloomberg is a viable candidate. on hissaw your clip approach to the virus.

and his reflection upon trump. i think he is clear and honest. in the hard work pays off. when i see his commercials and howhis upbringing he worked hard to make those million dollars, i think to myself, it's not too late for you elaine. you can do this. adon't care that he has billion, all this money. he seems to really care about america. i think he is viable. i think he is honest. i think he understands people and he can bring people to the table and get things done. plus, we need to get mitch mcconnell out of there. we have to.

we need to get all of those republicans out. host: one last call for this hour, sam. salt lake city, republican. caller: thank you for taking my call. i just wanted to say that politics, in general, is about money and power. and i want to complement bernie sanders, who knows that he is not going to be president of the united states. -- thehe pit of millie pit of capitalism. if you look at him closely, those americans who send those dollars to him, the average person that is supporting him, every dollar they send to his familyn goes through his because they manage his campaign. moneysll off the side

for his personal gain. when he gets through with this campaign, he doesn't want to be president. he wants to be rich. host: all right, sam. finish up, sam. caller: i believe he is going to end up, not president, but wealthy. host: thanks for calling, sam. we will take a short timeout. i'm going to talk more about the south carolina results and talk about super tuesday with two journalists. elie mystal will be joining us. and jim antal. you are watching washington journal. is march 1. we will be right back. >> book tv features

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interesting and south carolina certainly produced a significantly different result in iowa. that is not an accident. i think the exit polls show the electorate was -- has been 57% african-american. joe biden won the african-american vote. else, i thinkbody sanders was second. what you see here is that the people of color, who make up the base of the democratic party, have different views of the best way to be trump and they seem to be saying, at least in south carolina -- especially older voters -- they are saying the best way is to have a moderate with experience like joe biden. that is a much different answer than, for instance, people in ohio gave us in terms of their preferred way to be donald trump. everybody is concerned about the same thing. they're just different

opportunities, different ideas about how to get there. south carolina certainly threw a thunderbolt into this race. host: jim antle here in the d.c.. what did you see in last night's results? >> originally this is what we always expected. joe biden to have a commanding lead. to be powered to a primary when with a strong african-american vote. in the recent weeks of looked like bernie sanders had been gaining. it looks like even come -- tom steyer. as biden faded in the national polls and as biden had disappointing performances in .he first three states iowa and new hampshire were very disappointing to him. there is some questions of whether the south carolina firewall would hold for him. and it did hold. think -- thank

james clyburn for an endorsement. i think he had a lifelike debate performance in the final debate before the primary. he did fairly well on the stump in the final hours of campaigning. this is a pretty big one for him. for him. if this had been a loss, we will be talking about him potentially dropping out. if this had been a narrow when we would be talking about, what is his pathway forward? because of this landslide win last night, we are talking about the potential of a joe biden come back. ahead to super tuesday. we will show the map of the 14 states. what are you looking forward to? guest: the question is, how does the fact that super tuesday is semi-close -- so close to south carolina affect things? i think the optimistic scenario for biden is that it does not leave a lot of time for biden's

momentum to dissipate. potentially some of the centrist voters who were moving toward michael bloomberg and some of the african-american voters who are moving to bernie sanders and , to a lesser extent, toward bloomberg, wild ride back toward biden. the less optimistic scenario for joe biden is that because it is so close, this doesn't really give democratic voters a lot of time to process south carolina by the time they vote on tuesday. it doesn't even give the other candidates a lot of time to process it. you might have a pete buttigieg or amy klobuchar, maybe if there was a week they might consider whether they would jump out. whether they would support biden. other there might be some centrist consolidation. he might see a different strategy on the part of michael bloomberg, deciding either that he is going to have a

nonaggression pact with joe biden. those things are all less likely to happen given that it is only two days away. the real question is, yes, joe biden had a really good performance. is this going to be his swansong and an anomaly? or does this put him back into the race? does putting him back into the race restore him to something like a front runner status with bernie sanders? or does it make the results on super tuesday more chaotic? host: phone numbers on the bottom of our screen. we welcome your calls. it is jim antle, editor of the american conservative. in new york city it is elie mystal. look ahead to that large map of 14 states. what will you be looking for as the votes start coming in? they are voting in less than 40

hours now. guest: in some places they already started building. i think sanders is still clearly the front runner. ahead to superg tuesday, i'm looking at anything i think got overlooked in sanders' strong victory in nevada. look at the number of latino votes sanders was able to bank in the nevada. toders has shown the ability truly build a multiracial, multiethnic coalition. while, yes, the african-american vote is going to be strong in the former confederacy. the tennessee's, the alabama's. the african-american voters going to be strong there. but when you go out west to the delegate rich states of california and texas, you see a lot of latino votes. you see bernie sanders showing an ability to get votes from

that constituency, that critical constituency to the democratic party as well. a sanders coalition is white working-class, but it is also latino. it also is a younger black voters. if you look at the exit polls from south carolina, what we saw was bernie sanders battling bernie sanders -- battling joe biden to even for african-american voters under 30. that hasn't been historically a reliable constituency. howle who know just precious that voters. people who have marched for that vote. perhaps ticket a little bit more seriously than younger people, who have always assumed that they would have it. if sanders can turn out young people, young african-americans, latinos, and young white people. if he can make those inroads into the latino community across all age groups, you could see a strong showing in california and

texas where most of the delegates -- where a large plurality of the delegates are on super tuesday. i think sanders is still in a commanding position as we head into tuesday. host: let's get a response from jim antle. let me read perspective additionally. texas is -- according to pew, second in the nation behind california. both states are about equal in having hispanics make up 30% of their eligible voters. guest: that is a big question i think of this race. historically we talk about momentum. momentum has not been a very big factor, at least in the state contest. certainly in the national polls it has made the difference. those demographics trump momentum in this race. if that is the case, especially when you factor in early voting that won't be affected by south carolina at all, you look at the

demographics of the larger states, they seemed favorable to bernie sanders. does south carolina really changed very much of anything? --er than the possibility the certainty it gives joe biden a reason to keep running. he is going to be running through super tuesday. he is going to be competing primarily with michael bloomberg to get some of those voters who are uncomfortable with bernie sanders. sanders does still retain a lot of advantages. our firsts go to call. james. democratic collar, north carolina. one of those super tuesday states. caller: good morning, gentlemen. i have a brief comment for the station. it seems that you guys have a lot of republican guests. and you always ask republicans about democrats. just like this guy. you ask him a lot more than you have asked elie. that is neither there nor here.

that is a reflection. i will leave that alone. i have been following elie. on tv. i've seen a lot of the progressive news broadcast. who are you supporting? i really don't care what democrat runs. i'm for that democrat. if you watch a president whose main thing is to tell jokes and criticize people, and to give people nicknames. and people call this a philosophy, a policy. it is almost as if the republican has said, we are going to limit ourselves to comedians. it is almost comical to give this guy -- they want us to

treat him presidential, he doesn't act presidential. host: james, thank you for calling. guest: i think i was initially on rock 20. anything to stop trying. -- stop drop. i am not allowed to endorse. i agree with james, i'm going to vote for the democrat. i view trump is a unique threat to democracy. i view him as the next essential threat to the american project. support whoever the democrats tell me i'm supposed support. in terms of the primaries, i think there are two competing theories on how you be trump. one is the theory that it is all about turnout. it is about turning out young people, people of color. adding record turnout to defeat a uniquely bad president. that is one theory. put outthat is one

there by bernie sanders. your other theory is that you defeat trump by taking away some trump voters. making things easy for republicans. you don't have to abandon your principles, just get a little bit centerleft and we can get rid of this crazy person in the white house. it is about appealing to the working class. when they are saying working-class they are clearly thinking about the white working-class. that is what joe biden and mike bloomberg are running on. that is why there lane is more fractured. it is about their theory of winning is similar. i think those are your choices. that, even the unique problem that trump is, massive turnout is the only way to go. i fear what trump due to this country if the election -- if the election was close. i fear what he would do.

feel like massive turnout is the way to go. i think the arguments made by the centrists also could work. i don't know, right? if i knew i would be screaming up from the rooftops. this is how you get them! that is why we have a primary. host: delegate count so far bernie sanders, 56. al is on the line for massachusetts. another super tuesday state. caller: good morning. i will be voting for donald trump, but i voted absentee for bernie sanders. i took a democratic primary ballot. host: how come? caller: well, first of all, i believe it was the establishment that has stopped bernie sanders in south carolina, once again. believe obviously bernie

sanders truly reflects the democratic party right now. it is not the democratic party of my father, it is not the democratic party of john f. kennedy. that is for sure. i think many people that are now republicans understand that. john f. kennedy would be a republican today. would be considered a far-right republican today. host: let's hear from jim antle first. guest: a lot of republicans have the view that bernie sanders would be the easiest democrat to beat. they think the fact that he self describes as a socialist puts in beyond the pale. and that could be true. i think, though, donald trump showed that in our current climate it is a lot harder to have a george mcgovern or a barry goldwater than it used to be. if you win a major party nomination you are pretty well-positioned to potentially win a general election. you have large numbers of voters

who will support their party's nominee, for the much whoever that person is. secondly, bernie sanders does offer at least the option of a mixing up the ew strategies for democrats to recapture the white house. turnout versus winning over soft suburbanites who are generally republican voters, what are turned off by trump. there is some ability, i think, on the part of bernie sanders to simultaneously turn out a large number of progressive voters -- more than joe biden, more than joe -- michael bloomberg. but also to potentially compete for some of those rust belt, white working-class voters, particularly in the three states that decided the 2016 election. some of those voters wanted trump to end the wars, change the trade policy, were concerned about jobs.

some of those voters are in play between sanders and trump. that is not something i think elizabeth warren could do. it,biden, if he were to do would be doing it based on personality and past history. host: before we go back to calls, i want to read you something from bernie sanders' texas champ -- campaign chairman. >> we might expect that billionaires and right-wingers would be how let the moon opponents of a wealth tax, medicare for all, and other progressive ideas. democrats too westmark unfortunately, yes. a gaggle of don't rock the corporate boat democrats. in reaction? is the authenticity that people like with bernie sanders. if i was the front runner, i would be in left play nice mode.

it's not how bernie sanders has gotten this far. if i was bernie sanders, i certainly wouldn't take advice for me. there is that. i think i can wrap it in with the last caller, al. why there areon people like bernie sanders and elizabeth warren who do not think people like amy klobuchar and p buttigieg can win. there insitting massachusetts talking about how john kennedy would be a republican today, that shows you just how far gone al is. by the way al, dwight d. eisenhower would be a democrat today. you are not turning al back. if you are not going to turn al, you have to be al. by whatyou beat al is sanders' texas guy is talking about. it is motivating people who are sick of the centrist policies

that are trying to play to both sides, when one side really know what -- no longer wants to play ball. that is his momentum, that is his theory of winning, and that is why so many people who might not actually agree with all of bernie sanders' policies still can talk themselves into feeling like he has the best chance of winning. host: moving on to mike. mike is in miami florida. independent color. -- caller. caller: i would never vote for a demoncrat. bernie sanders, he is not going to win. biden or bloomberg, those are the ones who are going to be the nominee. they have already been selected, those people. they might as well not even have a race. it is about who is elected to keep these other people from going to jail. the russian hoax? i love that.

they say the russians helped on the election. in what way? they got on facebook? thisid we sell all yellowcake to russia and we didn't sell anything to ukraine? we were helping the russians by doing that. the last thing is, the coronavirus. i understand it originated in but -- the middle east? it is called the middle east-something kind of virus? we are trying to get china on our side. i don't know. all of these people talking about people calling names. at least we shouldn't call our own people pony soldiers and stuff like that. i guess it is ok to cut off somebody's head and hold it up and say, hey, look at me. host: mike, thanks for calling. this might be a good time to show a clip from president trump. yesterday at cpac and he talked

about a couple of democratic candidates. there is a look. >> we have two names. we have one is, crazy bernie. he is like a crazy professor. the other one is sleepy joe biden. let's take a poll. we will go biden first. scream like hell if you think i should run against him. is that ok? because we are going to be him. he will would beat? scream like hell. sleepy joe biden. [screaming] >> all right. would you like me to run against him? crazy bernie sanders. [louder screaming] charge me.t

that is going to send me a bill for that. these pollsters, do you ever see this crab? we interviewed 193 people. [laughter] or minus three. you have thousands of people. bill, i will send me a guarantee that. that happened last night too. --y think that crazy bernie how could you be easier to beat than joe? the guy can't put two sentences together. [laughter] >> it is insulting. how can you be easier? he has more down the middle. he's not a communist, right? with bernie there is a question about that. he has a radical democrat people know that. notdifferences, joe is going to be running the government. he is going to be sitting in a home someplace. [laughter]

>> people are going to be running it for him. and they will be radical left socialists. so that is what you have to remember. there is no way he's going to be running the government. host: jim antle. nicknames aside, what do you think the white house is thinking about joe biden's victory? guest: i think what you just heard from the president shows the different strategies that they might look at, depending on who the nominee is. trump has actually had his case -- his success running against a centrist democrat and being able to use some of the centrist aspects of his democratic opponent's record against her. he was able to run against hillary voting for the iraq war. he was able to run against the 1994 crime bill. he was able to run against what were no clintons support for various trade deals. joe biden played a larger role in all of those things.

he would be able to replace some of the same 2016 playbook that he used to some degree of success in the rust belt against a joe biden. bernie sanders would force him into a more conventional left right campaign. on sanders' focus radicalism. to begin to focus on calling sanders a socialist -- which i think you accept. calling him a communist, which i think he would not accept. it becomes a different style of campaign. in both cases he clearly previewed that by then, to the people -- to the degree people view him as the middle-of-the-road, he is going to undercut that by saying biden will not be running the government. the same kind of radicals around bernie sanders would be running the government. it definitely will be a different focus. sanders can take some of those issues trump used against hillary clinton and compete with him on those issues.

he also has the risk of being scary to some suburbanite voters. biden is going to run on personality, but the anti-hillary playbook works a little bit better against him. nation,ie mystal of the take us back within the democratic party. is the best approach right now for democrats to attack president trump or attack each other? what is the best move heading into super tuesday and beyond? guest: i thought from the beginning that the best thing to do would be to keep the campaigns focused on donald trump. he is the crazy one. he is the problem. let's remember who we are fighting. granted, you have to distinguish yourself from the other people on stage. this is a large primary field to start with. i understand why that didn't happen or hasn't quite happened to this point. certainly, after super tuesday i expect going forward all of the campaigns that are remaining will become more and more

focused on the menace in the white house. i think that would be better for the democrats. in terms of what is better for trump, who trump wants to run against, i think i'm somewhat in the minority in the democratic party that i don't care. what thiso not care psychopath, who he thinks is better for his whatever. he is a carnival barker and i don't care which bearded person he wants to show off at his freak show. i think the democrats have a message. i think there are different stages, but the democrats are going to stick on that message. trump is going to throw whatever he can into the gears. he is going to try to get people off balance as much as he can. , will generally ignore his trump's desires and simply focus on my desires, my people. what i'm trying to bring to the

kountry and let trump haw whatever he is talking. a half-houre about left with our guest. our guests are elie mystal, who was up in new york. he justice correspondent for the nation. antle, d.c. is jim editor of the american conservative. our next caller is david. her credit caller. caller: thank you very much. my perspective is this. the one thing the democrats -- i am a proud democrat -- the one thing i think they really need to take a look at is the fighting among themselves. this will never work. putting one person down to build themselves up will never work. it is a negative. we are fighting against a

,remendous power and that power being that i am a minister, what i battle is against is the good against evil. it is no middle ground. there is no fence to ride. it is the fight between good and evil. republicanhat the has been taken over by satan himself. sad to say. it is so sad to see it happen, but it is. and the republican party have to ,ealize whoever they support they own that. half of this country -- almost half of this country owns people. evil.s it gives us a perspective on where this country is headed. the nation that turns from god will be turned into a -- into hell. that is where we are headed.

the democratic party, i believe is the better of two people. i think you so much for taking my call. from joe.s hear republican. hello there. caller: love c-span. been calling for 30 years. i want to give your cast, we have been meeting here with a lot of national leaders. here is the formula for the biggest win in history. you have the 28 million small businesses. host of them are going to support trump. you have thousands of small towns like where i left. we went 85% for trump. have got the talk show host like sean hannity and rush limbaugh, they're going to be pushing for trump. last, you have stockholders like me who have had great years. i have talked to so many year -- people who have done extremely well in the market.

also we have got some great new candidates running like marjorie greene and rich mccormick. we are going to take over the house, we are going to increase our majority in the senate, and donald john trump is going to win the biggest landslide in history. i'm so fired up, paul, i'm having a hard time sleeping. host: joe from georgia, thanks a lot for calling. it's talk about what some of our guests are writing. from joe,eing said jim antle, you have written, what happens to the conservative alignment if trump is defeated? >> there has been a lot of talk since trump was elected about moving away from the libertarian approach to economics. moving away from the neoconservative foreign policy perspective. it led to things like the iraq war. maybe some fracturing of the

pro-free-trade consensus within the party that has existed since ronald reagan. what happens to any of those things if trump is defeated? to some extent, particularly if bernie sanders is the nominee, some of those issues are going to be co-opted by the democrats. there is going to be a reaction among republicans to do whatever the opposite of the democrats are doing. there also destined to be more of a opposition to government spending and government growth in general, or the libertarian approach never democrats have been president in recent years. we have seen this so libertarian moment during part of barack obama's presidency, the tea party. insaw that kind of reaction 1994 after bill clinton was elected. certainly if you have a socialist president, i think there is going to be an inclination to move back in that direction. maybe it is different if it is a

michael bloomberg or joe biden, but a lot of the shifts that we are seeing among conservative intellectuals -- and to a much lesser degree among republican politicians, we have seen josh hawley, maybe matt gaetz -- well those things start to erode if trump is defeated? if trump loses a lot of the things associated with him will be associated with losing. therefore, ambitious republican politicians are going to want to move in a completely different direction. host: elie mystal in new york. he said that all of this is about the court. you have posted a piece that the nation that says if we don't perform the supreme court, nothing else is going to matter. there are three branches of government, right? one can imagine a democrat beating this bigoted misogynist in a landslide. one can imagine those coattails being strong enough to carry a majority of the u.s. senate,

giving democrats control of the house, the senate, and the white house. even in that scenario, at the end of the day, every major policy proposal put forward by any of the democratic candidates -- with a hard left candidates come up with centerleft candidates, they l.a. their candidates -- any of the major proposals well run up against john rogers -- john roberts and his conservative majority. a supreme court that is buttressed with an illegitimate justice. in allegedly rapist justice brett kavanaugh, who has no moral standing to be on the court. those justices can be reliably -- to vote -- to vote down any democratic policy proposal there is. if democrats don't have a plan for that. for reforming more changing the construction of the supreme court, and they don't really

have a plan. i have written about the various plans about corporate form. one of the things i bump into a sides on the republican that the court is a winner for them. their voters will show up for the supreme court in the a way that progressive voters never have before. i think that is a fight that progressives need to be ready to have. that showslling battleground states coming out strong for court reform. does not make people more likely to vote for trump. does not make people more likely to vote at all. i think the narrative that democrats can't fight about the court is wrong. they don't is, if fight for the court, they are not going to get anything they propose. post atu can read that the nation.com. james antle anything you want to

react for -- two? guest: a lot of conventional conservatives who had misgivings about trump, some voters who were on the fence about whether they were going to turn out certainly supported trump because they thought he was going to put conservatives on the supreme court. conservatives, particularly social conservatives, evangelicals, have viewed the courts as a major polling issue for quite some time. it has been a major motivator that keeps them in the republican column. i think certainly you might be beginning to see progressive voters, progressive activists be similarly motivated on these issues, particularly after anger, this appointment over gorsuch and brett kavanaugh being confirmed after mayor garland not getting any confirmation hearings. after decisions like citizens united. these things could be major

motivators for progressives the way that it has been for conservatives, dating all the way back to the warren court. certainly since decisions like roe v. wade. host: back to phones. surely, thank you for waiting period democrat. thank you for taking my call. i am for vice president biden. i am glad to see he made a comeback a little bit last night. , think bernie sanders is just he is about as ridiculous to me as trump. views on giving everything free. i don't think our country can afford that. and there is an -- there is another thing people i don't think have thought about. say he did win the presidency and everything he wants comes to be and everything is free.

think about the millions from the third world countries that is going to flood into this country because everything in america is free. the actual citizens of this country. it will finally get so crowded we may not be able to find a place to lay down at night and sleep. host: x for calling. react to that third world comment. guest: so, the first thing i would say to shirley is, why doesn't that happen in germany? doesn't that happen in denmark? why isn't there a flood of third world quote unquote people flooding countries that have the social programs bernie sanders is touting? the reason why it doesn't happen is because it doesn't happen. people generally want to stay where they are. people generally like their homelands. there has not been evidence at

all that any of our social programs are a major motivating factor for immigration. what the evidence shows is that our history of opportunity, of ,ob creation and education those of the motivating factors for immigrants and not a social program like medicaid or social security, which are two of the hugest government programs in the world. they don't come for social security. number two, it is the replacement theory. it is funny that -- scary to me that surely is a self identified democrat. this theory is straight out of stephen miller's talking points. that somehow all of these third wallpaper like going to flood the country and there will befor regular americans to lay down their head? has surely been to montana? there is lots of space. there is lots of space for all of us.

all of us can fit in this giant continent of a country. replacement theory is just wrong. there is no evidence for it. it is not going to happen. shorthand thaty she used for the sanders campaign. everything is free. that is not what he is offering. that is not what he has pushing. he is pushing debt forgiveness. he is pushing making health care human right as opposed to a political foot. -- football. the way he pays for it is taking all of the money trump has redistributed to the wealthy class to his tax cuts, he is going to take all of that money and distributed somewhere else. toward social programs and social services. jim will say that the numbers don't add up, and he's not quite wrong. we don't know exactly how every dollar and sent is paid for. however, i don't see why we are holding bernie sanders to a higher standard of paying for

his programs then we held the president trump, right? u.s. president trump how he was going to pay for his programs, i believe it was mexico that was going to fix everything. if trump can run a presidential campaign talking about how a major infrastructure project is going to be paid for by a foreign country, i think bernie sanders can run a campaign saying his social programs will be paid for by redistributing the fiscal tax burden. host: let's get a quick call from mike. hey, mike. thanks for taking my call. sometimes i have to mute the tv. you're not always right. like agree on the last point. people don't ask how we are going to pay for wars with the money. why has no one mentioned that 50 plus polling sites were closed for the

primary yesterday? that was a big factor. msnbc, nobody.n, any black christian that votes for biden, the author of the crime built that put mass incarceration on steroids is out of their mind. this guy lied about being arrested in south africa. he lied about sitting in for the civil rights movement. he jumped all over bernie for and theirut cuba literacy program. something that obama said word for word, almost. this is home cooking at its best. host: mike, thank you for calling. i want to bring jim antle back into the conversation. , bringto point out first coronavirus into the conversation.

of course, there was the first u.s. debt announced yesterday. -- debt announced yesterday. goldman sachs adjusting zero earnings growth for u.s. corporations in 2020. they have updated their earnings model to the likelihood that the virus becomes widespread. lower demand for u.s. exporters, disruption to the supply chain. slow down in u.s. economic activity and elevated is this uncertainty. what does coronavirus mean to the country right now and to the presidential election? guest: obviously, if we have a pandemic and the public doesn't view the administration's responses being effective that is going to be bad for the president. certainly we saw how hurricane katrina affected public perceptions of george w. bush's competence and his presidency. it certainly would be bad in

that regard. also if you have an economic slowdown, that is potentially fatal to the president's reelection prospects because of a very major factor in his competitiveness in this race is the fact that the economy is growing and that unemployment is relatively low. the public confidence in trump's handling of the economy is far higher than his job approval rating or his personal favorability ratings. i think particularly against someone like bernie sanders it is having a good economy is a really good firewall, potentially, it would make a vote for sanders seem particularly risky. it would make people worried about their 401(k), their stockmarket market portfolio. and whether the low unemployment and economic growth is going to continue. if those factors are taken off the table because of coronavirus, becomes a problem. host: elie mystal.

that news conference with the president and his team. what do you make of the response so far to operations for this coronavirus coming and what do you think it should mean to the election and what the democratic candidates are saying? guest: jim head on this. ishink the confidence here now a weak point for trump. seriously,s them everybody knows that he is not a competent person. that is not what they like them, that is not why they vote for him. an dangers of having obviously incompetent person at a time of crisis early highlights the fundamental week as of the trump administration. the things i'm most worried about -- it was a couple of colors ago that was spreading a little bit of misinformation about the virus -- it is frightening that live in a world

where so much damage has been done to our institutions and the terms of trust fullness. it is hard to know who to believe at a time when getting correct information is the most important thing. you usually believe the government in these situations, but trump is running the government and he is the president that has like the most of any president, ever. there is also the fact that he has cut funding for the cdc. he has left the national security person for pandemics, he left that position vacant. he is running most of the government with acting secretaries instead of confirmed cabinet members. the lack of institutional the most terrifying thing about the virus right now. you don't know who to believe. that trust that you are supposed to have in your government, that is what trump can never get back. there was no response he can do to restore the three years he

spent ruining his trust among the american people. there is nothing that can be done about that. so, and he is doing it more. just yesterday was the first day i think he got to the full day without calling it a hoax. yesterday was the first day he got through an entire day without calling it a hoax. that is where we are, and that is very scary. host: jim antle, is the president and his team being treated fairly? guest: i think we have a lot to process before we get every action. clearly the concerns people have, the view that whether you want someone like trump handling is a reallythink, important question in this election. premature to judge the administration's reaction to this. the fact that we are doing this in the middle of a presidential

campaign means that trump is going to be very closely scrutinized. trump is very quick to accuse others of unfairness toward him, which i think is what he is referring to and talks about the hoax. not that the virus doesn't exist, but that him being blamed an the virus or blamed for incompetent response before we really know the fullness of detail what the government response is going to be. clearly this is going to be a political football. and there is a lot riding on this for trump. if trump gets out of this relatively unscathed i think it will reinforce his view that everybody piles on him and nothing major and stop happening. clearly if this is mishandled in any significant way -- wrinkly, for things get bad and it isn't even the fault of the government response, it is going to be detrimental to his prospects. host: time for a few more calls.

mark from charlotte, north carolina. republican. a obama republican. --do you thinkit if they give the nomination to biden at the convention because no one has a majority, do you think the sanders people, the young people simply will walk away and not voted all like they did in the last election? host: elie mystal, what do you think? guest: i'm going to be covering milwaukee this year. sanders walks in with a plurality of delegates but not the majority him up but doesn't walk out the nomination, i'm going to be putting my money in asbestos stock. be bad.that would i understand the rules. i'm not saying it is on any candidate to not follow the rules or dropout. i don't think that is fair to

them. they are following the rules. a result where sanders has won the majority -- a plurality of the delegates, has won a plurality of the vote but somehow gets the nomination -- i don't want to say stolen, gets the nomination ruled away from him, i think that would be bad. but it result in the young people walking away? i don't know. unique we are in the time, facing a unique threat. i do not think there was a lot of evidence that young people are the reason why trump beat hillary clinton. i don't think that is supported by the statistics. i think young people voted like they usually vote. i think they will vote in this election like they usually vote. therening is the nominee, is the chance you have surprising young turnout. but fee is not the nominee i think you can expect the normal youth turnout you would get in

an election. i don't think it is fatal for conventions shenanigans to happen. this is something mitchum said at the beginning of this program. i was on air, i was on radio with a lot of people who told me , oh, thank god we got trump. jeb would have been a problem. be careful what you wish for, right? if you look at bernie sanders and the movement he is building, to say that that is not -- and if he is winning -- to say that that does not deserve to be the democratic nominee is itself dangerous and antidemocratic. if you really thought the bernie sanders was a problem, your option is to beat him in the field. there are still elections and primaries happening. if you don't want bernie sanders, beat him, democratic party. if you can't beat him in the

field and you can't give him the nomination by fiat at the convention. i don't think that would be the right move. host: let's go to mark in fort lauderdale. caller: hello and thanks to c-span. i am a newly registered democrat. i did not really call about political things. actually, to get off the political subject for a second, i would like to address my question to elie mystal. his last answer demonstrated what i am calling about. hopefully you won't get offended if i say that you are at least slightly animated in your manner. me a lot, because i can be that way when i get into discussions of politics with people around me. sometimes it leads me into slightly troublesome situations. and,et to stay on tv

obviously, you have heavy responsibilities and good jobs and do important things and all of that. could you please tell someone like me who is similar to you in that manner of demeanor when getting in a discussion. how is it that you are not -- you do not get yourself in are so animated without causing troubles? host: anything you want to say that? guest: speak your truth, man. people appreciate authenticity. people appreciate -- people can tell when you are flying and they can tell when you're speaking from the heart. people generally appreciate that whatever i'm saying, i am saying it because i believe it. host: jim antle, let me bring the afghan conflict into the conversation. yesterday the u.s. and taliban signed a deal. about? this finally come

what are the concerns that are out there and does this play to the presidential race? host: i think it plays into the race a lot. the president campaigned on ending in this wars. so far we have not seen any of these wars and. the military footprint in the middle east is larger than it was under barack obama. i do think that that is at least a factor in why the president has been so committed to these talks. the reality is, we have been trying to negotiate for a way to extricate ourselves from afghanistan for years. have been willing to talk to the taliban. i think the fact that it's a republican president has made it more politically feasible because republicans would have generally said that if a democratic president was talking to the taliban that this was a capitulation, but this was a

concession to terrorists, letting the terrorists win. you are going to hear -- and we have already heard some of those comments about this existing peace deal from republicans and also from democrats -- was going to be a lot of focus on the bad things that are going to happen in afghanistan once believe and if we leave. the question though is, especially after the publication of the afghanistan papers is, what actually are we accomplishing in afghanistan at this point and this winning look like? i think a lot of us feel the things we could have actually to were won by the mid thousand, late 2000 and that everything we are trying to win turningluding afghanistan into a liberal democracy is impossible. host: ryan, salt lake city. caller: i want to give eli a little history lesson.

kingreat martin luther forced lyndon johnson to give blacks the right thing. -- back then. rights back then. you had the wall streetof the b. they were doing great. the paper guy on the other hand always comes to the media on the white side and says how can i sell papers? there is a black guy in the elevator running an elevator on the white side. this girl gets in with a corn on her toque, her toe hurts bad . he accidentally steps on it, she beats the heck out of him with the purse. he goes to the cops. what happened, sir? i didn't know this lady had a corn on her toque, i stepped on her foot and she started beating the hell out of me. the cop asked the lady, what happened? i had a corn on my foot and he

stepped on it. all of a sudden the black guy raped her in the elevator. there is your hands out don't shoot lies that goes through history. the racist, woodrow wilson, he is the worst president we've ever had. he started the history of was.ca in 1863, i think it it was the whig party. the republican party was started with 130 black politicians and 40 white politicians. that is part of the history nobody ever tells. host: i will let you go. do you want to respond to anything you heard? guest: no. i watched the watchman, it was a really good show. the: how obama could alter

2020 presidential race for joe biden. he makes the point that the kennedys at this point in the race, right after south carolina, that is when they endorsed barack obama instead of hillary clinton. what do you make of president obama getting involved in the race at this point? guest: i don't think that would appropriate. ted kennedy was a sitting senator, not a former president. obama has the responsibility to whoever the democratic nominee is and it will be easier if he hasn't made an endorsement to this point. one of the most instructive parts of why you want ex-president to stay out of it is you look at bill clinton in 2008 with obama. obama beat his wife. we knew that clinton was but clintonillary, went wherever obama asked them

to, he didn't like it, but he did it. that is the responsibility that obama has in this election. i think he can be more effective in that role if he stays out of it until we have a nominee, until we get to the convention. one last call. good morning, john. i am a democratic person of faith. in terms of the race needs to start from human dignity. then we have to remember, for me , i think a lot of the people, politics is about service to the common good. do is we look at each one of these policies through those lenses. then in terms for the democrats, quit attacking each other. these attacks do nothing.

trump withthe donald his attacks ad hominem, sleepy joe, and so forth, that is repugnant to me. that is not political. that is like getting down in the -- he talks about draining the swamp. that is getting down in the swamp. there is no need for that because politics is about service to the common good. and human dignity, not individual human dignity, the individual and collective human dignity. host: that is our last call for this segment. do you want to wrap this up saying what you are looking o super tuesday and beyond. guest: it will be interesting if south carolina matters at all for super tuesday and what win havell joe biden's on mike bloomberg? he has been on the air with ads

tuesday states. he is gone from the zeros to the teens in many states in his polling positions. not favor to win many, but he has had a disastrous debate performance, mediocre debate performance, there has been scrutiny of his record, a lot of it led by elizabeth warren, and now we have a bit of a bounce back by joe biden. does this affect bloomberg, or divide biden and bloomberg begin to split this interest vote in a way that people thought sanders and warren were going to split the progressive vote? the fact remains that for the carolinanless south helps joe biden raise a lot of money, he is not well-funded. bloomberg has quite a lot of money, which is an incentive to stay in the race. host: final thoughts this morning? guest: latinos, latinos,

latinos. the fastest growing minority population in america. if sanders can bill daley tino coalition -- latinos voted for hillary clinton 66% in 2016. if bernie gets about to 75% texas is in play. i i am looking forward to seeing if he can keep and build upon that coalition in the super tuesday states. that could be the game changer for the election. host: thank you for joining us in new york. editorthanks to the of the american conservative. thank you for joining us. short timeout then come back and talk more politics, get your reaction to south carolina, look ahead to super tuesday. here are the numbers to call.

.emocrats, (202) 748-8000 republicans, (202) 748-8001. .ndependents, (202) 748-8002 voters in south carolina, (202) 748-8003. on this week's segment we talked with jake the government of massachusetts and the republican of oklahoma about efforts to reassert congress's congressional authority from the executive branch.there is a hearing this week on that topic. in this clip, cq magazine's deputy editor asks tom cole if part of the problem with the loss of congressional authority is refusal to compromise on key policies like immigration. >> isn't part of the problem here that congress has failed to compromise on important policy issues?

immigration.ple congress has failed to act on immigration policy. as a result you have president obama implementing deferred action programs to provide legalization for some unauthorized immigrants. now you have president trump declaring a national emergency to build a wall. trying toents are deal with important policy issues. congress could pass a law? >> that is an important criticism of the institution, the unwillingness to cast votes. i will tell you, i used to be a pollster for the living -- for living. the american people need to look at this, too.no one gets awarded for compromise anymore.if you're not willing to vote for people willing to cut a deal, if you will, to get something for

everybody, if you cast those people as sellouts and say you have to be a purist, that is what you are going to get. it makes legislation impossible. it is a give and take exercise, finding a middle ground that the majority can agree on. the immigration issue is a perfect example of a problem i think you have to make some tough decisions, go home and be defend them. the same thing is true in any other area. no one is going to get everything they want legislatively. if you do not legislate you open the door for the executive branch to say, you are dealing with this. this is what i'm going to do. i'm sure that is what president obama would argue on the immigration issue. he sent enough legislation up here, he made enough proposals. we had two presidents in a row, bush and obama, that would have signed any legislation bill congress would have passed.

they wanted to work with congress. we didn't muster up the will, republican or democrat, to get that done. that is not on the president. i would hope there is soul-searching in this debate.it is not just we have been robbed power, it is sometimes, as you suggest, we refused to exercise the power we had and have drawn the executive branch into areas that should have been dealt with legislatively. host: we will spend the next 45 minutes getting more reaction to the joe biden victory in south carolina over bernie sanders us tuesday.o super here's a look at what happened in the south carolina democratic primary. 100% reporting now. joe biden wins by 30 points, 38 point 4% victory translating to --ittle more than 25 255,000 votes. bernie sanders, 100 5000 votes.

11.3%, 59,000er, plus votes. he has pulled out of the race. eightuttigieg, eigh point 2%. how this translates into delegates at this point goes like this. bernie sanders has 56. democrats of the 1191 needed. pete buttigieg, 26, elizabeth mike bloomberg, zero, tom steyer, zero, tulsa gabbard, zero. [video clip] folks, as we celebrate in columbia, let me talk directly to democrats across america. especially those who will be

voting on super tuesday. this is a moment to choose the path forward for our party. this is a moment that has arrived. maybe sooner than anyone guessed it would, but it is here. the decisions democrats make all across america in the next few days will determine what this party stands for, what we believe, and what we will get done. me, imocrats nominate believe we can beat donald trump. [cheering] keep nancy pelosi in the house of representatives as speaker and take back the united states senate. join us, our fellow democrats across america, join us. the democrats want someone who

will build on obamacare and not scrap it, take on the nra and gun manufacturers and not protect them, give the poor a fighting chance in the middle class to be restored, join us. if the democrats want a nominee who is a democrat -- [cheering] a lifelong democrat. [cheering] an obama-bident, democrat. [cheering] then join us. we have the option of winning big or losing big. that is the choice. we have to build on the coalition and legacy of the most successful president of our lifetime, barack obama. almostoe biden victory,

30 points. we will see him later today greeting supporters in norfolk, virginia at the 6:00 p.m. hour. we will have an event with bernie sanders a little earlier at 4:30 p.m. eastern in san jose, california. look for other candidates on the networks between now and super tuesday. super tuesday coverage begins at 9:00 p.m. march 3. jose is calling from oregon. what is your reaction to mr. biden's victory? a great victory. i will vote for any democrat that will defeat that bastard we have an office. when he was elected i was in the hospital and i had a brain injury.

it has taken me two years to recover from that. becausee i cannot work i have a brain injury as a procedural. i was very unhappy when he was elected, and i will vote for anybody to get him out of the office. host: thank you for calling. peter in allentown, pa. thank you for taking part in the program. caller: good morning to you. the first comment is the coronavirus issue, i just this morning heard a report that the out ofblower's claims oregon or washington apparently it is being borne out that the responding staff from the federal government were ill prepared and actually put themselves in a position where

virus.uld take on the it moved from there to motels to commercial plane flights. this is going to be a big problem probably for trump, showing the incompetency. as far as biden, biden, sanders, and bloomberg, anyone of those candidates can come to an agreement and announce that, let harris would be there vice president joe co. runner would have a huge advantage. you need to have a woman and you need to have a person of color on the ticket. is as president trump continues to talk about bernie,oe and crazy with ats need to tag him

moron, and that should be repeated over and over. host: peter mentioning the coronavirus. the first u.s. death, travel restrictions from people coming from iran and italy. the president tweeted this shortly -- a short while ago. "coronavirus, in addition to screening passengers boarding from high risk countries or areas within those countries, they will be screened when they arrive in america. thank you." president trump tweeting. there will be several events on capitol hill including the hearing at senate health, the senate health committee on tuesday at 10:00 a.m. eastern on c-span three. federal health officials will be testifying. chris on the line from indiana.

democrat. good morning. caller: good morning. thank you for taking my call. i too will be voting democrat no matter who is there. i think bernie is a good candidate, but i really like joe biden. he seems levelheaded. he is not one who is attacking donald trump, even though donald trump in his rhetoric and hatefulness is horrible for this country, i believe. his party is pillaging this country. the middle class and the poor. from my standpoint. my area of the country, they are not doing any better. there are jobs, but they are not making any money, they are barely surviving. i don't see it getting any better with the republican party, so i will be voting democrat. host: on the line from yonkers,

new york. hey, daisy. caller: good morning. i was curious. toould have loved a response one of the previous callers who said they woke up on saturday and over 100 police stations had been closed in south carolina. i know you moved on to the coronavirus, which is an important topic, but i would have loved to have heard your previous guests chime in about what the deal is with people waking up, going to vote, and being told they had to vote elsewhere. 100 polling stations being closed the day before a big election is a big deal. while i respect south carolina has made their choice, we have to respect they are going with biden, i don't see joe biden winning in the general. i don't see him winning in states that are going to be in

play, wisconsin, pennsylvania, ohio. you know, all of these states that joe biden has a lot of baggage. i don't see him beating trump in those areas where those states where it's going to matter. i wish we lived in a time where every vote matters, but if we are going to go with states where those votes are going to matter and be in play to beat trump, and the name of the game is to be trump, i don't see how joe biden does that. host: to daisy's about the closed polling stations, we did find several stories, including this one. south carolina closes pole stations with little notice, the headline to this piece. they write that the first in the south democratic primary will not have all precinct voting locations open on february 29, they wrote this ahead of time, despite the fact south carolina

has an open primary. greenville county closed 50 two precincts. most will be consolidated and some will be shifted to temporary locations. instead of 151 greenville county will have 118. 100 31 precinct polling places will be relocated. they say consolidating polling stations is a regular occurrence in south carolina and greenville has planned to do it for the first four elections this year. that is part of the writing on this on this particular story. here is a piece of video from bernie sanders following his defeat in south carolina. he was in virginia when he made this comment. [video clip] sanders: what the establishment is saying, with the lobbyists are saying and the political pundits are saying, bernie sanders can't beat trump.

well, to those folks i would suggest look at the last 70 national polls. [cheering] beat trump 65 out of 70 polls. [cheering] ine a look at recent polls michigan, pennsylvania, wisconsin, and battleground states. we beat trump. we are going to beat trump here in virginia as well. [cheering] to winson we are going is twofold. number one, we have the strongest grassroots movement of any campaign in the modern history of this country. [cheering] our campaign has already knocked

on millions of doors from maine to california. , our grassroots campaign does not have a super don't want a super pac. [cheering] when you start taking money from billionaires and millionaires, what you end up doing is serving their needs. campaign, and i want everybody here to be really proud of this, we have received more campaign contributions from more americans as of today than any campaign in the history of american politics. in virginia sanders beach. you can watch speeches from various states, including south carolina, that happened last night on c-span.org.

here is a new york times story, he raised 46 million dollars in february, a record for 2020. 2.2 million donations in the month he started buying ads in states that will vote in mid-march. million. they reserved ads in five states for the sanders campaign that will vote on march 10, including michigan and wisconsin. by far the largest of any 2020 candidate in a single month, but not far from what mr. sanders raised four years ago in his campaign against hillary clinton be collected $43.5 million. lots of money coming in for sanders. the republican line from alaska. welcome to the program. caller: how are you? host: doing well. what is your reaction? you showed cole, who a clip of the one of the

comments he had was about voters being more willing to vote for causes other than just candidates. i certainly agree with him, but i think the biggest thing that i wish all of my fellow countrymen could get behind is national term limits. honestly, i don't think any of it is going to change until we become a citizen government again. host: anything else? caller: that is pretty much it. ja is calling -- jay is calling from sheboygan. caller: thank you for c-span. give me a second and hear me out. a solace fors been me since 1998. in 2001. i cannot thank your voice enough

, just so you know. and then with biden, before anybody begins with biden, i think if i wanted to give you my opinion of biden i think i would need ms. kagan right next to me, and i can't be more serious. and bernie sanders, a universal quantifier. all things 60 degrees. honestly.just and to president donald j. trump's jobs. a little job, a little something to do something ethically, and i know i studied ethics, i know i did study ethics. if i find a job, and ethical job , do they have a human resource department? do they?

what is it? just honestly. i am talking 100 years. secretary of state hillary clinton, who cares about the 1850's? .ust ask yourself everyone. i wish i could really speak my mind. host: thank you for calling in. we have sarah from woodstock, georgia. sarah on the independent line. your reaction to joe biden's win and super tuesday? caller: i was happy joe biden won. as an african-american female, if bernie sanders wins the nomination i will be voting for donald trump. host: tell us why. caller: bernie sanders has been in washington for 30 years and has not accomplished anything. he has a track record of not doing anything.

he is promising a lot of things he will not be able to keep. the african-american community, one of our major problems is a wealth gap. with this socialism, that's not going to do anything to close the wealth gap. for african-americans, that is going to push us down further. host: combine him with joe biden. what do you think? caller: i like joe, but unfortunately i think joe in a matchup with trump, i think joe has a better chance than bernie, but joe will also have a hard time beating donald trump. once you put in the whole nation, whether we like trump or not he has accomplished some things. trump.iness likes we cannot live in a world of make-believe, you know? we will not be able to take all of the money from the rich people.

rich people rule things. with bernie's idea of making the rich pay for everything, that is not realistic. host: thanks for calling. sarah talking about joe biden and bernie sanders. here's another democratic voice from last night. massachusetts senator elizabeth warren speaking to supporters in houston, texas following the south carolina primary results. [video clip] senator warren: with fears of an economic crisis and recession rising, fears of a global pandemic rising, americans must ask themselves, who do you trust to run this government? shown trump has already he is not up to the task. let's talk about who democrats should nominate. i am going to be blunt. this crisis deserves more than a

billionaire mayor who thinks he is rich enough to buy air time to pretend to be the president he is entitled to be president. i mayor whose track record has shown he will govern to protect himself and his rich friends over everyone else. that's a no. crisis demands more than a former vice president who is so eager to cut deals with mitch mcconnell and the republicans he will trade good ideas for bad ones. this crisis demands more than a senator who has good ideas, but whose 30 year track record shows he consistently calls for things that fail to get done and consistently opposing things that nonetheless he fails to stop. host: that is elizabeth warning houston following the south warren in- elizabeth houston following the south carolina results.

a new poll says sanders opens a instantial lead massachusetts, challenging warren on her home turf. massachusetts is a super tuesday state, two days from now. from titusville, florida, democrat as we look at the super tuesday map. go ahead, michael. caller: yes, i wanted to respond. there was a color earlier from pennsylvania. i had to change the channel. so that i could decompress after his call. the gentleman said bernie's supporters are moochers. i would like to correct the gentleman. i am living in central florida. my last job i worked at for nine years. hour until $7.50 an my eighth year under multimillionaire republican

business owner. andrked at $7.50 an hour did not get my first rays until my eighth year of employment under republican floridian right to work. multimillionaire business owner who kept me under those conditions for nine years was myself.her, not i had people coming up to meet week after week after week for nine years telling me they had never seen such a hard worker or a smarter worker in their life. i have two university degrees. i was the only bilingual person in the establishment. in my eighth year i got a raise from $7.50 an hour nine dollars an hour, which still kept me at poverty wages. the multimillionaire republican business owner was the moocher, sir. host: michael from titusville,

florida. ray city in georgia. caller: how are you? host: i can hear you fine. caller: how are you doing? host: fine. thank you. caller: my question is the uys supporting the democrat party, bernie sanders will take all our money and he bankrupted. joe biden never done anything. elizabeth warren lies too much. pete buttigieg, look what he done as mayor. i voted for trump, i will vote again. the reason the other guy said about his wages, because he didn't get no money, is because of all the emigrants here. i am an immigrant, but i am a u.s. citizen.

they do low-wage jobs, they take people's jobs. i am voting for trump. the people who call a sexist's and misogynists are the democrats. i'm sick of it. host: let me ask you. children get killed, i'm talking for someone who lost their son, ok? host: let me ask you a little about your president. he tweeted a short while ago i the coronavirus and additional safety measures he is taking. how do you think he and his team is performing so far in preparing for this virus? caller: well, i believe trump is doing the best he can. i believe china lied about it and they are not saying what's going on. i mean, nobody knows how many people really died over there. they just tell us what they want us to hear. there are more lies going on, and that is my opinion. host: here's the tweet from the hour.ent in the last

the coronavirus in addition to screening passengers boarding from designated high risk countries or areas within those countries, they will be screened when they arrive in america. at the same time, the house and perhaps the senate as early as this week are expected to take up a supplemental appropriations bill. that means they will look at somewhere between $7.5 billion with theillion to deal coronavirus following a request for several billion dollars from the president. we will watch out for that this week. there is a hearing on tuesday, one of many we have been covering, on the coronavirus for the health, education, and c-span3.ommittee on here is the president from the conservative political action politics. [video clip] president trump: we have two

names. one is crazy bernie, he's crazy. he's like a crazy professor. the other one is sleepy joe biden. let's take a poll. scream like hell if you think i should run against him? in other words, because we are going to beat him. who are we going to beat? scream like hell. sleepy joe biden. [screaming] all right. this is would you like me to run against him. crazy bernie sanders. [screaming] charge me. you cannot charge me for that. he's going to send me a bill for that. these pollsters, did you ever see this crap?

we interviewed 193 people with a plus or minus three. you have thousands of people, i got it for free. mercedes will send me a bill i guarantee for a free poll. that happened last night. i did the same thing. they think crazy bernie, how could you be easier to beat than joe? the guy cannot put two sentences together. it's insulting. how can you be easier? he is more down the middle. everyone knows he is not a communist and with bernie there is a real question about that, but he's a radical left socialist democrat. people know that. the difference is joe is not going to be running the government. he is just going to be sitting in a home someplace and people are going to be running it for him. and they will be radical left

socialist. that is what you have to remember. there's no way he is going to be running the government. reaction tog your joe biden winning the south carolina primary and if you want to talk about super tuesday and beyond, that is fine. good morning, linda. caller: i need to respond to a few people. crazy. think bernie is he may not be the best explainer of the programs, but please do go online and see the programs. i think some of the fighting and debate was only necessary because people were saying incorrect things, being taxed 60%. this is nonsense. the lancet report, this is the first year. cuts.here will be

to the woman who said he is crazy and it is our money being given away, it is already our money being given away, the taxes who went to trump. he is the one who is not coherent. he thinks he runs everything, but he picks everyone who was a loyalist, even with the coronavirus. we have a plan to save our borders, more than any immigrants, and it has been vetoed by trump. he waits until the last minute. the military is getting richer. you heard the person talk about working so many years at the salary. i think that is what will propel us forward in the coming months. the average person is not going to keep listening to trump when livelihooded theirs -- their livelihoods have not gotten better. i urge people to go on the website and see fight for your

needs. bernie will be a fighter and he will get things done. trump is lying about the veterans, that was a burning bill that he passed bipartisan to make veterans care more acceptable far from the local va. that is being thwarted right now. these are benefits we have to convince the people in mcconnell states. may the word revolution scares people. bernie did not bring up the thing about cuba or fidel. if they are bringing it up. if you would show statistics as to where we are in the world with education we are below cuba, we are below many countries in health care. we should be leaders. not to be better, but work with foreign powers and with our legislature to get the best for people. host: thank you for calling. i understand the point and your

preference. birmingham, alabama on the democratic line. who do you like? what is your reaction to joe biden's victory? caller: i am very glad joe biden won. i want y'all to do this. first of all, you need to let everyone know how big the turnout was. turnout whenar the president obama ran in south carolina and won. that is how big the turnout was. even the absentee votes were substantially higher than 2016 reaching near 2008. that needs to be told on c-span, because the democratic party -- you can say what you want. we are fired up. andre sick and tired, sick tired, of donald trump and the indecency in america right now. america looks so bad on the

world stage and in america. right here at home. very bad. trump is so disrespectful. he has no respect for anybody. any woman with any kind of decency and any children in her life who would like their kids to listen to something trump is saying and the republican party come the ideas they have -- and i want to say this also. while trump was making his statement at cpac about vice president biden being in a home, he is a senior citizen also. so on my. -- so am i. making fun ofhim our senior citizens. what has america come to? it looks like we are laying down and accepting anything. any kind of trash, any kind of disrespect.

we have children, we have young men who need to be lifted up. this is a disgrace and america needs to wake up. host: gwen from alabama. reporting -- talking about the turnout in south carolina. one story just before midnight last night said well over 500,000 people voted in south carolina, a handful of votes is still being counted. we will see if we can get a better final figure. they said things were approaching record turnout. they also reported a few problems with the new voting machines. official said all of the reported issues are being quickly resolved. a couple of callers have mentioned the closing of polling places ahead of time. they called it consolidating polling places to make the process more efficient, in their terms. alabama is a super tuesday state. 52 delegates at stake.

here is the former mayor of south bend, indiana. pete buttigieg talking to his supporters last night following the south carolina results. [video clip] a mayor whog: i was lived hundreds of miles away from washington in a middle-class neighborhood in a diversity in the industrial midwest. i am offering a new approach. i am offering a nominee and presidency where you can turn on the tv and feel your blood pressure go down instead of through the roof. [cheering] wouldn't that be nice? [cheering] i am offering a chance to turn the page on our broken politics without turning most americans off from our politics.

gatherfering a way to together a powerful american majority, united not only by the income that we stand against, but the vision we stand for. i have seen that majority reaching from the carolinas to california, from virginia to the formerly incarcerated and individual helping youth to the former republican, i love when that happens, who organizes for our campaign. [cheering] it is that coalition, not one faction, that will bring about a future where there is no such uninsured american or unaffordable prescription. raleigh,e buttigieg in north carolina speaking to

supporters. people to shake got 43,400 plus votes. about 8%. he didn't qualify for delegates. he still has 26 total from the previous races. bob from michigan. good morning. on the republican line. caller: good morning. two things. i would like democrats to stop calling in on the republican line. they are making it impossible to get the truth out. secondly, i've got news for the democrats. the big fella is going to stop a mudhole or whatever stiff you put up there. throw someone up there and let the beatings begin. host: yorktown, virginia. virginia is a super tuesday state. hello. caller: good morning. the young lady from alabama said fired up, she is right.

fired up and ready to go. such a good thing beating biden and winning in such a massive way in south carolina. that represented all people. i like the way that biden speaks. i was a republican until obama and biden. they did great things for this nation. he gave me hope. it made me fired up last night to know that we are now going to be represented as a people. not democrat, republican, or independent. biden is for the people. listen how he spoke about last night. he is for the people. it is not having the vision of being able to be strong as a country and having relation and someone educated and represent the white house, our country, in such an excellent way. to show that we as a people are a strong nation and working with

others as well as within our own country. it made me so fired up and ready to go. nothing away from bernie sanders and those, but you really have to listen to biden's speech. what happened last night showed with the people as a party, black, white, asian, latino, what all of us want. we want togetherness. we don't want to be separated. we don't want to be critical of anyone anymore. i challenge everyone to stand together and let's get behind america toet back being true americans. host: calling from yorktown, virginia. mike bloomberg and sanders competing visions for ousting trop. this is a washington post headline from virginia. both were in northern virginia yesterday. they point out the sanders rally

in the late afternoon in springfield was more energetic with thousands lining up to enter the fieldhouse of the sportscenter and some parking a mile away. inside a reggae band warmed up the crowd and cheering supporters greeted people as they walked in. the former new york mayor opened his day addressing an older crowd of hundreds gathered for women for mike rally in a ballroom in mclean. claiming he had the resources and appeal to win moderate and republican voters. they point out that virginia is one of the 14 states for super tuesday's contest and the fourth largest behind california, texas , and north carolina. virginia will award 99 democratic delegates. east haven, connecticut, republican, hi, diane. caller: thank you for allowing me to speak on your show.

i have a couple of quick bullet points to make. i believe your caller was from brooklyn. countryy came to this from south america, a socialist country, in 1957. they paid for everything to get here and become americans. the thought someone would embrace bernie sanders is frightening will stop its frightening. to the woman from i think alabama, the senior citizen who said a woman who supported president trump was basically morally corrupt, i am supporting him because of my values and principles, and i am tired of democrats looking at me or giving an opinion like i am less of a woman because i support this president. i was a registered democrat my whole life and so was my family. we are no longer registered democrats. we don't like what the democrat party stands for today.

my life is so much better with this president. i lost my husband four years ago and i was left with nothing. this president has made my life that are financially with the job paying me more money than i ever made. i don't understand how this economy and job market that is doing so well is -- it is almost like they hate the fact we are succeeding right now. whether you like him or not, you don't have to like him. look where the country is today. not all of us have college degrees. some of us are working class and it was difficult to make ends meet. joe biden is not what we the people want. we voted for president trump. there is no divide unless you listen to people like biden, sanders, and warren. it is about race, divide. when we stop that kind of rhetoric and become people,

become americans, that is when this country will embrace what america stands for. i have no disrespect for anyone. they can vote for whom they choose, but i will never ever become a member of the democratic party with the chaos and ridiculousness i see going on in that party. i'm voting for president trump. host: paul from the midlands in england. caller: hello. president that makes the country proud is what you want, any sort of president. timeer gets that next we'll deliver that, i'm sure they will for the next four or five years, whatever. this is the greatest country ever. what a president has done for countries, and stands up for other countries is what i want.

.ost: thank you for calling here's a map of the super tuesday map. the super tuesday states include maine, massachusetts, vermont, virginia, north carolina, tennessee, alabama, arkansas, minnesota, oklahoma. the delegate rich states of texas, oklahoma, colorado, utah also voting on tuesday. there will be a caucus in american samoa, one of the territories. more campaign coverage today. we will have bernie sanders later today from california, san jose at 4:30 p.m. eastern. we will have joe biden a little later as well. then we have president trump tomorrow, another rally to show you in charlotte, north carolina will stop you can watch that at 2.0 p.m. eastern on c-span here is senator klobuchar last

night in charlotte, north her electionowing results yesterday. [video clip] senator klobuchar: we know we are not going to out divide the ief, but we know we can bring dignity back to the white house. when i talk to people and we need to build a blue wall of democratic votes around states like north carolina and the midwest, and when we build the blue wall it will be so great in the next election in 2020, and we are going to make donald trump pay for it. [cheering] one of the things i find when i talk to people who may be voted for him or stayed home is they get tired of his whining. it might not be the first thing you think about, but they are tired of it. he blames everyone. he blames barack obama, the fed chair he nominated, the generals

blamedands, and he once the entire kingdom of denmark. who does that? he even blamed the prime minister of canada, one of my favorites, for cutting him out of the home version, the canadian version, of home alone 2. that is a true story. more story about california in politico. inen's surprise ray of hope california. the news suggests bernie sanders a silver but there is lining emerging for joe biden in the biggest prize on the board. second finish in nevada could have compelled californians who have been voting to support a moderate alternative who was doing better at the time. a huge number of them have not voted yet. the portion of return ballots is

lower than recent elections and his campaign is counting on the late surge of support after his dominant performance on saturday. a lot of folks are holding their early ballots and will vote on tuesday. we will round the program with a few more calls. pat eldridge, iowa. caller: good morning. hello? host: you are on the air. what would you like to say? caller: clinton did not pick sanders as her running mate and got beat. the winning ticket would be biden and sanders together. trump would be gone for sure. thanks. host: jackie from north carolina, one of the super tuesday states. jackie is a democrat. give us your reaction to joe biden's win in south carolina

and what you are looking forward to in your state to the north. caller: i am surprised he did as well as he did in south carolina, because i, for the first time in my active political life, really don't see anyone that is representing me. our candidates we have, all of them, of all of them none of them are perfect. we shouldn't be looking for someone perfect. we should be looking for someone that understands america should be ashamed to have laws on the human and takes a makes him a human again, or gives a human rights. that should be embarrassing to america to have on the books.

host: i'm sorry, go ahead and finish. caller: that is something dividing our country, you know? who gave who the right to make soeone less than human, much so that we have laws on the books that give you rights as someone else already had? host: you said none of the democrats in the field speak to you. do look forward to that changing? what will you be looking for from these folks in the next couple of days and beyond? caller: i am not looking for anything from these folks because they are misguided in the fact they need to understand race that the human needs to be taken care of. not a democrat, not a republican, but the human race. a candidate running to be a servant to the country should be running for all the people, ok? this division is crazy.

clearlyee no party is the party that anyone is familiar with anymore. host: thank you for your participation. politicsalk more course. and tuesday of tomorrow we will talk a lot about the coronavirus and get updates on the conditions around the world and in this country, the search for a vaccine. there will be a potential bill of several billion dollars from congress this week to fight the coronavirus, so a busy week as usual. our super tuesday coverage is 9:00 on tuesday. we thank everyone who phoned in and sent comments by social media. we will see you back here tomorrow at 7:00 a.m. ♪

2020 democratic presidential candidate senator bernie sanders speaks to voters in san jose, two daysa today, before the super tuesday primary. live coverage begins at 4:30 p.m. eastern on c-span. ♪ our live campaign 2020 super tuesday coverage of the presidential primaries and from 14 states, including alabama, arkansas, california, colorado, maine, massachusetts, minnesota, north carolina, oklahoma, tennessee, texas, utah, vermont, and virginia with candidate speeches

and results. tuesday, on c-span, c-span.org, or listen from wherever you are on the free c-span radio app. >> joining us from the u.s. capitol is the chairman of the house rules committee, congressman jim mcgovern, democrat of massachusetts, and congressman tom cole, republican of oklahoma. we will be talking about a hearing taking place on tuesday. billy house covers congress for bloomberg news and shawn zeller, deputy editor of cq magazine. thank you for joining us. congressman mcgovern, i want to begin with you in the news in the past week with the coronavirus, the markets are having their worst week in more than a decade. a reflection of the growing concern over the virus and its economic and health impact across the country and around the world. are you comfortable with the way the trump administration has handled this? has the president done enough to stay ahead of the story?