members are considering four bills from the house foreign affairs committee, including one that would condemn continued violence against civilians in the central african republic. then, in the evening, our campaign 2020 coverage includes the results of super tuesday, which has the remaining democratic presidential candidates competing for pledged delegates in 14 states and one u.s. territory. that gets underway at 7:00 p.m. eastern. on c-span 2, the senate is working on a geothermal research and develop real. at 10:00 a.m.3, eastern, public health officials from the centers for disease control and prevention, the national institutes of health, and the food and drug administration testified on capitol hill about the coronavirus outbreak and the federal response. >> coming up we discuss campaign 2020 on the super tuesday with reporters holding presidential primary -- and states holding

residential primaries. also kyle kondik, the managing editor of "sabato's crystal ball" will talk to us about the developments in the 2020 presidential race. "washington journal" is next. ♪ host: it is the "washington journal" on the super tuesday. biden gaining joe the endorsements of pete buttigieg, amy klobuchar, and beto o'rourke. bernie sanders is looking today and get dashed again delegates from those participating today and hoping to do well in california. this as president trump held a rally in north carolina where he not only talked about the november election but the administration's action on testing and developing a vaccine against coronavirus.

you can make comments on either super tuesday or the u.s. coronavirus response on three lines. 202-748-8000 for democrats. 202-748-8001 for republicans. 202-748-8002 for independents. if you want to text us, you can do so at 202-748-8003. wj can tweet us at c-span and follow along on facebook and facebook.com/c-span. when it comes to our coverage for the results of super tuesday, we invite you to tune ourt 7:00, you can go to website for updates, which has been updated on information on super tuesday and you can follow along on the website and radio app. those are the states that represent super tuesday, 14 states and one u.s. territory that will participate, when it comes to the contest of gaining delegates by candidates.

joe biden was among them, a 48 delegate count. bernie sanders with 56. buttigieg out of the race. elizabeth warren with eight. michael bloomberg, no delegates. tulsi gabbard, no delegates. when it comes to amy klobuchar and pete buttigieg, both of them offering their endorsements to joe biden with both of them pulling out of the race. "the new york times" says it is endorsedse that they joe biden at different events. pete buttigieg's advisors pushed a separate event. mr. biden's campaign and mr. buttigieg's campaign rushed to schedule the appearance with just the mayor and mr. biden. amy yesterday, here is

klobuchar. [video clip] my campaign and enjoy seeing joe -- endorsing joe biden as president. [cheering] [chanting president joe] --[chanting let's go joe] i have a few other things to say. his life has dedicated to fighting for people. not for the rich or powerful, dreamer,he farmer, builder, for the veteran. he can build arc -- bring our country together and build that

coalition of are fired up democratic base, and it is fired andas well as independents moderate republicans. [end video clip] host: that was amy klobuchar offering her endorsement. it will show you others from the various candidates as they go into super tuesday. super tuesday the topic for those three hours. if you want to make comments on that. we have factions in the united states on coronavirus. you to makewe ask those comments today. he'll reporting that lawmakers are providing $7 million in funding to combat the coronavirus. negotiators say they are on the precipice of a deal and are growing concerns about an outbreak of the virus within the united states. the discussions are focused on providing funding to combat the coronavirus according to one source. there is disagreement over

provisions intended to afford a affordability. that is holding up the agreement. republicans are raising concerns that democrat's proposals would interfere with the development of a vaccine according to sources. it also says that senior democratic aides said that they are not advocating price control. they want to include some -- significant funding to purchase large quantities of diagnostic treatments and vaccines when it becomes available, which will be made available to the public without cost. part,t comes to the fda's saying that the u.s. will have the capacity by the end of the week to perform one million coronavirus tests according to public health officials, marking an increase in the number of people able to be tested for the coronavirus after issues what -- with the test villa by the centers of disease control and

prevention may delays. coronavirus and the u.s. response also up for discussion. 202-748-8000 for democrats. 202-748-8001 for republicans. 202-748-8002 for independents. you can text us at 202-748-8003. marian starts us off. aberdeen, north carolina. democrats line. caller: the coffee pot is on and i am getting ready to go vote for joe biden. biden, neverorever trump. i have followed joe biden his entire career. i was living in arlington, virginia when he came to congress, and the greatest day of my life, i have been voting for more than 50 years. the greatest day was election day in 2012 when barack obama reelected,en were

because i knew that we were going to be ok. caller: why joe biden -- host: why joe biden and not the others? caller: i think he is the best. i will tell you that in the 1960's when senator eugene mccarthy was running for the nomination, i was a volunteer for his campaign, and i see the same thing in bernie sanders and understand his supporters and their enthusiasm, but i also want to defeat donald trump and i do not believe in my heart and mind that bernie sanders can defeat donald trump, and he does not have a record to run on the way joe biden does. senator clyburn has said that he will be ready to go day one, and do not forget the mission accomplished celebration in the rose garden when the democrats -- host: thank you very much.

that is marion in north carolina, one of the super tuesday states. rob from new york, hello. caller: thank you, you are doing a great job as usual. i would take biden, bernie, or bloomberg. dream, but ie think bernie should dial back his medicare for all and compromise with most of the democrats who feel that it may be medicare as a public option, medicare for all who want it, rather than his extreme position. if it goes well, if medicare public option goes well, then you phase it in as a transition. if anybody is listening from the bernie camp, the guy is too strong and is turning a lot of people off. i do not understand what part of his brain that he does not get

that a lot of moderate democrats this oninto his strong that position -- strongness on that position. host: you mentioned three candidates, who is at the top of the list of the three you mentioned? caller: definitely bloomberg. elizabeth warren is such a hypocrite. bloomberg was my mayor for 12 years, he is such a great manager. he is a great executive, and the way elizabeth warren, she is a hypocrite because she said the first thing she wants to do is beat trump, and then you have a guy putting his money where his mouth is. he started out early in life, dead broke. the president's parents gave him and his brother and sister over $200 million. bloomberg made it on his own. he is a guy's guy. if he said a few things here and

there, elizabeth warren attacked him, and i was a fan of hers. the way she went after him was small minded. she should be smarter and know that bloomberg is a decent guy and a great executive and would be an unbelievable president. host: that is rob in new york talking about michael bloomberg. the market watch rep -- website shows some of the spending of those candidates of the five hopefuls leading into super tuesday states. michael bloomberg spending $217.4 million to date, bernie pending $16.13 million. pacsbeth warren super spending just over $9 million. no spending charted by joe biden or tulsi gabbard. on our republican line. william, florida. you can talk about super tuesday

or the coronavirus response. go ahead. caller: yes. i'm going to preface by saying mega hatsr one of 25 that the old man gave out in the oval office. and i think tulsi gabbard. -- tulsi think calls gabbard what? caller: i think she should stay in hawaii and in four years she can run as vice president for mr. penn's. host: why do you think she would be a good meeting with mike pence. caller: because she is levelheaded. she has her feet on the ground. she has to be a republican, she cannot be a democrat all the time. host: that is william. we heard a couple of callers talk about bernie sanders. he himself talking about the changes he is seeing in the democratic field and what it means for his contest. here he is. [video clip] >> before i begin, i want to

mention to you what i think all of you know. you know that your senator, amy klobuchar, dropped out of the presidential race today. [cheering] and, you know, i have known amy for a long time. we came into the senate together in 2006 and she is one of the hardest workers that i know. i like amy. [cheering] yesterday, pete buttigieg dropped out of the race as well. [cheering] and, as you all know, pete's campaign was a historic and brave campaign. he is the first openly gay candidate for president of the united states. [cheering]

want to open the door to amy and pete's supporters. [cheering] that there are political differences, but i also know that virtually all of amy and pete's support understands that we have got to move towards a government which believes in justice, not greed. [cheering] and, that our government must be of economicnciples justice, social justice, racial justice, and environmental justice. [cheering] so, to all of amy and pete's millions of supporters the door

is open, come on in. [end video clip] host: we will hear from trina, warsaw, indiana. independent line. caller: good morning. i would like to comment on bernie sanders. i do not believe that he can win against donald trump for the presidency. openlicans have been very and clear that they will not vote for someone who calls themselves a socialist. to ignore that and say that bernie has everyone hyped up and they are excited about him does not matter when you are in the general election. they will not vote for a socialist. bernie, andll beat it will be kind of hopeless to put him as the candidate. i do like joe biden. michael bloomberg, he always --

we have already had a businessman in the oval office who did not know anything about foreign policy, and that -- and some will say that did not work out so well for us. there has been a lot of confusion the past three years, so i do not think michael bloomberg is a good idea because he does not have government experience -- he is not educated enough, that is what i am saying. i will probably get some grief for that. host: let us hear from mike, another state that has part of super tuesday, north carolina. republican line. hello. areer: good morning, how you? a couple of observations. it is really entertaining, i guess is the best word, to watch how the democrats did pull off an exit glint tactical -- excellent tactical move getting

amy klobuchar and pete buttigieg, and tom steyer to pull out before super tuesday. morereally is one of the -- one of the morning shows was commenting about the emotions and they have been at this for months. and millions of dollars spent. democratstablishment are definitely afraid, they are afraid of bernie sanders. they know pretty much that you do not have to be a political expert with his endorsements and continued praise of fidel castro, regardless of whatever literacy program. and berniefoolish, sanders has been a politician do notle life, and i understand why he continues to

go down that road. he is surely not going to get any disgruntled republicans that might be a little bit disenchanted with president trump. it is surely not going to bring in any independents. americansshow that want nothing to do with collect ivist ideologies. and mr. biden, i am not here to rain on anybody's parade. the continued misspeaking of this that, and the other. since been in washington 1973, what has he really done? i wish them all the best. host: that is mike and cary, north carolina. one of the 15 states and one u.s. territory participating in super tuesday. we will hear from more from the course of our time together. we will hear from reporters

joining us and starting off this morning is joe schapiro out of richmond virginia -- richard -- richmond, virginia. good morning. what is the best way to view the commonwealth of virginia when it comes to the candidates running for delegates? guest: this is the only state in the south that donald trump did it is ay in 2016, and state that has been trending blue pretty steadily for a decade now. but, it is a brand of largely democratic politics that is perhaps out of step with bernie sanders. it tends to be more of a center left state. this is why we are anticipating a strong performance by joe mike with perhaps bloomberg having things down a bit for biden. host: how does mr. biden's support get bolstered by terry

mcauliffe endorsing him as well as tentative -- senator tim kaine? steadythere has been a stream of establishment endorsements for biden. and headlinerse, with a lot of local and regional elected democrats as well, and er, whoyer, -- don by supported pete buttigieg, has announced his support for biden as well. host: walked through the process in virginia. 99 delegates are pledged according to information. how do they get proportioned? guest: there is a 15% threshold at the state level, but there are thresholds at the congressional district level. this is why someone like bernie sanders might score a couple of deets in virginia.

the result as well as the overall statewide result. host: when it comes to the primary system, it is an open primary. talk about how that might impact turnout. --st: this is ae all come you all come primary. able to exercise the franchise and show up on primary day, regardless of party preference. one of the things we have seen certainly as party affiliation has become more pronounced in virginia is that there is not necessarily a flood of other party voters into a democratic primary.

we will be watching for that as well, largely because the conventional wisdom in virginia has been, as it has been elsewhere, that bernie sanders is easier pickings for president trump in november, and perhaps republican voters will go into the democratic primary in hopes of listing -- lifting sanders to a win and setting him up for a loss in the fall. host: talk about the candidates themselves and the time they are spending the commonwealth and what they are doing as far as retail politics. guest: south carolina had a big role in what is going on in virginia. in the 72 hours between south weolina and super tuesday, have seen a lot of candidates, amy klobuchar was through on saturday in the richmond area before winding down her campaign. mayor pete was in northern

virginia. andie sanders in richmond south hampton roads as well. norfolk thes in other day. a lot of biden's surrogates have had a high profile around the state and richmond among other things. host: what time do polls close, and how soon do you think results may happen? guest: they open at 6:00 this morning and close at 7:00 tonight. we start seeing some results fairly soon. the richmondnia, area, some of its jurisdictions report pretty early. one of those, chesterfield, while still republican has been pumping out stronger and stronger democratic votes in recent years. that should give us some idea of larger preferences

for the fall. if one had to guess, a candidate such as joe biden biden would do fairly well in a place like chesterfield. host: what are you watching for tonight? guest: there has been a lot of money spent in this state by other candidates, mike limburg, tom's -- bloomberg, and tom in off yearially election. one of the things that we have low whenhat money is it comes to the democratic prime -- presidential primary. host: gesture vero -- jeff schapiro, a columnist for the " richmond times-dispatch." thank you. we will go back to your calls and do not forget the coverage of super tuesday tonight at 7:00. you can start watching our coverage and react to the

results as they come in. follow along on c-span and go to our website at c-span.org. randall in oklahoma city, oklahoma. democrats line. the criticisms of biden are real, those are real issues with people. isator sanders' criticisms -- just will not resonate. communism,ly knows and if you are over 75, maybe that might resonate a little bit, i think vice president biden is about the same type of politician as hillary clinton and that is not quite inspiring. i think senator sanders has inspired a bunch of people. even though i like elizabeth warren, she would make an

excellent vice president. can rally elizabeth has aoops and biden just baggage train of problems. many things that he has been on the wrong side of, so i want to thank you for your program. randall inwas oklahoma city, oklahoma. if you look at real clear politics they have done the round up of polling in super tuesday states when it comes to the democratic primary. by 20.showing joe biden and 15. it goes on from there and some other polling. we want to hear from woodbridge, virginia. sam is next. hello. caller: good morning. what i would like to say is two things. lukens -- youhat,

know that the republicans do not care about the democrats, i do not know why we have to care about the republicans vote what you want to vote for, and forget about if there's is elect -- sanders is electable or not. i would still vote your conscience. about socialism, there is nothing socialist about it. insurance, health care, and global warming. he is not talking about anything communist. i do not understand why we have to go that route. are you -- host: are you going to vote for bernie sanders? caller: i have already voted in the absentee ballot. i think a lot of people will come out like me and we will win this thing. if biden is going to be a candidate, i will not vote, and there is a lot of people like me.

i am not going to vote, so you will lose us again just like hillary. host: so early in the stage you have determined that you will not vote if the candidate is joe biden? caller: or any other candidate. i do not trust any of the others. sanders is the only honest one. i am an independent and there are a lot of people that will come out and vote. the second thing i want to say regarding global warming, let us work from home, that is a big plus. 14%transportation is about of the global warming, all we need is 2% to drop the atmosphere level. host: i will leave it there only because it is not exactly our topic today. democrats,ayment -- republicans, and independents can call in and give your thoughts on the process. especially, if you are in a super tuesday state. 202-748-8000 for democrats.

202-748-8001 for republicans. 202-748-8002 for independents. u.s. territoryne participating. you can see the states on the map, particularly if you are from one of those, of us a call on what you are thinking and who you will vote for. you can talk about the end result as well. you can comment on the u.s. response when it comes to coronavirus. information put out by the white house yesterday, and several hearings taking place on this topic. we invite you to go to c-span.org for more information on that if you want to follow along with what you are -- what is going on there. democrats line. things i want to discuss where a lot of people are drawn to bernie sanders about, and this notion of free college, say

that was to happen, a person nurse,e getting paid, a they would go from $35 an hour to $15 an hour. this is not realistic. i worked myself through college, and i could not myself through that because i did not want that debt hanging over me. and there were millions of people who worked and paid their way through school, and those people feel like it is not fair. cover, issue i wanted to with see a lot of people the economic inequality that has since allis country the high-paying jobs have been shipped out. they are starting to come back, and that is the glimmer of hope

that i see starting -- that americans are starting to be able to make it in america. host: do you think among the democratic field a clear winner will emerge after today? caller: i really hope so. that ift the idea bernie sanders does win and can beat from, that what question -- what? the question is never asked how will you play off of his success. how will you keep unemployment low and taxes low? be able to say what is going to happen if we go down this road of socialism, because a lot of worked themselves through college, like me, and did not take out a whole bunch of loans because they wanted to be able to have a home and land, and things like that, i can

understand why a lot of people are going for bernie sanders. host: let us hear from mike in new jersey. republican line. good morning. caller: good morning. i basically wanted to say that i think the -- it is quite interesting that bernie sanders of then lapping all candidates in state after state, and yet the dnc, it is just opened now that they are trying to stop him. i think it is ironic that the democratic party would have such an undemocratic process by which they are openly talking. you can " "-- you can see it in politico.times" and they are talking about an democratically meddling in our elections and appointing a candidate, even if the majority

of the people decided that they would rather have bernie sanders. they are openly speaking about meddling in it and overturning it in order to appoint someone more centrist like bloomberg, who only bought his way into this election and was not on the ballot when bernie sanders was winning states like iowa, nevada, and new hampshire. host: if that is the case, what do you think about the endorsements from amy klobuchar, pete buttigieg, and beto o'rourke? caller: that proves what the game plan is. it is amazing, it is in the papers, and this is the party that was screaming the loudest about russia collusion and meddling in our elections and that is what the dnc are doing. host: jack is next from mississippi. independent line. good morning. caller: i am an 84-year-old

dinosaur, and a voted for everybody in my life, literally. and i think we deserve a communist like bernie. it will show us what it is like to live under an ironfisted government, because that is what we will get. that the democratic party can change its name to the free party, that would probably work better. host: that is jack in mississippi. president trump in north carolina not only talking about the issue of coronavirus, you can see that whole speech on our website on c-span.org. he talked about two of those opponents as they are battling it out, joe biden and bernie sanders. [video clip] >> look at this, look back there. man.

know, sleepy joe, or bernie, i do not know if they have that much press. bernie was going wild, why would i be here tonight? he said why would i be here tonight, we do not have the primary, we have already won the thing. i heldoing to say, but it back, because they will say he used horrible language. but we are doing fantastically. there has never been a time when the republican party was so unified as it is now. [cheering] never. and you know, you hear about hehusiasm or crazy bernie, does have that enthusiasm, but must less than what we have and a smaller group of people. there is not a lot of enthusiasm for biden.

[booing] i thought he gave up the presidency the other day because he said he was running for the senate. i looked at the first lady and said, he is running for the senate. said supere just thursday. he is looking forward to super thursday. [end video clip] up foruper tuesday discussion and coronavirus response. 202-748-8000 for for democrats. 202-748-8001 for republicans. independent, 202-748-8002. you can text us at 202-748-8003. c-spanwj.r feed is at from michigan, mccrights -- democrats line, go ahead. caller: elderly female voting for bernie for sure, and it is

because he represents the people's policy positions. for too long our leadership, democrats terribly corrupt party that i have been a part of, but is shockingly swept under the rug what they did in 2016, taking tons from the voters donating from bernie -- to bernie. they were so corrupt that they said that we are a corporation, which they are. the dnc is a corporation. they think they can pick the candidate that they want. andrdless, it is a big show bernie has the people's vote going already. , andwise establishment those people are bought and sold. if you are tired of having your tax dollars go to support wars

in the middle east, watched that video. it shows how bought our politicians are, and the pro-liberal israel group is scary. host: when it comes to joe biden , if he emerges with delegates and eventually goes to the convention, what is your response to that? caller: i will be watching the fraud that goes on at the election sites, and watching the big turnover. host: you would not vote for him? caller: probably not, because i do not want that clinton machine -- that clinton-obama machine. look at what they have not done for the people. what have they not done for the people? it has all been corporate policy. host: that is mary in michigan. it will go to maryland, the fast. republican line, john.

go ahead. caller: i think it debt -- it gets down to authenticity. you look at the democratic ticket, the only candidate with authenticity is bernie sanders. warren,n, elizabeth they are all flawed candidates with no authenticity. they will take up an issue that they spoke about in five years and be on a different side of it today. the one reason trump is winning is that he is authentic and stands for what he says and keeps his promises. host: what makes bernie sanders authentic? caller: bernie has been saying what he has been saying for the last 20 years. what amazes me is the guy from patterson haddad on the head when he said -- haddad on the he when het on the head said the dnc wants to take it away from bernie. the democrats only one power.

it does not matter what the issue is, they want power. they will do anything and take down anybody including bernie. downwill take donald -- him and do in the most vicious way. ends up as a contest between president trump and bernie sanders, who will win that and why? caller: trump, because many people in the democratic party will not vote for bernie, and they will do everything up until this time to get bernie out of the race, and all of that history will be in the media, and it will play very badly for them. ist the democrats need to do basically get this out of their system. they should let bernie when, regroup -- win, regroup and come back in 2024. host: that is john talking about

super tuesday. when it comes to activities about the coronavirus. highlightingtimes" the death toll from the state up to six. this is a new york paper, " viruses impact, u.s. deaths rise" and talking about the stock market serving -- surging 5%. he saw the loss related to coronavirus. news"winona daily use -- covid-19 cancels travel. stories about major events being canceled or considered canceled. from "the daytona beach news cases andwo virus florida officials waited 24 hours to inform the public in the daytona beach area. out of california, operating

ac/dc lab to test for viruses. you heard the president talk about the work of the cdc. the vice president doing the same, more meetings expected to take place with visits to nih by the administration over coronavirus. when it comes to hearings, the health education, labor and pensions committee will hold its own hearing to the response of the u.s. government. -- ate that on 10:00 10:00 on c-span3. many people talking about super tuesday and related matters, although if you want to reference the coronavirus outbreak and response you are welcome to do that and our hours together. 202-748-8000 for democrats. 202-748-8001 for republicans. independents, 202-748-8002. we have had several programs available in our library. yesterday's program with dr. scott, former head of the fda

and giving his response. those are some of the things and information on coronavirus and the u.s. response, all of that available at c-span.org. maryland, gaithersburg. this is david, independent line. caller: thank you for having me on. thank you for c-span, i enjoy the seat -- the program and i enjoy you particularly. i think you should moderate the next debate and you could control it a little better. and then, i wanted to respond to an independent that called 10 calls ago saying that he would just sit the election out if bernie was not nominated. i am on the opposite side of the independent because i would actually go out and vote if bernie was nominated to vote against him. i would feel like joe biden or donald trump would be more of the same and really would not change so much, but i would have to vote. host: mike bloomberg does not

fit into that picture? caller: i do not really think he has the chance. he does not have any delegates, and he is not really on my radar. i would have to do more homework if he actually got the nomination. from republican line maryland, northeast maryland. sterling. in morning. thurland. host: sorry about that. caller: that is ok. my opinion on this coronavirus thing is that donald trump has been taking care of this whole thing with the people that he , thead backed up experience that everybody has with something like that, and they are doing better than what everybody is saying, they are

taking care of us, the united states people. isof right now, everybody trying to make this coronavirus rate is going to kill everybody in the united states. it is not. they will find a cure for this where they have every other one. besides, the coronavirus has been around for a long time. if you look on your lysol bottles it says that this will help keep you from getting the coronavirus. host: there were stories yesterday saying that in that case the term does not relate to the strain that we are talking about. go ahead. caller: i understand that that this is a new strain, like all of these other viruses. the thing of it is that regular flu viruses have been killing more people than this thing, and i know the reason is because they do not have the strain down

yet or they can give you the shot. old,an older guy, 66 years going to be 67. i took the flu shot, the one for older people, and i wound up getting it after my wife had it. i thought i was in the clear, that it did not last as long. is -- apologies for mispronouncing your name. senatorh warren, the airing ads in colorado and other super tuesday states. as one featuring president obama. here is the ad. [video clip] >> a janitor's daughter who is become one of the country's fiercest advocates for the middle class. she came up with the idea for a new, independent agency standing up for consumers and middle-class families. she has done it while facing tough opposition, fortunately she is tough.

she understands what i strongly believe, that a growing economy begins with a strong middle class. >> i am elizabeth warren, and i approve this message. [end video clip] host: this is vincent from new jersey, from the democrats line. good morning. i would like to thank c-span for giving me the opportunity of this. i am a strong supporter of bernie sanders on medicare for all, and the reason i am calling is because this coronavirus that is going around like it is and all putting the scare and fear into everybody. i feel that bernie sanders' policy for medicare for all, that we should be in the process for everyone to be recommended all over america for having the remedynt, some sort of

in order to just try and cure us from this deadly sickness. about weybody talking cannot afford socialized medicine, this is the reason why benie sanders' policy should recommended in this country. host: do you think after today that will be a clear picture about the candidate who emerges, and if say it is senator sanders were joe biden, read you fall? i suspect it is with senator sanders. i am with the man 1000%. that does not say that i do not have much love for joe biden, but i have been a strong bernie sanders supporter ever since i graduated high school, and i am 50 two years of age. all of these myths about bernie sanders just bringing in younger

people, that is hogwash. if the candidate is not bernie sanders, we have heard several saying that they would not bother to vote, is that your case? caller: to me, i just pray that this caucus goes on fairly. the man has been cheated out like i do not know what. like bernie sanders said, whoever the candidate be, for us, not me. for us. he said specifically it is not me, it is all of us. by me being loyal to him, if he support goes to joe biden. i am not giving up that easy. host: that is vincent in new jersey and talking about super tuesday. 14 states and all plus one u.s. territory participating.

1357 delegates up for grabs. on of the states, north carolina. joining us to talk about the state and the player, is brian murphy who writes for the " charlotte observer" and "durham herald sun." project what you might see come the end of today? guest: i think the interesting thing is that does the biden momentum carried into north carolina. the state does not have quite as many african-american voters, but the democratic primary does have a lot of african-american voters, that could carry joe biden to victory in the south. early polling shows that joe biden and bernie sanders, and mike limburg are close to the top -- mike bloomberg are close to the top. all of the momentum seems to be on joe biden's side. host: have endorsements helped?

guest: all three democratic members have endorsed joe biden. some of the big city mayors in charlotte and raleigh have endorsed mike bloomberg. it will be interesting to see which carries more weight. host: when it comes to the why's is it his experience or are there other things that make him stand out versus the other two? guest: you will hear a lot of talk about down ballot races. thom tillis is up for reelection , and any path that the democrats have to winning the senate back really runs through north carolina. there are a lot of questions about what a sanders nomination would mean. north carolina democrats are trying to take the house of representatives and senate in the state as well as there is a gubernatorial race. there is a lot on the ballot today. host: how many delegates and talk about the process. guest: there are 110 delegates

the third most behind california and texas. 38 of those ghosts of the statewide winner in a proportional -- goes to the statewide winner in a proportional way. anyone over 15% is eligible. each of the 13 congressional -- congressional districts add up to 72, but they are not evenly proportioned. the heavily democratic districts are worth more delegates. if you win raleigh and charlotte delegates.k up more host: i see it described as a semi-open primary. how does it work? guest: democrats and arefiliated our allowed -- allowed to vote. they are allowed to choose which primary they want to vote in. without much competition for president trump on the republican side you would expect many of them would vote in the

democratic primary. there are a lot of contestant primaries on the republican side for lieutenant governor, governor, and other races so that they -- that may alter decisions about which ballot to pick it up. host: what does history tell us about turnout. guest: they moved the races around. --t time north carolina was the presidential primate was separate from the other primaries. the early vote has been really high, particularly among democrats. close to 800,000 votes have been cast in north carolina, it will be interesting to see how many of those were to pete buttigieg or amy klobuchar. host: does senator sanders make an impact at all? guest: he has done really well with college students. north carolina has tons of college students on the campus of -- and he was on the campus of winston-salem state on thursday.

we went to an event at north carolina central and hbc you. there was a bloomberg rally. lindbergh was not there, but there was a campaign event for -- bloomberg was not there, but there is a campaign event for him. it is interesting to see how much of that college turnout happens. all of the candidate spent a lot of time in north carolina. joe biden was here on saturday, mike bloomberg was here on saturday. amy klobuchar and pete buttigieg had campaign stops in the last week. host: what time do polls close and what time may you expect results? guest: 7:30 eastern. given the 800,000 people who voted early we might have early results from that. however, there is no real telling. durham county has been late reporting votes and that is a huge democratic area. it has been late in previous

elections, so i think we will have to see how turnout impacts how quickly we get the votes. host: particularly, what are you watching for someone who observes the state as you do? i want to see who wins the presidential primary. if it is joe biden, does he sweep the entire south? those african-american voters play a role? and other races including the senate race to show who is the democratic challenger you to face thom tillis. brian murphy who writes for several papers. thank you for your time. back to your calls. another super tuesday state, virginia. brian on the republican line in spotsylvania. hello. caller: thank you for taking my call. i went into votes before heading into work, and i was kind of surprised. as you reported on earlier,

virginia is an open primary state so it does not matter whether you are a democrat, republican, or independent, you can partake. it was all democrats on the ballot, but i was surprised because when i went in there was almost nobody there, and the guy wasking ids at the front, i only the 30th person. it seems to me that on the democratic side of things at least in the southern -- the seventh district in spotsylvania county, turnout will be low. it does not seem to me like the bases that energized. typically ours is a flip-flop district. it went both for republicans or democrats. it is currently held by abigail spanberger. host: if i may ask, you said it is democrats primarily, why are you there or participating? is mr. trump on the ballot as well? caller: he is definitely on the

ballot. i have cast votes in both directions. even though i am a registered republican, as your other scholars have stated. all the strong bernie bowes -- brose i cannot support a socialist competing against president trump. to clarify it, who did you support? caller: joe biden. host: why him? caller: i think he stands more for the true side of the democratic party. a lot of your other callers, we peoplee bernie bros, but out there supporting bernie sanders, he is not a democrat. it is very clear and others have stated about how true he is to his record, and in my personal opinion, he has not accomplished much. he is a no candidate.

his voters always know whether it is for democrats or -- no whether it is for democrats or republicans. ist: just to clarify, if it a contest between the president and joe biden, who do you decide for? caller: i would actually be undecided. host: because? do not i definitely fully approve of a lot of the things that president trump has biden and do like joe his record, i like a lot of his messaging, i would just have to weigh both sides and see how the campaign goes in the general election. brianthat is participating in virginia open primaries. you heard from jeff schapiro earlier this morning. let us go to jason, in maryland. independent line. caller: good morning.

i sense it on the democratic side of things, i think biden and bernie are making the same arguments about the middle class being trampled and the tax break that the republican party now did did not click -- care about the middle class. i think bernie sanders makes the strongest argument. joe biden has the more measured way to get there, and that is what happened. even if bernie sanders could find every dollar to pay for everything that he is proposing. while everybody can get behind universal health care, gets to paying for other things like student loans, 0% loans, great. like some callers have said, that seems unfair to all of us who have either paid ours or worked for service, or did military service to pay back our loans. of the day, i

think both are just kind of two different sides, that they are working the same direction. at the end of the day, democrats will get behind whoever ends up on the ticket. host: including yourself? caller: absolutely. this current president is actually horrible. in texas, one of those super tuesday states. he is calling us from dallas. hello. morning, it is great to be here at super tuesday. i normally do early voting and i decided to wait until election day and i am glad that i did. amy klobuchar was who i was originally getting strongly behind, but she dropped out. it between of nailed biden and bloomberg. i bloomberg.

i like bernie, but it was really disappointed with what happened over the weekend in minneapolis. it did not get a lot of reporting, but the black lives matter activists came in and and pushedmy's rally her off the stage. i was not happy about that. i have filled out my sample ballot. i printed it this morning. i purposefully left the president blank. i am listening and still undecided whether it is biden or bloomberg. a gaffey, biden is machine, but he has been vice president. host: does beto o'rourke's support for joe biden sway you at all? i saw that yesterday. a little bit. i am a huge fan of beto.

a lot of us -- i will just speak for me. i was very disappointed he did not run for u.s. senate again. that is part of the reason i am givinga lot of us -- i will jusk for me. biden a second look, otherwise i would have looked at elizabeth warren instead. beto's endorsement did help. host: there are stories in the paper today talking about parts of texas and as people look at texas trending blue. is this something you are seeing on the ground as a member of the democratic party? caller: yes, yes, pedro. i used to live in a large suburban county north of dallas. now there are democrats willing in thefor judicial races largest county in the state with zero elected democrats. that is how much it has changed. republicans know it. i have heard john cornyn say over and over, do not take texas

for granted. you are right. people are seeing what is happening, especially in the suburbs. it is a true battleground as more people move from california or more moderate states, the republicans see what is happening. host: one of the decisions that will be made today is if there will be a democratic challenger to john cornyn. has that been settled in your mind? yes, i am voting for mj hagar. she is a veteran. she has raised the most money. she will be a strong candidate. the other candidate i like his state senator royce west. he has not raised as much money. the question will be if it goes to iraq, who will be second to run-off, whos to a will be second to mj. host: that is matt, joining us

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>> "washington journal" continues. kondikoining us is kyle of the university of virginia's crystal ball. guest: good to be here. host: remind people about what you do. guest: sen. tillis: crystal ball ---- saba tells crystal ball ball tries toal pick the winners for the governors,ollege, house, and the state of the democratic primary race, which seems to be fast moving and changing. ofare part of the university virginia center for politics. i am based in washington, d.c. host: what is different for the super tuesday? for me, there is a lot

more influx. you had two major candidates drop out in the last day. pete buttigieg and amy klobuchar. there is a real effort from democratic party leaders to send a message to voters that we want you to vote for joe biden. we think joe biden is the better option. we suggest you vote for him. klobuchar and buttigieg dropping out and endorsing biden suggests the threat democratic leaders feel from the sanders possible nomination. i'm not going to tell you they are necessarily right about that . that is what they are communicating. it seems to be having some effect. there have been late-breaking surveys that show biden doing great. states like virginia and north carolina seem like they were close in pulling. biden might win those states by double digits according to some of these surveys. we don't know. you have a big chunk of early votes cast in states like north

carolina, texas, and california. there are probably hundreds of thousands of people who voted for candidates who are no longer in the race. tom steyer dropped out, too. a lot of those votes are going to basically be wasted. it is an uncertain environment. here is another way it is different in 2016, republican leaders did not want donald trump to be the nominee. some of them tried to make that clear, that the republican voters who came to dislike their party leadership said we don't care, we are going to nominate trump. they were right. he won. the republican leaders that the leadership wanted to thousand eight, they lost, and -- in 2008 , they lost, and trump won. democrats don't dislike their leadership as much as republicans do. host: the total amount of

delegates that are available today, what does the path to victory look like for the candidates involved? guest: to me it is south versus north or the rest of the country. the west is part of that. we're expecting bernie sanders to win california. he should win comfortably, although even california is getting closer. although many votes have been cast, a majority of the vote is still out there. in california, so long as your ballot is postmarked today, it will be counted. the california vote count will take weeks. we will not know for a long time who gets which delegates. that is the biggest delegate prize. sanders looks research to win it -- pretty certain to win it. maybe not as big of an advantage as we thought a couple of weeks. elizabeth warren trying to defend massachusetts.

there might be some late movement to warren because of buttigieg and klobuchar dropping out. we have minnesota, amy klobuchar's home state, i think sanders is now favored to win. there,en were to surge that might tell us some positive things about midwest and southeast. where biden is going to be tested. i think that biden could have a decent night without winning every southern state, but i think biden should win every southern state, and that includes texas. sanders has generally been leading there. a lot of early votes have been cast, but the polls are picking up on late movement toward biden. host: we will drill deeper into that. let me introduce folks into the conversation.

(202) 748-8000 for democrats. republicans (202) 748-8001. independents (202) 748-8002. you can text us at (202) 748-8003. if you have questions for kyle kondik about super tuesday, we will take those in a moment. guest: it is the state where biden is strong in the south. biden does well with black voters. unlike the other southern states, texas is a very diverse population, but that comes more from hispanic americans than african-americans. sanders has performed much better with hispanics then he has with blacks. texas is kind of different from the rest of the south as classically defined. some people might think of it as more of a western state. we saw in the one western state we had, nevada, sanders did very

well. i think that is why sanders has been leading. there are also a lot of white suburbanites in that state who may be getting the signal now that biden is the person to vote for. we did not even mention michael bloomberg has spent this outrageous amount of money, and this is his first test. i think the race is breaking terrible for him. carolina,n won south there were all these signals for people to vote for biden. bloomberg as of today, it is possible he might win a state or two, but i cannot point to anyone and say he is a favorite. host: has he visited any of those states? guest: he has been visiting all over the place, but mostly it is his ad spending. he did not perform that wellguen the debates. the first one he was in was widely watched. you only get one chance to make

a first impression. the first impression a lot of people have of bloomberg is his advertising, but political science research argues that while advertising can have some effects, the effects of advertising can be ephemeral. if you are hammered every day with advertising, there may be diminishing returns and people may get sick of it. i would argue that biden does not have a lot of money. he has not been running a lot of bats. -- of ads. what he has gotten in terms of positive earned media the past couple of days is more valuable than anything bloomberg can buy on television. not only did he prove himself in south carolina and with the state that he should have one a lot by a lot, he has gotten this consolidation among the non-sanders part of the party with global chart and buttigieg buttigiegbuchar and

endorsing him. host: is there an existential debate going on about what the democratic party is? guest: yes. if this race boiled down to sanders versus biden for the nomination, voters are going to have pretty clear choices. sanders is just more left wing on a lot of things. i think with the sanders folks would tell you, and i think this is legitimate, sanders might be able to make a cleaner argument against donald trump because he does not have some of the baggage biden has. war, supported the iraq and even though trump was not in government at the time it was happening and arguably supported it at the time, he was able to fashion himself as an iraq war eraic and a critic of bush foreign policy.

things.there are other biden is sort of talked about, we are going to have a big tent democratic party, liberal but not too liberal, work with republicans. i think that is appealing to a lot of people. sanders is like, we are not going to work with the republicans. they are not quick to work with us. he talked about political revolution. we are going to have a liberal president pursuing a very aggressive liberal agenda and things like medicare for all that biden does not support. host: our guest is kyle kondik until 9:00. sergio starts us off in florida. good morning. caller: good morning. how are you? host: doing well. caller: yes, i was impressed yesterday with everybody coming together and endorsing joe biden.

that shows the strength of unity. my question is, do you think that elizabeth warren has a chance or michael bloomberg to rise to the occasion in super tuesday? guest: great question. important question. andink for buttigieg" klobuchar getting out, it helps them. you have a 50% delegate threshold to hit -- 15% delegate threshold to hit in the state and in some individual congressional district. it is all very complicated. don't assume that all of those voters are going to go just to biden or sanders. it is going to be a mix. it seems like biden may benefit

more than anybody else, but for someone like warren or bloomberg who were at 12%, if that gets them to 15%, they will start hitting delegate thresholds. that arguably means those two candidates are still in the game even though biden and sanders are going to have significantly more delegates. host: delegate threshold, explain what that is. guest: the way the democrats allocate their delegates is proportional. on the republican side in 2016, it was different. winner take all. democrats rules are all the same, primary or caucus, it is 15% support threshold to get delegates at the statewide level and at the sub statewide level. california, you can look at that as 54 individual

contests within that state. there is a significant block of delegates awarded statewide, 270 thatthen there are are awarded in each of the 53 congressional districts. each of these congressional districts are different. ones that are going to be heavily african-american, it may be possible that biden is the only one that gets delegates out of those places. districts that are younger or more hispanic, maybe sanders is the only person that hits the threshold. the other thing about california, the vote count is going to take weeks. there is no conspiracy about it. that is just how they do it out there. they spent a lot of time to verify the ballots and whatnot. we cannot really make any judgments about california for weeks. it is also going to be where sanders gets probably the most

delegates and his biggest delegate lead of any of the states. andd on our own assessment many analyst assessments, a lot of us were coming in today assuming sanders was going to finish the day with more delegates. i still think that is the case. we have to account for this late changing environment in which biden seems to be creeping up. if sanders comes out of today with a delegate lead only in the double digits as opposed to triple digits, that is potentially an issue for him. a fromthis is liz twitter saying mike bloomberg has been ignored, if he has a surprise good showing, does that change the race? guest: it might. that is probably worse for biden then sanders. bloomberg are competing for more of the same voters. all sorts of different voters have different ways of looking at it. it is easy for people like me to

say sanders is liberal and limburg and biden are more centrist, therefore everyone who thinks of themselves as liberal or centrist will vote for biden or bloomberg. to a lot of people they are a lot different. if bloomberg starts hitting these 15% thresholds, he starts but team-leading delegates. the next time we have a debate is scheduled for march 15. there will probably only be for people on the stage or less. the fewer candidates there elevates the status of everyone else. for whatever candidates bloomberg might have as a candidate, i'm not saying his money does not matter, it is just some things are more valuable than money. idaho, democrats line, jesse. hello?

caller: hello? host: you are on. go ahead. caller: yes. i was calling because earlier you had a caller who was suggesting that bernie sanders is representing the democratic party and he is not a true democrat. think the president republican, a true and he hasn't had any buddy on the republican ticket to run against him. complete going for all the things bernie sanders is for, i do agree on if thee for all and that , um.

host: we get your point. thank you. uest: in some ways sanders' distance from the leadership of his own party is an asset for some people. there are a lot of people who like sanders who do not like the party leadership or joe biden. the president benefited from that in 2016. i do think that republican base voters are more skeptical of their leadership then democratic base voters. theight be seeing some of thi evidence of that in the shift towards biden. the other thing is that the way that the nomination process has been opened up in recent decades, you don't really have to be a republican in good standing or democrat in good

standing to win the nomination. all ofties have ceded the institutional power in selecting the nominee to the voters themselves, and in some states independents can cross over and vote in the democratic primary. frankly, there is some research that suggests the parties have ceded it to the media to some degree. who ends up doing well in some cases is determined by how much free media they get. donald trump was always willing to be on television. he had these rallies. they were interesting and entertaining to a lot of people. all of that coverage helped him. all of the coverage of biden has helped him in recent days. to me that is more driven by actual events in that he did win big in south carolina and two of the major candidates dropping out and endorsing him are

newsworthy events. cover,e press decides to and the press is not a monolithic thing either, that can determine which candidates are in the spotlight. i have seen a lot of complaints from elizabeth warren supporters that she does not get the coverage she deserves. i think a lot of candidates who are not polling where they want to be do blame the press sometimes. next, republican line, jean. caller: hello. how are you this morning? i love "washington journal." i get to the point where i have to turn it off sometimes when it is not conducive to my spiritual well-being. call is that i am not a trump fan, but i voted for

him. i voted early, and i voted for him because the democrats scare me. ok? the willingness of people wanting to vote or anybody no matter what their policy is just a vote against trump is not responsible. we don't know what sanders is going to do. we don't know how he is going to make medicare for all and pay for it, if he is going to have open borders and let everybody in. is he going to -- how is he going to distribute the money? everybody thinks they are going to be as rich as rich people. if you study socialism, that is not the way it works. guest: thanks for the call. here's the thing.

i think a lot of democrats are motivated to vote against trump, and a lot of republicans are going to be motivated to vote against hillary clinton in 2016 and whoever the democratic nominee ends up being. there is this phenomenon called .egative partisanship the idea of negative partisanship is that you are voting against the other side more than for your own site. there are key policy differences among the candidates. republicans are animated by some judicial choices and the fact that the president has made a lot of judicial choices that republicans have liked. that is a feather in his cap. for all of trumps distinctive this from -- distinctiveness from the republican party, there are tax bills that he signed that any republican would sign.

there are a lot of democrats that disagree with those choices and are going to rally around whoever the democratic nominee ends up being. the question is, and this is what a lot of democratic elites that sanders is to far-left, and he is going to scare away highly educated affluent suburbanites. texas by 16.on trump won it by 9. these things are based on personality, but they are also based on policy differences. just because there are things that republican support that democrats hate and vice versa, you have to knowledge the legitimacy of the other side's views. host: the denver channel highlights today in colorado it is the first time they are holding a primary. guest: a lot of states that held

caucuses in 2016 have moved to primaries to the point where we have i went and nevada as caucuses, although nevada changed their rules so much that it was almost like a primary if you early voted. caucuses have been dying out. minnesota,aine, three prominent states voting today moved from caucuses to primaries. sanders did pretty well in caucuses last time. as of right now, sanders is probably favorite to win all three of the states that switch. -- switched. colorado is probably the safest of those. minnesota is in flux. amy klobuchar probably would have won it if she was in it, but she's not.

biden is going to do well in the south. maybe he wins every single state in the south. that is what i would guess, although texas is a major question mark. does biden win anywhere outside of the south? does he come close to winning anywhere outside of the south? some of the major contests coming up are outside of the south, michigan, washington state, missouri, and then another big day where biden is probably going to win florida, but you have illinois and ohio. those are going to be important states. can biden compete outside of the south? ,oes he come close to minnesota massachusetts, or main? does he hit the delegate threshold in colorado or utah? that will show more strength provided going forward. -- providing going forward. -- four biden going forward.

some indication couple of days ago that sanders might pick that off. we don't have a lot of data for tennessee, arkansas, oklahoma. those are states that are whiter overall, more white working class. in the midst of the horrible wreckage for sanders in south carolina, he did carry fo voters that did not have a college degree. thoselook at one of states. southe're seeing in the suggests to me that biden should be favored. host: there were six people killed as the result of a

tornado in nashville, tennessee. how does that impact voting today? process don't think the is modified at all. au may be look if there is natural disaster going on, it may be distracts people from voting. this is one of the arguments for early voting. gives people a longer time like to vote so if something happens to people on election day, they were already able to voted the downside of early voting is sometimes you vote for someone who has dropped out of the race. kondikhis is kyle joining us from the university of virginia center for politics. he is the managing editor of sabato's crystal ball. from missouri, independent line, tony. caller: i think the democrats

need to look back. the reason hillary clinton lost was because of her criminal endeavors. joe biden is no different. he is going to lose because of his criminal endeavors. guest: i personally would not use the word criminal to describe them, although certainly there were corruption questions with hillary clinton or questions of impropriety. that hunter biden's job with this ukrainian oil and making money on this board, republicans have been arguing there is an appearance of impropriety. i don't think there is much proven in terms of the vice president actually doing corrupt things himself, but the thing about the president is he has a

great ability to drag people into the mud with him. is a criticism, but it is also kind of a compliment just from a heart political sense because the president is very good at tarnishing his enemies. what led to impeachment was the president's desire to dig up unsavory information about one of his leading rivals. people can disagree about whether that rose to the level of impeachment and removal, and ultimately the senate decided it did not, but we know the president seems to want to disqualify joe biden. we even see him in his public commentary trying to rile up sanders supporters to say the the race are rigging

against him, which i think is pretty strong language, but that may resonate with the sanders voters who feel alienated from the leadership of their own party. let me take a step back. i cannot sit here and tell you that joe biden is necessarily a way stronger candidate than bernie sanders. a lot of democrats feel that way, and i understand why in that sanders is more left-wing than biden, and there is a fair amount of political science research that candidates who are closer to the middle perform a little better, but biden does have some liabilities. i think some of the stories that have come out about biden's son are things republicans will use against him, and whether you think that is fair or unfair,

that is how the campaigns will unfold. host: from missouri, independent line, tony. caller: yes, also, as far as concerned, he is will never be able to fulfill these promises as long as the sun is held by the republicans. great point. if you go through what sanders talks about, it is a laundry list of ambitious public policy proposals. if the filibuster still exists in the senate, even if the democrats win the senate majority, and republicans are narrowly favored to hold the senate, you are not going to be able to get any of these things done if the senate competition remains republican. this is what a lot of democrats are using as a way to attack sanders. maybe this belief is true. maybe it is not. if sanders were to win, he would not generate the necessary

coattails to carry the senate along with him. that is particularly interesting to me in that a lot of the key senate races this year are in the sun belt. the democrats are very reliant on new democrats in those places. people who may have been republicans or independents who have moved over to the democratic party because they do not like trump. that is the thing. talked about this a lot in his campaign recently and reiterated it in his endorsement of joe biden last night, which is that not only do you have to win the white house, you have to have a candidate who can carry senate and house candidates across the finish line. a lot of democrats believe sanders is not that candidate. they may be right about that or

wrong about that, but they are communicating that to the public. president off his twitter feed this morning, targeting texas and oklahoma, -- sayingy ar mini mike bloomberg will kill fracking and pipelines. guest: you could almost say that the president is sort of elevating mike bloomberg, and maybe that is something he wants to do to create more delegate chaos and make a contested convention a little more likely. the president is getting at an issue that might be important in that democrats are the party that believes in more muscular

action at the federal level to do something about climate change. republicans don't seem to be that interested in government intervention if they even care about climate change. one of the issues that comes up is what to do about fracking, which is part of this broad portfolio of environmental issues. some candidates, including sanders, has said fracking should be banned. there are a lot of places where fracking energy jobs are important. a lot of people look to western pennsylvania, a muslim state for democrats. -- must win state for democrats. part of the problem for democrats in appalachia, pennsylvania, ohio, west virginia, a lot of people in

those areas feel that the democratic party has moved away from them. democrats have lost ground in those places. there is the possibility they could lose more. if they lose more ground in those places, ohio moves clearly off the map, and pennsylvania becomes harder to win. host: from florida, republican line, tina. caller: hello. how are you today? host: doing great. caller: i have a question for kyle. i am listening to him. i am a republican. putting politics aside, i lost my father to dementia. about being talking a viable candidate. anybody who has ever dealt with anybody with dementia can see that joe biden has got a real problem. i am curious how are you squaring that and stating that he is a viable candidate?

i just cannot imagine. you put him up against trump or bernie sanders, how do you say he is viable? onst: i'm not going to touch -- i'm notrt of going to use the word dementia or anything. i think the former vice president's campaign appearances probably -- i think he shows his age, to be honest. whatever that means to certain people, that is what it means. even candidates like sanders and trump do not necessarily, although they are all of similar age. presidential a candidate is being able to communicate clearly and effectively, and sometimes biden does not do that. i don't think the president does

.hat all the time either i think that maybe has held back some people from supporting biden. they feel like his performance in these debates and on the trail have not been all that compelling. that is a risk. all these candidates have liabilities. it is possible that whether the democrats select sanders or biden or whoever else and they are watching the debates in october, and they are wondering what did we do? i could see that for any of these folks. i don't think there is a perfect candidate in this field. rashida in california , democrats line. caller: good morning. d.c. in law in

school for my last two months. i am a bernie sanders supporter. i have to vote by mail. i will be one of those late ballots they are counting. that this reminds me a lot of 2016. winsfraid that if biden despite not winning a plurality of the delegates, a lot of sanders supporters who are like me who are lifelong democrats may turn away from voting in the general. think for a lot of white men in the midwest, they might not voting,much at stake in whereas for me i will be voting no matter what because trump does a lot of things that go

against me. i think biden sounds incoherent lately. i'm just concerned this will be a repeat of 2016. it does not look like a lot of sanders supporters will carry over. guest: those are great points. clearlythe caller very talked about biden from the sanders pointed view. is this the guy we want to put against trump? is he up to the task. i think she is right. some sanders reporters probably would fall off -- supporters probably would fall off, particularly if the process was perceived to be unfair. i think the charges that the 16 2016 was unfair are not backed up by the facts. she did not really need the superdelegates.

if superdelegates did not exist, she would have won the nomination anyway. if sanders were to win a plurality of the delegates but not the nomination, a lot of people would have a problem with that. 40 or 50 years ago, pre-world war ii, conventions would go to the second ballot all the time. americans have no real lived experience with a contested convention. if that actually happens, a lot of people will come away from that process bewildered, particularly if sanders goes in with the most delegates and does not win. there is a legitimacy perception in that sanders has a much better claim to the nomination if he has 45% of the delegates than if he has 35%. that is a fair way of looking at

it, or biden. if biden is the plurality leader , there is sort of a small d d emocratic part of this process that has been in place for decades that was not for most of american history. if sanders wants to be the wants to be the nominee, finished the season with more delegates. observation, text from daniel in san diego, asking what is your take on senator sanders being a mcgovern for the party? democrats some older who remember george mcgovern getting wiped out in 1972, mcgovern represents the worst case scenario for sanders.

mcgovern was perceived as being too liberal on issues for his time. maybe that is true for sanders as well. frankly, i don't think lance lives that are possible in american politics right now -- landslides like that are possible in american politics right now. 1970's,960's and partisan attachment was looser. you had northeastern moderate liberal republicans. the parties are now ideologically sorted out to the point where it may be that each party instead of having a floor of high 30's or low 40's is more like mid-40's in terms of votes share. i don't think sanders would lose like mcgovern. there are reasons to believe sanders could do well if he were nominated. we need to be open-minded about this. i personally think in the sun arizona, north

carolina, florida, i don't think sanders would be the best choice for the party in that region. you could also argue the election is going to be decided in the midwest, and sanders might be perfectly fine in the midwest. democratic leaders are saying sanders will lose. i don't necessarily know if they are right about that. host: from the republican line in north carolina, matthew. caller: thank you to you both for your insightful comments. i have two questions for you. be student loan forgiveness, that is going to be footed at the bill of the people. for the people that never went to college or those that paid them off, where is the justice that he is speaking of for them?

to the question of medicare for if we are going to get more coverage for more people, and it is going to cost less, i don't know how we could even pay more to doctors who are taking us significant -- taking on significant student loans? are we going to have doctors if we are not going to pay them as well? if i'm going to make far less being a doctor, why not go into business? we might be losing workers for the medical field. guest: i think what the caller just described is what you would hear as republican critiques of this proposal if sanders were the nominee or if he were elected as president. this did not have to do with sanders, but elizabeth warren was also approached.

there was a video a month or two ago of a parent coming up to warren and saying i pay for my kids college, am i going to get my money back? she said no, and from that person's perspective, you could see why you would think that would be unfair. ofyou pursue some sort massive policy change like that, naturally there are not necessarily winners or losers, but there are winners and non-wi nners. there are people who get their money paid off and people who do not. for republicans, if you just , just the policy and preference difference between democrats and republicans, republicans seem more concerned with what we call proportionality in that basically what people do, they should be more responsible for their actions.

a policy in which you forgive student loans for some and others who paid off their bills would not get a benefit, for republicans, they would think that would be unfair. -- that iss policy something that if this policy were to be pursued, you have to expend a lot of political capital to do that. host: democrats line. caller: hello there. guest: hello. i had a thought about run asrg, if he would the vice president for whoever was the leader of the pack and fund the presidency out of his own pocket and leave the democrats to have their money for their down ticket, and

then when they get in, he could walk away. i don't think he wants to be president. i think he wants trump out. guest: that is an interesting campaign finance question. i think if he was the vice presidential candidate, he could spend as much money as he wanted to from his own personal reserves, but he would get the preferred rates that candidates get for advertising. if a candidate buys a pres idential ad, they get a better rate. he could get more bang for his book as a candidate than if he w ere on the ticket. i think it would be odd for him to get elected vice president and then leave the job. the question is a good way of recognizing the role bloomberg

may play in this campaign. even if he is not the nominee, he will be spending a ton of money. of somes are critical of the big republican funders. democrats have some of those as well. in any contest, it is important to play by the rules that are in place. if you are a political party, you cannot unilaterally disarm. mberg certainly has a lot of resources he could bring to the table. he was important in expanding the size of the democratic house majority. i think democrats would have won 2018 without him, but he was very helpful. s has saids folk they do not want him involved. georgia, independent line,

chuck. caller: how are you all doing this morning? guest: doing great. caller: i think the whole press is doing a disservice to the american people. i don't hear anything about the possibilities of any of these things the democrats are proposing being passed. can't you can visit the senators and representatives and see how they would vote? you are not doing any actual reporting. you are just spewing what the candidates are saying. why don't you all do some reporting? guest: i would say there has been reporting on that. there are members of congress who have indicated what they would or would not support. you had a lot of democratic house candidates elected in 2018 who did not campaign on medicare

for all. if they return to congress in 2021, they might have some objection to that policy. what they say one day and what they vote for on another, it could be different. candidates who supported medicare for all on the house democratic side 2018 were more likely to perform a little worse than candidates who did not support medicare for all. those who did support it seemed to pay some sort of penalty for it. criticism ishe accurate in the sense that a lot of times presidential candidates of both parties will talk about policy proposals that are unrealistic. some of the things sanders or aren'tave talked about real estate. on the republican side, it would be a balanced budget constitutional amendment. you have to amend the

constitution, two thirds vote in the house and senate and three quarters of the state to get a conservative policy proposal like that. that seems totally impossible, and yet that comes up a lot. i'm not trying to pick on the republicans or democrats necessarily. there is a lot of stuff that gets promised during these campaigns. it is important to point out the things that are reasonably practicable. host: we have republicans and democrats sitting in that chair all the time, particularly members of congress, and we asked them about what they are supporting. we will go with fred in maryland, republican line. caller: how are you doing? host: fine, thanks. go ahead. caller: when you look at the democratic leftist people, everything they do is done on a psychodrama pity. the want you to pity

blacks, hispanics, the gays. i don't think qualifying for pity qualifies anyone to run a country. guest: i mentioned earlier about this idea of portion allete -- proportionality as a more republican trait. your circumstances matter less than what you do and how you stand on your own merit. the democrats are likely are -- about what think your circumstances are and how that is likely to affect them and how to overcome the barriers they perceive. some of this boils down to how political party wants to show and what public policy should we do about that?

it is clear to me that there are basic divides between the two parties that are pretty hard to bridge when you are talking about spending a bunch of money and expanding the federal government on things you believe will help mitigate the chance circumstances of birth versus toicies that are designed treat people as if they are all coming from the same circumstances. there is not necessarily a good answer here. this is why the country is so divided. there are just differences between the parties on those particular core values. next, democratis line, dave. guest: -- caller: you are great. very insightful. guest: thank you. caller: joe is very stumbling.

the big targets, the one on joe with the hunter biden thing and the one on bernie with the socialist thing. joe is going to have to be truthful. it was the appearance of impropriety. it was the appearance that they were selling access, which is a game that a lot of the political families have been playing for years. bernie, bernie is might have to shift the spotlight -- is going to have to shift the spotlight. what donald trump has been doing, capitulating to the kgb and putin. bernie will have to -- if you think what i did is bad -- would assume that biden would come at the president for

things that his family may have benefited from, from his presidency, campaign, or being in public office. there will be this mudslinging back and forth going on. , areyou have identified two significant liabilities for the most likeliest people to be the democratic presidential nominee. it is easy to look at both of them and say they both have age, policy, performance, or what have you. the party will have to choose. you almost wonder, if primary season is inconclusive as seems possible and we go to a contested convention which none of us have any experience with, what if the party just decided, biden and sanders neither one of them proved themselves, they have big liabilities, let's pick someone else.

let's pick senator sherrod brown of ohio. his name came up recently. at a contested convention the party can basically pick whoever it wants. not a party, the delegates can pick whoever they want. maybe that would be smart, maybe it would be smart, if no one is able to prove it to reach out and grab the nomination, they pick somebody else. that is something that could feasibly happen. for a lot of people, given the state of the primary process if someone were to win the nomination without competing in the primaries a lot of people would think that strange, odd, and very undemocratic with the small d sense of democratic. host: after today, talk about the number of delegates somebody needs to win and where today puts that perspective. isler: the magic number 1391. i think the total number of

delegates is slightly under 4000. by the end of today, when all the delegates are allocated it may take weeks especially in places like california, you will have close to 40% of all the delegates awarded. by st. patrick's day you will be up to a little over 60%. this is the crucial time of the primary, the next few weeks. dayome out on st. patrick's and if someone has a lead of 200 or 300 delegates they will be in pretty good shape to finish the season with a delegate plurality. if it is close it may be hard for anyone to accumulate significantly. host: if you are interested in finding more about our guest go to the website .org/rforpolitics. crystalball. super tuesday starts tonight and

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over 3000. we show you the headline from seattle, six debts in washington state. on the telegraph you can find that interactive map. the treasury secretary steven mnuchin, jay powell of the federal reserve, and counterparts from other world powers issued a joint statement on the coronavirus saying that the g7 finance ministers are ready to take actions including physical measures where appropriate to aid in the response to the virus and support the economy during this phase. that is from peter baker of the new york times. you saw the stock market react last week yesterday, bouncing back from losses. out of new york, governor andrew cuomo announcing this morning that a second confirmed case of coronavirus in new york. a man in his 50's in a county outside of new york city,

suggesting that it is spreading to communities with no known connection to hotspots for the disease. that is the latest. on capitol hill there is a hearing in the senate at 10:00 this morning where the senate, health, education, and labor pensions committee will question people about the u.s. response. that hearing on c-span three at 10:00. 10:00 when the house comes in you can talk about coronavirus response or super tuesday. the phone lines are available as well as social media. from carolyn in chandler, arizona on the democrats line, good morning. caller: good morning. i wanted to say that i might be in arizona, but i was born in california and i have the voting in arizona and property in california. i hope that both democrats in arizona and california will

support biden. also you had a caller earlier that said that the democrats were a pity party. pity onat, trump took all of the corporations and gave them huge tax cuts and wants the rest of us to pay for it. in arizona democrats and california will support joe biden. ost: you said it was for matters of normalcy, what do you mean? caller: the simple thing of trump being an adulterer and not wearing a wedding ring, all the way up to asking putin to participate in our elections. that is totally wrong. host: why joe biden over bernie sanders? to me, bernie sanders is the trump of the democratic party is too far in one direction

and i think that biden has all the experience and i think he was very helpful with the obama presidency. i think that he will write the ship. -- right the ship. the: new york is next on independent line, ariel, hello. caller: i have been listening to all your collars and it has been very interesting -- callers and it has been interesting and exciting. state go from my a golden state with top rate education and health care to a socialistsanders dystopia. when iddened to hear hear from your texas collars

that they are turning blue because a lot of californians that i know are moving to texas and it saddens me because i see what is happening there is what i saw here and they are slowly is a sadin and it thing to watch. campaign,e sanders --n you look closely [indiscernible] is. is all it it is not real. he is one of these marxist hypocrite millionaires with three houses in private jets and it is just awful. i think if i were a democrat it seems that the only thing to do is to go with biden and hope he

would choose a strong vice president, someone rational and practical. that would be amy klobuchar. marxist as well. buttigieghar and pete are not marxist, they are much more moderate. i don't see how anyone can consider bernie a democrat. host: that is ariel in new york. speaking of senator klobuchar talking out of -- dropping out of the race, passing support for joe biden. >> i cannot think -- of a better way to end my campaign then joining his. [applause]

because america, you gave an opportunity to the granddaughter of an iron or minor. teacher andter of a a newspaperman. you gave me the opportunity to be the first woman elected to the u.s. senate from the state of minnesota. america, you gave me this to be ale year candidate for president. host: more of that available on our website. the new york times reporting that lawmakers on capitol hill were preparing to take additional cautions given the influx of employees and -- employees and terrorists. willessional leaders

attend a briefing with capital officials on the coronavirus response tomorrow. ofy are in the process determining what precautions if any to take it the capital to protect those who work and visit here. mcconnell told reporters that senior demo -- there have been no discussions of shutting down public galleries or limiting tours. on the republican line susan is up next. caller: good morning. i am a bigblican, trump supporter. i wanted to correct a caller last hourthe talking about joe biden having alzheimer's. i am also a mental health therapist, i am 70 years old. i do not see any symptoms of alzheimer's.

some goofy mixups, i see a tired person. he does not have alzheimer's. host: what do you think of him as a candidate? , i am not voting for him. i think the democrats are doing the right thing putting him on the ticket. we don't want a socialist period. del in bethlehem, pennsylvania on the democrats line. you are next. caller: good morning. i'd like to respond to the lady that just call that thinks socialism is so terrible -- [indiscernible]

i. example of socialism that works very well. this is what he is about. he is not about interfering with the means of production. we have all these different things that are socialist like public schools, all those type of things that are public -- it's ok -- let's have a fair game for a change. i have been involved in politics since the truman administration. back then we were very close to getting nationalized health care. every other developed nation has it in the world. i have a neighbor who pays $1700 a month for his insulin. that is a crime against humanity. is our health care matter the only reason for your support for senator sanders? caller: that's the main reason.

jokefear of socialism is a and these people need to open their history books. that's how the middle-class became strong and was able to earn more money and have a better lifestyle. you can call it whatever you want. host: we are going to al in michigan, independent line. caller: this is al. i am calling in reference to bernie sanders. but myaning that way biggest concern with him is, he has not explained how he is going to pay for all of these programs he wants to do. all i can see concerning him is he is going to end up raising our taxes. if we get biden it's the same old same old. it's really a mess. sanders directly taking on the biden campaign at his latest rally. nders: joe is a decent

guy, he is just wrong on the issues. [applause] he is just wrong with regards to his vision for the future. [applause] joe and his campaign have received campaign contributions from a more than 60 billionaires. [crowd boos] goingnybody think we are to bring about the change we need in america when you are indebted to 60 billionaires? chants no] in the midwest and across this country we have lost millions of good paying manufacturing jobs because of disastrous trade with china.ike pncr

opposition tothe those trade agreements. which lost -- joe biden voted for those trade agreements. does anybody think joe could go to michigan, wisconsin, or minnesota and say vote for me i voted for those terrible trade agreements, i don't think so. when the american people are sick and tired of endless wars -- [applause] toelped lead the opposition the war in iraq, the worst

foreign policy blunder in the modern history of america. joe biden voted for that war. [crowd boos] i voted against a horrific bankruptcy bill supported by the credit card industry, joe voted for that bill. [crowd boos] , joe hastime again been on the floor of the senate to cut about the need social security, medicare and veterans programs. [crowd boos] life fightingy not only to oppose those cuts, but to expand social security. [applause]

i say those things not to denigrate joe biden who is a those of mine, i say things because it is absolutely imperative that we defeat trump, that we have a candidate, agenda, and record that can defeat trump. host: we will continue on our discussion about super tuesday. if you want to give us a call, republicans -- republicans (202) 748-8001. independents (202) 748-8002. our coverage starts at 7:00 tonight. you can follow along here or on c-span.org. we have focused on several states that are part of the super tuesday group, joining us from the texas tribune's patrick to talk about the primary. good morning to you. patrick: good morning. host: breaks down expectations

for turnout and where the momentum is as far as the candidates are concerned. is ack: right now there decent amount of uncertainty given the early voting period in texas which is february 18 through this past friday. it came before joe biden's big victory in south carolina. i think a lot of people in texas will watch for what the early , did aresults look like lot of texas democrats wait to vote on election day to see who would be still viable at that point? this applies to people like amy klobuchar and pete buttigieg who dropped out in the past 24 or 48 hours. there is a significant chunk of the total vote that is the early vote in texas, it is not a perfect comparison but in 2016 when it was bernie sanders and hillary clinton i believe 42% of the total vote was the early vote.

it will be interesting to see what the early vote looks like this time of around and how much this late biden search is reflected on election day boat and it is enough -- if it is enough to make a difference. host: what is the democratic demographic in texas and how many of those will go out and vote today? over one million texans have already voted in the democratic primary in texas. upt number is significantly from similar elections in past cycles. it's basely important to keep in not just thehave presidential primary but also a very crowded and competitive u.s. senate primary. there are two big races at the top of the ticket that are driving turnouts for democrats. it will be interesting to see what the wrong number is on

election day and how many people waited until election day to vote to figure out who would be viable. host: what portions of the state are the ones you are watching closest and what does that do as far as support for a candidate? patrick: all the big metro areas that have a lot of micronic voters, you think of places like dallas-fort worth metroplex, places like houston, and the greater houston area which is massive and sprawling. wheree looking at places we have not seen necessarily every candidate reach out but those who have have done it in a strategic and surgical way, places like el paso and places like the rio grande valley. even places like a larger city like san antonio. a lot of the natural attention in texas at the end when candidates have limited time

tends to float towards houston, dallas, maybe austin, and san antonio to a lesser extent. i am going to see which candidates have been making inroads in those other markets. what dynamic does beto o'rourke cost support for joe biden bring? the mosthe is still popular, well-known democrat statewide in texas. his opinion on this race and him weighing in on this race is incredibly important. surprisingost endorsement that biden rolled out yesterday. word of this only leaked out a couple of hours beforehand. i think it caught a lot of people by surprise and in terms of the effect that it has on the outcome of the race in texas i think the question of what the early voting period looks like and how many people waited until tuesday to cast their ballot, i

have no doubt that for a healthy amount of texas democrats, for those who are maybe waiting until tuesday to cast a ballot, if they were on the fence with joe biden and saw beto o'rourke come out in support of him, that may make the difference and push them into the biden camp. determine wholl the democratic challenger will be, at least it is part of the process. what does that look like? thatck: candidates in primary, maybe half of them are serious credible candidates who are raising relatively significant amounts of money for the primary. the big question is who is going to make the number two spot in the likely runoff. you look at the recent polling and the spending from the race and who has benefited, hagar is a safe bet for the number one spot. she is a former air force helicopter pilot who ran a surprisingly competitive

congressional race in the austin suburb. most people expect her to finish first it is a question of who gets the second runoff spot. that is up for grabs among at least three or four candidates. you have a long time dallas senator who has a formidable base and is very well known in dallas county which is going to provide a lot of democratic votes in any statewide primary. you have someone like ramirez who is a veteran progressive and ,abor organizer in the state known as the viable progressive in the race. candidatesme other who you could possibly see getting to that number two spot like amanda edwards, a former houston city councilmember and the former houston congressman and nominee for governor. there is a lot of uncertainty about who is going to make that number two spot.

the recent polls have shown a lot of texans are still undecided in this race and do not know much about the candidates. that has been a low-key race in that regard. host: patrick who reports for the texas tribune with us. talking about super tuesday and texas being part of that. thank you for your time. patrick: thank you. host: we will start with bryant in pennsylvania on the republican line. thank you for waiting. caller: good morning. republican.ong once and i each bush voted for president obama wants and trump once. i wanted bernie sanders to win the democratic party last time and he did not of course. where i am now is, the moderate democrats that are actually pushing, they are going to build

upon the affordable care act realized that that is in the supreme court right now and it will probably be decided upon in october. and theadministration republicans during the 2018 campaign, that is why they got voted out because they were going to try to scavenge that law. moderates, why they are not supporting universal health care, single-payer health care, or bernie's plan for medicare for all i don't understand. electiond of this cycle, if a moderate democrat is voted in and he becomes president, that may be an empty bag they are holding saying they will build upon the affordable care act because the affordable care act may not be there. host: that is brian in pennsylvania. he referenced the supreme court. this is the washington time saying the court announced it will take up a challenge to obamacare individual mandate, the case will be heard in the fall with a decision expected by

june of 2021. the federal appeals court ruled that this runs afoul of the constitution because it is no longer a tax following the decision to zero out the fine, putting offixth -- the question whether parts of the law known as the affordable care act can stand without a mandate. the high court says it will consider the issue when it hears arguments. mattrth carolina this is on the independent line. caller: hello. thank you for taking my call. i would like to say that people are very quick to compare bernie sanders to other types of socialism that have occurred in the past, but really what bernie sanders is trying to do has never been tried before. this version of democratic

socialism with our technological and financial power can do some great good in the world. most socialism that has occurred in the past has been totally rife with corruption and nothing of this magnitude has ever been .ried people call this the great experiment but from my point of view, the experiment is going terribly wrong. wilmington, delaware is next up from diane on the democrats line. caller: hello. nice to talk to you. i think joe biden and bernie sanders, that's going to be a tough battle and i think with the coronavirus that's out there it is very serious and a lot more people should be taking it

real serious of making a different vaccine for the coronavirus so that everyone can -- it or even be injected to make sure that we don't get the virus. with bernie sanders and joe biden it is going to be a pretty good race. i think in houston, texas today i think biden will take houston and i think he will take a few other states today. host: are you a biden supporter or a sander supporter? caller: -- sanders supporter. caller: a biden supporter. host: why him over bernie sanders? well, because he has been vice president and he knows what he is doing. betterd run the state

than what we have in the white house now. to be a good guide to be in the white house since he already has some of the background of knowing what is going on as vice president. host: diane in wilmington, delaware. profile of athe who directs the national institute of allergy and infectious diseases. one of the biggest battles of 35 years, the race to contain coronavirus when the nation's polarized and misinformation can spread in one tweet from the president yourself. you do not want to go to war with the president. expert but the top you have to make sure you walk the fine line of continuing to

tell the truth. that doctor was part of a forum as a part of the coronavirus task force briefing at the white house. he spoke about why he thinks the risk to americans as it currently exists is low. >> if you talk about the entire country, the risk is a low risk. the point you are making is that, since we -- the testing in the community, how do we know the risk is low? i would imagine it is still going to be low regardless of that. what happens in real time which is the reason we do this so infrequently is things can change. right now, today, on this day, if you look at the country as a whole the risk is low. host: more on that briefing available at our website. i half an hour left until the house comes in. (202) 748-8000 for democrats.

(202) 748-8001 for republicans. .ndependents, (202) 748-8002 text us at (202) 748-8003. the republicanon line, michael. caller: i want to talk about the coronavirus. that stuff has been around for a long time. if you look on your labels of lysol disinfectant it is it on there. i believe that china created a different strain of it, they ileased it to their people believe they did it to start a recession in china because their economy is so bad. they are wanting to get it over into the united states. it is an easy avenue to start a recession here in the united states because we ship things from china, you think about the bubble wrap. you bust the bubble wrap, it

could have air with the strand of coronavirus in there. it would be easy for trump to shut the ports down. then we have a recession in america. i believe that people are taking this too much out of context because the flu kills people and we don't know if these people are dying from natural causes of the flu, they are old, or their immune system is low. it is a socialist tactic to scare people from going out and going on vacations and getting around crowds of individuals. that is michael in tennessee. to his point about lysol, a television station out of is reporting this. the back provides a list of viruses that this will wipe out.

is the product effective at killing the new strain of coronavirus? the short answer is, most likely. according to the cdc the human coronavirus has been around since the 1960's and there are at least seven different strains, six of which can be killed with lysol products. but the new strain, covid-19, has not undergone epa testing. line, independence lawrence, from florida. caller: hello. i heard that other gentlemen talking and he mentioned something i was going to mention , it does not seem to make any sense to be getting products from these foreign countries and they got problems with their health. we got so much products over --e that it is bound whatever they might have will be over here. we have people that don't know

how they got the virus and they are not mentioning anything about the products we get from overseas. we get a lot of products from china. why will we not make our own products? --would not stop a problem what this other gentlemen mentioned but it would build america back up. i guess it is all in the hands of those who are running things and they do not want to do that. i am a vietnam veteran and i know a bad deal. we lost a lot of people, lost millions of dollars, and accomplished what? our capitol hill producer, follow him on twitter to provide updates on capitol hill, including house republicans democrats meeting on capitol hill with discussions expected inside on the status of coronavirus emergency spending west on the house floor later this week. you can follow him on twitter.

a story out of iran -- out of vienna saying the un's nuclear watchdog says that iran's enriched uranium stockpile has tripled in the last three months. gary in pennsylvania on the democrats line. caller: thank you for taking my call and thank you for c-span existing. you are welcomed. i wanted to talk about why i would support bernie over biden. host: ok. it is a simple fact of electability. we ran a race against trump and lost, i do not want to -- a centrist race against trump and lost. i don't want to repeat the last election cycle. bernie has motivated people to come out to vote. host: we have a couple people calling this morning, i will paraphrase it, if they said

senator sanders goes too far in his philosophies how would you respond to that? caller: i would respond that if which isat the polling representative, the masses of this country on the issues that he is proposing are supported by the majority of the people. i don't see how that is going too far. people --ty of the are they saying the majority of the people are radical left? how does the math work on that. -- on that? host: do you think what senator sanders is proposing is possible to accomplish in congress and he can get legislation to achieve that through congress? caller: everything when you deal with laws, with the senate, and the house, and the presidency is a compromise. nothing will be done without compromise.

towards some of the issues that a president sanders would avoid take -- would take up, it is the same thing as with biden and trump, it is all a compromise. the idea of getting exactly what you think you are going to get, you do not know. us,: that is pennsylvania and add leading up to super tuesday that senator sanders has been using involves jfk. >> we will go to the moon in this decade and do the other things, not because they are easy but because they are hard. >> president kennedy knows that settling for half measures was not good enough, when candidates say they cannot guarantee health care for all, make college affordable, or combat climate change just know that america is best when we try to do big things even if it is

hard. i am bernie sanders and i approve this message. otherone of the advertisements running from the joe biden campaign, it features unsurprisingly former president barack obama. >> an extraordinary man with an extraordinary career in public service. he led our efforts to combat gun violence, he fought to make college more affordable and champion landmark legislation to protect women from violence. counselid and honest made me a better president and a better commander-in-chief. he is nowhere close to finished. int: we will go to jd elkton, maryland on the republican line. caller: thank you for having me on. call, my burn up my

one call per month on this topic, because it is a moot point. you have a fellow like bernie sanders who had a heart attack extremenths ago, he is to the left. who has aave biden lot of baggage, and someone mentioned criminality earlier. that is a strong word but i think the ukrainians are looking as far as -- he will have a lot of baggage with that. i think the democrats know it and that is why they have bloomberg as their ace in the hole. he is waiting in the wings, spending hundreds of millions of dollars, and i don't understand

why the democrats can't see that they don't stand a chance with either of these candidates. it is not to, it is three to include bloomberg. even if other democrats rally around joe biden you don't think he has a chance? because i think once they crack this investigation he is going to be damaged goods. i think people -- they think people are stupid. i have been a lifelong republican like brian claimed to be. these so-called republicans calling and hijacking the republican line i think it's ridiculous. pedro, thank you. tom in-- host: leesburg, virginia on the independent line.

caller: how are you, pedro. i have a shirt that says pedro for president somewhere but i don't think you are running. i wish someone like you would. i voted this morning and the primary here in virginia, and it is going to be real interesting to see where this goes. i am pulling for biden at this point. i made my decision yesterday. i am hoping for the best for our country, i think we have gone off the rails. people are talking about this virus, i used to work in a lot of areas that did quarantines and that comes from an italian word that means 40 days. infestations of bugs, people with their dogs and clients, better than we do on this disease. thee they let 14 people off plane to federal workers with no protective gear on is a major

screwup and people should be fired for that. that is incompetence. trump can talk about whatever he wants but they put america at risk and i do not appreciate it. thisked too hard to keep country safe and they have botched that. host: you made the decision yesterday, what was the final series of things that helped you make a decision? caller: i was probably going to vote for klobuchar. i think she is closer to where i am. i am an independent, but i am much more towards the center. i appreciate bernie's aspirations with college for everybody and medicare for , but the reality is we have to get a lot of things straight before we can do this, especially just the divide. in thateople calling are literally just reading off of a piece of paper that is the

same old thing. [laughter] if people think whatever biden or his son did is bad wait until the shoe starts dropping in november whether trump wins or not. they will have more shoes dropping then a clogging festival in west virginia when all these guys in the trump administration -- host: tom in virginia on the independent line. kent in texas,- you are on, go ahead. caller: i am calling about joe biden is looking a lot better was anyone else -- i watching the show with him last doht and he said he will [indiscernible] else. than anyone keep on getting the would be win and he

the president in the white house. he would do a lot more better than anyone else. biden.ing for joe and not no joe biden one else. michigan on the democrats line, hello. caller: good morning. host: you are on. caller: good morning. i have been trying to get on for a long time. biden,to talk about joe especially to the women out there. this man voted for that crime bill. the presidency is owed to him. this is the third time he has run for president.

i think there is an issue with his son making all that money in ukraine. [indiscernible] has the establishment done for america in the last 20 years? 1979, i was making $10,000 a year 40 years ago. what have they done for the working people of this country? -- problem in america is [indiscernible] where would we be now? [indiscernible] that is jesse in michigan calling this morning and giving thoughts on super tuesday and the candidates involved. we will do the same in just a bit with the remaining minutes we have left. one more super tuesday,

-- super tuesday state, on the phone is joe from the san francisco chronicle, a senior political writer. good morning, sir. >> good morning. website they have super tuesday pro tips, your article. can you clue us in? right now in california it is a race for second place. bernie sanders has been ahead in the polls for a while. he has done that largely on the of tgth of his organizing upp r -- organizing of latino voters that he is been doing for almost a year now and informally over the past four years. there was a time a couple of weeks ago where we thought he might be the only person to reach the 15% threshold of votes here to qualify for delegates.

last 72 hoursthe have changed a lot of things. host: where do pete buttigieg and amy klobuchar voters go? doing -- they not did not have a huge chunk of the boat here, klobuchar had no organization on the ground here. -- one outieg raised of every five dollars he raised came from california. support here and he was getting about 10 or 11% of the vote. the question is how many of his voters have already voted? we have a very strong early voting program in california, there are some estimates that four to 500,000 votes are quote unquote zombie boats that have voted for gann -- votes that

have voted for candidates who have already dropped out of the race. bidenwhat has the joe machine been like in california? joe: it is a very small machine. that is another thing that will be a real challenge. the bank so much of his money and so much of his efforts on this existential state awaiting south carolina that he did not have a lot left over for the 14th super tuesday states including here in california. he has not spent a lot of money here, he has barely been on television. sanders has spent a lot of money, particularly in the ground game, he has been on tv a lot. then there is the bloomberg factor. bloomberg has spent close to $80 million here on television and digital ads. we have no idea of whether his

prolific campaigning is going to translate into votes. as we saw on tv it was terrible in the debates. we are trying to see if his campaign -- if the candidate is as good as the campaign. because of concerns over coronavirus, do you think that will have some impact on participation today? a sense ofot get that as of yet. there has been a lot of early voting and people can drop off their ballots add voting centers, another fairly new twist in california. there have not been any concerns about that. littleo bounce back a bit, joe biden does plan to hold an event in california, give us a sense of what to expect. had a couple of events here which makes us think that he may see something in internal polling that he is on the cusp of doing something better here than we thought.

he has had one here in oakland in the morning then he will be in los angeles later in the day. spent much time here, he has done one rally here during the whole campaign. he has come out here for a number of fundraisers, one at the home of dianne feinstein who was an early supporter here. everydayt mixed with californians all that much. he blew off two national conventions that were held in san francisco for the democratic party. he did not come to the state party convention. he is sort of a stranger to california. has not doneon, he the handshaking type of thing here. is there any influence of the former presidential candidate senator kamala harris? or governor gavin newsom? endorsed andhas

kamala harris got out of the race in september, she kept a pretty low profile and went back to her day job. they do not have an influence here. i think the highest ranking californian to endorse has been our governor -- she endorse pete buttigieg. unfortunately for her she voted on saturday, or last week. she is one of these zombie voters. host: because of the size of the state when is the final tabulation of the results expected? tonight't stay up late waiting for results, they will not be here. we will get preliminary results but because of the massive size of the state and the late arriving balance they could be weeks before we know what the results are in some of these congressional districts. in congressional districts if

you get 15% of the vote that is the qualification to get delegates. we could not know the final tally for weeks. joe who is a reporter for the san francisco chronicle, their senior political writer talking to us about california as a super tuesday state. us about california as a super tuesday state. thank you for your time today. joe: thank you for having me. host: jesse is next on the michigan democrats line. caller: good morning. i want to talk about joe biden. jesse, i apologize, i already took you. that is my bad. let's go to martin in illinois. go ahead. america,ood morning, good morning c-span.

let me appreciate if you finish what i am saying, i know that you love asking people questions. i am an elizabeth warren supporter and one of them is the medical industry. what warren says is that the medical industry will bankrupt us all, the public option is bankrupt, affordable care act bankrupt, bennett care for all bankrupt. in 10 or 20 years it will be bankrupt. she is on it, nobody else is on it. she is talking about getting rid of the aumf, nobody else is saying anything about this. this is why i support her. she has a uterus so she should be making decisions about a woman's right to choose. this ispublican line, from youngstown, ohio. caller: yes sir, how are you doing?

i am doing good, go ahead. caller: i moved from california here to ohio. i hope that everyone uses california as a model for what the democrats are going to do. there is well over one million in total homeless people in a less thanrent for 800 square-foot apartment is 850.ing about 28 $500 -- $2 the last election donald trump pulled in more registered first-time voters in pennsylvania, wisconsin, and michigan. what changedty is the spectrum of those states. the green party pulled in well

over 50,000 votes, this anomaly happened in the other two states of wisconsin and pennsylvania. i think that is going to lay a factor into this election cycle that nobody is really talking about. let's go to sherry from vienna, virginia. caller: i am supporting michael because i was a new yorker. everyone i have heard on your program, the thing that appalls me is how little our history teachers have done to teach how government works. right next to washington, d.c. and have been an active democrat for 40 plus years. a lot of my local people are angry at me because they want me to be on elizabeth supporter. i look at results. michael bloomberg is a son of a bitch.

years, allers had 30 these people forget, he just -- it is not the president who creates the policy, it is the legislature. if you screw up voting for the president and you do not get a change you better be prepared to live with what you have which has crippled all the agencies, my husband worked for government for god's sake. fore are agencies hurting quality people because of the lockdown on high reason certain departments. go back to look at how government works and say to yourself who could lead our country the best? sherry froms virginia talking about her support for michael. victoria in maryland, hello.

you are on. if you would not mind hurrying we are running out of time. caller: one quick comment and question about joe biden. gaffe know he is a machine and that he stumbles when he talks, what i hear from him now is not much different from what i heard decades ago. the second question, i am an undecided voter. is there some type of app or tool that we can blindly put in are our issues or policies that we most closely aligned with and that would give us what candidate is most closely aligned with us? is there something like that that exists. i am an undecided voter and going into super tuesday, it is not my time to vote but i would like to have a more clear understanding of who to follow

instead of going based on what the polls are saying. not know the specific answer to your second part. libraryo to our video type in the issues that we are -- that you are passionate about , if they match statements made by the candidate, probably not the direct answer but we will give you that access to everything the candidate set about a host of other issues. jim in ohio on the republican line. the house is about to come in. caller: ok, pedro, real quick, i do not see jill biden around. where is she? i notice that debbie is there in the background but where is jill? she has always been next to joe. just like bernie has his wife there. where is jill? host: barton, maryland,

independent line, helen. caller: i am calling about the coronavirus. there are some things that -- when you go into a restroom some of them use cloth napkins. i noticed people blowing their nose in. that is a sign of the disease and they should use a paper napkin. i noticed people spitting on the street, that is kind of like to me a disease. trash tole take their the dumpster they dig a hole and put it in there. i guess they have things to separate the cans and the glass, that is going to be a problem down the road. when it rains all that stuff will get down. host: we are going to leave it there because the house of representatives is just about to come in. if you are interested in getting results from the super tuesday contest acrose