mayor bill de blasio will join us. he is supporting bernie sanders now in a democratic primary. we will talk about that and much more. we will always be fair and balanced, were not the psychotic, hate-trump media. and laura ingraham, drive to rip my tie off again? >> laura: no, that was entertaining, though. i'm trying to think what else can be done that can embarrass n you. >> sean: i'm in the middle of the show and people are screaming at me, fix your time. okay, i will stop my monologue and fix my tie. >> laura: do you actually do your mma fighting in a tie? >> sean: i really shouldn't do this, do you see this finger? you can zone in on it? i was hit in the heavy bank, a hit with their knuckles, of course, and i busted it in two. >> laura: you have a tendon problem, okay? that is a tendon problem. >> sean: [laughs] you should be there what we call pain day. my sensei called it pain day. >> laura: i had that once. >> sean: seven years, fiveay

days a week, an hour and a half a day. >> laura: hey, hannity, can we just get this out of the way that february ratings for prime time, you and tucker -- >> sean: you -- >> laura: i got shocked, i was just shocked. >> sean: i'm telling you, your ratings are killing it. we are so proud of you. you are killing at. we are all killing it. by the way, thank the audience. >> laura: everyone behind the cameras and everyone watching. hey, congratulations to you obviously, number one.s >> sean: you, too, laura. this audience, we owe them the truth and do with the mob won't do. >> laura: thank you, hannity congratulations. in all sincerityty congratulations for all of the work you do. this is "the ingraham angle" from washington tonight. you will get the first reaction to the food fight in south carolina that took place tonight.

in just moments. this is choice, okay. we've got gingrich, steve cortez, and many more. plus, we are going to take you live to the to the postdebate spin room, they are dizzy and there, where the democratic candidates will be doing justnd that. but first, i've been wanting for weeks and weeks to keep an eye on the coronavirus that is spreading from china to countries around the world. my concern was i didn't trust what china was saying about it. some breaking news to report on the virus tonight. the u.s. military just announced moments ago that one of its soldiers based in south korea tested positive for this new virus. the first u.s. service member tr be infected. now, i'm going to take you through how all of this unfolded today. at roughly noon, with the president out of the country the cdc began sounding this alarm. >> disruption to everyday life you may be severe. but these are things that people need to start thinking about

now. people are concerned about the situation. i would say rightfully so.ut i'm concerned about the situation.n. cdc is concerned about the situation. you you >> laura: well, in india, with the markets -- the president was in india,ma and the markets plummeting, because of the coronavirus spread, all that accelerating. you president trump also addressed the threat. >> we are working with china very much on the virus. we feel that something -- and i you you you have to tell, i spoke to president xi the other day. he is so committed to solving that problem. he was working very hard. he is very capable. the country is very capable. it snuck up on them, but i think he is going to do well. >> laura: snuck up on them? i don't know what to say about you that. it was measured and it was diplomatic, and he is on the world stage, so we like that. but i sure wouldn't trust china

on this issue at all. for starters, we still don'tt know what sparked of this you you epidemic. chinese censors have been scrubbing the internet of any real information of what is going on within their own borders. but don't count on the w.h.o. for any help on this. they are basically complicit, in my view, in what china has been doing to cover this up. >> do we look at, okay, the rest of the world would be access the expertise of china. they've done this at scale. they know what they are doing. and they are really, really good at it. they are really keen to help. if i had covid-19, i would want to be helped in china. >> laura: you can stay in china if it is so fun over there. despite all of this, the: president and his team have to andd prepare for the possibility of outbreaks here in the united states.pr it is a virus, and viruses travel.

today his working group was back in washington, and it got into the specifics. ia the immediate risk to the general american public remains low. but as we have warned, that had the potential to change quickly. you there is now community transmission in a number of countries, including outside of asia. that is deeply concerning. >> the usual and appropriate care for most patients to develop novel coronavirus or covid-19, would be management at home, through home isolation with use of health care facilities only as needed for those who have severe presentation. >> laura: watching the media coverage today, it seemed like some of the trump hatersrs were actually relishing in this moment. a new avenue, coronavirus, that is a new pathway for hitting president trump. how sick that these people seem almost happiest when americans are hurting. and, of course, our markets aree

feeling the pain. now, the sell-off has been significant, and frankly, it could continue as the infection and rate grows. you andd around the world and in the united states, we have supply chain disruption. none of that should be you surprising at this point. but while the administration's messaging on this has been lacking, it is absolutely disgusting that democrats are seeking to use this complex you you you you virus to score cheap political points. after their politically you you you disastrous impeachment and the fierce intraparty fighting that you you you you we'll get into in just a few moments, democrats needed to you you change the subject, and fast and so, like the coronavirus you are itself, democrats and friends a moved to quickly infect the political discussion with viral will recriminations. you >> senators from both sides of and the aisle today suggested that you and you the amount of money the trump administration is requesting to combat this, $2.5 billion, that is insufficient. and >> there have been so many cuts

that have been proposed to these various preparedness programs.ee >> there has been sort of a you and you hollowing out of these scientific communities in the trump administration. since he took office.. >> laura: okay, the cdc's budget was more than $7 billion in 2019. if that's not enough to prepare for a global epidemic, they need to do some serious housecleaning at the cdc. plus, trump is requesting that 2.5 billion you just heard2. about, to deal with the outbreak. if the senate believes we should have more? guess what, the senate and appropriate more with the house of representatives working together.er but you can throw facts like that at the left all day long none of it would matter. trump could personally go to china to find some type of cure or find out who patient 0 was and still say things like this. >> do you have any confidence

that he won't just arbitrarily shut down entry from italy? mew yorkers, or someone from kansas ghost italy? >> i would never bet thatt donald trump will not do anything that is outside of the norm. >> if you are so into american isolationism and you are thinking it is america first there are certain problems which are really global. and you they have to be solved by having all of these countries come together. that doesn't work with saying america first. >> laura: nice job, andy stick with screwing up the law. any more people to come into the country who are infected. what a buffoon. does anybody actually think that more globalism is going to helph this crisis? you want to cooperate, for sure and but bring in more people from other countries, don't have any concern about her travels where is that what they were staying over at msnbc today? because i'm really confused listening to that logic that goes all over the place. now, for now, the president needs to ignore the political

hacks who are vying for airtime and listen to actual experts. he has assembled a phenomenal team to tackle the coronavirus. now, this may end up being a you global epidemic, but his first responsibility is to the american people. in moments we will be joined by will you gordon chang on how china may will and legally in actually, believe it or not, be figuring out a way to benefit -- benefit -- from this outbreak. newt gingrich on democrats and and you their craven attempt to use this for political leverage. but first, i think it is very will you important for all of you to get some actual answers to the questions i'm sure a lot of you you you you you have. you you you for that, we are joined by dr. janette nesheiwat, emergency medical director for the city -- i'm sorry -- for city md. excuse me. doctor, is it safe to call this or is it accurate to call this a pandemic now? and what do americans need to know about it, because it is becoming such a stressful issue for americans at home.

>> sure, laura. by definition, it is on more than one continent, so it's making its way to a pandemic definition. but what americans need to know our president is doing everything has power to keep us you safe, and we have it containedhi in this country, by having a 14 day quarantine, a ban from you foreign nationals traveling to are this country, screening at the air points, and if you enter into this country, you will be closely monitored. the key is containment.l early identification of suspected patients and isolating them, confirming if they have it, and treating appropriately and potentially tracing any contacts they may have had. now, the risk in this country is still low, but is still a very strong possibility, especially t now we have this sudden outbreak in italy. that is when i start to really become concerned, when i saw you this outbreak in italy andd south korea, because we can't ban everybody from flying in from europe and overseas, but we definitely need to continue our efforts, being vigilant, and be we have appropriate resources and funding.

i spoke to congressman michael waltz tonight to ask when are we going to have the vote to see if congress will approve president trump's request for funding to help continue to keep americans safe? he said hopefully soon. >> laura: i want to go through some of those, just facts that people might not know. so far. and so globally, as far as we know will and 80,000 people, globally, are infected. you and just to give people a sense of that number, okay, in the year you and 2017, 2017 was one of the high points for influenza deaths in the united states. that was 80,000. you for regular old influenza deaths and in the united states. i guess we are just used to that at this point. but 80,000 infected. you you you you you you china has 26,623 deaths, if we can believe that number. i don't really believe it. they have had 77,000 people in china who have been infected. we have the one u.s. soldier infected.

we have about 56 cases now in the united states of people who are being monitored, some of whom are infected, brought back from that ship. we have a lockdown of a hotel in spain, total lockdown, hundreds of people in that hotel because one person was infected. 11 people have died and those italian ski towns, those are blocked off. those are just some of the factual predicates we have to have people understand. but what sanjay gupta said today over at cnn was, i think reassuring to hear it -- it was very sober analysis of what this is. watch. >> this epidemic really hits on just about every facet of our society, but i think for individuals, keep in mind most people will not get sick, but they will have to distance themselves from others, so they continue to not get sick. and are you prepared to do that?

a week or two? probably up to two weeks. first of all, it is possible that someone who is not even symptomatic or has minimal symptoms can spread this virus. it is spread through respiratory droplets, so if you're around someone who is sick and they cough or sneeze into the air you could contract the virus that way. it can also happen from touching contaminated surfaces. >> laura: basically, most people are going to self-isolate, and we're not going to have massive hospitals filled. that would collapse the medical system. that is not how this will be treated. that is how most people are treated with the ordinary fluteg and that looks like the best way to treat people now, correct? >> sure, absolutely right.e this virus is highly infectious. and highly contagious, and most people will just have sniffles a runny nose, and they will get better in a few days. that is why if you have severe symptoms, cough, fever, chest pains, shortness of breath, that is when you need to be treated. i had a couple of patientsat tonight that came in concern for coronavirus. according to protocols and the

cdc guidelines, department health guidelines, they had no symptoms. no chest pain, no shortness of breath, no fever. what did we do with them? they just flew in from italy. we put them on 14 day quarantine. >> laura: got to have common sense measures, no panic.au panic is not going to help anyone. and consistent messaging, using this for political reasons is pathetic, and we're going to get into that with newt, as well. dr. nesheiwat, thank you. before we get to the democrat debate analysis, the coronavirus isn't just a public health threat, it's also an economic one. just look at the stock market today. the dow closed down nearly 900 points. okay? the biggest 2-day drop ever. now china is taking the biggest hit of any country, but what if this outbreak actually ends up making the surveillance state in china stronger? if they can use this epidemic as a pretext for beefing up their ability to spy on their own people? one human rights activists tells cnbc, i think there are signs

the coronavirus outbreak serves as a catalyst and a boost forr china's development in mass surveillance systems. once these systems are in place those involved argue for their expansion or their wider use. joining us now, gordon chang china expert. what are the chances this emboldens and strengthens their ability to control their own population? >> it is more than a theory laura, because we know that xi jinping, the chinese ruler has been doing exactly this especially since januaryhi 20th when he actually talked to thexa chinese people and started to impose draconian measures. even before the coronavirus xi jinping had been pushing china back from authoritarianism to totalitarianism. 626 million surveillance cameras, supposed to be in place this year. what he has done during the epidemic, though, is increased these measures. and clearly, they are going to stay in place after the epidemic. >> laura: what about the idea that globalism is the answer to this? you have heard the comments on

msnbc, globalism is the answer andrew weissmann says. i don't know who died and made him an expert on globalization after he screwed up everything in the investigative arm of our federal government. t. that is clearly lunacy. the reason we don't have more cases in the u.s. right now is because we did issue those travel advisories.av we did put people into quarantine. we have these travel restrictions. if we didn't do this, we wouldng be looking like italy or south korea, or god forbid, even worse right now. and it's important for us to remember, china criticizes us for these travel restrictions but that is exactly what china did internally, imposing these quarantines, knocking down --ti >> laura: can you imagine donald trump actually shutting down travel? he could actually do that right? well, yeah -- what? yeah, i mean, do you want to contain the virus, or do you want to spread the virus? let everyone come in from any country and then we will call ourselves a kumbaya society. if you want to control itststo coming back to control it right?el

>> absolutely. there is no question about thisa these are measures that people don't like. i understand that. the point is an epidemic is an extraordinary circumstance. if you are going to control it you've got to do it fast. china has a problem now because it let the virus spread for six weeks. the u.s. didn't let that happen. the u.s. acted very, very quickly. >> laura: and i think the most important thing is that pele keep their eyes wide open. about what is going on in china. listening to the democrats debate, they're trying to talk tonight, we're going to work more closely with china and we -- and they are an important partner in this michael bloomberg said. tonight, it was all what we are going to do with china. we know they are authoritarian but. but trump today was also, you know, pretty positive on how china has been handling this. >> what we have seen right now yes, we would like to cooperate with other countries, including china, but you can't cooperate with a country that doesn't want to -- >> laura: they kicked out the media "the wall street h journal." >> they kicked out "the wall street journal," imposing more severe controls on this, and also restricting the cdc and the nih, for really

investigating the source of the virus. this is a regime in china that wants to do this on its own -- and by the way, laura, starting at the beginning of this month they have been blaming the u.s. and laying the groundwork for saying that the u.s. because the spread of coronavirus. >> laura: i think they want toto use this -- in china, they don't want to deal with trump anymore. the tariffs. for them, the best thing would be is if this hurt trump in his reelection, correct? wouldn't that be good? it was terrible for china, but at least it hurts trump, if they can pull that off. >> i think the chinese don'tea want the president to be reelected because they don't like his unpredicted ability. they hear the words he saidau about xi jinping and cooperating, and they sort of think they are thrown off balance by that because they know the president has really good policies on china, tough ones, resolute, ones -- >> laura: no one has been better on china and no other president other than this president, but it is never good enough for us, because we want -- gordon, great to see you. thanks for being with us. all right, the democrat debate

you you just wrapped up, and as expected, 2020 hopefuls tried to pig pile on front-runner bernie sanders. >> vladimir putin thinks that donald trump should be president of united states, and that is why russia is helping you get elected. >> imagine spending the better part of 2020 with bernie sanders versus donald trump. think about what that would be like for this country. >> i don't believe that aou government takeover of large parts of the economy makes any sense for working people or for families. >> are you saying we should primary barack obama? let's talk about progressive. progressive is getting things done. >> laura: they were kind of echoing the same lame attacks that 2016 g.o.p. also used unsuccessfully, i might add, on donald trump. they are also doing a lot of this. >> okay, here is -- >> here's the math -- >> here's what will happen. >> senator sanders, you are

allowed a quick response. [multiple people talking at once] >> i guess the only way you do this is jump in and speak twice as long as you should. >> laura: oh, my god. it was painful. you add it all up, i think the main take away tonight is bernie sanders' may be a few hours closer to stealing the nomination -- or winning the nomination. trying to steal it from him, to be more accurate. joining me now is fox news contributor newt gingrich former speaker of the house. your big take away, did they land a glove on old bernie? >> oh, i think they landed a couple of gloves on bernie, but it may not have mattered. o what struck me when i watched it tonight, i was really struck -- bernie looks crazed. if you were trying to do a "saturday night live" episode, i don't know who you would get to play bernie, because, with the

glasses and all of the intensity and all of that stuff, he looks like he is just sort of -- he's the uncle who comes to sunday lunch having had too much to drink, and then starts lecturing you about these ideas he's had his whole life. at the same time -- i actually thought bloomberg was better than he was last week. he gained ground. he was clearer, more decisive. but the big take away is here are all of these people looking like children. t having this nasty little argument. 0,re is donald trump with 120,000 people in a stadium, and you say to yourself, none of these folks right now are communicating the kind of stature that would let them compete with trump. i thought, for the democrats as a party, tonight was just one more disaster. >> laura: i think, they are going after bernie, but they are

not really making the case, newt, as to why his policies his ideas, his plans, are you you disastrous, and they would be antigrowth, hurt prosperity hurt savings, hurt investment. they are just saying, that will be an outrage, but they don't go into why this is bad. and for that reason, i think they didn't succeed against sanders. t i think sanders comes out of this debate the winner tonight. it's not wishful thinking, i'm objectively looking at this. i don't think they laid any really substantial glove on bernie sanders. you i mean, he is larry david, so what. larry david is really funny, the grumpy old guy, tells you to get off his lawn. people love that. you >> look, here's the problem the democrats now have. they really have the left-wing you you you radical party in america, and that means, in their cocktail parties and their fund-raisers you you you you sitting around chatting, they all believe, basically, what bernie believes. >> laura: yeah. you you >> so they have no frame want to take him on.

the result is -- and you saw you this tonight, several times saying, we are really progressive, we are really kind you will of all on the same team. r well, if they are all on the bernie team, this election could will will you be one of the great disasters will you for the democratic party in the history of the entire party you you you will you because i think, once you get down to what bernie really means, and what he would do toto you, and your budget, and your family, i think they end up in a catastrophic disaster. and you >> laura: newt, i mentioned and you this earlier in the conversation, with a previous guest, but the democrats tonight actually did try to use the coronavirus to hit trump. watch. >> the president fired the pandemic specialist in this country two years ago. and you >> this president has not f you you you you you you you you you invested like he shouldtw have. in his budget, he tried to cut back on the cdc. h>> we increased the budget of the cdc. we increase the nih budget.th he's wiped all that out.

>> this great genius has told us that the coronavirus is going to end in two months. >> laura: i don't know what he is talking about there god bless him, but newt, how is you you you you will this trump's fault that the you you you chinese lost control of a deadly virus, or other theories about what happened with a deadly virus?y >> first of all, couple of weeks ago, i did a podcast on coronavirus, and had dr. fauci at the national institute of health and probably leading expert on viruses in the world the man who first took on hiv/aids, has a long and remarkable career. the point he was making come of this virus may behave like the flu. the flu comes and then leaves in the spring, and you suddenly no longer have the flu. and it's possible that has the you weather warms up, the virus will -- president trump wasn't sitting on making this up at mar-a-lago, he had been briefed by scientists who said that soso there's a fair chance, sometimes as the weather gets warmer, like flu, this virus will disappear. >> laura: come back next year.

>> yeah. we can't slow down the effort to stop it. let me be very clear, as speaker of the house, actually helped double the budget of the nih. i sound like joe biden for a second. all of the things we did in the past. >> laura: [laughs]or >> the truth is we did doubled the budget i worked closely eveh since with the director of the national institute of health higher-ups -- a lot of money for the center for disease control. you we have the most effective public health service in the world. the center for disease control is the model for the planet. the national institute of health has an enormous amount of resources. you willn you you and they are all working collectively -- we did an amazing job with ebola, and i give biden some credits, i think the obama administration you you you responded to ebola correctly and effectively -- >> laura: but newt, not to interrupt, newt, but the difference is that china is involved. that's the big difference.

and we don't know who patient 0 is. they just kicked out four "wall street journal" reporters some of whom were snooping around and wanting the facts.ti we are not dealing with britainn all good friends, we share information. it's a little different deal than some of the other things in the past. but the idea that the democratso are so desperate to have anything on trump, they almost seemed to be cheerleading what is going on with the economy. when the economy goes down, they are happy. and the economy is going up they are miserable. it's unbelievable. >> well, and frankly, frankly, i said to the last couple of days you you the president's biggest challenge is to have his economic team looking at what are the logistics links to china that could, in fact, cause us to have a slow down in our own economy? will you will not the direct effect of the virus, but thet indirect effecs which is that the chinese economy right now has ground to a halt. there are whole cities where nobody is going to work. and a lot of those cities produce things that are important -- >> laura: maybe they shouldn'tan produce things anymore. maybe we should bring back some of that manufacturing into the united states.

>> right, but then -- trump better make sure, that's what we need to do, do it fast enough that you don't suddenly have a recession in august, september october. >> laura: you got it. >> i would worry about that more than i worry about the epidemic. >> laura: mr. speaker, it's always great to have you on especially on a night like tonight. thank you so much. and when they weren't arguing y who is a bigger racist democrats spent the debate tonight explaining why a socialist shouldn't be there 2020 nominee. they worried it might lead to this. >> if you keep on going, we will elect bernie. bernie will lose to donald trump. and donald trump in the house and the senate and some of the statehouses will all go read. if we cannot pull this party together, if we go to one of those extremes, we take a terrible risk of reelecting donald trump. >> not only is this a way to the

donald trump reelected, we have a house to worried about. we have a senate to worry about. >> laura: and they are all raising their hands all the time. joining me now, ari fleischer former white house press secretary, fox news contributor. chris hahn, former aide to senator chuck schumer, host of the aggressive progressive podcast. your big take away? >> my big take away from a democratic point of view is that they survived. nobody really bombed this time. bloomberg bombs last time. he didn't bomb this time, so he saved himself for the fight for super tuesday. biden did decently, came across as somewhat articulate and with energy from a different joe biden tonight, which is huge for him on the eve of south carolina. but face it, laura, it's a three-way race. bernie, bloomberg, and sanders. >> laura: doesn't it seem and after new hampshire became fairly clear who the three were going to be. ari is right, it's down to those three. tom steyer is just blathering up there. klobuchar, she was very intent on what she was saying, and

buttigieg tried to be very earnest, but none of those guys -- none of those people are going to be president, so they are just making it more likely that bernie becomes- the ultimae nominee. i'm going to stick to what ini said weeks ago on this, that if you don't drop out and coalesce behind one alternative to bernie, bernie is going to run away with it and will be over by the first week, second week of march. >> so, yeah, i mean, bernie is definitely in the driver's seat. i agree with you on that. however, what biden did tonight might help him. he took a nice attack on steyer on private prison investment and if he can back that up with ads, that could cut into what steyer has gone to him in south carolina. look at the polls in south carolina. you he's not really losing ground because bernie is gaining ground, he lost a lot of ground to steyer, who has made an overwhelming investment in south carolina as his last stand state. what biden did tonight was very strategic. he had a good debate. and who knows, maybe this could help and have a bigger margin of victory on saturday in you you you you you

south carolina, and propel him into super tuesday is a real contender. >> laura: i just love how biden did everything in the obama administration. it was basically all his idea all night long. i did this, barack did this. i don't think barack probably give him much except girl scout pinning ceremonies or something. i don't know what he gave biden but he took credit for all of it. i do think there is one weakness that was exhibited from bernie sanders tonight, and this is how he tripled down on it. watch.h. >> cuba made progress on education. [boos] really? really? what barack obama said as they made great progress in education and health care. that was barack obama. america has overthrown governments all over the world. when dictatorships, whether it is the chinese or the cubans do something good, you acknowledge that.

>> laura: and hamas builds all those schools, where else does this hurt bernie beyond florida? >> three times tonight bernie was booed, and he clearly got angry with it and started challenging the audience. in fact, this is the secretin recipe for the other candidates. they put people, supporters and the audience to challenge sanders, when he makes statements like that, and it rattles him. you never seen that before. the other keeper sanders as he has to, in some of these states super tuesday states republicans and independents can vote in the democratic primary. they are open. he's going to have a hard time getting anyone who is in far left. they are going be surprised in some of these polls, where i think bloomberg will win some super tuesday states, and i agree with ari. tonight, mike bloomberg did mucn better than he did the lastt time. the first debate, they beat the crap out of him, but he survived that it ended strongly. >> laura: saying he imprint from the first debate.

[laughs] i don't know what the comparison is. yeah, i would hope so. my goodness. it was pathetic, the first debate. he actually stood up and spoke and defended his record in new york and all of that talking about how he had too many fat people, he basically said that again tonight. i don't think the country is clamoring for bloomberg. i don't see the bloomberg thing. going to stick to what i keep saying, it is bernie unless something weird happens. go ahead, chris. >> you know, laura, policy is about expectations, and he had very low expectations for this debate. he clearly cleared that bar tonight. we will see what happens. this is the last debate before super tuesday. as for biden taking credit we've all worked for elected officials. that is what they do. they are to take credit for everything. whether they did it or not. >> laura: i got to get ari on this. ari said biden did a good job. ari is such a nice person. i think we have all felt bad for biden over the past few days

especially when he said he was running for senate. but he also said this tonight which raised some eyebrows. watch. >> 150 million people have been killed since 2007, when bernie voted to exempt the gun manufacturers from liability. more than all the wars including vietnam, from that point on. carnage on our streets. >> laura: 350,000, mostly suicides with guns, that's a big half of the country. >> i'm not going out of the studio, there is carnage on the streets. i'm afraid. >> laura: at some point doesn't his family say, joe, you had an incredible career. >> that moment passed. we had that chance, and he decided to run for president. that's just a blooper. every politician makes a number's mistake, something like that. biden's issue is that has been his whole persona the entirebi campaign until tonight. and on the eve of south carolina when he needs the win to stay in the race, i think he saved his

campaign for south carolina. >> i think so, too. >> he does a good race in south carolina, he lives to super tuesday. >> laura: frank, there was a moment when bernie was talking about the economy and how it works for just a small sliver of people. watch. >> the economy is doing really great for people like mr. bloomberg and other billionaires. but the ordinary american things are not so good. last year, real wage increases for the average worker were less than 1%. half of our people are living paycheck to paycheck. that is not an economy that is working for the american people. >> laura: frank, does that work? the economy is not working? >> there is a better question than that, and it is a question: are you better off today when you were four years ago? 61% of americans, an all-time high, say yes, they have been

asking that question since 1980 and it's never been higher than that. what bernie sanders doesn't understand is that the averagege american not only is better off today than they were four years ago, but they are expecting the economy and their own situation to improve. he is making a big mistake, and vereally, the only winner tonight -- and you know i havend been occasionally critical -- the winner tonight iss donald trump. what the american people saw is chaos. they were tearing each other apart. they cannot control each other. and the public does not want that. i am only a democrat, but the general public does not want that. >> laura: i wish we had time to talk about how the moderators did, because that was an interesting approach. >> oh, they were horrible. >> laura: nothing personal it's probably hard to do that. i've not done that, except with you guys, and you guys -- you follow the rules pretty well. when people don't stop talking it is a difficult situation. poor old biden kept saying nobody respects me. we kept saying nobody respects a

nice gentleman. >> they also never asked biden about getting arrested in south africa. i missed an opportunity. >> attack, attack, attack. >> laura: they are for pot legalization, we know that. you you we didn't have to spend 5 or 10 minutes on that subject. i'm not sure why that was always brought up. thank you so much. inbj moments, we will continue r coverage of the democrat debate take you inside the debate spin room. plus, are his opponents missing a big story about bernie sanders' heart health? a renowned cardiologist has answers next. bernie sanders' heart health?

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♪ >> laura: the democrat debate has mercifully ended, and for millions of americans watching, i probably looked like a chaotic mess, like dinner at my house. with a bunch of people yelling at each other. oh, and mayor pete, he was there, mr. perfect. but what is the mood in the debate arena in south carolina now that it is all over? to find out, let's go to fox's peter doocy, live in charleston with all of the latest. peter? >> and laura, there is still a lot of yelling as people are trying to get in position to get the candidates that are coming out. i see bernie sanders coming through a door, but not in our direction right now. this is a debate with everyone on stage said they support legalizing marijuana, except for michael bloomberg. he just wants to decriminalize it. it's not the only time bloomberg

was by himself, essentially, on stage over there at stage left. >> you are right, the economy is doing really great for people like mr. bloomberg and other billionaires. >> i think that donald trump thinks it would be better if he is president. i do not think so. vladimir putin thinks that donald trump should be president of the united states, and that is why russia is helping you get elected. >> joe biden was asked tonight if he is going to drop out if he loses south carolina, and heif only dodged to say he is going to win south carolina, so no real answer there. for the second night in a row elizabeth warren tried to use bloomberg's words against him. this time using her own struggles with pregnancy discrimination and someone who accused bloomberg of making inappropriate remarks to her. >> at least i didn't have a boss who said to me, kill it. the way that mayor bloomberg -- >> never said that --

>> alleged to have had to one of his pregnant employees. >> this is the first of ten you debate spin room is the cycle where other candidates are coming out and are talking about the front-runner in the fieldie right now being bernie sanders and also the first time, laura he has been center stage by himself on a debate stage. back to you. >> laura: peter, have fun in there.ta hope they start walking towards you. we are we watching tomorrow morning on "fox & friends" andre "fox news @ night." thank you so much. >> he has released is much as anybody else has in this race. >> the only candidate who has you had a heart attack in the race. you you will you will >> well, that's true, but other people have conditions. mike bloomberg has stents, as you you know. will and joe biden has had health issues. if you follow bernie sanders on the trail and can talk to shaq who follows him. i tell you, he runs those young reporters ragged on the road. >> laura: 2020 candidates give bernie sanders a pass, tonight for refusing to release his medical records after his heart

attack a few months ago. my next guest says they are absolutely right to question bernie's health. you joining me now iss dr. ramin oskoui. why is it so important that bernie releases for medical records? >> the long answer short as he could die in office.e. his heart is significantly damaged by the attack he had, we need to know that. as a voter, you want to know whether or not he is at risk of sudden cardiac death if that happens. >> laura: anyone can die in office. for some people say, why is it fair, discriminating against and people who had a challenge? as you heard from the previous clip, anyone can have a heart stent. bloomberg had a stent. stents all the way around. >> stents for everyone. you but no, bernie sanders had a heart attack.sa he has had stents put in -- two stents -- and that is different sfrom mike bloomberg.

the issue is how strong is his heart now? we know based on how strong his heart is, whether or not he will be predisposed to developing congestive heart failure needing another stent procedure and possibly been able to survive and finish his term of office. >> laura: here is how bernieie i dr. oskoui, responded to the criticism. >> we released reports from two leaving vermont cardiologists who said bernie sanders is mored than able to deal with the stress and the vigor of being president of the united states. follow me around the campaign trail three, four, five events a day, see how you are doing to pass me. >> laura: dr. oskoui, do you have the vigor of bernie? >> i have more than the vigor of bernie. if i were having to clear him to work as an ambassador, to work as a firefighter, an airline pilot, it would be expected i would provide what his ejection fraction is. >> laura: ejection fraction. explained that. >> it is the amount of blood in the heart when the heart contracts and is pushed forward.

normally,co it is more than 55%. his may be impaired because of his heart attack. >> laura: we don't know thebe ejection fraction -- i'm learning something new. this is why i love having you on on. t the ejection fraction is a significant reading we need to know? >> it is a strong predictor. >> laura: should we all have these? now you have me worried. >> we should know what the other arteries look like. he may have diseases and other arteries and they put in the stent because he didn't want to take him to bypass. >> laura: i know liberals would say -- we know they are watching, it is their guilty pleasure -- trump eats unhealthily, could lose a few pounds, bernie is a much better shape. speak anecdotally. >> who would know, right? trump at least has been transparent. he puts his records out. he takes a stress test. you don't bernie sanders stress test looks?

no one does. >> laura: how was trump's stress test? it was good? what you think he needs to do for his health? >> i think he needs to cut out the starches. >> laura: the starches? everything white, flour, sugar? >> flour, sugar, exactly. >> laura: dr. oskoui, great to see you. and coming up, joe biden's campaign is pinning all of their hopes on a big win in south carolina this week, but is biden heading for victory or defeat? horace cooper, scott bolden steve cortes debate it next.

>> i worked like the devil to earn the vote of the african-american community. not just here but across the country. >> improve the school system for

black and brown students in new york city. >> i come with this with humility because i acknowledge that either seven white people on the stage talking about racial justice. >> every single policy area in the united states has a gigantic subtext of race, and i'm the only person on the stage who believes in reparations for slavery. >> laura: the issue of race taking center stage tonight in south carolina, a state where 60% of the primary voters are african-american. joining me now horace cooper scott bolden. and steve cortes, america first national spokesman. scott, why should black voters support biden?ic >> he is super qualified, one. two, the long term connection with obama. whether obama is walking through the presidential door or not, he has that connection and is wrapping himself in it. barack obama was one of the most popular presidents in this country.

politics and elections are about connecting with people, and they feel that connection with biden. >> laura: horace, he said he earned their votes in south carolina? >> a couple of times, he says he earned it and a couple of times he said they owed him, he was a little confused about it h all. what is really clear is i haven't seen anything over the last four years that he has done that is particularly helpful toe the interests of black america. he goes to the one state with the largest percentage of blacks so far in this lineup, and essentially says, you have to decide if i get to go forward or not. that is what this is really about. does he get to go forward? >> how do you explain on a national level as well as south carolina, he continues to lead in the polls, one, but -- >> laura: every debate -- every chance he's got. steve, hold on, i want to get to steve on this. look at the numbers tonight with

a art in carolina. biden is still up, but not by as much among african-americans but still up 10%, okay, up 32-22. sanders is up, 20% with different poll in front of me. the african-american vote is 22%, steyer 18 elizabeth warren 7. is this possible at this point that sanders could somehow jump ten points and tie him, if these polls are accurate, among african-american voters? this is biden's to lose in south carolina, and it has been for some time. >> this is the important take away, particularly for someone like me, who is trying to reelect the president. normally winning presidential messaging is about optimism on america. ppe hope and change, make america great again, morning in america. what we heard described tonight was a racist dystopian hellscape

that america is by all of these candidates. i've never seen so much pandering from a bunch of rich elite whites toward minorities as we saw tonight. whatever happens in south carolina, they are doing themselves for the election in november, because by the way the america they describe, one thing that crosses my mind is a hispanic, the america they describe, why other tens of millions of people around the world, most of them not light clamoring to get to this country, if we are -- >> laura: tweeted that earlier. i tweeted that earlier tonight. it's a pretty negative view of things. >> donald trump, this dystopian jurisdiction. i remember donald trump running for office, he did his rnc speech, and he was very dystopian about the state of black america and america. >> laura: do remember race relations in october 2016, when barack obama was president? >> he was driving that

narrative. >> laura: wait a second, got to understand this. the good economy is because ofe. obama, and when obama was president and race relations went down, that was because of trump? >> i didn't say barack obama hap a great economy, he turned over a great economy to donald trump but inherited an awful economy from bush two. he's got to concede that. >> laura: we had an african-american president for ceight years. >> and white america -- many portions of white america -- >> laura: voted for him! if it weren't for those voters he wouldn'tit have become president. >> those voters hated barack obama.ot >> laura: not because he was black, they didn't like the policies. >> it may not have all been race -- >> hold on -- >> i didn't say it was all b race-based, but there are segments of his voters that it is race-based. >> that guy on twitter talking

about how he and the klan were supporting hillary clinton. >> laura: go ahead, steve. >> that is demonstrably false. the voters who made the difference in the upper midwest who switched parties or had voted for barack obama and then voted for donald trump, for you to call those voters racist is ludicrous and factually untrue. >> i did not do it. a portion of his supporters, is based on race. >> laura: there's a portion of obama's voters sympathetic to communism. o you can do that with any group of voters. there's always some bad apples. hold on -- hold on. i'm going to control this unlike the moderators tonight. steve, here was biden tonight on housing. >> right now, if you live in a black neighborhood and have the same exact house is a guy across the street that a white guy hasv yours is valued less. we've got to deal with institutional -- >> mr. vice president --

>> i love how you cut me off all the time. >> laura: there was a lot of discussion of institutional racism, when we have seen historic gain across every ethnic line. the state of the economy improved under obama, for sure under the horrible situation he inherited. but it's gotten a lot better over the last three years for everyone, thank goodness. doesn't sound like it tonight. >> what blacks in south carolina are interested in is how many of them can buy a new car? how many of them are going to get a better job? how many of them are going to be able to do those kinds of things they wanted to do? expand the house, put in a new bathroom? if you offer that as an agenda you will get their support.l if you tell us that you want to throw all of this out, with all of this crazy democrat socialism, guess what? what you are going to see is some fall off, there is no

one -- >> laura: hold on, i want to ask steve this. do you think the democrats tonight who wanted to out bernie or hurt him in this campaign, did they really got the substance of his ideas, or do they just talk about his electability? >> how you pay for medicare for all, they did go to the substance. >> laura: it would collapse the health care system. >> when you get to cuba -- you may not think much of it, but i think america still cares. >> laura: steve cortes, did buttigieg, mr. smarty-pants rhodes scholar, did he look at bernie and say, was fidel castro a dictator, bernie? was he a dictator? no, he didn't ask that question. >> right. exactly, because he didn't want to get to the substance. they race-baited all night. they are trying to spread fear among minorities because they don't want to talk about the reality, which is that the economy is thriving for minorities in america right nowo

not just much is my opinion, it's is there is. 49% economic approval. >> laura: wages are growing across every economic spectrum. all the time we have tonight. shannon bream on the "fox news @ night" team take it from here. ♪ >> we begin tonight with a fox news alert. we are taking a live look at the spin room in south carolina. on the stage, the democratic residential candidates were at it again ahead of the primary in the palmetto state. how far was the race to the left? highlights, lowlife scum analysis, winners, losers, all straight ahead. he e >> we begin with a fox news alert, live look at the spin room in charleston, south carolina on the stage, the democratic presidential candidates were at it again debating ahead of the primary in the palmetto state. how far was the race to the left, highlights, malaise, analysis, winners, losers, all straight ahead. it did not take long for tempers to flare. >> you are right.ll the economy is doing really great for people like mister bloomberg and other