fruit. >> great, cannot grow unless the terrain is rocky. her message is awesome. watch it on fox nation as soon as you can. >> sandra: a contentious and at times chaotic debate last night. good morning, everyone. it was a late night watching that all. >> ed: i'm ed henry, good to see you. the headline in the post sums it up. party bashers, the lion's shares at those attacks directed at bernie sanders and michael bloomberg as several campaigns fight for their political lives. >> you are hearing it here tonight. the ideas i'm talking about are radical. they're not. >> that's why russia is helping you get elected so you'll lose to him. >> imagine spending the better part of 2020 with bernie sanders versus donald trump.

>> bernie hasn't passed much of anything. i'm not out of time. you spoke over time and i'm going to talk. here is the deal. here is the deal. >> bernie and i agee on a lot of things but i think i will make a better president than bernie. i dug in, did the work, and bernie's team trashed me for it. >> we can get the bold, progressive things done without having someone so alienating that we'll turn off the voters. >> this conversation shows a huge risk for the democratic party. >> ed: risk indeed. griff jenkins has more on the highlights and low lights from charleston, this morning. >> good morning, ed. boy, messy, chaotic, sanders relished all the attention in the attacks he got. it was very clear all the candidates trying to slow sanders' momentum. sanders was attacked 33 times. biden, you heard how he

intimated how passionate biden became. he has led here but his lead has narrowed to four points. he laid down the marker, which is really the highest marker he could that he will win here. listen. >> the people know me, my entire career has been wrapped up in dealing with civil rights and civil liberties. i intend to win south carolina and i will win the african-american vote here in south carolina. >> if you don't win south carolina will you continue? >> i will win south carolina. >> careful how high you set your expectations. we'll find out in three days. warren and bloomberg getting into it. bloomberg trying to improve on his nevada performance and warren going after him and calling him risky. >> i don't care how much money mayor bloomberg has. the core of the democratic

party will never trust him. he has not earned their trust. i will. and the fact that he cannot earn the trust of the core of the democratic party means he is the most risky candidate standing on this stage. >> interesting line of attack. clearly bloomberg is not on the ballot here. he shows up next tuesday in 16 states. warren positioning herself perhaps to take on the former north carolina city mayor. she got the "boston globe" endorsement in massachusetts. in all eyes in the next half hour, important endorsement in south carolina, congressman clyburn. many think it will be joe biden. >> ed: thank you. >> when i came into office, zero new york city schools were in the top 25 of the state. when i left, 23 out of 25 were from new york city.

we've cut the gap between the rich and the poor. we've made an enormous difference in all the options that parents have. i raised teacher's salaries by 43%, $5 billion into the school system. i valued indication. the only way to solve the poverty problem is to get people a good education and rather than just talk about it in new york, we actually did it. >> sandra: michael bloomberg getting credit for improved performance at last night's debate facing a steady stream of attacks. here is bloomberg campaign co-chair and mayor in south carolina steve benjamin. >> thank you for having me. >> sandra: we're doing well. how is your candidate doing? how did the performance of mike bloomberg play over last night? >> mike was fantastic last night. a great debate. more importantly a great opportunity to show people why he will be a fantastic president. i just heard you guys play back

his answer on education. it was a classic mike bloomberg. the fact that he didn't just talk about things. he gets things done. showed how new york city had a challenge in education when he became mayor in the wake of 9/11 and how he attacked and solved the problem. raised teacher pay, closed achievement gaps. he solved the problem. he didn't just talk about it. >> sandra: improved performance you might find agreement on. fantastic is hard to find about his performance last night. here is a moment where elizabeth warren dug in on his past comments on women. >> at least i didn't have a boss who said to me kill it the way that mayor bloomberg -- >> i never said that. come on. >> to one of his pregnant employees. people want a chance to hear. people want a chance to hear from the women who --

>> i never said that. >> sandra: as you can see the candidate denied that claim. he has denied that claim in the past. she was asked for evidence of that. she said the woman who said that that happened, this is about an incident allegedly where mike bloomberg said to a female employee kill it when he learned of her pregnancy. so first of all, what is mike bloomberg saying about that moment this morning? and she is calling for the release of more non-disclosure agreements. more of a blanket release. does he plan to do anything more? >> mike was crystal clear that statement wasn't true. he challenged senator warren on stage and even more importantly, you might go back 40 years since he started his company in 1980. he has released the folks from those ndas. even more importantly he has shown leadership being the first corporation in america to establish they would no longer

ndas. his leadership will have an impact across the spectrum of corporate america. the question was asked. it was answered. now we are getting some significant corporate reforms as a result of it. that's all i can say. >> sandra: another moment "washington post" headline asking the question did he almost say he bought members of congress? here is that moment last night. >> i spent $100 million to help elect all of the new democrats that came in, put nancy pelosi in charge and gave the congress the ability to control this president. i bo -- i got them. >> sandra: he changed the wording of that from bought to got them. >> sandra: well, i'll just say the facts are clear. mike bloomberg weighed in heavily in the elections of 2018. he wanted to make sure there

was some check on president trump. his support of democrats who were supported in the general election by republicans, independents and democrats gave speaker pelosi leadership of the house and put some checks and balances in managing president trump. he supports people on both sides of the aisle and also defends those who think it's important for the american people. >> sandra: i'm running out of time. so much to ask you about. there was a couple of moments where mike bloomberg attempted some humor in the debate last night. some moments didn't go over so well. people are wondering did he plan those jokes? did somebody work on that with him? >> well, i will tell you mike's humor is dry. he is a funny guy but this is a guy who builds himself up from scratch. he is what you see. he is a hard worker, gets up

early in the morning. the first guy in the room, last one there. i can't speak to his comedian talent but he is serious, a man who will lead this country well and we're excited about his leadership as president. not necessarily as a joke teller. >> sandra: is he happy about his performance last night? have you spoken to him? >> i had a chance to speak to mike last night. he was happy. he is always very measured. the rallies, he stepped into this race late. he thought the leadership of trump was a threat to the republic that allowed him to build himself up from scratch. sober and thoughtful how he can win it and provide leadership in the white house. >> sandra: please come back soon, good to have you here. >> thank you for having me. >> sandra: hard to pick and choose a moment from last night. there were so many. many wondering this morning for the party was this overall a good look and were there any winners? >> ed: the winner might be

bernie sanders or president trump is what a lot of people are saying. axios saying the democratic brawl leaves sanders in command. all the brawling left sanders still as the frontrunner. something dramatic has to change in south carolina super tuesday or otherwise sanders is in the lead. >> sandra: quit a night. >> ed: fox news alert right now. president trump will hold a news conference at 6:00 p.m. eastern today on the outbreak. meanwhile health officials warning americans prepare for the disease that has killed over 2700 people worldwide to start spreading here in america. this as a number of americans infected has jumped to 57. >> it's not so much a question of if this will happen anymore, rather a question of exactly when this will happen. we're putting our concerns to work preparing and now is the time for businesses, hospitals, communities, schools and everyday people to begin preparing as well. >> ed: jonathan serry is leave

in atlanta where the cdc is based. they had a stark warning yesterday. >> they did. the closest i've heard them talk about a pandemic. they aren't calling it that yet but they say that it may just be a matter of time before they are dealing with ongoing community spread in this country. meanwhile, overseas an american soldier stationed at camp carroll in south korea has become the first active duty u.s. service member to test positive for covid-19. army officials say the 23-year-old is quar an taoeng himself at his off-base residence. there was another one involving a military widow using stores on base. >> we're doing a very thorough trace history of this service member. same thing we did for case number one yesterday. we're doing the same thing today. we're going to know everywhere the service member and his family have been over the last week. >> one of the infected american

cruise ship passengers flown to omaha, nebraska earlier this month enrolled in the first u.s. clinical trial of a drug to treat covid-19. it was originally developed to treaty bola but it has some activity in coronavirus in animals. >> we don't know if the medication will have the same effect in human beings and why we need to have this trial. >> there is no approved treatment and no vaccine currently against the covid-19 coronavirus. they would like to develop one but in the meantime here in the u.s. the policy is containment and should this outbreak turn into a pandemic with ongoing community spread in the u.s., they will shift to a policy of mitigation, trying to minimize the consequences of a pandemic. >> ed: thank you, jonathan serrie. much more on this throughout

the program. president trump a news conference at 6:00 p.m. eastern time. we'll be diving deep on where we stand on a possible vaccine when doctor anthony fauci joins us at the bottom of this hour. he is the head of the national institute of allergy and infectious diseases. >> sandra: fox news alert on another story we're watching for you this morning. an explosion sparking a massive firelighting up the sky near los angeles. what happened there? >> ed: wow. bernie sanders taking flak for his comments defending cuban dictator fidel castro. new reaction from the trump campaign. that is straight ahead. >> this man said that in fact he thought it was -- he did not condemn what they did. >> that is untrue, categorically untrue. >> what did you tell them? >> i condemned authoritarianism whether it's -- >> how about cuba and nicaragua?

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>> what i said is what barack obama said in terms of cuba. that cuba made progress on education. yes, i think -- really? really? dictatorships, whether the chinese or cubans do something good you acknowledge that. but you don't have to trade

love letters with them. >> sandra: bernie sanders doubling down on his defense of fidel castro praising social welfare programs under the castro regime despite brutal -- this is mercedes schlapp. you come from a unique perspective on all this having witnessed your father's imprisonment by the castro regime. what did you think when you heard bernie sanders doubling down on that? >> well, it is so disturbing for those of us who understand the plight of the cuban people. my family was one of thousands who were impacted by the fidel castro regime. fidel castro took away the freedoms of the cuban people. my father, who built his life there and was successful, everything was taken away from him and when he stood up

against fidel castro, was thrown into jail and tortured. many of his friends were killed and those are just -- my father's story is just one of many. i will tell you it is learning about this history and understanding the evils of communism and socialism, the government takeover of these countries that leads to the destruction of these countries where at the end of the day the people suffer. and for bernie sanders and for biden to support these policies that basically praise the dictator and the regime. we have to remember it was president obama who went over to cuba, sat with fidel castro -- with raul castro at the baseball game and praised the healthcare system. it's the same from democrats when it comes to cuba. >> sandra: pete buttigieg took on those views on the stage last night.

>> we are not going to survive or succeed and certainly not going to win by reliving the cold war and we aren't going to win these critical, critical house and senate races if people in those races have to explain why the nominee of the democratic party is telling people to look at the bright side of the castro regime. we have to be a lot smarter about that. >> sandra: so he clearly was sending a message to his follow democrats on that stage to be careful about the way that they are approaching this. some have pointed out it is not like these are -- these were comments that resurfaced from bernie sanders 20 or 30 years ago. he said this on 60 minutes over the weekend and since chosen to double, triple down on those comments and not soften them. >> yeah. i think that there is this romance that bernie has with these dictators and just simply with the marxist approach to ideology. and you can see it penetrating

in his policies when you look at medicare for all. and the democrats' policies. when you look at medicare for all, government takeover of our healthcare system. which is moving towards just more government intrusion when it comes to our freedoms. i think that that is where president -- that's where i think where president trump is such a big contrast to what we're seeing with these democrat candidates where president trump has made it clear he is like we need to -- >> sandra: i'm running out of time. i want to ask you this as far as your campaign is concerned, the trump campaign looking at what happened last night. did anything change? final thoughts. >> i think you continue to see chaos and division within the democrat party and quite frankly, you are seeing bernie still in a strong position. biden is trying to make a comeback. but i have to tell you, the party does represent the far left of the democrat party. that's where their heart is at.

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>> first of all, first of all -- >> let me talk. >> she was talking about my plan, not yours. >> i think we were talking about mafmgt it doesn't take two hours to do the math. >> let's talk about math. >> let's talk about math. here is the math. you -- >> bernie sanders, you are allowed a quick response. >> the fact is -- i'm not out of time. you spoke over time and i'm going to talk. here is the deal.

>> ed: the debate repeatedly going into crosstalk. howie kurtz is here. my head hurts just watching it. >> i'll be going over my time. i want to keep on talking. i want to interrupt you now. it was unwatchable at times. it is hard to rein in candidates on a stage in such a make or break debate. gale king, nora o'donnell and cbs colleagues repeatedly let it get out of control. watching nba players fouling each other and no ref. they needed a buzzer, a whistle. the people who interrupted kept getting rewarded with more air time. the reason this matters is that it had the net effect of diluting the scrutiny of bernie sanders who is now the undisputed frontrunner in this race. >> ed: a very important point. the fidel castro thing first of all which took on a life of its own on cbs news, 60 minutes, the anderson cooper interview with bernie sanders where he

would not back down from his previous support of fidel castro and the next day he doubles down and all the rest. here is cbs news and they don't ask him about it. it comes up very late in the debate. >> right, late in the debate. mostly raised by other candidates. look, there were good questions from the moderators. nora o'donnell said you haven't explained the $60 trillion in new programs you're putting forward. he threw out numbers how medicare for all would save money. they moved on. there was no sustained follow-up on these kinds of questions. look, the press collectively misjudged and miscalculated on the bernie sanders' candidacy the magnitude of what happened in 2015 and 2016 when so many said donald trump couldn't win. it is now time to hold this guy accountable. it didn't happen. bernie got rattled at times from other candidates and had a bad vote on gun control measures. by and large the moderators

were drowned out by all the chaos on that stage. >> ed: a moment ago you said the moderators needed a bell, whistle, refs whistle in an nba game. megan mccain. this is worse than any bad day at the view hot topics table. at least whoopie has the bell. what do you think? >> that's saying a lot. there is a fine line here. for example, when elizabeth warren and michael bloomberg were going at it after treatment of women at his company. it obscured everything else. i do think there is an art. cbs was the sponsor of this debate. was responsible for controlling it. the more we had the crosstalk it was just very hard to listen to to understand what they were saying. that hurt all the candidates. and again, a missed opportunity to hold bernie sanders accountable when he doubles

down and triples down on castro rather than saying he doesn't lead with a criticism but the wonderful things the castro regime did. it was a prime opportunity for cbs to press him. as you say it came up late. >> ed: maybe the voters lose. we're the eve on the first in the south primary and you have super tuesday coming up. there wasn't a lot of light shed last night. >> which is good for bernie. >> ed: that's your point. appreciate it. howie. >> sandra: thanks, as the candidates look ahead to super tuesday, amy klobuchar fighting to keep her campaign alive. bret baier and martha maccallum host a town hall with her on the fox news channel tomorrow night at 6:30 p.m. eastern time. >> ed: we'll be all over that. trading about to get underway on wall street. we're watching that. futures signaling a bit of a rebound after a two-day plunge. >> sandra: growing concerns over the coronavirus and its potential spread in the united states. so are we any closer to a vaccine yet?

the head of the national institute of allergy and infectious diseases dr. anthony fauci joins us with an update next. >> when our plan is in place to try to then isolate as much as we can people who might be carriers of this particular virus. i think there is truly an all hands on deck effort to find out.

>> ed: james clyburn ahead of the saturday primary appears to be about to endorse joe biden. >> my parents sacrificed for us. and what we owed to our children and all the other children similarly situated. we often talked about the leadership of this country and there is nobody who emmett loved as a leader in this

country more than she loved joe biden. and we talked about joe all the time. and so, as i was trying to make up my mind what i should do and when i should do it, i was informed that my accountant had passed away. and his funeral was last friday in a rural part of richland county. i went to the funeral, i got there about 30 minutes early, and i was walking around speaking to people. many of whom i had not seen in a long time and i spoke to them and there was an elderly lady in her upper 80s sitting on the front pew of the church just a few seats away from the coffin.

she looked at me and she beckoned to me. didn't say a word, just beckoned. i went over to her, she said lean down. i need to ask you a question. i leaned down and she said you don't have to say it out loud. but would you just whisper in my ear who are you going to vote for next saturday? i've been waiting to hear from you. i need to hear from you. this community wants to hear from you. i decided then and there that i would not stay silent.

in his letter from birmingham jail wrote that he was coming to the conclusion that the people of ill will in our society was making a much better use of time than the people of goodwill. and he feared that we would regret not just for the vitriolic words of bad people, but for the silence of good people. the pall and silence of good people. i decided after that experience last friday with that elderly constituent and my background experiences and studies, that i would break my silence today. and i've been saying to the

media, i've known for a long time who i am going to vote for. but i had not decided when to share it with the public. but i want the public to know that i am voting for joe biden. south carolina should be voting for joe biden and here is why. >> ed: it is official, james clyburn, a very influential leader in the congress, influential leader, previous head of the congressional black caucus now the whip in the democratic leadership is endorsing joe biden the former vice president. interesting, sandra, he spoke very emotionally about his wife, emily. she passed away in september of 2019. they actually met in jail after both being arrested as civil rights demonstration in 1960. married 58 years. he said she was a big fan of joe biden. he will break his silence. see how influential it is. >> sandra: he put out on his

twitter feed. i know his character and heart and record. biden has stood for the hard working people of south carolina. we know joe, but more importantly he knows us. in south carolina we choose presidents. i'm calling on you to stand with joe biden. >> ed: very interesting. saturday night a big primary. we'll be watching. >> the immediate risk to the general american public remains low. but as we have learned, that has the potential to change quickly. >> it is not so much a question of if it will happen anymore but rather more of exactly when this will happen and how many people in this country will become infected. >> ed: top health officials warning of coronavirus outbreaks here in the u.s. and significant disruptions to all of our daily lives. as the number of cases surge outside of china. president trump will hold a news conference tonight on the coronavirus situation with cdc officials this evening 6:00

p.m. eastern. next guest is set to testify today on capitol hill about all of this. dr. anthony fauci is the head of the national institute of allergy and infectious diseases. appreciate you coming in on a very busy day. >> good to be with you. >> ed: cdc officials said this crisis coming to the u.s. is very likely. one official saying quote, unquote, it could be bad. how bad? >> well, you know, we don't know. we always have to be prepared for the worst. right now the containment of the cases in the united states is really good. there have been no secondary cases. but it is often we're influenced by what goes on on the outside. when you see transmissions that are multi-generational in places like south korea, italy, japan, iran, there is a danger it will turn into a true pandemic. and if it does, we will have to deal with it. we cannot make ourselves be

completely excluded from that because pandemics don't know geographic boundaries. that's really what the cdc was saying. although things are under control now, we need to be prepared for the eventualal that may go into community spread. >> ed: on one hand you and others have been on the program saying wash your hands, things are safe, low risk. on the other hand it could be a pandemic and could become a real problem. i noticed a week ago you said to the usa today in a round table the risk of coronavirus, a week ago, in this country is still relatively low but as i said, you added, this could change. so that was a week ago. what in your mind has changed? >> nothing has changed now except that we are seeing more and more transmissions in other countries. and the more you see outside of

the united states, the greater the risk of this spilling over into the united states. so the risk as i mentioned right now today is still low. nothing has changed in our country. but things have changed outside, which may ultimately have an impact here. so it's not really imcompatible. you have to be prepared for things to happen that are beyond your control. >> ed: let's look forward and let you put together the message exactly as you see fit. are you the expert and i'm not. president holding a news conference tonight at 6:00 p.m. eastern at the white house with cdc officials. if you had an index card and you could write on there what you think the president should tell the public to calm them but also warn them about the serious risks, what would that index card say? >> the index card would say that at the present time things are under control here. realistically we need to be prepared for the possibility

and maybe the likelihood that we will see more cases here. and the degree to which we can contain them will determine the impact on the country. we have a pandemic prepareedness plan. we need to dust it off and get ready to implement it. >> ed: you are confident that plan will help make sure that this stays under control quickly? >> well, it certainly will help. you never can predict a pandemic, how bad it will be. i mean, historically there have been devastating pandemics. the 1918 one, of course, the one that everyone talks about. but there have been other pandemics that have been moderate like 1968. one that was worse in 1957. relatively mild one in 2009. those were all influenza. we're talking now about a different virus, a coronavirus virus a bit different from

influenza. >> ed: we know you are working around and clock and appreciate you coming in. >> good to be with you. >> sandra: 2020 democrats trying to make their case in the final debate before super tuesday. so did anyone manage to move the needle last night? next! oh, susan

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have you seen the "new york post" this morning? here is the cover. party bashers, rivals tear each other and democratic party apart in nasty debate. what did you think about what you saw last night, marc? >> going into the break you asked whether it moved the needle. what it did is move a lot of people to change the channel. it was unwatchable. it was -- people yelling at each other, talking over each other, flailing their arms, screaming and yelling. it was a hot mess. but that's the democratic primary is a hot mess. the democrats are right now on track to nominate a socialist who honey mooned in the soviet and embraced cuba and venezuela as examples for america. the lesser animals of the forest as much as they clawed and snarled, couldn't bring him down. until they can, then the

democrat party is in a world of hurt. >> sandra: pete buttigieg took on bernie sanders last night. a back and forth where sanders was actually challenged on the cost of some of his proposals. here is that moment. >> i am not looking forward to a scenario where it comes down to donald trump with his nostalgia for the social order of the 1950s and bernie sanders with nostalgia for the revolutionary policies of the 1960. >> do we think healthcare for all is a communist idea? i'm happy to respond to the question. the things you named -- the way you are talking about doing it is radical. >> it's why i'm beating trump in virtually every poll. >> sandra: hands flailing, people talking over each other. that was another moment, marc. >> pete buttigieg made the mistake of trying to speak over comrade sanders when he was commanding the audience. that was his first mistake.

look, i think they -- the democratic candidates -- pete buttigieg says he has $50 trillion in spending plans. it's wrong about half. the manhattan institute calculated the cost of sanders' spending plans, $97.5 trillion. let me say that again. $97.5 trillion. the total household wealth of every single american in 2018 was $98 trillion. the value of all the homes and cars, college funds, pension plans, retirement funds that we have, all our assets is $98 trillion. he wants to spend $97.5. if bernie sanders is elected 70% of gdp will be spent by government at all levels and half of all americans will be working for the government. that is just the idea that we would nominate somebody with those kinds of plans and that person has a realistic chance of becoming president of the united states is terrifying. >> sandra: didn't stop him from

touting those proposals last night. some light hearted moments on the stage last night. this moment where the candidates were asked to share their biggest misconceptions. >> i'm defined by business success and money. >> the biggest misconception is that i'm boring. >> i have more hair than i think i do. >> misconception and you are hearing it tonight. the ideas are radical. they're not. >> don't eat very much. in fact, i eat all the time. >> not passionate. i get that i'm kind of level. some say unflappable. i don't think you want a president who a flappable but precisely because i'm so passionate. >> that i'm six feet tall. >> sandra: biggest misconception is that i had more time. thank you for joining us. see you soon. >> ed: new action on the hill meanwhile after the justice department releases its i.g. report on potential fisa abuse. what attorney general bill barr is trying to do with the fisa

warrant process. and house minority whip steve scalise will join us next hour on that and a whole lot more.

>> ed: a brand-new twist this morning in the search for two kids reported missing in idaho as their mother heads to court today in hawaii hoping to reduce her bail. rick leventhal is live in the west coast newsroom this morning. >> it's been more than five months since lori vallow's two kids went missing in idaho and three months since she and her new husband took off for hawaii. today she will ask for a reduction in her bail and no word on where her son and daughter might be. we have video, the last known video of 7-year-old joshua vallow captured on a doorbell camera playing outside in mid

september. his 17-year-old sister was seen that march in yellow stone park on a day trip for her mom and uncle. they're search for her in the national park once the snow melts. lori vallow -- police say she lied about the children's whereabouts and a flight risk and surrounded by sudden deaths. her brother killed her estranged husband last july and he died in september and her new husband's former wife died in october. prosecutors remain optimistic about the kids' safety. >> hopefully our involvement in this process can lead to some kind of just resolution to this case and of course we are also hoping against hope that the kids are out there somewhere and will be reunited with their other family members at some point. >> vallow's attorney is arguing the bail should be reduced from

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>> sandra: fox news alert on the coronavirus. president trump set to hold a news conference at the-out break on the white house tonight just announced. it comes one day after the cdc came out with an urgent warning to start preparing for the illness to spread here at home. this all as san francisco now declares a state of emergency over the disease despite no one there actually being diagnosed so far. >> ed: meanwhile in south korea more than 1200 people have been infected now and a u.s. service member is now the first american there to test positive. health officials here at home saying quote, unquote, this could be bad. >> it's not so much a question of if this will happen anymore, but rather more a question of exactly when this will happen, and how many people in this country will become infected and how many of those will develop severe or more complicated disease. >> sandra: a lot more on this coming up in a few moments with a live report.

but first senator bernie sanders taking fire from all sides in the last democratic debate before the south carolina primary on saturday and the critical super tuesday contest next week. welcome to a brand-new hour of "america's newsroom," i'm sandra smith. >> ed: i'm ed henry. a little interrupting the 2020 democrats slamming sanders on communism in the wake of his comments praising the fidel castro regime for his literacy program and massive spending plans. not giving details on that. some candidates warning a sanders' nomination would insure president trump's reelection and down ballot disaster for credits. >> vladimir putin thinks that donald trump should be president of the united states and why russia is helping you get elected so you'll lose to him. >> ed: bernie and i agree on a lot of things. i think i would make a better president than bernie. >> if you think the last four years has been chaotic, divisive, toxic, exhausting,

imagine spending the better part of 2020 with bernie sanders versus donald trump. >> i'm hearing my name mentioned a little bit tonight. if you want to beat trip you'll need an unprecedented grassroots movement. >> ed: buckle up for the a-team. brad blakeman. leslie marshall, james freeman, assistant editor for the "wall street journal" editorial page and fox news contributor. good morning. leslie, democrat at the table. >> yes. >> ed: there is a lot of arguing. i get it the folks who may have to drop out soon are trying to hard to get their voice in there and interrupt. does it help the democrats to have such a food fight? >> it doesn't help the party as far as unity. but i think -- what i saw last night was moderate democrats really pleading to the people watching and fighting for the soul of the party. a lot of people feel, myself included, that if bernie

sanders continues to talk like he does and continues to put forth items on his agenda that not only don't add up financially but can't pass with votes, the democratic party is going to be doomed. the polls can't all be wrong. >> sandra: who are the moderate democrats that you are talking about? >> joe biden, bloomberg, buttigieg, and klobuchar. >> sandra: worth asking, right? everybody but elizabeth warren. she is in between where bernie is in the moderates leaning more toward bernie. >> this is the year of the socialist democrat. it will be a nominee or platform. either way they're already wed to socialist democratic policies. all of them buy into some form of socialist healthcare system. dead on arrival in america. soaking the rich at the expense of the poor. donald trump is lifting all boats. he has not targeted one over the other. if you look at the macroeconomy it has helped in every sector.

the economy is doing well. donald trump has something democrats don't have, that's a record. >> ed: on brad's point about socialism. a latina writes. dems must come together to stop sanders takeover of party. sanders doesn't even know what his platform of socialism is. he grew up in the u.s. under a democratic government with little to no experience of socialism's foundations and yet, james, people are buying in. >> i think actually it was a bad night for him and for socialism. i'm hoping a lot of voters were watching. i think what his opponents finally exposed about him is that he really has nothing more than he has had for decades, which is marxist rage and envy. there is nothing behind it. there are no plans. he hasn't thought through the trillions -- tens upon trillions in taxes needed for this. some of it we know. he laid out the payroll tax

that will hit every worker. >> ed: the wealth tax he says will pay for medicare for all. >> he said he could take a few hours talking about all the taxes but to try to summarize there are tens of trillions that he has not disclosed. what we saw last night is that he is -- what he has always been. basically the angry, uninformed college freshman who never grew up and the opponents kind of exposed him to different ways. you saw his senate colleagues pointing out he is incompetent and never gets anything done. pete buttigieg and others showing that he hasn't taken five minutes to think through the economics. and you ask yourself how could you propose turning upside down the entire healthcare economy, the entire energy economy, etc., without thinking through any of the repercussions, the cost, how to pay for it? only an ideolog would propose that and that's where you say

when he is regurgitating communist propaganda about these murderous regimes. i hope a lot of people watched it. this is the bernie sanders you might get as president and i wouldn't count on him being incompetent even though his colleagues in the senate think that. >> first of all, it's not like you are seeing 80 and 90% of the people supporting him. we do have to look at he does have a revolution, a movement. very similar to what donald trump had in 2016. the bernie supporters are diehard bernie supporters. we saw that in 2016 and we're seeing it now. we also know a caucus and primary voter is very different than a voter in the general election. but we have to get to the general election and have the right candidate in the general election. but i want to say something. i said it before on fox news channel. i got a lot of flak from bernie supporters who i was -- we're on the same team. i lived in south florida in the late 80s and early 90s.

i have friends that were raped by fidel castro's regime and army. i know people that suffered and people who crawled their way onto the beaches of miami after their boats fell apart. yeah, there was free healthcare, there was literacy, but you had torture and unlawful imprisonment. you had rape. the suffering of the cuban people cannot just be wiped away. and you cannot say that i'm a democratic socialist when people are saying you are a socialist and communist and then support a communist dictator. >> sandra: can you imagine your party supporting him over what he said the last few days? >> i get flak for this again. i will vote for who the nominee is. i can't stand what he said about castro. i can't stand that he doubles down on it and that he doesn't apologize for it. and i am concerned about the soul of my party if he is our

nominee and i am concerned if we will win in 2020 if he is the nominee. >> ed: michael bloomberg had a horrible debate last week. maybe a little better last night. still kind of struggled. here is an exchange to get to something else with elizabeth warren. they went at it in vegas and last night on comments he made about a pregnancy. let's play that. >> when i was 21 years old i got my first job as a special education teacher. i loved that job. and by the end of the first year i was visibly pregnant. the principal wished me luck and gave the job to someone else. at least i didn't have a boss who said to me kill it the way that mayor bloomberg alleged to have said to one of his pregnant employees. >> i never said that. >> ed: he pushed back there. last time he didn't do such a great job. right after that there were

boos. it sounded like maybe some democrats thought elizabeth warren went too far. >> it was a cheap shot. and she told a debunked story. about being fired basically for being pregnant was not true. so she doubles down on a falsehood and then bloomberg tries to fight back but then at the end of his retort what does he say? if i said something that she interrupted. he should have come out something it is false, i never said it. the fact is he did not close the door on elizabeth warren. >> sandra: we spoke to his campaign at the top of the 9:00 hour for their part he feels that the release of those three women from the non-disclosure agreements following the last debate should have been enough. he says elizabeth warren will keep asking for more. james. >> i think it's effective for her. i guess she finally went after bernie sanders a little bit, too. you thought after that last debate she was auditioning to be bernie's vice president

perhaps. but she did -- i think she has had two good debates challenging a bunch of her rivals. i'm not sure if it will help. the healthcare thing bernie keeps talking about. -- >> i'll get my copy of that. >> in venezuela it doesn't -- it almost doesn't exist for many people. >> can i make a comment. >> of everything you need to be well. >> elizabeth warren, the reason she didn't go after bernie. you have a hard time when you go after bernie sanders. the supporters go after you big time. it doesn't help her. hasn't helped her to go after bernie. it has helped her to go after bloomberg and why she did it last night. she did it in the last debate and it helped her. >> sandra: didn't stop the attacks on bernie sanders. the number of times each candidate was attacked on the debate stage.

bernie sanders topped the list, got the most. 19. he threw it back. he was attacked 33 times and he went on the attack 19 times. bloomberg was number two as far as being on the receiving end. what about the trump campaign response to what we saw last night? here is the statement from the trump campaign. the democratic party is a hot mess. tonight's debate was further evidence that not one of these candidates is serious or can stand toe-to-toe with president trump. president trump will dominate in november. >> when i was watching the republicans debate prior to the 2016 election i thought hot mess when people were talking about hand size and i was hearing insults coming as if we were at a middle school cafeteria. after somebody lost the school game. i have to say did it look like a hot mess? i felt this should have been more controlled by the moderators certainly. but this is what happens whether you're democrats or republicans. everybody is trying to push

that king or queen off the mountain to take their spot and why everybody will attack the frontrunner. >> ed: we haven't gotten to joe biden yet. some pundits were saying it was his best debate yet better late than never. a whopper in there he said 150 million people have been killed by gun violence since 2007. it was a mistake. everyone makes mistakes. he can't get away from the gaffes. >> when he tries to score he never connects. a gaffe, misstatement, runs out of time and stops. your party is a hot mess and i don't think there is recovery from it. having said that the election will be close. i don't think the trump campaign takes anything for granted. you can run mickey mouse and you may have to come to that and it will be a close election because the country is so divided. donald trump has something democrats don't have. a record. >> i think it makes sense that he has a strange gun policy given he thinks half the

country has been killed by firearms. >> it will be minnie mouse, by the way. >> we'll check with disney world and get the venezuela healthcare book. we have a lot of homework to do. >> sandra: fox news is hosting a town hall with one of the 2020 candidates, amy klobuchar will field questions from voters in north carolina. that will be moderated by bret baier and martha maccallum happening tomorrow night at 6:30. >> ed: back to the coronavirus. watching that as well. the number of cases clustered outside of china continuing to grow at an alarming rate prompting a cdc warning to prep for potential u.s. outbreak. officials in san francisco where no one has yet been diagnosed are saying it's crucial to stay one step ahead of the virus. >> given the high volume of travel between san francisco and mainland china and the spread of the virus to other countries, there is a growing likelihood that we will see

cases in san francisco. >> ed: the president having a news conference at 6:00 p.m. eastern. go to gillian turner live in washington with details. >> breaking now here in d.c. senator chuck schumer calling for a whopping 8 1/2 billion dollar package of coronavirus funding. his staff says the finishing touches being nailed down now and they will be sent over to senate appropriateors. a plan to beef up federal measures already in place here inside the u.s. schumer's democrat colleagues are lined up behind it. take a listen. >> we've got to anticipate that more research will be needed. >> protection, prepareedness, prevention seem to be inadequate now. >> so far the fed is focused on measure that a slow transmission of covid-19 during a potential outbreak in the homeland. i.d.ing communities.

more screening at airports. updating travelers on the lab testing for new vaccines. public health officials, though, say keeping the u.s. safe during an outbreak here will require what they say is a super dose of transparency, keeping americans updated every step of the way. that will be the key to success in fighting this outbreak. public health experts say there is a lot more the government should be doing beginning asap. like conducting prepareedness drills in hospital, increasing hospital emergency room capacity by setting up tents in parking lots and planning to stand up makeshift care facilities at patient's homes. finally, on this issue of the super dose of transparency. listen to secretary azar last night. >> president has insisted on radical transparency. that's what cdc and nih were doing that is making sure the american public know they have

aggressively contained this for the moment. >> this is an interesting point. public health people say things like the anthrax scare and the ebola outbreak have proven that americans do better in rationalizing crises when they feel psychologically prepared. the trump administration says it will be a focus for them moving forward over the next couple weeks. >> ed: thank you. >> sandra: we'll get an update from the white house this afternoon. attorney general bill barr throwing his support behind controversial surveillance programs while vowing to reform the fisa process. what do lawmakers think about that? we'll hear from house minority member steve scalise. we'll have that next.

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ago blasting the president, blasting the white house for its response to the global health crisis. president trump today will have his say. he is having a news conference 6:00 p.m. eastern. you can get that live on the fox news channel. we're watching wall street as well. >> sandra: a little rebound today. dow up 355 points after selling off nearly 1900 points over the last two trading days. charles payne is here now and the host of "making money with charles payne" on the fox business network. a bit of a relief rally today but gains for the year have been wiped out. >> they have but not for the last 18 months, 2 years, 10 years, 5 years. it's one of those things that i looked at this. it's interesting. since 1993 we've had eight times where the market has been down 3% in back-to-back sessions. all but one a month later the market was up. a couple times it was up 12 and

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mostly from spouse to spouse. no one here has died. we're starting to discharge people. even a big story in china. china are discharging more folks who had the coronavirus, over 30,000 now have been discharged. more of those folks are being discharged every day than there are no cases. it was a epicenter of this in the beginning. it spread so much around the world it is hard to -- someone is not going to get on a plane from milan, now from everywhere. we know that it will come to this country but i think the cdc has done a great job so far. >> sandra: severe warnings. here is the latest one from their national center for immunization and respiratory diseases. it is not a question of if it will happen but when it will happen and how many people in this country will have severe illnesses, disruption to everyday life might be severe. >> it might be. that's what you say from their point of view. by the same token what nancy pelosi was saying and what

chuck schumer did yesterday. you talk about a market sell-off. they're painting a worst-case scenario by saying the administration was flat footed and didn't do anything about it. a couple of weeks ago joe biden accused president trump of xenophobic. what box are they trying to put the american public and administration in? if we can't stop people coming in, is that xenophobic? you can't have it both ways. political brinksmanship. not unlike the usmca. no way the democrats would vote against it. they dragged their feet for a year and hurt farmers and manufacturers and no way they won't pass emergency funding to pass the coronavirus. they hijack it and say it's too little too late but we'll fix it and do more money. so it's a political theater. i understand that's the environment we're in. what chuck schumer said yesterday added to the market on the down side.

as if it's too late. the worst case scenario is in place and we're all doomed. >> ed: you always look for the silver lining in the markets. an interesting article in "politico", an opportunity to boost u.s. medical manufacturing. break with china. an opening with coronavirus. peter navarro. the focus on america first for medical manufacturing is a sign of what could become a broader push as multi-national companies face crippled supply chains as the virus shutters factories around the globe. >> i've been saying it for three or four weeks but a ship load of masks coming from china to america is turned around and goes back to chain why where 40% of our key ingredients for drugs are made in china. even coca-cola saying we may run out of artificial sweet ener. do we need to give away all of

our jobs and prosperity to be in the lurch to this degree? it's time for big business to consider diverse filing supply chain and bringing some jobs back home. >> sandra: the dow is up 325 points after a couple days of heavy selling. think it will close higher? >> today i think it will and i'm hoping that you know what? what's missing in all of this, we've had a couple of weeks of amazing economic data and amazing corporate earnings, home depot, tj maxx. the spirits in the country, that's what i'm worried about most. that people are spooked to the point where they stop going to the malls. right now that's what's carrying us and i hope this responsible reporting about this instead of a worst case scenario every time you see a headline. >> sandra: charles payne, thank you very much. see you on fbn at 2:00. lawmakers on both sides of the aisle are raising concerns about funding for the

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the house republican whip and he joins us now. congressman, good to see you, good morning. >> good to be with both of you. >> ed: go to have you. what is your sense where we are on the fisa negotiations m terms of renewing the law or not? >> well, i think they serve an important role in our national security and we did see abuses with the fisa court. i have very strong concerns about that. the people who abused the fisa process need to be held responsible. if people go to jail for abusing the court we won't see that in the future. the bill moving through this week is not frankly including enough of the reforms and criminal penalties that need to be included to make sure if somebody does abuse the fisa court they will be held accountable. we need to keep those tools in place. vital to our national security but they were abused. if they're abused again people need to be held accountable and penalties need to fit the crime. i don't think they do right now. >> sandra: sounds like you are calling for broader reform.

what would you want to see changed, congressman? >> if you look congressman jordan is proposing a number of changes in committee. unfortunately jerry nadler is trying to make it a very partisan process where he is shutting out the republican side but he would be well served to work with both parties. sit down with congressman jordan on the reforms that he and the members of his committee have been looking at responsibly putting together. so far we aren't seeing that cooperation. but we'll push for the kind of reforms necessary to make sure that this important national security tool maintains the ability and integrity it deserves with criminal penalties on the other side if somebody abuses the process like we've already seen. >> ed: so you are looking forward in terms of reforms that sandra is talking about to try to prevent fisa abuse down the road. tougher criminal penalties for future fisa abuse. does that mean that essentially congress has given up on holding anyone accountable for the abuses back in 2016 and 2017? >> not at all.

in fact, the durham report, i am hopeful is going to literally name names. list the people who did abuse the fisa court and lay out penalties that then attorney general barr can carry out. there is still a lot left to do by the attorney general to hold people accountable who abused the process. i hope he does. it is important to national security. you have to hold the people accountable who abused it. i hope that attorney general barr uses all the tools he has available. i want him to have more tools but he does have some existing tools in place that he can use and hopefully will use when the durham report comes out to hold those people accountable and people should go to jail for those abuses and that's still possible under current law. i think the penalties can be stronger but current law does give the attorney general that ability. >> sandra: lindsey graham said it will do a lot what horowitz did and bill barr. moving to a headline in the

hill. lawmakers raise concern over trump administration response. the senate appropriations committee said the white house's budget request to handle the disease was lackluster. where is your level of concern with the coronavirus and the spread of it here at home and how the white house is handling this? >> i think we all ought to be very concerned about the coronavirus, especially considering the fact we can't get enough information out of china. we know that's where the predominant number of cases are but we don't know much about it. we've tried to get that information. president trump's administration has handled this very well. i was here in congress when you had the ebola outbreak and a very lackluster response. we could not get information out of the administration throughout ebola. we've had a number of briefings now by the administration and president trump has been very clear. he will address the nation tonight. you'll hear a lot more. his health agencies, they've

offered to go and help in china. tried to get information from china on what is really happening there. frankly it's incredibly disappointing that china won't share that information. there is a lot we could do to help save lives there and prevent it from spreading not just in america but throughout the world. >> ed: let's get specific to sandra's point. a republican richard shelby in the senate is saying $2.5 billion that the president wants for this emergency is not enough. chuck schumer is saying it should be $8.5 billion. where do you think all this winds up? how much money do we need? >> congress gets the opportunity to debate that. chuck schumer has never laid out what he is for. he wants to be against whatever the president is for. this is not a political issue. coronavirus doesn't care about your party affiliation if it will strike. luckily we've been able to limit its influence coming into the united states but we don't know ultimately what will

happen. we can't find out all the information. let's debate in congress. the president laid out a request. he will address the nation tonight. if congress feels like more is needed then we'll have a good healthy debate here and let's get it done. >> sandra: do you know what we might hear from the president tonight? >> i think you'll hear what the president and his administration have already done in terms of health and safety to insure that the cases that we know about in other parts of the world don't end up here in the united states brutt -but a lot we've offered to china and asked for more information that we haven't gotten. the heavy flu season we're seeing. be careful of your surroundings and wash your hands. >> ed: appreciate your stopping in. >> sandra: joe biden banking on a big endorsement in south carolina. how big a boost does he get

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>> >> sandra: did bernie sanders at pete buttigieg laid out hand president trump four more years last night? >> no. medicare for all is a popular program and as we know from a recent yale study it saves $468 billion over the current healthcare system and saves 68,000 lives. what we believe in the bernie sanders movement is healthcare is a human right. people shouldn't go bankrupt because they're trying to get healthcare and people shouldn't die because they're poor. it is a very simple belief and yet there are some unknowns. anyone will tell you that. anyone who is being honest with you will say that. but this is about who do we want to be as a nation? do we want to protect the weakest among us and make sure everyone has basic human rights like healthcare or do we want to continue in this system where profits drive care instead of the principal of everybody being taken care of? >> sandra: that money runs out

eventually. look at the cost of some of bernie sanders' plans. college for all $2.2 trillion. housing for all.2.5 trillion. universal childcare, green new deal. medicare for all, $52 trillion. how do you pay for that? >> what bernie has said over and over again. we have a tax system that benefits the rich way too much. amazon paying nothing in taxes. corporations should pay their fair share in taxes and been very honest about medicare for all. there would be a slight tax increase. when you take away co-payments and dedublgtibles you would save money. the average american family would save $4400 a year. yes, we're honest in our campaign. these things cost money. the problem is we're in a system where we spend too much money on endless wars and too much tax breaks for the rich. we can do these things. ist

-- it is a matter of aspirations who we want to be as a country. do we want to continue where we are now. the biggest wealth income inequality in history or -- >> sandra: we're in the middle of a booming economy where wages have gone up. how does your candidate run against a robust economy and make the case for socialism in america? >> it's not a case for socialism like you are saying. you guys keep throwing out this word. it is the case for -- look, everyone in our campaign believes, of course, that we'll keep a market economy and keep the market economy. certain things like healthcare which should be a human right should be not based on profit and the free market and we are going to change things to make sure that everyone is treated equally. we know according to economic studies out there that 40% of americans can't afford a $500 emergency. this economy is not booming for everybody. there is many people out there watching this right now that

don't feel this. so this is just not true. >> ed: you are the one throwing out -- your candidate who is defending policies that are about socialism. it is not us bringing it up. let's end in the last minute on this not just the plans that are socialist in nature but the fact that bernie sanders on that stage continues to defend the regime of fidel castro and saying look, he had this literacy program. mercedes schlapp was here on the program earlier saying her father was thrown in prison by the castro regime. how can you defend that? just because they educate some kids they also raped and murdered people and put others in prison. how do you defend that? >> it is almost as if maybe you guys weren't listening to bernie sanders last night and what he said repeatedly which is that -- the same thing president obama said, which is there were some good things that came out of what he did but authoritarianism which he practiced and bernie sanders was cleared that castro was an

authoritarian that it should be denounced and said that over and over again. if you guys -- >> ed: he saying i'm against it but okay with socialism and communism, bernie sanders? >> you have to stop lying on the air. he doesn't say he is okay with socialism and communism. it's not true. >> ed: he didn't call out socialism and communism. >> he said that -- look, authoritarianism is a feature of communism. he is not okay with that wherever it happens. you guys want to throw around the terms. that's fine. our ideas are progressive ideas and popular with the american people. socialism is a takeover of the government. we're talking about making an economy and having rules, an economic bill of rights to make sure people are treated fairly and he can tably and that's not what the happening now. that's why things are going

well for bernie and the first candidate to win the popular vote in the primaries and why we'll defeat donald trump. >> ed: were people thrown in castro's prisons treated fairly? >> we're not saying it. bernie denounced it at every turn. of course they were not treated fairly. it's a ridiculous question. >> sandra: in a word or two how is the performance of bernie sanders last night? did he come out a winner? >> i would say it was 5 on 1 on bernie last night and he came out still talking about how our campaign is motivational and aspirational. i'm very confident in his one-on-one with a fraud like trump he will do just fine. >> ed: all right. >> sandra: throwing out big words there. all right. we'll have you back, thank you. >> thanks a lot. >> sandra: if you have a thirst for adventure, which we do, right? virgin galactic is taking deposit for future trips into space. >> ed: the price is not as high

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>> sandra: facebook cracking down on misinformation about the coronavirus announcing it will now be banning ads promising to prevent or cure the disease. >> ed: brett larson is here. channel 115. important, people are getting information from all corners and you want to make sure it's accurate. >> we have seen this on facebook before. outbreaks of anything, even a computer virus going around there is a lot of misinformation similar to going on web md and saying why do i have a headache? facebook has said they'll remove all misinformation from their site when it comes to the coronavirus. they will also remove things that give a sense of urgency like oh my gosh, you have to get this now before it runs out.

and it is interesting because it is counter to their political advertising where you can say whatever you want. but it is good. this is a medical situation. this is a worldwide health situation. so it is good of them to cut it off at the knees so to speak on misinformation campaigns. >> sandra: for those adventure seekers, you can now put down a deposit of $1,000 for the virgin galactic unveil. the small step initiative. >> i have the site up now if i could borrow your credit card i could sign up. it is virgin galactic. this is exciting. we have a space race going. last week elon musk said the dragon crew capsule would launch regular people into space by the end of this year or next year. it puts the heat on virgin galactic. they're saying for $1,000 put your deposit down on a potential seat on board the virgin galactic. >> ed: first round is $250,000?

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>> fox news alert on the coronavirus crisis. it is not a question of if but when the outbreak takes hold in america according to the cdc. >> sandra: i'm sandra smith. president trump is set to hold a news conference on the coronavirus happening later today as it continues to spread around the world. more than 80,000 cases so far across dozens of countries. 57 of them here at home. here is dr. anthony fauci, the nih director on "america's newsroom" earlier. >> it is often we're influenced by what goes on on the outside. when you see transmissions that are multi-generational in places like south korea, in italy, in japan, in iran, there is a danger that this will turn

into a true pandemic. and if it does, we will have to deal with it. >> ed: deal with it indeed. jonathan serrie live in atlanta with more details. good morning. >> good morning. today brazil confirmed the first covid-19 case in south america. what this means now is the coronavirus is officially present on every continent with the exception of antarctica. u.s. army officials are reporting the first confirmed case in an american service member. a 23-year-old soldier stationed at camp carroll in south carolina is quarantineing himself at his residence outside the base. >> we're doing a very thorough trace history of the service member. we'll know everywhere the service member and his family have been over the last week. >> italy continues to place cities with coronavirus cases on lockdown. they're reporting more than 300 cases including 12 deaths.

austria, croatian, greece, switzerland have now reported cases of covid-19 of people who recently visited northern italy. in the u.s. the mayor of san francisco declared a state of emergency. no confirmed cases of coronavirus in that city. local health officials say the city is at elevated risk because of the large volume of travelers between san francisco and mainland china. >> working especially closely with the chinese community here, which is the most impacted by the illness, causing worries. by the stigma and discrimination they're experiencing here. >> ed: also no confirmed cases in hawaii. state health official s are urging people to pack kits to last for 14 days, similar thing they do during hurricane season. >> ed: thank you for that report, jonathan.

>> sandra: after months of speculation and anticipation house majority whip jim clyburn endorsed biden. ellison barber is live in north charleston for us this morning. >> it was the endorsement everyone was waiting for. representative james clyburn. one of the most influential politicians in this state and democratic politics said he settled on a candidate a while ago but kept it private. a week ago at a funeral an elderly constituent called him to her pew and said i need to hear from you. this community needs to hear from you. today in north charleston, south carolina, they did. >> i'm voting for joe biden, south carolina is voting for joe biden. this country is great.

that's not what our challenge is. our challenge is making the greatness of this country accessible and affordable for all. >> he talked about meeting his late wife in college after getting arrested during a civil rights sit-in. he said he wondered in jail that day if they were doing the right thing but never feared for the future of this country. now clyburn says he does. the person to quote, restore america's dignity and respect is joe biden. polls show biden leading in the state. sanders is in striking distance. on the debate stage last night biden said he will win the state of south carolina and the african-american vote. sandra. >> sandra: thank you. >> ed: all right. joining us now for more on this martha maccallum and author of a new book "unknown valor." sometimes a story can best be told by some front pages in the

"new york post." a week ago. black and bloom. okay. he was in the middle of it. party bashers. you have a baseball bat for biden, a knife for bloomberg, you have the boxing gloves. it got ugly. >> look at the hat on bernie. no nuance there. >> does it help the democratic party to have this kind of a food fight at this point? >> no. one of the moments that caught my eye amy klobuchar standing in between steyer and biden scrapping over here. someone like her would like to discuss policy more. we'll talk to her tomorrow night, bret and i in north carolina we'll be with her in a town hall. it was clear to me when everybody had the campaign meetings with the teams getting ready to go out there. do not hold back. be forceful and aggressive and get your point out there. they decided to do it at exact tli same time. >> ed: they want to score their points but this is how it plays

out. watch. >> look, first of all -- >> bernie, let me talk. >> i think she was talking about my plan, not yours. >> i think we were talking about math. it doesn't take two hours to do the math. >> let's talk about math. >> let's talk about math. >> here is the math. >> i respond to the attack. >> the other thing is what will happen -- >> i'm not out of time. he spoke over time and i'm going to talk. here is the deal. here is the deal. >> ed: joe biden maybe found his voice by speaking up. at the end of it howie kurtz was saying earlier it is maybe bernie sanders who wins. is he the frontrunner, when everyone is fighting and no one making any sense he is in charge. >> poor andrew yang. i think he was on another channel doing commentary which was interesting. i think that the american

people don't respond well to this kind of debate. i think they look at it like it is a bunch of noise and it annoys them frankly. one of the other things that was said about last night was you could sort of feel them scoring their points for ads that they wanted to get that sound bite out there they could use in the political ad the next day. using the process not the way it was intended. there are rules in these debates. i did feel for the moderators up there. all the campaigns agreed to the rules. when everybody steps on them with such abandon it doesn't produce something that helps get people closer to making decisions about any of the candidates. >> ed: you have done this before. it is a delicate balance. it seemed like the folks at cbs news had a difficult times. >> you want people to go after each other but you have to have some kind of decorum on the stage that allows to be heard. they were going ballistic out there. >> ed: we had rahm emanuel on the program yesterday. he said he is nervous about

bernie sanders, the effect down ballot. pete buttigieg what a bern he sanders nomination might mean. >> the time has come for us to stop acting like the presidency is the only office that matters. if you want to keep the house in democratic hands you might want to check with the people who actually turned the house blue. 40 democrats who are not running on your platform. they are running away from your platform as fast as they possibly can. i want to send those democrats back to the united states house. >> ed: the trump campaign is watching and they seem amused. >> it was an interesting moment. we look back at the headlines when president trump was running and a candidate. very similar headlines. obviously trump and sanders are totally different candidates but you are seeing some similar dynamics play out. there were several big headlines that said if donald trump gets the nomination the rest of the ballot will be destroyed. and we all know the absolute opposite happened. so whether or not that is -- holds up in this case with bernie sanders we're not sure

at this point. but that's something that is being used as something to tear him down. >> ed: the other wisdom at the beginning of the campaign. joe biden was the frontrunner. coming down nationally. still holding up in south carolina. a big moment. >> joe biden and i used to spend a lot of time doing tv stuff together. because we know each other. i know joe. we know joe. but most importantly, joe knows us. >> ed: very emotional. you can put it on twitter, or in in case you can have tears coming down your eyes. jim clyburn described his wife who passed away last year, a fan of joe biden. he met his wife in prison when they were both arrested in 1960 in the civil rights demonstrations. this could have a real impact with the african-american community. >> i think so. when you watch that it is a

very moving moment and a very real moment. that's what people connect with more than people shouting at each other on stage and trying to score poipts for sound bites. that's the reason that joe biden has been ahead by so much in south carolina. that lead has diminished greatly. bernie sanders is nipping at his heels there. did he do enough last night to convince the people of south carolina to stay with him? if he doesn't finish first by a good margin in south carolina there will be re-evaluation of that campaign. >> ed: super tuesday after saturday. jim clyburn, how emotional he was. this was personal. sounds like description of your book "unknown valor." a labor of love and something you wanted to open up about. >> it was an enormous journey for me based on letters i read as a child growing up from my mother's first cousin harry gray, a young man growing up in arlington, massachusetts, playing football with his

buddies. who ended up traveling with him in the ocean in the pacific and were together the day harry was killed. a personal world war ii story but the history of what it was like on the home front when pearl harbor happened all the way up to iwo jima and the lives interject and all end up together on this eight square mile patch of island in the middle of nowhere in the pacific and it is very poignant and i hope people learn a lot from it as i did. 75th anniversary. i will be with a lot of veterans on saturday to remember them and those lost. i want young people to read this story as well as grown-ups like you and me. it is important to remember the sacrifices and that's how this country is what it is. >> ed: you see the honor flights when veterans are coming into washington to see the world war ii memorial.

>> they are the most humble people you will ever meet. they don't mess around and speak their mind and they say i'm not a hero. the guys we left on the island are the real heroes and their stories need to be told. >> ed: you can sign up for fox nation for a yearly plan and receive a copy of this wonderful book. check it out at fox nation.com. she will join bret baier with a town hall with amy klobuchar right here on the fox news channel and i can't forget 7:00 p.m. eastern tonight you'll have all the big stories, such a pleasure to have. >> thank you for having me. great to be with you. thank you so much. >> sandra: we're watching the markets this morning. wall street bouncing back just a bit 300 points after a bruising start to the week. the dow lost 1900 points in the first two days. what is behind this morning's

rebound? we'll have a live report from the floor of the new york stock exchange. >> ed: bernie sanders playing defense. joe biden getting aggressive. attacks and counter attacks from last night's debate coming up. >> if you think the last four years has been chaotic, divisive, toxic, exhausting, imagine spending the better part of 2020 with bernie sanders versus donald trump. think about what that will be like for this country. but there's 5g... and then there's verizon 5g. we're building the most powerful 5g experience for america. it's more than 10 times faster than some other 5g networks. and it's rolling out in cities across the country. so people can experience speeds that ultra wideband can deliver. 1.7 gigs here in houston. 1.8 gigs here in frigid omaha. almost 2 gigs here in los angeles. that's outrageous. it's like an eight-lane highway compared to a two-land dirt road.

>> ed: a train slamming into a tractor trailer in texas, dash kam video showing the 18 wheel stuck as a crossing as an amtrak train comes barreling down the tracks, smashed right through the trailer, ripped it in half. luckily somehow nobody injured. >> vladimir putin thinks donald trump should be president of the united states and that's why russia is helping you get elected so you'll lose to him. >> we need a president who is going to dig in, do the hard work, and actually get it done. progressives have got one shot and we need to spend it with a leader who will get something done. >> the math does not add up. he said he wasn't going to rattle through the nickels and dimes. let me tell you how many nickels and dimes we're talking

about. nearly $60 trillion. >> sandra: bernie sanders facing a barrage of attacks on the stage last night. centrist democrats raising alarms he could run away with the nomination after super tuesday ensuring victory for donald trump. kristen soltis anderson is with us. what was your big take away from the evening. >> the big takeaway. everybody's incentive is to attack someone who is not bernie because everybody else is primary opponent for voters, biden, klobuchar, etc. they all have someone else who present a bigger immediate threat. allowing bernie sanders to continue to be the guy who is going to hold enough votes to win this nomination. you have joe biden who really views bloomberg as a potential threat. you've got amy klobuchar and pete buttigieg who seem to not like each other very much. whereas with bernie sanders, the person fighting for his voters is elizabeth warren.

she didn't have any tough talk for him. >> sandra: we know for so many primary voters the key is who can beat donald trump in a general election. bernie made the case on the stage last night that he is the guy. listen. >> of the last 50 polls that have been done nationally, mr. bloomberg, i beat trump 47 of those 50 times. if you look at battleground states like michigan, wisconsin, and pennsylvania, polling just -- >> polls don't win the election. >> i beat trump. >> sandra: was that argument effective. a lot of democratic voters are nervous about a prospect of bernie sanders of the nominee. it has to be enough of them may feel comfortable enough to give him the votes he can rack up the delegates on super tuesday and it may not matter. bernie's reading of the polls is right that when you look at the head-to-head match-ups of

trump versus biden, sanders and bloomberg, sanders does as well as everybody else. however, we know there are lots of things in bernie sanders history, record, that most of the american public hasn't heard about yet. the trump campaign is salivating over the opportunity to put some of these past statements and past positions out there in front of the american people. and so there is a real chance that bernie sanders favorability has only down to go from here. >> sandra: we know from the tally of attacks, the most attacks were launched on bernie saernsd and mike bloomberg last night. not joe biden. this was as "politico" writes this morning. biden finally shows up to the debate stage just in time. he just received a key endorsement this morning. here he is on the debate stage vowing to win south carolina. here is the former vp. >> i have earned the vote. i have worked like the devil to earn the vote of the african-american not just here but across the country. my entire career has been wrapped up in dealing with

civil rights and civil liberties. i don't expect anything, i plan to earn the vote. >> if you don't win south carolina will you continue? >> i will win south carolina. >> he has to win south carolina. he knows it. there is no point in dancing around that fact. he not only has to win south carolina but it really has to slingshot him into a strong position for super tuesday. a lot of voters in super tuesday states don't get the same kind of hand holding, live in-person interaction say an iowa or new hampshire voter gets. they rely on what they see on tv. what the national news media is saying about these candidates. joe biden needs to have the wind at his back and momentum going into super tuesday so voters who may like him but are worried about him can feel more confidence in him. >> mary anne marsh penned. democratic debate, three

winners, four losers. she writes to stop sanders from securing an insurmountable delegate lead on super tuesday the competing candidate needed to derail or disqualify him in the debate. it didn't happen. more likely than not that sanders could wrap the race for the presidential combination next week when california, the most delicate rich of the super tuesday state finishes counting its ballot. she makes that case but calls it a two-hour street fight. when you look back at the moments hand flailing, people talking over each other, the moderators losing control at times. did anybody walk away a winner from that stage last night? >> i don't think so. i think if you're a democratic voter you probably watched that debate feeling a little despair. the idea that this is what your party has to offer in an election up against a president that your party believes is incredibly beatable and is a threat to the country. so if you think this is what we have to put up against him you can't be feeling great after last night. >> sandra: we'll see what

happens next. thank you. >> ed: meanwhile the u.s. and taliban moving closer to a peace deal. the interim step seven day reduction in violence agreement is largely holding at least so far. it put both sides on track to sign a broader deal this weekend calling for a gradual reduction of u.s. forces from afghanistan. rich edson live at the state department. >> good morning. if that reduction in violence agreement holds for three more days the united states and taliban are scheduled to sign a peace agreement on saturday. secretary of state mike pompeo says that america's generals have determined the u.s. cannot win this conflict without a tremendous additional military commitment. he calls this agreement an historic opportunity for peace. this is only the first of several uncertain steps. next the taliban and elected government of afghanistan would begin peace negotiations early next month. the taliban has previously refused to talk with the afghan

government. then a major dispute within the afghan government. an election commission there says president ghani has won a second term but abdullah said he won and holding a presidential inauguration. the u.s. wants them to form one government and prepare for contentious negotiations with the taliban. the state department says the afghan people want peace. it is time to focus not on electoral politics but on taking steps toward a lasting peace ending the war with the taliban and finding a formula for a political settlement that can serve the interests of all this country's citizens. the goal for the taliban here, they want the u.s. military out of afghanistan. secretary pompeo says the bar is high for a u.s. troop withdrawal. it would be in phases and based on the taliban living up to its commitments in this agreement. as for the united states, well, officials here say they want to insure that no terrorist organizations can use

taliban-held areas in afghanistan as a base of operations to attack the united states or u.s. allies. ed and sandra, back to you. >> ed: thank you. >> sandra: fox news alert a win for the trump administration on immigration enforcement. a federal appeals court has just ruled in the administration's favor saying it can deny grant monies to cities and states with their failure to cooperate on enforcement. sanctuary cities. it overturned a lower court's decision ordering the administration to release funding to new york city and seven states. under the new ruling the trump administration can withhold millions of dollars in law enforcement grants to force states with sanctuary cities to cooperate with immigration enforcement. that just in. >> ed: all right. the 2020 democratic debate turning into a free for all. candidates shouting over one another. the moderators struggling to keep control. how did it get so out of hand?

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>> it reflects how seriously we take the -- such as the coronavirus. by prioritizing funding for cdc's infectious disease programs and maintaining investments in hospital preparedness. the immediate risk to the american public remains low but there is now community transmission in a number of countries including outside of asia which is deeply concerning. >> sandra: and we will be learning more about this administration's response in a few hours when the president will be holding a news conference just announced this morning on the coronavirus. all of this coming amid growing concerns about the deadly outbreak and criticism over the way it has been handled. we're live at the white house ahead of that news conference this evening. david. >> ed: good morning. we know president trump will hold the news conference at 6:00 tonight. we don't know more about the specific venue or where or how he will answer questions. we can tell you this topic is of growing concern to president

trump and his team here at the white house. no question it is an issue they're focused on. shortly after landing this morning from joint base andrews president trump took too twitter and tweeted about the coronavirus blaming news outlets for trying to worry the american people. they are panicking markets if possible. likewise incompetent do nothing democrat comrades are all talk, no action. he announced a news conference with cdc representatives at 6:00. health and human services secretary alex azar testified before congress this morning for a second day. he is answering quefs about coronavirus. we have house speaker nancy pelosi at the capitol this morning. >> so what he is doing is late -- too late, an anemic.

>> chuck schumer wants 8.5 billion to go toward coronavirus spending. the white house would not accept the specific proposal. according to the official the government has adequate resources. they sent a $2.5 billion supplemental package. officials believe right now that's just adequate. >> we're seeing more and more transmissions in other countries and the more you see outside of the united states, the greater the risk of this spilling over into the united states. so the risk as i mentioned right now today is still low. >> yesterday white house officials met with 40 representatives from across the country to talk about coronavirus. despite any rumors there is a rift between the centers for disease control and trump administrations an official here says it's false. president trump and members of the administration will continue to discuss coronavirus

and we'll watch the news conference tonight at 6:00 here from the white house. back to you. >> sandra: thank you. and this alert just in. first it was flights to china, now south korea. delta airlines announcing that it will be cutting down the number of flights it has from the u.s. to south korea out of concerns over the coronavirus outbreak. south korea's total tally of those infected has risen above 1200 as of today including the first u.s. soldier to be infected. we'll have more on that coming up. >> ed: in the meantime more now. bret baier anchor of special report at 6:00 p.m. eastern. tonight topping it off with in the's news conference. good morning. bret. talk about the balance the president needs to strike tonight. on the one hand he told reporters yefd the outbreak is out of control and his administration seems to be taking extraordinary efforts to reassure the public. >> two sides to the story.

one is the policy side and the facts and figures, money, what the requests are. capitol hill is saying the requests from the administration fall short of what they think on capitol hill democrats and republicans may be needed in the long term. chuck schumer is at 8.5 billion. administration is not there yet. the policy side and getting the masks from 30 million to 300 million according to secretary azar. those the real challenges. the other side is the politics side. if you look back at big moments think about hurricane katrina for the bush administration and how no matter what -- how anybody looked at that how it was portrayed politically had an effect. look at the b.p. oil spill for president obama. president trump is trying to prevent that from happening and probably calling that news conference to have all of his people around to talk about how they are getting on top of it. what we're hearing is that there is a lot of anger about where they are right now and

whether it's health and human services secretary azar who takes the fall, whether they have some other person step up and become the coronavirus czar, we have yet to see. >> ed: we have breaking news on that bret now. "politico" had reported a few moments ago the white house is considering a czar to take the helm here instead of having the hhs secretary do it. the white house just tweeted it is not true. the president took decisive action by creating the coronavirus task force a month ago and pleased with azar to protect the public health. the white house is acutely aware democrats are trying to push the notion the president hasn't done enough and they're trying to show they're on top of it. >> it splits into two sides. one is the politics and stirring up the politics that this is not getting done the right way and it's a total show up there and that chuck schumer says it's in disarray. the other is the policy. if you talk to somebody like

dr. anthony fauci, we had on special report last night and you had on your program the straight matter of fact numbers and how the u.s. is dealing with this. right now is fine. but over time the cdc and others are saying this could be a big problem that impacts how people deal with their daily lives. >> ed: you are right to separate the policy and concerns people have and protecting the public and then the politics. here is chuck schumer going after the president. >> you know, trump said yesterday there is a vaccine. well, the experts told us it would take a year to get a vaccine or more. they don't have any -- they don't have their hands around this. they are sort of freelancing because they were caught by surprise. they are in a deep hole because of the cuts they made. most of all to keep the american people safe they don't have a plan. >> ed: the president immediately pushing back on that. cdc and my administration doing a great job handling

coronavirus including the closing of our borders to certain areas of world. opposed by the democrats too soon they said. turned out to be the correct decision. no matter how well we do the democrats' talking point is we're doing badly. if the virus disappeared tomorrow they would say we did a really poor and incompetent job. the president believes no matter what he does it will become political. the other big picture is that this president banking on reelection largely on a strong economy, the markets in the last couple of days took a big hit. >> that's really where he has been most focused is the effect on economy. we saw sars, we saw various -- bird flu, and the market impact in the long term is not that large. we don't know really what we don't know about the coronavirus and its impact long-term. expect today 6:00 p.m. eastern for the president to forcefully

say they've got this covered in a way that puts his experts up first and says that they have what they need and if they want more they will ask for it. this is a battle that ends up everything is wrapped in politics in washington so expect this to be a real significant political battle in that dome behind me. >> ed: remiss to not ask you about last night's debate when i open up my fox nation app you have a new special taking a look at the history of socialism. we have it on the screen right now available at fox nation.com. bernie sanders not running away from who he is. >> yeah. this actually is just straight the history of socialism but really from the beginning to all the evolutions and democratic socialism straight across the board. it is really well done. six parts, 30 minutes each. and the first one you can get on fox nation. we're airing pieces of that all week long on special report but i don't think that bernie sanders will shy away at all

from any of that and i think that he has been talking the same way for 40 years. and his authenticity is something that people like about him. >> ed: got it. bret, we'll have the president live at 6:00 p.m. eastern and best analysis in the business after that. bret and martha tomorrow night at 6:30 p.m. eastern town hall with amy klobuchar. a lot going on. >> sandra: 2020 democrats setting us straight. what they want everyone to know because you've got them all wrong. joint pain, swelling, tenderness... ...much better. my psoriasis, clearer... cosentyx works on all of this. four years and counting. so watch out. i got this! watch me. real people with active psoriatic arthritis are feeling real relief with cosentyx. cosentyx is a different kind of targeted biologic.

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the fire and so far no reports of injury. >> it was like watching a bunch of nba players under the basket fouling each other. they needed a whistle, flashing red light. the people who interrupted got rewarded with more air tie. >> sandra: the democratic presidential debate as we go beyond the headlines. we look at the face-off that seemed at times to be out of control last night. moderators struggling to keep the seven candidates in line at times. joining us now jimmy failla comedian and writer. i have moderated presidential debates and it is a tough job. acknowledging that, what happened last night was something else. >> let's be very clear. it wasn't a presidential debate. it was a real housewives episode.

i felt for everybody trying to control them. a lot of desperation on that stage. i was waiting for elizabeth warren to throw a glass of wine and bernie to throw back a can of ensure. it was out of control. can we acknowledge how embarrassing it was for the democratic party. it was. they are supposed to be the party of the youth and they have three 78-year-old's yelling at each other on stage. when they say their party means new blood. like transfusion. >> sandra: it is hard to hear the candidates when the arms are flailing, people are taung over each other and the moderator having to hold to some of the rules and they didn't always at times. that made it difficult. andrew yang is calling for format change. he weighed in in a tweet and said we may need to re-examine the debate format. the utility of tonight was not high. >> i agree with you. i think we turn it into a reality show. america has issues and they can all do their special talents. warren can fake an dna test,

bernie can tank our healthcare. >> sandra: there was a light hearted moment when the candidates were asked about the biggest misconceptions about them and here is how they responded. >> i'm defined by business success and money. >> the biggest miscon semtion is that i'm boring. >> i have more hair than i think i do. >> misconception, the ideas i'm talking about are radical. they're not. >> don't eat very much. in fact, i eat all the time. >> not passionate. i get that i'm kind of level. some say unflap able. i don't think you want a president who a flappable but it is precisely because i'm so passionate. >> that i'm six feet tall. >> sandra: perhaps bloomberg stole the show. >> amy klobuchar. that's the most boring answer you could ever give somebody. >> sandra: i want to finish up with speaking of klobuchar. a moment that went viral,

photographer caught this moment where tom steyer is one side. joe biden on the other engaged in a heated debate over private prisons. she was asked about it this morning. she said i thought i would get hit on the debate stage. he is a billionaire. maybe if he leans over some money will fall out of his pocket. >> she summed up the way the rest of the country felt. what's going on? what is actually going on? it was a really rough thing to watch, you know. i'm rooting for good tv and good debates, you know what i mean? i've had enough losses as a knicks fan i don't need another one as a tv fan. the magic wasn't there last night. all fighting for second place, bernie will win. >> sandra: they need to hear from the candidates. town hall coming up on fox news channel with amy klobuchar. she will have a chance to make her case. >> ed: all right. thank you, fox news alert. wall street trying to rebound

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>> ed: time for a quick check on wall street. stocks rebounding after all three major averages plunged in the first few days of trading this week because of those growing fears about the coronavirus. christina parts and of lives from the fox business that network trends now. she is at the new york stock exchange. what's going on? >> it's so excited to be here, mere comments from traders, you are seeing the markets all in the green. all the sectors including energy that's been hit hard over the last little while, trading har hardy. a trader just told me he believes this is bottom feed. traders trying to pick up some of the stocks that have stronger

fundamentals, good earnings, and shouldn't have been sold off because of the viruses that have nothing to do with it. you have traders trying to get in there, some people trying to cover their positions. overall you are seeing a little bit of a rally, especially when you consider technology stocks. they usually get hit because they have exposure to china. today they are rallying. you've got netflix on your screen, affable, my dumb like microsoft to google. what makes this difference is investors don't have a playbook when it comes to the coronavirus and how to trade it. i want to focus on three points. the fact that it's not contained yet, two, that global supply chains this time around are so interconnected that it means and something is not working in china it could affect companies here in the united states. the third thing, think of the age of a lot of these money managers. last time we had a big flu pandemic it was in 2003. many have never experienced such a sell-off. i want to focus on peloton pray

that the company railing today. they are expensive, a little bit less than $2,000. when people think that because people are getting sick, more people will stay home and work out at home and that's why the shares of peloton are climbing higher today. working out at home. i don't know. are you in that trend? do you work out at home? >> ed: just got a peloton for christmas, and fact. trying to stay on the program. >> fancy! >> ed: kristina, think. >> sandra: with a second, did you ask for that peloton? that could be a thing! >> ed: we are both using it, we'll see. i got to stick with it. seat bernie sanders plane defense at last nights debate, getting the front runner treatment. where attacks from his 2020 rivals enough to stop his momentum? overtime so every veteran can save $2000 a year. x=dhúoyntd=ñ6z we all use our phones very differently.

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president's news conference at 6:00 p.m. that will be in bret's our, special report. >> ed: meanwhile, "outnumbered" starts right about now. >> sandra: thanks for joining us. sso beyond we begin with eight fox news alert, president trump announced he will hold a news conference on the coronavirus lr today from the white house. as the fight over battling the infection has intensified on capitol hill now. top senate democrats chuck schumer requesting more than $8 billion to fight the coronavirus, far more than the top administration's initial $2.5 billion requested just a couple days ago. >> nancy pelosi went after the administration's response so far. watch. >> it's shameful. it puts forth a proposal now that is meager, anemic, in terms of addressing -- with ebola we did $5 billion. now they are trying to take the ebola money and spend it