the odds are good that your house has been destroyed or that your neighbors have died. back to you. >> hopefully that veteran can get replacement medals. thanks for joining us. i'm dana perino. here's bill hemmer. >> bill: thank you. live look midtown manhattan. mike bloomberg set to speak any moment after ending his short and very expensive presidential bid. we will listen in as soon as that begins in midtown manhattan. i'm bill hemmer. the former new york city mayor bet his candidacy on super tuesday and he failed to win. now he might be out, but his money stays in. he's said that he's willing to spend a lot of money to help beat president trump but endorsing joe biden. chris stirewalt is here with us. maryann marsh is here, and juan

williams. co-host of "the five." is this the a team? what time is it? might be 5:00 somewhere. before we get to bloomberg here, here's the calendar, by the way. you have several contests next tuesday on march 10. the following week march 17, you have florida 248, illinois 155 and ohio 136. all right. based on that, what does last night mean, maryann? >> big night for joe biden obviously. the road only gets better for biden going forward than yesterday. if yesterday was a surprise and it was, when you start looking down the road, all of those states look better and better for joe biden especially in florida where bernie sanders has done everything he could to alienate pretty much every democratic voter in florida. so you look at big states like that, joe biden could go on a real roll here. >> bill: here's what it was for biden. alabama, 69%. the final days. minnesota 56%. down the line.

virginia, north carolina and texas. and -- >> and 36% of all the voters nationally were decided in the last few days. huge change of momentum. klobuchar, her vice presidential stock is way, way up. she delivered her home state for biden. he needed it. what wasn't on the map and next week, michigan. the great lakes state. if joe biden can put it away in michigan because what joe biden has done so far, he's got black voters and doing well with rural whites. >> bill: juan, tell us what you think it means before bloomberg takes the microphone here. >> to pick up on what chris has said. black voters in the south carried joe biden and resuscitated his campaign. i'll say that when you think about bloomberg who is about to come up, bill, you know, people think he wasted his money. but it was largely anti-trump

advertising. i think it's just going to double down on it. >> bill: stand by, guys. here in new york. mike bloomberg. >> this should be mike likes you. thank you. thank you, everyone. not sure what to say other than thank you. mayor, mike, you've been amazing. where are you hiding? hiding in plain sight. these past few months have been some of the most inspiring in my life and i hope in yours. in just 100 days, i've been to 73 cities in 27 states all across the country. we've gone from portland, maine all the way to compton, california, from detroit michigan down to jackson, mississippi and every place i went i listened to americans of every age.

every race and every ethnicity and every religion and every identity and orientation. and i heard about their hopes and their dreams and their fears and their struggles. and those come from conversations confirm my faith in the work that our team was doing to defeat donald trump and bring -- [cheers & applause] and bring our country back together and get things done for the american people. [cheers & applause] now today i want to say how grateful i am to everyone who has been part of our team. i want to thank you all from the bottom of my heart for your support, your work and your votes. i'm just telling you, the american public should be saying thank you to you as well. you really made history, you

really did. it's true. no campaign has ever accomplished as much as you did in such a short period of time. if you go back, we started at 1% in the polls. but yesterday thanks to you, nearly two million americans cast their votes for our campaign. [applause] really is the best most creative, most hard-working campaign team ever assembled. i have to say, there is no doubt in my mind we wouldn't -- we would have beaten donald trump in november. [cheers & applause] you know who else knows that? donald trump. he's been scared stiff of us and for good reason. every time he hit us, we hit back twice as hard. and unlike his jabs, our punches

packed the truth. look, today i am cleared-eyed about our overriding objectives. that is victory in november. [cheers & applause] not victory for me, or our campaign but victory for our country. if you remember, i entered the race for president to defeat donald trump. and today i am leaving the race for the same reason. to defeat donald trump because staying in would make it more difficult to achieve that goal. i've always believed the data should inform our decisions. that's the way i ran my business and foundation and the way we ran city hall. in fact, our campaign slogan was "in god we trust, everyone else bring data." after yesterday's results, the delegate math had become

virtually impossible and a viable path to the nomination no longer existed. i will not be our party's nominee. i won't walk away and i hope you won't either. [cheers & applause] i've always believed that defeating donald trump starts with uniting behind the candidate with the best shot to do it. after yesterday's vote is clear that candidate is my friend and a great american joe biden. i've known joe for a very long time. i know his decency, his honesty, his commitment to the issues that are so important to our country including gun safety, healthcare, climate change and good jobs. i've had a chance to work with joe on those issues over the years, especially when he was vice president.

he fought for working people his whole life. i'm glad to say i endorse joe biden, and i hope you will join me in working to make him the next president of the united states of america. it is an enormous understatement to say that i'm immensely proud of the campaign that we ran and the issues we raised and the sweeping achievable plans that we propose. that includes our greenwood initiative. to fight racial inequality and make the promise of equal opportunity real for the black communities that have endured centuries of exploitation and discrimination. that work's always thought is fundamental to the future of our country. and to the more perfect union and each generation is called to build. this afternoon i want you to all know that i am grateful to

everyone who supported us. to everyone in our campaign headquarters here in new york, the work that you did every day, late at nights, early mornings and weekends and holidays was amazing. to our incredible staff and volunteers in the states. you knocked on more than two million dollars and had more than 12 million conversations with voters. and to the traveling -- yes, you deserve a round of applause. and to the traveling team, you made great events look easy. you make them look flawless and exciting and energizing. you were the road warriors. now, no one outworked all of you and that's for sure. i'm very proud and you should be, too. you divided your days and nights doing the most important job in america. eating donald trump and working to reclaim our values and rebuild our country. before i close, i want to thank

our campaigns amazing co-chairs that are among the most respected and effective leaders. steve benjamin. greg fisher. [applause] michael tuggs, sherrill bowser, stephanie murphy, manny diaz, gina romando, bobbie rush -- >> bill: there's the news. mike bloomberg a bit of choked up with the emotion he showed. if i lost that amount of money, juan williams and chris stirewalt would get choked up very well. easily. i'm clear-eyed about our objective, beating donald trump and the endorsement goes to joe biden. back with our panel quickly. what does this mean now, maryann? why don't you start? >> full-throated endorsement of joe biden, which was very impressive. his best contribution is to use his money and put it into all of the coordinated campaigns that

are in all 50 states. the victory 2020 campaigns that will help the entire ticket. that's what -- >> bill: here's the math for bloomberg. he has 53 delegates. could go higher. per delegate, 10.8 million per. okay. it's going up. 10.4 million. >> his real rich. he can afford it and all that will be back in his coffers soon enough there was a whiskfulness. you know what he has to be thinking? i was good at this, not in debating. what if i would have gotten in in the summertime instead of the fall and winter. i promise you one other things, when the buyers remorse hits the democrat, when they watch the cnn debate stage and say this is it? when that happens, people say mike, think about getting back

in this thing. >> bill: there's a debate sunday night, march 15. the trump team has sent out tweets with mike bloomberg say joe biden can't win. that was from december. now you have today. a lot of things change in politics in 72 hours, right? a lot can change now. juan? >> you know, i would agree full throated is the way i would describe it. you suggested that was a surprise to you. i think given that he had dropped out, it should be full-throated endorsement. the issue is, you know, the man. clearly earlier this week his advisers were telling him, there's no road for you. he refused to drop out. he dropped out and then is his ego going to get in the way of supporting joe biden. listening to him there, not a flub in site compared to what we get from -- >> bill: jim clyburn got a lot of attention. his endorsement helped him out in a significant way. this morning he explained how

joe biden is running and how he needed to change in a conversation clyburn had with biden. >> i think all of this stuff about him being too touchy, making people uncomfortable, i think it caused him to pull back and not be himself. he is a guy that is very affectionate. he is very compassionate. i think that that's what had him a little bit robotic going into this campaign. >> bill: so everybody will watch that, chris and watch the gaffes and watch for things that have been online so far. how does biden manage that? >> don't do that. if you're joe biden. don't take that advice. what they ought to do is declare he has a coronavirus, put him in a tube and get him off the stage. let him talk for five minutes at a time and cover him up with mike bloomberg's money. >> bill: can you do it? mvp, jim clyburn put biden in situations where he can be

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>> bill: a live look on the hill. we're waiting a vote on an $8 billion deal to help fight the coronavirus. there's 11 confirmed deaths here in the u.s. the latest in california. the other 10 in the state of

washington. vice president mike pence will travel there tomorrow. team fox coverage now. first the congressional correspondent, chad pergram is on the hill with the hillside of things, chad. >> you know, just in the next hour or so, the house of representatives will vote on this $8.3 billion supplemental appropriations bill and then it goes to the senate. they hope they can move this through the senate tomorrow. almost any senator can block the bill, but who wants to be that senator blocking the coronavirus supplemental spending bill? here's the senate minority leader, chuck schumer. >> the funding levels in this bill and their specific uses reflect the needs of the country as healthcare professionals across america work to confront the spread of the virus. >> the bill the house votes on today allocates $3 billion for vaccines, one billion for state and local governments dealing with coronavirus and $20 million for small businesses.

the former cdc director says that lawmakers should prepare for more outbreaks like coronavirus. >> let's think back a few years. we've had sars, a pandemic in 2009, we've had zika, ebola and now here we are with this new coronavirus. this is not a one-off situation. this is going to be our new reality and we need to upgrade the investment that we're making in the front line of public health. >> all right. house speaker nancy pelosi is convening a meeting with other top congressional leaders, talking about congressional operations if there was an outbreak of coronavirus. they closed the public galleries for a month in 1918 after the spanish flu. bill? >> bill: thanks, chad. to the white house. john roberts live object the north lawn. what's happening there? >> good afternoon. with an 11th death reported, a full court press at the white house. the vice president and the president with a number of meetings.

nursing home ceo, chiefs of airlines, laboratories. the vice president briefing members of the congress. a meeting of the coronavirus task force this afternoon and the vice president will brief us all at 5:30. the president saying while there's a cluster of nine deaths in washington state, the number of people infected in the united states remains low. listen here. >> we have a very small number of people in this country, a very big country. the biggest impact is when we took the 40 plus people, americans. don't let them into the country. but they're americans. they were stranded. >> the big move by the administration today, all about testing. the white house revising good lines for testing possible causes of coronavirus previously. people needed to meet a certain series of criteria to follow. anybody that has a recommendation from a doctor can get tested. the government rapidly accelerating the ability to test

for the virus as well. the cdc will have 2,500 test kits that represents 1.5 million individual tests. those go to hospitals and affected areas, and other hospitals that have requested them. add today's meeting, the white house hoping to expand testing to a much greater degree. now, a lot of people coming up to spring break season. they'll be flying out of the country and wondering whether it's safe to fly. here's what the president said earlier. >> where these people are flying, it's safe to fly. large portions of the world are safe to fly. we don't want to say anything other than that. we have closed down certain sections of the world. that i have automatically closed them also. >> the president making those comments in the meeting with airline ceos. the airline ceos are engaged in contract tracing. a person at a nursing home in washington state flew to north carolina where he or she was

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>> bill: 26 past the hour. 11 dead in the u.s. one dead in california. waiting word on a funding bill out of washington. want to bring in california democrat congressman, john gerimendi. what can you add about this individual that died? >> i represent travis air force base. most of these people were evacuated from china and the cruise ship. my understanding this woman was

on the cruise ship and she was an elderly lady and succumbed to the coronavirus. more than that, i don't know much about her. it does raise the question about was she back in the community, who else may have been exposed to her. those are the issues that the public health system and the testing situation. most of which will be addressed with this $8.3 billion piece of legislation that we're going to move. >> bill: our sympathies to her family in california as well and all the others suffering from this now. $8 billion. is that the right now? >> $8 billion. yes. >> bill: seems like a high mountain there. >> well, we have a big problem. >> bill: what will we use it for? >> for most everything people are talking about. i've been talking about the need for testing. it will ramp up the testing and

provide the necessary information. also about $2.2 billion of it -- $3 billion is going to go into research for the development of a vaccine, therapeutics and antibiotics and the testing program, which are essential to get a handle on this illness. and the rest of it will be supporting the public health agencies all across the nation, including clinics out there that will see an enormous surge along with the hospitals. >> bill: we had the new york city mayor on yesterday. he said things are adequate. pretty firm statement in asy of eight million. he seems to think we're well-prepared here in new york. what did you hear from the president today? >> we heard basically what i just said. this legislation is going to be up and moving. they're moving forward with the therapeutics, moving forward with the testing programs. all of those things are in gear now for those of us that had

these evacuees coming into our community. we would have hoped it would available three weeks ago. we are where we are today. we need to move forward and this legislation together with the ramp up of the communities. the rubber meets the roads in the communities where the county, state and city public agencies. the support from the federal government will go to them as they carry out these tasks of tracking down those people that had been exposed, isolating as necessary, quarantines if necessary. all of those things are done but the local governments. in my area, they have issued pup health merges so those programs are up and running. >> bill: thank you for your time, sir. the vice president will hit the road tomorrow. appreciate it. we'll see what gets down and if there's relief. john garamendi, thank you.

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>> i've always believed defeating donald trump starts with the best candidate. after yesterday's vote is clear, that candidate is my friend and a great american, joe biden. >> bill: so there's mike bloomberg in new york. speaking after he dropped out of the race. after a disappointing super tuesday showing. tim o'brien was senior adviser for the bloomberg campaign in colorado. thanks for your time. good afternoon to you. we watched your boss. i guess your former boss. still your boss going forward. we heard this from the president today. mini mike bloomberg will fire tim o'brien and all the fools that got him into this miss. this is the worst and most

embarrassing experience in his life. now on to sleepy joe. >> i'll send the president a box of pampers. he should focus on the business of the country. there's the coronavirus, the stock market has been whip sawed. people have been concerned about the president's competence for a long time. and we're going to stay focused on that issue going forward in this election year. i'm amazed that he can't focus on what matters to the american people and he has to constantly personalize these side show issues. >> bill: he's fired up a lot of tweets today. it wasn't just you. how, mike bloomberg spent $10.4 million on every delegate that he has at the moment, which is a little more than 50. is it worth it? >> well, look, the campaign advertising from the beginning was issue specific.

gun violence, the climate crisis, healthcare, the economy, immigration, job growth. all bread and butter issues nor the democratic party. everything that mike did wasn't for not. a long time during this campaign, he looked like a strong frontrunner. he got his issues on the table and put trump on notice. he's got nothing to shy away from about his effort here. >> bill: what does it say about throwing money at politics as opposed to -- and doing the grind in iowa and new hampshire and nevada and south carolina? that's something that he passed on. >> bill: it's only because he got in the race late, bill. we were in 45 states and territories. we had 2,100 people on the ground. we fought this hard, door-to-door across the country. the infrastructure we built is in the service of joe biden and the party itself. we fought very hard. this wasn't throwing money

against the wall. as i said from the beginning, you can buy exposure, not buy an election. if you could buy an election, some of the candidates that came in with money and dropped out and never polled cloak to mike bloomberg would have been more formidable. the reason why, he brought a lifetime of experience to this campaign as the mayor of new york and philanthropist. and he's everything that donald trump as spires to be and isn't. >> bill: one thing that mike bloomberg aspired to be is president and donald trump beat him to it. you're saying no apologies. i take you for your word. you also say you're not going away. in what way will mike bloomberg play a role now? >> well, mike has said from the very beginning that the resources we have and the infrastructure we have is making

sure that donald trump isn't president again. we're going to continue on that path. >> bill: nice to see you, tim o'brien. see you in new york soon. we'll continue the conversation. in the northeast, senator elizabeth warren has not finished better than third. even in the commonwealth of massachusetts. thanks for your time, tim. nice to see you again. we saw each other in new hampshire. what happened here? >> this is stunning. every poll heading into the weekend showed her in a neck and neck contest with bernie sanders. of course, the world changed after saturday night and joe biden's win in south carolina. the third place finish is a fatal blow in terms of the political argument of how she can go forward. not just coming in third in massachusetts, but you know, when i saw you up in new hampshire, massachusetts

politicians, particularly democratic ones do not lose the new hampshire primary. if they do, there's one example of that, they're out of the race basically. so after both 1 and two things happening there, this is a difficult -- >> let me show you two things. the sound bite from the president on elizabeth warren and then a map as to how she may have been a spoiler. here's the president. >> she's a spoiler. other people got out and gave them to joe. those people helped joe, you know, by getting out early. a couple that got out of the endorsement. in the case of elizabeth warren, had she gotten out, it would have been a different situation i think. would have been a very different night. >> bill: let's see if he's right or not. i suppose the question for you. on the board, this is massachusetts, right? biden is almost 34%. elizabeth warren has more than 21% of the vote there. pop out here to minnesota.

show what happened in that state. biden at 38.6. elizabeth warren, 15%. perhaps if she's not in, the point is made by the commander-in-chief a moment ago. the one thing that i was looking at here in texas, doesn't seem to show up. biden is a winner by 4 1/2 points. warren doesn't -- she's at 11% there in the state of texas. i got the point to you, james, would be was she the spoiler ultimately for bernie sanders. >> well, clearly elizabeth warren in the race, not in the race. joe biden would have had a big night no matter what. we're talking about the delegate count. yes, there's no question even going forward, elizabeth warren would take away from joe biden. i wouldn't put in one major caution. she has a wide range of idealogical support. there's hillary clinton folks that wanted a woman. if they don't have that option,

they may end up with joe biden. but these are bernie sanders supporters. >> bill: who does the globe endorse now? >> i don't know. and remember, the globe told warren not to run before they flip-flopped and decided to tell her -- >> bill: we'll wait on that. ilhan omar said imagine in the progressives consolidated last night like the moderates consolidated, who would have won? that is what we should be analyzing. we could have won minnesota and other stays that we narrow le lost. to you james. >> yes, that's right. it's an argument that we're going to be hearing in the next few days. i think there's a sense inside of sanders world and you heard it from bernie sanders earlier this afternoon, mimicking literally by the word the memo from elizabeth warren's campaign manager and getting space for warren to make a decision and drop out. not to offend here, not to

offend her people. >> bill: would she endorse in the coming days or waiting for that debate in mid march? >> you know, that's the thing. the debate is why she would stay in. a three-person race. she's very good on the debate stage. everything else, not so much. but when she actually endorse -- she can do whatever she wants. she pitches herself between the bridge and the establishment and the grass roots. >> bill: she put out the memo saying she's going to fight till milwaukee. things can change quickly as they have. the memo is public. james, nice to see you. thank you for your time. >> you bet. >> bill: in a moment, days after signing a peace dale, the u.s. hitting taliban fighters with air strikes. so where does that leave the agreement that was just signed? iran tripling its uranium

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>> bill: a quick update. two major headlines. the dow up 1,000 points. stocks are up on this wednesday. you've seen the way it's gone, right? seeing and sawing back and forth. and waiting on lawmakers to vote on $8 billion in a deal to help fight the coronavirus. there's 11 confirmed deaths in the u.s. stay tuned as we wind up the hour here. the u.s. military conducting what is called a defensive air strike against the taliban less than a week after both sides signed a historic peace deal. dan hoffman is here. good day. >> good day. >> bill: you called this a wickedly complex challenge. at the time the taliban spokesperson was on the phone

with the president, he was ordering air strikes on whom? >> the deal we signed is conditions based. so requires that violence be reduced, that intra-afghan dialogue begin and the taliban not allow their territory to be used by terrorists to seek to do us harm. the taliban responded with massive attacks, but particular particularly against afghan security forces. nothing says verify better than air strikes. >> bill: how do you define the ongoing presence in this war? as opposed to ending what many consider to be the endless war, dan. >> what i would highlight, we're seeing the taliban jockey for position. it's not a monolith. there's war lords and chaos in that country. hence the attacks that took place yesterday. the decision for the united states i don't think it's one that the president is

necessarily made yet. whether we might need an on going presence military intelligence out there to detect and preempt threats before they're visited on our shows. it's a lesson that we learned too hard on 9-11. >> bill: what's interested, the taliban may not attack u.s. forces there, but they have real issues with the afghan government. i don't know how we clear that up, dan. >> the other challenge is the afghan government is very much in disarray. remember, they had elections six months ago and still in contention. the president won with 50% of the vote but his major competitor who has a lot of support in northern afghanistan alleges fraud. we need the government to come together to be a strong force against the taliban. >> bill: easier said than done based on history. in iran a major headline that

has been largely overlooked given the super tuesday respects of yesterday. iran says they have sufficient fuel for a bomb. it crossed a key threshold. how do you analyze that move, dan? >> they're stockpiling uranium so that they could down the road have enough to enrich it to a degree to build a bomb. what iran has done, they're facing massive protests inside their country in an economy that is very much in free fall. they know that every one of these steps, attacking our embassi embassies, shooting down drones, they're all reversible what they want is for us to eliminate the sanctions. we're not going to do it unless they show up to negotiate a reworked nuclear deal first. that i have a ballistic missile program that will eliminate the sunset clauses and deal with the state sponsored terrorism. >> bill: thanks, dan. >> thank you.

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>> bill: the coronavirus affecting 93,000 around the world. the outbreak spreading to 77 countries. new cases across the u.s. experts say it could be more than a year until a vaccine is ready. doctor, good afternoon to you. before i get to the questions from our viewers and they have many and good ones, too, there's a new rule that allows doctors in a room or receiving room in a hospital. if they suspect the patient may have the virus, you can test for it. >> really good and important step. the problem is making sure we have the test kits that they

need to make sure that they can do those tests. it's a cumbersome process but we opened up avenues for it. >> bill: if you test more, you'll find more cases. >> yes. >> bill: and if one gets coronavirus and recovers, how immune is that person from attracting the disease again? >> we're not sure. the issue is we're going to have to see whether the virus changes. for example, it could mutate into a different form in which case you wouldn't have immunity. so much we don't know including behavior of the virus. it's possible but nobody would want to guarantee that. >> patricia ellis says, what is the best way to prevent senior citizens from getting it. >> those are the citizens that are most at risk of coronavirus. if they get it and older and have any pre-existing medical conditions, especially conditions involving the lungs,

they need to be particularly careful in terms of who is visiting them, hand contact, the typical kinds of hygiene that we recommend because of frequent hand washing. use of purell-type products and keep ill people away from the elderly. >> bill: good advice. mark writes who and what do we truth? the president says don't panic. italy has closed universities and schools for two weeks. how does that help if there's no vaccine? how can you stock up enough food to last through this? sounds like there's some panic. >> very complicated question. a lot of people are asking doctors, myself included what is it that they we need to do and depend on leaders that provide us in terms of information. the most important thing is credibility. we can't have leaders saying things that are contradicted by health experts. once we do that, we lose credibility and start disbelieving the messages that

are very important. there's lots to think about on what to stock up, when we will be closing schools and so on. >> bill: brenda sellers, can this come in on products that we buy and get hope to open? >> that's a very tough question. the fact is that the virus can exist and live on a service for a few hours. by the time you get food to your home, even if it's touched by somebody that might be contaminated or infected, it's probably safe. >> bill: here's my questions now. >> going to get tough. >> bill: two weeks ago, you didn't have questions. you don't have many more now. why is that? >> like for example, in the u.s., we just started doing testing. south korea has tested 65,000 people. we've test add few hundred. so we don't know much about the behavior of the virus. i don't know any more today, bill, than we knew two weeks ago about what the incubation period is. >> bill: so you need more time

to figure that out. >> more time and more information and more work from the scientists that get us the information we need. >> bill: if the incubation was 14 days, is that enough? >> i don't. could be three weeks. there was evidence that one of the cases in california had that virus for at least six weeks or maybe more than that. >> bill: doctor, thank you. irvin redliner. thanks. >> thank you. >> bill: this just in. the white house announcing that president trump will award the medal of freedom to retired four-star general jack keane. jack keane is a fox news senior strategic analyst, the nationist highest civilian honor for him. president trump said to give out the award next week. jack keane, a friend and colleague for years here at fox. well-deserved. jack keane is a committed american to getting it right. well-done. we salute you.

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