03/03/20 03/03/20 [captioning made possible by democracy now!] amy: from new york, this is democracy now! can do this we together. and that is why today i am ending my campaign and endorsing joe biden for president. >> everybody who is part of my campaign to join me because we have found that leader in vice president, soon-to-be president, joe e biden. pres. trump: you see what is happening, right? it is being

rigged -- it is sad. it is being rigged against crazy bernie. amy: suspending their campaigns on the eve of super tuesday, endorsing former vice president joe biden. >> 16 articles today on this. there is a massive effort trying to stop bernie sanders. that is not a secret to anyone in the room. amy: we will host a debate between professor dr. dr. cornel west and illinois congressman bobby rush, who has endorsed michael bloomberg. -- one aspect i deeply regret, the use of police practice called stop and frisk. i defended it, looking back, for too long because i did not understand and the unintended pain it was causing young black

and brown families and their kids. i should have acted sooner and faster to stop it. i did not. for that, i apologize. amy: bloomberg appears on the ballot for the first time today in super tuesday states. he has spent half $1 billion on campaign ads. we will also speak to the intercept's ryan grim. all of that in more, coming up. welcome to democracy now!, democracynow.org, the war and peace report. i'm amy goodman. voters in 14 states and american samoa head to the polls today for super tuesday, where over a third of democratic delegates are up for grabs. on monday, senator amy klobuchar dropped out of the race. both klobuchar and pete buttigieg, who dropped out on sunday, have endorsed former vice president joe biden. as the race heats up,

-- former presidential candidate and texas congressmember beto o'rourke also endorsed biden at a rally in dallas, texas, monday nine. decency and dignity back to the white house. >> at a time this country so polarized, so deeply divided, we need somebody who can bring us together and heal us. we need someone who can reestablish the morals of the united states. amy: that was beto o'rourke and before that, senator amy klobuchar. nbc is reporting that while barack obama is not formally endorsing any candidate at this stage, he has been speaking to biden and other moderate democrats -- including pete buttigieg on sunday, the day he dropped out of the race. a slew of other democrats have also endorsed joe biden following his south carolina win, including former senate majority leader harry reid, and former national security adviser under president obama susan rice who also endorsed biden. on monday, bernie sanders responded to a reporter asking

if he believed buttigieg dropped out of the race as part of an effort to o stop sanders' path o the nomination. what theno secret, but washington post" has 16 articles a day on this, there is a massive effort trying to stop bernie sanders. that is not a secret to anyone in this room. amy: president trump has also said in recent days the democratic party is rigging the election against sanders. meanwhile, the nation magazine has endorsed bernie sanders. they write -- "bernie sanders and the movements he supports have created a populist moment, a vibrant and growing alternative to the tired shibboleths of austerity and market fundamentalism. they are exposing and upending the white nationalist con that promises a blue-collar boom while cutting taxes for the rich and gutting health care, environmental protection and education for the rest of us." emily's list, the powerful political action committee that supports pro-choice democratic women, endorsed elizabeth warren on monday.

billionaire former new york city mayor mike bloomberg valid to stay i in the race a and will ar on the balallot for the first te today. in nashville, tennessee, which is also holding its primary today, a tornadoas left at least six people dead and thousands without power. the death toll from the coronavirus on u.s. soil leapt to six people monday, all in washington state, prompting king county to declare a state of emergency. at least 15 different states have now identified cases, with over 100 cases countrywide. though it is not clear how many people have coronavirus because of the lack of tests. the center for disease control has come under fire for issues with its original diagnostic test kit, which then took weeks to rectify. the cdc also removed statistics on its website monday, tracking the number of people tested for coronavirus. this weekend, the agency said fewer than 500 americans have

been tested so far. but trump claimed monday one million test might be administered by the end of the week. south korea is reportedly administering 10,000 tests per day. in new york, where the first case o oinfection n was confirmd this weeeekend, one man has takn to self-quararantining himimseln his brooklyn apartment a after e cdc refused to test him despite having symptoms that appear to be consistent with the coronavirus and the pleas of the hospitalal. mccarthyr. matttt speaking on cnbc. >> before i came here this morning, i was in the emergency room seeing patients. i still do not have a rapid diagnostic test availilable. clubs that is easy to do, is it not? close it is easy to do for some countries. what happened in the united states is the cdc created a test president up to 50 states had come hold up, don't use it, let us fix it. we hear it is coming very soon

but i'm here to o tell you at oe of the busiest hospitals in the country, i don't have it at my fingertips. i ststill have to call the department of health, i still have to make my case, plead to test people. this is not good. amy: president trump meanwhile continues to rail against democrats over the coronavirus. at a rally in charlotte, north carolina, monday, he accused democratic lawmakers of being fringe globalists who wowould prefer to keep borders open, which he says will prevent the containment of the virus. this comes after he claimed that criticism of his handling of the outbreak is part of a democratic hoax. the global death toll l for the coronavirus has topped 3000 with over 90,0,000 confirmed cases.s. and afghanistan, the taliban says it is resuming operations against government forces after the partial truce which preceded the u.s.-taliban deal this weekend. the taliban also said it would not move forward with intra-afghan talks until the

afghan government released 5000 prisoners -- which president ashraf ghani said he refuses to do. on monday, an explosion at a football field in eastern khost provovince killed at leastst the people and wounded 11, though no group immediately claimed responsibility. u.s. defense secretary mark esper said he gave the green light to begin the withdrawal of u.s. troops but that he expects violence to continue throughout the process. >> long, winding, bumpy road, there will be ups and downs and we will stop and start. that will be the nature of this over the next days, weeeeks, and momonths. in the mediterranean, a chilild has died, never hospitalized after a boat with dozens of refugees capsized off the coast of les bos, greece. another 46 refugees were rescued from the boat. on sunday, a group of some 150 lesbos residents tried to prevent a boat with refugees, mostly families and children, from disembarking and set fire to

micro center. this comes as turkish president tayyip erdogan said on monday that greek soldiers had killed two refugees and severely wounded a third person. turkey loosened restrictions on its border with greece this weekend, prompting thousands of refugees to head toward the border. anorak, political turmoil is deepening as caretaker prime minister said monday he w will step away from his post one day afteter his designated successor withdrew his nomination. the political vacuum comes after months of mass popular protests in which hundreds of demonstrators have been killed. in israel, with most bos county, prime minister benjamin netanyahu has earned significant lead over former army chief any gantz in israel's third election in less than a year. netanyahu's party fell short of winning a parliamentary majority. neither netanyahu's party nor gantz blue and white party have been able to win an outright majority or form governing

coalitions and the two prior elections. follow election results will be published until next monday accordrding to the israeli medi. prime minister net youngs trial for corruption begins two weeks -- prime minister netanyahu's trial for corruption begins in two weeks. thousands of uighur muslims in china have forcibly been taken from prison to work in factories that manufacture products and parts for companies including apple, nike, and volkswagen. that is according to a new report from the australian strategic policy institute, which analyzed satellite imagery and public documents to uncover the scheme known as xinjiang aid. workers are subject to ideological brainwashing. there are also barred from observing their own religious and troll practices. the report says at least 80,000 uighurs have been forced to work in the factories since 2017. in nicaragua beloved poet and , priest ernesto cardenal has died at the age of 95. cardenal supported the

sandinista revolution movement that overthrew u.s.-backed military dictator anastasio somoza in 1979. cardenal went on to become nicaragua'a's minister of cultue under the sandinista government from 1979 to 1987. his involvemement with the sandinistas caused the vatican to suspend his priesthood in the 1980's but it was later reinstated by pope francis. cardenal was deeply influenced by the liberation theology which focuses on social and economic justice. in his final years, he became a vocal critic of his former sandinista ally daniel ortega, after ortega returned to the nicaraguan presidency in 2007. back in the united states, the supreme court agreed to hear a case in the fall term on whether the affordable care act is lawful. a lower court in texas ruled in the individual mandate in 2019 obamacare was unconstitutional, throwing the entire system into question. meanwhile, on wednesday, the supreme court t will hear a pivotal abortion case involving the state of louisiana.

the case challenges a stature -- statute requiring doctors performing abortions to have admitting privileges at a nearby hospital. in 2016, a similar law in texas was ruled unconstitutional by the justices but two conservative trump nominees, justices brett kavanaugh and neil gorsuch, have tilted the court to the right. in other reproductive rights news, the utah senate passed a bill monday that would ban abortions except in cases of rape, incest, if the life of the pregnant person is at risk, or if the fetus isn't viable. the bill will now be taken up in the utah house.. in more related news, argentina is set to become the largest latin american country to legalize abortion. president alberto fernandez said on sunday he will send a bill to congress in the coming days. on monday, colombia's top court rejected a move to legalize abortion. longtime msnbc host chris matthews is out a at the cable

network after a string of recent controversies and accusations of sexual harassmsment. overer the weekend, a a journalt publisished a piece recounting matttthews inappropriate commens to her when she e was a guest on his show i in 2017 when he told her b before going on air he wod "fall in love with her." recently, he compared bernie sanders primary win in nevada to the nazi invasion of france and received backlash for being condescending during an interview with senator elizabeth warren in which he repeatedly questioned her over claims that fellow presidential candidate mike bloomberg and his company have a history of mistreating women. "hardball"ews show has been on the air since 1997. in immigration news, the publication "prism" reports that over 40 women from cameroon were transferred to another immigration jail in retaliation for protesting the conditions of the previous facility where they were being detained. the asylum seekers were taken from t. don hutto residential center in taylor, texas to a new

immigration jail in laredo, texas. last week, the women had led a sit-in to protest a lack of medicacal services and prolonged detention periods. an official at the interior department official inserted misleading and false information about climate change into at least nine agency reports. "the new york times" reviewed the reports and found false claims, including the idea increased carbon dioxide is beneficial for the earth's atmosphere and denial there is a scientific consensus the earth is heating up. the man who pushed the agency to add the lies to official reports is indur goklany, who was promoted in 2017 after trump came into office. he has represented the u.s. during high level climate negotiations at the united nations. and in los angeles, a video showing the husband of l.a. county's district attorney pointing a gun at black lives matter activists has gone viral -- onene day ahead of the prprir in which d.a. jackie lacey is up for reelection.

>> get off of mymy porch. i'm going to shoooot you. get off of m my porch. hooks can you tell jackie lacey we are here? >> i don't care who you are. get off my porch. right nonow. we are calling the p police. amy: the video was taken by cal state professor and organizer melina abdullah. abdullah and other a activiststs were at lacey's house to compel her to fulfill a promise to meet with black lives matter organizers. lacey has been criticized for her handling of cases involving police brutality. she is being challenged in the primary by two progressive candidates. lacey has apologized for both herself and her husband over the incident. and those are some of the headlines. this is democracy now!, democracynow.org, the war and peace report. i'm amy goodmaman. today people in 14 states and american samoa go to the polls for super tuesday. about a third of the delegates needed to secure the democratic presidential nomination are at stake. this comes after former south

bend, indiana, mayor pete buttigieg and senator amy klobuchar dropped out of the race on sunday and monday and last night endorsed former vice president joe biden. a slew of other democrats have also endorsed biden following his south carolina when, including former senate majority leader harry reid, president obama's national security advisor susan rice, and former presidential challenger beto o'rourke. as the race heats up, billionaire former new york city mayor michael bloomberg has vowed to stay in the race. > i talked to mayor pete and amy klobuchar. talked to pete earlier today and amy just a little while ago. i wish them all the best. i thought boboth of them behaved , represented their country and their states very well. i felt sorry for them, but i am in it to win it. amy: this will be bloomberg's

first time on the ballot. and while he has not won a single race he does lead his challengers and one key sense -- campaign spending. he recently crossed the $500 million mark in ad spending alone, more than 10 times that of any of his democratic rivals. bloomberg's presidential campaign purchased primetime ad space sunday night work as muchh as so hehe could address the $3 million nation about the threat of coronavirus. >> i know this has been a worrisome week fofor many americans. the coronavirus is spspreading d the economy is taking a hit. markets have fallen because of uncertainty. at times like this, it is the job of the president to reassure the public that he or she is taking all the necessary steps to protect the health and well-being of every citizen. amy: since bloomberg entered the race exactly 100 days before super tuesday, he has campaigned in all 14 super tuesday states, and focused on states rarely

visited by democrats in primary fights -- like arkansas, oklahoma, and tennessee. also on the campaign trail is democratic presidential candidate senator bernie sanders, who remains the front runner. at a campaign rally in st. paul, minnesota, he told supporters of his former rivals amy klobuchar and pete buttigieg that the "the door is open. come on in." >> whether you are conservative or whether you are progressive, whether you are republican, independent, or democrat, you understand that the e united ststates cannot continue havings president somebody who is a pathological liar. [cheers] and i think there are a lot of conservavatives s who understand that. you cannot continue having somebody who is running a corrupt administration. continue to have

somebody who apparently has never read the constitution of the united states -- [cheers] who is undermining american democracy and thinks he is above the law. well, in november, we are going to remind donald trump what democracy is about because we are going to throw him out of office. [cheers] trump is not just a liar, he is a fraud. and let me tell you something. the establishment is getting very, very nervous. amy: that was senator sanders speaking in utah. he was also in minnesota yesterday. for more, we host a debate today on the democratic presidential rivals senator bernie sanders and billionaire former new york city mayor michael bloomberg.

wewe're joined by two guests. dr. cornel west is professor of the practice of public philosophy at harvard university. he has endorsed bernie sanders in the democratic primary and is his surrogate. he's written numerous books, most recently, "the radical king: martin luther king, jr." his other books include "race matters," which celebrated the 25th anniversary of the publication of this work with a new release. he joins us from harvard university. and with us in washington, d.c., is congressmember bobby rush of illinois. he is national co-chair for the mike bloomberg 2020 presidential campaign. congressmember rush has served in office for more than two decades, since 1992. he got his start as a civil rights activist in the 1960's. his background includes being both a co-founder of the illinois chapter of the black panthers and the only member of the democratic party to have defeated barack obama in an election.

that was in the 2000 democratic congressional primary. welcome both of you to democracy now! i went to begin w the unusual developers that took place last few days, on the eve of today, super tuesday, where you have several presidential candidates dropping out -- pete buttigieg on sunday followed by amy klobuchar on monday -- and yesterday, both of them endorsed in biden after his major win south carolina. but it was only them who endorsed joe biden, also former presidential candidate beto o'rourke and a roster of the democratic establishment leading president trump to say it is a coup against bernie sanders. can talkl west, if you about the significance of what has just taken place with nbc also reporting on the "hidden hand of barack obama" in urging people to coalesce around biden?

>> i hope what we are witnessing is the last gasp of not just the establishment and the democratic party, but the neoliberal wing of the power elites, of the ruling class. we have three options right now, sister amy. we have neofascist gangster status with trump. wing of got neoliberal ruling class with the establishment of demococratic party. any of the progrgressive meal populist -- because brotheher bernie is not running on a democratic socialist platform, is running on a progressive meal populist, fdr-like platform. we have these three options. in the establishment now in the democratic party is in panic. they are hysterical because they don't know which way to go and they are now fallen behind a joe biden, who is so weak and energy

and vision and courage, nothing but a hangover from the earlier and theal elites democratic party. in that sense, it is a complement to brother bernie, complement to all of us because we are unstoppable. so dr. cornell west, why do you support bernie sanders? you did in 2016. you are now. >> i think he provides the only hope, the only vision, energy, excitement, bringing different people together -- not just new voters, but most importantly, those who are concerned about poor and working-class vote. we are right now in a moment of ecological catastrophe, a moment of unbelievable political dysfunctionality, and neoliberal elites and the democratic party do not have what it takes to push out the neofascist gangster in the white house. i'm going to say this about brbrother bloomberg. neoliberal gangster.

gangster as a police. 5 million precioious black and brown young folk pushed against the wall. try to cross public education. pupushed out quality teachers in bringing and all kinds of bureaucratic folk under joe klein and then tied to wall street and most importantly, the escalation o of the wealth inequality that is pulling the rug from under american democracy. so in that sense, brother bernie is the grand hope. that is why i was with him four years ago and why i am with him now and why would take a bullet -- not for my heart, that is from my mama -- on my side for my dear brother bernie. amy: congressmember bobby rush has laid down the gauntlet, professor west has, can you explain why you are the cochair of the mike bloomberg presidential campaign? why? is it just for the former new york mayor? does why it is you have chosen to support the former new york

mayor? >> i want to say good morning. good morning to my mosost profod friend and someone i love and admire and respect, my soul brother dr. cornell west. >> how are you doing, my brotother? >> my brother. especially do not agree with dr. west on this most important matter. is oneieve mike bloloomberg , can be donald trump.p. -- rather, should not be overlooked that the trump gang is exuberant and their support of bernie sandeders. the reason why is they think bernie sanders is the ideal candidate. they could not create a better

candidate to run against than bernie sanders also because they know bernie sanders, his plans, his ideology, the things he wants to represent and the things he has promised, he knows it will be regurgitated by most of the american voters, including many in the democrats. so i think bernie sanders andidacy will represent such farce and will allow those of us who are really concerned about some of the most serious premise associated with social dysfunction in our community. and that dysfunction and community -- and our community, investment inhis our community. and we certainly want to have

understandseone who the economic issues that african-american communities is reeling against, suffering because the economic disinvestment in the african-american commumunity. -- andve mike bloomberg because he understands the economics of how to create new investment, that he is the only that could have a hands-on idea about how to create investment and arc unity that will result in more stable community, a robust economy, better schools, better homes. i think mike bloomberg is the candidate and as president he will be the one that will make sure african-american community

thrives. at my own cityd of chicago. ninene time there were banks in chicago. today there is only one. across the nation, only 23 black owned banks and this country. that is horribible. our faire ever get share of the e economic tide access to banks and d access to capital? that is just one of the things that michael bloomberg says that she has promised that he will create a million new black homeowners. the wealth in the african-american community is $70,000. the wealth in the white community is $117,000.

10 to one. that wealth is based on homeownership. most of the whititmiddle-clalass wealth is centered on the homeownership. we don't own homes. we need to have a president who understands that, who can look beyond the rhetoric and see the fundamental promise that we have to address. suddenly, mike bloomberg said he will create a million black-owned businesses. a million. that creates a robobust economy. he will invest $70 million directly into the black community. no other president -- no other candidate, no other president has ever promised to invest $70 million in the african-american community. dr. west and i deal with this issue of criminal justice system.

we're going to correct that. we're going to make sure the criminal justice system is fair. i have to say one thing. and i understand about racial profiling. i have been against racial profiling all of my adult life. i'm against -- i use this term -- i am against racist pig policeman operating in our community in a lawless way. that is not to say the whole nation askacross the in a lawless way, but there are some police officers who are hell-bent on misusing their badge and brutalizing the african-american -- i'm against that policy. always have been and always will be.

amy: how do you deal with those 5 million stops and frisks over the three terms of mayor overberg that he presided with massive -- >> i am absolutely opposed to that, but i believe we are in a critical point in time, a critical juncture in our history. i believe once we deal with the reason the criminal justice -- in terms of the african-american -- cririme is high. i live in the hood. crime is high in our community. and there are millions of people who come to me every day asking me, what are we going to do about this crime? what are we going to do about this killing? we dooncerned because

have a high murder rate in my city and across this nation. so i'm not just going to say -- put my hand over my eyes and stick my head and not hear of these crimes -- telling amy: let's bring cornel west back into this. >> let me e say thisis. let me just finish it. crime, the high rates of thee that is the symptom of problem. the problem really is the disinvestment in our community. amy: let's have cornel west respond. >> but see, this is the challenge, though, brother rush. i want people to know i consider brother rush one of the great freedom fighters in the 1960's. we talked a couple of months ago and i see you there at the wedding of fred hampton. were the best man. myself, fred hampton,

one of the great freedom fighters, i think he would be with me on this, though. amy: fred hampton gunned down in 1969 by the chicago police. >> let me tell you i, my brother. i tell you why. because, one, bloomberg did not say none of them words when all of those homes were destroyed with wall street greed when wealth wall street was bailed out. when wall street was bailed out they had a choice. they could support the homeowners or go to wall street. the neoliberals went to the wall street greek. two, education, jobs and investment in the community require trying to transfer the money from the wall street greed elite to the working people. bloomberg was against that. not just bloomberg, the whole neoliberal crowd. all of the folks now are part of the democratic establishment. their base is dissolving. the establishment itself is being pushed.

here comes bernie sanders. here comes the vision. brother, everyone of those candidates who have run for nomination have had to apologogize to the black communy for something. against thers voted brady bill five times. aid and comfort to the nra. me.ow you would agree with you will agree with me on this. been -- guns have beeeen dumped in our community. access totter and guns. guns are so a available to youo, women.e young men and

becausereason why is .he nra i tell you -- hates --e nra voted fivenie has times. five times. amy: we're going to gotta break and come back to this discussion. we're joined by bobby rush, the national cochair for the mike bloomberg 2020 presidential campaign. and dr. cornell west, now professor at harvard university. back with them in a moment. ♪ [music break]

amy: this is democracy now!, democracynow.org, the war and peace report. i'm amy goodman. we hosted debate on the democratic presidential rival senator bernie sanders and

billionaire former new york city mayor michael bloomberg. on the ballot for the first time today on this super tuesday. of course, there were many people who voted before today. more than 100 leading black scholars, writers, and educators including keeanga-yamahtta taylor, barbara ransby, marc lamont hill issued a joint letter endorsing bernie sanders this weekend. it read in part -- "a sanders presidency would go a long way toward creating a safer and more just world. the commitment to free college education, the elimination of student debt which so many of our students suffer under, and the enfranchisement of incarcerated citizens, are only some of the reasons we have come to this conclusion. his support of a commission to study reparations for slavery is another reason for our decision, as well as his staunch commitment to the needs of poor and working people over the course of his career." we are joined by two guests, washington, d.c., -- in washington, d.c., illinois congressmember bobby rush, former black panther, firsrst yu

beat president obama when he ran for congress decades ago. but he is now national cochair for the mike bloomberg 2020 presidential campaign. and from harvard university, we're joined by professor dr. cornelll west, who has endorsed bernie sanders. well, you have- this letter from the black indemics, the massive win nevada, real sweep, and in new hampshire. but his loss in south carolina, which seemed to be a turning point for so many -- south carolina, the first mainly african-american democratic primary voting state with 60% of the democratic party african-american t there. cornel west, if you can talk about the significance of this and what the plans are for today and ongoing? >> well, i think it was highly appropriate to hear sister karen carpenter sing so beautifully about the masquerade.

george benson sang about it. the neoliberal politicians in the democratic party constitute a masquerade. they hide and conceal the connection to wall street, their connection to militarism to the military-industrial complex, their connection to wealth inequality and poverty and act as if they are concerned about working people and for people. every four years we discover the leg which goes one way, the policies go somewhere else. they're tied to big money, tied to big military, and they cannot execute what they talk about precisely because they do not ofe the organic links everyday people and their interest and money are tied to the power elite. what we are actually witnessing for the first time is bernie sanders campaign, no ties to make money, telling the people exactly what they need. they say they are empty promises. they said overthrowing apartheid was an empty promise.

they said organizing a working-class against greedy bosses was an empty promise. they said women and gays and lesbians and transit others could have rights and liberties, empty promise. bernie sanders is saying what appears to be empty promises can in fact become real if people come together in the name, not of the masquerade coming out of thateoliberal project privatize his education, that unleashes wall street greeded, that repeals glass-steagall, which is very much whwhat biden has done -- biden at least that greed by repealing glass-steagall. people, massiking incarceration going back to strom thurmond. we can go on andnd on and on. masquerade.berg -- karen carpenter is right.

if you what the real thing, if you want the curtis mayfield, brother rush, you know curtis from chicago if you want the real thing -- you looookbrother, shows at bernie sanders social practice. passed and all his time in the senate come anytime in congress -- and i served with him -- he has not passed not one that speaksary bill to anything that he is promising right now. not one bill has he passed. because commerce has been so right-wing. >> no, no, brother. >> last week in the house.

you have to be able to get things done. again, myjust -- practice is a criteria of the truth. this revolution that bernie sanders is promising? you know, where is that coming from? you know as well as i do, dr. when back in the 1960's we were doing grassroots organizing -- i am still in there. i live in the hood. i live among the people who i am representing. i know that we have to try something different. phenomenon in the 1960's called armchair revolutionaries. armchair revolutionaries.

theories.had amy: we don't have much time so i want to put your question to dr. cornell west the issue -- >> the brother has millions behind us. legacy.ilding on the >> no, no, no. look, look -- amy: then he ask you, bobby rush, a question. and this goes to your extremely valiant defeat in your own personal case of salivary cancer. you certainly have made health care an important issue. mayor bloomberg does not agree with bernie sanders that medicare for all is an answer. he said replacing private player provided health insurance is financially impossible and it would not work in the united

states. yet in state after state, this issue of health care and the polls around medicare for all are overwhelmingly positive. how do you respond to that, congressman rush? >> i think medicare for all is certainly the goal. how do you get to that goal? incrementally. you have to go step-by-step to get to that gogoal. look, i believe if you were born, then you have a right to that is inalth care existence. you have that right. but how do we as responsible individuals, how do we get there? how do we pay for it? of faith keep a sense in the system? put that question to dr. cornel west. you are saying how can this be

implemented, this critical question? >> absolutely. see, what brother rush will not say is the greed of the pharmaceutical industry, the greed of the private insurance industry -- that is what stands in the way. that is what makes it mental because their interest is so entrenched and tied to neoliberal democratic party politicians. ththe same was true in terms of our struggle against white supremacy. they told us to do what? being called a mental just t be provincial. no, it was the greed of white supremacist that stood in the way. we had to be creative and visionary. that is what the sanders campaign is all about. amy: cornel west, i would ask about one of the candidates who dropped out and it may surprise -- >> amy, can i just -- amy: bobby rush, let me just as this question. the question of pete buttigieg. it may surprise many that you have known him since he was in diapers. father,extremely of his

professor buttigieg. who famously wrote "the crisis consist precisely in the fact the oldest dying and the new cannot be born. a great variety of morbid symptoms appear." bloomberger biden and morbid symptoms? >> let me first say pete buttigieg is like family to me. his father was like a blood brother. he and i would go to italy every summer and be part of the national -- i love brother joe. i love brother pete. i just have disagreements with brother pete. but pete has now adjusted to this neoliberal rule. no doubt about that. i think biden does not have what it takes to be the gangster in the white house. i don't think bloomberg has what it takes because he's a gangster, too. you can't have a neoliberal

gangster againstst it your fasct gangster and think you're going to generate the kind of moral and spiritual vision and energy needed to push out trump. so that is the reason why bernie sanders is so very important. yet i can understand people -- we are desperate. ththe establishment is desperat. american democracy is going under. the planet is going under. everything is at stake that we love. we are in this thing all the way. we're going to milwaukee. we're going to washington, d.c. we have to reinvigorate american over.acy or is amy: bobby rush, you mention something earlier about you being the sponsor of this historic bill that passed the thee, almost unanimously, emmett till anti-lynching bill. emmett till, the 14-year-old boy from chicago where you are from who went to many, mississippi, for the summer, sleep in the house of his aunt and uncle and cousins and was lynched by a white mob.

onyou could finally comment your deep concern about police brutality, about lynching, and again, going back to -- because i am sure many people are scratching their heads -- the mayor mike bloomberg not just being from new york city, but presiding over this massive disenfranchisement of black and than 5hildren, more million stops and frisks during his three terms, then even when after the judge who ruled the stop and frisk program unconstitutional. amy, and i'glglad you askeked me the question because to me, there's really not a any contradiction. i am for justice and equality. that is the hallmark of my life. -- to know that, you know

want to try once and for , inin this critical time these desperate times, i want to try something else. i agree with you. elite have been a barrier to those critical that we have in n the lifean-american community and death is really the issue. and i for the first time -- i am looking for something different. i am looking for a candidate for president and i believe that

candidate is mike bloomberg, who really understands mistakes that he made. he did not listen to people. he apologized. he asked for forgiveness. he has made atonement. but i also know he is not just a one-dimensional man. i know that the house of representatives when nancy pelosi is the speaker of the house would not be in place right now -- the democrats would if miken control bloomberg had not spent his money to help elect democrats to take the house back. amy: bobby rush, we have to end it here but i'm going to ask you about if we can have a rematch. today is super tuesday. coming out of super, we will set up another head-to-head between bobby rush, the national cochair for the mike 2 2020 presidential

campaign -- join close amy -- whenbeat president obama he was running for congress decades ago. cook this is not hit in the head. i love my brother. >> i love my brother, too. amy:, that in the most respectful sense. dr. cornell, thank you so much for being with us. professor at harvard university in cambridge, massachusetts. this is democracy now! when we come back, the intercept's ryan grim joins us to talk about the latest of elements on this super tuesday -- developments on the super tuesday. stay with us. ♪ [music break]

amy: this is democracy now!, i'm amy goodman. millions of voters in 14 states and american samoa head to the positive for super tuesday. amy klobuchar suspended her

campaign and endorsed by non-monday. pete buttigieg dropped out of the race on sunday. both joint bite on the campaign trail in texas. >> i'm looking for a leader come a president who will draw out in each of us. i'm a cringing everyone who is part of my campaign to join me because we have found that leader and vice president soon-to-be president joe biden. it is time for president that will bring decency and dignity back to the president. amy: frontrunner bernie sanders responded to reporter who asked if he elite judge dropped out as part of an effort to stop his path to the nomination. secret, "thes no washington post" has 16 articles a day on this, there's a massive effort trying to stop bernie sanders. that is not a secret to anyone in this room. amy: this comes as michael bloomberg, who is also presenting himself as an alternative to sanders, is on the ballot for the first time today. super tuesday could also prove

decisive for elizabeth warren, whose home state of massachusetts heads to the polls today. for more, we are joined in washington, d.c., by ryan grim, d.c. bureau chief for the intercept. his recent book is titled "we've got people: from jesse jackson to alexandria ocasio-cortez, the end of big money and the rise of a movement." i guess the question is, do you really think this is going to be the end of it money? i also look forward to having you on our five hour joint intercept-democracynow coverage tonight from 7:00 p.m. until midnight to talk about the results of super tuesday. millions have already voted. can you talk about the significance of what has taken place over the last 48, 72 hours with the democratic establishment coalescing around joe biden? of big moneye end in the subtitle was kind of aspirational because obviously, big money is still here. at this is the first campaigign cyclee where we have seen big

money create not just advantages, but disadvantages. all of the candidates that y you talked abobout were both helped their ability to raise from millionaires and billionaires, but also hampered it. it hurt them among democratic prprimary vovoters, and that has never been thehe case beforere. i thinknk all of this coconsolidation arounund joe bi, this rapid movement in his direction with the supposed shadow work by obama behind the scenes, is setting up the coconfrontation perhaps a little bit earlier than the bernie sanders campaign thought it was coming. but later than the establishment really needed it to happen. bernie sanders has gotten the looking calendar in a lot of ways. not just the way it went from iowa to new hampshire and then over to nevada, which is kind of the perfect demographic for his coalition, he also got lucky in the sense that south carolina came on a saturday and now here

we are just days later on what joe biden calls super thursday. the party did not have the time that it needed the kind of halt is momentum. there are already millions of votes that have been cast around the country, but particularly in texas and california. at the same time, have michael bloomberg pulling boats away from joe biden. we will know a lot more later today on the program that we are going to be doing, but i think pundits might be overestimating by significant degree just how influenced voters are by what people do judge, amy klobuchar, and beto o'rourke tell them. their base of voters are higighy educated, college degrees and above. these are people who had a year to study joe biden and decided not to support the candidate that the party was putting in front of them instead surge for someone else,

buttigieg, klobuchar, biden, o'rourke, what have you. so having those candidates say, no, should - -- should supported by an, that is not necessarily going to move them in that direction. if all of this consolidation around bite happens and sanders still comes ahead, that is a devastating blow to the establishment. which does not quite realize how much it helped bernie sanders every time they do something like this and make it appear like they are trying to stop -- it appears that way because they are. amy: canan you talk about the significancece -- i mean, job fr a minute about biden calling a super thursday. he quickly corrected himself and called super tuesday. in south carolina, not joking he said, "i am joe biden, running for the u.s. senate." can you talk about the significance of this decision to coalesce around him, and also the embassy reporting about the "hidden hand of barack obama" in

all of this? >> right. the decision was kind of made early on to say, ok, joe biden is the democratic party guy -- amy: we have 2 20 seconds. >> i it is is totoose. and if he shows a strength, than the party establishment is going to get behind him. it was his to lose and he lost it, but nobody else on the establishment side could when it. so by default, they're back to him and they are forgotten why over the course of the last year everybody decided he could not beat trump in the general election. amy: to be continued. and intercept are teaming up and intercept are teaming up tonight for five hour broadcast around the results and analysis of super tuesday. that is 7:00 eastern time to midnight right here at manyracynow.org and on television and radio stations around the country. democracy now! is hiring for a

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