first up on msnbc, countdown to iowa. history in the making this week. with the first votes of the 2020 presidential election set to cast tomorrow. and how a last-minute error canceled the release of the final big poll. global outbreak. new cases of coronavirus appearing in the u.s. and around the world. how health officials are trying to stop the spread of the virus. and game time. as the 49ers and chiefs get ready to take the field tonight for some people it's all about the ads. we'll take a look at the spots

worth billions of dollars. beautiful hard rock stadium at miami gardens. it's a beautiful morning in punxsutawney, pennsylvania. within the next 15 minutes the ground hog will supposedly tell us if winter will continue on. this is how they party in punxsutawney. >> the record for how correct punxsutawney phil is? >> what is it? >> i can't remember exactly. it's either 39% or 43%. >> so almost farmers almanacesque. >> good morning on sunday, february 2nd. punxsutawney phil day, ground hog day. >> the iowa caucuses and the impeachment trial fallout are the two big stories we'll focus on with our team of reporters and analysts this morning. turning now to the historic week of politics ahead. tomorrow people of iowa will be the first to decide on a democratic presidential candidate during the state's

caucuses. tuesday president trump will deliver his third state of the union address and wednesday his impeachment trial is expected to wrap up with a final vote from congress. >> on the campaign trail the democratic candidates are spreading themselves all across the country with most focusing, of course, on iowa making their closing arguments. >> all of this as a highly anticipated des moines register poll is polled after pete buttigieg might have been left off at least one interview. the editors saying they made that tough decision because, quote, nothing is more important to the register and its polling partners than the integrity of the iowa poll. >> joining us is nbc's mike lemoli who is in iowa for us this morning. mike, what happened? >> reporter: this is a big deal, guys. i've talked to guys who have worked on this. this release of the last iowa poll is a real key moment in the final hours of the caucus campaign. they've described scenes of campaign staffers all over iowa

with the des moines iowa register refreshing, refreshing ready to get the last number. i was at a joe biden rally that was ending just as we were expecting the poll to be released. i was on the rope line ready to try to ask the former vice president to get his first reaction to that number. well, we found out it wasn't going to come out. what happened? we got some of our best insights on what happened. liz smith wrote since people are asking our campaign received a report from a recipient of the iowa poll raising concerns that not every candidate was named by the interview when asked who they support. we shared this with the organizations behind the poll who conducted an internal investigation and determined not to release it. we applaud cnn and the des moines register for their integrity. this could have an impact on the results itself. the psyche of the caucus goers showing that if a poll had been released showing one of the 49ers with a surge, 5-point lead, that could have added to the sense of momentum in the

final days. just as somebody who maybe was suddenly in the back of the pack could have been facing real questions about their viability as you head into the caucuses. so we're left in the last 24, 48 hours to talk about not the poll numbers but the issues. maybe that's a good thing. >> shocking as that may be. you've been talking to joe biden. what does he think? >> reporter: the stakes are certainly high. earlier on in this long nomination battle biden advisers were telling me they're the only candidate who doesn't need to finish first in iowa. others have made this a make or break moment. as we've gone through the campaign in the last few weeks here, definitely you feel the pressure building on them. we've talked a lot about the fact that senators, those senators in the field have had jury duty, they've been stuck in washington dealing with the impeachment trial and whether that's hurt them on the campaign trail. joe biden has been very much wrapped into the impeachment process himself.

even though he's had all week to emphasis the contrast with president trump and highlight the differences with his rivals, it's something he felt he needed to talk to his voters about at that rally in waterloo. >> i can't think of any time that you have a president deciding he wants to pick who the democratic nominee will be, or at least who it won't be. folks, you know, no matter how personal the attacks are on me and my surviving son, my family as a whole, i can't afford if i'm your nominee in the next election to hold grudges because a president has to not only fight but a president has to be able to heal. this nation needs healing. i really mean it. not hyperbole, i really mean it. because this is not about the-- these attacks aren't about me and my family, they're about you. >> reporter: what we've heard

from voters all across iowa throughout this campaign is that beating donald trump is the number one issue for them and biden in these last few days has been trying to use this impeachment, use the fact that donald trump tried to get a foreign government to interfere in our election by trying to smear him with debunked conspiracy theories is just evidence of the fact that donald trump and his republican allies are afraid of joe biden being that nominee. >> voters will take to the caucus in one day and 11 hours. we've got a ticker and we will be counting it down. mike memoli for us this morning. thank you. new reaction as democratic unity is under scrutiny. film maker michael moore is defending rasheida tlaib as she booed hillary clinton. >> last week when someone by the name of hillary clinton clinton said that nobody -- we're not going to boo. we're not going to boo. we're classy here. >> i'll boo.

booo. you all know i can't be quiet. no. we're going to boo. that's all right. the haters will shut up on monday when we win. >> michael moore was in the room and here's what he told msnbc about the mood there. >> she was responding to the fact that people were already booing hillary before rashida said anything because that's the level of anger amongst people who want to win. hillary's comments about bernie, nobody likes him, can't win, that's -- that only exists to help donald trump. maybe hillary doesn't know that, but it was divisive. it was cruel. it was a lie. >> joining us now is kevin serilly. he's the chief correspondent with bloomberg news. kevin, good morning to you. doesn't talib booing hillary clinton play into trump's hands

here? >> first and foremost, i talked to supporters of senator bernie sanders, they have felt for a very long time that the last presidential cycle was -- they were treated unfairly by hillary clinton's campaign. they found that her comments in that healing documentary really re-opened old political wounds. they couldn't understand based upon my reporting why she was weighing back into this particular race. now the second point that i would make here is after the sanders campaign, they are trying to really pitch this message that they would be able to attract independent voters in key battleground states like michigan where sanders beat hillary clinton, pennsylvania, wisconsin, ohio and all of these other battleground states where quite frankly there were 70,000 voters who switched from voting from obama in 2012 and went for president trump in 2016. >> kevin, in the meantime do you get a sense, do you anticipate this whole battle in the democratic party will get more

divisive as we enter the early contest states? >> well, absolutely. i mean, look, it appears that we're heading into this election primary caucus season with a battle between bernie sanders and joe biden that appears closer than the super bowl game tonight as they try to duke this out. i think the broader take away, however, is that how do these campaigns in the next 24 plus hours ahead of the caucus opening, how do they manage and set expectations so that after this caucus happens they can try to seize some of that momentum heading into new hampshire and the other primary caucus states? >> well, a new opinion piece in "the hill" asks is hillary clinton angling to become vice president? contributor says clinton could be negotiating with biden, bloomberg or the last candidate standing. haven't clinton entertain the thought of saving the democratic ticket as a vice presidential running mate could be a

brilliant political move. kevin, would it be a good move? >> you know, when i talked to republicans they say absolutely it would be a good move. they would love to see hillary clinton on the ticket. they would love to see hillary clinton running again. based upon my reporting when i talk to advisers in the clinton political orbit, they say she is adamant that she is not going to run. i think from this vantage point what you're seeing though is she is able to drive a news cycle and she does have a following. you're seeing that play out whether it's with hulu, whether it's with the promotion around that documentary. she still has a voice, and how she chooses to use it during this primary season will be very interesting to see. and who it benefits and who it helps and who it hurts, you know, we'll be covering it every step of the way. >> we will. kevin joining us from iowa, thank you. >> a lot to cover here. let's turn now to capitol hill where president trump is slated to give his state of the union address on tuesday. that's ahead of the senate's

final impeachment vote. >> it will be the second time in u.s. history where an impeached president will give an address. it must seem like ground hog day for you there. garrett, the president is promising this speech will be unlike any other. do we have any idea what the focus will be? >> reporter: well, we know that's the message that he's been sending to his supporters. i think it's fair to assume that we're going to see the president that wants to take a victory lap on tuesday night despite the fact that his acquittal vote won't come until wednesday. i'm outside the house chamber now. i imagine that's going to be a very intense room. i assume there's no goodwill. i think it's a good thing that senators ended up getting this weekend off to go back home, likewise with the house. there had been a buildup of tension as the trial reached the conclusion. i suspect we might see a

president trying to spike the football. a lot of democrats from the house side who spent their last several months trying to get him impeached from office not too happy about it. >> one thing you won't talk about, the new report saying the trump administration admitting this in undisclosed emails about ukraine aid. what's that about? >> reporter: this is exactly the kind of thing that democratic house managers have been warning about. house democrats have said, you can ask for these documents now or you can find out about them later. that appears to be what we have here. these are about 24 documents, emails from the office of management and budget that include, we are told, information about the president's thinking surrounding that hold on ukraine aid. they were foia requests september several months ago. produced heavily redacted versions of the documents.

now there's a lawsuit pending to see if they can get the full documents released. the white house is fighting this saying there's presidential privilege involved. once again, here you have information that could have been absolutely germ main to the impeachment trial that senate republicans decided they don't want. >> nbc's garrett hake wrapping up. new fears right now about the spreading coronavirus after the disease claims its first victim outside of mainland china. what u.s. officials are now doing to try to contain the virus. and the face-off at the super bowl won't just be on the field tonight. how the president and one of his potential opponents will be squaring off on tv.

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welcome back to msnbc world headquarters in new york. i'm lindsey reiser. >> that's breaking news. >> of pucks isnxsutawney phil. >> we're minutes away from finding out whether spring will come early. >> 33 degrees. >> they're getting it all ready. holy cow. look at all of those people. >> yes. that is breaking news. >> quite the experience. >> wow! that is amazing. while that is taking place there on february 2nd, as it does every year there, but we have a lot of other stories that we're following this morning. >> big time. we'll get to your morning headlines now. iraq has a new prime minister. after two months of tensions.

he began his tenure by speaking to protesters and security forces looking to assure the country that he seeks justice for those killed in recent protests. and venezuelan opposition guido traveled for two weeks to gather global backing for his bid to oust venezuelan president maduro. he did not meet president trump while they were both in florida but he did have a call with vice president pence. after nearly a week of mourning, the make shift kobe bryant memorial will be taken down and moved to a new home. vanessa requested the thousands of items that have been left outside the arena be sent to them. this includes jerseys, stuffed animals and personal notes left to honor her late husband. her daughter gianna and the seven others lost in that helicopter crash last sunday. >> there will be some sort of tribute to kobe at the super

bowl. the other breaking news that we're following right now. the coronavirus outbreak. the u.s. department of health picking four military bases as possible quarantine sites for travelers from china. the bases are located in colorado, california, and texas. hundreds of u.s. citizens who have recently visited china are expected to return to the u.s. in coming weeks. they'll be required to undergo 14 days of quarantine. >> this comes as they've gotten the first confirmed coronavirus death outside of china. the total number of coronavirus-related deaths sits at 304. >> china is working overtime to accommodate the more than 14,000 confirmed cases of the virus. you can take a look here at this time lapse of that hard work going on. a second temporary field hospital is in construction in wuhan. that is the epicenter of the outbreak. >> they completed one in another

location. in the u.s. there are eight confirmed cases of coronavirus across five states, arizona, california, illinois, massachusetts and washington state. joining us right now is the director of the national institute of allergy and infectious disease, dr. anthony focci. thank you for being here. >> good to be with you. >> doctor, how would you say this outbreak compares to epidemics in the past like sars or even the ebola virus for that matter? >> well, it's completely different from ebola. ebola was a very, very contained in different countries, in africa first in west africa and now in the drc. could only be spread by very, very close contact with a very sick person. this is more like sars. it's the same family of virus. it's the coronavirus but it has already surpassed sars in the number of individuals. as you mentioned correctly, 14,000 cases so far.

with sars there was 8,000. the mortality of sars was about 9 or 10%. the mortality here is about 2%. so although this is more widespread and explosive than sars, the fact is that the mortality right now is less. but this is an evolving situation. we don't know where this is going so it would be premature to make any conclusions about really comparing this definitively to another outbreak. >> well, the cdc believes most of the eight confirmed cases in the u.s. are a result of person-to-person transmission so what can people do to protect themselves? >> well, that's not the case. all but one are travel related cases. so the people who got it in china, seven of them, came here to the united states. one of them transmitted to another person. that's the reason why it's being driven outside of china by travel. within china there's an

explosion of persistent type of transmission from one to another to another. outside of china there are about 26 countries that have cases outside of china. 11 of them have that persistent type of continual transmission. >> we've been talking a lot about these facemasks, doctor, and they've actually sold out online and in stores. do they actually work? >> not very efficiently. if you look at the kind that you see that you can buy in the store. virus can get through them. perhaps they can block droplets, really large droplets when someone sneezes or coughs, but the virus itself can get through it. you know, probably the best use of it, the effect is that it prevents people from touching their nose and their mouth which is one of the way this virus is transmitted. >> all right. dr. anthony fauci, thank you. >> good to be with you. on this super sunday, america is preparing to see the

san francisco 49ers battle the kansas city chiefs. >> but there is also a big battle of super bowl ads between those two men. >> h'm. we'll be taking a look at how much they spend on ads and if it resonates with voters. you'll want to watch "am joy." lee will be talking with her about the black voters and their communities and their views. >> you know, we should be charged by what's at stake. we spoke about health care, criminal justice, mental health, but not only that, we should be charged by the fact that the next candidate i would say has a 90% chance that the next candidate will also appoint another supreme court justice. >> hear more from voters and catch joy's conversation with

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happening there in punxsutawney, pennsylvania, as they're getting ready to bring -- >> so they just brought the rodent out. >> no shadow. >> he did not see his shadow. >> that means it's an early -- winter is going to come to a close. >> early spring. >> early right there. thousands of thousands of people all sober, no doubt, out there. >> absolutely stone cold sober. >> all right. we wanted to update you on everything that's happening on this february 2nd. >> hopefully early spring. while president trump is expecting an acquittal in his impeachment trial this week, the verdict won't brianne end to the president's legal battles. >> on friday the supreme court settled early arguments in march for three cases involving access to president trump's financial records. some of the several ongoing legal battles tied to the president, his companies and his associates. >> joining us now, katie fang, attorney and legal analyst.

thank you for being in new york with us. how significant will this supreme court decision be? >> well, remember, donald trump's been trying to hide his tax returns and the underlying financial documents for years now even though he declared during his campaign that he was going to release them. this is a huge decision because not only does it have ramifications for donald trump, but it will also have ramifications for the subsequent presidents that end up residing in the white house. but we'll have oral arguments on march 31st and in june of this year you will have a ruling from the supreme court. the reason why that is really important is we're going to have a decision months before the november presidential election. so really does donald trump have really questionable ties to foreign nations? maybe that money flow is going to be shown in those tax filings and those underlying financials. everybody is going to want to see whether or not the supreme court of the united states says that he must turn over those documents. >> could any of these

investigations have an impact on his presidency or when he leaves office? >> absolutely. so these tax returns are just one of several cases that are still pending. on one end we have at least two defamation lawsuits, one from e. gene carol and one from summer zervos. those are rapidly progressing through the cases. e. gene carol said i need your dna sample, mr. trump. tho so so those cases are on the other end. don mcgahn case is pending an appellate review. don mcgahn could and should testify. there's a lot of things going on including the sdny investigations for lev parnas, eye ge igor fruman and all of those are connected to president trump one way or another. >> if giuliani gets charged in that southern district of new

york case, what does that mean for the president? >> it means does rudy giuliani love himself enough and flip? remember he said, i've got insurance, right? if the president was going to throw him under the bus. what kind of insurance does rudy giuliani have? and will he do enough to save himself? that could ultimately have consequences for donald trump. michael cohen had some receipts and michael cohen's in prison, donald trump is not. let's see whether or not it is teflon don or not. >> there's a different between receipts and insurance. >> maybe his insurance are the receipts. >> true enough. katie fang, thank you. >> it is officially super bowl sunday and while most people will be watching for the match-up between the niners and kansas city chiefs and that j. lo/shakira halftime show, there's the political match-up. >> some of the wealthiest men in

politics. msnbc's stephanie ruhle has more. >> reporter: sunday's super bowl will be the ultimate face-off pitting the 49ers against the chiefs and president trump against democratic presidential candidate michael bloomberg. both men shelling out 10 million bucks each for political ads that will air during the big game. >> it's a big deal? >> it's a big deal. we have not seen presidential ads really in the super bowl ever. this is sort of unprecedented. >> super bowl ads are pricey say advertising insiders, but they just might be worth the investment. >> we have a president who is under siege from all sides and you've got mike bloomberg who is a candidate that joined the race late and has a lot of work to do in terms of catching up to raise awareness. there's no better place to raise awareness than when you have an audience close to 100 million people at the time. >> making an ad that resonates is not easy just ask jason deland. he's overseen some of the most memorable super bowls including

the budweiser series featuring the friendship between a horse and a dog. >> i don't know if super bowl ads are intended to change people's minds. i don't think that is probably the right course to take if you're a brand or a politician. it's about entertaining people. if you entertain people well, then just maybe you could change their mind. >> according to veteran campaign advisers, figuring out what to say in these ads is as important as figuring out whatnot to say. >> people are there to watch sports. they're not there to watch politics so to inject politics into that is a big risk. i think the other thing that you run the risk of is that the audience is so large you are going to be potentially winning some of your own supporters and potentially ginning up the people on the other side. >> politics and football have had a complicated friendship. colin kaepernick's decision to take a knee to protest mistreatment of minorities, a move that has divided public opinion. >> traditionally the most successful super bowl

commercials cause audiences not to think but instead to feel. >> here. >> wow. >> or laugh. >> you're playing like betty white out there. >> that's not what your girlfriend says. >> or sing. ♪ i'd like to teach the world to sing ♪ >> will the political ads in this year's super bowl be game changers for voters? super bowl viewers aren't so sure. >> i don't consider myself a very political person so i will be paying more attention to the doritoss commercial. >> super bowl should be the super bowl. we shouldn't be dealing with the election. >> one thing's for certain, they'll be watching. >> i'll watch them. i can turn them off. it's only 60 seconds. >> stephanie ruhle, nbc news, new york. >> the game or the commercials. >> halftime show. >> halftime show. >> there it is. >> now a heartwarming story. a 49ers assistant coach is making waves. >> it's unreal. it's something that only people

can dream about. i mean, literally not very many people can experience this and here i am. it's truly surreal. i'm willing and i'm happy to be a trail blazer and -- because i know that other women, other young girls are watching this and maybe their path seems a little clearer now. >> katie sowers will be the first full time female and openly lgbtq person to coach a team at the super bowl. >> she'll be making history tonight. kickoff at 6:30 p.m. eastern time. >> i can't believe it's taken this long. >> true enough. and to be the only one. the mayors representing all these cities, miami gardens, we have a shot where the hard rock stadium is is a black mayor. he is oliver gilbert. the mayor of san francisco, london breed, black. quinton lukas from kansas city is also a black mayor. for the first time we have this sort of culmination happening right there in miami gardens for the super bowl. >> in 2020.

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>> you notice how different that is from where punxsutawney phil was in the snow. >> it's a little bit quieter. >> sunnier. >> fewer keyboards. >> yeah. >> not as many things being consumed there. >> i want to jump into the race for the white house. it is down to the wire for democratic candidates to make their case for iowa voters. >> the caucuses begin in 35 hours. no clear front-runner in the race. some people know who their supporters are but some still aren't sure. >> i love the fact that she's from this area and has that connection. she gets the ideas of where we live and the problems that are important to us. i think fresh ideas are good, but i don't think bernie's fresh ideas are what i'm looking at. i think amy, pete, those are good ideas that i can get behind. >> i really haven't decided yet.

this is my first attendance to anything and i am so excited to actually see pete talk. >> i'm here for mayor pete. joe biden is my second choice. >> nbc news correspondent is live for us in dubuque this morning. early morning hour. last week at this time some 45% of voters in iowa said that they were undecided. do you have any sense of what we can expect tomorrow? >> reporter: well, one thing that iowa is definitely expecting is record turnout. guys, we started our week here on a farm in west iowa and now we're all the way in the east part of the state in dubuque county. all across the state we've been talking to voters to try to understand why this new sense of engagement here this time around. we talked to voters who are caucuses for the very first time. people who have never caucused before. some folks in the latino

community, that's doubled here in iowa since 2000. they're very engaged. they feel like this administration has sort of attacked their community and they're ready to stand up. i talked to a woman on that farm in western iowa who has caucused in the past but sat out 2016. she told me she thought hillary had it. she was good. she was at peace, but this time around she's actually going to be her precinct chair. she's excited to show up. she said mostly because of fear. she's nervous about the direction of the country. and i also met a woman who has been a republican most of her life but recently reregistered as a democrat because she's concerned. she's worried about health care, climate change, education and thinks the democratic candidates are more likely to change the direction of the country and the way she wants to see it. she's ready to show up. so it's interesting to see, it does feel like there's something different in the air this time

around. people very eager and excited to show up. i mean, look, caucusing, it's a unique activity. it does take some of that extra participation. you have to make plans. people who work nights have to take time off, arrange for baby-sitters. if you're a spanish speaker, need interpreters, you have to figure that out. this time people are willing to overcome the barriers and make it to the caucus site. >> dash shah burns, 35 minutes away from the caucus site. thank you. >> we've been counting down for years. >> that's because we have. there is more chatter about a book tour that's been canceled after threats to the author. the book is called "american dirt." a mother and her son fleeing the u.s. it's been promoted as a new american classic. >> it's now at the top of "the new york times" best seller list for the fiction. the book captured a spot in oprah's book club. people say the real dirt

involves cultural appropriation and perpetuating stereotypes. the publisher is acknowledging the backlash. oprah said on instagram she understands the outrage. >> i spent the past few days listening to members of the latinex community to get a greater understanding of their concerns and i hear them. i do. >> joining us now is victoria defrancesco soto, visiting scholar and msnbc political analyst. why are latino readers rejecting the book? >> reporter: so a couple of reasons. to begin with, it's the gravity of the issue that we're talking about. immigration is the central piece of this book. immigration is very polymical. it has been for the past couple of years especially in the trump

administration. there is a very flippant treatment of immigration. the book is determinately to be dealing with immigration and it affects the lives of so many and it's being played out in real time. for me, that is the most important part. then you layer on on top of that just stereotypes and inaccuracies. so the author writes about mexico but misses key cultural details. somebody who knows the culture or has researched it well would know not to miss. i think finally the part about so many latinex authors fighting to get air to publishing houses and wider audiences, yet this author, who though she is part latina, does not have the same access that other folks in the latinex community wants. it's those three points that have combined to make the

perfect storm for "american dirt." >> the publisher is caught in the middle of this and says it regrets the barbed wire center piece used as a book seller dinner from janine cummings twitter account. does this come down to tone deafness? >> it does. there was also some mail art that had barbed wire on that mimicking that. it is tone deafness with, again, i want to reiterate something that is so raw, as i speak now, about 100 miles from us here in austin you have detention centers where children have been separated from their families. you go down to the border and you see the conditions of crisis. you have families being separated. we don't know what's going to happen to our daca recipients here. they may, you know, end up having their status revoked and having to go back. this is very raw. and to make little jokes and mail art about it is so tone

deafness. i want us to talk about immigration. i want us to use this as a pivot point but not into glossing over the harsh reality. >> the publisher wrote we should never have written it was a novel that defined the migrant experience and we should not have said he was an undocumented immigrant while not specifying he was from ireland. is how they promoted the book part of the problem? >> reporter: very much so. and going back to the idea of can somebody who is not of a certain culture or of a certain background write about that? i'm going to leave that to my literary colleagues to debate, but i would say if you are going to write about a culture, that you need to immerse yourself and do your homework on it and so many of the details in the book just show that the homework was not done and that adds insult to injury in terms of not treating the issue of immigration with

the gravity it deserves. all of those make this such a problematic book. i want to say perhaps the silver lining to all of this is that we're talking about it. oprah says she is going to provide a forum for the latinex community to come out and engage with her. we're talking about it this morning. perhaps this is what comes out. >> victoria, it is interesting. then' being censored because of her race. 138 authors in a letter to oprah would disagree with that. they claim that the book fetishizes and certain sayings -- sensationalizes race. >> reporter: there is a case for that and going back to the earlier point, if you are not of a particular group or culture and you are going to write about this, you have to immerse

yourself. but the tent needs to be broadened. we need to have people coming forward. we're a diverse nation. >> that, indeed. thanks to victoria defrancesco soto joining us from austin, texas, where the sun hasn't come up. >> not yet. it will be a sunny day. >> good to know. and your good, bad and ugly coming up next. distracted teenager has the car. at subaru, we're taking on distracted driving [ping] with sensors that alert you when your eyes are off the road. the all-new subaru forester. the safest forester ever.

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homophobe. so during a double's match this week they protested on court and martin started to make a speech to have the name changed from margaret court arena. it caused a lot of controversy, and one of the only things that came out of it is the australian authorities rather than comments on the course, but thee said she violated rules by grabbing the mic. >> your bad is also pretty ugly, what is happening? >> my bad? >> your bad? >> there are asylum seekers that have been backlogged in our system. there is 4.8 million venezuelans

trying to get into asylum here. there is over a million cases of backlog in the system. it takes over three years to get through the system, and it is terrible. it is an indicator that the trump policies are really hitting home in a bad bad way. it's terrible because they're fleeing death and torture. they're not coming here on a whim. it's not because they want to upgrade to a split level ranch with a finished basement. sometimes they're going to trial without a lawyer. >> we want to end the show on a good note here. give us your good and give it to us well. >> my good is that our life expectancy is up for the first time in four years, everybody. that's right, we gained one month. so it is 78 years and 6 months is the average time we're going to live. i don't know about you guys but hopefully i can pay off my

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