president trump celebrates his impeachment acquittal in rambling remarks, he took a victory lap and lashed out at adversaries. an extremely close contest between pete buttigieg and bernie sanders. the coronavirus is on the rise, at least 12 cases have been confirmed here in the united states. e in the united states. good morning, everyone, it is friday, february 7th, the end of a very busy week. >> a long and busy week.

>> exactly. i'm ayman mohyeldin alongside -- >> who knows what could happen today. it's not other yet. we want to begin with president trump's victory lap. it was a 62 minute, i guess you could describe it as a stream of consciousness from the white house east room yesterday littered with insults and foul language as the president lashed out at his opponents and lavished praise on his defenders. >> this is really not a news conference. it's not a speech. it's not anything. it's just we're sort of, it's a celebration because we have something that just worked out. i mean, it worked out. we went through hell unfairly. but this is what the end result is. they're vicious and mean. vicious. these people are vicious. adam schiff is a vicious, horrible person. nancy pelosi is a horrible person. and say hello to the people of

utah and tell them i'm sorry about mitt romney. i'm sorry. okay. and the only one that voted against was a guy that can't stand the fact that he ran one of the worst campaigns in the history of the presidency. but some of the people here have been incredible warriors, they're warriors. we've been going through this now for over three years. it was evil. it was corrupt. it was dirty cops. it was leakers and liars. had i not fired james comey, who was a disaster, by the way, it's possible i wouldn't even be standing here right now. dirty cops. bad people. if this happened to president obama, a lot of people would have been in jail for a long time already. many many years. we first went through russia

russia russia. it was all bull [ bleep ] lisa and peters lovers, the fbi lovers, they were going to try to overthrow the government of the united states, a duly elected president. and if i didn't fire james comey, we would have never found this stuff because when i fired that sleazebag, all hell broke out. they were ratting on each other. they were running for the hills. let's see what happens. let's see what happens. it's in the hands of some very talented people. we're going to have to see what happens but i can tell you in my opinion, these are the crookedest, most dishonest, dirtiest people i have ever seen. and i love the fbi, and the fbi loves me, 99%. it was the top scum and the fbi people don't like the top scum. >> so there was actually more

yesterday, the president took swipes at mitt romney and nancy pelosi earlier in the day out of all places the national prayer breakfast. his attacks were particularly striking given the remarks from the keynote speaker who preceded him. watch this. >> ask god to give you the strength to do this hard thing, to go against your human nature, to follow jesus' teaching. you believe jesus' teaching, act like it, me, too to love your enemies, ask god to take political contempt from your heart and sometimes when it's just too hard, ask god to help you fake it. >> i don't know if i agree with you. but i don't know if he's going to like what i'm going to say. i don't like people who use their faith as justification for doing what they know is wrong.

nor do i like people who say i pray for you when they know that that's not so. >> now, house speaker nancy pelosi criticized president trump's assertion that she does not pray for him. >> i don't know if the president understands about prayer or people who do pray, but we do pray for the united states of america. i pray for hard for him because he's so off the track of our constitution, our values, our country. he can say whatever he wants but i do pray for him, and i do so sincerely and without anguish. >> pelosi also defended republican senator mitt romney after trump attacked his faith at the prayer breakfast. >> i thought what he said about -- what he said about senator romney was particularly without class. he's talking about things that he knows little about, faith and

prayer. >> so also in his framing of corruption in ukraine yesterday, the president did not use any of the explanations advanced by his defenders in congress but instead only cited the bidens. >> think of it, a phone call, a very good phone call. i know bad phone calls. this is a phone call where many people, mike pompeo was probably on the call. where's mike. mike pompeo was on the call. many people were on the call. i know many people. they have apprenti, bringing up a favorite word of mine on, and they have many people on. in the case of ukraine, he's a new president. he seems like a very nice person, by the way. his whole thing was corruption. he's going to stop corruption. we even have a treaty, 2001, 1999. it's a treaty signed treaty that

we will work together to root out corruption in ukraine. i probably have a legal obligation, mr. attorney, to report corruption, but they don't think it's corrupt when a son that made no money, that got thrown out of the military that had no money at all is working for $3 million up front, 83,000 a month, and that's only ukraine. then goes to china, picks up 1 1/2 billion dollars. then goes to romania, i hear and many other countries. they think that's okay. because if it is, is ivanka in the audience, boy my kids could make a fortune. they could make a fortune. it's corrupt. but it's not even that. it's just general corruption and the other thing, it's mentioned in the call and something i have told mike pence, our great vice president, i would tell him all the time and i told him when he went on the trip, he was over there.

he never mentioned anything about this at your meeting. >> president trump debunked the claim that european countries aren't paying their fair share in aid to ukraine. >> it's a terrible thing. i told mike, i said, mike, we're giving them money and you're always torn about that because we have our country to build. we have our cities to build, and our roads to fix. but we've given them money. tell me, why isn't germany paying money. why isn't france. why isn't united kingdom paying money. why aren't they paying money. why are we paying money. is that a correct statement, mike? find out what the hell is going on. and i told that to all of my people, omb, i asked that question. how much is germany paying. why isn't germany paying. why is the united states always the sucker? because we're a bunch of suckers. >> so according to the fact check by "the new york times,"

those countries are in fact contributing to ukraine's efforts to counter act russian aggression. they provide more development than the united states does. the united states is the largest provider of military assistance. european country haves provided $1.6 billion compared with 807 million from the united states. according to organization for economic cooperation and development. >> joining us now from washington, white house reporter for politico, gabby orr. good morning to you. quite a day, pretty ironic, the president holding up the copy of the "washington post," considering "the washington post" is banned from the white house and no one is allowed to have a subscription to the "washington post," but that's beside the point. what do you make of the president's vocal reaction to his impeachment acquittal and is this solely meant to charge up his base ahead of the november election? >> it absolutely is meant to energize republicans and that's why you saw the president

yesterday sort of preview the message that we can expect to hear at a number of his campaign rallies throughout the next few months, as he talks about impeachment and his victory lap he's going to take after his acquittal in the senate. yesterday we saw president trump in sort of his vintage mode. he has always thought he was his greatest defender and i think that was on full display during his remarks from the east room yesterday. he talked about the impeachment process being a hoax. he talked about -- he used some pretty unsavory language to describe the way that he felt he was treated throughout the process, and of course he pointed and singled out different republicans who were some of his most vocal defenders in the house and senate during the process. he talked about josh hawley, and elise stefanik, singling them out, that they did such a good job, they had made for tv moments.

it was everything you expect to hear the president talk about on the campaign trail as it relates to impeachment and it was 100% driven to galvanize republican voters. >> you couldn't help but think these were the moments that some of these congress people were waiting for like elise stefanik to get congratulated by the president for the performance during the testimonies. >> let me get your thoughts quickly about one of the more important points of national political life, the national prayer breakfast, usually a reflective moment for politicians who attended for the country. you got to wonder yesterday what republicans were thinking about how the president conducted himself at the national prayer breakfast. have you gotten any sense of the sentiment following the president attacking his political foes and more importantly their faith. >> well, i talked to gop aide yesterday who said, you know, what did you expect. this is president trump. of course the day after his acquittal in the senate he was going to take aim at his

critics, including house speaker nancy pelosi and mitt romney, the only republican who voted to convict him on the abuse of power charge. it doesn't mean that it wasn't disturbing nonetheless. i mean, there are a number of people who attend this breakfast every year, diplomats heads of state, people from all different faith backgrounds who come looking for a moment that will celebrate bipartisanship. it will celebrate unity, and you didn't hear any of those themes mentioned in the president's remarks yesterday. instead, it was just a preview of what was to come in the east room later that afternoon. and quite a departure from the speeches that president obama, president clinton and president bush all gave to the national prayer breakfast. >> gabby orr, thank you very much. we're going to talk to you in a little bit. attorney general william barr issues new rules when it comes to investigating 2020 candidate. we'll bring in danny cevallos

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welcome back, attorney general bill barr informed federal agents and lawyers on wednesday that they cannot open investigations into presidential candidates their advisers or campaigns without his approval. the new restrictions come after a report by the justice department's inspector general which harshly criticized the fbi's investigation of the trump campaign back in 2016. in a three-page memo, barr outlined the policies that would set the stage for the 2020 election season. under the new rules, no investigation can be opened for a declared candidate for president or vice president their campaigns or staff without consulting with the appropriate u.s. attorney and getting approval from the attorney general. these requirements also apply to investigations into illegal

contributions, donations or expenditures by foreign nationals to a presidential or congressional campaign. joining us here on sunset msnbc legal analyst, danny cevallos, great to have you with us. what do you make of attorney general bill barr's, you know, i don't know if they're technically policy guidelines. >> directives. >> or rules but essentially trying to in the name of protecting these investigations given what we saw in 2016, put these rules in place that no investigation can be opened up? >> a lot of folks are criticizing this memo as saying that essentially bill barr can shoot down any investigation into wrong doing by president trump, and yes, it can be interpreted that way, but if you look at the four corners of the memo, all it does is create more oversight as opposed to less oversight. it's not just bill barr, but consultation with other members, high level members at the justice department for an investigation into any political

candidate, and keep in mind, bill barr was very critical of james comey for essentially up ending the election when he announced an investigation into hillary clinton, and keep in mind also that the prior attorney general loretta lynch issued similar guidelines in 2008, 2012, even 2016 which required similar oversight by the public integrity section at the doj, so for a long time, attorney generals have said election years are full of sensitivities when you investigate political candidates. i have to caution on the four corners of this memorandum, it appears to provide more oversight and in a way, folks may be assuaged or less concerned after reading it. >> i think in this particular case, one of the big issues with that directive is who the person is, william barr is a person who has fiercely defended -- >> totally agree. >> and that's the context i think people are looking at.

there may have been similar directives in the past, but given where other attorney generals have stood on some of the more sensitive issues involving a presidential investigation he's been all in in defense of the president. >> you're right. >> what it's a reaction to as well, being this inspector general report. >> i agree, but in addition to bill barr retaining the power to shoot down an investigation, the memo also distributes responsibility among top officials at the doj, so if there was a credible evidence of some wrong doing by president trump, for example, it's not just bill barr that would be accountable. it would be other folks in the justice department, so. >> but correct me if i'm wrong, he has the final word, he has ultimate oversight. >> he does, but at the same time if top level officials see that bill barr is ignoring something obviously that is wrong doing by say the trump campaign, then that's going to be a problem at justice. >> assuming it gets out. >> assuming it gets out. and is not covered up.

>> you can interpret this. >> this is the environment we live in, by the way. >> you can interpret it as giving too much power to bill barr to shoot down an investigation into donald trump but it also gives bill barr power to shoot down an investigation into pete buttigieg and also gives him power to green light an investigation into donald trump. >> or joe biden. >> i concede. >> just wanted to make sure we're all on the same page. danny cevallos, always a pleasure. thank you so much. still the latest on the growing coronavirus outbreak as the global death toll continues to climb. we're back in a moment. to climb we're back in a moment when the murray's head to work... ...their dog michelangelo gets to work, too. today's job? own. the. bed.

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welcome back, everyone, the global death toll of the coronavirus has surpassed 600 as the number of confirmed cases has risen to 31,000 in mainland china alone. according to numbers from china's national health commission, there are 73 new deaths reported as of this morning. a u.s. official said a second u.s. citizen in wuhan has been confirmed to have the virus and both are being treated at a local hospital there. 12 confirmed cases here in the united states. but luckily, thankfully, no deaths. and in japan, officials confirmed earlier today that 61 people had tested positive for the coronavirus on a quarantined cruise ship in yokohama. a sharp increase from the 20 cases that were confirmed just yesterday. officials have screened 273

passengers they said were potentially exposed to the virus. all new patients are to be taken off the ship for medical treatment. >> also, there was another development yesterday with regards to this, the physician that raised the red flags in the coronavirus, he was subsequently reprimanded for raising those red flags, he actually passed away just recently as a result of the virus. >> a lot of people are calling him a hero and in some cases a whistleblower for coming forward and trying to ring the alarm bells about it. >> a 34-year-old man with children as well. very sad. let's switch gears and get a check of your weather with nbc meteorologist bill karins. happy friday. yesterday was a nasty day for traveling in the east. we had tornadoes, a lot of wind damage in the south. the thunderstorm threat is over with today. we have our huge power storms now over pennsylvania and it's going to be heading into maine as we go throughout the next 24 hours. thunderstorms have died off over central and southern florida, a few areas of heavy rain. we're done with that. the heavy rain has exited the

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welcome back, everybody. i'm yasmin vossoughian alongside ayman mohyeldin. we begin this half hour with president trump's victory lap after his acquittal by the senate. it was a 62 minute stream of consciousness from the white house. >> quite the scene. >> east room yesterday. it certainly was, as the president lavished praise on his defenders, while lashing out at his opponents and the democrats who impeached him. nbc news who's correspondent peter alexander has more. >> reporter: calling it a celebration, president trump savoring his senate victory. >> we went through hell unfairly, did nothing wrong, but this is what the end result is. the only good headline i've ever

had in the "washington post." >> reporter: the president unplugged, riffing for more than an hour. >> i never thought a word would sound so good, it's called total acquittal. >> reporter: praised a packed crowd of political allies. >> mitch mcconnell, i want to tell you, you did a fantastic job. >> reporter: both buoyant and bitter, unloading on democrats in the relentless string of investigations. >> it was evil. it was corrupt. it was dirty cops. it was leak skpeers and liars. >> reporter: punctuating his anger with an expletive. and this message to the people of utah. >> and tell them, i'm sorry about mitt romney. i'm sorry. >> it wasn't the first time the president attacked the only republican who joined democrats voting to remove him. earlier shattering the bipartisan tradition of the national prayer breakfast with swipes at both romney and house speaker nancy pelosi. >> i don't like people who use

their faith as justification for doing what they know is wrong. nor do i like people who say i pray for you when they know that that's not so. >> reporter: romney with nbc station ksl standing by his decision. >> i believe when i swear an oath to god, i have a responsibility to be exactly truthful. i am truthful and did what i believe is absolutely right for our country. >> reporter: pelosi firing back at the president. >> he's talking about things that he knows little about, faith and prayer. >> reporter: trading new insults while defending tearing up the president's state of the union speech. >> he looked a little sedated. he shredded the truth in his speech, he's shredding the constitution in his conduct. i shredded his state of his mind addre

address. >> reporter: the president unapologetic with one exception. >> i want to apologize to my family for having them have to go through a phoney, rotten deal. ivanka, thank you, honey. >> reporter: the senate's top democrat, chuck schumer is d dismissing the president's white house event of an hour and a half of mistruths and profanity. >> our thanks to nbc's peter alexander for that report. after days of waiting, we have the full results from monday night's primary. >> five days later. >> with 100% of precincts reporting, pete buttigieg and senator bernie sanders are in a dead heat. buttigieg at 26.2% while standers had 26.1. the head of the democratic national committee and this is the point i was going to get to, tom perez, though has made his frustrations very clear, enough is enough, in light of the problems that have emerged in the implementation of the delegate selection plan and in order to ensure public confidence in the results i am calling on the iowa democratic party to immediately begin a

re-canvas. perez later backtracked saying that only precincts where irregulariti irregularities had been reported need to be re-examined. meanwhile senator sanders declared victory yesterday while on the campaign trail in new hampshire. >> what i want to do today three days late is to thank the people of iowa for the very strong victory they gave us at the iowa caucuses on monday night. when 6,000 more people come out for you in an election than your nearest opponent, we here in northern new england call that a victory. >> and new polling shows senator bernie sanders maintaining his lead in new hampshire ahead of next week's presidential primary. the latest monmouth university poll showing him leading at 24%. and if you're joe biden, you have the fight of your life ahead. pete buttigieg and joe biden statistically tied for second

place coming in at 20%, and 17% respectively. senator elizabeth warren is in fourth place with 13%, and senator amy klobuchar follows her with 9. the poll shows only 49% of new hampshire primary voters are firmly set on their candidate choice. >> i think this is like a running theme you're going to start seeing is a lot of people remain undecided until vote day. >> the poll found that a majority of voters eight in ten said the results of the iowa caucus did not change their thinking. >> if you have 40% of voters, ayman, that are undecided it speaks to how important some of these primary states are considering where they land and the momentum that these candidates carry on the stage. >> joining us now from washington, d.c., white house reporter for politico, gabby orr, good to have you back with us, let's talk about new hampshire. that is the big primary that is up next on tuesday. what do you make of those latest poll numbers that suggest, you

know, biden is now in third place, sanders strongly in first place, and buttigieg getting a little bump from iowa moving into second place? >> if those poll numbers hold, then joe biden and elizabeth warren have a difficult path forward to the nomination. if they finished third and warren in fourth place, excuse me, heading into south carolina and nevada, it's difficult to see whether there's any momentum behind their campaigns. a third place and a fourth place finish consistently in both iowa and new hampshire. the two earliest voting states could stifle any momentum that they would have and so i do think that this next -- the next few days as we close in on the new hampshire primary, you're going to see both of their campaigns really zigzagging across the state, making sure that they are speaking to as many voters as possible because as you just showed, there are a number of voters in new hampshire who still have yet to make up their minds or decide on a candidate and were not

necessarily influenced by what transpired in iowa. on the other hand, pete buttigieg and bernie sanders both seemed to have gained some type of post-iowa bump as they head into new hampshire. both of them have kept up a fairly rigorous campaign schedule in new hampshire since the iowa caucuses. and i do think that bernie sanders has an upper hand here. this is a state that neighbors vermont, it's a state where he performed very well back in the 2016 new hampshire primary and it's one where he certainly had a lot of grass roots support over the course of this primary so far. >> gabby, much of this is going to come down to money and fundraising totals, especially when you're joe biden and elizabeth warren, how much money you have raised in january and if you can actually sustain the momentum you have built over the last couple of months or so. i know that we had fundraising totals released from sanders campaign, are we hearing at all as to where the warren camp stands and the biden camp stands with regard to the fundraising totals over january?

>> i have not specifically heard what their fundraising totals would be, but they are expected to release them soon and it's important to remember that just a few months ago, joe biden posted some pretty miserable fundraising numbers. he definitely had a better time after that, but his campaign had essentially $9 million cash on hand heading into this fall, and so i do think that there's a big question here whether he can continue to fund raise if the electability argument after iowa and possibly a third place finish in new hampshire, whether that impacts his plea to donors. >> i want to pick up on a point gabby made quickly, when you think about the momentum coming out of these two states you have to wonder if this is the best process, you have two states that are probably going to have hundreds of thousands of voters determining the momentum that sets the pace for the rest of the race. 330 million americans but ultimately going to be tens of thousands, hundreds of thousands of voters in new hampshire and iowa. or reflect the demographics of

the country. she's talking about a good point, you lose momentum if you lose in these states. live in d.c. for us, always a pleasure, thanks. a major endorsement for 2020 candidate michael bloomberg. >> in virginia where the former new york city mayor is expected to get a boost from ousted navy secretary richard spencer. your first look at "morning joe" is back in a moment. at "morning" is back in a moment. hello, son. dad! not cool. you know what's not uncool? old spice after hours... and jazz.

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news national security and military correspondent courtney kube. good morning to you, great to see you out on the trail and covering this. >> hi. >> what can you tell us about why richard spencer, the ousted navy secretary under the current president, why he's endorsing michael bloomberg. >> you know, yasmin, he says it all in the statement he put out early this morning about why he's endorsing him. he mentions two things that are a specific reference to his time serving president trump. one is that he says that mike bloomberg will uphold the uniform code of military justice. the other is specifically he believes michael bloomberg will take the advice and heed the advice of his military leaders. now that of course is a direct reference back to what happened to navy secretary just late last year. you mention in the intro, ayman and that is that secretary spencer was serving as the navy secretary at the time when president trump decided to intervene in a number of military justice cases.

one being former navy seal eddie gallagher. he was accused of a number of war crimes in iraq. he was acquitted of all but one charge and then president trump intervened and in freeing him of the additional charge and even getting involved in his case about his retirement. secretary spencer was pretty vocal at the time about his opposition to the president getting in the middle of the ucmj case, getting at odds with the white house, only days later, secretary of defense mark esper asked for his resignation. well, now secretary spencer, he was not very vocal in his job as navy secretary. now he's coming out only a couple of months later and endorsing one of the president's potential democratic opponents, guys. >> yeah, talk to us about this for a second. let me pick up on that point. how significant is this endorsement, given the fact that president trump has demonstrated and shown visibly a disdain for michael bloomberg? >> reporter: yeah, i mean, this is a real black eye for

president trump here, specifically a political appointee, but also the fact that he's endorsing michael bloomberg, and we also have to point out that secretary spencer is a lifelong republican, he's not someone who came in as a democrat and served in a republican administration. we have seen just in recent days that michael bloomberg is really getting under president trump's skin, tweeting about him, talking about him, he has made up a nickname for him. the fact that we have someone who's just so recently a political appointee endorsing one of the president's potential opponents, it's a significant step here today, guys. >> we'll see if president trump makes any comments on richard spencer as well. nbc's courtney kube, thank you very much, always a pleasure. let's switch gears, get a check of your weather once again with nbc meteorologist bill karins. lots of school cancellations and delays in the appalachians, western new york, and new england, the airport is going to be a mess. one of the worst airport days in a long time.

the rains are going to be done, the high winds are going cause a lot of problems from boston, new york, philadelphia. snowing in pittsburgh, that's going to cause delays in areas like buffalo and syracuse will be equally as bad. anyone out there driving, we're dpg to continue to see the worst problems being the new york state throughway, the western portion of it and new england. clearing out in areas of the south, get rid of the wet weather in areas of south florida pretty early today. there will be snow showers and flurries out there in the great lakes but nothing horrible. peak wind gusts predicted later today, new york city up to 55 miles per hour wind gusts, monotalk at 60. it we still may get trees that come down and scattered power outages. as far as the weekend forecast, it will improve. cold saturday through northern new england and the northeast especially on the heels of the snow. snow showers in ohio, much of the south is quiet, and next storm comes through the rockies as we go through saturday, and

then by sunday, that's going to be moving into the central plains and heading into the great lakes. looks like a little bit of light snow, areas like southern wisconsin could pick up 3 to 6 inches of snow. chicago snow on sunday, but not a ton. just a little bit. >> going to be a rough weekend for some folks, though, to say the least. >> especially tonight. wait until you see these winds this afternoon in the northeast. it's going to be like wow. it's not even going to be raining, maybe sunny. >> thank you, bill. >> thanks, bill. still ahead, we are going to get a preview of the latest u.s. jobs report and consumer credit data due out laerter this morni, along with a wrap up of a busy week of earnings. that story is driving your business today, coming up next. r business today, coming up next ♪ wherever, however, whenever. we'll deliver lunch or dinner right to you. order delivery at panerabread.com. panera. food as it should be.

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welcome back. a lot of big business news to get to including a first jobs report of the year, but first breaking news overnight as the ceo of embattled bank credit suisse resigns amid a spying scandal. joining us live, what a story. talk to us more about this. >> so not so long ago a senior successful banker at credit suisse decided to move to rivals ubs. chief operating officer of credit suisse had him followed by private investigators. when they came out you can imagine a big scandal in the secretive world of banking. they found the ceo, chief

executive officer knew nothing about the following by private investigators of this banker yet here he is stepping down after five years in a job he's not give an reason for his resignation. something else we're watching closely. steve mnuchin says not seeking growth in 2020 blaming in part the grounding of the 737 max from boeing and of course boeing is a massive u.s. exporter and that will have an impact. no economist out there over the last 10, 11 months expected 3% growth this year. perhaps a little unrealistic there. and another part of the economy might see positive news. jobs numbers coming out later today. economists expecting 158,000 new non-agriculture jobs to be added to the economy. higher than the 145,000 we saw for the month of december. one reason for that might be warm weather. it's allowed people like construction workers to get out

and about working outside without the need to stay indoors in shelter from what is normally much colder weather. might be a reason for bump in job numbers. >> thoughts quickly on what you're keeping an eye on for not just the global markets but around the globe? >> in the u.s. the fed, federal reserve, will have out data for the month of december focussing on consumer credit, personal loans, car loans. expecting that overall number to increase $14 billion compared to the previous month and back here on the corporate side of things, looking around the 60% mark for number of s&p companies already reporting earnings, numbers for the past quarter. of those, saying that 70% have done better than was expected. a good sign typically that businesses across the u.s. are in a healthy state. one number we're looking out u r

for, mgm, expecting a massive number from asian gambling businesses. something they will possibly blame on the coronavirus. >> absolutely. macao has taken a big hit out of those numbers. thank you, bill. up next a look at axios' "one big thing" and coming up on "morning joe," more from president trump's, if you want to call it that, defiant remarks following his acquittal in the senate. reaction from two democratic lawmakers along with the input on the 2020 field as pushing on through the election season. "morning joe" is moments away. . best director, and best picture of the year. (honk!) i hear you sister. that's why i'm partnering with cigna to remind you to go in for your annual check-up,

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beneficiary, re-election chances of president donald trump. remember president trump is making the economic portions of the united states a very key element of his re-election campaign talking often about the booming stock market, record low unemployment rates and wage growth. interesting to see how the coronavirus might factor into that. in the short-term, a negative with travel bans and companies shutting downing stores in china, with companies shutting down companies in china. economics, economists we talk to, a short-lived phenomenon, as early as april, the virus won't spread as quickly. in may, in the summer no new infections is what they may see. activity put on pause during the virus' spread will suddenly pour back into the economy. meaning for the fall, could see a mini boomlet as activity returns and running up to the election giving president trump something to brag about as far

as his economic growth. one caveat. one thing could turn than south. the president himself. to sort of start another trade war or ratchet up tensions in the middle east. barring those things look for a mini economic boom possibly before the election later this year. >> on an emotional and local level seeing the virus could only spread in may seems like a long time off. >> right. >> talk iowa. full results from monday night's iowa caucus finally in. what is axios reporting how this week's chaos might impact future voting? >> remember hanging chads? 2020's hanging chads are iowa caucus election apps. seeing that cascade through all the possible planning and future elections. what that means for voters coming up in 2020, a cavalcade of errors and mistakes in the rollout of this app. development rushed wasn't secure enough. training done by the iowa party wasn't thorough enough. a lot of folks didn't understand how to phone in those results.

they calm and got busy signals because folks, internet trolls found out the iowan democratic party flooded it with telephone calls. seeing elections results finally come in and done a lot of digging into that, reporting, found errors within that. extraordinary last night. associated press sent a news alert even with 100% of the vote in they will not declare a winner. important to note this in a time of misinformation and amongst sort of internet trolls and russian and chinese agents trying to mess with pour elections, the one people who can do the best job screwing it up seems to be ourselves. >> with that point, nicholas johnson. thank you. reading axios a.m. in a bit. sign up for the newsletter at signup@axios.com. that does it for us. i'm yasmin vossoughian along with ayman mohyeldin. "morning joe" starts right now. [ playing "hail to the chief" ] now that the senate has fulfilled its constitutional

responsibility -- >> it was evil. it was corrupt. it was dirty cops. >> bringing this process to a conclusion. >> it was all bull [ bleep ]. >> i want to say again to the american people -- >> that we went through hell unfairly. did nothing wrong. did nothing wrong. >> how profoundly sorry i am for what i said and did to trigger these events. >> i want to apologize to my family for having them have to go through a phony, rotten deal. >> and the great burton they have imposed on the congress and on the american people. >> they took a phone call that was a totally appropriate call, and they brought it to the final stages of impeachment. >> i also am humbled and very grateful. >> it's called total acquittal. >> for the support and