this morning, we're counting down to another democratic debate. michael bloomberg reportedly has a new strategy after his sub par performance last week. he's going to make it all about bernie sanders. the stock market plummets as the coronavirus spreads across the globe. the dow closed down more than 1,000 points yesterday. in a landmark conviction in the harvey weinstein case, a jury found the movie mogul acquitted on the two most serious charges. >> good morning, everyone, it is tuesday february 25th.

i'm ayman mohyeldin alongside yasmin vossoughian, we begin with debate number ten, believe it or not. we have reached number ten. >> what else is left to talk about when you get to debate number ten. . >> debate number ten in the democratic presidential nomination, in charleston, south carolina. the dynamics will be different from what we saw less than a week ago in nevada after tom steyer made the cut after earning 12 points in south carolina polls. joining him will be joe biden, bernie sanders, elizabeth warren, pete buttigieg, mike bloomberg, and amy klobuchar. >> we are learning more about mike bloomberg's performance tonight, make it all about front runner bernie sanders. that's what he's going to do. a bloomberg campaign official telling nbc this, it's everybody's last opportunity to really hold him accountable and really challenge his record. the billionaire is already going after the vermont senator's murky stance on guns, a strong issue for bloomberg, but one he failed to bring up in vegas last

week. >> meanwhile, the latest nbc maris policy joe biden with a narrow lead over bernie sanders. biden with 27%. sanders with 23%. both within the poll's 6 point margin of error. tom steyer, whose $20 million in ad spending powered him to 15% in that state. pete buttigieg, elizabeth warren and amy klobuchar all in the single digits there. among black voters in south carolina, biden has 35%, sanders 20, steyer. >> joining us from washington, politics reporter from axios, steph kite. thank you for joining us on this, let's talk about the polls ayman was ticking through in south carolina, seeing joe biden on top in some of those polls. how crucial is it at this moment with this week's upcoming primary in south carolina, for some of these candidates to advance forward. >> this will be a really crucial

race for joe biden in particular and of course he has had the lead in south carolina for a long time but we're really seeing bernie sanders narrow that margin. he has been rising in the polls nationally, of course, and is now the front runner in national polls, but also gaining on joe biden in south carolina in particular, a state that joe biden is known to be strong for. there is a strong black voter base there. a group that joe biden tends to do well with. so this is going to be huge for him, especially as bernie pulls away from the rest of the pack. >> let us talk about the big debate tonight as we just said, the 10th debate overall. debates have some impact on how things play out on the primaries. just look at somebody like elizabeth warren in nevada. look at somebody like amy klobuchar in new hampshire. what are you looking for for tonight? >> you know, i think the first thing i'm looking for, of course, is the bernie sanders pile on that we're expecting tonight. similar to what we saw last week with michael bloomberg, i think if you look at what's being done in south carolina, look at the

ads that are being rolled out from multiple candidates, look at what's being said in south carolina. this debate really does look like it's going to be all about bernie. it looks like all the moderate candidates are finally deciding look, we need to start hammering him for past remarks. we need to hammer him for his stance as a democratic socialist. that's the number one issue i'm looking for tonight. >> the question is he ready to be attacked at this level because we haven't seen it as of yet. steph kite, thank you so much, appreciate you weighing in on this, the dow jones industrial plunging more than a thousand points yesterday as the global panic over the coronavirus has set in on wall street. the dow experiencing its third worst single day drop in history on monday, dropping 3.6%. the s&p 500 had their worst day in three years, dropping 3.4%, and the nasdaq dropped 3.7%. the swing in the markets is coming as cases of the coronavirus outside mainland

china spread with south korea, italy and iran, seeing the worst of it. currently over 80,000 cases in over 2,600 deaths, think about that in just really the last two months or so. >> disturbing. >> since this thing hit. deaths have been reported globally. >> president trump as we mentioned is in new delhi today as part of a two-day state visit. the president's first to india. president trump and indian prime minister held bilateral talks focused on weapons purchases and trade, trying to overcome their differences in tariffs and exports to the world's second most populous countries. the leaders issued joint statements on the importance of relations stressing technology. before the president arrived, violent protests erupted over the citizenship law killing seven people. the controversial new law targets india's muslim minority. >> joining us from dehli, white house correspondent kelly

o'donnell. thank you so much for joining us on this. we know about president trump and modi making a joint statement. talk to us about what exactly they said. >> reporter: this was sort of the summary of their business meetings, and there were not major headlines coming out of it. the president has more events to go. in fact, right now, he's going to be visiting with u.s. business members who are a part of a business council here, and embassy staff. so that will be one of the ways they will stress the trade relationship that is still a tenuous situation. there has been an increase in india buying u.s. goods including military equipment that was announced today and energy, trying to link up some more of the u.s. energy output to india, but the bigger picture of trying to get a trade agreement, that appears to be even months after as there are lingering issues over tariffs and so forth. the president talking about the developments related to military equipment sales as one of the

deliverable outcomes of the meetings here at that joint statement earlier today. >> kelly, we referenced in the setup a little bit about india's human rights record. this particular president coming under a lot of controversy. i'm curious to get your thoughts from comments the president has made in the lead up to the trip. is there any intention by this administration to try and account india for some of these human rights abuses? >> reporter: well, the message from the u.s. has been one of trying to stress that a democracy in the world's largest democracy like india has to be focused on inclusion, and tolerance, as part of its core values and what we have seen is that immigration as an issue, which has certainly put president trump on the political map, so too with prime minister modi, and this has spilled over into actual violence in the last couple of days that is unrelated to president trump's visit, but comes at a time where it draws international attention to india, something that prime

minister modi does not want because it's shining a light on the indian policy of barring some immigration of migrants who are muslim from neighboring countries into india, even though the country is pluralist in its religious views and is supposed to be religiously tolerant. president trump spoke at the open air cricket stadium yesterday that 100,000 plus persons in attendance, talking about the important of religious freedom and these values, also doing so in the joint statement today. but if you weren't aware of the ongoing tensions and the violence, and you heard that message, it would seem the kind of basic message that of course the u.s. would extend. it was not specific to the violence that we have seen but it was still the power of the u.s. presidency sending that message at the same time the president is trying to show friendship between himself and prime minister modi, and between the two nations so the message was sent but it was done in a way that was not as direct and certainly not wrapped in

criticism either. so that's part of what we have been hearing. the emphasis has been on the good relations and less in the area evident of criticism. >> kelly, we're going to be checking in with you throughout the morning as the story continues to develop. thanks. still ahead, he was once one of hollywood's most powerful men but yesterday harvey weinstein was taken to jail in handcuffs. we're going to talk about his day in court. plus, some of the most touching moments from the public memorial to celebrate the life of nba legend kobe bryant and his daughter gianna. those stories and a check on your weather when we come back. taxes?

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after multiple hours of deliberation following a six-week trial in new york city, former hollywood producer harvey weinstein has been found guilty of first-degree criminal sexual act and third degree rape capping a landmark trial and delivering a victory to the me too movement. the jury, however, acquitted him of first-degree rape and

predatory sexual assault. in all, more than 80 women have accused weinstein of sexual assault and harassment going back decades. now, the 67-year-old faces between five and 25 years in prison on the criminal sexual assault act charge, and up to four years for third degree rape. weinstein who showed no emotion as the verdict was read pled not guilty in the case, and continues to deny all allegations of nonconsensual sex. >> joining us onset, msnbc legal analyst, danny cevallos, lots to talk to you. first of all, how do you read the count, several counts, two convicted on, others he's acquitted. is it a victory, obviously he goes to jail but he's going to jail for the lesser of the evil charges so to speak. >> what these convictions is the jury believe the government met its burden as to the two assault crimes. that's jessica mann and mimi haleyi. it didn't think the government

met its burden for credibility or whatever the case may be as to anna belbella sciorra, becau they had to believe the prosecution met its burden in order to find guilty on the predatory assault. they could not unless they completely believed annabella sciorra. maybe they felt the allegations were too old. it's hard to say because i wasn't in the jury room but they also convicted of the lesser crime of rape which is rape third degree, which is just rape without consent as opposed to rape which is first degree rape which is by force. that's the distinction that new york law makes between force and consent. so that's the way the jury's verdict broke down. >> it is unbelievable to me, though, when you are convicted of rape without consent, which is still a very serious crime that you could feasibly only get up to four years. >> that's right. so what's really interesting about these first-degree is muc

seriously punished than the rape in the third degree charges that harvey was convicted of, and the reasoning behind these different strata for convictions and sentences is always hard to understand but that's the way new york law is. >> it seems like therein lies a major problem that something like consent would be considered not crime or lack thereof. >> all i can guess is when the law was written, forcible rape, rape by force is the most serious kind of crime, and then the third-degree version of that is just the withdrawal of consent, if the jury finds that no force was actually used. >> looking forward, his legal woes are not over. how does it work if he has in prison and the california district attorney decides to go forward with his case. >> i have had this happen when separate sovereigns, california and new york are prosecuting a defendant. they have to transport them, and they don't transport them as

efficiently as our airlines do or as private, you know, private industry does. i have had clients get lost in the middle of the country as they're being transported across the country. they leapfrog from place to place. it's not the most efficient mode of transport. >> you mean from prison to prison. >> holding facility to holding facility and you have someone who's an elderly, the system considers elderly and with medical issues. it's going to be difficult to transport him but the constitution requires he be present in california for his trial. >> how much time do you actually something. >> in this sentencing here, i think he's going to be within the range, 5 to 25 years. on this case, he has no priors so look for him to get in the lower range that's a critical consideration. once he heads to california, if he's convicted, then he'll have a prior conviction and the system will sentence him more seriously. >> danny cevallos, thank you so much. >> appreciate it. still ahead, thousands gather to say a final farewell to the late kobe bryant. we're going to show you some of

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they were so easy to love. everyone naturally gravitated towards them. they were funny, happy, silly, and they loved life. they were so full of joy and adventure. god knew they couldn't be on this earth without each other. he had to bring them home to heaven together. babe, you take care of our gigi, and i got noni, bibi, and cocoa. we're still the best team. we love and miss you boo boo and gigi.

may you both rest in peace and have fun in heaven until we meet again one day. we love you both and miss you forever and always, mommy. >> that was vanessa bryant delivering a tearful eulogy for her late husband kobe and daughter gianna at a memorial service honoring their lives and the seven others who died in that helicopter crash. 20,000 people came together at the staples center to celebrate the basketball legend. inside loved ones paid tribute shedding tears, sharing memories and even some laughs in remembrance of kobe bryant. >> i don't think any of us could have imagined this. everywhere you go, you see his face, his number, gigi's face,

gigi's number, everywhere, at every intersection. it seems to me that all we can do is be grateful for the time we had with them and for the time we have left with each other. >> just know that we got your back, little brother. i'll look after things down here. i'll be sure to teach natalia, bianca, and baby capri your moves, and i promise i will not teach them my free throw techniques. but for now, i take comfort in the fact as we speak, kobe and gigi are holding hands, walking to the nearest basketball court. kobe will show her some new mamba moves today, and kobe, you're heaven's mvp, i love you my man until we meet again. rest in peace, kobe. >> he wanted to be the best basketball player that he could be. and as i got to know him, i wanted to be the best big

brother that i could be. now he's got me and i'll have to look at another crying meme for the next -- when kobe bryant died, a piece of me died. and as i look in this arena and across the globe, a piece of you died. or else you wouldn't be here. those are the memories that we have to live with and we learn from. i promise you from this day forward, i will live with the memories of knowing that i had a little brother that i tried to help in every way i could. please rest in peace, little brother. >> man, that whole entire memorial service, it was so touching, so emotional. i don't know how vanessa bryant got up there and spoke so eloquently the way that she did without getting emotional. as i was watching it, i was so

incredibly emotional, so i had no idea how she had the strength to do that, and i also just, you know, when you go to these types of services, it's so incredible when you can find moments of humor to know, you know, the person that has passed would be laughing alongside you as shaquille o'neal and michael jordan did in those moments. you know that thing is going to turn into a crying meme for quite some time. >> it speaks volumes to the community, the nba community, and the fans that showed up. it's a testament to an effect he had on people, not just basketball, and everyone else. how moving those tributes were. the relationships he forged with all these people, some he played against, beyond his generation, like magic johnson and others, it's a testament to the life he lived on and off the court. >> absolutely. and i think also with all the coverage we have been doing and all the division that exists in this country right now, it is so nice to have a moment of unity and to see that amongst so many people. let's switch gears. >> yeah, for a moment. get a check on your weather

with nbc meteorologist bill karins. >> as a huge sports fan, we have learned so much more about coe b b -- kobe, the man, how you're judged by pieryour peers. >> and the words about his daughter, especially by vanessa. >> the uconn women's basketball coach, the way he spoke about gianna when she came to visit the team, the relationship they had, the player from stanford women's basketball, the relationship she developed with gianna. >> she had a bright future. >> she did have a bright future. let's try to change gears and give everyone an update on the forecast. we have our winter storm we're going to be dealing with. temperatures are falling in des moines and the quad cities. the snow is now just breaking out. it looks like the worst of it is south of chicago. that has changed since yesterday. we have a winter weather advisory for chicago. winter storm watches, northern indiana, the snowfall forecast

only about 2 to 3 inches possible, the south side of chicago, not much north of downtown, northern indiana could get 3 inches also areas near toledo, too and eventually the mess will head to northern new england, wednesday night into thursday. for today, warm in florida, showers and storms on the east coast including new york city, philadelphia, and d.c., and we'll have know, rain going over to snow eventually as we go throughout the day in areas like chicago. it's going to be a big temperature swing on the east coast. we're going to be more like winter as we head towards the upcoming weekend. >> thank you, bill. coming up ahead of tonight's debate. senator bernie sanders is facing backlash over comments he made about cuban dictator fidel castro, what his 2020 rivals saying. the white house is asking congress for billions of dollars to fight the coronavirus as fears spread around the worldment we're goiworld. we're going to get a live report on that. (sports announcer) what an unlikely field in this final heat.

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welcome back, everybody. i'm yasmin vossoughian, alongside ayman mohyeldin, we begin this half hour with former new york city mayor michael bloomberg's campaign defending another strain of his recently unearthed remarks. according to audio obtained by cnn, bloomberg spoke about the authenticity of his reelection endorsement by president obama during an event hosted by goldman sachs. >> i wrote a back handed endorsement of obama saying i thought he hadn't done the right thing, hadn't been good, and romney would be a better person at doing that, but romney did not stick with the values that

he had when he was governor of massachusetts. he was much more liberal a choice, things that i care about. and so i was going to vote for barack obama. i thought the democrats would throw it back in my face. they love the endorsement. >> bloomberg's campaign defended his endorsement in a statement reading this, everyone that read mike's endorsement of obama was aimed square at americans decidesi deciding to vote for obama. the vice president said he had president obama's back every day of their partnership. in stark contrast, mike bloomberg turned the back on the president and our administration. at the same event, bloomberg also warned about the rise of the progressive movement specifically naming senator elizabeth warren. >> the left is arising too, but the progressive movement is just as scary. you know, elizabeth warren on one side, and i don't know,

whoever you want to pick on the republicans on the right side. >> so in response to the resurfaced audios warren's campaign purchased the domain scare mike bloomberg do.com. and bernie sanders, is facing backlash. former new york city michael bloomberg went after sanders on twitter writing quote fidel castro left a legacy of forced labor camps, religious oppression, firing squads and the murder of thousands of his own people, but sure, bernie, let's talk about his literacy program. former vice president joe biden's campaign released a statement slamming sanders for not fully denouncing castro's dictatorship, calling the comments deeply offensive to those who fled the regime and quote we have one president who praises dictators and their mob like tendencies, we don't need another one.

former mayor pete buttigieg tweeting quote after four years of looking on in horror as trump cozied up to dictators, we need a president who will be clear in standing against regimes that violate human rights abroad. we can't risk nominating someone who doesn't recognize this, and warned against nominating sanders in a cnn town hall last night. >> in our one shot to defeat donald trump, we should think carefully about the consequences of nominating senator sanders. i don't want as a democrat, i don't want to be explaining why our nominee is encouraging people to look on the bright side of the castro regime when we're going into election of our lives. >> sanders 2020 campaign manager on msnbc addressed how this might affect the vermont candidate's independent run for the presidency. >> senator sanders doesn't come from a position on politics, when you look at what he said for decades, you have somebody in castro who has been a human

rights abuser, but you can also acknowledge there may have been good things happening in cuban society. people try to throw these political barbs at bernie sanders and what ends up being translated to the american public is there's a person of honesty and conviction who doesn't play politics, he's telling me truly what he believes, i don't see any problems with it. >> sanders defended his remarks. >> when fidel first came to power, which was when, 59? that is right. >> 59, 60. >> you know what he did, he initiated a major literacy program. there's a lot of folks in cuba at that point who were literate and he formed a literacy brigade. he went out and they helped people learn to read and write. you know what, i think teaching people to read and write is a good thing. >> let's go to charleston, south carolina where we find national political reporter for nbc news,

josh lederman. thank you for joining us on this. bloomberg camp, sanders camp, basically having somewhat of a war of words over the last couple of days or so. it is going to come to the debate stage tonight. we're going to see how that is going to play out, and we're hearing from bloomberg's camp that they are going to be attacking sanders head on. of course at the last debate we saw everybody basically attacking bloomberg wondering if that's going to happen as well. what are you learning with regards to in feud? >> yeah, these candidates have not been subtle heading into the debate about their plans to go after bernie sanders. the bloomberg campaign joining the pylon on sanders about the comments he made about fidel castro that you were discussing. the bloomberg campaign put out a series of tweets last night that were satirically mocking sanders and basically putting some words in his mouth, fake quotes by sanders about other dictators such as vladimir putin, bashar

al assad of syria. the bloomberg campaign started to get criticism for disinformation, putting out quotes that weren't really from sanders and late last night, the bloomberg campaign taking those tweets down. meanwhile, mike bloomberg's campaign has been warning of a series of incidents of vandalism that have struck his campaign offices across the country, and blaming those incidents on bernie sanders' supporters, even though there is so far no direct evidence that's emerged that any of those incidents had to do with sanders supporters, but the bloomberg campaign pointing out that a lot of words, phrases, tactics used in those acts of vandalism near the kind of language that sanders, his supporters and his surrogates have used over the past weeks and months against michael bloomberg. but all of this a sign of what's to come tonight as we get into the debate, and bloomberg will not be the only candidate going hard after bernie sanders. all of the candidates made clear

they understand at this point bernie sanders is starting to amass an unsurmountable delegate lead and he's the one they need to go after and soon if they want to stop him and replace him as the front runner in the race. >> let's talk about the other candidates. i know joe biden picked up the endorsement of jim clyburn, and pete buttigieg picked up a major endorsement in that state last night. what impact could this have on the race as buttigieg looks to chip away at biden and sanders support among african americans. >> pete buttigieg picking up the endorsement from the state newspaper, one of the largest newspapers here in south carolina. and look, there's been a question over pete buttigieg's campaign from the get-go about whether he was going to make any end roads with african-american supporters who make up such an important part of the electorate here. so far from his showing in the first three states, we have not seen him do particularly well with african-americans and other minorities. pete buttigieg hoping this endorsement from an important newspaper will create a little

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. welcome back, as the coronavirus virus outbreak spreads across the globe, the white house is asking congress for 2 1/2 billion dollars to respond to the growing crisis. the request includes 1.25 billion in new funding and 1.25 billion diverted from other federal programs. so far, more than 80,000 cases and over 2,600 deaths have been reported. concerns over the virus rocked global markets yesterday with the dow closing down more than 1,000 points. cnbc's julia tatelbaum is joining us following that part of the story. i want to begin with kelly cobiella live in south korea also seeing new surging cases there. kelly, bring us up to date on the situation there. >> reporter: pretty fast moving here in south korea, yasmin, first taking a look at the global overview here. this virus has now reached 37 countries. it's affected countries in the middle east, as well as in

europe, of course italy is the country that we have been talking about over the past 24 to 48 hours or so. here in south korea, things are changing so quickly. it's almost hard to keep track of the numbers. just in the latest update we received from the government, we were told that 5 more members of the south korean military have tested positive. that brings the number of infections within the south korean military up to 18. another positive test was found in a crew member for korean air today causing a bit of concern there in terms of, of course, air passengers. total cases in this country now are close to a thousand. >> wow. >> reporter: the deaths, there were three more today. deaths are up to 11. so it is actually spreading quite quickly it appears in it country, most of the case, i should mention are about 180 miles from seoul in another large city called daegu. and then we have italy, ten towns quarantined, locked down in northern italy.

they have more than 200 cases there. 7 confirmed deaths from the virus there. and iran is the other big concern for w.h.o. 12 deaths at least in iran so far. and just to give you some sense, just a week ago here in south korea, there were -- the virus was present but there were only 31 cases. >> wow. >> so w.h.o. at this point is saying, look, this is not a pandemic at this point. we don't want to make that step, however, it may not be possible to contain this virus and it's absolutely crucial at this point that countries around the world coordinate and cooperate to shut it down. guys? >> kelly, can i just quickly ask you what some of these countries are doing to stop the spread of the coronavirus at this point? >> reporter: well, there are a lot of the same things that i talked about in italy, not necessarily a complete lock down. for example, daegu is not locked down. there is still travel allowed

there. some airlines have cancelled flights there, korean air for example, but mostly it's in terms of tracking, trying to track contacts, trying to find the source of the virus, and for example, here in in seoul where there isn't a huge threat, every time we walk into the hotel our temperature is tested. everybody here is wearing masks and there's a lot of awareness at the airport and in other places that the virus is present. >> all right. nbc's kelly cobiella. thank you for that. and following the impact of all this, julianna, dow had its worst drop. how are markets reacting in is morning? >> well, this morning we saw european markets try to stage a bit of a comeback. we saw a rebound in early trade, but that shine has come right off, and european markets are trading lower. i mention that, because it's been a similar story when you look at u.s. futures. early on we were looking at a

positive start to wall street trade with u.s. futures pointing to a stronger trading session, but now those gains suggested by u.s. futures have been coming back down. so we're looking at a muted start to trade now for wall street, and as you mentioned, this follows a massive down day yesterday with the dow closing about 1,000 points lower. global markets under pressure on the back of the coronavirus fears. potentially we have a breakthrough on the vaccine front when it comes to coronavirus. a boston based biotech start upbecame the first company to release a potential coronavirus vaccine. it could be still months, months, before it's widely available. they have sent vials of the vaccine to the u.s. institute of health to be tested. still has to be tested in humans but a potential bright spot when it comes to preventing the spread of the virus. >> quickly talk about this other

story you have been tracking involving facebook looking into some suspicious content. what is this about? >> well, you may remember that last week the "washington post" reported that the bernie sanders campaign had been told by intelligence officials that russia was attempting to interfere in the 2020 election. now, following on from those reports, the "wall street journal" has reported that facebook has investigated suspicious content supporting the sanders campaign. the company facebook was unable to substantiate the claims that trump supporters or russians actors were involved in any inauthentic activity and coming from the "wall street journal." a story we're watching and very important for the democratic primary and democratic nominees. >> thanks. up next a look at axios' "one big thing." coming up on "morning joe," tonight is debate number ten in the race for the president's

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joining us from washington, d.c. with wa look at axios a.m. political reporter alexis vercammen. what is the with"one big thing" this morning? >> senator bernie sanders may become the first jewish nominee but that milestone overshadowed by israel the leadership and partly because of the fact a candidate's religion no longer matters to voters and the media which is overshadow that potential milestone but also because we're more focused on this idea what it would mean for democrats to nominate a

self-described democrat socialist. we don't have to think too far back to barack obama's blackness and the way that was point of conversation and a point of pride for him throughout his candidacy, especially when he became the nominee. same could be said in 2016, the history hillary clinton was making for women as a candidate and then became a major party nominee in the u.s., but people only really tend to bring up bernie sanders being jewish when he's criticizing ifl or the president's rhetoric on jewish communities. >> i know you're in washington, d.c., but you have been speaking to some no voters about think thoughts on mike bloomberg. what's the consensus from what you're hearing? rm >> part of our election coverage, we do a focus group and when saint port lucy last week, interesting the way they're thinking through mike bloomberg in realtime. former, current republicansish i suppose, voted for trump but previously voted for obama and a lot were pretty intrigued by

mike bloomberg, some going so far as saying vote for him over president trump. the most fascinating thing, even though these people were all sort of anti-the political system, they're anti-the idea that elected officials are playing the political game, as they would say, they're unbothered by the way that michael bloomberg is spending heaps of his own money, as his critics say to buy the election nap criticism from his rivals isn't penetrating with these folks and they said look, if the other democratic candidates had the same money and financial backing michael bloomberg did they would be doing the exact same thing that he is doing. >> circle back to the coronavirus a moment. it's having a huge impact and the world on lives and in markets. axios reports social media is playing a big factor in this. why is this raising concerns? >> right. there are different disinformation and even misn misinformation and intentional information that is wrong spreading quickly online as it is off-line nap matters.

as we know the larger implications of misinformation and disinformation on our trust in different institutions, people's trust in even the science behind coronavirus or the institutions working to prepare a global response and solution to coronavirus is constantly eroding, because of this misinformation and disinformation online about the disease, and that creating more chaos. it could lead to more panic and obviously leads to a bad place in which people simply do not know how to handle this virus realtime because of what they're saying online about it. >> thank you very much from washington, d.c. reading axios a.m. in's a bit. sign up for the newsletter at signup.axios.com. >> that does it for us on this tuesday morning. i'm yasmin vossoughian along with ayman mohyeldin. "morning joe" starts right now. ♪ surrounded by all the praise baby, i can see your halo ♪

pray it won't fade away ♪ halo ♪ >> that was beyonce performing at the incredible memorial remembrance of kobe bryant and his daughter gianna and the others who perished in the helicopter crash. ♪ halo >> really moving remarks by his wife vanessa as well. good morning, everyone, and welcome to "morning joe." it is tuesday february 25th. along with joe, willie and me we have national correspondent for nbc news and msnbc and author of "the red and the blue" steve kornacki. good to have you onboard this morning. and tonight is debate night again. this time in charleston, south carolina. we'll talk about the dynamics at play and a reported new strategy for michael bloomberg as more old tapes come out against him. bernie sanders is the clear